The men's 2 × 10 kilometre pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 14 February at Soldier Hollow.

The competition consisted of two races. The first was an interval start 10 kilometre classical race. The top 60 advanced to the 10 km freestyle pursuit where the competitors started based on the times from the classical event. The winner of the race was the first competitor(s) to finish the second race.

Johann Mühlegg of Spain originally won the competition, but nine days later he failed a doping test following his gold medal win in the 50 km classical race. It wasn't until 2003 that Mühlegg was stripped of the gold medal in this event, too.

Background At the previous Olympics, the pursuit used a 10km/15km format. The defending champion was Thomas Alsgaard. The silver medalist, Bjørn Dæhlie, and the bronze medalist, Vladimir Smirnov had both retired from competition. Per Elofsson was the 2001 world champion.

Results

Rank Bib Name Country 10 km classic Rank Start 10 km free Rank Finish time Deficit 80 Frode Estil 26:20.4 2 0:13 23:28.9 14 49:48.9 69 Thomas Alsgaard 26:56.4 16 0:49 22:52.9 1 49:48.9 75 Per Elofsson 26:39.3 9 0:32 23:13.9 4 49:52.9 4 46 Giorgio di Centa 26:30.9 4 0:23 23:23.8 10 49:53.8 5 63 Vitaly Denisov 26:32.4 6 0:25 23:26.5 11 49:58.5 6 71 Pietro Piller Cottrer 27:06.2 23 0:59 22:55.2 2 50:01.2 7 76 Anders Aukland 26:27.6 3 0:20 23:43.8 20 50:10.8 8 77 Jaak Mae 26:31.1 5 0:23 23:41.1 19 50:12.1 9 78 Mikhail Botvinov 26:32.5 7 0:25 23:45.2 21 50:17.2 10 70 René Sommerfeldt 26:46.0 12 0:38 23:36.7 18 50:22.7 11 52 Roman Leybyuk 26:37.5 8 0:30 23:46.2 22 50:23.2 12 74 Lukáš Bauer 27:03.7 21 0:56 23:20.3 6 50:23.3 13 50 Vincent Vittoz 27:05.2 22 0:58 23:21.8 8 50:26.8 14 47 Kris Freeman 26:57.3 18 0:50 23:35.0 16 50:32.0 15 40 Andrei Nevzorov 27:14.3 25 1:07 23:20.7 7 50:34.7 16 53 Sergey Novikov 26:55.8 15 0:48 23:50.9 27 50:45.9 17 13 Andreas Schlütter 26:52.5 13 0:45 23:56.2 29 50:48.2 18 15 Fulvio Valbusa 27:30.6 31 1:23 23:19.7 5 50:49.7 +1:00.8 19 36 John Bauer 27:00.2 19 0:53 23:49.9 26 50:49.9 +1:01.0 20 65 Fabio Maj 27:16.4 27 1:09 23:34.8 15 50:50.8 +1:01.9 21 58 Andrey Golovko 26:45.8 11 0:38 24:10.9 35 50:55.9 +1:07.0 22 64 Kristen Skjeldal 26:55.5 14 0:48 24:02.6 34 50:57.6 +1:08.7 23 17 Tobias Angerer 27:30.7 32 1:23 23:27.9 13 50:57.9 +1:09.0 24 48 Masaaki Kozu 27:37.6 35 1:30 23:35.6 17 51:12.6 +1:23.7 25 67 Ivan Bátory 26:57.2 17 0:50 24:15.7 38 51:12.7 +1:23.8 26 66 Markus Hasler 27:52.1 43 1:44 23:22.3 9 51:14.3 +1:25.4 27 73 Mathias Fredriksson 27:02.9 20 0:55 24:17.9 39 51:19.9 +1:31.0 28 42 Niklas Jonsson 27:32.0 34 1:24 23:53.1 28 51:25.1 +1:36.2 29 68 