Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint


The men's freestyle sprint cross-country skiing competition in the free technique at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 11 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. Ola Vigen Hattestad won the gold medal.

Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points will be allowed to compete in both or one of the events. 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

In November 2017, Alexey Petukhov was disqualified from the event.

Qualifying

Quarterfinals

;Quarterfinal 1
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
113:37.99—Q
220Anton Gafarov3:38.52+0.53Q
311Nikita Kryukov3:39.10+1.11PF
410Calle Halfvarsson3:39.13+1.14PF
530Nikolay Chebotko3:39.66+1.67
621Simi Hamilton3:39.83+1.84

;Quarterfinal 2
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
14Anders Gløersen3:36.28—Q
27Eirik Brandsdal3:36.59+0.31Q
314Renaud Jay3:37.00+0.72
417Andrew Newell3:37.12+0.84
524Harald Wurm3:38.32+2.04
6273:48.69+12.41

;Quarterfinal 3
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
15Emil Jönsson3:33.20—Q
263:33.34+0.14Q
315Marcus Hellner3:33.62+0.42LL
417Petter Northug3:36.70+3.50LL
525Ville Nousiainen3:40.84+7.64
626Sun Qinghai3:47.26+14.06

;Quarterfinal 4
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
12Sergey Ustiugov3:36.14—Q
293:36.39+0.25Q
322Cyril Miranda3:37.57+1.43
419Alex Harvey3:37.89+1.75
512Martti Jylhä3:37.98+1.84
629Cyril Gaillard3:40.77+4.63

;Quarterfinal 5
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
133:43.97—Q, PF
28Bernhard Tritscher3:44.01+0.04Q, PF
318David Hofer3:44.87+0.90
428Tim Tscharnke3:46.81+2.84
523Jöri Kindschi3:47.94+3.97
613Dario Cologna4:39.69+55.72

Semifinals

;Semifinal 1
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
113:36.33—Q
26Teodor Peterson3:36.48+0.15Q
34Anders Gløersen3:36.95+0.62LL, PF
415Marcus Hellner3:36.98+0.65LL, PF
57Eirik Brandsdal3:37.09+0.76
620Anton Gafarov6:25.95+2:49.62

;Semifinal 2
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
12Sergey Ustiugov3:37.37—Q, PF
25Emil Jönsson3:37.43+0.06Q, PF
38Bernhard Tritscher3:37.64+0.27
49Alexey Petukhov3:37.89+0.52
516Petter Northug3:54.28+16.91
633:55.99+18.62

Final

The final was held at 17:40.
RankSeedAthleteCountryTimeDeficitNote
13:38.39—
6Teodor Peterson3:39.61+1.22
5Emil Jönsson3:58.13+19.74
44Anders Gløersen4:02.05+23.66
52Sergey Ustiugov4:32.48+54.09
615Marcus Hellner5:24.31+1:45.92