Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint

The Men's sprint cross-country skiing competition in the classical technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 17 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia.^[1]

Men's sprint at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Whistler Olympic Park
Dates	17 February 2010
Competitors	62 from 25 nations
Winning time	3:36.3
Medalists
Nikita Kryukov  Russia Alexander Panzhinskiy  Russia Petter Northug  Norway
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Sweden's Björn Lind was the defending Olympic champion in this event, though the event was in the freestyle technique.^[2] Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad was the defending world champion in this event which was also held in freestyle technique.^[3] Emil Jönsson of Sweden won the test event that took place at Olympic venue on 16 January 2009.^[4] The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 6 February 2010 in Canmore, Alberta and was won by Jönsson.^[5]

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.^[6] The event ended in a photofinish between Russians Nikita Kryukov and Alexander Panzhinskiy with Kriukov edging out Panzhinsky who had led most of the race.^[7]

Results

Qualifying

Qualifying took place at 10:45 PST.^[1]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Alexander Panzhinskiy	Russia	3:34.57	+0.00	Q
2	4	Emil Jönsson	Sweden	3:36.01	+1.44	Q
3	14	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:36.43	+1.86	Q
4	5	Nikita Kryukov	Russia	3:36.46	+1.89	Q
5	20	Johan Kjølstad	Norway	3:36.65	+2.08	Q
6	13	Petter Northug	Norway	3:37.09	+2.52	Q
7	1	Øystein Pettersen	Norway	3:37.34	+2.77	Q
8	9	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	3:37.84	+3.27	Q
9	21	Peeter Kümmel	Estonia	3:37.99	+3.42	Q
10	37	Stefan Kuhn	Canada	3:38.35	+3.78	Q
11	23	Yuichi Onda	Japan	3:38.49	+3.92	Q
12	45	Sun Qinghai	China	3:38.52	+3.95	Q
13	15	Jesper Modin	Sweden	3:38.53	+3.96	Q
14	16	Björn Lind	Sweden	3:38.62	+4.05	Q
15	40	Alexey Poltaranin	Kazakhstan	3:38.68	+4.11	Q
16	12	Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.	Russia	3:38.82	+4.25	Q
17	11	Cyril Miranda	France	3:38.83	+4.26	Q
18	19	Teodor Peterson	Sweden	3:39.08	+4.51	Q
19	7	Kalle Lassila	Finland	3:39.12	+4.55	Q
20	46	Jesse Väänänen	Finland	3:39.21	+4.64	Q
21	26	Sami Jauhojärvi	Finland	3:39.57	+5.00	Q
22	10	Renato Pasini	Italy	3:39.63	+5.06	Q
23	18	Nikolay Morilov	Russia	3:40.22	+5.65	Q
24	29	Devon Kershaw	Canada	3:40.50	+5.93	Q
25	43	Timo Simonlatser	Estonia	3:40.65	+6.08	Q
26	24	Fabio Pasini	Italy	3:40.86	+6.29	Q
27	41	Janusz Krężelok	Poland	3:41.34	+6.77	Q
28	34	Maciej Kreczmer	Poland	3:41.35	+6.78	Q
29	42	Simi Hamilton	United States	3:41.53	+6.96	Q
30	8	Loris Frasnelli	Italy	3:41.78	+7.21	Q
31	33	Josef Wenzl	Germany	3:41.88	+7.31
31	39	Roddy Darragon	France	3:41.88	+7.31
33	17	Tim Tscharnke	Germany	3:42.03	+7.46
34	35	Christoph Eigenmann	Switzerland	3:42.18	+7.61
35	36	Dušan Kožíšek	Czech Republic	3:42.45	+7.88
36	28	Torin Koos	United States	3:42.72	+8.15
37	6	Matias Strandvall	Finland	3:42.74	+8.17
38	30	Valerio Leccardi	Switzerland	3:42.84	+8.27
39	27	David Hofer	Italy	3:42.89	+8.32
40	51	Drew Goldsack	Canada	3:44.28	+9.71
41	49	Brent McMurtry	Canada	3:45.02	+10.45
42	32	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia	3:45.44	+10.87
43	38	Peter von Allmen	Switzerland	3:46.16	+11.59
44	25	Aleš Razym	Czech Republic	3:46.42	+11.85
45	2	Andrew Newell	United States	3:46.77	+12.20
46	53	Mantas Strolia	Lithuania	3:47.17	+12.60
47	48	Garrott Kuzzy	United States	3:47.46	+12.89
48	47	Sergey Cherepanov	Kazakhstan	3:48.29	+13.72
49	22	Eligius Tambornino	Switzerland	3:48.33	+13.76
50	52	Lefteris Fafalis	Greece	3:49.09	+14.52
51	50	Leanid Karneyenka	Belarus	3:49.12	+14.55
52	44	Yevgeniy Koshevoy	Kazakhstan	3:49.51	+14.94
53	55	Aleksei Novoselski	Lithuania	3:51.70	+17.13
54	54	Modestas Vaičiulis	Lithuania	3:52.10	+17.53
55	57	Paul Murray	Australia	3:52.96	+18.39
56	62	Francois Soulie	Andorra	3:55.22	+20.65
57	56	Peter Mlynár	Slovakia	3:55.76	+21.19
58	58	Andrew Musgrave	Great Britain	3:58.43	+23.86
59	31	Kein Einaste	Estonia	3:59.19	+24.62
60	60	Andrew Young	Great Britain	4:02.19	+27.62
61	59	Oliver Kraas	South Africa	4:04.19	+29.62
62	61	Janis Paipals	Latvia	4:04.48	+29.91

