The men's 15 kilometre + 15 kilometre double Pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, was held on 20 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia, at 13:30 PST.Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 2 November 2009.
Summary The 30 km double pursuit format has been competed at the world championship level since 2005 and at the Winter Olympic level since 2006. Russia's Yevgeny Dementyev was the defending Olympic champion, but didn't defend after it was reported that he tested positive to erythropoietin (EPO) in August 2009.2006 Winter Olympics men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. - accessed 2 November 2009. Norway's Petter Northug was the reigning world champion.FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. - accessed 2 November 2009. Italy's Pietro Piller Cottrer won the test event that took place at the Olympic venue on 17 January 2009.FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Whistler Olympic Park 17 January 2009 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. - accessed 2 November 2009. The last World Cup event prior to the 2010 Games in this format took place on 23 January 2010 in Rybinsk, Russia, and was won by Russian Artem Zhmurko.FIS Cross-Country Skiing World Cup Rybinsk 23 January 2010 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. - accessed 23 January 2010. Zhrumko did not qualify for the men's cross-country team for Russia at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
The pursuit consisted of a 15 kilometre section raced in the classic style, followed by a 15 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between the sections, each skier takes time (approximately 30 seconds) to change skis and poles.
Top three leaders after the classic portion of the event were Bauer (who finished seventh), Cologna (who finished 13th), and Olsson. Pit stop leaders were test event winner Piller Cottrer (who finished 14th), Babikov (who finished fifth), and defending World Champion Northug (who finished 11th).2010 Winter Olympics 20 February 2010 men's 15 km + 15 km double pursuit results. - accessed 21 February 2010. Hellner was Sweden's first male individual gold medalist in the traditional cross-country skiing distances at the Winter Olympics since Gunde Svan's 50 km victory at Calgary in 1988.
Results Rank Bib Name Country 15 km classic Rank Pitstop 15 km free Rank Finish time Deficit 2 Marcus Hellner 39:43.5 11 22.6 35:05.3 1:15:11.40.0 17 Tobias Angerer 39:40.9 26.0 35:06.6 1:15:13.5 +2.1 16 Johan Olsson 39:39.9 24.8 35:09.5 5 1:15:14.2+2.8 8 Alexander Legkov 39:40.2 26.3 35:08.9 1:15:15.4+4.0 15 Ivan Babikov 40:08.9 25 22.1 34:49.5 1:15:20.5 +9.1 13 Jens Filbrich 39:41.3 24.8 35:18.9 1:15:25.0 +13.6 3 Lukáš Bauer 39:39.0 25.9 35:20.3 1:15:25.2 +13.8 41 George Grey 39:41.5 25.0 35:25.5 1:15:32.0 +20.6 24 Alex Harvey 39:44.1 12 22.8 35:36.1 10 1:15:43.0 +31.6 10 34 Anders Södergren 39:48.3 18 23.5 35:35.2 1:15:47.0 +35.6 11 1 Petter Northug 39:45.0 13 22.5 35:45.6 11 1:15:53.1 +41.7 12 6 Giorgio Di Centa 39:40.6 26.2 35:58.3 12 1:16:05.1 +53.7 13 4 Dario Cologna 39:39.4 25.5 