Skari won Otepaa's 5 km classic ahead of Kuitunen and Danilova

Result and announcement

Bente Skari won the women's 5 km classic World Cup race in Otepaa on 10 February 2001. She finished in 13 minutes 08.8 seconds, with Virpi Kuitunen second at 13.0 seconds and Olga Danilova third at 14.7. The contest was the women's distance race on the Estonian meeting's programme.

Detail

Kuitunen's advantage over Danilova was 1.7 seconds, considerably smaller than Skari's lead over the runner-up. Larissa Lazutina placed fourth, 20.5 seconds behind Skari, and Kaisa Varis fifth at 21.6. Nina Gavriiljuk and Gabriella Paruzzi followed in sixth and seventh, with Yuliya Chepalova eighth.

Context and dates

Milla Jauho finished ninth and Stefania Belmondo tenth. Petra Majdic, who had reached the podium in Asiago earlier in the month, was twenty-ninth here at 1:07.8. That placing provides a specific link between two different February World Cup venues without treating the later race as another stage of the Asiago sprint.

The FIS final classification and contemporary Slovenian reporting agree on the leading three and their time gaps. FIS records this as a 5 km classic race, distinct from the men's 10 km competition held that day. The exact historical event date is retained for archive ordering, separately from this report's actual addition and publication timestamp.