FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2011 – Men's team sprint
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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
Cross-country skiing at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Czech Republic, twelve cross-country skiing events were held with six for men and six for women. The format of the program has been unchanged since the 2005 World Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany...

 were Norway's Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 and Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad
Johan Kjølstad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002.Born in Levanger, he represents the sports club Skogn IL....

 while the defending Olympic champion
Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's team sprint
The men's team sprint cross-country skiing competition in the freestyle technique at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada was held on 22 February at Whistler Olympic Park in Whistler, British Columbia....

 were Norway's Øystein Pettersen
Øystein Pettersen
Øystein "Sausage" Pettersen is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. He has four World Cup podiums, his best finish being second in individual sprint events . He and Petter Northug won gold in the team sprint event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada...

 and Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...

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Semifinals

Rank Heat Bib Country Athletes Time Note
1 1 1 Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the individual sprint event....


Emil Jönsson
Emil Jönsson
Greger superEmil Jönsson is a Swedish cross country skier who has been competing since 2004...

 
19:18.7 Q
2 1 3 Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw is a Canadian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. Growing up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, he split his time between several sports before choosing to focus on his skiing career.-Early life and career:...


Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey (skier)
Alex Harvey is a Canadian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. Harvey is also a member of the Quebec National Cycling Team.-Athletic career:...

 
19:19.3 Q
3 1 7 Jens Filbrich
Jens Filbrich
Jens Filbrich is a German cross-country skier who has been competing since 1998. He won two medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics with a silver in 2006 and a bronze in 2002...


Tim Tscharnke
Tim Tscharnke
Tim Tscharnke is a German cross-country skier who has competed since 2006. His best World Cup finish was 21st in a 15 km event in Beitostølen in November 2009. His club is SV Biberau...

 
19:19.6 Q
4 1 5 Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Vancouver in 2010....


Ville Nousiainen
Ville Nousiainen
Ville Nousiainen is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2002. He finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
19:20.6 q
5 1 2 Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini is an Italian cross country skier who has been competing since 1996. He won the gold medal in the team sprint at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo...


Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His lone World Cup victory was in a team sprint event in Japan in 2006....

 
19:38.0 q
6 1 11 Ivan Bátory
Ivan Bátory
Ivan Bátory is a Slovak cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level of cross-country skiing since 1993...


Martin Bajčičák
Martin Bajcicák
Martin Bajčičák is a Slovakian cross country skier who has been competing since 1994. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was fourth in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit in 2005....

 
20:19.4
7 1 9 Max Hauke
Aurelius Herburger 
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8 1 4 Jöri Kindschi
Christoph Eigenmann
Christoph Eigenmann
Christoph Eigenmann is a Swiss cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His best World Cup finish was second in a sprint event in China in 2006....

 
20:28.9
9 1 6 Maciej Kreczmer
Maciej Kreczmer
Maciej Kreczmer is a Polish cross country skier who has competed since 1999. His best individual finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 17th in the sprint event in 2005 while his best overall finish was fifth in the team sprint event in 2007.Kreczmer's best individual finish at the...


Maciej Staręga 
20:41.4
10 1 13 Benjamin Koons
Benjamin Koons
Benjamin Koons is a cross-country skier from New Zealand who has competed since 2004. He attended high school at Messalonskee High School in Oakland, Maine...


Nils Koons 
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11 1 8 Aleksei Novoselski
Aleksei Novoselski
Aleksei Novoselski is a Lithuanian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 53rd in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....


Modestas Vaičiulis
Modestas Vaičiulis
Modestas Vaičiulis is a Lithuanian cross-country skier since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the team sprint and 54th in the individual sprint events....

 
20:53.3
12 1 10 Ivan Bilosyuk
Oleksiy Shvidkiy 
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}|| 1 || 12 || align=left| || align=left| Cesar Baena
Cesar Baena
Cesar Augusto Baena Sierraalta, , is a Venezuelan cross country skier. He was the winner of the 7 km Merino Muster in New Zealand in 2009. He is the first South-American Cross Country Skier to participate in World Cup for Cross Country Skiing.- Education :Baena was born in Altamira, Caracas...


Bernardo Baena || ||
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| 1 || 2 || 15 || align=left| || align=left| Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....


Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

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| 2 || 2 || 14 || align=left| || align=left| Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...


Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

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| 3 || 2 || 20 || align=left| || align=left| Denis Volotka
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltoranin is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004...

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| 4 || 2 || 19 || align=left| || align=left| Jean Marc Gaillard
Jean Marc Gaillard
Jean Marc Gaillard is a French cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 7th in the 50 km event at Sapporo in 2007...


Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda is a French cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished seventh in the team sprint, 16th in the individual sprint, and 38th in the 50 km events....

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| 5 || 2 || 17 || align=left| || align=left| Torin Koos
Torin Koos
Torin Koos is an American cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His best World Cup finish was third in a sprint event in Estonia in 2007....


Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell
Andrew "Andy" Newell is an American cross country skier who has been competing on the international level since 2001.- Career :...

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| 6 || 2 || 21 || align=left| || align=left| Petr Novák
Dušan Kožíšek
Dusan Kozisek
Dušan Kožíšek is a Czech cross country skier who has been competing since 2002. He won a bronze medal in the team sprint at the 2005 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Oberstdorf and finished 38th in the individual sprint in those same games...

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| 7 || 2 || 16 || align=left| || align=left| Peeter Kümmel
Peeter Kümmel
Peeter Kümmel is an Estonian cross-country skier who has competed since 2001.Kümmel competed at the 2006 and 2010 Winter Olympics, the 2006–07, 2007–08 Tour de Ski, the 2007, 2009 and 2011 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships....


