Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Paralympics – Men's 1.5 km sprint

The Men's 1.5 kilometre sprint competition of the 2022 Winter Paralympics was held at the National Biathlon Center in Beijing on 9 March 2022.

Men's 1.5 kilometre sprint classical at the XIII Paralympic Winter Games
Paralympic cross-country skiing
Dates	9 March 2022
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Men's 1.5 kilometre sprint (visually impaired) at the XIII Paralympic Winter Games
Medalists
Brian McKeever Guide: Russel Kennedy  Canada Jake Adicoff Guide: Sam Wood  United States Zebastian Modin Guide: Emil Jönsson Haag  Sweden

Men's 1.5 kilometre sprint (standing) at the XIII Paralympic Winter Games
Medalists
Benjamin Daviet  France Marco Maier  Germany Grygorii Vovchynskyi  Ukraine

Men's 1.5 kilometre sprint (sitting) at the XIII Paralympic Winter Games
Medalists
Zheng Peng  China Mao Zhongwu  China Collin Cameron  Canada

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)*	1	1	0	2
2	Canada (CAN)	1	0	1	2
3	France (FRA)	1	0	0	1
4	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		3	3	3	9

1.5 km sprint visually impaired

In the cross-country skiing visually impaired, the athlete with a visual impairment has a sighted guide.^[1] The two skiers are considered a team, and dual medals are awarded.

Qualification

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes[2]
1	113	Jake Adicoff Guide: Sam Wood	United States	2:36.72	–	Q
2	111	Brian McKeever Guide: Russel Kennedy	Canada	2:37.34	+0.62	Q
3	115	Anthony Chalençon Guide: Brice Ottonello	France	2:38.79	+2.07	Q
4	112	Zebastian Modin Guide: Emil Jönsson Haag	Sweden	2:40.35	+3.63	Q
5	117	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn	Ukraine	2:44.95	+8.23	Q
6	116	Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych	Ukraine	2:47.38	+10.66	Q
7	118	Piotr Garbowski Guide: Jakub Twardowski	Poland	2:48.55	+11.83	Q
8	122	Yu Shuang Guide: Wang Guanyu	China	2:49.24	+12.52	Q
9	114	Nico Messinger Guide: Robin Wunderle	Germany	2:49.59	+12.87
10	120	Iaroslav Reshetynskyi Guide: K. Yaremenko	Ukraine	2:50.41	+13.69
11	123	Xu He Guide: Diao C.	China	2:51.01	+14.29
12	121	Thomas Oxaal Guide: Ole-Martin Lid	Norway	2:51.57	+14.85
13	119	Inkki Inola Guide: Jari Huhta	Finland	2:55.47	+18.75
14	124	Max Nelson Guide: S. Hamilton	United States	3:00.26	+23.54
15	126	Paweł Gil Guide: M. Landa	Poland	3:11.03	+34.31
16	127	Ryohei Ariyasu Guide: Y. Fujita	Japan	3:34.72	+58.00
	125	Pawel Nowicki Guide: J. Kobryn	Poland	DNF

Semifinal 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes[3]
1	121	Jake Adicoff Guide: Sam Wood	United States	3:44.4	–	Q
2	124	Zebastian Modin Guide: Emil Jönsson Haag	Sweden	3:47.3	+2.9	Q
3	125	Anatolii Kovalevskyi Guide: Oleksandr Mukshyn	Ukraine	3:57.1	+12.7
4	128	Yu Shuang Guide: Wang Guanyu	China	4:07.5	+23.1

Semifinal 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes
1	123	Anthony Chalençon Guide: Brice Ottonello	France	3:34.9	–	Q
2	122	Brian McKeever Guide: Russel Kennedy	Canada	3:36.4	+1.5	Q
3	126	Dmytro Suiarko Guide: Oleksandr Nikonovych	Ukraine	3:49.4	+14.5
4	127	Piotr Garbowski Guide: Jakub Twardowski	Poland	4:01.4	+26.5

