Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre classical


The men's 15 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 14 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. Dario Cologna from Switzerland was the defending champion from Vancouver and was successful in defending the title. Johan Olsson and Daniel Richardsson from Sweden took silver and bronze.

Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points will be allowed to compete in both or one of the event. An athlete with a maximum 120 FIS sprint points will be allowed to compete in the sprint event and 10 km for women or 15 km for men provided their distance points do not exceed 300 FIS points. NOC's who do not have any athlete meeting the A standard can enter one competitor of each sex in only 10 km classical event for women or 15 km classical event for men. They must have a maximum of 300 FIS distance points at the end of qualifying on January 20, 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.

Results

The race was started at 14:00.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
35Dario Cologna38:29.7—
34Johan Olsson38:58.2+28.5
43Daniel Richardsson39:08.5+38.8
13Iivo Niskanen39:08.7+39.0
37Lukáš Bauer39:28.6+58.9
52Chris Jespersen39:30.6+1:00.9
31Alexander Bessmertnykh39:37.7+1:08.0
26Axel Teichmann39:42.4+1.12.7
51Alexey Poltoranin39:43.2+1:13.5
1048Marcus Hellner39:46.9+1:17.2
1149Hannes Dotzler39:49.9+1:20.2
1233Eldar Rønning40:02.8+1:33.1
1353Martin Johnsrud Sundby40:07.4+1:37.7
1429Jens Filbrich40:08.5+1:38.8
1528Lars Nelson40:08.8+1.39.1
1647Dmitry Yaparov40:10.7+1:41.0
1740Sami Jauhojärvi40.14.4+1:44.7
1845Pål Golberg40:14.5+1.44.8
1942Stanislav Volzhentsev40:15.0+1:45.3
2041Matti Heikkinen40:17.8+1:48.1
2144Jean-Marc Gaillard40:22.8+1:53.1
2225Curdin Perl40:27.8+1:58.1
2310Martin Bajčičák40:28.0+1:58.3
2411Jonas Baumann40.33.2+2:03.5
2546Evgeniy Belov40:36.8+2:07.1
2636Tim Tscharnke40:41.3+2:11.6
2760Philipp Haelg40:41.5+2:11.8
2814Ville Nousiainen40:52.6+2:22.9
294Maciej Kreczmer40.58.7+2:29.0
3022Francesco de Fabiani41:00.8+2:31.1
3132Noah Hoffman41:02.7+2:33.0
3230Dietmar Nöckler41:11.9+2:42.2
337Nikolay Chebotko41.14.1+2:44.4
3421Yevgeniy Velichko41:16.4+2:46.7
3538Devon Kershaw41:17.1+2:47.4
3627Mattia Pellegrin41:20.1+2:50.4
3770Andrew Young41:29.6+2:59.9
3812Erik Bjornsen41:44.7+3:15.0
3939Ivan Babikov41:49.2+3:19.5
4015Aivar Rehemaa41.49.8+3:20.1
4120Veselin Tzinzov42:06.3+3:36.6
426Algo Kärp42:16.5+3.46.8
4316Adrien Backscheider42.21.7+3:52.0
449Andrew Musgrave42.25.7+3.56.0
4557Karel Tammjärv42:27.7+3.58.0
461Sergey Mikayelyan42:39.1+4:09.4
4718Brian Gregg42:42.0+4:12.3
482Fabio Pasini42:42.3+4.12.6
4954Alexander Lasutkin42:45.1+4.15.4
5055Imanol Rojo42:45.4+4.15.7
5164Peter Mlynár42:50.3+4.20.6
5223Kris Freeman42:54.8+4:25.1
5317Sergei Dolidovich42:55.4+4:25.7
5458Yerdos Akhmadiyev43:02.2+4:32.5
5565Sebastian Gazurek43:06.7+4:37.0
565Cyril Miranda43:22.5+4:52.8
573Max Hauke43:23.4+4:53.7
5868Martin Møller43:29.7+5:00.0
5924Michail Semenov43:36.0+5:06.3
6062Edi Dadić43:38.8+5:09.1
6159Raido Ränkel43:38.9+5:09.2
628Paul Constantin Pepene43:39.4+5:09.7
635643:43.9+5:14.2
6469Pawel Klisz43:51.6+5:21.9
6519Graeme Killick44:04.8+5:35.1
6663Maciej Staręga44:07.1+5:37.4
6766Callum Smith44:14.7+5:45.0
6878Hwang Jun-Ho44:34.8+6:05.1
6971Oleksii Krasovskyi44:35.4+6:05.7
7072Vytautas Strolia45:08.0+6:38.3
7173Sabahattin Oğlago45:16.0+6:46.3
7281Sun Qinghai45:28.2+6:58.5
7375Arvis Liepiņš45:36.2+7:06.5
7485Sævar Birgisson45:44.2+7:14.5
7567Callum Watson45:46.5+7:16.8
7674Phillip Bellingham46:16.4+7:46.7
7761Milanko Petrović46:42.2+8:12.5
7880Milán Szabó47:01.3+8:31.6
7983Sattar Seid47:16.1+8:46.4
8086Bold Byambadorj48:29.6+9:59.9
8179Darko Damjanovski48:34.9+10:05.2
8287Jan Rossiter48:44.6+10:14.9
8384Federico Cichero49:11.3+10:41.6
8488Tucker Murphy49:19.9+10:50.2
8589Nadeem Iqbal55:12.5+16:42.8
8691Dachhiri Sherpa55:39.3+17:09.6
8792Roberto Carcelen1:06:28.9+27:59.2
50Alex HarveyDNF
82Jānis PaipalsDNF
77Rejhan ŠmrkovićDNF
90Gary di SilvestriDNF
76Artur YeghoyanDNS