Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit


The men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, was held on 19 February at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium in Lillehammer. The Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie was the 1993 World champion and the 1992 Olympic champion.
Each skier started based on the results from the 10 km classical event, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course after the first-to-finish principle. Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway started first in the race with a gap of 18.2 seconds to Vladimir Smirnov of Kazakhstan. Dæhlie extended his lead and won over Smirnov with 29.2 seconds; his second consecutive olympic gold medal in the pursuit event.

Results

The time consists the added times for both the 10 km classical and the 15 km freestyle pursuit.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
1Bjørn Dæhlie1:00:08.8
2Vladimir Smirnov1:00:38.0
8Silvio Fauner1:01:48.6
6Mika Myllylä1:01:55.9
4Mikhail Botvinov1:01:57.8
12Jari Räsänen1:02:03.7
5Sture Sivertsen1:02:09.7
17Johann Mühlegg1:02:31.2
15Giorgio Vanzetta1:02:31.6
103Marco Albarello1:02:34.1
1110Alois Stadlober1:02:57.1
1220Alexey Prokourorov1:03:07.8
1321Jeremias Wigger1:03:07.9
1411Jochen Behle1:03:32.1
1514Jan Ottosson1:03:32.4
1613Andrey Kirilov1:03:59.7
1718Vladimir Legotine1:04:00.1
1825Kazunari Sasaki1:04:00.5
1916Nikolay Ivanov1:04:10.5
2022Patrick Rémy1:04:20.5
2153Viatscheslav Plaksunov1:04:35.2
2229Fulvio Valbusa1:04:36.3
2319Christer Majbäck1:04:42.5
2426Luboš Buchta1:04:54.0
2533Elmo Kassin1:04:54.9
2634Pavel Ryabinin1:05:05.6
2731Mitsuo Horigome1:05:07.0
2847Juan Jesús Gutiérrez1:05:20.0
2939Philippe Sanchez1:05:31.8
3046Hans Diethelm1:05:32.4
3137Andrey Nevzorov1:05:32.9
3244Carles Vicente1:05:33.3
3345John Aalberg1:05:33.4
3443Ivan Bátory1:05:34.3
3561Janko Neuber1:05:39.6
3665Pavel Benc1:05:44.1
3759Václav Korunka1:06:02.0
3832Torald Rein1:06:02.3
3955Markus Hasler1:06:05.4
4035Jaak Mae1:06:06.0
4141Todd Boonstra1:06:07.1
4240Hiroyuki Imai1:06:19.8
4352Benjamin Husaby1:06:35.9
4456Siniša Vukonić1:06:45.3
4558Luke Bodensteiner1:06:53.0
4662Igor Obukhov1:06:53.5
4757Jordi Ribo1:07:07.6
4838Ricardas Panavas1:07:12.5
4950Daníel Jakobsson1:07:17.0
5066Michael Binzer1:07:17.1
5170Sergei Dolidovich1:07:30.5
5249Dany Bouchard1:07:33.2
5363Cédric Vallet1:07:44.5
5472Masaaki Kozu1:07:50.1
5536Andrus Veerpalu1:08:16.1
5660Wilhelm Aschwanden1:08:17.4
5751Anthony Evans1:08:22.9
5871Martin Petrásek1:08:23.8
5973Elemer Tanko1:08:47.1
6069Slavtscho Batinkov1:08:47.5
6164Ebbe Hartz1:08:52.8
6280Zsolt Antal1:09:04.2
6368David Belam1:09:17.8
6476Stephan Kunz1:09:19.6
6577Byung-Chul Park1:09:56.3
6667Mark Gray1:10:01.1
6774Iskren Plankov1:10:52.5
6875Jin-Soo Ahn1:11:16.1
6978Rögnvaldur Ingþórsson1:11:16.2
7081Petar Zografov1:11:42.2
7179Antonio Rački1:12:38.8
7285Jānis Hermanis1:15:17.5
7386Nikos Anastassiadis1:15:43.9
7484Bekim Babic1:17:43.6
42Urmas Välbe
82Nikos Kalofyris
7Vegard Ulvang
9Harri Kirvesniemi
23Jari Isometsä
24Thomas Alsgaard
27Torgny Mogren
28Viktor Kamotski
30Niklas Jonsson
48Giachem Guidon
54Stéphane Azambre
83Christos Titas
87Mithat Yildrim
88Rusiate Rogoyawa