Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint
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The Men's sprint cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...

competition in the classical technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics
2010 Winter Olympics
The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially the XXI Olympic Winter Games or the 21st Winter Olympics, were a major international multi-sport event held from February 12–28, 2010, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with some events held in the suburbs of Richmond, West Vancouver and the University...

in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 was held on 17 February at Whistler Olympic Park
Whistler Olympic Park
The Whistler Olympic Park is the location of the Nordic events facilities for the 2010 Winter Olympics and is located in the Madeley Creek basin in the Callaghan Valley, west of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. The facility hosted the biathlon, cross-country skiing, nordic combined, and ski...

 in Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler, British Columbia
Whistler is a Canadian resort town in the southern Pacific Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the province of British Columbia, Canada, approximately north of Vancouver...

.

Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

's Björn Lind
Björn Lind
Björn Lind is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won gold medals in both the Individual and Team sprint events at Turin in 2006....

 was the defending Olympic
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

 champion in this event, though the event was in the freestyle technique. Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

's Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 was the defending world champion
Cross-country skiing at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic, twelve cross-country skiing events were held with six for men and six for women. The format of the program has been unchanged since the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany...

 in this event which was also held in freestyle technique. Emil Jönsson
Emil Jönsson
Greger superEmil Jönsson is a Swedish cross country skier who has been competing since 2004...

 of Sweden won the test event that took place at Olympic venue on 16 January 2009. The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 6 February 2010 in Canmore, Alberta
Canmore, Alberta
Canmore is a town in Alberta, Canada, located approximately west of the City of Calgary near the southeast boundary of Banff National Park. It is located in the Bow Valley within Alberta's Rockies. The town shares a border with Kananaskis Country to the west and south and the Municipal District of...

 and was won by Jönsson.

Lind was eliminated in the quarterfinals, Jönsson was eliminated in the semifinals, and Hattestad finished fourth. It is the first Olympic medals for all three finishers. The event ended in a photofinish between Russians Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

 and Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....

 with Kriukov edging out Panzhinsky who had led most of the race.

Qualifying

Qualifying took place at 10:45 PST.
Rank Bib Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 3 Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....

 
3:34.57 +0.00 Q
2 4 Emil Jönsson
Emil Jönsson
Greger superEmil Jönsson is a Swedish cross country skier who has been competing since 2004...

 
3:36.01 +1.44 Q
3 14 Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:36.43 +1.86 Q
4 5 Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

 
3:36.46 +1.89 Q
5 20 Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002.Born in Levanger, he represents the sports club Skogn IL....

 
3:36.65 +2.08 Q
6 13 Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...

 
3:37.09 +2.52 Q
7 1 Øystein Pettersen
Øystein Pettersen
Øystein "Sausage" Pettersen is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. He has four World Cup podiums, his best finish being second in individual sprint events . He and Petter Northug won gold in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada...

 
3:37.34
2.77
Q
8 9 Nikolay Chebotko
Nikolay Chebotko
Nikolay Chebotko is a Kazakhstani cross country skier who has competed since 2000. His best individual World Cup finish was seventh in a sprint event in Germany in 2006....

 
3:37.84 +3.27 Q
9 21 Peeter Kümmel
Peeter Kümmel
Peeter Kümmel is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2001.Kümmel competed at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, the 2006–07, 2007–08 Tour de Ski, the 2007, 2009 and 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships....

 
3:37.99 +3.42 Q
10 37 Stefan Kuhn
Stefan Kuhn
Stefan Kuhn is a Canadian cross-country skier and chef. Kuhn was born in Banff and competed in various international skiing events from 1998 to 2000, before retiring in 2001 to become a full-time chef. In 2005, while working at a fine restaurant in Edmonton, Kuhn decided to relaunch his...

 
3:38.35 +3.78 Q
11 23 Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda
is a Japanese cross-country skier who has competed since 1999. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 12th in the team sprint event at Turin in 2006 while his best individual finish was 17th in the individual sprint event at Vancouver four years later.Onda's best finish at...

 
3:38.49 +3.92 Q
12 45 Sun Qinghai
Sun Qinghai
Sun Qinghai is a Chinese cross country skier who has competed since 2006. He competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the team sprint and individual sprint events where he finished 19th and 21st, respectively....

 
3:38.52 +3.95 Q
13 15 Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the individual sprint event....

 
3:38.53 +3.96 Q
14 16 Björn Lind
Björn Lind
Björn Lind is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won gold medals in both the Individual and Team sprint events at Turin in 2006....

 
3:38.62 +4.05 Q
15 40 Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltoranin is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004...

 
3:38.68 +4.11 Q
16 12 Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.
Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.
Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr. is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finish eighth in the individual sprint event.Devyatyarov, Jr...

 
3:38.82 +4.25 Q
17 11 Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda is a French cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished seventh in the team sprint, 16th in the individual sprint, and 38th in the 50 km events....

 
3:38.83 +4.26 Q
18 19 Teodor Peterson
Teodor Peterson
Teodor Peterson is a Swedish cross-country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 15th in the team sprint and 11th in the individual sprint events....

 
3:39.08 +4.51 Q
19 7 Kalle Lassila
Kalle Lassila
Kalle Lassila is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. He finished tenth in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:39.12 +4.55 Q
20 46 Jesse Väänänen
Jesse Väänänen
Jesse Väänänen is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 2003. He finished 22nd in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:39.21 +4.64 Q
21 26 Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:39.57 +5.00 Q
22 10 Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini is an Italian cross country skier who has been competing since 1996. He won the gold medal in the team sprint at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo...

 
3:39.63 +5.06 Q
23 18 Nikolay Morilov
Nikolay Morilov
Nikolay Sergeyevich Morilov is a Russian cross country skier who has been competing since 2004. He won two medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver in the team sprint and a bronze in the individual sprint .Morilov has two individual victories at the junior level of cross...

 
3:40.22 +5.65 Q
24 29 Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw is a Canadian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. Growing up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, he split his time between several sports before choosing to focus on his skiing career.-Early life and career:...

 
3:40.50 +5.93 Q
25 43 Timo Simonlatser
Timo Simonlatser
Timo Simonlatser is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2005. He finished 27th in the individual sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:40.65 +6.08 Q
26 24 Fabio Pasini
Fabio Pasini
Fabio Pasini is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 2000. He finished 24th in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:40.86 +6.29 Q
27 41 Janusz Krężelok
Janusz Krezelok
Janusz Adam Krężelok is a Polish cross country skier who has competed since 1994. His best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a seventh in the individual sprint in 2005 while his best overall finish was fifth in the team sprint event in 2007.Krężelok's best individual...

 
3:41.34 +6.77 Q
28 34 Maciej Kreczmer
Maciej Kreczmer
Maciej Kreczmer is a Polish cross country skier who has competed since 1999. His best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 17th in the sprint event in 2005 while his best overall finish was fifth in the team sprint event in 2007.Kreczmer's best individual finish at the...

 
3:41.35 +6.78 Q
29 42 Simi Hamilton
Simi Hamilton
Simeon "Simi" Hamilton is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2000. Hamilton attended Middlebury College from 2005-2009, during which time he competed for its ski team, individually earning several All-American NCAA Championship results. It was announced on 29 January 2010 that...

 
3:41.53 +6.96 Q
30 8 Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His lone World Cup victory was in a team sprint event in Japan in 2006....

 
3:41.78 +7.21 Q
31 33 Josef Wenzl
Josef Wenzl
Josef Wenzl is a German cross country skier who has competed since 2002. He finished 31st in the individual sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:41.88 +7.31
31 39 Roddy Darragon
Roddy Darragon
Roddy Darragon is a French cross-country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in three Winter Olympics, he earned France's first ever Winter Olympic cross country skiing medal with a silver in the individual sprint event at Turin in 2006.Darragon's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski...

 
3:41.88 +7.31
33 17 Tim Tscharnke
Tim Tscharnke
Tim Tscharnke is a German cross-country skier who has competed since 2006. His best World Cup finish was 21st in a 15 km event in Beitostølen in November 2009. His club is SV Biberau...

 
3:42.03 +7.46
34 35 Christoph Eigenmann
Christoph Eigenmann
Christoph Eigenmann is a Swiss cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His best World Cup finish was second in a sprint event in China in 2006....

 
3:42.18 +7.61
35 36 Dušan Kožíšek
Dusan Kozisek
Dušan Kožíšek is a Czech cross country skier who has been competing since 2002. He won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and finished 38th in the individual sprint in those same games...

 
3:42.45 +7.88
36 28 Torin Koos
Torin Koos
Torin Koos is an American cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His best World Cup finish was third in a sprint event in Estonia in 2007....

 
3:42.72 +8.15
37 6 Matias Strandvall  3:42.74 +8.17
38 30 Valerio Leccardi
Valerio Leccardi
Valerio Leccardi is a Swiss cross country skier who has been competing since 2001. He finished 38th in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:42.84 +8.27
39 27 David Hofer
David Hofer
David Hofer is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 39th in the individual sprint and 53rd in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit events....

 
3:42.89 +8.32
40 51 Drew Goldsack
Drew Goldsack
Drew Goldsack is a Canadian cross country skier who has competed since 2001. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was sixth in the team sprint in 2007 while his best individual finish was 21st in the sprint in 2005.Competing in two Winter Olympics, Goldsack's best individual...

 
3:44.28 +9.71
41 49 Brent McMurtry
Brent McMurtry
Brent McMurtry is a Canadian cross-country skier who has been competing since 2003.He is a member of he Canadian National Cross country ski team....

 
3:45.02 +10.45
42 32 Anti Saarepuu
Anti Saarepuu
Anti Saarepuu is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2003. He competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. He represents Estonia at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver...

 
3:45.44 +10.87
43 38 Peter von Allmen
Peter von Allmen
Peter von Allmen is a Swiss cross-country skier who has been competing since 1997. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver he finished 43rd in the individual sprint event....

 
3:46.16 +11.59
44 25 Aleš Razym
Aleš Razym
Aleš Razým is a Czech cross-country skier from Plzeň who has competed since 2004. He finished 44th in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:46.42 +11.85
45 2 Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell
Andrew "Andy" Newell is an American cross country skier who has been competing on the international level since 2001.- Career :...

 
3:46.77 +12.20
46 53 Mantas Strolia
Mantas Strolia
Mantras Strolia is a Lithuanian cross-country skier since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the team sprint and 46th in the individual sprint events....

 
3:47.17 +12.60
47 48 Garrott Kuzzy
Garrott Kuzzy
Garrott Kuzzy is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2001. His best individual World Cup finish was ninth in an individual sprint event in Canada in 2008....

 
3:47.46 +12.89
48 47 Sergey Cherepanov
Sergey Cherepanov
Sergey Cherepanov is a Kazakhstani cross country skier who has competed since 2001. His best World Cup finish was third in a 15 km event in Finland in 2008....

 
3:48.29 +13.72
49 22 Eligius Tambornino
Eligius Tambornino
Eligius Tambornino is a Swiss cross country skier who has been competing since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 11th in the team sprint and 49th in the individual sprint events....

 
3:48.33 +13.76
50 52 Lefteris Fafalis  3:49.09 +14.52
51 50 Leanid Karneyenka
Leanid Karneyenka
Leanid Karneyenka is a Belarusian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. He became the first Belarusian to win a medal at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships by winning a silver medal in the men's 15 km...

 
3:49.12 +14.55
52 44 Yevgeniy Koshevoy
Yevgeniy Koshevoy
Yevgeniy Koshevoy is a Kazak cross country skier who has competed since 2001. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of sixth in the team sprint event at Turin in 2006....

 
3:49.51 +14.94
53 55 Aleksei Novoselski
Aleksei Novoselski
Aleksei Novoselski is a Lithuanian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 53rd in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:51.70 +17.13
54 54 Modestas Vaičiulis
Modestas Vaičiulis
Modestas Vaičiulis is a Lithuanian cross-country skier since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the team sprint and 54th in the individual sprint events....

 
3:52.10 +17.53
55 57 Paul Murray
Paul Murray (skier)
Paul Murray is an Australian cross country skier who has competed since 1997. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 20th in the team sprint event at Vancouver in 2010 while earning his best individual finish of 51st in the individual sprint event at Turin four years...

 
3:52.96 +18.39
56 62 Francois Soulie
Francois Soulie
Francois Soulie is an Andorran cross country skier who has competed since 1999. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 47th in the 50 km event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:55.22 +20.65
57 56 Peter Mlynár
Peter Mlynár
Peter Mlynár is a Slovak cross-country skier who has been competing since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 12th in the 4 x 10 km relay and 57th in the individual sprint event....

 
3:55.76 +21.19
58 58 Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave is a British cross-country skier. Musgrave was born in Dorset, England, and he has also lived in Shetland, Alaska, Aberdeenshire and Norway...

 
3:58.43
23.86
59 31 Kein Einaste
Kein Einaste
Kein Einaste is an Estonian cross country skier who has competed since 2004. His best World Cup finish was 13th in a sprint event in Finland in November 2009. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 59th in the men's sprint.-External links:...

 
3:59.19 +24.62
60 60 Andrew Young
Andrew Young (skier)
Andrew Young is a Scottish cross-country skier. He competed for Great Britain in the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, finishing in 74th place in the 15 km freestyle. In 2008 he became the youngest skier to compete in a World Cup event.At the 2010 Games, Young finished 14th in the team...

 
4:02.19 +27.62
61 59 Oliver Kraas
Oliver Kraas
Oliver Martin Kraas is a South African cross-country skier who has competed since 2003. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 57th in the individual sprint event at Turin in 2006....

 
4:04.19 +29.62
62 61 Janis Paipals
Janis Paipals
Janis Paipals is a Latvian cross-country skier who has competed since 2006. At the 2010 Winter Olympics, he finished 62nd in the individual sprint, 72nd in the 15 km, and was lapped during the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit event....

 
4:04.48 +29.91

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinals took place at 12:55 PST.
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 1 Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....

 
3:36.4 +0.0 Q
2 21 Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:36.9 +0.5 Q
3 10 Stefan Kuhn
Stefan Kuhn
Stefan Kuhn is a Canadian cross-country skier and chef. Kuhn was born in Banff and competed in various international skiing events from 1998 to 2000, before retiring in 2001 to become a full-time chef. In 2005, while working at a fine restaurant in Edmonton, Kuhn decided to relaunch his...

 
3:37.4 +1.0
4 11 Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda
is a Japanese cross-country skier who has competed since 1999. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 12th in the team sprint event at Turin in 2006 while his best individual finish was 17th in the individual sprint event at Vancouver four years later.Onda's best finish at...

 
3:37.9 +1.5
5 20 Jesse Väänänen
Jesse Väänänen
Jesse Väänänen is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 2003. He finished 22nd in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:38.9 +2.3
6 30 Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His lone World Cup victory was in a team sprint event in Japan in 2006....

 
3:40.9 +4.5

Quarterfinal 2
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 7 Øystein Pettersen
Øystein Pettersen
Øystein "Sausage" Pettersen is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. He has four World Cup podiums, his best finish being second in individual sprint events . He and Petter Northug won gold in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada...

 
3:36.9 +0.0 Q
2 4 Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

 
3:37.2 +0.3 Q
3 17 Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda is a French cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished seventh in the team sprint, 16th in the individual sprint, and 38th in the 50 km events....

 
3:37.3 +0.4
4 14 Björn Lind
Björn Lind
Björn Lind is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2000. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he won gold medals in both the Individual and Team sprint events at Turin in 2006....

 
3:37.6 +0.7
5 24 Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw is a Canadian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. Growing up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, he split his time between several sports before choosing to focus on his skiing career.-Early life and career:...

 
3:39.9 +3.0
6 27 Janusz Krężelok
Janusz Krezelok
Janusz Adam Krężelok is a Polish cross country skier who has competed since 1994. His best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was a seventh in the individual sprint in 2005 while his best overall finish was fifth in the team sprint event in 2007.Krężelok's best individual...

 
3:41.1 +4.2

Quarterfinal 3
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 6 Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...

 
3:34.5 +0.0 Q
2 15 Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltoranin is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004...

 
3:34.7 +0.2 Q
3 5 Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002.Born in Levanger, he represents the sports club Skogn IL....

 
3:35.3 +0.8 LL
4 16 Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.
Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.
Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr. is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finish eighth in the individual sprint event.Devyatyarov, Jr...

 
3:35.3 +0.8 LL
5 26 Fabio Pasini
Fabio Pasini
Fabio Pasini is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 2000. He finished 24th in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:35.7 +1.2
6 25 Timo Simonlatser
Timo Simonlatser
Timo Simonlatser is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2005. He finished 27th in the individual sprint at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:42.2 +8.7

Quarterfinal 4
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 2 Emil Jönsson
Emil Jönsson
Greger superEmil Jönsson is a Swedish cross country skier who has been competing since 2004...

