- Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
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Men's 15 kilometre freestyle
at the XXI Olympic Winter GamesVenue Whistler Olympic Park Dates 15 February Competitors 96 from 50 nations Winning time 33:36.3 Medalists Dario Cologna Switzerland Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy Lukáš Bauer Czech Republic «2006 2014» Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Distance 10 km women 15 km men women 30 km men women 50 km men 4 x 5 km relay women 4 x 10 km relay men Sprint Individual men women Team men women The men's 15 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, was held on 15 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia, at 12:30 PST.[1]
Each skier starts at 30-second intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Estonia's Andrus Veerpalu is both the two-time defending Olympic and World champion in this event, though all three were held in the classical event.[2][3][4] Norway's Lars Berger won the 2007 world championships when it was in freestyle.[5] The final World Cup event in men's 15 km freestyle prior to the 2010 Games took place on 5 February at Canmore, Alberta, and was won by Italy's Giorgio Di Centa.[6]
Veerpalu did not participate to the event being in freestyle while Berger did not participate to the fact that the biathlon men's 12.5 km pursuit would take place the next day. Di Centa finished tenth in the event. Cologna is the first Swiss to win a gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics.[7]
Results
Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 33 Dario Cologna Switzerland 33:36.3 +0.00 25 Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy 34:00.9 +24.6 34 Lukáš Bauer Czech Republic 34:12.0 +35.7 4 35 Marcus Hellner Sweden 34:13.5 +37.2 5 26 Vincent Vittoz France 34:16.2 +39.9 6 13 Maurice Manificat France 34:27.4 +51.1 7 18 Tobias Angerer Germany 34:28.5 +52.2 8 20 Ivan Babikov Canada 34:30.0 +53.7 9 24 Maxim Vylegzhanin Russia 34:31.6 +55.3 10 31 Giorgio Di Centa Italy 34:36.2 +59.9 11 19 Johan Olsson Sweden 34:39.3 +1:03.0 12 6 Toni Livers Switzerland 34:43.3 +1:07.0 13 1 Ville Nousiainen Finland 34:45.5 +1:09.2 14 2 Alexey Poltaranin Kazakhstan 34:50.5 +1:14.2 15 5 Remo Fischer Switzerland 34:51.1 +1:14.8 15 28 Alexander Legkov Russia 34:51.1 +1:14.8 17 17 Curdin Perl Switzerland 34:51.8 +1:15.5 18 10 Martin Koukal Czech Republic 34:53.5 +1:17.2 19 21 Valerio Checchi Italy 34:53.7 +1:17.4 20 4 Emmanuel Jonnier France 34:55.1 +1:18.8 21 11 Alex Harvey Canada 34:55.6 +1:19.3 22 23 Daniel Rickardsson Sweden 34:58.7 +1:22.4 23 9 Martin Bajčičák Slovakia 34:59.3 +1:23.0 24 14 Thomas Moriggl Italy 34:59.9 +1:23.6 25 3 Anders Södergren Sweden 35:01.2 +1:24.9 26 44 Petr Sedov Russia 35:06.2 +1:29.9 27 37 Teemu Kattilakoski Finland 35:06.8 +1:30.5 28 7 Tord Asle Gjerdalen Norway 35:10.5 +1:34.2 29 42 George Grey Canada 35:13.0 +1:36.7 29 47 Martin Jakš Czech Republic 35:13.0 +1:36.7 31 22 Sergey Shiryayev Russia 35:14.5 +1:38.2 32 27 Jean-Marc Gaillard France 35:20.5 +1:44.2 33 16 Martin Johnsrud Sundby Norway 35:26.3 +1:50.0 34 38 Juha Lallukka Finland 35:28.8 +1:52.5 35 8 Sergei Dolidovich Belarus 35:29.4 +1:53.1 36 29 René Sommerfeldt Germany 35:31.3 +1:55.0 37 46 Paul Constantin Pepene Romania 35:33.7 +1:57.4 38 40 Nikolay Chebotko Kazakhstan 35:34.1 +1:57.8 39 32 Matti Heikkinen Finland 35:37.1 +2:00.8 40 