Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre freestyle

Men's 50 kilometre freestyle

at the XXII Olympic Winter Games

Venue

Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex

Dates

23 February

Competitors

64 from 25 nations

Winning time

1:46:55.2

Medalists

	Alexander Legkov	Russia
	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Russia
	Ilia Chernousov	Russia

Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics
Distance
Classical	men	women
Skiathlon	men	women
Mass start	men	women
Relay	men	women
Sprint
Individual	men	women
Team	men	women

The men's 50 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 23 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex.^[1] The podium was taken by Alexander Legkov (gold), Maxim Vylegzhanin (silver), and Ilia Chernousov (bronze), all represented Russia. This was the first clean sweep in men's cross-country skiing since 1992, when all medals were won by Norwegians and the first ever for Russia/Soviet Union. For all medalists, this was the first individual Olympic medal.

Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points (the A standard) were allowed to compete in both or one of the event (sprint/distance). An athlete with a maximum 120 FIS sprint points were allowed to compete in the sprint event and 10 km for women or 15 km for men provided their distance points do not exceed 300 FIS points. NOC's who did not have any athlete meeting the A standard can enter one competitor of each sex (known as the basic quota) in only 10 km classical event for women or 15 km classical event for men. They must have a maximum of 300 FIS distance points at the end of qualifying on 20 January 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.^[2]

Results

The race was started at 11:00.^[3]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
01 !	3	Alexander Legkov	Russia	1:46:55.2	—
02 !	7	Maxim Vylegzhanin	Russia	1:46:55.9	+0.7
03 !	8	Ilia Chernousov	Russia	1:46:56.0	+0.8
04 !4	1	Martin Johnsrud Sundby	Norway	1:46:56.2	+1.0
05 !5	40	Sergei Dolidovich	Belarus	1:47:09.5	+14.3
06 !6	10	Robin Duvillard	France	1:47:10.1	+14.9
07 !7	21	Anders Södergren	Sweden	1:47:13.0	+17.8
08 !8	12	Daniel Richardsson	Sweden	1:47:19.6	+24.4
09 !9	19	Johan Olsson	Sweden	1:47:27.3	+32.1
10	42	Iivo Niskanen	Finland	1:47:27.5	+32.3
11	20	Roland Clara	Italy	1:47:28.6	+33.4
12	27	Curdin Perl	Switzerland	1:47:31.3	+36.1
13	30	Ivan Perrillat Boiteux	France	1:47:31.7	+36.5
14	43	Martin Bajčičák	Slovakia	1:47:34.4	+39.2
15	13	Matti Heikkinen	Finland	1:47:35.0	+39.8
16	49	David Hofer	Italy	1:47:35.7	+40.5
17	29	Michail Semenov	Belarus	1:47:36.0	+40.8
18	5	Petter Northug	Norway	1:47:39.7	+44.5
19	4	Alex Harvey	Canada	1:47:40.9	+45.7
20	14	Ivan Babikov	Canada	1:47:41.8	+46.6
21	17	Tord Asle Gjerdalen	Norway	1:47:43.5	+48.3
22	36	Remo Fischer	Switzerland	1:47:44.2	+49.0
23	25	Lari Lehtonen	Finland	1:47:48.7	+53.5
24	45	Bernhard Tritscher	Austria	1:47:51.7	+56.5
25	33	Francesco de Fabiani	Italy	1:47:51.8	+56.6
26	22	Noah Hoffman	United States	1:48:04.3	+1:09.1
27	18	Dario Cologna	Switzerland	1:48:21.6	+1:26.4
28	38	Graeme Killick	Canada	1:48:22.4	+1:27.2
29	28	Petr Novák	Czech Republic	1:48:41.0	+1:45.8
30	35	Toni Livers	Switzerland	1:48:49.9	+1:54.7
31	16	Lukáš Bauer	Czech Republic	1:48:51.3	+1:56.1
32	2	Chris Jespersen	Norway	1:49:21.3	+2:26.1
33	50	Imanol Rojo	Spain	1:49:21.9	+2:26.7
34	48	Mark Starostin	Kazakhstan	1:49:34.1	+2:38.9
35	11	Jean-Marc Gaillard	France	1:49:49.7	+2:54.5
36	15	Thomas Bing	Germany	1:49:56.1	+3:00.9
37	26	Martin Jakš	Czech Republic	1:50:00.5	+3:05.3
38	23	Konstantin Glavatskikh	Russia	1:50:33.4	+3:38.2
39	24	Axel Teichmann	Germany	1:51:03.4	+4:08.2
40	62	Arnd Peiffer	Germany	1:51:31.5	+4:36.3
41	60	Andrey Gridin	Bulgaria	1:51:41.7	+4:46.5
42	56	Erik Lesser	Germany	1:51:55.8	+5:00.6
43	9	Maurice Manificat	France	1:52:01.6	+5:06.4
44	41	Aivar Rehemaa	Estonia	1:52:22.1	+5:26.9
45	61	Martin Møller	Denmark	1:52:32.7	+5:37.5
46	52	Aliaksei Ivanou	Belarus	1:52:52.9	+5:57.7
47	51	Javier Gutiérrez Cuevas	Spain	1:53:02.5	+6:07.3
48	54	Yerdos Akhmadiyev	Kazakhstan	1:53:07.4	+6:12.2
49	53	Karel Tammjärv	Estonia	1:53:23.0	+6:27.8
50	55	Milanko Petrović	Serbia	1:53:35.1	+6:39.9
51	39	Brian Gregg	United States	1:55:02.3	+8:07.1
52	32	Jiří Magál	Czech Republic	1:56:28.7	+9:33.5
53	44	Andrew Musgrave	Great Britain	1:57:08.9	+10:13.7
54	47	Sergey Cherepanov	Kazakhstan	1:57:24.2	+10:29.0
55	34	Yevgeniy Velichko	Kazakhstan	1:58:10.6	+11:15.4
56	46	Jesse Cockney	Canada	1:59:16.6	+12:21.4
57	31	Kris Freeman	United States	1:59:46.7	+12:51.5
58	58	Edi Dadić	Croatia	2:02:35.5	+15:40.3
59	63	Arvis Liepiņš	Latvia	2:04:45.6	+17:50.4
60	64	Xu Wenlong	China	2:08:02.0	+21:06.8
99 !	66	Darko Damjanovski	Macedonia	9:59:59.99 !DNF	+9:59.99 !DNF
99 !	37	Veselin Tzinzov	Bulgaria	9:59:59.99 !DNF	+9:59.99 !DNF
99 !	65	Mladen Plakalović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9:59:59.99 !DNF	+9:59.99 !DNF
99 !	59	Martti Jylhä	Finland	9:59:59.99 !DNF	+9:59.99 !DNF
99 !	6	Johannes Dürr	Austria	9:59:59.99 !DNS	+9:59.99 !DNS
99 !	57	Torin Koos	United States	9:59:59.99 !DNS	+9:59.99 !DNS

References

↑ "Cross-country Skiing Schedule and Results". SOOC. Retrieved 11 January 2014.
↑ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Ski Federation. December 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
↑ Final Results

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