Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay

Men's 4 x 10 kilometre relay at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Soldier Hollow
Dates	19 February
Competitors	60 from 15 nations
Winning time	1:32:45.5
Medalists
Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, Thomas Alsgaard   Italy Fabio Maj, Giorgio Di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Cristian Zorzi   Germany Jens Filbrich, Andreas Schlütter, Tobias Angerer, René Sommerfeldt

The men's 4 x 10 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 17 February at Soldier Hollow.

At Nagano in 1998, the Norwegians beat the Italians by less than one tenth of a second, and in 1994 at Lillehammer the Italians beat the Norwegians by less than one tenth of a second. In the previous three Olympics, the winning team beat the silver medalists by a cumulative time of just under one tenth of a second.

Results

Each team used four skiers, with each completing racing over the same 10 kilometre circuit. The first two raced in the classical style, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle.

Rank	Team	Time
1	Norway Anders Aukland Frode Estil Kristen Skjeldal Thomas Alsgaard	1:32:45.5
2	Italy Fabio Maj Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	1:32:45.8
3	Germany Jens Filbrich Andreas Schlütter Tobias Angerer René Sommerfeldt	1:33:34.5
4	Austria Alexander Marent Mikhail Botvinov Gerhard Urain Christian Hoffmann	1:34:04.9
5	United States John Bauer Kris Freeman Justin Wadsworth Carl Swenson	1:34:05.5
6	Russia Sergei Novikov Mikhail Ivanov Vitaly Denisov Nikolay Bolshakov	1:34:50.1
7	Czech Republic Martin Koukal Jiří Magál Lukáš Bauer Petr Michl	1:35:31.3
8	France Alexandre Rousselet Christophe Perrillat Vincent Vittoz Emmanuel Jonnier	1:35:50.8
9	Estonia Raul Olle Andrus Veerpalu Jaak Mae Meelis Aasmäe	1:36:07.0
10	Switzerland Wilhelm Aschwanden Reto Burgermeister Patrick Mächler Gion-Andrea Bundi	1:37:26.4
11	Finland Kuisma Taipale Karri Hietamäki Teemu Kattilakoski Sami Repo	1:37:41.8
12	Japan Masaaki Kozu Hiroyuki Imai Mitsuo Horigome Katsuhito Ebisawa	1:37:50.5
13	Sweden Urban Lindgren Mathias Fredriksson Niklas Jonsson Morgan Göransson	1:37:59.5
14	Kazakhstan Andrey Golovko Pavel Ryabinin Nikolay Chebotko Andrey Nevzorov	1:38:20.8
15	Belarus Roman Virolainen Nikolay Semenyako Aleksandr Sannikov Sergey Dolidovich	1:42:12.0

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