The Men's team sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 14 February 2006 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. 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.
Semifinal 1 Rank Country Athletes Time Notes 1 Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind 17:34.0 Q 2 Dušan Kožíšek Martin Koukal 17:34.9 Q 3 Martin Bajčičák Ivan Bátory 17:36.1 Q 4 Keijo Kurttila Lauri Pyykönen 17:39.2 Q 5 Nikolay Chebotko Yevgeniy Koschevoy 17:42.6 Q 6 Katsuhito Ebisawa Yuichi Onda 17:46.6 7 Priit Barusk Anti Saarepuu 18:07.4 8 Nejc Brodar Joze Mehle 18:34.4 9 Ivan Bilosyuk Vitaly Martsyv 18:50.4 10 Tian Ye Li Geiliang 18:57.4 11 Zsolt Antal Mihai Galiceanu 18:04.3 12 Sebahattin Oğlago Muhammet Kızılarslan 19:46.5 Sergei Dolidovich Alexander Lasutkin DNS
Semifinal 2 Rank Country Athletes Time Notes 1 Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland 17:22.1 Q 2 Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev 17:22.2 Q 3 Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter 17:22.6 Q 4 Freddy Schwienbacher Giorgio Di Centa 17:26.2 Q 5 Maciej Kreczmer Janusz Krężelok 17:27.1 Q 6 Devon Kershaw George Grey 17:31.2 7 Chris Cook Andrew Newell 17:54.9 8 Reto Burgermeister Christoph Eigenmann 18:00.5 9 Johannes Eder Juergen Pinter 18:12.2 10 Choi Im-Heon Park Byung Joo 19:40.0 11 Damir Jurčević Denis Klobučar 19.43.1 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.
Rank Country Athletes Time Thobias Fredriksson Björn Lind 17:02.9 Jens Arne Svartedal Tor Arne Hetland 17:03.5 Ivan Alypov Vasily Rochev 17:05.2 4 Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter 17:14.0 5 Keijo Kurttila Lauri Pyykönen 17:21.5 6 Nikolay Chebotko Yevgeniy Koschevoy 17:25.1 7 Maciej Kreczmer Janusz Krężelok 17:26.3 8 Martin Bajčičák Ivan Bátory 18:30.9 9 Freddy Schwienbacher Giorgio Di Centa 18:31.3 10 Dušan Kožíšek Martin Koukal 18:49.6
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