Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre pursuit

The pursuit in this format had been skied three times at the Nordic skiing World Championships, and Frenchman Vincent Vittoz was the reigning World Champion. A pursuit event similar to this was skied at the 2002 Winter Olympics, where the gold was shared between Thomas Alsgaard (retired by 2006) and Frode Estil, but the 2002 event 2002 event was a 20 kilometre pursuit, not 30.

The event opened dramatically as Estil fell at the start, causing a mass collision. Then the pack kept together almost until the end, with skiers continually trailing off as they could not keep up with the pace. Eventually, five men came into the finishing straight together, after Anders Södergren of Sweden had tried to pull away on the final lap. However, Södergren could not keep up with the pace, and Russian Yevgeny Dementyev pulled away to defeat Estil and win Russia's first gold medal of the Games.

The pursuit consisted of a 15 kilometre section raced in the classical style, followed by a 15 kilometre portion raced freestyle. In between the sections, each skier took time (approximately 30 seconds) to 'pit', changing their skis.[2] Martin Tauber, an Austrian skier, originally placed 17th, but was disqualified after the IOC declared him permanently ineligible for doping-related violations.[3]

The race was started at 13:45.[4]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	15 km classic	Rank	Pitstop	15 km free	Rank	Finish time	Deficit
	13	Yevgeny Dementyev	Russia	39:57.9	29	30.9	36:31.9	1	1:17:00.8
	4	Frode Estil	Norway	39:50.0	13	28.6	36:42.7	2	1:17:01.4	+0.6
	3	Pietro Piller Cottrer	Italy	39:46.6	3	27.1	36:47.9	9	1:17:01.7	+0.9
4	10	Giorgio Di Centa	Italy	39:48.4	10	27.6	36:47.1	7	1:17:03.2	+2.4
5	8	Anders Södergren	Sweden	39:48.3	9	27.5	36:48.5	10	1:17:04.3	+3.5
6	2	Vincent Vittoz	France	39:53.6	21	29.5	36:44.3	4	1:17:07.5	+6.7
7	20	Mikhail Botvinov	Austria	39:51.5	17	30.1	36:46.8	6	1:17:08.5	+7.7
8	19	Martin Bajčičák	Slovakia	39:55.4	26	28.8	36:44.3	4	1:17:08.7	+7.9
9	37	Maxim Odnodvortsev	Kazakhstan	39:51.7	18	30.6	36:47.2	8	1:17:09.6	+8.8
10	7	Lukáš Bauer	Czech Republic	39:46.3	1	30.1	36:53.5	11	1:17:10.1	+9.3
11	21	Markus Hasler	Liechtenstein	39:55.9	27	31.0	36:43.9	3	1:17:10.9	+10.1
12	1	Tobias Angerer	Germany	39:47.2	6	28.6	36:56.5	13	1:17:12.5	+11.7
13	23	Ivan Babikov	Russia	39:49.5	12	31.6	36:56.0	12	1:17:17.2	+16.4
14	16	Jiří Magál	Czech Republic	39:51.0	16	30.8	36:59.8	15	1:17:21.7	+20.9
15	6	Mathias Fredriksson	Sweden	39:50.3	14	27.8	37:04.9	16	1:17:23.1	+22.3
16	18	Fabio Santus	Italy	39:47.8	8	38.2	36:59.4	14	1:17:25.5	+24.7
17	25	Tord Asle Gjerdalen	Norway	39:53.6	21	29.2	37:13.2	17	1:17:36.2	+35.4
18	15	Valerio Checchi	Italy	39:49.2	11	32.0	37:16.5	18	1:17:37.8	+37.0
19	48	Kaspar Kokk	Estonia	39:59.0	31	28.6	37:23.2	19	1:17:50.8	+50.0
20	17	Sami Jauhojärvi	Finland	39:52.2	19	29.9	37:35.8	20	1:17:58.1	+57.3
21	27	Martin Koukal	Czech Republic	39:54.4	23	31.2	37:43.9	21	1:18:09.6	+1:08.8
22	9	Jens Filbrich	Germany	39:46.9	4	28.0	38:23.1	23	1:18:38.2	+1:37.4
23	26	Johan Olsson	Sweden	39:55.2	25	31.8	38:20.8	22	1:18:47.9	+1:47.1
24	41	Ivan Bátory	Slovakia	39:47.1	5	29.2	38:41.8	26	1:18:58.2	+1:57.4
25	44	George Grey	Canada	39:57.4	28	30.5	38:40.8	25	1:19:08.9	+2:08.1
26	14	Alexandre Rousselet	France	39:53.1	20	32.5	38:51.2	27	1:19:17.0	+2:16.2