Finals

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	122	Brian McKeever Guide: Russel Kennedy	Canada	3:19.5	–
	121	Jake Adicoff Guide: Sam Wood	United States	3:20.3	+0.8
	124	Zebastian Modin Guide: Emil Jönsson Haag	Sweden	3:37.8	+18.3
4	123	Anthony Chalençon Guide: Brice Ottonello	France	3:47.2	+27.7

1.5 km sprint standing

Qualification

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference[4]
1	63	Marco Maier	Germany	2:43.67	–	Q
2	61	Benjamin Daviet	France	2:44.59	+0.92	Q
3	65	Grygorii Vovchynskyi	Ukraine	2:46.90	+3.23	Q
4	78	Cai Jiayun	China	2:47.26	+3.59	Q
5	74	Liu Xiaobin	China	2:49.10	+5.43	Q
6	64	Taiki Kawayoke	Japan	2:49.95	+6.28	Q
7	77	Wang Chenyang	China	2:50.44	+6.77	Q
8	72	Alexandr Gerlits	Kazakhstan	2:50.45	+6.78	Q
9	68	Ruslan Reiter	United States	2:54.49	+10.82	Q
10	79	Kjartan Haugen	Norway	2:54.51	+10.84	Q
11	66	Alexander Ehler	Germany	2:56.15	+12.48	Q
12	67	Yoshihiro Nitta	Japan	2:56.69	+13.02	Q
13	83	Wu Junbao	China	2:57.45	+13.78
14	81	Wu Gaoqun	China	2:57.89	+14.22
15	80	Serafym Drahun	Ukraine	3:00.13	+16.46
16	69	Luca Tavasci	Switzerland	3:00.73	+17.06
17	62	Witold Skupien	Poland	3:00.98	+17.31
18	73	Ganbold Batmunkh	Mongolia	3:05.39	+21.72
19	71	Dashdorj Tsegmid	Mongolia	3:07.32	+23.65
20	70	Qiu Mingyang	China	3:07.43	+23.76
21	82	Drew Shea	United States	3:12.76	+29.09
22	76	Keigo Iwamoto	Japan	3:14.45	+30.78
23	85	Abdoulfazi Khatibi Mianaei	Iran	3:19.71	+36.04
24	75	Cristian Toninelli	Italy	3:20.99	+37.32
25	84	Pol Makuri Redolad Garcia	Spain	4:17.32	+1:33.65

Semifinal 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes[5]
1	28	Cai Jiayun	China	3:18.4	–	Q
2	32	Alexandr Gerlits	Kazakhstan	3:26.3	+7.9	Q
3	25	Marco Maier	Germany	3:26.4	+8.0	Q
4	36	Yoshihiro Nitta	Japan	3:32.7	+14.3
5	29	Liu Xiaobin	China	3:40.7	+22.3
6	33	Ruslan Reiter	United States	3:43.1	+24.7

Semifinal 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes
1	26	Benjamin Daviet	France	3:25.5	–	Q
2	27	Grygorii Vovchynskyi	Ukraine	3:25.5	+0.0	Q
3	34	Kjartan Haugen	Norway	3:27.2	+1.7	Q
4	30	Taiki Kawayoke	Japan	3:30.1	+4.6
5	35	Alexander Ehler	Germany	3:38.7	+13.2
6	31	Wang Chenyang	China	3:40.0	+14.5

Finals

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	26	Benjamin Daviet	France	3:07.5	–
	25	Marco Maier	Germany	3:08.8	+1.3
	27	Grygorii Vovchynskyi	Ukraine	3:09.3	+1.8
4	28	Cai Jiayun	China	3:12.2	+4.7
5	32	Alexandr Gerlits	Kazakhstan	3:13.0	+5.5
6	34	Kjartan Haugen	Norway	3:28.8	+21.3

