Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing; at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Whistler Olympic Park
Dates	15–28 February
No. of events	12
Competitors	292 from 55 nations
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The cross-country skiing competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver were held at Whistler Olympic Park. The events were held between 15 and 28 February 2010.

Medals summary

Medal table

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km freestyle details	Dario Cologna Switzerland	33:36.3	Pietro Piller Cottrer Italy	34:00.9	Lukáš Bauer Czech Republic	34:12.0
30 km pursuit details	Marcus Hellner Sweden	1:15:11.4	Tobias Angerer Germany	1:15:13.5	Johan Olsson Sweden	1:15:14.2
50 km classical details	Petter Northug Norway	2:05:35.5	Axel Teichmann Germany	2:05:35.8	Johan Olsson Sweden	2:05:36.5
4 × 10 km relay details	Sweden Daniel Richardsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Marcus Hellner	1:45:05.4	Norway Martin Johnsrud Sundby Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Lars Berger Petter Northug	1:45:21.3	Czech Republic Martin Jakš Lukáš Bauer Jiří Magál Martin Koukal	1:45:21.9
Sprint details	Nikita Kryukov Russia	3:36.3	Alexander Panzhinskiy Russia	3:36.3	Petter Northug Norway	3:45.5
Team sprint details	Norway Øystein Pettersen Petter Northug	19:01.0	Germany Tim Tscharnke Axel Teichmann	19:02.3	Russia Nikolay Morilov Alexey Petukhov	19:02.5

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km freestyle details	Charlotte Kalla Sweden	24:58.4	Kristina Šmigun-Vähi Estonia	25:05.0	Marit Bjørgen Norway	25:14.3
15 km pursuit details	Marit Bjørgen Norway	39:58.1	Anna Haag Sweden	40:07.0	Justyna Kowalczyk Poland	40:07.4
30 km classical details	Justyna Kowalczyk Poland	1:30:33.7	Marit Bjørgen Norway	1:30:34.0	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen Finland	1:31:38.7
4 × 5 km relay details	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	55:19.5	Germany Katrin Zeller Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Miriam Gössner Claudia Nystad	55:44.1	Finland Pirjo Muranen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	55:49.9
Sprint details	Marit Bjørgen Norway	3:39.2	Justyna Kowalczyk Poland	3:40.3	Petra Majdič Slovenia	3:41.0
Team sprint details	Germany Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Nystad	18:03.7	Sweden Charlotte Kalla Anna Haag	18:04.3	Russia Irina Khazova Natalya Korostelyova	18:07.7

Competition schedule

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Day	Date	Start	Finish	Event
Day 4	Monday 15 February	10:00	11:15	10 km individual free women
Day 4	Monday 15 February	12:30	14:00	15 km individual free men
Day 6	Wednesday 17 February	10:15	11:00	Individual sprint classic men/women
Day 6	Wednesday 17 February	12:30	14:00	Individual sprint classic men/women
Day 8	Friday 19 February	13:00	13:50	15 km pursuit women
Day 9	Saturday 20 February	13:30	15:00	30 km pursuit men
Day 11	Monday 22 February	10:45	12:15	Team sprint free men/women
Day 11	Monday 22 February	13:00	13:45	Team sprint free men/women
Day 13	Wednesday 24 February	11:15	13:10	4 x 10 km relay men
Day 14	Thursday 25 February	11:00	12:05	4 x 5 km relay women
Day 16	Saturday 27 February	11:45	13:45	30 km mass start classic women
Day 17	Sunday 28 February	9:30	12:15	50 km mass start classic men

Qualification

Across the twelve cross-country skiing events, a maximum of 310 athletes are allowed to compete. No nation can have more than 20 skiers competing, with an additional limit of 12 men or 12 women per specific nation. For each event, a nation can enter four skiers in individual events and one team in relay races.

"A" Competitors with less than 100 distance FIS points will be allowed to compete in any event. Competitors with less than 120 sprint FIS points will be allowed to compete in sprint events only.

"B" Countries that do not have a skier that meets the "A" Qualification standard have the right to enter one male and one female skier in either the sprint or the 10 km (women)/ 15 km (men) on condition that the skiers competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 and have a maximum of 300 FIS points in the event concerned.

A basic quota of one man and one woman was assigned to all nations competing. Each nation with a skier in the top 300 of the distance or sprint FIS points lists was allocated one additional quota place. For top 30 in the 2009-10 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup extra quota places were allocated separately for both genders, nations with two or more skiers in the top 30 earning two more skiers and nations with one skier in the top 30 earning one extra place. The remaining quotas were allocated to countries based on the FIS point allocation list. Once a nation reached the maximum of 20 slots it became ineligible to earn any more slots. Quota places not used up by the National Olympic Committees were returned to the pool and reallocated. This process started on 18 January 2006 and ran until 28 January 2010.