Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre pursuit

Men's 30 kilometre pursuit
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
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VenueWhistler Olympic Park
Dates20 February
Competitors64 from 26 nations
Winning time1:15:11.4
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Marcus Hellner  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tobias Angerer  Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Johan Olsson  Sweden
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The men's 15 kilometre + 15 kilometre double Pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, was held on 20 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia, at 13:30 PST.[1]

Summary

The 30 km double pursuit format has been competed at the world championship level since 2005 and at the Winter Olympic level since 2006. Russia's Yevgeny Dementyev was the defending Olympic champion, but didn't defend after it was reported that he tested positive to erythropoietin (EPO) in August 2009.[2] Norway's Petter Northug was the reigning world champion.[3] Italy's Pietro Piller Cottrer won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 17 January 2009.[4] The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 23 January 2010 in Rybinsk, Russia, and was won by Russian Artem Zhmurko.[5] Zhrumko did not qualify for the men's cross-country team for Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The pursuit consisted of a 15 kilometre section raced in the classic style, followed by a 15 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between the sections, each skier takes time (approximately 30 seconds) to change skis and poles.

Top three leaders after the classic portion of the event were Bauer (who finished seventh), Cologna (who finished 13th), and Olsson. Pit stop leaders were test event winner Piller Cottrer (who finished 14th), Babikov (who finished fifth), and defending World Champion Northug (who finished 11th).[6] Hellner was Sweden's first male individual gold medalist in the traditional cross-country skiing distances at the Winter Olympics since Gunde Svan's 50 km victory at Calgary in 1988.

