Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay
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The men's 4 × 10 km relay, a part of the cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing at the 1994 Winter Olympics
-10 km:17 February 1994-15 km pursuit:19 February 1994-30 km:14 February 1994-50 km:27 February 1994-4 x 10 km relay:22 February 1994...

 at the 1994 Winter Olympics
1994 Winter Olympics
The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event celebrated from 12 to 27 February 1994 in and around Lillehammer, Norway. Lillehammer failed to win the bid for the 1992 event. Lillehammer was awarded the games in 1988, after having beat...

, took place on 22 February at Birkebeineren Ski Stadium in Lillehammer
Lillehammer
is a town and municipality in Oppland county, Norway, globally known for hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of Gudbrandsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Lillehammer. As of May 2011, the population of the town of Lillehammer was...

, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. The race saw Italy beat Norway by 0.4 seconds on the finish line, with Finland finishing third. The three had followed each other closely through the first three rounds, but in the fourth heat, Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner is an Italian former cross country skier who competed from 1988. His best known victory was part of the 4 × 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

 and Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Erlend Dæhlie is a Norwegian businessman and retired cross-country skier. With 8 olympic gold medals, Dæhlie is the most winning winter olympic champion of all time. With nine gold medals in the Nord World Ski Championships he is in addition the most winning World Champion skier...

 managed to break with Jari Isometsä
Jari Isometsä
Jari Olavi Isometsä is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2006...

. The event was the most spectated of any in the games, with an estimated 100,000 spectators at the stadium and along the tracks.

The event was the most spectated of any event of the games, with 203,000 people having applied for the 31,000 seats at the stadium. In addition, some 75,000 extra spectators watched from the track-side.

Race

After the start at 10:30, Sture Sivertsen of Norway was the fastest and was in lead when leaving the stadium. After a few kilometers, Sture Sivertsen, Norway, Mika Myllylä
Mika Myllylä
Mika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold , one silver , and four bronzes .Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the...

 of Finland, Jan Ottosson
Jan Ottosson
Jan Bo Ottosson is a former Swedish Cross-country skier. A national team skier, he also represented Åsarna IK during the 1980s and early 1990s. He won two gold medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics , providing some of the most iconic and impressive legs of Swedish Olympic history...

 of Sweden and Maurilio De Zolt
Maurilio De Zolt
Maurilio De Zolt is an Italian cross country skier who competed from 1980 to 1997. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, when he was 43 years old...

 of Italy had broken away from the rest of the teams. Sivertsen was in lead for four kilometers, after which he let Mika Myllylä
Mika Myllylä
Mika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold , one silver , and four bronzes .Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the...

 of Finland pull when the group was approaching the stadium. At half-distance through the stadium, Sivertsen and Myllylä had gained a small gap on the other two. Sivertsen regained the lead in the hill leading from the stadium, and was followed closely by Myllylä. By seven kilometers, de Zolt had fallen slightly behind, while Ottosson stiffened and was not able to keep up with the other three. At the first change, Sivertsen and Myllylä were even, while de Zolt was 12 seconds behind, while Ottosson was 57 seconds behind. About one minute after that, a group of Jeremias Wigger
Jeremias Wigger
Jeremias Wigger was a Swiss cross country skier who competed from 1988 to 1998. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fourth in the 4 x 10 km at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and 13th in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at the 1994 Winter Olympics in...

 of Switzerland, Torald Rein
Torald Rein
Torald Rein was a German cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2001. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fourth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Lillehammer in 1994 while his best individual finish was 21st in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at Albertville in 1992.Rein's...

 of Germany, Nikolai Ivanov of Kazakhstan, Luboš Buchta
Luboš Buchta
Lubomír Buchta was a Czechoslovakian-Czech cross country skier who competed from 1989 to 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, his best finish was seventh in the 4 x 10 km relay at Albertville in 1992 while his best individual finish was 13th twice .Buchta's best finish at the FIS Nordic World...

 of the Czech Republic and Andrey Kirilov
Andrey Kirilov
Andrey Kirilov is a Russian cross country skier who competed in the early 1990s. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun...

 of Russia.

