The men's 30 kilometre skiathlon cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February 2018 at 15:15 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.Start list The event, split into half distance classic skiing and half distance skate skiing, was won by Simen Hegstad Krüger, for whom this was the first Olympic medal. There was a podium sweep for Norway with Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Hans Christer Holund winning silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Summary The field included all the 2014 medalists: the defending champion Dario Cologna, the silver medalist Marcus Hellner, who was also the 2010 champion, and the bronze medalist Martin Johnsrud Sundby. Only Sundby returned to the podium.
At 20 km, a group of 15 skiers, which included all eventual medalists, was leading the race, about 20 seconds ahead of the rest of the field. About 5 km before the finish line, Krüger escaped and was not caught by the rest, winning the gold medal. From the chasing group, Sundby and Holund escaped less than 2 km before the finish. Eventually, Sundby was leading, and Holund did not catch him, winning bronze.
Qualification
A total of up to 310 cross-country skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard, which meant having 100 or less FIS Points in the distance classification. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). Countries also received an additional quota (one per gender maximum) if an athlete was ranked in the top 300 of the FIS Olympics Points list. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.
Competition schedule All times are (UTC+9). Date Time Event 11 February 15:15 Final
Results The race was started at 15:15.Final results
Rank Bib Name Country 15 km classic Rank Pitstop 15 km free Rank Finish time Deficit 7 Simen Hegstad Krüger 40:46.1 14 27.7 35:06.2 1 1:16:20.0 6 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 40:30.5 2 35.1 35:22.4 2 1:16:28.0 5 Hans Christer Holund 40:33.3 7 28.5 35:28.1 5 1:16:29.9 16 Denis Spitsov 40:35.0 13 31.2 35:26.5 3 1:16:32.7 2 Maurice Manificat 40:33.6 8 30.0 35:30.6 6 1:16:34.2 3 Dario Cologna 40:30.9 3 32.3 35:41.9 12 1:16:45.1 10 Andrew Musgrave 40:34.9 12 31.9 35:38.9 9 1:16:45.7 4 Alex Harvey 40:31.4 4 27.3 35:54.7 14 1:16:53.4 22 Martin Jakš 40:53.2 19 33.6 35:27.0 4 1:16:53.8 10 1 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 40:31.8 5 26.8 36:04.8 18 1:17:03.4 11 20 Thomas Bing 40:34.4 11 28.6 36:00.7 16 1:17:03.7 12 14 Marcus Hellner 40:34.2 10 30.3 36:00.3 15 1:17:04.8 13 18 Clément Parisse 40:48.9 17 28.0 35:51.7 13 1:17:08.6 14 15 Daniel Rickardsson 40:34.0 9 34.1 36:04.1 17 1:17:12.1 15 41 Jules Lapierre 41:13.0 24 32.9 35:33.2 8 1:17:19.1 16 21 Lucas Bögl 40:47.2 15 27.5 36:05.2 19 1:17:19.9 17 25 Jens Burman 41:13.4 25 31.1 35:39.4 10 1:17:23.9 +1:03.9 18 33 Scott Patterson 41:14.4 26 31.9 35:41.2 11 1:17:27.5 +1:07.5 19 8 Iivo Niskanen 40:30.0 1 29.9 36:34.3 26 1:17:34.2 +1:14.2 20 13 Francesco De Fabiani 41:11.4 22 