The men's 15 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, was held on 15 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia, at 12:30 PST.Cross-country skiing schedule for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 2 November 2009.

Each skier starts at 30-second intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Estonia's Andrus Veerpalu is both the two-time defending Olympic and World champion in this event, though all three were held in the classical event.2002 Winter Olympic men's 15 km classical results. - accessed 3 November 2009.2006 Winter Olympic men's 15 km classical results. - accessed 2 November 2009.FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 men's 15 km classical results. - accessed 2 November 2009. Norway's Lars Berger won the 2007 world championships when it was in freestyle.FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2007 men's 15 km freestyle results. - accessed 2 November 2009. The final World Cup event in men's 15 km freestyle prior to the 2010 Games took place on 5 February at Canmore, Alberta, and was won by Italy's Giorgio Di Centa. - accessed 6 February 2010.

Veerpalu did not participate to the event being in freestyle while Berger did not participate to the fact that the biathlon men's 12.5 km pursuit would take place the next day. Di Centa finished tenth in the event. Cologna is the first Swiss to win a gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics.2010 Winter Olympics 15 February 2010 Cross-country skiing men's 15 km freestyle results. - accessed 16 February 2010.

Results

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 33 Dario Cologna 33:36.3+0.00 25 Pietro Piller Cottrer 34:00.9 +24.6 34 Lukáš Bauer 34:12.0 +35.7 35 Marcus Hellner 34:13.5 +37.2 26 Vincent Vittoz 34:16.2 +39.9 13 Maurice Manificat 34:27.4 +51.1 18 Tobias Angerer 34:28.5 +52.2 20 Ivan Babikov 34:30.0 +53.7 24 Maxim Vylegzhanin 34:31.6 +55.3 10 31 Giorgio Di Centa 34:36.2 +59.9 11 19 Johan Olsson 34:39.3 +1:03.0 12 6 Toni Livers 34:43.3 +1:07.0 13 1 Ville Nousiainen 34:45.5 +1:09.2 14 2 Alexey Poltaranin 34:50.5 +1:14.2 15 5 Remo Fischer 34:51.1 +1:14.8 15 28 Dmitry Sidorov 34:51.1 +1:14.8 17 17 Curdin Perl 34:51.8 +1:15.5 18 10 Martin Koukal 34:53.5 +1:17.2 19 21 Valerio Checchi 34:53.7 +1:17.4 20 4 Emmanuel Jonnier 34:55.1 +1:18.8 21 11 Alex Harvey 34:55.6 +1:19.3 22 23 Daniel Rickardsson 34:58.7 +1:22.4 23 9 Martin Bajčičák 34:59.3 +1:23.0 24 14 Thomas Moriggl 34:59.9 +1:23.6 25 3 Anders Södergren 35:01.2 +1:24.9 26 44 Petr Sedov 35:06.2 +1:29.9 27 37 Teemu Kattilakoski 35:06.8 +1:30.5 28 7 Tord Asle Gjerdalen 35:10.5 +1:34.2 29 42 George Grey 35:13.0 +1:36.7 29 47 Martin Jakš 35:13.0 +1:36.7 31 22 Sergey Shiryayev 