FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's team sprint explained

Event:	Men's team sprint
Championship:	FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011
Venue:	Holmenkollen National Arena
Date:	2 March 2011
Competitors:	46
Nations:	23
Teams:	23
Win Value:	19:10.0
Gold:	Devon Kershaw Alex Harvey
Goldnoc:	CAN
Silver:	Petter Northug Ola Vigen Hattestad
Silvernoc:	NOR
Bronze:	Alexander Panzhinskiy Nikita Kryukov
Bronzenoc:	RUS
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The Men's team sprint took place on 2 March 2011. Sprint qualifying at 12:00 CET and finals at 14:15 CET. The defending world champions were Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad and Johan Kjølstad while the defending Olympic champion were Norway's Øystein Pettersen and Petter Northug.^{[1] [2]}

Results

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athletes	Time	Note
1	1	1			19:18.7	Q
2	1	3			19:19.3	Q
3	1	7			19:19.6	Q
4	1	5			19:20.6	q
5	1	2			19:38.0	q
6	1	11			20:19.4
7	1	9			20:19.8
8	1	4			20:28.9
9	1	6			20:41.4
10	1	13			20:52.1
11	1	8			20:53.3
12	1	10			21:17.9
	1	12

Semifinal 2

Rank	Heat	Bib	Country	Athletes	Time	Note
1	2	15			19:39.5	Q
2	2	14			19:39.5	Q
3	2	20			19:39.7	Q
4	2	19			19:41.4	q
5	2	17			19:43.9	q
6	2	21			19:51.8
7	2	16			19:51.8
8	2	18			20:08.0
9	2	22			20:33.6
10	2	24			20:44.5
11	2	23			20:57.3
12	2	25			22:37.4
	2	26

Final

Rank	Bib	Country	Athlete	Time	Deficit
	3			19:10.0
	14			19:10.2	+0.2
	15			19:10.5	+0.5
	7			19:10.9	+0.9
	5			19:11.1	+1.1
	20			19:21.5	+11.5
	1			19:22.0	+12.0
	19			19:32.4	+22.4
	2			19:39.1	+29.1
10	17			20:01.6	+51.6

Notes and References

1. Web site: FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 men's team sprint results.. FIS-Ski.com. 25 February 2009. https://web.archive.org/web/20090318014535/http://www.fis-ski.com/pdf/2009/CC/2249/2009CC2249RL.pdf. 18 March 2009. dead.
2. http://www.fis-ski.com/pdf/2010/CC/2413/2010CC2413RL.pdf 2010 Winter Olympics 22 February 2010 Cross-country skiing men's team sprint results.