Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's team sprint

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Men's team sprint
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue Pragelato
Dates14 February
Competitors50 from 25 nations
Winning time17:02.9
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Thobias Fredriksson & Björn Lind
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Norway.svg  Norway Jens Arne Svartedal & Tor Arne Hetland
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Russia.svg  Russia Ivan Alypov & Vasily Rochev
2010  

The Men's team sprint cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 14 February, at Pragelato. This was the first time the team sprint was contested in the Winter Olympics. Each race featured teams of two, with each skier completing 3 laps of a 1325-metre course. [1]

Norway, with Tore Ruud Hofstad and Tor Arne Hetland, had won the competition at the 2005 Nordic skiing World Championship, the only time it had been skied in the World Championship prior to the Turin games, but that was in free technique. The most recent team sprint event in classic technique had been in Canmore, Canada, on 18 December 2004. Jens Arne Svartedal and Eldar Rønning won that race for Norway's first team. [2] However, despite this good Norwegian record, it was the Sweden's Thobias Fredriksson and Björn Lind who pipped Norway to the title.

Results

Semifinals

Fifteen teams were entered in the two semifinals, with the top five in each advancing to the final. [3]

Semifinal 1
RankCountryAthletesTimeNotes
1Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Thobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind
17:34.0Q
2Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Dušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
17:34.9Q
3Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Martin Bajčičák
Ivan Bátory
17:36.1Q
4Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Keijo Kurttila
Lauri Pyykönen
17:39.2Q
5Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan Nikolay Chebotko
Yevgeniy Koschevoy
17:42.6Q
6Flag of Japan.svg  Japan Katsuhito Ebisawa
Yuichi Onda
17:46.6
7Flag of Estonia.svg  Estonia Priit Barusk
Anti Saarepuu
18:07.4
8Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Nejc Brodar
Joze Mehle
18:34.4
9Flag of Ukraine.svg  Ukraine Ivan Bilosyuk
Vitaly Martsyv
18:50.4
10Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China Tian Ye
Li Geiliang
18:57.4
11Flag of Romania.svg  Romania Zsolt Antal
Mihai Galiceanu
18:04.3
12Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Sebahattin Oğlago
Muhammet Kızılarslan
19:46.5
Flag of Belarus (1995-2012).svg  Belarus Sergei Dolidovich
Alexander Lasutkin
DNS
Semifinal 2
RankCountryAthletesTimeNotes
1Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Jens Arne Svartedal
Tor Arne Hetland
17:22.1Q
2Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Ivan Alypov
Vasily Rochev
17:22.2Q
3Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Jens Filbrich
Andreas Schlütter
17:22.6Q
4Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy Freddy Schwienbacher
Giorgio Di Centa
17:26.2Q
5Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Maciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
17:27.1Q
6Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada Devon Kershaw
George Grey
17:31.2
7Flag of the United States.svg  United States Chris Cook
Andrew Newell
17:54.9
8Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland Reto Burgermeister
Christoph Eigenmann
18:00.5
9Flag of Austria.svg  Austria Johannes Eder
Juergen Pinter
18:12.2
10Flag of South Korea (1997-2011).svg  South Korea Choi Im-Heon
Park Byung Joo
19:40.0
11Civil ensign of Croatia.svg  Croatia Damir Jurčević
Denis Klobučar
19.43.1
Flag of Armenia.svg  Armenia Hovhannes Sargsyan
Edmond Khachatryan
DNF

Final

The top three teams separated themselves from the pack fairly easily, with Sweden finishing just 0.6 seconds ahead of Norway to take the gold medal. [3]

RankCountryAthletesTime
Gold medal icon.svg Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden Thobias Fredriksson
Björn Lind
17:02.9
Silver medal icon.svg Flag of Norway.svg  Norway Jens Arne Svartedal
Tor Arne Hetland
17:03.5
Bronze medal icon.svg Flag of Russia.svg  Russia Ivan Alypov
Vasily Rochev
17:05.2
4Flag of Germany.svg  Germany Jens Filbrich
Andreas Schlütter
17:14.0
5Flag of Finland.svg  Finland Keijo Kurttila
Lauri Pyykönen
17:21.5
6Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Kazakhstan Nikolay Chebotko
Yevgeniy Koschevoy
17:25.1
7Flag of Poland.svg  Poland Maciej Kreczmer
Janusz Krężelok
17:26.3
8Flag of Slovakia.svg  Slovakia Martin Bajčičák
Ivan Bátory
18:30.9
9Flag of Italy (2003-2006).svg  Italy Freddy Schwienbacher
Giorgio Di Centa
18:31.3
10Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic Dušan Kožíšek
Martin Koukal
18:49.6

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