The men's 15 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 17 February at Pragelato.

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Pietro Piller Cottrer was the 2005 World champion, though he did it in freestyle. The defending Olympic champion was the Estonian Andrus Veerpalu, who won in Salt Lake. There had been three World Cup events in this competition: German Tobias Angerer won the first in November, Vasily Rochev of Russia won in Estonia in January, and Jens Arne Svartedal won in Davos a week and a half before the games. However, neither of the World Cup winners took the gold in Turin, as defending champion Veerpalu peaked at the right time to win by 14 seconds.

Results Martin Tauber, an Austrian skier, originally placed 8th, but was disqualified after the IOC declared him permanently ineligible for doping-related violations.

The race was started at 10:00.Final results Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 89 Andrus Veerpalu 38:01.3 93 Lukáš Bauer 38:15.8 99 Tobias Angerer 38:20.5 91 Vasily Rochev 38:24.4 79 Jaak Mae 38:35.2 74 Johan Olsson 38:38.8 85 Andreas Schlütter 38:44.7 88 Sergey Novikov 39:15.0 +1:13.7 84 Sami Jauhojärvi 39:15.3 +1:14.0 10 92 Anders Södergren 39:17.1 +1:15.8 11 95 René Sommerfeldt 39:17.2 +1:15.9 12 80 Fulvio Valbusa 39:18.8 +1:17.5 13 94 Mathias Fredriksson 39:19.1 +1:17.8 14 98 Vincent Vittoz 39:27.3 +1:26.0 15 49 Alexander Lasutkin 39:35.3 +1:34.0 16 96 Frode Estil 39:39.6 +1:38.3 17 65 Roman Leybyuk 39:48.1 +1:46.8 18 87 Alexandre Rousselet 39:48.4 +1:47.1 19 69 Mats Larsson 39:51.7 +1:50.4 20 76 Anders Aukland 39:53.6 +1:52.3 21 73 Kris Freeman 39:57.4 +1:56.1 22 77 Ivan Babikov 39:59.5 +1:58.2 23 71 Jean-Marc Gaillard 40:09.2 +2:07.9 24 78 Christophe Perrillat 40:12.0 +2:10.7 25 54 Janusz Krężelok 40:24.5 +2:23.2 26 64 Ivan Bátory 40:26.1 +2:24.8 27 81 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 40:31.3 +2:30.0 28 82 Martin Bajčičák 40:35.6 +2:34.3 29 63 Christian Stebler 40:38.6 +2:37.3 30 48 Dmitrij Eremenko 40:42.8 +2:41.5 31 61 George Grey 40:43.9 +2:42.6 32 72 Tero Similä 40:44.5 +2:43.2 33 83 Fabio Santus 40:47.0 +2:45.7 34 46 Ivan Arteev 40:49.1 +2:47.8 35 55 Kaspar Kokk 40:51.7 +2:50.4 36 67 Maxim Odnodvortsev 40:53.2 +2:51.9 37 52 Andrey Golovko 40:58.0 +2:56.7 38 86 Valerio Checchi 41:01.5 +3:00.2 39 21 Alexey Poltaranin 41:09.7 +3:08.4 40 68 Cristian Saracco 41:12.0 +3:10.7 41 53 Nobu Naruse 41:22.0 +3:20.7 42 70 Katsuhito Ebisawa 41:25.8 +3:24.5 43 75 Franz Göring 41:29.9 +3:28.6 44 97 Jens Arne Svartedal 41:32.4 +3:31.1 45 60 Priit Narusk 41:35.8 +3:34.5 46 66 Diego Ruiz 41:37.9 +3:36.6 47 41 Devon Kershaw 41:42.7 +3:41.4 48 62 Olli Ohtonen 41:47.4 +3:46.1 49 36 Xia Wan 41:48.0 +3:46.7 50 47 Lars Flora 41:53.1 +3:51.8 51 59 Andrew Johnson 41:53.9 +3:52.6 52 51 Justin Freeman 42:00.9 +3:59.6 53 42 Drew Goldsack 42:09.3 +4:08.0 54 39 Lauri Pyykönen 42:10.4 +4:09.1 55 27 Sabahattin Oglago 42:18.9 +4:17.6 56 32 Vladimir Olschanski 42:39.6 +4:38.3 57 58 Dan Roycroft 42:39.7 +4:38.4 58 57 Petr Michl 42:54.0 +4:52.7 59 45 Jože Mehle 42:56.9 +4:55.6 60 50 Vitaly Martsyv 42:57.4 +4:56.1 61 40 Zsolt Antal 43:10.0 +5:08.7 62 43 Li Geliang 43:14.7 +5:13.4 63 37 Oleksandr Batiuk 43:17.4 +5:16.1 64 38 Tian Ye 43:32.2 +5:30.9 65 56 Vicente Vilarrubla 43:47.2 +5:45.9 66 33 Denis Klobučar 43:55.4 +5:54.1 67 20 Ivan Bariakov 44:06.3 +6:05.0 68 24 Valts Eiduks 44:12.0 +6:10.7 69 28 Wang Songtao 44:12.2 +6:10.9 70 23 Damir Jurčević 44:20.8 +6:19.5 71 25 Francesc Soulie 44:42.6 +6:41.3 72 26 Mihai Galiceanu 44:52.0 +6:50.7 73 44 Michal Malák 44:52.9 +6:51.6 74 29 Muhammet Kızılarslan 45:06.8 +7:05.5 75 22 Intars Spalvins 45:13.4 +7:12.1 76 18 Zoltan Tagscherer 45:20.3 +7:19.0 77 17 Olegs Andrejevs 45:44.2 +7:42.9 78 31 Choi Im-heon 46:21.7 +8:20.4 79 34 Park Byung-joo 46:38.9 +8:37.6 80 30 Jung Eui-myung 46:40.8 +8:39.5 81 19 Alen Abramović 46:52.1 +8:50.8 82 14 Edmond Khachatryan 47:37.8 +9:36.5 83 11 Robel Teklemariam 47:53.8 +9:52.5 84 13 Darko Damjanovski 48:33.7 +10:32.4 85 1 Khash Erdene Khurelbaatar 48:47.2 +10:45.9 86 16 Martin Bianchi 49:08.0 +11:06.7 87 9 Rory Morrish 50:28.1 +12:26.8 88 10 Hovhannes Sargsyan 50:45.7 +12:44.4 89 15 Bojan Samardija 51:28.8 +13:27.5 90 8 Mojtaba Mirhashemi 52:27.0 +14:25.7 91 7 Phillip Kimely Boit 53:32.4 +15:31.1 92 5 Helio Freitas 54:06.8 +16:05.5 93 4 Danny Silva 54:34.1 +16:32.8 94 6 Dachhiri Sherpa 56:47.1 +18:45.8 95 2 Arturo Kinch +28:49.0 96 3 Prawat Nagvajara +29:14.6 12 Oliver Kraas DNF 35 Aleksei Novoselski DNF DQ 90 Martin Tauber 38:49.5

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