The men's sprint competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2023 was held on 23 February 2023.
Results
Qualification The qualification was started at 13:27.
Rank Bib Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 23 Erik Valnes 2:55.50 Q 2 11 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 2:56.51 +1.01 Q 3 5 Pål Golberg 2:59.15 +3.65 Q 4 25 Michal Novák 2:59.28 +3.78 Q 5 22 Calle Halfvarsson 2:59.54 +4.04 Q 6 19 Ben Ogden 3:01.30 +5.80 Q 7 1 Jules Chappaz 3:02.42 +6.92 Q 8 9 Lucas Chanavat 3:02.45 +6.95 Q 9 30 Niilo Moilanen 3:02.57 +7.07 Q 10 21 Håvard Solås Taugbøl 3:02.81 +7.31 Q 11 28 Ondřej Černý 3:02.99 +7.49 Q 12 16 Simone Mocellini 3:03.17 +7.67 Q 13 27 Johan Häggström 3:03.26 +7.76 Q 14 3 Even Northug 3:03.76 +8.26 Q 15 12 JC Schoonmaker 3:03.95 +8.45 Q 16 13 Federico Pellegrino 3:04.21 +8.71 Q 17 37 Francesco De Fabiani 3:04.50 +9.00 Q 18 7 Edvin Anger 3:04.64 +9.14 Q 19 15 Richard Jouve 3:04.74 +9.24 Q 20 17 Renaud Jay 3:04.95 +9.45 Q 21 39 Miha Šimenc 3:05.42 +9.92 Q 22 29 Joni Mäki 3:05.70 +10.20 Q 23 18 Luděk Šeller 3:06.31 +10.81 Q 24 10 Marcus Grate 3:06.34 +10.84 Q 25 34 Ville Ahonen 3:06.42 +10.92 Q 26 41 Lukas Mrkonjic 3:06.42 +10.92 Q 27 33 Kamil Bury 3:06.70 +11.20 Q 28 8 Graham Ritchie 3:07.21 +11.71 Q 29 42 Janosch Brugger 3:07.75 +12.25 Q 30 35 Marko Kilp 3:07.84 +12.34 Q 31 38 Erwan Käser 3:07.96 +12.46 32 20 Lauri Vuorinen 3:08.10 +12.60 33 31 Michael Föttinger 3:08.30 +12.80 34 6 Benjamin Moser 3:08.45 +12.95 35 43 Davide Graz 3:09.43 +13.93 35 47 Xavier McKeever 3:09.43 +13.93 37 48 Vili Črv 3:10.38 +14.88 38 36 Antoine Cyr 3:10.45 +14.95 39 2 Roman Schaad 3:10.78 +15.28 40 51 Lars Young Vik 3:11.13 +15.63 41 44 Martin Himma 3:11.30 +15.80 42 40 Svyatoslav Matassov 3:11.47 +15.97 43 26 Janik Riebli 3:11.79 +16.29 44 32 Kevin Bolger 3:12.03 +16.53 45 49 Konstantin Bortsov 3:12.17 +16.67 46 14 Andrew Young 3:12.32 +16.82 47 50 Thomas Maloney Westgård 3:13.28 +17.78 48 24 James Clugnet 3:13.66 +18.16 49 4 Maciej Staręga 3:14.42 +18.92 51 45 Karl Sebastian Dremljuga 3:15.43 +19.59 52 54 Anže Gros 3:15.47 +19.93 53 53 Takanori Ebina 3:16.10 +19.97 54 61 Raul Mihai Popa 3:16.41 +20.60 55 62 Sebastian Bryja 3:16.77 +20.91 56 55 Julian Smith 3:17.46 +21.27 57 60 Dmytro Drahun 3:18.03 +21.96 58 68 Jáchym Cenek 3:18.75 +22.53 59 46 Raimo Vīgants 3:19.05 +23.25 60 79 Phillip Bellingham 3:19.16 +23.66 61 67 Fedor Karpov 3:20.00 +24.50 62 70 Samuel Ikpefan 3:20.57 +25.07 63 57 Boštjan Korošec 3:20.89 +25.39 64 63 Seve De Campo 3:21.84 +26.34 65 74 Franco Dal Farra 3:22.13 +26.63 66 58 Olzhas Klimin 3:22.38 +26.88 67 59 Simeon Deyanov 3:23.22 +27.72 68 65 Robin Frommelt 3:23.23 +27.73 69 56 Lauris Kaparkalējs 3:23.50 +28.00 70 69 Marko