Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre classical


The men's 50 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 28 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia at 09:30 PST. on the final day of the Games.
The 50 kilometre has been skated as a mass start event at the World Championships since 2005 and since the 2006 Winter Olympics. Italy's Giorgio Di Centa was the defending Olympic champion though that event was held in the freestyle technique. Norway's Petter Northug was the reigning world champion though that was also in the freestyle technique. The last World Cup event in the 50 km classical took place in Trondheim, Norway on 14 March 2009 and was won by Sami Jauhojärvi of Finland. All three medalists of the shorter 30 kilometre event were scheduled to participate in the 50 km race; in that race, Marcus Hellner of Sweden came first, Petter Northug was 11th, Giorgio Di Centa was 12th, and Sami Jauhojärvi failed to finish.

Results

There were 55 participants in this event.
Defending Olympic champion di Centa finished 11th. Jauhojärvi finished 20th. At the 12.3 km mark, the top three were Södergren, 2007 champion Hjelmeset, and Legkov. By the halfway mark, the top three were Johnsrud Sundby, Richardsson, and Olsson. France's Gaillard led at the 39.2 km mark, followed by Cologna, and Legkov. Northug's 0.3 second victory over Teichmann is the closest 50 km event in Olympic history, beating the previous record of 0.8 seconds set at the previous Olympics when di Centa edged out Russia's Yevgeny Dementyev. Additionally, he is the sixth Norwegian to win the Olympic 50 km event, but the first since Bjørn Dæhlie's second triumph at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. The medals were presented at the closing ceremony at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver that same evening.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
1Petter Northug2:05:35.5+0.0
6Axel Teichmann2:05:35.8+0.3
18Johan Olsson2:05:36.5+1.0
19Tobias Angerer2:05:37.0+1.5
28Devon Kershaw2:05:37.1+1.6
24Andrus Veerpalu2:05:41.6+6.1
14Daniel Richardsson2:05:45.2+9.7
12Maxim Vylegzhanin2:05:46.4+10.9
29Anders Södergren2:05:47.1+11.6
104Dario Cologna2:05:47.5+12.0
115Giorgio Di Centa2:05:49.0+13.5
123Lukáš Bauer2:05:49.4+13.9
1310Vincent Vittoz2:05:49.6+14.1
148Alexander Legkov2:05:53.3+17.8
1520Martin Johnsrud Sundby2:05:57.7+22.2
1613Jens Filbrich2:06:07.8+32.3
1738Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset2:06:08.3+32.8
1836George Grey2:06:18.1+42.6
199Jean Marc Gaillard2:06:38.0+1:02.5
2023Sami Jauhojärvi2:06:43.2+1:07.7
217René Sommerfeldt2:06:52.5+1:17.0
222Marcus Hellner2:07:03.2+1:27.7
2327Jens Arne Svartedal2:07:32.5+1:57.0
2439Petr Sedov2:07:35.4+1:59.9
2526Sergei Dolidovich2:07:47.6+2:12.1
2611Pietro Piller Cottrer2:08:21.6+2:46.1
2730Alexey Poltaranin2:09:29.6+3:54.1
2844James Southam2:10:08.3+4:32.8
2933Jiří Magál2:10:22.7+4:47.2
3035Jaak Mae2:10:41.3+5:05.8
3116Valerio Checchi2:10:49.7+5:14.2
3222Alex Harvey2:10:49.9+5:14.4
3317Ivan Babikov2:10:50.2+5:14.7
3434Aivar Rehemaa2:10:57.6+5:22.1
3540Nobu Naruse2:10:59.2+5:23.7
3632Roland Clara2:11:00.8+5:25.3
3731Ville Nousiainen2:11:38.0+6:02.5
3855Cyril Miranda2:11:56.9+6:21.4
3945Yevgeniy Velichko2:13:01.5+7:26.0
4048Vicenc Vilarrubla2:13:33.8+7:58.3
4150Algo Kärp2:13:49.6+8:14.1
4247Roman Leybyuk2:15:19.9+9:44.4
4342Lari Lehtonen2:16:26.2+10:50.7
4449Diego Ruiz2:17:49.8+12:14.3
4546Aliaksei Ivanou2:17:59.2+12:23.7
4653Benjamin Koons2:21:53.9+16:18.4
4752Francesc Soulie2:25:00.8+19:25.3
4854Jonas Thor Olsen2:25:00.9+19:25.4
25Martin Bajčičák
21Kris Freeman
43Ivan Bátory
15Sergey Shiryayev
51Javier Gutierrez
37Sergey Cherepanov
41Paul Constantin Pepene