The men's 30 kilometre skiathlon competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 6 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou. The event, with half distance classic skiing and half distance skate skiing, was won by Alexander Bolshunov, for whom this is the first Olympic gold medal. Denis Spitsov finished second and Iivo Niskanen third.
Summary The 2018 champion is Simen Hegstad Krüger who qualified for the Olympics but tested positive for COVID-19 just before the games. Even though he had no symptoms, he was not allowed to fly to China with the rest of the team and did not get a chance to defend the title. The silver medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby and the bronze medalist Hans Christer Holund qualified as well, but Sundby was not selected for the skiathlon. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics was Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, and the distance leader was Alexander Bolshunov. The season was dominated by Norwegians and Russians, who together took 20 podium places in distance events out of 24, and three more podium places were taken by Iivo Niskanen. Bolshunov is the 2021 World Champion in 30 kilometre skiathlon, with Krüger and Holund being the silver and the bronze medalist, respectively.
Before the pit stop, Bolshunov and Niskanen ran away, followed by Spitsov, Holund and Pål Golberg. After the pit stop, Bolshunov ran away from Niskanen, who was caught up by Spitsov, and at 18 km Spitsov and Niskanen were already 30 seconds behind. Then Spitsov ran away from Niskanen. At 25 km, Spitsov was already almost a minute behind Bolshunov, and Niskanen almost a minute behind Spitsov, with Holund further 40 seconds behind Niskanen and visibly out of medal contention.
Qualification
Results The race was started at 15:00.
Rank Bib Name Country 15 km classic Rank Pitstop 15 km free Rank Finish time Deficit 2 Alexander Bolshunov 39:05.6 1 31.9 36:32.3 1 1:16:09.8 6 Denis Spitsov 39:36.1 3 30.1 37:14.6 2 1:17:20.8 +1:11.0 4 Iivo Niskanen 39:06.1 2 30.5 38:33.4 7 1:18:10.0 +2:00.2 4 8 Hans Christer Holund 39:41.8 5 32.9 38:26.0 6 1:18:40.7 +2:30.9 5 10 Pål Golberg 39:41.0 4 35.3 38:46.0 11 1:19:02.3 +2:52.5 6 26 William Poromaa 40:13.9 8 31.5 38:18.3 3 1:19:03.7 +2:53.9 7 21 Perttu Hyvärinen 40:13.1 7 31.7 38:37.6 9 1:19:22.4 +3:12.6 8 11 Francesco De Fabiani 40:12.4 6 29.3 39:06.0 22 1:19:47.6 +3:37.8 9 5 Artem Maltsev 40:38.4 10 32.3 38:53.9 14 1:20:04.6 +3:54.8 10 18 Clément Parisse 41:16.0 17 29.3 38:21.7 5 1:20:07.0 +3:57.2 11 30 Scott Patterson 41:17.4 19 33.7 38:18.9 4 1:20:10.0 +4:00.2 12 14 Lucas Bögl 41:05.4 15 32.5 38:34.6 8 1:20:12.5 +4:02.7 13 13 Friedrich Moch 40:46.2 12 31.7 38:58.5 19 1:20:16.4 +4:06.6 14 35 Jules Lapierre 41:04.5 13 32.0 38:45.3 10 1:20:21.8 +4:12.0 15 16 Jonas Baumann 41:05.0 14 30.9 38:56.6 17 1:20:32.5 +4:22.7 16 41 Mika Vermeulen 41:18.0 20 32.3 38:49.7 13 1:20:40.0 +4:30.2 17 15 Andrew Musgrave 41:16.8 18 32.7 38:57.4 18 1:20:46.9 +4:37.1 18 12 Michal Novák 41:14.9 16 29.9 39:06.1 23 1:20:50.9 +4:41.1 19 24 Florian Notz 41:19.4 22 35.6 39:05.4 21 1:21:00.4 +4:50.6 20 27 Irineu Esteve Altimiras 41:37.9 27 36.2 38:54.1 16 1:21:08.2 +4:58.4 21 37 Imanol Rojo 41:37.7 26 37.5 38:54.0 15 1:21:09.2 +4:59.4 22 39 Candide Pralong 41:38.6 28 31.5 39:03.5 20 1:21:13.6 +5:03.8 23 19 Maurice Manificat 41:53.9 33 34.2 38:49.4 12 1:21:17.5 +5:07.7 24 23 Jens Burman 41:20.0 23 32.9 39:50.4 25 1:21:43.3 +5:33.5 25 43 Remi Lindholm 41:39.5 30 34.0 39:35.9 24 1:21:49.4 +5:39.6 26 40 Dominik Bury 42:08.2 35 34.5 39:57.9 26 1:22:40.6 +6:30.8 27 28 Jason Rüesch 41:40.6 31 33.2 40:27.5 27 1:22:41.3 +6:31.5 28 38 Paul Pepene 41:39.3 29 31.7 40:30.4 28 1:22:41.4 +6:31.6 29 44 Snorri Einarsson 41:37.4 25 39.2 40:33.5 29 1:22:50.1 +6:40.3 30 17 Calle Halfvarsson 41:18.8 21 34.5 41:03.0 34 1:22:56.3 +6:46.5 31 53 Olivier Léveillé 42:07.5 34 31.2 41:03.3 36 1:23:42.0 +7:32.2 32 34 Vitaliy Pukhkalo 41:36.8 24 36.2 41:32.1 39 1:23:45.1 +7:35.3 33 56 Alvar Johannes Alev 42:08.8 36 33.4 41:08.3 38 1:23:50.5 +7:40.7 34 36 Paolo Ventura 42:41.0 40 32.6 40:46.8 30 1:24:00.4 +7.50.6 35 29 Naoto Baba 43:13.8 44 37.7 40:52.4 31 1:24:43.9 +8:34.1 36 3 Aleksey Chervotkin 41:41.0 32 34.0 42:44.5 46 1:24:59.5 +8:49.7 37 32 Leo Johansson 43:21.9 46 34.7 41:03.0 34 1:24:59.6 +8:49.8 38 59 Liu Rongsheng 43:19.3 45 34.7 41:05.6 37 1:24:59.6 +8:49.8 39 25 Gus Schumacher 42:26.3 38 31.4 42:16.6 44 1:25:14.3 +9:04.5 40 1 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 40:42.1 11 34.0 43:59.7 49 1:25:15.8 +9:06.0 41 48 Ryo Hirose 43:04.4 43 32.2 41:41.1 40 1:25:17.7 +9:07.9 42 22 Antoine Cyr 42:27.3 39 33.5 42:25.2 45 1:25:26.0 +9:16.2 43 33 Thomas Maloney Westgård 43:03.8 42 34.3 41:51.7 42 1:25:29.8 +9:20.0 44 42 Petr Knop 44:06.8 52 35.7 40:55.9 33 1:25:38.4 +9:28.6 45 52 Ján Koristek 44:06.1 51 37.7 40:54.9 32 1:25:38.7 +9:28.9 46 46 Adam Fellner 43:22.6 47 34.1 41:42.8 41 1:25:39.5 +9:29.7 47 57 Mikayel Mikayelyan 42:09.7 37 35.5 43:08.5 47 1:25:53.7 +9:43.9 48 31 Giandomenico Salvadori 43:23.4 48 34.3 42:13.0 43 1:26:10.7 +10:00.9 49 54 Shang Jincai 43:03.2 41 36.2 43:08.8 48 1:26:48.2 +10:38.4 50 62 Hadesi Badelihan 44:04.2 49 34.9 51 58 Mateusz Haratyk 45:40.0 59 32.0 52 49 Raimo Vīgants 44:05.9 50 38.3 53 47 Haruki Yamashita 45:06.0 57 34.9 54 66 Thibaut de Marre 44:40.8 56 33.0 55 50 Rémi Drolet 44:39.9 55 33.5 56 55 Miha Ličef 44:39.3 54 36.6 57 51 Yevgeniy Velichko 44:20.9 53 38.8 58 64 Oleksii Krasovskyi 45:22.6 58 35.2 59 45 Chen Degen 45:55.6 60 40.1 60 70 Mark Chanloung 47:00.0 62 33.8 61 67 Seve de Campo 47:05.7 63 32.7 62 61 Kim Min-woo 46:24.3 61 33.8 63 69 Franco Dal Farra 64 60 Ruslan Perekhoda 65 65 Phil Bellingham 66 63 Jeong Jong-won 67 68 Manex Silva 9 Hugo Lapalus 40:25.2 9 31.4 7 Sjur Røthe 20 Jonas Dobler
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