1.5 km sprint sitting

Qualification

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes[6]
1	19	Zheng Peng	China	2:14.17	–	Q
2	5	Collin Cameron	Canada	2:15.51	+1.34	Q
3	13	Mao Zhongwu	China	2:20.03	+5.86	Q
4	18	Liu Zixu	China	2:23.38	+9.21	Q
5	3	Cristian Ribera	Brazil	2:23.48	+9.31	Q
6	21	Wang Tao	China	2:23.55	+9.38	Q
7	4	Pavlo Bal	Ukraine	2:23.60	+9.43	Q
8	1	Giuseppe Romele	Italy	2:24.46	+10.29	Q
9	2	Taras Rad	Ukraine	2:24.84	+10.67	Q
10	24	Zhu Yunfeng	China	2:24.98	+10.81	Q
11	11	Derek Zaplotinsky	Canada	2:25.97	+11.80	Q
12	9	Aaron Pike	United States	2:27.00	+12.83	Q
13	7	Daniel Cnossen	United States	2:27.26	+13.09
14	8	Eui Hyun Shin	South Korea	2:28.60	+14.43
15	12	Yerbol Khamitov	Kazakhstan	2:28.67	+14.50
16	25	Du Tian	China	2:30.42	+16.25
17	6	Vasyl Kravchuk	Ukraine	2:30.68	+16.51
18	15	Guilherme Rocha	Brazil	2:34.19	+20.02
19	31	Josh Sweeney	United States	2:34.22	+20.05
20	10	Maksym Yarovyi	Ukraine	2:34.71	+20.54
21	20	Robelson Lula	Brazil	2:36.77	+22.60
22	16	Callum Deboys	Great Britain	2:37.00	+22.83
23	17	Krzysztof Plewa	Poland	2:37.42	+23.25
24	23	Wesley Vinicius dos Santos	Brazil	2:39.14	+24.97
25	22	Steve Thomas	Great Britain	2:39.33	+25.16
26	26	Ethan Hess	Canada	2:43.50	+29.33
27	32	Nicolas Lima	Argentina	2:47.78	+33.61
28	30	Yoomin Won	South Korea	2:48.51	+34.34
29	33	Michele Biglione	Italy	2:48.54	+34.37
30	34	Yuriy Berezin	Kazakhstan	2:48.56	+34.39
31	28	Hiroaki Mori	Japan	2:49.22	+35.05
32	27	Denis Petrenko	Kazakhstan	2:53.97	+39.80
33	35	Jaeseok Jeong	South Korea	2:55.85	+41.68
34	29	Sergey Ussoltsev	Kazakhstan	2:56.76	+42.59
35	36	Temuri Dadiani	Georgia	3:04.97	+50.80
36	37	Josip Zima	Croatia	3:20.88	+1:06.71
	14	Steve Arnold	Great Britain	DNS
	38	Mehman Ramazanzade	Azerbaijan	DNS

Semifinal 1

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes[7]
1	1	Zheng Peng	China	2:49.5	–	Q
2	4	Liu Zixu	China	2:55.2	+5.7	Q
3	9	Taras Rad	Ukraine	2:55.8	+6.3	Q
4	8	Giuseppe Romele	Italy	2:57.6	+8.1
5	5	Cristian Ribera	Brazil	2:59.8	+10.3
6	12	Aaron Pike	United States	3:01.3	+12.8

Semifinal 2

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes
1	2	Collin Cameron	Canada	2:49.9	–	Q
2	3	Mao Zhongwu	China	2:53.4	+4.2	Q
3	6	Wang Tao	China	2:54.8	+5.6	Q
4	10	Zhu Yunfeng	China	2:55.2	+5.7
5	7	Pavlo Bal	Ukraine	3:10.9	+21.7
6	11	Derek Zaplotinsky	Canada	3:15.7	+26.5

Finals

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Difference
	1	Zheng Peng	China	2:42.4	–
	3	Mao Zhongwu	China	2:44.9	+2.5
	2	Collin Cameron	Canada	2:46.3	+3.9
4	4	Liu Zixu	China	2:55.0	+13.0
5	6	Wang Tao	China	2:57.5	+15.1
6	9	Taras Rad	Ukraine	3:03.6	+21.2

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics