Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's sprint explained

Event:	Men’s sprint
Games:	2022 Winter
Venue:	Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center, Zhangjiakou
Date:	8 February
Competitors:	88
Nations:	44
Gold:	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo
Goldnoc:	NOR
Silver:	Federico Pellegrino
Silvernoc:	ITA
Bronze:	Alexander Terentyev
Bronzenoc:	ROC
Prev:	2018
Next:	2026

The men’s sprint competition in cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 8 February, at the Kuyangshu Nordic Center and Biathlon Center in Zhangjiakou.^[1] The event was won by Johannes Høsflot Klæbo of Norway, who defended his 2018 title. The 2018 silver medalist, Federico Pellegrino, won the silver medal again. Alexander Terentyev, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, won the bronze medal. This was his first Olympic medal.

Summary

The 2018 bronze medalist Alexander Bolshunov, qualified for the Olympics, but did not start as he focused on distance events. The overall leader of the 2021–22 FIS Cross-Country World Cup before the Olympics, as well as the sprint leader, was Klæbo. He was the 2021 World Champion in individual sprint.

Qualification

See main article: Cross-country skiing at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification.

Results

Qualifying

The qualifying was held at 16:45.^[2]

Rank	Bib	Time	Deficit	Note
1	16	2:45.03		Q
2	28	2:46.51	+1.48	Q
3	22	2:46.74	+1.71	Q
4	10	2:47.93	+2.90	Q
5	3	2:48.91	+3.88	Q
6	12	2:49.55	+4.52	Q
7	18	2:49.93	+4.90	Q
8	45	2:50.61	+5.58	Q
9	41	2:50.65	+5.62	Q
10	35	2:50.90	+5.87	Q
11	30	2:50.91	+5.88	Q
12	14	2:50.92	+5.89	Q
13	6	2:51.15	+6.12	Q
14	26	2:51.52	+6.49	Q
15	24	2:51.56	+6.53	Q
16	34	2:51.86	+6.83	Q
17	37	2:52.07	+7.04	Q
18	4	2:52.14	+7.11	Q
19	32	2:52.21	+7.18	Q
20	8	2:52.47	+7.44	Q
21	36	2:52.49	+7.46	Q
22	42	2:52.50	+7.47	Q
23	44	2:52.83	+7.80	Q
24	2	2:53.17	+8.14	Q
25	17	2:53.58	+8.55	Q
26	25	2:53.61	+8.58	Q
27	38	2:53.71	+8.68	Q
28	53	2:53.98	+8.95	Q
29	29	2:54.09	+9.06	Q
30	11	2:54.44	+9.41	Q
31	46	2:54.57	+9.54
32	48	2:54.64	+9.61
33	33	2:55.03	+10.00
34	23	2:55.04	+10.01
35	40	2:55.56	+10.53
36	43	2:55.60	+10.57
37	52	2:55.76	+10.73
38	5	2:56.01	+10.98
39	21	2:56.58	+11.55
40	39	2:56.72	+11.69
41	51	2:57.15	+12.12
42	47	2:57.39	+12.36
43	19	2:58.07	+13.04
44	31	2:58.14	+13.11
45	13	2:58.95	+13.92
46	60	2:59.34	+14.31
47	63	2:59.85	+14.82
48	49	3:00.07	+15.04
49	54	3:01.28	+16.25
50	55	3:01.57	+16.54
51	27	3:02.04	+17.01
52	57	3:02.12	+17.09
53	9	3:02.17	+17.14
54	56	3:02.26	+17.23
55	75	3:02.52	+17.49
56	1	3:02.59	+17.56
57	66	3:02.60	+17.57
58	50	3:02.73	+17.70
59	70	3:03.05	+18.02
60	73	3:03.22	+18.19
61	80	3:04.44	+19.41
62	64	3:04.52	+19.49
63	62	3:04.81	+19.78
64	58	3:05.52	+20.49
65	67	3:05.98	+20.95
66	65	3:06.31	+21.28
67	59	3:06.52	+21.49
68	72	3:06.76	+21.73
69	69	3:06.86	+21.83
70	82	3:07.41	+22.38
71	78	3:08.64	+23.61
72	71	3:09.43	+24.40
73	68	3:09.57	+24.54
74	15	3:09.95	+24.92
74	74	3:09.95	+24.92
76	76	3:10.66	+25.63
77	83	3:11.60	+26.57
78	61	3:11.95	+26.92
79	79	3:12.14	+27.11
80	77	3:15.96	+30.93
81	81	3:16.15	+31.12
82	89	3:19.76	+34.73
83	86	3:20.87	+35.84
84	88	3:24.12	+39.09
85	84	3:26.12	+41.09
86	87	3:29.13	+44.10
87	85	3:47.73
88	90	4:08.66
	7
	20

Quarterfinals

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	3	2:51.57		Q
2	2	2:51.94	+0.37	Q
3	17	2:52.26	+0.69	LL
4	19	2:53.00	+1.43	LL
5	27	2:53.35	+1.78
6	16	3:35.80	+44.23

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	6	2:53.08		Q
2	1	2:53.43	+0.35	Q
3	18	2:53.71	+0.63
4	24	2:54.12	+1.04
5	21	2:55.36	+2.28
6	25	2:56.09	+3.01

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	4	2:57.92		Q
2	7	2:57.93	+0.01	Q
3	8	2:58.01	+0.09
4	22	2:58.54	+0.62
5	30	2:59.14	+1.22
6	29	3:01.83	+3.91

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	15	2:49.31		Q
2	10	2:50.37	+1.06	Q
3	11	2:54.64	+5.33
4	28	3:06.63	+17.32
5	14	3:14.81	+25.50
	5	Disqualified

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	23	2:57.59		Q
2	12	2:57.93	+0.34	Q
3	13	2:58.13	+0.54
4	26	2:58.56	+0.97
5	20	2:58.87	+1.28
6	9	3:10.62	+13.03

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	6	2:52.17		Q
2	3	2:52.23	+0.06	Q
3	4	2:52.31	+0.14
4	2	2:52.35	+0.18
5	1	2:52.92	+0.75
6	19	2:53.41	+1.24

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit	Notes
1	12	2:50.67		Q
2	23	2:51.10	+0.43	Q
3	17	2:51.22	+0.55	LL
4	10	2:51.50	+0.83	LL
5	7	2:52.46	+1.79
6	15	3:13.28	+22.61

Final

The final was held at 20:11.^[3]

Rank	Seed	Time	Deficit
	3	2:58.06
	6	2:58.32	+0.26
	12	2:59.37	+1.31
4	23	3:00.18	+2.12
5	10	3:01.65	+3.59
6	17	3:04.23	+6.17

Notes and References

Web site: Archived copy . 2021-08-22 . 2022-02-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220204210432/https://new.inews.gtimg.com/tnews/f98bcfd4/9e07/f98bcfd4-9e07-4ca4-af18-80d0c86109c4.pdf . dead .
Web site: Qualification results. Data.fis-ski.com. 19 February 2022.
Web site: Final results. Data.fis-ski.com. 19 February 2022.