Alexei Prokourorov 27:24.5 29 1:17 24:01.2 33 51:25.2 +1:36.3 30 51 Roman Virolainen 26:42.2 10 0:35 24:54.1 52 51:36.1 +1:47.2 31 32 Sami Repo 28:09.2 46 2:02 23:27.7 12 51:36.7 +1:47.8 32 57 Janusz Krezelok 27:14.6 26 1:07 24:23.3 41 51:37.3 +1:48.4 33 14 Mitsuo Horigome 27:50.3 40 1:43 23:47.5 23 51:37.5 +1:48.6 34 39 Hiroyuki Imai 27:42.6 37 1:35 23:57.8 31 51:39.8 +1:50.9 35 59 Alexandre Rousselet 27:28.1 30 1:20 24:12.9 36 51:40.9 +1:52.0 36 72 Vladimir Vilisov 27:21.3 28 1:14 24:24.4 42 51:45.4 +1:56.5 37 56 Juan Jesús Gutíerrez 28:06.7 45 1:59 23:48.5 25 51:54.5 +2:05.6 38 43 Axel Teichmann 27:31.2 33 1:24 24:29.4 45 52:00.4 +2:11.5 39 30 Nikolay Chebotko 27:50.0 39 1:42 24:13.5 37 52:03.5 +2:14.6 40 6 Patrik Maechler 28:12.7 47 2:05 23:57.1 30 52:09.1 +2:20.2 41 19 Reto Burgermeister 27:51.4 41 1:44 24:27.1 44 52:18.1 +2:29.2 42 8 Justin Wadsworth 28:32.5 54 2:25 23:48.2 24 52:20.2 +2:31.3 43 61 Stephan Kunz 28:01.4 44 1:54 24:20.2 40 52:21.2 +2:32.3 44 37 Martin Koukal 28:26.9 53 2:19 23:58.8 32 52:24.8 +2:35.9 45 34 Patrick Weaver 27:38.3 36 1:31 25:01.2 55 52:39.2 +2:50.3 46 38 Sami Pietila 28:20.1 49 2:12 24:25.8 43 52:45.8 +2:56.9 47 41 Ricardas Panavas 27:51.9 42 1:44 24:56.1 53 52:47.1 +2:58.2 48 11 Denis Krivushkin 28:22.0 51 2:14 24:42.7 51 53:04.7 +3:15.8 49 20 Katsuhito Ebisawa 28:45.2 58 2:38 24:36.3 47 53:21.3 +3:32.4 50 62 Martin Bajcicak 27:06.9 24 0:59 26:31.0 59 53:37.0 +3:48.1 51 21 Juris Germanis 28:41.1 56 2:33 24:58.8 54 53:39.8 +3:50.9 52 35 Milan Sperl 29:04.6 60 2:57 24:36.7 48 53:40.7 +3:51.8 53 49 Priit Narusk 28:22.5 52 2:15 25:23.2 56 53:45.2 +3:56.3 54 25 Haritz Zunzunegui 29:01.3 59 2:54 24:47.0 49 53:48.0 +3:59.1 55 54 Matej Soklic 28:20.7 50 2:13 25:52.4 57 54:12.4 +4:23.5 56 31 Christophe Perrillat 28:13.5 48 2:06 26:05.9 58 54:18.9 +4:30.0 45 Sergei Dolidovich 28:44.0 57 2:36 33 Vladislavas Zybailo 29:08.1 61 23 Zsolt Antal 29:13.0 62 10 Emmanuel Jonnier 29:21.2 63 1 Alexander Sannikov 29:30.5 64 60 Sin Doo-Sun 29:54.5 65 3 Vadim Gusev 29:57.7 66 24 Denis Klobucar 30:00.7 67 28 Denis Vorobiev 30:04.3 68 27 Park Byung-Joo 30:15.6 69 29 Han Dawei 30:15.7 70 2 Lefteris Fafalis 31:11.7 71 5 Damir Jurcevic 31:15.7 72 12 Ivan Bariakov 31.17.1 73 4 Aram Hajiyan 31:52.7 74 26 Slavtscho Batinkov 32:12.6 75 9 Jung Eui-Myung 32:15.1 76 18 Zoltan Tagscherer 33:10.6 77 7 Mátyás Holló 33:15.1 78 85 Seyed Mostafa Mirhashemi 34:42.7 79 83 Philip Boit 36:21.6 80 84 Arturo Kinch 41:30.5 81 82 Jayaram Khadka 44:20.3 82 81 Isaac Menyoli 45:40.3 83 22 Morgan Göransson 44 Donald Farley 16 Marc Mayer 55 Achim Walcher 79 Johann Mühlegg

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