The second stage became a race between Vegard Ulvang
Vegard Ulvang
Vegard Ulvang is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who won three Olympic gold medals. At the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, he took the ceremonial Olympic Oath on part of all the athletes...

 of Norway, Harri Kirvesniemi
Harri Kirvesniemi
Harri Tapani Kirvesniemi is a Finnish former cross country skier who competed from 1980 to 2001. During his career he won six Olympic medals , and also the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2000...

 of Finland and Marco Albarello
Marco Albarello
Marco Albarello is an Italian cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. He was born in Aosta. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

 of Italy. Ulvang set off in a fast pace, with Kirvesniemi and Albarello following suit. Part of the way through the lap, Kirvesniemi attempted to pull, but the other two followed suit. Two kilometers before reaching the exchange, Kirvesniemi broke his ski pole
Ski pole
Ski poles are used by skiers to improve balance and timing. Early ski poles were simply sticks, then bamboo , then steel . In 1958, Ed Scott invented the aluminium ski pole...

, but was able to follow along. In the approach to the stadium, Ulvang looked like he would exchange first, but Albarello cut the corner and was able to exchange just before Ulvang. Behind the first three teams, Alexey Prokurorov of Russia was one and a half minute behind.

Norway's strategy was to pull away with Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. Alsgaard is regarded by many as the best performer of the skate-style in cross-country skiing and many of today's best skiers have studied his technique...

 in the third heat. However, he was not able to, and ended instead dragging Jari Räsänen
Jari Räsänen
Jari Räsänen was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1988 to 1998. He won two bronze medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics ....

 of Finland and Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta is an Italian former cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

 of Italy. After six kilometers, Alsgaard attempted a to pull away, but pair behind him would not let him. This caused Alsgaard to stiffen, and he had difficulties following Vanzetta and Räsänen through the rest of the race. Behind the first three teams, Gennadiy Lazutin
Gennadiy Lazutin
Gennadiy Lazutin was a Russian cross country skier who competed in the mid 1990s. He finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.-External links:*...

 of Russia was two minutes behind.

The last lap started as a race between Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner is an Italian former cross country skier who competed from 1988. His best known victory was part of the 4 × 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

 of Italy, Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Erlend Dæhlie is a Norwegian businessman and retired cross-country skier. With 8 olympic gold medals, Dæhlie is the most winning winter olympic champion of all time. With nine gold medals in the Nord World Ski Championships he is in addition the most winning World Champion skier...

 of Norway and Jari Isometsä
Jari Isometsä
Jari Olavi Isometsä is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2006...

 of Finland. After a few kilometers, Dæhlie and Fauner were able create a gap to Isometsä, and the rest of the relay was a duel between the Norwegian and the Italian. For most of the race, Dæhlie was ahead. About two kilometers before the goal, both stopped, wanting the other to pull, and neither wanting to start the sprint. In the accent towards the final straight stretch, Dæhli lay right in the back of Fauner. 180 metres (590.6 ft) before the finish line, Dæhli switched tracks, but was not able to keep up with Fauner, who passed 0.4 seconds before Dæhlie. Finland finished third, 1 minutes and 0.6 seconds behind Italy. Germany and Russia had a fight for the fourth place, with Johann Mühlegg
Johann Mühlegg
Johann Mühlegg is a Spanish top level cross-country skier who has competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999...

 of Germany finishing three seconds ahead of Mikhail Botvinov
Mikhail Botvinov
Mikhail Botvinov is a Russian-born Austrian cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2007 for both Russia and Austria. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a silver in the men's 30 km freestyle mass start event in 2002 and a bronze in the men's 50 km freestyle mass start in 2006...

 of Russia.

Results

Rank Bib Country Time Deficit
2
Maurilio De Zolt
Maurilio De Zolt
Maurilio De Zolt is an Italian cross country skier who competed from 1980 to 1997. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, when he was 43 years old...


Marco Albarello
Marco Albarello
Marco Albarello is an Italian cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. He was born in Aosta. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...


Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta
Giorgio Vanzetta is an Italian former cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 2002. His best known victory was part of the 4 x 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...


Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner
Silvio Fauner is an Italian former cross country skier who competed from 1988. His best known victory was part of the 4 × 10 km relay team that upset Norway at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer...

1:41:15.0 +0.0
1
Sture Sivertsen
Sture Sivertsen
Sture Sivertsen is a former Norwegian Cross-country skier who competed during the 1990s. He represented Leirådal IL. He made his world cup debut in Örnsköldsvik in 1990, finishing 8th...