30.0 36:13.5 20 1:17:54.9 +1:34.9 21 12 Matti Heikkinen 41:55.6 34 28.3 35:32.0 7 1:17:55.9 +1:35.9 22 35 Jonas Dobler 40:52.7 18 32.4 36:31.5 25 1:17.56.6 +1:36.6 23 28 Alexey Vitsenko 41:09.2 20 32.4 36:20.6 22 1:18:02.2 +1:42.2 24 43 Paul Constantin Pepene 41:16.2 30 26.4 36:37.8 28 1:18:20.4 +2:00.4 25 23 Keishin Yoshida 41:11.9 23 33.6 36:37.5 27 1:18:23.0 +2:03.0 26 31 Giandomenico Salvadori 40:47.8 16 28.2 37:20.9 36 1:18:36.9 +2:16.9 27 38 Max Hauke 41:15.7 29 31.4 36:57.5 32 1:18:44.6 +2:24.6 28 9 Jean-Marc Gaillard 40:32.6 6 26.8 37:49.1 38 1:18:48.5 +2:28.5 29 29 Andrey Melnichenko 41:46.4 32 34.0 36:30.1 24 1:18:50.5 +2:30.5 30 11 Andrey Larkov 41:37.5 31 35.1 36:38.0 29 1:18:50.6 +2:30.6 31 34 Candide Pralong 42:26.0 39 33.5 36:16.1 21 1:19:15.6 +2:55.6 32 36 Karel Tammjärv 41:56.6 35 36.2 36:52.4 31 1:19:25.2 +3:05.2 33 24 Lari Lehtonen 42:28.9 41 29.6 36:28.1 23 1:19:26.6 +3:06.6 34 49 Vitaliy Pukhalo 42:27.0 40 33.8 36:45.9 30 1:19:46.7 +3:26.7 35 32 Andreas Katz 41:10.3 21 29.5 38:09.4 42 1:19:49.2 +3:29.2 36 37 Devon Kershaw 41:14.8 27 32.9 38:07.6 41 1:19:55.3 +3:35.3 37 30 Dietmar Nöckler 41:15.2 28 34.8 38:05.5 40 1:19:55.5 +3:35.5 38 58 Petr Knop 42:29.8 43 31.6 37:10.7 34 1:20:12.1 +3:52.1 39 19 Jonas Baumann 42:25.7 38 27.6 37:20.1 35 1:20:13.4 +3:53.4 40 27 Toni Livers 42:36.1 44 36.5 37:00.8 33 1:20:13.4 +3:53.4 41 42 Perttu Hyvärinen 41:57.0 36 33.5 37:58.0 39 1:20:28.5 +4:08.5 42 26 Erik Bjornsen 42:12.4 37 29.6 38:12.7 43 1:20:54.7 +4:34.7 43 44 Yevgeniy Velichko 41:47.4 33 32.1 38:44.4 51 1:21:03.9 +4:43.9 44 46 Michail Semenov 43:15.4 48 28.7 37:27.9 37 1:21:12.0 +4:52.0 45 54 Graeme Killick 42:29.4 42 35.7 38:34.5 48 1:21:39.6 +5:19.6 46 39 Irineu Esteve Altimiras 42:39.0 45 37.5 38:31.2 46 1:21:47.7 +5:27.7 47 51 Andreas Veerpalu 43:03.9 47 33.9 38:33.6 47 1:22:11.4 +5:51.4 48 52 Sergio Rigoni 42:41.7 46 32.6 39:40.6 57 1:22:54.9 +6:34.9 49 57 Imanol Rojo 43:27.4 49 33.8 39:05.3 54 1:23:06.5 +6:46.5 50 45 Yury Astapenka 44:01.9 54 33.4 38:37.2 49 1:23:12.5 +6:52.5 51 40 Patrick Caldwell 44:01.3 53 32.7 38:44.1 50 1:23:18.1 +6:58.1 52 55 Dominik Bury 44:00.2 52 35.7 38:44.4 51 1:23:20.3 +7:00.3 53 65 Krešimir Crnković 44:31.3 58 30.5 38:25.1 44 1:23:26.9 +7:06.9 54 47 Noah Hoffman 43:27.7 50 30.4 39:30.6 56 1:23:28.7 +7:08.7 55 53 Aleš Razým 43:28.5 51 36.0 39:29.3 55 1:23:33.8 +7:13.8 56 48 Snorri Einarsson 44:02.3 55 36.8 38:54.8 53 1:23:33.9 +7:13.9 57 63 Callum Smith 44:47.1 61 33.2 38:29.6 45 1:23:49.9 +7:29.9 58 62 Callum Watson 44:47.7 62 31.7 39:56.0 58 1:25:15.4 +8:55.4 59 66 Martin Vögeli 44:28.4 57 27.1 41:12.7 59 1:26:08.2 +9:48.2 60 60 Thomas Hjalmar Westgård 44:15.2 56 33.1 47:45.9 60 1:32:34.2 61 59 Oleksiy Krasovsky 44:36.7 59 34.1 LAP 62 61 Knute Johnsgaard 45:49.7 63 36.0 63 67 Mantas Strolia 47:04.4 65 28.3 64 64 Wang Qiang 47:03.8 64 33.9 65 68 Kim Eun-ho 48:29.9 66 33.1 56 Edi Dadić 44:45.2 60 30.2 DNF 17 Calle Halfvarsson DNF 50 Sergei Dolidovich DNF
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