48 Ivan Batory Slovakia 35:38.1 +2:01.8 41 36 Petter Northug Norway 35:39.5 +2:03.2 42 12 Ronny Hafsås Norway 35:41.8 +2:05.5 43 52 Milan Šperl Czech Republic 35:46.4 +2:10.1 44 30 Axel Teichmann Germany 35:47.0 +2:10.7 45 50 Ben Sim Australia 35:48.6 +2:12.3 46 39 Tom Reichelt Germany 35:50.4 +2:14.1 47 43 Sergey Cherepanov Kazakhstan 35:50.8 +2:14.5 48 51 James Southam United States 35:58.2 +2:21.9 49 45 Nobu Naruse Japan 36:01.6 +2:25.3 50 62 Veselin Tzinzov Bulgaria 36:11.7 +2:35.4 51 41 Aivar Rehemaa Estonia 36:13.5 +2:37.2 52 64 Gordon Jewett Canada 36:17.9 +2:41.6 53 56 Vicenc Vilarrubla Spain 36:22.7 +2:46.4 54 66 Michal Malak Slovakia 36:22.8 +2:46.5 55 60 Andrew Musgrave Great Britain 36:32.4 +2:56.1 56 53 Yevgeniy Velichko Kazakhstan 36:33.0 +2:56.7 57 67 Petrica Hogiu Romania 36:39.5 +3:03.2 58 59 Garrott Kuzzy United States 36:41.5 +3:05.2 59 15 Kris Freeman United States 36:41.6 +3:05.3 60 54 Aliaksei Ivanou Belarus 36:48.2 +3:11.9 61 55 Roman Leybyuk Ukraine 36:49.7 +3:13.4 62 61 Olexandr Putsko Ukraine 37:09.8 +3:33.5 63 80 Leanid Karneyenka Belarus 37:29.2 +3:52.9 64 69 Simi Hamilton United States 37:30.5 +3:54.2 65 57 Diego Ruiz Spain 37:31.8 +3:55.5 66 49 Maciej Kreczmer Poland 37:38.0 +4:01.7 67 58 Karel Tammjärv Estonia 37:38.4 +4:02.1 68 65 Xu Wenlong China 37:39.5 +4:03.2 69 63 Javier Gutierrez Spain 37:55.7 +4:19.4 70 76 Sergey Mikayelyan Armenia 37:58.9 +4:22.6 71 68 Aleksei Novoselski Lithuania 38:01.6 +4:25.3 72 74 Janis Paipals Latvia 38:18.0 +4:41.7 73 70 Francesc Soulie Andorra 38:36.0 +4:59.7 74 71 Andrew Young Great Britain 38:45.1 +5:08.8 75 77 Andrej Burić Croatia 38:51.0 +5:14.7 76 73 Jonas Thor Olsen Denmark 39:01.8 +5:25.5 77 78 Sebahattin Oğlago Turkey 39:03.0 +5:26.7 78 83 Mladen Plakalović Bosnia and Herzegovina 39:41.4 +6:05.1 79 75 Lee Jun Gil South Korea 39:51.6 +6:15.3 80 82 Amar Garibović Serbia 40:12.0 +6:35.7 81 84 Zoltán Tagscherer Hungary 41:15.0 +7:38.7 82 85 Carlos Lannes Argentina 41:34.9 +7:58.6 83 90 Tashi Lundup India 41:36.8 +8:00.5 84 94 Mehdi-Selim Khelifi Algeria 41:38.5 +8:02.2 85 79 Darko Damjanovski Macedonia 41:48.2 +8:11.9 86 87 Sergiu Balan Moldova 42:12.1 +8:35.8 87 91 Khash-Erdene Khurelbataar Mongolia 42:27.4 +8:51.1 88 88 Tucker Murphy Bermuda 42:39.1 +9:02.8 89 81 Sattar Seid Iran 42:41.1 +9:04.8 90 89 Leandro Ribela Brazil 43:36.2 +9:59.9 91 86 Peter-James Barron Ireland 43:50.4 +10:14.1 92 93 Dachhiri Sherpa Nepal 44:26.5 +10:50.2 93 96 Robel Teklemariam Ethiopia 45:18.9 +11:42.6 94 92 Roberto Carcelen Peru 45:53.6 +12:17.3 95 95 Danny Silva Portugal 49:31.4 +15:55.1 72 Benjamin Koons New Zealand DNS References
- ^ Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 2 November 2009.
- ^ 2002 Winter Olympic men's 15 km classical results. - accessed 3 November 2009.
- ^ 2006 Winter Olympic men's 15 km classical results. - accessed 2 November 2009.
- ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 men's 15 km classical results. - accessed 2 November 2009.
- ^ FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 men's 15 km freestyle results. - accessed 2 November 2009.
- ^ FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Canmore 5 February 2010 men's 15 km freestyle results. - accessed 6 February 2010.
- ^ 2010 Winter Olympics 15 February 2010 Cross-country skiing men's 15 km freestyle results. - accessed 16 February 2010.
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