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Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's team sprint

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Men’s team sprint
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
VenueKuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center,
Zhangjiakou
Date16 February
Competitors50 from 25 nations
Teams25
Winning time19:22.99
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Erik Valnes
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
 Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Iivo Niskanen
Joni Mäki
 Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alexander Bolshunov
Alexander Terentyev
 ROC
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The men’s team sprint competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 16 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou.[1] Erik Valnes and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway won the event. Iivo Niskanen and Joni Mäki of Finland won the silver medal, and Alexander Bolshunov and Alexander Terentyev, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, bronze.

Summary

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The defending champions are Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, with Klaebo qualifying for these games. The silver medalists, Alexander Bolshunov and Denis Spitsov, as well as the bronze medalists, Maurice Manificat and Richard Jouve, qualified as well. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics, as well as the sprint leader, was Klæbo. Thomas Helland Larsen and Even Northug won the only team sprint event of the season. Erik Valnes and Klæbo are the 2021 World Champions in team sprint. The Russian duo of Bolshunov and Alexander Terentyev are also highly touted.

In the final, the first four legs all teams skied together, with only Austria being behind and out of medal contention. At the fifth interchange, Norway, Finland and the Russian Olympic Committee teams were separated by less than a second, and the fourth team, Sweden, were 8 seconds behind. Norway's Valnes, ROC's Bolshunov and Finland's Iivo Niskanen, the 15 km classical champion from these Olympics, gave their respective teammates a head start into the final leg. Unsurpisingly, these three teams became the medalists. Klæbo, who earlier became the individual sprint champion at these Olympics ahead of Terentyev and Joni Mäki, who were third and fourth in that competition, was the fastest of the three, and Norway won gold. Behind him, Mäki edged ahead of Terentyev to claim the silver medal for Finland.

Qualification

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Results

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Semifinals

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Rank Heat Bib Country Athletes Time[2] Notes
1 1 1  Norway Erik Valnes
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
20:17.28 Q
2 1 3  France Hugo Lapalus
Richard Jouve
20:17.36 Q
3 1 2  Finland Iivo Niskanen
Joni Mäki
20:17.81 Q
4 1 7  Canada Antoine Cyr
Graham Ritchie
20:18.71 Q
5 1 11  Estonia Henri Roos
Martin Himma
20:24.29
6 1 9  Belarus Aliaksandr Voranau
Yahor Shpuntau
20:34.07
7 1 5  Czech Republic Luděk Šeller
Michal Novák
20:36.70
8 1 8  Slovenia Vili Črv
Miha Šimenc
20:43.03
9 1 6  Romania Paul Pepene
Raul Popa
21:03.35
10 1 4  Great Britain James Clugnet
Andrew Young
21:15.27
11 1 12  Australia Phillip Bellingham
Seve de Campo
21:17.35
12 1 13  Lithuania Modestas Vaičiulis
Tautvydas Strolia
22:17.79
13 1 10  South Korea Kim Min-woo
Jeong Jong-won
22:56.16
1 2 15  Italy Francesco De Fabiani
Federico Pellegrino
20:06.99 Q
2 2 16  Sweden William Poromaa
Oskar Svensson
20:07.57 Q
3 2 17  Switzerland Jonas Baumann
Jovian Hediger
20:07.67 Q
4 2 21  Austria Michael Föttinger
Benjamin Moser
20:07.78 Q
5 2 14  ROC Alexander Bolshunov
Alexander Terentyev
20:07.85 LL
6 2 19  United States Ben Ogden
JC Schoonmaker
20:11.42 LL
7 2 20  China Wang Qiang
Shang Jincai
20:12.40
8 2 23  Poland Maciej Staręga
Kamil Bury
20:19.87
9 2 24  Ukraine Oleksiy Krasovsky
Ruslan Perekhoda
20:48.40
10 2 25  Iceland Snorri Einarsson
Isak Stianson Pedersen
21:05.66
11 2 22  Latvia Raimo Vīgants
Roberts Slotiņš
21:06.82
12 2 18  Germany Albert Kuchler
Janosch Brugger
21:20.39

Final

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Rank Bib Country Athletes Time[3] Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 1  Norway Erik Valnes
Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
19:22.99
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2  Finland Iivo Niskanen
Joni Mäki
19:25.45 +2.46
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 14  ROC Alexander Bolshunov
Alexander Terentyev
19:27.28 +4.29
4 16  Sweden William Poromaa
Oskar Svensson
19:38.05 +15.06
5 7  Canada Antoine Cyr
Graham Ritchie
19:45.30 +22.31
6 15  Italy Francesco De Fabiani
Federico Pellegrino
19:48.42 +25.43
7 3  France Hugo Lapalus
Richard Jouve
19:58.37 +35.38
8 17  Switzerland Jonas Baumann
Jovian Hediger
20:04.35 +41.36
9 19  United States Ben Ogden
JC Schoonmaker
20:28.07 +1:05.08
10 21  Austria Michael Föttinger
Benjamin Moser
21:15.00 +1:52.01

References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-02-04. Retrieved 2021-08-22.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ "Semifinals results" (PDF). Data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Final results" (PDF). Data.fis-ski.com. Retrieved 17 February 2022.