- 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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