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinals took place at 12:55 PST.^[1]

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Alexander Panzhinskiy	Russia	3:36.4	+0.0	Q
2	21	Sami Jauhojärvi	Finland	3:36.9	+0.5	Q
3	10	Stefan Kuhn	Canada	3:37.4	+1.0
4	11	Yuichi Onda	Japan	3:37.9	+1.5
5	20	Jesse Väänänen	Finland	3:38.9	+2.3
6	30	Loris Frasnelli	Italy	3:40.9	+4.5

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	7	Øystein Pettersen	Norway	3:36.9	+0.0	Q
2	4	Nikita Kryukov	Russia	3:37.2	+0.3	Q
3	17	Cyril Miranda	France	3:37.3	+0.4
4	14	Björn Lind	Sweden	3:37.6	+0.7
5	24	Devon Kershaw	Canada	3:39.9	+3.0
6	27	Janusz Krężelok	Poland	3:41.1	+4.2

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	6	Petter Northug	Norway	3:34.5	+0.0	Q
2	15	Alexey Poltaranin	Kazakhstan	3:34.7	+0.2	Q
3	5	Johan Kjølstad	Norway	3:35.3	+0.8	LL
4	16	Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.	Russia	3:35.3	+0.8	LL
5	26	Fabio Pasini	Italy	3:35.7	+1.2
6	25	Timo Simonlatser	Estonia	3:42.2	+8.7

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	2	Emil Jönsson	Sweden	3:41.8	+0.0	Q
2	19	Kalle Lassila	Finland	3:42.2	+0.4	Q
3	9	Peeter Kümmel	Estonia	3:42.4	+0.6
4	22	Renato Pasini	Italy	3:42.8	+1.0
5	12	Sun Qinghai	China	3:43.1	+1.3
6	29	Simi Hamilton	United States	3:43.4	+1.6

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:37.8	+0.0	Q
2	18	Teodor Peterson	Sweden	3:38.3	+0.5	Q
3	8	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	3:38.6	+0.8
4	13	Jesper Modin	Sweden	3:39.1	+1.3
5	28	Maciej Kreczmer	Poland	3:39.6	+1.8
6	23	Nikolay Morilov	Russia	3:40.2	+2.4

Semifinals

Semifinals took place at 13:30 PST.^[1]

Semifinals 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Alexander Panzhinskiy	Russia	3:34.3	+0.0	Q
2	7	Øystein Pettersen	Norway	3:34.4	+0.1	Q
3	4	Nikita Kryukov	Russia	3:34.6	+0.3	LL
4	15	Alexey Poltaranin	Kazakhstan	3:35.6	+1.1	LL
5	5	Johan Kjølstad	Norway	3:35.9	+1.6
6	21	Sami Jauhojärvi	Finland	3:39.6	+5.3

Semifinals 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:36.5	+0.0	Q
2	6	Petter Northug	Norway	3:36.7	+0.2	Q
3	2	Emil Jönsson	Sweden	3:37.4	+0.9
4	16	Mikhail Devyatyarov, Jr.	Russia	3:37.6	+1.1
5	19	Kalle Lassila	Finland	3:43.7	+7.2
6	18	Teodor Peterson	Sweden	3:43.8	+7.3

Finals

Finals took place at 13:55 PST.^[1]

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
	4	Nikita Kryukov	Russia	3:36.3	+0.0
	1	Alexander Panzhinskiy	Russia	3:36.3	+0.0
	6	Petter Northug	Norway	3:45.5	+9.2
4	3	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:50.0	+13.7
5	15	Alexey Poltaranin	Kazakhstan	3:54.4	+18.1
6	7	Øystein Pettersen	Norway	4:56.2	+1:19.9

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics – Men's 1 km Sprint Classic