Kein Einaste
Kein Einaste
Kein Einaste is an Estonian cross country skier who has competed since 2004. His best World Cup finish was 13th in a sprint event in Finland in November 2009. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 59th in the men's sprint.-External links:...

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| 8 || 2 || 18 || align=left| || align=left| Kouhei Shimizu
Yuichi Onda
Yuichi Onda
is a Japanese cross-country skier who has competed since 1999. Competing in two Winter Olympics, he earned his best finish of 12th in the team sprint event at Turin in 2006 while his best individual finish was 17th in the individual sprint event at Vancouver four years later.Onda's best finish at...

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| 9 || 2 || 22 || align=left| || align=left| Boštjan Klavžar
Rok Tršan || 20:33.6 ||
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| 10 || 2 || 24 || align=left| || align=left| Ben Sim
Ben Sim
Ben Sim is an Australian cross-country skier who has competed since 2002. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 20th in the team sprint, 45th in the 15 km, and 47th in the 15 km + 15 km double pursuit event.Sim's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 14th twice...


Callum Watson || 20:44.5 ||
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| 11 || 2 || 23 || align=left|  United Kingdom || align=left| Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave
Andrew Musgrave is a British cross-country skier. Musgrave was born in Dorset, England, and he has also lived in Shetland, Alaska, Aberdeenshire and Norway...


Callum Smith || 20:57.3 ||
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| 12 || 2 || 25 || align=left| || align=left| Lasse Hulgaard
Asger Fischer Mølgaard || 22:37.4 ||
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| || 2 || 26 || align=left| || align=left| Paul Constantin Pepene
Paul Constantin Pepene
Paul Constantin Pepene is a Romanian cross-country skier. Pepene won the 30 km pursuit at the U-23 World Championships in January 2010, and competed in the 2009 World Ski Championships and at the 2010 Winter Olympics. At the 2010 Olympics, Pepene competed at three events, notably finishing...


Petrică Hogiu
Petrica Hogiu
Petrică Hogiu is a Romanian cross-country skier who has been competing since 2007. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 17th in the team sprint and 57th in the 15 km events....

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Final

Rank Bib Country Athlete Time Deficit
3 Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw
Devon Kershaw is a Canadian cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. Growing up in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, he split his time between several sports before choosing to focus on his skiing career.-Early life and career:...


Alex Harvey
Alex Harvey (skier)
Alex Harvey is a Canadian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. Harvey is also a member of the Quebec National Cycling Team.-Athletic career:...

 
19:10.0
14 Petter Northug
Petter Northug
Petter Northug Jr. is a Norwegian cross country skier and double Olympic champion. He has 9 World Championship and Winter Olympic gold medals with 13 medals overall, and nine individual FIS Cross-Country World Cup wins with 20 podium places...


Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad
Ola Vigen Hattestad is a Norwegian cross country skier who has competed since 2002. Competing in two Winter Olympics, hea earned his best finish of fourth in the individual sprint event at Vancouver in 2010....

 
19:10.2 +0.2
15 Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Panzhinskiy
Alexander Eduardovich Panzhinskiy is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2007. His best World Cup finish was fifth in a sprint event in Estonia in January 2010....


Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Kriukov
Nikita Valeryevich Kriukov is a Russian cross country skier who has competed since 2005. His best World Cup finish was first in a sprint event in Stockholm, Sweden in March 2010....

 
19:10.4 +0.4
7 Jens Filbrich
Jens Filbrich
Jens Filbrich is a German cross-country skier who has been competing since 1998. He won two medals in the 4 x 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics with a silver in 2006 and a bronze in 2002...


Tim Tscharnke
Tim Tscharnke
Tim Tscharnke is a German cross-country skier who has competed since 2006. His best World Cup finish was 21st in a 15 km event in Beitostølen in November 2009. His club is SV Biberau...

 
19:10.9 +0.9
5 Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi
Sami Jauhojärvi is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the Winter Olympics was fifth in the 4 x 10 km relay at Vancouver in 2010....


Ville Nousiainen
Ville Nousiainen
Ville Nousiainen is a Finnish cross country skier who has been competing since 2002. He finished fifth in the 4 x 10 km event at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver....

 
19:11.1 +1.1
20 Denis Volotka
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltaranin
Alexey Poltoranin is a Kazakhstani cross-country skier who has competed at the international senior level since 2004...

 
19:21.5 +11.5
1 Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin
Jesper Modin is a Swedish cross country skier who has competed since 2005. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 18th in the individual sprint event....


Emil Jönsson
Emil Jönsson
Greger superEmil Jönsson is a Swedish cross country skier who has been competing since 2004...

 
19:22.0 +12.0
19 Jean Marc Gaillard
Jean Marc Gaillard
Jean Marc Gaillard is a French cross country skier who has been competing since 2000. His best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 7th in the 50 km event at Sapporo in 2007...


Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda
Cyril Miranda is a French cross country skier who has competed since 2003. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished seventh in the team sprint, 16th in the individual sprint, and 38th in the 50 km events....

 
19:32.4 +22.4
2 Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini
Renato Pasini is an Italian cross country skier who has been competing since 1996. He won the gold medal in the team sprint at the 2007 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Sapporo...


Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli
Loris Frasnelli is an Italian cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His lone World Cup victory was in a team sprint event in Japan in 2006....

 
19:39.1 +29.1
10 17 Torin Koos
Torin Koos
Torin Koos is an American cross country skier who has competed since 1998. His best World Cup finish was third in a sprint event in Estonia in 2007....


Andrew Newell
Andrew Newell
Andrew "Andy" Newell is an American cross country skier who has been competing on the international level since 2001.- Career :...

20:01.6 +51.6
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