The men's 30 kilometre skiathlon cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held on 9 February 2014 at 14:00 MSK at the Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. The event is split into half distance classic skiing and half distance skate skiing.

Summary Dario Cologna from Switzerland won the gold medal. Marcus Hellner, the defending Olympic champion from Sweden, finished second, and Martin Johnsrud Sundby from Norway came third.

For much of the free skiing half of the course about fifteen athletes were skiing together, and only close to the stadium, a group of four, Cologna, Hellner, Sundby and Maxim Vylegzhanin escaped. At the stadium, Cologna escaped and became the champion. Sundby finished third closely ahead of Vylegzhanin, and the Russian delegation filed a protest because he apparently changed the track in the finish area, impeding Vylegzhanin. Sundby was reprimanded but allowed to keep the bronze medal.

Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points (the A standard) will be allowed to compete in both or one of the event (sprint/distance). An athlete with a maximum 120 FIS sprint points will be allowed to compete in the sprint event and 10 km for women or 15 km for men provided their distance points do not exceed 300 FIS points. NOC's who do not have any athlete meeting the A standard can enter one competitor of each sex (known as the basic quota) in only 10 km classical event for women or 15 km classical event for men. They must have a maximum of 300 FIS distance points at the end of qualifying on 20 January 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.

Competition schedule All times are (UTC+4). Date Time Event 9 February 14:00 Final

Results The race was started at 14:00.

