Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre pursuit

The Men's 30 kilometre pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 12 February at Pragelato.[1]

Men's 30 kilometre pursuit
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for cross country
VenuePragelato
Dates12 February
Competitors77 from 27 nations
Winning time1:17:00.8
Medalists
Yevgeny Dementyev
 Russia
Frode Estil
 Norway
Pietro Piller Cottrer
 Italy

Summary

The pursuit in this format had been skied three times at the Nordic skiing World Championships, and Frenchman Vincent Vittoz was the reigning World Champion. A pursuit event similar to this was skied at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the gold was shared between Thomas Alsgaard (now retired) and Frode Estil, but the distance was 20 kilometres, not 30.

The event opened dramatically as Estil fell at the start, causing a mass collision. Then the pack kept together almost until the end, with skiers continually trailing off as they could not keep up with the pace. Eventually, five men came into the finishing straight together, after Anders Södergren of Sweden had tried to pull away on the final lap. However, Södergren could not keep up with the pace, and Russian Yevgeny Dementyev pulled away to defeat the defending Olympic champion Estil and win Russia's first gold medal of the Games.

Results

The pursuit consisted of a 15 kilometre section raced in the classical style, followed by a 15 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between, the sections, each skier took time (approximately 30 seconds) to 'pit', changing their skis.[2] Martin Tauber, an Austrian skier, originally placed 17th, but was disqualified after the IOC declared him permanently ineligible for doping-related violations.[3]

RankNameCountryTime
Yevgeny Dementyev Russia1:17:00.8
Frode Estil Norway1:17:01.4
Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy1:17:01.7
4Giorgio Di Centa Italy1:17:03.2
5Anders Södergren Sweden1:17:04.3
6Vincent Vittoz France1:17:07.5
7Mikhail Botvinov Austria1:17:08.5
8Martin Bajčičák Slovakia1:17:08.7
9Maxim Odnodvortsev Kazakhstan1:17:09.6
10Lukáš Bauer Czech Republic1:17:10.1
11Markus Hasler Liechtenstein1:17:10.9
12Tobias Angerer Germany1:17:12.5
13Ivan Babikov Russia1:17:17.2
14Jiří Magál Czech Republic1:17:21.7
15Mathias Fredriksson Sweden1:17:23.1
16Fabio Santus Italy1:17:25.5
17Tord Asle Gjerdalen Norway1:17:36.2
18Valerio Checchi Italy1:17:37.8
19Kaspar Kokk Estonia1:17:50.8
20Sami Jauhojärvi Finland1:17:58.1
21Martin Koukal Czech Republic1:18:09.6
22Jens Filbrich Germany1:18:38.2
23Johan Olsson Sweden1:18:47.9
24Ivan Bátory Slovakia1:18:58.2
25George Grey Canada1:19:08.9
26Alexandre Rousselet France1:19:17.0
27Jan Egil Andresen Norway1:19:29.8
28Anders Aukland Norway1:19:30.6
29Andrey Golovko Kazakhstan1:19:34.3
30Jörgen Brink Sweden1:19:35.3
31Vicente Vilarrubla Spain1:19:39.8
32Aivar Rehemaa Estonia1:19:51.4
33Tero Similä Finland1:20:04.5
34Christophe Perrillat France1:20:12.0
35Milan Šperl Czech Republic1:20:16.7
36Remo Fischer Switzerland1:20:19.7
37Alexander Legkov Russia1:20:28.2
38Dan Roycroft Canada1:20:53.3
39Carl Swenson United States1:21:08.0
40Toni Livers Switzerland1:21:08.2
41Katsuhito Ebisawa Japan1:21:16.2
42Andrew Johnson United States1:21:16.8
43James Southam United States1:22:05.8
44Dmitrij Eremenko Kazakhstan1:22:09.9
45Nejc Brodar Slovenia1:22:23.9
46Mikhail Gumenyak Ukraine1:22:24.6
47Zsolt Antal Romania1:22:29.8
48Lars Flora United States1:22:31.2
49Roman Leybyuk Ukraine1:22:31.5
50Xia Wan China1:22:31.7
51Ivan Arteev Russia1:22:36.2
52Olexandr Putsko Ukraine1:22:37.6
53Michal Malak Slovakia1:23:39.9
54Diego Ruiz Spain1:24:05.5
55Joze Mehle Slovenia1:24:13.6
56Drew Goldsack Canada1:24:14.3
57Alexander Batyuk Ukraine1:24:35.9
58Nobu Naruse Japan1:25:21.3
59Reto Burgermeister Switzerland1:25:49.9
60Andrey Kondroschev Kazakhstan1:25:51.4
61Chris Jeffries Canada1:26:17.0
62Ren Long China1:26:26.4
63Mihai Galiceanu Romania1:26:31.8
64Denis Klobucar Croatia1:27:16.4
65Sebahattin Oğlago Turkey1:28:03.8
René Sommerfeldt GermanyDNF
Emmanuel Jonnier FranceDNF
Shunsuke Komamura JapanDNF
Park Byung Joo South KoreaDNF
Han Dawei ChinaDNF
Choi Im-Heon South KoreaDNF
Li Zhiguang ChinaDNF
Jung Eui Myung South KoreaDNF
Francesc Soulie AndorraDNF
Ivan Bariakov BulgariaDNF
Olli Ohtonen FinlandDNS
DQMartin Tauber Austria1:17:28.6

References

  1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's 30 km Skiathlon". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  2. "Torino 2006 Official Report - Cross Country Skiing" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-06-12. Retrieved Jun 8, 2009.
  3. "Torino 2006: Six Austrian Athletes Declared Permanently Ineligible". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved Feb 21, 2009.
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