Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit

Men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit
at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit; at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Birkebeineren Ski Stadium
Dates	19 February
Competitors	88 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:00:08.8
Medalists
	← 1992 1998 →

The men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, was held on 19 February at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium in Lillehammer. The Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie was the 1993 World champion and the 1992 Olympic champion.

Each skier started based on the results from the 10 km classical event, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course after the first-to-finish principle. Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway started first in the race with a gap of 18.2 seconds to Vladimir Smirnov of Kazakhstan. Dæhlie extended his lead and won over Smirnov with 29.2 seconds; his second consecutive olympic gold medal in the pursuit event.^[1]

Results

The time consists the added times for both the 10 km classical and the 15 km freestyle pursuit.

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	1	Bjørn Dæhlie	Norway	1:00:08.8	–
	2	Vladimir Smirnov	Kazakhstan	1:00:38.0	+29.2
	8	Silvio Fauner	Italy	1:01:48.6	+1:39.8
4	6	Mika Myllylä	Finland	1:01:55.9	+1:47.1
5	4	Mikhail Botvinov	Russia	1:01:57.8	+1:49.0
6	12	Jari Räsänen	Finland	1:02:03.7	+1:54.9
7	5	Sture Sivertsen	Norway	1:02:09.7	+2:00.9
8	17	Johann Mühlegg	Germany	1:02:31.2	+2:22.4
9	15	Giorgio Vanzetta	Italy	1:02:31.6	+2:22.8
10	3	Marco Albarello	Italy	1:02:34.1	+2:25.3
11	10	Alois Stadlober	Austria	1:02:57.1	+2:48.3
12	20	Alexey Prokourorov	Russia	1:03:07.8	+2:59.0
13	21	Jeremias Wigger	Switzerland	1:03:07.9	+2:59.1
14	11	Jochen Behle	Germany	1:03:32.1	+3:23.3
15	14	Jan Ottosson	Sweden	1:03:32.4	+3:23.6
16	13	Andrey Kirilov	Russia	1:03:59.7	+3:50.9
17	18	Vladimir Legotine	Russia	1:04:00.1	+3:51.3
18	25	Kazunari Sasaki	Japan	1:04:00.5	+3:51.7
19	16	Nikolay Ivanov	Kazakhstan	1:04:10.5	+4:01.7
20	22	Patrick Rémy	France	1:04:20.5	+4:11.7
21	53	Viatscheslav Plaksunov	Belarus	1:04:35.2	+4:26.4
22	29	Fulvio Valbusa	Italy	1:04:36.3	+4:27.5
23	19	Christer Majbäck	Sweden	1:04:42.5	+4:33.7
24	26	Luboš Buchta	Czech Republic	1:04:54.0	+4:45.2
25	33	Elmo Kassin	Estonia	1:04:54.9	+4:46.1
26	34	Pavel Ryabinin	Kazakhstan	1:05:05.6	+4:56.8
27	31	Mitsuo Horigome	Japan	1:05:07.0	+4:58.2
28	47	Juan Jesús Gutiérrez	Spain	1:05:20.0	+5:11.2
29	39	Philippe Sanchez	France	1:05:31.8	+5:23.0
30	46	Hans Diethelm	Switzerland	1:05:32.4	+5:23.6
31	37	Andrey Nevzorov	Kazakhstan	1:05:32.9	+5:24.1
32	44	Carles Vicente	Spain	1:05:33.3	+5:24.5
33	45	John Aalberg	United States	1:05:33.4	+5:24.6
34	43	Ivan Bátory	Slovakia	1:05:34.3	+5:25.5
35	61	Janko Neuber	Germany	1:05:39.6	+5:30.8
36	65	Pavel Benc	Czech Republic	1:05:44.1	+5:35.3
37	59	Václav Korunka	Czech Republic	1:06:02.0	+5:53.2
38	32	Torald Rein	Germany	1:06:02.3	+5:53.5
39	55	Markus Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:06:05.4	+5:56.6
40	35	Jaak Mae	Estonia	1:06:06.0	+5:57.2
41	41	Todd Boonstra	United States	1:06:07.1	+5:58.3
42	40	Hiroyuki Imai	Japan	1:06:19.8	+6:11.0
43	52	Benjamin Husaby	United States	1:06:35.9	+6:27.1
44	56	Siniša Vukonić	Croatia	1:06:45.3	+6:36.5
45	58	Luke Bodensteiner	United States	1:06:53.0	+6:44.2
46	62	Igor Obukhov	Belarus	1:06:53.5	+6:44.7
47	57	Jordi Ribo	Spain	1:07:07.6	+6:58.8
48	38	Ricardas Panavas	Lithuania	1:07:12.5	+7:03.7
49	50	Daníel Jakobsson	Iceland	1:07:17.0	+7:08.2
50	66	Michael Binzer	Denmark	1:07:17.1	+7:08.3
51	70	Sergei Dolidovich	Belarus	1:07:30.5	+7:21.7
52	49	Dany Bouchard	Canada	1:07:33.2	+7:24.4
53	63	Cédric Vallet	France	1:07:44.5	+7:35.7
54	72	Masaaki Kozu	Japan	1:07:50.1	+7:41.3
55	36	Andrus Veerpalu	Estonia	1:08:16.1	+8:07.3
56	60	Wilhelm Aschwanden	Switzerland	1:08:17.4	+8:08.6
57	51	Anthony Evans	Australia	1:08:22.9	+8:14.1
58	71	Martin Petrásek	Czech Republic	1:08:23.8	+8:15.0
59	73	Elemer Tanko	Romania	1:08:47.1	+8:38.3
60	69	Slavtscho Batinkov	Bulgaria	1:08:47.5	+8:38.7
61	64	Ebbe Hartz	Denmark	1:08:52.8	+8:44.0
62	80	Zsolt Antal	Romania	1:09:04.2	+8:55.4
63	68	David Belam	Great Britain	1:09:17.8	+9:09.0
64	76	Stephan Kunz	Liechtenstein	1:09:19.6	+9:10.8
65	77	Byung-Chul Park	South Korea	1:09:56.3	+9:47.5
66	67	Mark Gray	Australia	1:10:01.1	+9:52.3
67	74	Iskren Plankov	Bulgaria	1:10:52.5	+10:43.7
68	75	Jin-Soo Ahn	South Korea	1:11:16.1	+11:07.3
69	78	Rögnvaldur Ingþórsson	Iceland	1:11:16.2	+11:07.4
70	81	Petar Zografov	Bulgaria	1:11:42.2	+11:33.4
71	79	Antonio Rački	Croatia	1:12:38.8	+12:30.0
72	85	Jānis Hermanis	Croatia	1:15:17.5	+15:08.7
73	86	Nikos Anastassiadis	Greece	1:15:43.9	+15:35.1
74	84	Bekim Babic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:17:43.6	+17:34.8
	42	Urmas Välbe	Estonia	DNF
	82	Nikos Kalofyris	Greece	DNF
	7	Vegard Ulvang	Norway	DNS
	9	Harri Kirvesniemi	Finland	DNS
	23	Jari Isometsä	Finland	DNS
	24	Thomas Alsgaard	Norway	DNS
	27	Torgny Mogren	Sweden	DNS
	28	Viktor Kamotski	Belarus	DNS
	30	Niklas Jonsson	Sweden	DNS
	48	Giachem Guidon	Switzerland	DNS
	54	Stéphane Azambre	France	DNS
	83	Christos Titas	Greece	DNS
	87	Mithat Yildrim	Turkey	DNS
	88	Rusiate Rogoyawa	Fiji	DNS