Skender 3:23.91 +28.41 71 76 Andrej Renda 3:24.58 +29.08 72 72 Fredrik Fodstad 3:24.59 +29.09 73 73 Modestas Vaičiulis 3:25.85 +30.35 74 80 Ádám Kónya 3:27.17 +31.67 75 66 Dagur Benediktsson 3:27.55 +32.05 76 77 Oleksandr Lisohor 3:28.13 +32.63 77 75 Strahinja Erić 3:29.06 +33.56 78 71 Manex Silva 3:29.38 +33.88 79 95 Batmönkhiin Achbadrakh 3:29.62 +34.12 80 130 Hamit Tarık Aydin 3:30.03 +34.53 81 101 Yusuf Emre Fırat 3:32.54 +37.04 82 81 Sebastian Endrestad 3:33.17 +37.67 83 86 Bruno Krampe 3:33.40 +37.90 84 82 Tautvydas Strolia 3:33.92 +38.42 85 91 Stevenson Savart 3:33.93 +38.43 86 102 Ruslan Denysenko 3:34.19 +38.69 87 109 Spartak Voskanyan 3:35.52 +40.02 88 78 Mark Chanloung 3:35.73 +40.23 89 85 Daniel Peshkov 3:36.33 +40.83 90 90 Mathis Poutot 3:36.52 +41.02 91 100 Mateo Lorenzo Sauma 3:38.14 +42.64 92 129 Ahmed Oglago 3:38.68 +43.18 93 64 Niks Saulītis 3:38.81 +43.31 94 84 Gonzalo Ángel Gómez 3:38.83 +43.33 95 94 Aleksandar Grbović 3:39.52 +44.02 96 114 Yusuf Talay 3:40.56 +45.06 97 89 Todor Malchov 3:41.80 +46.30 98 97 Petar Perušić 3:41.98 +46.48 99 92 Kristóf Lágler 3:42.06 +46.56 100 108 Nahuel Torres 3:42.51 +47.01 101 83 Victor Santos 3:42.64 +47.14 102 106 Miloš Milosavljević 3:44.20 +48.70 103 117 Danial Saveh-Shemshaki 3:49.68 +54.18 104 111 Samuel Maes 3:54.63 +59.13 105 98 Ernest Tretjakov 3:54.96 +59.46 106 107 Timo Juhani Grönlund 3:56.31 +1:00.81 107 105 Miloš Stević 3:57.58 +1:02.08 108 88 Stavre Jada 3:58.56 +1:03.06 109 110 Theo Mallett 4:00.22 +1:04.72 110 103 Matas Gražys 4:01.59 +1:06.09 111 118 Darko Damjanovski 4:03.63 +1:08.13 112 93 Yonathan Jesús Fernández 4:04.52 +1:09.02 113 112 Athanasios Gastis 4:08.58 +1:13.08 114 135 Rodrigo Ideus 4:10.25 +1:14.75 115 132 Ahmad Reza Seid 4:17.52 +1:22.02 116 87 Paul Keyrouz 4:18.22 +1:22.72 117 131 José Cabeça 4:22.13 +1:26.63 118 121 Juan Luis Uberuaga 4:23.98 +1:28.48 119 126 Juan Carlos Ayala 4:26.14 +1:30.64 120 134 Jaime Luis Huerta 4:28.59 +1:33.09 121 124 Carlos Andrés Quintana 4:28.70 +1:33.20 122 115 Musa Rakhmanberdi Uulu 4:40.38 +1:44.88 123 122 Đorđe Paunović 4:40.51 +1:45.01 124 116 Eldar Kadyrov 4:40.78 +1:45.28 125 99 Klaus Jungbluth 4:42.20 +1:46.70 126 119 Ioannis Karamichos 4:43.63 +1:48.13 127 125 Islam Turganbaev 4:43.89 +1:48.39 128 120 Mehdi Tir 4:48.90 +1:53.40 129 104 Salim Lozom 4:48.98 +1:53.48 130 137 Filipe Cabrita 4:57.80 +2:02.30 131 127 Guillermo Racero 5:01.46 +2:05.96 132 133 Antonio Pineyro 5:16.07 +2:20.57 133 138 Nicholas Lau 5:45.22 +2:49.72 113 Elie Tawk Did not start 123 Artur Saparbekov 128 Tadevos Poghosyan 136 Ricardo Jay Lung 139 Rakan Alireza 96 Joe Tawk Disqualified
Quarterfinals The top two of each heat and the two best-timed skiers advanced to the semifinals.
