Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre skiathlon

The men's 30 kilometre skiathlon cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February 2018 at 15:15 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.[1][2] The event was won by Simen Hegstad Krüger, for whom this was the first Olympic medal. There was a podium sweep for Norway with Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund winning silver and bronze medals, respectively.

Men's 30 kilometre skiathlon
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueAlpensia Cross-Country Centre
Dates11 February
Competitors68 from 30 nations
Winning time1:16:20.0
Medalists
Simen Hegstad Krüger  Norway
Martin Johnsrud Sundby  Norway
Hans Christer Holund  Norway

Summary

The field included all the 2014 medalists: the defending champion Dario Cologna, the silver medalist Marcus Hellner, who was also the 2010 champion, and the bronze medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby. Only Sundby returned to the podium.

At 20 km, a group of 15 skiers, which included all eventual medalists, was leading the race, about 20 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. About 5 km before the finish line, Krüger escaped and was not caught by the rest, winning the gold medal. From the chasing group, Sundby and Holund escaped less than 2 km before the finish. Eventually, Sundby was leading, and Holund did not catch him, winning bronze.

Qualification

A total of up to 310 cross-country skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard, which meant having 100 or less FIS Points in the distance classification. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). Countries also received an additional quota (one per gender maximum) if an athlete was ranked in the top 300 of the FIS Olympics Points list. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.[3]

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
11 February15:15Final

Results

The race was started at 15:15.[4]