Rank Bib Name Country 15 km classic Rank Pitstop 15 km free Rank Finish time Deficit 21 Dario Cologna 36:04.9 13 30.9 31:39.6 2 1:08:15.4 — 11 Marcus Hellner 36:03.1 9 31.3 31:41.4 3 1:08:15.8 +0.4 1 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 35:59.2 1 29.6 31:48.0 5 1:08:16.8+1.4 7 Maxim Vylegzhanin 36:01.1 5 31.8 31:44.0 4 1:08:16.9 +1.5 9 Ilia Chernousov 36:12.8 18 39.5 31:36.7 1 1:08:29.0 +13.6 14 Jean-Marc Gaillard 36:03.1 9 31.5 31:55.2 7 1:08:29.8 +14.4 15 Daniel Rickardsson 35:59.2 2 29.6 32:02.6 9 1:08:31.7+16.3 6 Johannes Dürr 36:04.0 11 32.2 31:55.8 8 1:08:32.0 +16.6 12 Maurice Manificat 36:07.6 16 32.0 31:54.0 6 1:08:33.6 +18.2 10 27 Lars Nelson 36:00.2 3 31.2 32:06.3 10 1:08:37.7 +22.3 11 2 Alexander Legkov 36:02.4 7 31.2 32:09.5 12 1:08:43.1+27.7 12 24 Giorgio Di Centa 36:02.6 8 30.0 32:11.1 14 1:08:43.7+28.3 13 8 Hannes Dotzler 36:04.3 12 31.3 32:09.2 11 1:08:44.8+29.4 14 25 Anders Södergren 36:05.4 14 31.9 32:09.6 13 1:08:46.9+31.5 15 23 Tobias Angerer 36:00.6 4 31.5 32:17.6 15 1:08:49.7+34.3 16 3 Alexey Poltoranin 36:01.5 6 32.3 32:17.7 16 1:08:51.5+36.1 17 5 Petter Northug 36:06.3 15 30.6 33:02.7 25 1:09:39.6+1:24.2 18 4 Alex Harvey 36:46.6 27 30.1 32:43.5 17 1:10:00.2+1:44.8 19 13 Evgeniy Belov 36:11.0 17 30.5 33:19.0 31 1:10:00.5+1:45.1 20 10 Sjur Røthe 36:41.7 25 30.2 32:50.6 18 1:10:02.5+1:47.1 21 20 Tord Asle Gjerdalen 36:36.5 21 29.4 33:00.8 23 1:10:06.7+1:51.3 22 37 Francesco de Fabiani 36:37.6 22 33.5 32:59.6 22 1:10:10.7 +1:55.3 23 28 Axel Teichmann 36:20.4 19 31.5 33:21.4 32 1:10:13.3+1:57.9 24 33 Michail Semenov 36:48.2 29 30.6 32:54.5 191:10:13.3 +1:57.9 25 18 Ivan Babikov 36:47.6 28 28.8 32:58.2 20 1:10:14.6+1:59.2 26 44 Iivo Niskanen 36:42.3 26 31.9 33:07.8 29 1:10:22.0 +2:06.6 27 31 Curdin Perl 36:40.8 24 36.2 33:05.4 27 1:10:22.4+2:07.0 28 30 Martin Jakš 37:20.5 39 30.7 33:00.9 24 1:10:52.1+2:36.7 29 46 Jonas Baumann 37:06.1 34 31.4 33:14.8 30 1:10:52.3+2:36.9 30 22 Roland Clara 37:19.9 38 32.1 33:04.3 26 1:10:56.3+2:40.9 31 47 Martin Bajčičák 37:21.7 40 31.1 33:07.3 28 1:11:00.1+2:44.7 32 38 Yevgeniy Velichko 36:53.8 30 34.8 33:37.0 35 1:11:05.6+2:50.2 33 17 Sami Jauhojärvi 36:54.3 31 30.9 33:46.8 36 1:11:12.0+2:56.6 34 42 Sergei Dolidovich 36:57.2 32 35.0 33:55.9 38 1:11:28.1 +3:12.7 (PF) 35 26 Noah Hoffman 37:19.3 37 34.7 33:34.1 34 1:11:28.1+3:12.7 (PF) 36 32 Petr Novák 37:56.0 47 33.3 32:59.2 21 1:11:28.5+3:13.1 37 19 Thomas Bing 36:27.7 20 31.1 34:34.1 46 1:11:32.9 38 29 Lari Lehtonen 37:30.8 42 32.0 33:31.3 33 1:11:34.1+3:18.7 39 51 Maciej Kreczmer 37:07.5 35 34.6 34:05.5 40 1:11:47.6+3:32.2 40 16 Matti Heikkinen 36:40.3 23 33.1 34:39.2 48 1:11:52.6+3:37.2 41 34 Ivan Perrillat Boiteux 37:09.4 36 30.5 34:24.6 44 1:12:04.5+3:49.1 42 45 Erik Bjornsen 37:05.6 33 31.2 35:05.5 50 1:12:42.3+4:26.9 43 56 Philipp Haelg 37:51.8 44 33.3 34:22.7 41 1:12:47.8+4:32.4 44 36 Jiří Magál 37:54.6 46 31.9 34:23.0 43 1:12:49.5+4:34.1 45 40 Graeme Killick 38:18.2 49 35.0 34:22.9 42 1:13:16.1+5:00.7 46 52 Sergey Mikayelyan 38:43.1 51 33.7 33:59.8 39 1:13:16.6+5:01.2 47 41 Brian Gregg 38:57.4 53 35.6 33:53.3 37 1:13:26.3+5:10.9 48 48 Paul Constantin Pepene 37:52.5 45 33.3 35:10.4 52 1:13:36.2 +5:20.8 49 49 Sergey Cherepanov 37:36.8 43 36.5 35:26.4 55 1:13:39.7+5:24.3 50 54 Imanol Rojo 38:26.5 50 38.5 34:35.4 47 1:13:40.4+5:25.0 51 43 Aivar Rehemaa 38:04.3 48 33.6 35:09.3 51 1:13:47.2+5:31.8 52 62 Martin Møller 38:59.0 56 32.8 34:33.3 45 1:14:05.1 +5:49.7 53 39 Veselin Tzinzov 39:01.1 57 30.8 34:40.1 49 1:14:12.0+5:56.6 54 35 Kris Freeman 37:30.5 41 33.3 36:30.8 61 1:14:34.6+6:19.2 55 53 Alexander Lasutkin 38:46.9 52 40.3 35:12.2 54 1:14:39.4+6:24.0 56 50 Mark Starostin 38:57.8 54 35.0 36:03.8 56 1:15:36.6 +7:21.2 57 60 Andrey Gridin 39:56.3 58 36.5 35:11.9 53 1:15:44.7 +7:29.3 58 55 Javier Gutiérrez Cuevas 38:58.2 55 32.2 36:30.6 60 1:16:01.0 +7:45.6 59 66 Xu Wenlong 39:57.9 60 34.4 36:21.0 58 1:16:53.3 +8:37.9 60 61 Callum Watson 40:09.8 62 29.0 36:21.6 59 1:17:00.4 +8:45.0 61 63 Paweł Klisz 40:09.3 61 29.7 36:39.5 62 1:17:18.5 +9:03.1 62 59 Callum Smith 39:57.4 59 37.2 37:02.5 64 1:17:37.1 +9:21.7 63 67 Artur Yeghoyan 40:11.7 63 41.8 36:51.0 63 1:17:44.5 +9:29.1 64 58 Jan Antolec 41:32.2 68 33.8 36:12.8 57 1:18:18.8 +10:03.4 65 57 Edi Dadić 41:08.0 66 35.0 37:48.5 65 1:19:31.5 +11:16.1 66 65 Arvis Liepiņš 40:44.1 64 36.1 38:39.9 66 1:20:00.1 +11:44.7 67 64 Vytautas Strolia 40:54.7 65 39.1 39:03.4 67 1:20:37.2 +12.21.8 68 68 Hwang Jun-Ho 41:22.6 67 39.9 LAP 68 LAP +LAP PF = Photo Finish

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