Quarterfinal 1 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 1 Erik Valnes 2:59.30 Q 2 2 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 2:59.73 +0.43 Q 3 25 Ville Ahonen 2:59.85 +0.55 q 4 28 Graham Ritchie 3:04.16 +4.86 5 23 Luděk Šeller 3:08.33 +9.03 6 18 Edvin Anger 3:49.32 +50.02
Quarterfinal 2 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 5 Calle Halfvarsson 2:59.83 Q 2 14 Even Northug 3:00.19 +0.36 Q 3 19 Richard Jouve 3:01.16 +1.33 4 16 Federico Pellegrino 3:02.07 +2.24 5 26 Lukas Mrkonjic 3:05.35 +5.52 6 29 Janosch Brugger 3:05.79 +5.96
Quarterfinal 3 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 8 Lucas Chanavat 3:01.00 Q 2 3 Pål Golberg 3:01.10 +0.10 Q 3 27 Kamil Bury 3:01.50 +0.50 4 12 Simone Mocellini 3:01.79 +0.79 5 30 Marko Kilp 3:04.55 +3.55 6 6 Ben Ogden 3:05.21 +4.21
Quarterfinal 4 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 7 Jules Chappaz 2:58.81 Q 2 4 Michal Novák 2:58.94 +0.13 Q 3 24 Marcus Grate 2:59.00 +0.19 q 4 17 Francesco De Fabiani 3:00.15 +1.34 5 21 Miha Šimenc 3:26.33 +27.52 6 10 Håvard Solås Taugbøl 3:56.09 +57.28
Quarterfinal 5 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 20 Renaud Jay 3:03.67 Q 2 15 JC Schoonmaker 3:06.09 +2.42 Q 3 13 Johan Häggström 3:07.39 +3.72 4 22 Joni Mäki 3:10.42 +6.75 5 9 Niilo Moilanen 3:11.66 +7.99 6 11 Ondřej Černý 3:18.97 +15.30
Semifinals The top two of each heat and the two best-timed skiers advanced to the final.
Semifinal 1 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 2 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 2:58.95 Q 2 5 Calle Halfvarsson 2:59.38 +0.43 Q 3 8 Lucas Chanavat 2:59.60 +0.65 q 4 14 Even Northug 3:01.09 +2.14 5 25 Ville Ahonen 3:06.23 +7.28 6 1 Erik Valnes 4:43.29 +1:44.34
Semifinal 2 Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 1 7 Jules Chappaz 2:59.05 Q 2 3 Pål Golberg 2:59.23 +0.18 Q 3 4 Michal Novák 2:59.33 +0.28 q 4 20 Renaud Jay 3:03.06 +4.01 5 15 JC Schoonmaker 3:06.76 +7.71 6 24 Marcus Grate 3:10-41 +11.36
Final Rank Seed Athlete Country Time Deficit Notes 2 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 2:56.07 3 Pål Golberg 2:58.29 +2.22 7 Jules Chappaz 2:58.31 +2.24 4 4 Michal Novák 3:01.97 +5.90 5 5 Calle Halfvarsson 3:07.71 +11.64 6 8 Lucas Chanavat 3:28.34 +32.27
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