Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre pursuit

Men's 30 kilometre pursuit at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for cross country
Venue	Whistler Olympic Park
Dates	20 February
Competitors	64 from 26 nations
Winning time	1:15:11.4
Medalists
Marcus Hellner  Sweden Tobias Angerer  Germany Johan Olsson  Sweden

Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Distance
10 km		women
15 km	men	women
30 km	men	women
50 km	men
4 × 5 km relay		women
4 × 10 km relay	men
Sprint
Individual	men	women
Team	men	women

The men's 15 kilometre + 15 kilometre double Pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, was held on 20 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia, at 13:30 PST.^[1]

Summary

The 30 km double pursuit format has been competed at the world championship level since 2005 and at the Winter Olympic level since 2006. Russia's Yevgeny Dementyev was the defending Olympic champion, but didn't defend after it was reported that he tested positive to erythropoietin (EPO) in August 2009.^[2][3] Norway's Petter Northug was the reigning world champion.^[4] Italy's Pietro Piller Cottrer won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 17 January 2009.^[5] The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 23 January 2010 in Rybinsk, Russia, and was won by Russian Artem Zhmurko.^[6] Zhrumko did not qualify for the men's cross-country team for Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

The pursuit consisted of a 15 kilometre section raced in the classic style, followed by a 15 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between the sections, each skier takes time (approximately 30 seconds) to change skis and poles.

Top three leaders after the classic portion of the event were Bauer (who finished seventh), Cologna (who finished 13th), and Olsson. Pit stop leaders were test event winner Piller Cottrer (who finished 14th), Babikov (who finished fifth), and defending World Champion Northug (who finished 11th).^[7] Hellner was Sweden's first male individual gold medalist in the traditional cross-country skiing distances at the Winter Olympics since Gunde Svan's 50 km victory at Calgary in 1988.