36:07.3 13 1:16:12.2 +1:00.8 14 11 Pietro Piller Cottrer 39:49.3 20 21.6 36:09.0 14 1:16:19.9 +1:08.5 15 10 Vincent Vittoz 39:45.9 14 26.8 36:10.7 15 1:16:23.4 +1:12.0 16 31 Devon Kershaw 39:46.3 15 22.9 36:14.4 16 1:16:23.6 +1:12.2 17 12 Maxim Vylegzhanin 39:42.3 27.7 36:54.2 20 1:17:04.2 +1:52.8 18 20 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 39:48.8 19 25.7 36:50.0 19 1:17:04.5 +1:53.1 19 30 Tord Asle Gjerdalen 40:23.4 28 24.3 36:16.8 17 1:17:04.5 +1:53.1 20 18 Curdin Perl 39:46.8 16 23.8 36:54.4 21 1:17:05.0 +1:53.6 21 7 René Sommerfeldt 39:49.9 21 25.6 36:56.4 22 1:17:11.9 +2:00.5 22 32 Toni Livers 39:50.6 22 25.5 37:09.9 24 1:17:26.0 +2:14.6 23 14 Daniel Rickardsson 39:47.6 17 25.3 37:21.1 26 1:17:34.0 +2:22.6 24 22 Thomas Moriggl 40:11.3 26 23.3 37:06.3 23 1:17:40.9 +2:29.5 25 27 Martin Bajčičák 40:03.4 24 29.6 37:25.1 27 1:17:58.1+2:46.7 26 23 Maurice Manificat 41:12.3 31 26.5 36:19.4 18 1:17:58.2 +2:46.8 27 46 Martin Jakš 40:01.5 23 23.6 37:33.1 28 1:17:58.2 +2:46.8 28 50 Yevgeniy Velichko 40:23.0 27 25.2 37:12.0 25 1:18:00.2 +2:48.8 29 45 Paul Constantin Pepene 41:30.3 35 25.1 37:38.7 28 1:19:34.1 +4:22.7 30 9 Jean-Marc Gaillard 39:42.8 10 27.5 39:37.8 44 1:19:48.1 +4:36.7 31 53 Vicenc Vilarrubla 41:28.8 33 23.6 37:55.8 31 1:19:48.2 +4:36.8 32 36 Nikolay Pankratov 40:32.8 29 25.0 38:51.1 35 1:19:48.9 +4:37.5 33 47 Lari Lehtonen 41:28.5 32 25.1 38:40.9 33 1:20:34.5 +5:23.1 34 49 James Southam 41:29.5 34 29.0 38:47.7 34 1:20:46.2 +5:34.8 35 37 Tom Reichelt 42:29.0 45 25.5 38:18.7 32 1:21:13.2 +6:01.8 36 28 Eldar Rønning 41:31.2 36 25.9 39:17.0 40 1:21:14.1+6:02.7 37 40 Aivar Rehemaa 41:48.1 39 26.4 39:01.3 37 1:21:15.8 +6:04.4 38 38 Jiří Magál 41:45.4 37 26.5 39:27.1 42 1:21:39.0 +6:27.6 39 44 Nobu Naruse 43:54.7 51 24.7 37:51.7 30 1:22:11.1 +6:59.7 40 59 Javier Gutiérrez 42:28.1 43 25.4 39:26.9 41 1:22:20.4 +7:09.0 41 52 Roman Leybyuk 42:26.0 40 29.8 39:36.2 43 1:22:32.0 +7:20.6 42 56 Kaspar Kokk 42:27.1 41 29.4 39:43.8 46 1:22:40.3 +7:28.9 43 19 Sergey Novikov 41:47.3 38 27.7 40:29.3 51 1:22:44.3 +7:32.9 44 33 Remo Fischer 42:28.1 43 25.5 39:58.5 49 1:22:52.1 +7:40.7 45 21 Kris Freeman 43:17.1 48 29.4 39:16.1 39 1:23:02.6 +7:51.2 46 54 Karel Tammjärv 42:54.1 46 23.8 39:45.0 47 1:23:02.9 +7:51.5 47 48 Ben Sim 43:16.4 47 23.7 39:45.7 48 1:23:25.8 +8:14.4 48 51 Aliaksei Ivanou 44:15.2 53 25.5 38:57.0 36 1:23:37.7 +8:26.3 49 42 Sergey Cherepanov 42:27.8 42 29.0 40:46.9 53 1:23:43.7 +8:32.3 50 43 Robin Duvillard 43:53.8 50 25.8 39:38.0 45 1:23:57.6 +8:46.2 51 55 Andrew Musgrave 44:28.6 54 31.9 39:07.4 38 1:24:07.9 +8:56.5 52 57 Olexandr Putsko 44:09.3 52 28.6 40:09.2 50 1:24:47.1 +9:35.7 53 39 David Hofer 43:53.5 49 25.3 40:43.8 52 1:25:02.6 +9:51.2 54 64 Jānis Paipals 46:30.9 55 29.0 55 63 Jonas Thor Olsen 46:32.0 56 27.7 56 62 Benjamin Koons 5 Matti Heikkinen 25 Sami Jauhojärvi 26 Martin Koukal 29 Sergei Dolidovich 35 Ville Nousiainen 41:07.8 30 25.3 58 Veselin Tzinzov 60 Petrică Hogiu 61 François Soulié
References
External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 30 km Pursuit (15 Classic+15 Free), from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-19.