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

Men's team sprint
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
VenuePragelato
Dates14 February
Competitors50 from 25 nations
Winning time17:02.9
Medalists
 
 
 
Cross-country skiing at the
2006 Winter Olympics
Distance
10 km women
15 km men women
30 km men women
50 km men
4 x 5 km relay women
4 x 10 km relay men
Sprint
Individual men women
Team men women

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.

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.[1] 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.[2]

Semifinal 1
Rank Country Athletes Time Notes
1 SwedenThobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind
17:34.0 Q
2 Czech Republic Dušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
17:34.9 Q
3 Slovakia Martin Bajčičák
Ivan Bátory
17:36.1 Q
4 Finland Keijo Kurttila
Lauri Pyykonen
17:39.2 Q
5 Kazakhstan Nikolay Chebotko
Yevgeniy Koschevoy
17:42.6 Q
6 Japan Katsuhito Ebisawa
Yuichi Onda
17:46.6
7 Estonia Priit Barusk
Anti Saarepuu
18:07.4
8 Slovenia Nejc Brodar
Joze Mehle
18:34.4
9 Ukraine Ivan Bilosyuk
Vitaly Martsyv
18:50.4
10 China Tian Ye
Li Geiliang
18:57.4
11 Romania Zsolt Antal
Mihai Galiceanu
18:04.3
12 Turkey Sebahattin Oğlago
Muhammet Kızılarslan
19:46.5
13 Belarus Sergei Dolidovich
Alexander Lasutkin
DNS
Semifinal 2
Rank Country Athletes Time Notes
1 Norway Jens Arne Svartedal
Tor Arne Hetland
17:22.1 Q
2 Russia Ivan Alypov
Vassili Rotchev
17:22.2 Q
3 Germany Jens Filbrich
Andreas Schlütter
17:22.6 Q
4 Italy Freddy Schwienbacher
Giorgio Di Centa
17:26.2 Q
5 Poland Maciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
17:27.1 Q
6 Canada Devon Kershaw
George Grey
17:31.2
7 United States Chris Cook
Andrew Newell
17:54.9
8 Switzerland Reto Burgermeister
Christoph Eigenmann
18:00.5
9 Austria Johannes Eder
Juergen Pinter
18:12.2
10 South Korea Choi Im-Heon
Park Byung Joo
19:40.0
11 Croatia Damir Jurčević
Denis Klobučar
19.43.1
12 Armenia Hovhannes 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.[2]

Rank Country Athletes Time
Sweden Thobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind
17:02.9
Norway Jens Arne Svartedal
Tor Arne Hetland
17:03.5
Russia Ivan Alypov
Vassili Rotchev
17:05.4
4 Germany Jens Filbrich
Andreas Schlütter
17:14.0
5 Finland Keijo Kurttila
Lauri Pyykonen
17:21.5
6 KazakhstanNikolay Chebotko
Yevgeniy Koschevoy
17:25.1
7 Poland Maciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
17:26.3
8 Slovakia Martin Bajčičák
Ivan Bátory
18:30.9
9 Italy Freddy Schwienbacher
Giorgio Di Centa
18:31.3
10 Czech Republic Dušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
18:49.6

References

  1. ""Viessmann" Fis World Cross-Country" (PDF). International Ski Federation. 2005-12-18. Retrieved 2007-03-18.
  2. 1 2 "Torino 2006 Official Report - Cross Country Skiing" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved Jun 17, 2009.
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