Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's team sprint

The Men's team sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 14 February, at Pragelato. This was the first time the team sprint was contested in the Winter Olympics. Each race featured teams of two, with each skier completing 3 laps of a 1325-metre course.[1]

Men's team sprint
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
VenuePragelato
Dates14 February
Competitors50 from 25 nations
Winning time17:02.9
Medalists
 Sweden Thobias Fredriksson & Björn Lind
 Norway Jens Arne Svartedal & Tor Arne Hetland
 Russia Ivan Alypov & Vasily Rochev

Norway, with Tore Ruud Hofstad and Tor Arne Hetland, had won the competition at the 2005 Nordic skiing World Championship, the only time it had been skied in the World Championship prior to the Turin games, but that was in free technique. The most recent team sprint event in classic technique had been in Canmore, Canada, on 18 December 2004. Jens Arne Svartedal and Eldar Rønning won that race for Norway's first team.[2] However, despite this good Norwegian record, it was the Sweden's Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind who pipped Norway to the title.

Results

Semifinals

Fifteen teams were entered in the two semifinals, with the top five in each advancing to the final.[3]

Semifinal 1
RankCountryAthletesTimeNotes
1 SwedenThobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind
17:34.0Q
2 Czech RepublicDušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
17:34.9Q
3 SlovakiaMartin Bajčičák
Ivan Bátory
17:36.1Q
4 FinlandKeijo Kurttila
Lauri Pyykönen
17:39.2Q
5 KazakhstanNikolay Chebotko
Yevgeniy Koschevoy
17:42.6Q
6 JapanKatsuhito Ebisawa
Yuichi Onda
17:46.6
7 EstoniaPriit Barusk
Anti Saarepuu
18:07.4
8 SloveniaNejc Brodar
Joze Mehle
18:34.4
9 UkraineIvan Bilosyuk
Vitaly Martsyv
18:50.4
10 ChinaTian Ye
Li Geiliang
18:57.4
11 RomaniaZsolt Antal
Mihai Galiceanu
18:04.3
12 TurkeySebahattin Oğlago
Muhammet Kızılarslan
19:46.5
 BelarusSergei Dolidovich
Alexander Lasutkin
DNS
Semifinal 2
RankCountryAthletesTimeNotes
1 NorwayJens Arne Svartedal
Tor Arne Hetland
17:22.1Q
2 RussiaIvan Alypov
Vasily Rochev
17:22.2Q
3 GermanyJens Filbrich
Andreas Schlütter
17:22.6Q
4 ItalyFreddy Schwienbacher
Giorgio Di Centa
17:26.2Q
5 PolandMaciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
17:27.1Q
6 CanadaDevon Kershaw
George Grey
17:31.2
7 United StatesChris Cook
Andrew Newell
17:54.9
8 SwitzerlandReto Burgermeister
Christoph Eigenmann
18:00.5
9 AustriaJohannes Eder
Juergen Pinter
18:12.2
10 South KoreaChoi Im-Heon
Park Byung Joo
19:40.0
11 CroatiaDamir Jurčević
Denis Klobučar
19.43.1
 ArmeniaHovhannes Sargsyan
Edmond Khachatryan
DNF

Final

The top three teams separated themselves from the pack fairly easily, with Sweden finishing just 0.6 seconds ahead of Norway to take the gold medal.[3]

RankCountryAthletesTime
 SwedenThobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind
17:02.9
 NorwayJens Arne Svartedal
Tor Arne Hetland
17:03.5
 RussiaIvan Alypov
Vasily Rochev
17:05.2
4 GermanyJens Filbrich
Andreas Schlütter
17:14.0
5 FinlandKeijo Kurttila
Lauri Pyykönen
17:21.5
6 KazakhstanNikolay Chebotko
Yevgeniy Koschevoy
17:25.1
7 PolandMaciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
17:26.3
8 SlovakiaMartin Bajčičák
Ivan Bátory
18:30.9
9 ItalyFreddy Schwienbacher
Giorgio Di Centa
18:31.3
10 Czech RepublicDušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
18:49.6

References

  1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's Team Sprint". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  2. ""Viessmann" Fis World Cross-Country" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 2005-12-18. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-03. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
  3. "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 17, 2009.
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