Results

Rank Bib Name Country 15 km classic Rank Pitstop 15 km free Rank Finish time Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2 Marcus Hellner  Sweden 39:43.5 11 22.6 35:05.3 2 1:15:11.4 0.0
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 17 Tobias Angerer  Germany 39:40.9 6 26.0 35:06.6 3 1:15:13.5 +2.1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 16 Johan Olsson  Sweden 39:39.9 3 24.8 35:09.5 5 1:15:14.2 +2.8
4 8 Alexander Legkov  Russia 39:40.2 4 26.3 35:08.9 4 1:15:15.4 +4.0
5 15 Ivan Babikov  Canada 40:08.9 25 22.1 34:49.5 1 1:15:20.5 +9.1
6 13 Jens Filbrich  Germany 39:41.3 7 24.8 35:18.9 6 1:15:25.0 +13.6
7 3 Lukáš Bauer  Czech Republic 39:39.0 1 25.9 35:20.3 7 1:15:25.2 +13.8
8 41 George Grey  Canada 39:41.5 8 25.0 35:25.5 8 1:15:32.0 +20.6
9 24 Alex Harvey  Canada 39:44.1 12 22.8 35:36.1 10 1:15:43.0 +31.6
10 34 Anders Södergren  Sweden 39:48.3 18 23.5 35:35.2 9 1:15:47.0 +35.6
11 1 Petter Northug  Norway 39:45.0 13 22.5 35:45.6 11 1:15:53.1 +41.7
12 6 Giorgio Di Centa  Italy 39:40.6 5 26.2 35:58.3 12 1:16:05.1 +53.7
13 4 Dario Cologna  Switzerland 39:39.4 2 25.5 36:07.3 13 1:16:12.2 +1:00.8
14 11 Pietro Piller Cottrer  Italy 39:49.3 20 21.6 36:09.0 14 1:16:19.9 +1:08.5
15 10 Vincent Vittoz  France 39:45.9 14 26.8 36:10.7 15 1:16:23.4 +1:12.0
16 31 Devon Kershaw  Canada 39:46.3 15 22.9 36:14.4 16 1:16:23.6 +1:12.2
17 12 Maxim Vylegzhanin  Russia 39:42.3 9 27.7 36:54.2 20 1:17:04.2 +1:52.8
18 20 Martin Johnsrud Sundby  Norway 39:48.8 19 25.7 36:50.0 19 1:17:04.5 +1:53.1
19 30 Tord Asle Gjerdalen  Norway 40:23.4 28 24.3 36:16.8 17 1:17:04.5 +1:53.1
20 18 Curdin Perl  Switzerland 39:46.8 16 23.8 36:54.4 21 1:17:05.0 +1:53.6
21 7 René Sommerfeldt  Germany 39:49.9 21 25.6 36:56.4 22 1:17:11.9 +2:00.5
22 32 Toni Livers  Switzerland 39:50.6 22 25.5 37:09.9 24 1:17:26.0 +2:14.6
23 14 Daniel Rickardsson  Sweden 39:47.6 17 25.3 37:21.1 26 1:17:34.0 +2:22.6
24 22 Thomas Moriggl  Italy 40:11.3 26 23.3 37:06.3 23 1:17:40.9 +2:29.5
25 27 Martin Bajčičák  Slovakia 40:03.4 24 29.6 37:25.1 27 1:17:58.1 +2:46.7
26 23 Maurice Manificat  France 41:12.3 31 26.5 36:19.4 18 1:17:58.2 +2:46.8
27 46 Martin Jakš  Czech Republic 40:01.5 23 23.6 37:33.1 28 1:17:58.2 +2:46.8
28 50 Yevgeniy Velichko  Kazakhstan 40:23.0 27 25.2 37:12.0 25 1:18:00.2 +2:48.8
29 45 Paul Constantin Pepene  Romania 41:30.3 35 25.1 37:38.7 28 1:19:34.1 +4:22.7
30 9 Jean-Marc Gaillard  France 39:42.8 10 27.5 39:37.8 44 1:19:48.1 +4:36.7
31 53 Vicenc Vilarrubla  Spain 41:28.8 33 23.6 37:55.8 31 1:19:48.2 +4:36.8
32 36 Nikolay Pankratov  Russia 40:32.8 29 25.0 38:51.1 35 1:19:48.9 +4:37.5
33 47 Lari Lehtonen  Finland 41:28.5 32 25.1 38:40.9 33 1:20:34.5 +5:23.1
34 49 James Southam  United States 41:29.5 34 29.0 38:47.7 34 1:20:46.2 +5:34.8
35 37 Tom Reichelt  Germany 42:29.0 45 25.5 38:18.7 32 1:21:13.2 +6:01.8
36 28 Eldar Rønning  Norway 41:31.2 36 25.9 39:17.0 40 1:21:14.1 +6:02.7
37 40 Aivar Rehemaa  Estonia 41:48.1 39 26.4 39:01.3 37 1:21:15.8 +6:04.4
38 38 Jiří Magál  Czech Republic 41:45.4 37 26.5 39:27.1 42 1:21:39.0 +6:27.6
39 44 Nobu Naruse  Japan 43:54.7 51 24.7 37:51.7 30 1:22:11.1 +6:59.7
40 59 Javier Gutiérrez  Spain 42:28.1 43 25.4 39:26.9 41 1:22:20.4 +7:09.0
41 52 Roman Leybyuk  Ukraine 42:26.0 40 29.8 39:36.2 43 1:22:32.0 +7:20.6
42 56 Kaspar Kokk  Estonia 42:27.1 41 29.4 39:43.8 46 1:22:40.3 +7:28.9
43 19 Sergey Novikov  Russia 41:47.3 38 27.7 40:29.3 51 1:22:44.3 +7:32.9
44 33 Remo Fischer  Switzerland 42:28.1 43 25.5 39:58.5 49 1:22:52.1 +7:40.7
45 21 Kris Freeman  United States 43:17.1 48 29.4 39:16.1 39 1:23:02.6 +7:51.2
46 54 Karel Tammjärv  Estonia 42:54.1 46 23.8 39:45.0 47 1:23:02.9 +7:51.5
47 48 Ben Sim  Australia 43:16.4 47 23.7 39:45.7 48 1:23:25.8 +8:14.4
48 51 Aliaksei Ivanou  Belarus 44:15.2 53 25.5 38:57.0 36 1:23:37.7 +8:26.3
49 42 Sergey Cherepanov  Kazakhstan 42:27.8 42 29.0 40:46.9 53 1:23:43.7 +8:32.3
50 43 Robin Duvillard  France 43:53.8 50 25.8 39:38.0 45 1:23:57.6 +8:46.2
51 55 Andrew Musgrave  Great Britain 44:28.6 54 31.9 39:07.4 38 1:24:07.9 +8:56.5
52 57 Olexandr Putsko  Ukraine 44:09.3 52 28.6 40:09.2 50 1:24:47.1 +9:35.7
53 39 David Hofer  Italy 43:53.5 49 25.3 40:43.8 52 1:25:02.6 +9:51.2
54 64 Jānis Paipals  Latvia 46:30.9 55 29.0 LAP
55 63 Jonas Thor Olsen  Denmark 46:32.0 56 27.7 LAP
56 62 Benjamin Koons  New Zealand LAP
5 Matti Heikkinen  Finland DNF
25 Sami Jauhojärvi  Finland DNF
26 Martin Koukal  Czech Republic DNF
29 Sergei Dolidovich  Belarus DNF
35 Ville Nousiainen  Finland 41:07.8 30 25.3 DNF
58 Veselin Tzinzov  Bulgaria DNF
60 Petrică Hogiu  Romania DNF
61 François Soulié  Andorra DNF

References

  1. ^ Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Archived 2010-08-31 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 2 November 2009.
  2. ^ 2006 Winter Olympics men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. Archived 2012-12-16 at archive.today - accessed 2 November 2009.
  3. ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. Archived 2013-01-23 at archive.today - accessed 2 November 2009.
  4. ^ FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Whistler Olympic Park 17 January 2009 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. Archived 27 April 2009 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 2 November 2009.
  5. ^ FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Rybinsk 23 January 2010 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. - accessed 23 January 2010.
  6. ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 20 February 2010 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. Archived 3 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine - accessed 21 February 2010.