The men's 15 kilometre freestyle pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, was held on 19 February at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium in Lillehammer.

Each skier started based on the results from the 10 km classical event, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course after the first-to-finish principle. Bjørn Dæhlie of Norway started first in the race with a gap of 18 seconds to Vladimir Smirnov of Kazakhstan. Dæhlie extended his lead and won over Smirnov with 29.2 seconds; his second consecutive olympic gold medal in the pursuit event.

Background At the previous Olympics, Bjørn Dæhlie won the gold medal. The silver medalist, Vegard Ulvang, and the bronze medalist, Giorgio Vanzetta both qualified for the event. Dæhlie was the 1993 world champion.

Results

Rank Bib Name Country Start Time Deficit 1 Bjørn Dæhlie 0:00 35:48.8 2 Vladimir Smirnov 0:18 36:18.0 8 Silvio Fauner 0:48 37:28.6 6 Mika Myllylä 0:45 37:35.9 4 Mikhail Botvinov 0:38 37:37.8 12 Jari Räsänen 1:11 37:43.7 5 Sture Sivertsen 0:39 37:49.7 17 Johann Mühlegg 1:30 38:11.2 15 Giorgio Vanzetta 1:28 38:11.6 10 3 Marco Albarello 0:22 38:14.1 11 10 Alois Stadlober 1:05 38:37.1 12 20 Alexey Prokourorov 1:35 38:47.8 13 21 Jeremias Wigger 1:35 38:47.9 14 11 Jochen Behle 1:09 39:12.1 15 14 Jan Ottosson 1:27 39:12.4 16 13 Andrey Kirilov 1:21 39:39.7 17 18 Vladimir Legotine 1:32 39:40.1 18 25 Kazunari Sasaki 1:52 39:40.5 19 16 Nikolay Ivanov 1:28 39:50.5 20 22 Patrick Rémy 1:37 40:00.5 21 53 Viatscheslav Plaksunov 2:52 40:15.2 22 29 Fulvio Valbusa 2:06 40:16.3 23 19 Christer Majbäck 1:35 40:22.5 24 26 Luboš Buchta 1:57 40:34.0 25 33 Elmo Kassin 2:20 40:34.9 26 34 Pavel Ryabinin 2:21 40:45.6 27 31 Mitsuo Horigome 2:16 40:47.0 28 47 Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 2:46 41:00.0 29 39 Philippe Sanchez 2:27 41:11.8 30 46 Hans Diethelm 2:43 41:12.4 31 37 Andrey Nevzorov 2:25 41:12.9 32 44 Carles Vicente 2:41 41:13.3 33 45 John Aalberg 2:42 41:13.4 34 43 Ivan Bátory 2:38 41:14.3 35 61 Janko Neuber 3:07 41:19.6 36 65 Pavel Benc 3:18 41:24.1 37 59 Václav Korunka 3:02 41:42.0 38 32 Torald Rein 2:18 41:42.3 39 55 Markus Hasler 2:57 41:45.4 40 35 Jaak Mae 2:22 41:46.0 41 41 Todd Boonstra 2:36 41:47.1 42 40 Hiroyuki Imai 2:28 41:59.8 43 52 Benjamin Husaby 2:51 42:15.9 44 56 Siniša Vukonić 2:57 42:25.3 45 58 Luke Bodensteiner 3:02 42:33.0 46 62 Igor Obukhov 3:09 42:33.5 47 57 Jordi Ribo 3:01 42:47.6 48 38 Ricardas Panavas 2:26 42:52.5 49 50 Daníel Jakobsson 2:49 42:57.0 50 66 Michael Binzer 3:23 42:57.1 51 70 Sergei Dolidovich 3:42 43:10.5 52 49 Dany Bouchard 2:49 43:13.2 53 63 Cédric Vallet 3:10 43:24.5 54 72 Masaaki Kozu 4:00 43:30.1 55 36 Andrus Veerpalu 2:25 43:56.1 56 60 Wilhelm Aschwanden 3:07 43:57.4 57 51 Anthony Evans 2:49 44:02.9 58 71 Martin Petrásek 3:50 44:03.8 59 73 Elemer Tanko 4:10 44:27.1 60 69 Slavtscho Batinkov 3:42 44:27.5 61 64 Ebbe Hartz 3:16 44:32.8 62 80 Zsolt Antal 4:53 44:44.2 63 68 David Belam 3:40 44:57.8 64 76 Stephan Kunz 4:24 44:59.6 65 77 Byung-Chul Park 4:27 45:36.3 66 67 Mark Gray 3:34 45:41.1 67 74 Iskren Plankov 4:19 46:32.5 68 75 Jin-Soo Ahn 4:22 46:56.1 69 78 Rögnvaldur Ingþórsson 4:31 46:56.2 70 81 Petar Zografov 5:29 47:22.2 71 79 Antonio Rački 4:38 48:18.8 72 85 Jānis Hermanis 6:37 50:57.5 73 86 Nikos Anastassiadis 6:40 51:23.9 74 84 Bekim Babic 6:24 53:23.6 42 Urmas Välbe 2:38 82 Nikos Kalofyris 5:57 7 Vegard Ulvang 0:48 9 Harri Kirvesniemi 0:53 23 Jari Isometsä 1:46 24 Thomas Alsgaard 1:47 27 Torgny Mogren 2:01 28 Viktor Kamotski 2:02 30 Niklas Jonsson 2:07 48 Giachem Guidon 2:49 54 Stéphane Azambre 2:54 83 Christos Titas 6:17 87 Mithat Yildrim 8:14 88 Rusiate Rogoyawa 14:10

References

External links Final results (International Ski Federation)