FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's team sprint

Men's team sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
Venue	Holmenkollen National Arena
Date	2 March 2011
Competitors	46 from 23 nations
Teams	23
Winning time	19:10.0
Medalists
Devon Kershaw Alex Harvey   Canada   Petter Northug Ola Vigen Hattestad   Norway   Alexander Panzhinskiy Nikita Kriukov   Russia

FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 Oslo, Norway
Cross-country skiing
Individual
Sprint	men	women
Interval start	15 km men	10 km women
Pursuit	30 km men	15 km women
Mass start	50 km men	30 km women
Team
Team sprint	men	women
Relay	4×10 km men	4×5 km women
Nordic combined
Normal hill	Individual	Team
Large hill	Individual	Team
Ski jumping
Men
Normal hill	Individual	Team
Large hill	Individual	Team
Women
Normal hill	Individual

The Men's team sprint took place on 2 March 2011. Sprint qualifying at 12:00 CET and finals at 14:15 CET. The defending world champions were Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad and Johan Kjølstad while the defending Olympic champion were Norway's Øystein Pettersen and Petter Northug.^[1][2]

Results

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athletes	Time	Note
1	1	1	Sweden	Jesper Modin Emil Jönsson	19:18.7	Q
2	1	3	Canada	Devon Kershaw Alex Harvey	19:19.3	Q
3	1	7	Germany	Jens Filbrich Tim Tscharnke	19:19.6	Q
4	1	5	Finland	Sami Jauhojärvi Ville Nousiainen	19:20.6	q
5	1	2	Italy	Renato Pasini Loris Frasnelli	19:38.0	q
6	1	11	Slovakia	Ivan Bátory Martin Bajčičák	20:19.4
7	1	9	Austria	Max Hauke Aurelius Herburger	20:19.8
8	1	4	Switzerland	Jöri Kindschi Christoph Eigenmann	20:28.9
9	1	6	Poland	Maciej Kreczmer Maciej Staręga	20:41.4
10	1	13	New Zealand	Benjamin Koons Nils Koons	20:52.1
11	1	8	Lithuania	Aleksei Novoselski Modestas Vaičiulis	20:53.3
12	1	10	Ukraine	Ivan Bilosyuk Oleksiy Shvidkiy	21:17.9
	1	12	Venezuela	Cesar Baena Bernardo Baena	LAP
1	2	15	Russia	Alexander Panzhinskiy Nikita Kriukov	19:39.5	Q
2	2	14	Norway	Petter Northug Ola Vigen Hattestad	19:39.5	Q
3	2	20	Kazakhstan	Denis Volotka Alexey Poltaranin	19:39.7	Q
4	2	19	France	Jean Marc Gaillard Cyril Miranda	19:41.4	q
5	2	17	United States	Torin Koos Andrew Newell	19:43.9	q
6	2	21	Czech Republic	Petr Novák Dušan Kožíšek	19:51.8
7	2	16	Estonia	Peeter Kümmel Kein Einaste	19:51.8
8	2	18	Japan	Kouhei Shimizu Yuichi Onda	20:08.0
9	2	22	Slovenia	Boštjan Klavžar Rok Tršan	20:33.6
10	2	24	Australia	Ben Sim Callum Watson	20:44.5
11	2	23	Great Britain	Andrew Musgrave Callum Smith	20:57.3
12	2	25	Denmark	Lasse Hulgaard Asger Fischer Mølgaard	22:37.4
	2	26	Romania	Paul Constantin Pepene Petrică Hogiu	DNS

Final

Rank	Bib	Country	Athlete	Time	Deficit
	3	Canada	Devon Kershaw Alex Harvey	19:10.0
	14	Norway	Petter Northug Ola Vigen Hattestad	19:10.2	+0.2
	15	Russia	Alexander Panzhinskiy Nikita Kriukov	19:10.4	+0.4
4	7	Germany	Jens Filbrich Tim Tscharnke	19:10.9	+0.9
5	5	Finland	Sami Jauhojärvi Ville Nousiainen	19:11.1	+1.1
6	20	Kazakhstan	Denis Volotka Alexey Poltaranin	19:21.5	+11.5
7	1	Sweden	Jesper Modin Emil Jönsson	19:22.0	+12.0
8	19	France	Jean Marc Gaillard Cyril Miranda	19:32.4	+22.4
9	2	Italy	Renato Pasini Loris Frasnelli	19:39.1	+29.1
10	17	United States	Torin Koos Andrew Newell	20:01.6	+51.6

References

1. "FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 men's team sprint results." (PDF). FIS-Ski.com. Retrieved 25 February 2009.
2. 2010 Winter Olympics 22 February 2010 Cross-country skiing men's team sprint results. - accessed 24 June 2010.