35:14.5 +1:38.2 32 27 Jean-Marc Gaillard 35:20.5 +1:44.2 33 16 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 35:26.3 +1:50.0 34 38 Juha Lallukka 35:28.8 +1:52.5 35 8 Sergei Dolidovich 35:29.4 +1:53.1 36 29 René Sommerfeldt 35:31.3 +1:55.0 37 46 Paul Constantin Pepene 35:33.7 +1:57.4 38 40 Nikolay Chebotko 35:34.1 +1:57.8 39 32 Matti Heikkinen 35:37.1 +2:00.8 40 48 Ivan Batory 35:38.1 +2:01.8 41 36 Petter Northug 35:39.5 +2:03.2 42 12 Ronny Hafsås 35:41.8 +2:05.5 43 52 Milan Šperl 35:46.4 +2:10.1 44 30 Axel Teichmann 35:47.0 +2:10.7 45 50 Ben Sim 35:48.6 +2:12.3 46 39 Tom Reichelt 35:50.4 +2:14.1 47 43 Sergey Cherepanov 35:50.8 +2:14.5 48 51 James Southam 35:58.2 +2:21.9 49 45 Nobu Naruse 36:01.6 +2:25.3 50 62 Veselin Tzinzov 36:11.7 +2:35.4 51 41 Aivar Rehemaa 36:13.5 +2:37.2 52 64 Gordon Jewett 36:17.9 +2:41.6 53 56 Vicenc Vilarrubla 36:22.7 +2:46.4 54 66 Michal Malak 36:22.8 +2:46.5 55 60 Andrew Musgrave 36:32.4 +2:56.1 56 53 Yevgeniy Velichko 36:33.0 +2:56.7 57 67 Petrică Hogiu 36:39.5 +3:03.2 58 59 Garrott Kuzzy 36:41.5 +3:05.2 59 15 Kris Freeman 36:41.6 +3:05.3 60 54 Aliaksei Ivanou 36:48.2 +3:11.9 61 55 Roman Leybyuk 36:49.7 +3:13.4 62 61 Olexandr Putsko 37:09.8 +3:33.5 63 80 Leanid Karneyenka 37:29.2 +3:52.9 64 69 Simi Hamilton 37:30.5 +3:54.2 65 57 Diego Ruiz 37:31.8 +3:55.5 66 49 Maciej Kreczmer 37:38.0 +4:01.7 67 58 Karel Tammjärv 37:38.4 +4:02.1 68 65 Xu Wenlong 37:39.5 +4:03.2 69 63 Javier Gutierrez 37:55.7 +4:19.4 70 76 Sergey Mikayelyan 37:58.9 +4:22.6 71 68 Aleksei Novoselski 38:01.6 +4:25.3 72 74 Jānis Paipals 38:18.0 +4:41.7 73 70 Francesc Soulie 38:36.0 +4:59.7 74 71 Andrew Young 38:45.1 +5:08.8 75 77 Andrej Burić 38:51.0 +5:14.7 76 73 Jonas Thor Olsen 39:01.8 +5:25.5 77 78 Sebahattin Oğlago 39:03.0 +5:26.7 78 83 Mladen Plakalović 39:41.4 +6:05.1 79 75 Lee Jun-gil 39:51.6 +6:15.3 80 82 Amar Garibović 40:12.0 +6:35.7 81 84 Zoltán Tagscherer 41:15.0 +7:38.7 82 85 Carlos Lannes 41:34.9 +7:58.6 83 90 Tashi Lundup 41:36.8 +8:00.5 84 94 Mehdi-Selim Khelifi 41:38.5 +8:02.2 85 79 Darko Damjanovski 41:48.2 +8:11.9 86 87 Sergiu Balan 42:12.1 +8:35.8 87 91 Khash-Erdene Khurelbataar 42:27.4 +8:51.1 88 88 Tucker Murphy 42:39.1 +9:02.8 89 81 Sattar Seid 42:41.1 +9:04.8 90 89 Leandro Ribela 43:36.2 +9:59.9 91 86 Peter-James Barron 43:50.4 +10:14.1 92 93 Dachhiri Sherpa 44:26.5 +10:50.2 93 96 Robel Teklemariam 45:18.9 +11:42.6 94 92 Roberto Carcelen 45:53.6 +12:17.3 95 95 Danny Silva 49:31.4 +15:55.1 72 Benjamin Koons

References

External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 15 km Free, from https://web.archive.org/web/20100222080013/http://www.vancouver2010.com/ retrieved 2010-02-15. 2010 Winter Olympics February 14, 2010 men's 15 km freestyle start list.