Vegard Ulvang
Vegard Ulvang
Vegard Ulvang is a Norwegian former cross-country skier who won three Olympic gold medals. At the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, he took the ceremonial Olympic Oath on part of all the athletes...


Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard
Thomas Alsgaard is a retired Norwegian cross-country skier. Alsgaard is regarded by many as the best performer of the skate-style in cross-country skiing and many of today's best skiers have studied his technique...


Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Dæhlie
Bjørn Erlend Dæhlie is a Norwegian businessman and retired cross-country skier. With 8 olympic gold medals, Dæhlie is the most winning winter olympic champion of all time. With nine gold medals in the Nord World Ski Championships he is in addition the most winning World Champion skier...

1:41:15.4 +0.4
4
Mika Myllylä
Mika Myllylä
Mika Kristian Myllylä was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold , one silver , and four bronzes .Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the...


Harri Kirvesniemi
Harri Kirvesniemi
Harri Tapani Kirvesniemi is a Finnish former cross country skier who competed from 1980 to 2001. During his career he won six Olympic medals , and also the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 2000...


Jari Räsänen
Jari Räsänen
Jari Räsänen was a Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1988 to 1998. He won two bronze medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics ....


Jari Isometsä
Jari Isometsä
Jari Olavi Isometsä is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2006...

1:42:15.6
1:00.6
5
Torald Rein
Torald Rein
Torald Rein was a German cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2001. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fourth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Lillehammer in 1994 while his best individual finish was 21st in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at Albertville in 1992.Rein's...


Jochen Behle
Jochen Behle
Jochen Behle is a former German cross-country skier who competed from 1982 to 1998.Competing in five Winter Olympics, he earned his best career finish of fourth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Lillehammer in 1994 and his best individual finish of 11th in the 10 km event at those same games.Behle's best...


Peter Schlickenrieder
Peter Schlickenrieder
Peter Schlickenrieder is a German cross-country skier who competed from 1992 to 2002. He earned a silver in the individual sprint at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


Johann Mühlegg
Johann Mühlegg
Johann Mühlegg is a Spanish top level cross-country skier who has competed in international competitions first representing Germany and then Spain, after becoming a Spanish citizen in 1999...

1:44:26.7
3:11.7
3
Andrey Kirilov
Andrey Kirilov
Andrey Kirilov is a Russian cross country skier who competed in the early 1990s. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun...


Alexey Prokurorov
Gennadiy Lazutin
Gennadiy Lazutin
Gennadiy Lazutin was a Russian cross country skier who competed in the mid 1990s. He finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.-External links:*...


Mikhail Botvinov
Mikhail Botvinov
Mikhail Botvinov is a Russian-born Austrian cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2007 for both Russia and Austria. He won two medals at the Winter Olympics with a silver in the men's 30 km freestyle mass start event in 2002 and a bronze in the men's 50 km freestyle mass start in 2006...

1:44:29.2
3:14.2
6
Jan Ottosson
Jan Ottosson
Jan Bo Ottosson is a former Swedish Cross-country skier. A national team skier, he also represented Åsarna IK during the 1980s and early 1990s. He won two gold medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics , providing some of the most iconic and impressive legs of Swedish Olympic history...


Christer Majbäck
Christer Majbäck
Christer Majbäck is a former Swedish cross country skier who competed from 1985 to 1999. He won a bronze medal in 10 km at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville....


Anders Bergström
Anders Bergström
Anders Bergström was a Swedish cross country skier who competed from 1989 to 2003. Competing in three Winter Olympics, his best career finish was sixth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Lillehammer in 1994 while his best individual finish was eighth in a 50 km event at Albertville in 1992 Winter...


Henrik Forsberg
Henrik Forsberg
Henrik Forsberg was a Swedish cross country skier and biathlete who competed from 1988 to 2001. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best finishes at the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville in cross country skiing with a fourth in the 4 x 10 km relay and ninth in the 10 km +...

1:45:22.7
4:07.7
9
Jeremias Wigger
Jeremias Wigger
Jeremias Wigger was a Swiss cross country skier who competed from 1988 to 1998. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fourth in the 4 x 10 km at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary and 13th in the 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit at the 1994 Winter Olympics in...


Hans Diethelm
Hans Diethelm
Hans Diethelm was a Swiss cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 1997. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best individual finish of seventh in the 4 x 10 km relay at Lillehammer in 1994 and had his best individual finish of 30th twice .Diethelm's best finish at the FIS Nordic...


