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


The men's team sprint cross-country skiing competition in the freestyle technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 22 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia.
The Swedish team of Björn Lind and Thobias Fredriksson were the defending Olympic champions when the technique was classical. The defending world champions were the Norwegian duo of Ola Vigen Hattestad and Johan Kjølstad when the technique was also classical. Sweden's team of Emil Jönsson and Robin Bryntesson won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 18 January 2009. The last World Cup event in this format prior to the 2010 Games took place in Rybinsk, Russia on 24 January 2010 and was won by the Russian duo of Nikolay Morilov and Alexey Petukhov.

Results

Semifinals

The semifinals took place at 11:35 and 12:00 PST.
RankHeatBibCountryAthleteTimeNote
11Nikolay Morilov
Alexey Petukhov
18:47.6Q
12Øystein Pettersen
Petter Northug
18:48.5Q
15Tim Tscharnke
Axel Teichmann
18:48.9Q
14Devon Kershaw
Alex Harvey
18:49.2q
16Lasse Paakkonen
Ville Nousiainen
18:54.3q
17Maciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
19:07.2
111Ivan Bátory
Michal Malak
19:07.5
13Anti Saarepuu
Peeter Kümmel
19:27.6
19Modestas Vaičiulis
Mantas Strolia
19:43.1
1018Sun Qinghai
Xu Wenlong
19:43.6
110Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Young
216Dušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
18:43.1Q
219Vincent Vittoz
Cyril Miranda
18:43.8Q
215Cristian Zorzi
Renato Pasini
18:43.9Q
213Torin Koos
Andrew Newell
18:43.7q
217Nikolay Chebotko
Alexey Poltaranin
18:45.3q
212Eligius Tambornino
Dario Cologna
18:54.6
218Nobu Naruse
Yuichi Onda
18:54.8
214Marcus Hellner
Teodor Peterson
19:06.5
222Paul Constantin Pepene
Petrica Hogiu
19:09.2
10220Ben Sim
Paul Murray
19:57.0
221Sergei Dolidovich
Leanid Karneyenka

Final

The following are the results of the event.
Neither of the Swedish pair that won at the previous Olympics or at the test event participated and the Swedish team was eliminated in the semifinals. Norway's defending world champions did not participate though the ones who replaced them would win gold. The Russian team that won the last event in this format prior to the Olympics would win bronze.
RankBibCountryAthleteTimeDeficit
2Øystein Pettersen
Petter Northug
19:01.0+0.0
5Tim Tscharnke
Axel Teichmann
19:02.3+1.3
1Nikolay Morilov
Alexey Petukhov
19:02.5+1.5
4Devon Kershaw
Alex Harvey
19:07.3+6.3
17Nikolay Chebotko
Alexey Poltaranin
19:07.5+6.5
16Dušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
19:13.8+12.8
19Vincent Vittoz
Cyril Miranda
19:18.7+17.7
15Cristian Zorzi
Renato Pasini
19:21.1+20.1
13Torin Koos
Andrew Newell
19:21.6+20.6
106Lasse Paakkonen
Ville Nousiainen
19:50.8+49.8