27	28	Jan Egil Andresen	Norway	39:59.3	32	30.1	39:00.3	29	1:19:29.8	+2:29.0
28	24	Anders Aukland	Norway	39:46.5	2	30.6	39:13.3	37	1:19:30.6	+2:29.8
29	50	Andrey Golovko	Kazakhstan	39:47.4	7	35.1	39:11.6	33	1:19:34.3	+2:33.5
30	35	Jörgen Brink	Sweden	39:50.5	15	32.9	39:11.7	35	1:19:35.3	+2:34.5
31	47	Vicente Vilarrubla	Spain	39:54.9	24	33.3	39:11.5	32	1:19:39.8	+2:39.0
32	51	Aivar Rehemaa	Estonia	39:58.6	30	32.3	39:20.3	38	1:19:51.4	+2:50.6
33	29	Tero Similä	Finland	39:59.8	33	33.0	39:31.7	42	1:20:04.5	+3:03.7
34	22	Christophe Perrillat	France	41:05.9	40	31.9	38:34.1	24	1:20:12.0	+3:11.2
35	34	Milan Šperl	Czech Republic	40:54.6	39	30.4	38:51.6	28	1:20:16.7	+3:15.9
36	38	Remo Fischer	Switzerland	40:47.6	35	30.9	39:01.2	30	1:20:19.7	+3:18.9
37	33	Alexander Legkov	Russia	40:49.2	36	32.3	39:06.7	31	1:20:28.2	+3:27.4
38	46	Dan Roycroft	Canada	40:52.5	38	32.3	39:28.5	41	1:20:53.3	+3:52.5
39	42	Carl Swenson	United States	41:25.6	47	30.0	39:12.3	36	1:21:08.0	+4:07.2
40	32	Toni Livers	Switzerland	41:26.2	48	30.4	39:11.6	33	1:21:08.2	+4:07.4
41	30	Katsuhito Ebisawa	Japan	41:25.2	46	28.6	39:22.3	40	1:21:16.2	+4:15.4
42	45	Andrew Johnson	United States	41:22.6	42	33.6	39:20.6	39	1:21:16.8	+4:16.0
43	54	James Southam	United States	41:56.8	51	33.6	39:35.3	44	1:22:05.8	+5:05.0
44	52	Dmitrij Eremenko	Kazakhstan	40:50.3	37	32.6	40:46.8	53	1:22:09.9	+5:09.1
45	55	Nejc Brodar	Slovenia	41:23.9	43	31.3	40:28.6	50	1:22:23.9	+5:23.1
46	57	Mikhail Gumenyak	Ukraine	42:02.4	52	38.4	39:43.7	46	1:22:24.6	+5:23.8
47	63	Zsolt Antal	Romania	42:20.5	56	29.6	39:39.6	45	1:22:29.8	+5:29.0
48	53	Lars Flora	United States	41:06.5	41	32.1	40:52.5	54	1:22:31.2	+5:30.4
49	40	Roman Leybyuk	Ukraine	41:24.4	44	30.5	40:36.5	52	1:22:31.5	+5:30.7
50	65	Xia Wan	China	41:47.4	50	35.1	40:09.1	47	1:22:31.7	+5:30.9
51	56	Ivan Arteev	Russia	41:35.2	49	37.6	40:23.3	49	1:22:36.2	+5:35.4
52	62	Olexandr Putsko	Ukraine	42:31.1	57	32.5	39:33.8	43	1:22:37.6	+5:36.8
53	60	Michal Malák	Slovakia	42:03.1	53	34.9	41:01.9	56	1:23:39.9	+6:39.1
54	39	Diego Ruiz	Spain	43:23.4	65	32.3	40:09.7	48	1:24:05.5	+7:04.7
55	59	Joze Mehle	Slovenia	43:00.7	62	44.1	40:28.7	51	1:24:13.6	+7:12.8
56	61	Drew Goldsack	Canada	42:46.3	59	30.9	40:57.1	55	1:24:14.3	+7:13.5
57	64	Oleksandr Batiuk	Ukraine	42:53.4	61	39.7	41:02.7	57	1:24:35.9	+7:35.1
58	49	Nobu Naruse	Japan	42:52.0	60	28.6	42:00.6	58	1:25:21.3	+8:20.5
59	31	Reto Burgermeister	Switzerland	42:05.2	54	28.9	43:15.8	63	1:25:49.9	+8:49.1
60	66	Andrey Kondroschev	Kazakhstan	43:03.2	63	40.1	42:08.0	59	1:25:51.4	+8:50.6
61	58	Chris Jeffries	Canada	43:18.9	64	35.0	42:23.0	61	1:26:17.0	+9:16.2
62	72	Ren Long	China	42:35.2	58	1:13.7	42:37.3	62	1:26:26.4	+9:25.6
63	75	Mihai Galiceanu	Romania	43:35.7	68	37.3	42:18.7	60	1:26:31.8	+9:31.0
64	68	Denis Klobucar	Croatia	42:10.8	55	33.1	44:32.3	65	1:27:16.4	+10:15.6
65	74	Sebahattin Oğlago	Turkey	43:43.0	70	40.3	43:40.4	64	1:28:03.8	+11:03.0
	5	René Sommerfeldt	Germany	40:05.1	35	28.9	Did not finish
	11	Emmanuel Jonnier	France	41:25.0	46	31.4
	36	Shunsuke Komamura	Japan	Did not finish
	67	Park Byeong-ju	South Korea	43:35.1	68	38.6
	69	Han Dawei	China	45:41.8	72	34.8
	70	Choi Im-heon	South Korea	Did not finish
	71	Li Zhiguang	China	43:26.9	67	37.6
	73	Jung Eui-myung	South Korea	46:23.2	73	35.3
	76	Francesc Soulie	Andorra	45:19.0	71	36.1
	77	Ivan Bariakov	Bulgaria	48:44.5	74
	43	Olli Ohtonen	Finland	Did not start
	12	Martin Tauber	Austria	Disqualified					1:17:28.6	+27.8