The men's team sprint competition in cross-country skiing at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 18 February, over a course at the Cross country and biathlon center Fabio Canal, in Tesero. Einar Hedegart and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway won the event, which made Klæbo a 10-time Olympic champion, extending his record for the most gold medals at the Winter Games. He won gold in all six of his events at the 2026 Olympics. Ben Ogden and Gus Schumacher of the United States won silver, the first medal for the country in the event, and Elia Barp and Federico Pellegrino of Italy won bronze. This was Schumacher's first Olympic medal.
Background The 2022 champions, Erik Valnes and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, qualified for the Olympics, as did the silver medalists Iivo Niskanen and Joni Mäki. Valnes and Niskanen did not participate in the event, as both Klæbo and Mäki competed with different partners. The bronze medalists, Alexander Bolshunov and Alexander Terentyev, were barred from participation in all international team events after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There were only two team sprint events in the 2025–26 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics. Valnes and Klæbo won one, and Harald Østberg Amundsen and Einar Hedegart another one. Valnes and Klæbo were also the 2025 world champions in team sprint.
Qualification
Results Qualification Rank Bib Country Time Deficit Notes 1 2 Ben OgdenGus Schumacher 5:45.722:52.912:52.81 Q 2 1 Einar HedegartJohannes Høsflot Klæbo 5:48.392:59.272:49.12 +2.67 Q 3 3 Elia BarpFederico Pellegrino 5:49.102:55.602:53.50 +3.38 Q 4 8 Janik RiebliValerio Grond 5:50.342:56.582:53.76 +4.62 Q 5 14 Jaume PueyoMarc Colell 5:52.212:51.753:00.46 +6.49 Q 6 4 Mathis DeslogesJules Chappaz 5:52.672:58.872:53.80 +6.95 Q 7 11 Michael FöttingerBenjamin Moser 5:53.192:56.962:56.23 +7.47 Q 8 7 Lauri VuorinenJoni Mäki 5:53.622:58.352:55.27 +7.90 Q 9 17 Lars Young VikHugo Hinckfuss 5:53.682:55.642:58.04 +7.96 Q 10 12 Jakob MochJan Stölben 5:54.423:01.052:53.37 +8.70 Q 11 6 Jiří TužMichal Novák 5:54.972:58.582:56.39 +9.25 Q 12 5 Johan HäggströmEdvin Anger 5:55.202:59.392:55.81 +9.48 Q 13 9 Andrew MusgraveJames Clugnet 5:55.492:59.992:55.50 +9.77 Q 14 10 Antoine CyrXavier McKeever 5:56.692:58.322:58.37 +10.97 Q 15 13 Maciej StaręgaDominik Bury 5:57.702:57.683:00.02 +11.98 Q 16 15 Miha ŠimencNejc Štern 6:01.373:00.473:00.90 +15.65 17 18 Lauris KaparkalējsRaimo Vīgants 6:05.253:02.303:02.95 +19.53 18 16 Karl Sebastian DremljugaMartin Himma 6:05.363:04.073:01.29 +19.64 19 19 Wang QiangLi Minglin 6:12.913:02.803:10.11 +27.19 20 24 Tomáš CenekPeter Hinds 6:15.183:10.963:04.22 +29.46 21 27 Modestas VaičiulisTautvydas Strolia 6:17.243:04.273:12.97 +31.52 22 23 Mario MatikanovDaniel Peshkov 6:18.213:05.463:12.75 +32.49 23 21 Dmytro DrahunOleksandr Lisohor 6:20.133:07.533:12.60 +34.41 24 20 Paul Constantin PepeneGabriel Cojocaru 6:20.243:13.323:06.92 +34.52 25 25 Franco Dal FarraMateo Sauma 6:23.543:06.693:16.85 +37.82 26 26 Ádám KónyaÁdám Büki 6:34.913:10.633:24.28 +49.19 27 22 Nail BashmakovAmirgali Muratbekov 6:35.343:18.493:16.85 +49.62
Final Rank Bib Country Athletes Time Deficit 1 Einar HedegartJohannes Høsflot Klæbo 18:28.98 — 2 Ben OgdenGus Schumacher 18:30.35 +1.37 3 Elia BarpFederico Pellegrino 18:32.29 +3.31 4 8 Janik RiebliValerio Grond 18:33.20 +4.22 5 9 Andrew MusgraveJames Clugnet 18:36.59 +7.61 6 10 Antoine CyrXavier McKeever 18:38.69 +9.71 7 11 Michael FöttingerBenjamin Moser 18:39.37 +10.39 8 6 Jiří TužMichal Novák 18:42.61 +13.63 9 12 Jakob MochJan Stölben 18:43.14 +14.16 10 5 Johan HäggströmEdvin Anger 18:46.67 PF +17.69 11 7 Lauri VuorinenJoni Mäki 18:46.67 PF +17.69 12 4 Mathis DeslogesJules Chappaz 18:47.87 +18.89 13 13 Maciej StaręgaDominik Bury 18:49.03 +20.05 14 17 Lars Young VikHugo Hinckfuss 18:54.65 +25.67 15 14 Jaume PueyoMarc Colell Pantebre 19:06.33 +37.35
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