Results

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	15 km classic	Rank	Pitstop	15 km free	Rank	Finish time	Deficit
	2	Marcus Hellner	Sweden	39:43.5	11	22.6	35:05.3	2	1:15:11.4	0.0
	17	Tobias Angerer	Germany	39:40.9	6	26.0	35:06.6	3	1:15:13.5	+2.1
	16	Johan Olsson	Sweden	39:39.9	3	24.8	35:09.5	5	1:15:14.2	+2.8
4	8	Alexander Legkov	Russia	39:40.2	4	26.3	35:08.9	4	1:15:15.4	+4.0
5	15	Ivan Babikov	Canada	40:08.9	25	22.1	34:49.5	1	1:15:20.5	+9.1
6	13	Jens Filbrich	Germany	39:41.3	7	24.8	35:18.9	6	1:15:25.0	+13.6
7	3	Lukáš Bauer	Czech Republic	39:39.0	1	25.9	35:20.3	7	1:15:25.2	+13.8
8	41	George Grey	Canada	39:41.5	8	25.0	35:25.5	8	1:15:32.0	+20.6
9	24	Alex Harvey	Canada	39:44.1	12	22.8	35:36.1	10	1:15:43.0	+31.6
10	34	Anders Södergren	Sweden	39:48.3	18	23.5	35:35.2	9	1:15:47.0	+35.6
11	1	Petter Northug	Norway	39:45.0	13	22.5	35:45.6	11	1:15:53.1	+41.7
12	6	Giorgio Di Centa	Italy	39:40.6	5	26.2	35:58.3	12	1:16:05.1	+53.7
13	4	Dario Cologna	Switzerland	39:39.4	2	25.5	36:07.3	13	1:16:12.2	+1:00.8
14	11	Pietro Piller Cottrer	Italy	39:49.3	20	21.6	36:09.0	14	1:16:19.9	+1:08.5
15	10	Vincent Vittoz	France	39:45.9	14	26.8	36:10.7	15	1:16:23.4	+1:12.0
16	31	Devon Kershaw	Canada	39:46.3	15	22.9	36:14.4	16	1:16:23.6	+1:12.2
17	12	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Russia	39:42.3	9	27.7	36:54.2	20	1:17:04.2	+1:52.8
18	20	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Norway	39:48.8	19	25.7	36:50.0	19	1:17:04.5	+1:53.1
19	30	Tord Asle Gjerdalen	Norway	40:23.4	28	24.3	36:16.8	17	1:17:04.5	+1:53.1
20	18	Curdin Perl	Switzerland	39:46.8	16	23.8	36:54.4	21	1:17:05.0	+1:53.6
21	7	René Sommerfeldt	Germany	39:49.9	21	25.6	36:56.4	22	1:17:11.9	+2:00.5
22	32	Toni Livers	Switzerland	39:50.6	22	25.5	37:09.9	24	1:17:26.0	+2:14.6
23	14	Daniel Rickardsson	Sweden	39:47.6	17	25.3	37:21.1	26	1:17:34.0	+2:22.6
24	22	Thomas Moriggl	Italy	40:11.3	26	23.3	37:06.3	23	1:17:40.9	+2:29.5
25	27	Martin Bajčičák	Slovakia	40:03.4	24	29.6	37:25.1	27	1:17:58.1	+2:46.7
26	23	Maurice Manificat	France	41:12.3	31	26.5	36:19.4	18	1:17:58.2	+2:46.8
27	46	Martin Jakš	Czech Republic	40:01.5	23	23.6	37:33.1	28	1:17:58.2	+2:46.8
28	50	Yevgeniy Velichko	Kazakhstan	40:23.0	27	25.2	37:12.0	25	1:18:00.2	+2:48.8
29	45	Paul Constantin Pepene	Romania	41:30.3	35	25.1	37:38.7	28	1:19:34.1	+4:22.7
30	9	Jean-Marc Gaillard	France	39:42.8	10	27.5	39:37.8	44	1:19:48.1	+4:36.7
31	53	Vicenc Vilarrubla	Spain	41:28.8	33	23.6	37:55.8	31	1:19:48.2	+4:36.8
32	36	Nikolay Pankratov	Russia	40:32.8	29	25.0	38:51.1	35	1:19:48.9	+4:37.5
33	47	Lari Lehtonen	Finland	41:28.5	32	25.1	38:40.9	33	1:20:34.5	+5:23.1
34	49	James Southam	United States	41:29.5	34	29.0	38:47.7	34	1:20:46.2	+5:34.8
35	37	Tom Reichelt	Germany	42:29.0	45	25.5	38:18.7	32	1:21:13.2	+6:01.8
36	28	Eldar Rønning	Norway	41:31.2	36	25.9	39:17.0	40	1:21:14.1	+6:02.7
37	40	Aivar Rehemaa	Estonia	41:48.1	39	26.4	39:01.3	37	1:21:15.8	+6:04.4
38	38	Jiří Magál	Czech Republic	41:45.4	37	26.5	39:27.1	42	1:21:39.0	+6:27.6
39	44	Nobu Naruse	Japan	43:54.7	51	24.7	37:51.7	30	1:22:11.1	+6:59.7
40	59	Javier Gutierrez	Spain	42:28.1	43	25.4	39:26.9	41	1:22:20.4	+7:09.0
41	52	Roman Leybyuk	Ukraine	42:26.0	40	29.8	39:36.2	43	1:22:32.0	+7:20.6
42	56	Kaspar Kokk	Estonia	42:27.1	41	29.4	39:43.8	46	1:22:40.3	+7:28.9
43	19	Sergei Novikov	Russia	41:47.3	38	27.7	40:29.3	51	1:22:44.3	+7:32.9
44	33	Remo Fischer	Switzerland	42:28.1	43	25.5	39:58.5	49	1:22:52.1	+7:40.7
45	21	Kris Freeman	United States	43:17.1	48	29.4	39:16.1	39	1:23:02.6	+7:51.2
46	54	Karel Tammjärv	Estonia	42:54.1	46	23.8	39:45.0	47	1:23:02.9	+7:51.5
47	48	Ben Sim	Australia	43:16.4	47	23.7	39:45.7	48	1:23:25.8	+8:14.4
48	51	Aliaksei Ivanou	Belarus	44:15.2	53	25.5	38:57.0	36	1:23:37.7	+8:26.3
49	42	Sergey Cherepanov	Kazakhstan	42:27.8	42	29.0	40:46.9	53	1:23:43.7	+8:32.3
50	43	Robin Duvillard	France	43:53.8	50	25.8	39:38.0	45	1:23:57.6	+8:46.2
51	55	Andrew Musgrave	Great Britain	44:28.6	54	31.9	39:07.4	38	1:24:07.9	+8:56.5
52	57	Olexandr Putsko	Ukraine	44:09.3	52	28.6	40:09.2	50	1:24:47.1	+9:35.7
53	39	David Hofer	Italy	43:53.5	49	25.3	40:43.8	52	1:25:02.6	+9:51.2
54	64	Janis Paipals	Latvia	46:30.9	55	29.0			LAP
55	63	Jonas Thor Olsen	Denmark	46:32.0	56	27.7			LAP
56	62	Benjamin Koons	New Zealand						LAP
	5	Matti Heikkinen	Finland						DNF
	25	Sami Jauhojärvi	Finland						DNF
	26	Martin Koukal	Czech Republic						DNF
	29	Sergei Dolidovich	Belarus						DNF
	35	Ville Nousiainen	Finland	41:07.8	30	25.3			DNF
	58	Veselin Tzinzov	Bulgaria						DNF
	60	Petrica Hogiu	Romania						DNF
	61	Francesc Soulie	Andorra						DNF

References

External links

• 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 30 km Pursuit (15 Classic+15 Free), from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-19.