Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Olympic Cross-country skiing athletes compete at Soldier Hollow
Venue	Soldier Hollow
Date	February 9-February 23
Competitors	260 (153 men and 107 women) from 44 nations

Athletes compete at Soldier Hollow on February 14, 2002.

A Russian commemorative coin depicting Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics.

The cross-country skiing events at the 2002 Winter Olympics were marred by drug problems. The winners of three races were disqualified after blood tests showed that three skiers had overly high red blood cell counts indicating the use of darbepoetin, a drug used to treat anemia. At the time, the drug was not specifically listed in the IOC's list of banned substances, but the Olympic rules generally prohibit doping of any kind, in accordance with its charter. After two years and several lawsuits in Olympic and Swiss courts, the skiers in question (Johann Mühlegg of Spain, and Larissa Lazutina and Olga Danilova of Russia) were stripped of all their medals from the 2002 Games.

See the external links below for the official IOC press releases containing detailed information of the doping cases and their resolution, including initial, intermediate, and final amended results. This article gives the final medalists as decided on by the IOC in early 2004.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway (NOR)	5	2	4	11
2	Italy (ITA)	2	2	2	6
3	Russia (RUS)	2	1	1	4
4	Germany (GER)	1	2	2	5
5	Estonia (EST)	1	1	1	3
6	Austria (AUT)	1	1	0	2
7	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
8	Czech Republic (CZE)	0	2	0	2
9	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
9	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 x 10 kilometre pursuit	Frode Estil Norway (NOR) Thomas Alsgaard Norway (NOR)	49:48.9	Not awarded		Per Elofsson Sweden (SWE)	49:52.9
15 kilometre classical	Andrus Veerpalu Estonia (EST)	37:07.4	Frode Estil Norway (NOR)	37:43.4	Jaak Mae Estonia (EST)	37:50.8
30 kilometre freestyle mass start	Christian Hoffmann Austria (AUT)	1:11:31.0	Mikhail Botvinov Austria (AUT)	1:11:32.3	Kristen Skjeldal Norway (NOR)	1:11:42.7
50 kilometre classical	Mikhail Ivanov Russia (RUS)	2:06:20.8	Andrus Veerpalu Estonia (EST)	2:06:44.5	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Norway (NOR)	2:08:41.5
4 x 10 kilometre relay	Norway (NOR) Anders Aukland Frode Estil Kristen Skjeldal Thomas Alsgaard	1:32.45.4	Italy (ITA) Fabio Maj Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	1:32:45.8	Germany (GER) Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter Tobias Angerer René Sommerfeldt	1:33:34.5
Sprint	Tor Arne Hetland Norway (NOR)	2:56.9	Peter Schlickenrieder Germany (GER)	2:57.0	Cristian Zorzi Italy (ITA)	2:57.2

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2 x 5 kilometre pursuit	Beckie Scott Canada (CAN)	25:09.9	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic (CZE)	25:10.0	Viola Bauer Germany (GER)	25:11.1
10 kilometre classical	Bente Skari Norway (NOR)	28:05.6	Yuliya Chepalova Russia (RUS)	28:09.9	Stefania Belmondo Italy (ITA)	28:45.8
15 kilometre freestyle mass start	Stefania Belmondo Italy (ITA)	39:54.4	Kateřina Neumannová Czech Republic (CZE)	40:01.3	Yuliya Chepalova Russia (RUS)	40:02.7
30 kilometre classical	Gabriella Paruzzi Italy (ITA)	1:30:57.1	Stefania Belmondo Italy (ITA)	1:31:01.6	Bente Skari Norway (NOR)	1:31:36.3
4 x 5 kilometre relay	Germany (GER) Manuela Henkel Viola Bauer Claudia Künzel Evi Sachenbacher	49:30.6	Norway (NOR) Marit Bjørgen Bente Skari Hilde G. Pedersen Anita Moen	49:31.9	Switzerland (SUI) Andrea Huber Laurence Rochat Brigitte Albrecht-Loretan Natascia Leonardi Cortesi	50:03.6
Sprint	Yuliya Chepalova Russia (RUS)	3:10.6	Evi Sachenbacher Germany (GER)	3:12.2	Anita Moen Norway (NOR)	3:12.7

References

Official Olympic Report

External links

IOC Announces Annulment of the Results of Larissa Lazutina from the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games and Amends Results Accordingly – IOC press release, 29 June 2003
IOC Executive Board disqualifies Muehlegg and Danilova from the Salt Lake City Games – IOC press release, 28 February 2004

Cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics

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List of medalists List of venues

Events at the 2002 Winter Olympics (Salt Lake City)

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