Jürg Capol
Jürg Capol
Jürg Capol was a Swiss cross country skier who competed from 1988 to 1994 and is race director for all cross-country skiing events for the International Ski Federation...


Giachem Guidon
Giachem Guidon
Giachem Guidon was a Swiss cross country skier who competed from 1982 to 1994. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best career finish of fourth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Calgary in 1988 and his best individual finish of 12th in the 15 km event at Sarajevo in 1984.Guidon's best...

1:47:12.2
6:57.2
8
Luboš Buchta
Luboš Buchta
Lubomír Buchta was a Czechoslovakian-Czech cross country skier who competed from 1989 to 1999. Competing in three Winter Olympics, his best finish was seventh in the 4 x 10 km relay at Albertville in 1992 while his best individual finish was 13th twice .Buchta's best finish at the FIS Nordic World...


Václav Korunka
Václav Korunka
Václav Korunka is a former Czechoslovakian cross country skier who raced from 1988 to 1999. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 km relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary while his best individual Winter Olympics finish was a 13th in the 50 km event in 1992.Korunka also won a...


Jiří Teplý
Jirí Teplý
Jiří Teplý was a Czechoslovakian-Czech cross country skier who competed from 1991 to 1995. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best career and individual finishes of eighth in the 4 × 10 km relay and 17th in the 30 km event, respectively, both at Lillehammer in 1994.Teplý's best finish...


Pavel Benc
Pavel Benc
Pavel Benc is a Czech cross country skier who raced from 1985 to 1997. He earned a bronze medal in the 4 x 10 kilometer event at the 1988 Winter Olympics. His best individual Winter Olympics finish was a 25th in the 30 kilometer event, during the 1994 Winter Olympics...

1:47:12.2
6:57.2
13
Nikolai Ivanov
Pavel Korolev
Andrei Nevzorov
Pavel Riabinine
Pavel Riabinine
Pavel Ryabinin is a Kazakhstani cross country skier who competed from 1994 to 2002. His best World Cup finish was 18th at a 15 km race in Italy in 1994....

1:47:41.3
6:26.3
10
Phillippe Sanchez
Patrick Rémy
Patrick Rémy
Patrick Rémy was a French cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 2000. Competing in three Winter Olympics, his best career finish was eighth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Albertville in 1992 while his best individual finish was 20th twice .Rémy's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski...


Hervé Balland
Hervé Balland
Hervé Balland is a French cross country skier who competed from 1990 to 1998. He won a silver medal in the 50 km event at the 1993 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun....


Stéphane Azambre
Stéphane Azambre
Stéphane Azambre was a French cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 1996. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best overall and individual finishes at Albertville in 1992 by finishing eighth in the 4 x 10 km relay and 26th in the 50 km event, respectively.Azambre's...

1:48:25.1
7:10.1
14
Jaak Mae
Jaak Mae
Jaak Mae is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 1994. He won a bronze in the 15km event at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City....


Jaanus Teppan
Elmo Kassin
Taivo Kuus
1:48:57.6
7:42.6
7
Igor Obukhov
Victor Kamotski
Sergei Dolidovich
Sergei Dolidovich
Sergei Dolidovich is a Belarusian cross country skier who has competed since 1994. His lone World Cup victory was in a 60 km event in Finland in 2001....


Viatcheslav Plaksunov
1:49:23.7
8:08.7
12
John Aalberg
Benjamin Husaby
Todd Boonstra
Luke Bodensteiner
1:49:40.5
8:25.5
11
Hiroyuki Imai
Hiroyuki Imai
is a former Japanese cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. Competing in four Winter Olympics, he earned his best career finish of sixth in the 50 km event at Salt Lake City in 2002....


Kazutoshi Nagahama
Kazutoshi Nagahama
Kazutoshi Nagahama was a Japanese cross country skier who competed from 1993 to 1998. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best career and individual finishes at Nagano in 1998 with a seventh in the 4 x 10 km relay and 33rd in the 50 km event, respectively.Nagahama's best finish at the...


Kazunari Sasaki
Masaaki Kozu
Masaaki Kozu
is a Japanese cross-country skier who has competed since 1993. His best World Cup finish was ninth in a 4 x 10 km relay at Switzerland in 2001....

1:49:42.1
8:27.1
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