The men's 15 kilometre classical competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou. The event was won by Iivo Niskanen of Finland. Alexander Bolshunov, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won silver, and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway became the bronze medalist.
Summary The 15 km distance event alternates between the Olympics, and in 2018 it was the freestyle event. The defending champion was Dario Cologna, who won this distance three times in a row (in 2010, 2014, and 2018), as well as 30k skiathlon in 2014. He finished in the 44th position. The silver medalist Simen Hegstad Krüger qualified for the Olympics but tested positive for COVID just before the games and was not able to start. The bronze medalist Denis Spitsov qualified as well, but did not start either. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics was Klæbo, and the distance leader was Bolshunov. The season was dominated by the Norwegians and Russians, who together took 20 podium places in distance events out of 24, and three more podium places were taken by Niskanen. Hans Christer Holund was the 2021 World Champion in 15 km freestyle.
Niskanen was consistently leading for the whole distance. Klæbo started the first of the three eventual medalists, but Niskanen was 37.5 seconds faster. Bolshunov, who started after Niskanen, was consistently second.
Qualification
Results Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 64 Iivo Niskanen 37:54.8 70 Alexander Bolshunov 38:18.0 42 Johannes Høsflot Klæbo 38:32.3 4 46 Hans Christer Holund 38:44.6 5 68 Aleksey Chervotkin 38:51.7 6 36 Perttu Hyvärinen 39:00.2 +1:05.4 7 62 Hugo Lapalus 39:09.6 +1:14.8 8 39 Jens Burman 39:26.8 +1:32.0 9 60 Ilia Semikov 39:34.7 +1:39.9 10 33 William Poromaa 39:42.5 +1:47.7 11 44 Pål Golberg 39:47.4 +1:52.6 12 38 Maurice Manificat 39:49.7 +1:54.9 13 66 Ivan Yakimushkin 39:52.6 +1:57.8 14 24 Thomas Maloney Westgård 40:01.5 +2:06.7 15 58 Erik Valnes 40:06.8 +2:12.0 16 50 Jonas Baumann 40:09.7 +2:14.9 17 48 Lucas Bögl 40:13.9 +2:19.1 18 56 Francesco De Fabiani 40:16.4 +2:21.6 19 37 Jonas Dobler 40:21.0 +2:26.2 20 26 Janosch Brugger 40:24.5 +2:29.7 21 29 Johan Häggström 40:30.9 +2:36.1 22 25 Giandomenico Salvadori 40:33.2 +2:38.4 23 15 Mika Vermeulen 40:37.8 +2:43.0 24 31 Irineu Esteve Altimiras 40:39.4 +2:44.6 25 23 Vitaliy Pukhkalo 40:39.6 +2:44.8 26 35 Calle Halfvarsson 40:46.8 +2:52.0 27 16 Dominik Bury 40:48.4 +2:53.6 28 32 Ristomatti Hakola 40:49.6 +2:54.8 29 5 Olivier Léveillé 40:52.0 +2:57.2 30 20 Paul Pepene 40:52.7 +2:57.9 31 10 Adam Fellner 41:01.0 +3:06.2 32 14 Albert Kuchler 41:07.1 +3:12.3 33 7 Rémi Drolet 41:07.7 +3:12.9 34 22 Paolo Ventura 41:12.2 +3:17.4 35 63 Alvar Johannes Alev 41:12.5 +3:17.7 36 11 Snorri Einarsson 41:17.6 +3:22.8 37 19 Antoine Cyr 41:17.7 +3:22.9 38 27 Scott Patterson 41:23.1 +3:28.3 39 21 Imanol Rojo 41:24.2 +3:29.4 40 6 Yevgeniy Velichko 41:27.3 +3:32.5 41 4 Shang Jincai 41:29.6 +3:34.8 42 1 Ben Ogden 41:29.8 +3:35.0 43 9 Ryo Hirose 41:30.5 +3:35.7 44 40 Dario Cologna 41:39.9 +3:45.1 45 12 Remi Lindholm 41:40.0 +3:45.2 46 52 Andrew Musgrave 41:44.7 +3:49.9 47 49 Liu Rongsheng 41:51.7 +3:56.9 48 34 Gus Schumacher 41:53.4 +3:58.6 49 17 Richard Jouve 41:56.6 +4:01.8 50 54 Michal Novák 42:06.6 +4:11.8 51 30 Andrew Young 42:24.0 +4:29.2 52 61 Maicol Rastelli 42:25.4 +4:30.6 53 28 Jason Rüesch 42:29.8 +4:35.0 54 13 Petr Knop 42:34.4 +4:39.6 55 2 Miha Ličef 42:43.4 +4:48.6 56 65 Martin Himma 42:44.4 +4:49.6 57 43 Hadesi Badelihan 42:48.1 +4:53.3 58 72 Peter Mlynár 42:49.9 +4:55.1 59 79 Thibaut de Marre 42:56.7 +5:01.9 60 55 Mateusz Haratyk 43:00.3 +5:05.5 61 59 Mikayel Mikayelyan 43:09.1 +5:14.3 62 8 Raimo Vīgants 43:10.9 +5:16.1 63 73 Ciren Zhandui 43:22.2 +5:27.4 64 67 Raul Popa 43:25.3 +5:30.5 65 90 Batmönkhiin Achbadrakh 43:29.9 +5:35.1 66 69 JC Schoonmaker 43:31.6 +5:36.8 67 18 Hiroyuki Miyazawa 43:47.5 +5:52.7 68 87 Yahor Shpuntau 44:05.2 +6:10.4 69 76 Vili Črv 44:12.9 +6:18.1 70 77 Henri Roos 44:17.8 +6:23.0 71 74 Miha Šimenc 44:20.8 +6:26.0 72 81 Seve de Campo 44:21.2 +6:26.4 73 86 Mark Chanloung 44:27.0 +6:32.2 74 75 Roberts Slotiņš 44:44.8 +6:50.0 75 78 Phillip Bellingham 44:46.8 +6:52.0 76 89 Lars Young Vik 44:50.6 +6:55.8 77 71 Oleksiy Krasovsky 44:59.8 +7:05.0 78 47 Ruslan Perekhoda 45:05.6 +7:10.8 79 45 Kim Min-woo 45:21.6 +7:26.8 80 80 Ádám Kónya 45:48.9 +7:54.1 81 92 Hugo Hinckfuss 46:05.9 +8:11.1 82 41 Jeong Jong-won 46:34.6 +8:39.8 83 82 Tautvydas Strolia 46:53.1 +8:58.3 84 96 Danial Saveh Shemshaki 47:26.0 +9:31.2 85 85 Marko Skender 48:30.8 +10:36.0 86 84 Franco Dal Farra 48:35.5 +10:40.7 87 53 Strahinja Erić 48:38.3 +10:43.5 88 98 José Cabeça 49:12.0 +11:17.2 89 94 Timo Juhani Grönlund 49:27.0 +11:32.2 90 83 Manex Silva 50:35.1 +12:40.3 91 88 Yonathan Jesús Fernández 50:36.6 +12:41.8 92 91 Elie Tawk 51:46.5 +13:51.7 93 93 Aleksandar Grbović 52:44.9 +14:50.1 94 99 Jonathan Soto 53:30.0 +15:35.2 95 97 Carlos Quintana 55:41.9 +17:47.1 51 Yusuf Emre Fırat 95 Samuel Ikpefan 3 Jan Pechoušek 57 Aliaksandr Voranau
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