RankBibNameCountry15 km classicRankPitstop15 km freeRankFinish timeDeficit
7Simen Hegstad Krüger Norway40:46.11427.735:06.211:16:20.0
6Martin Johnsrud Sundby Norway40:30.5235.135:22.421:16:28.0+8.0
5Hans Christer Holund Norway40:33.3728.535:28.151:16:29.9+9.9
416Denis Spitsov Olympic Athletes from Russia40:35.01331.235:26.531:16:32.7+12.7
52Maurice Manificat France40:33.6830.035:30.661:16:34.2+14.2
63Dario Cologna Switzerland40:30.9332.335:41.9121:16:45.1+25.1
710Andrew Musgrave Great Britain40:34.91231.935:38.991:16:45.7+25.7
84Alex Harvey Canada40:31.4427.335:54.7141:16:53.4+33.4
922Martin Jakš Czech Republic40:53.21933.635:27.041:16:53.8+33.8
101Johannes Høsflot Klæbo Norway40:31.8526.836:04.8181:17:03.4+43.4
1120Thomas Bing Germany40:34.41128.636:00.7161:17:03.7+43.7
1214Marcus Hellner Sweden40:34.21030.336:00.3151:17:04.8+44.8
1318Clément Parisse France40:48.91728.035:51.7131:17:08.6+48.6
1415Daniel Rickardsson Sweden40:34.0934.136:04.1171:17:12.1+52.2
1541Jules Lapierre France41:13.02432.935:33.281:17:19.1+59.1
1621Lucas Bögl Germany40:47.21527.536:05.2191:17:19.9+59.9
1725Jens Burman Sweden41:13.42531.135:39.4101:17:23.9+1:03.9
1833Scott Patterson United States41:14.42631.935:41.2111:17:27.5+1:07.5
198Iivo Niskanen Finland40:30.0129.936:34.3261:17:34.2+1:14.2
2013Francesco De Fabiani Italy41:11.42230.036:13.5201:17:54.9+1:34.9
2112Matti Heikkinen Finland41:55.63428.335:32.071:17:55.9+1:35.9
2235Jonas Dobler Germany40:52.71832.436:31.5251:17.56.6+1:36.6
2328Alexey Vitsenko Olympic Athletes from Russia41:09.22032.436:20.6221:18:02.2+1:42.2
2443Paul Constantin Pepene Romania41:16.23026.436:37.8281:18:20.4+2:00.4
2523Keishin Yoshida Japan41:11.92333.636:37.5271:18:23.0+2:03.0
2631Giandomenico Salvadori Italy40:47.81628.237:20.9361:18:36.9+2:16.9
2738Max Hauke Austria41:15.72931.436:57.5321:18:44.6+2:24.6
289Jean-Marc Gaillard France40:32.6626.837:49.1381:18:48.5+2:28.5
2929Andrey Melnichenko Olympic Athletes from Russia41:46.43234.036:30.1241:18:50.5+2:30.5
3011Andrey Larkov Olympic Athletes from Russia41:37.53135.136:38.0291:18:50.6+2:30.6
3134Candide Pralong Switzerland42:26.03933.536:16.1211:19:15.6+2:55.6
3236Karel Tammjärv Estonia41:56.63536.236:52.4311:19:25.2+3:05.2
3324Lari Lehtonen Finland42:28.94129.636:28.1231:19:26.6+3:06.6
3449Vitaliy Pukhalo Kazakhstan42:27.04033.836:45.9301:19:46.7+3:26.7
3532Andreas Katz Germany41:10.32129.538:09.4421:19:49.2+3:29.2
3637Devon Kershaw Canada41:14.82732.938:07.6411:19:55.3+3:35.3
3730Dietmar Nöckler Italy41:15.22834.838:05.5401:19:55.5+3:35.5
3858Petr Knop Czech Republic42:29.84331.637:10.7341:20:12.1+3:52.1
3919Jonas Baumann Switzerland42:25.73827.637:20.1351:20:13.4+3:53.4
4027Toni Livers Switzerland42:36.14436.537:00.8331:20:13.4+3:53.4
4142Perttu Hyvärinen Finland41:57.03633.537:58.0391:20:28.5+4:08.5
4226Erik Bjornsen United States42:12.43729.638:12.7431:20:54.7+4:34.7
4344Yevgeniy Velichko Kazakhstan41:47.43332.138:44.4511:21:03.9+4:43.9
4446Michail Semenov Belarus43:15.44828.737:27.9371:21:12.0+4:52.0
4554Graeme Killick Canada42:29.44235.738:34.5481:21:39.6+5:19.6
4639Irineu Esteve Altimiras Andorra42:39.04537.538:31.2461:21:47.7+5:27.7
4751Andreas Veerpalu Estonia43:03.94733.938:33.6471:22:11.4+5:51.4
4852Sergio Rigoni Italy42:41.74632.639:40.6571:22:54.9+6:34.9
4957Imanol Rojo Spain43:27.44933.839:05.3541:23:06.5+6:46.5
5045Yury Astapenka Belarus44:01.95433.438:37.2491:23:12.5+6:52.5
5140Patrick Caldwell United States44:01.35332.738:44.1501:23:18.1+6:58.1
5255Dominik Bury Poland44:00.25235.738:44.4511:23:20.3+7:00.3
5365Krešimir Crnković Croatia44:31.35830.538:25.1441:23:26.9+7:06.9
5447Noah Hoffman United States43:27.75030.439:30.6561:23:28.7+7:08.7
5553Aleš Razým Czech Republic43:28.55136.039:29.3551:23:33.8+7:13.8
5648Snorri Einarsson Iceland44:02.35536.838:54.8531:23:33.9+7:13.9
5763Callum Smith Great Britain44:47.16133.238:29.6451:23:49.9+7:29.9
5862Callum Watson Australia44:47.76231.739:56.0581:25:15.4+8:55.4
5966Martin Vögeli Liechtenstein44:28.45727.141:12.7591:26:08.2+9:48.2
6060Thomas Hjalmar Westgård Ireland44:15.25633.147:45.9601:32:34.2+16:14.2
6159Oleksii Krasovskyi Ukraine44:36.75934.1LAP
6261Knute Johnsgaard Canada45:49.76336.0
6367Mantas Strolia Lithuania47:04.46528.3
6464Wang Qiang China47:03.86433.9
6568Kim Eun-ho South Korea48:29.96633.1
56Edi Dadić Croatia44:45.26030.2DNF
17Calle Halfvarsson SwedenDNF
50Sergei Dolidovich BelarusDNF

References

  1. "Schedule". Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 25 November 2017.
  2. Start list
  3. "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 Cross-country skiing" (PDF). International Ski Federation (FIS). 13 April 2017. Retrieved 20 January 2018.
  4. Final results
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