 
3:41.8 +0.0 Q
2 19 Kalle Lassila
Kalle Lassila
Kalle Lassila is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. He finished tenth in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:42.2 +0.4 Q
3 9 Peeter Kümmel
Peeter Kümmel
Peeter Kümmel is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2001.Kümmel competed at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, the 2006–07, 2007–08 Tour de Ski, the 2007, 2009 and 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships....

 
3:42.4 +0.6
4 22 Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini is an Italian cross country skier who has been competing since 1996. He won the gold medal in the team sprint at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo...

 
3:42.8 +1.0
5 12 Sun Qinghai
Sun Qinghai
Sun Qinghai is a Chinese cross country skier who has competed since 2006. He competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the team sprint and individual sprint events where he finished 19th and 21st, respectively....

 
3:43.1 +1.3
6 29 Simi Hamilton
Simi Hamilton
Simeon "Simi" Hamilton is an American cross country skier who has competed since 2000. Hamilton attended Middlebury College from 2005-2009, during which time he competed for its ski team, individually earning several All-American NCAA Championship results. It was announced on 29 January 2010 that...

 
3:43.4 +1.6

Quarterfinal 5
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 3 Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:37.8
0.0
Q
2 18 Teodor Peterson
Teodor Peterson
Teodor Peterson is a Swedish cross-country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 15th in the team sprint and 11th in the individual sprint events....

 
3:38.3 +0.5 Q
3 8 Nikolay Chebotko
Nikolay Chebotko
Nikolay Chebotko is a Kazakhstani cross country skier who has competed since 2000. His best individual World Cup finish was seventh in a sprint event in Germany in 2006....

 
3:38.6 +0.8
4 13 Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the individual sprint event....

 
3:39.1 +1.3
5 28 Maciej Kreczmer
Maciej Kreczmer
Maciej Kreczmer is a Polish cross country skier who has competed since 1999. His best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 17th in the sprint event in 2005 while his best overall finish was fifth in the team sprint event in 2007.Kreczmer's best individual finish at the...

 
3:39.6 +1.8
6 23 Nikolay Morilov
Nikolay Morilov
Nikolay Sergeyevich Morilov is a Russian cross country skier who has been competing since 2004. He won two medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a silver in the team sprint and a bronze in the individual sprint .Morilov has two individual victories at the junior level of cross...

 
3:40.2 +2.4

Semifinals

Semifinals took place at 13:30 PST.
Semifinals 1
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 1 Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....

 
3:34.3 +0.0 Q
2 7 Øystein Pettersen
Øystein Pettersen
Øystein "Sausage" Pettersen is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. He has four World Cup podiums, his best finish being second in individual sprint events . He and Petter Northug won gold in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada...

 
3:34.4 +0.1 Q
3 4 Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

 
3:34.6 +0.3 LL
4 15 Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltoranin is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004...

 
3:35.6 +1.1 LL
5 5 Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002.Born in Levanger, he represents the sports club Skogn IL....

 
3:35.9 +1.6
6 21 Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:39.6 +5.3

Semifinals 2
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
1 3 Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:36.5 +0.0 | Q
2 6 Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...

 
3:36.7
0.2
Q
3 2 Emil Jönsson
Emil Jönsson
Greger superEmil Jönsson is a Swedish cross country skier who has been competing since 2004...

 
3:37.4 +0.9
4 16 Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.
Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.
Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr. is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finish eighth in the individual sprint event.Devyatyarov, Jr...

 
3:37.6 +1.1
5 19 Kalle Lassila
Kalle Lassila
Kalle Lassila is a Finnish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. He finished tenth in the individual sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
3:43.7 +7.2
6 18 Teodor Peterson
Teodor Peterson
Teodor Peterson is a Swedish cross-country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 15th in the team sprint and 11th in the individual sprint events....

 
3:43.8 +7.3

Finals

Finals took place at 13:55 PST.
Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Note
4 Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

 
3:36.3 +0.0
1 Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....

 
3:36.3 +0.0
6 Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...

 
3:45.5 +9.2
4 3 Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
3:50.0 +13.7 |
5 15 Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltoranin is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004...

 
3:54.4 +18.1
6 7 Øystein Pettersen
Øystein Pettersen
Øystein "Sausage" Pettersen is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. He has four World Cup podiums, his best finish being second in individual sprint events . He and Petter Northug won gold in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada...

4:56.2 +1:19.9

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