FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 – Men's sprint

Men's sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
Venue	Liberec
Date	24 February 2009
Competitors	135
Medalists
Ola Vigen Hattestad    Norway   Johan Kjølstad    Norway   Nikolay Morilov    Russia
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FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009
Cross-country skiing
Sprint	men	women
Interval start	15 km men	10 km women
Pursuit	30 km men	15 km women
Mass start	50 km men	30 km women
Team sprint	men	women
Relay	4×10 km men	4×5 km women
Nordic combined
Normal hill
Large hill
Ski jumping
Normal hill		Women
Large hill
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The men's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 was held on 24 February 2009.^[1] The Sprint qualifying began at 11:35 CET with finals at 13:30 CET. The defending world champion was Norway's Jens Arne Svartedal,^[2] but he was eliminated in the quarterfinals at these championships. It was the first individual medal for all three finishers.^[3]

Results[]

Qualification[]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	25	Johan Kjølstad	Norway	3:02.05	—	Q
2	30	Andrew Newell	USA	3:03.95	+1.90	Q
3	36	Alexey Petukhov	Russia	3:03.97	+1.92	Q
4	35	Nikolay Morilov	Russia	3:04.30	+2.25	Q
5	26	Emil Jönsson	Sweden	3:04.97	+2.92	Q
6	27	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:05.16	+3.11	Q
7	20	Eligius Tambornino	Switzerland	3:05.79	+3.74	Q
8	28	Tor Arne Hetland	Norway	3:06.08	+4.03	Q
9	37	Renato Pasini	Italy	3:06.25	+4.20	Q
10	23	Dario Cologna	Switzerland	3:06.60	+4.55	Q
11	29	Cristian Zorzi	Italy	3:06.70	+4.65	Q
12	19	Matias Strandvall	Finland	3:06.82	+4.77	Q
13	44	Fulvio Scola	Italy	3:06.84	+4.79	Q
14	18	Ales Razym	Czech Republic	3:06.95	+4.90	Q
15	5	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia	3:06.98	+4.93	Q
16	32	Fabio Pasini	Italy	3:07.25	+5.20	Q
17	40	Kalle Lassila	Finland	3:07.54	+5.49	Q
18	34	Marcus Hellner	Sweden	3:07.56	+5.51	Q
19	24	Josef Wenzl	Germany	3:08.10	+6.05	Q
20	39	John Kristian Dahl	Norway	3:08.18	+6.13	Q
21	1	Franz Göring	Germany	3:08.27	+6.22	Q
22	6	Jens Arne Svartedal	Norway	3:08.28	+6.23	Q
23	21	Cyril Miranda	France	3:08.34	+6.29	Q
24	38	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	3:08.77	+6.72	Q
25	16	Yuichi Onda	Japan	3:08.79	+6.74	Q
26	10	Peeter Kummel	Estonia	3:09.04	+6.99	Q
27	51	Alex Harvey	Canada	3:09.39	+7.34	Q
28	12	Thobias Fredriksson	Sweden	3:09.67	+7.62	Q
29	31	Vasily Rochev	Russia	3:09.73	+7.68	Q
30	43	Phil Widmer	Canada	3:09.78	+7.73	Q
31	13	Valerio Leccardi	Switzerland	3:09.79	+7.74
32	47	Tom Reichelt	Germany	3:10.35	+8.30
33	17	Martti Jylhä	Finland	3:10.61	+8.56
34	11	Janusz Krezelok	Poland	3:10.95	+8.90
35	7	Martin Jäger	Switzerland	3:10.97	+8.92
36	14		France	3:11.51	+9.46
37	46	Chris Cook	USA	3:11.84	+9.79
38	33	Roddy Darragon	France	3:12.08	+10.03
39	4	Timo Simonlatser	Estonia	3:12.23	+10.18
40	50	Leanid Karneyenka	Belarus	3:12.34	+10.29
41	42	Dusan Kozisek	Czech Republic	3:12.48	+10.43
42	9	Anton Gafarov	Russia	3:12.57	+10.52
43	22	Torin Koos	USA	3:12.76	+10.71
44	53	Garrott Kuzzy	USA	3:13.21	+11.16
45	3	Alexey Poltoranin	Kazakhstan	3:13.28	+11.23
46	2	Priit Narusk	Estonia	3:13.63	+11.58
47	54		Austria	3:13.90	+11.85
48	48	Sean Crooks	Canada	3:15.14	+13.09
49	58	Modestas Vaiciulis	Lithuania	3:15.19	+13.14
50	45	Maciej Kreczmer	Poland	3:15.37	+13.32
51	77	Vitaly Shtun	Ukraine	3:16.19	+14.14
52	60	Michal Malak	Slovakia	3:16.43	+14.38
53	119	Alexander Lasutkin	Belarus	3:16.56	+14.51
54	8	Harald Wurm	Austria	3:16.80	+14.75
55	57		Belarus	3:17.05	+15.00
56	72	Veselin Tzinzov	Bulgaria	3:17.09	+15.04
57	55	Paul Murray	Australia	3:17.47	+15.42
58	70		Australia	3:17.61	+15.56
59	62		Lithuania	3:18.28	+16.23
60	52	Mantas Strolia	Lithuania	3:18.47	+16.42
61	41	Björn Lind	Sweden	3:18.59	+16.54
62	66		Slovakia	3:18.67	+16.62
63	49	Sergey Cherepanov	Kazakhstan	3:18.72	+16.67
64	63		Australia	3:19.04	+16.99
65	61	Andrew Musgrave	United Kingdom	3:19.17	+17.12
66	67	Wenlong Xu	China	3:19.30	+17.25
67	125	Janis Paipals	Latvia	3:21.00	+18.95
68	59	Yevgeniy Velichko	Kazakhstan	3:21.07	+19.02
69	64	Zoltan Tagscherer	Hungary	3:21.49	+19.44
70	103	Olegs Maluhins	Latvia	3:22.30	+20.25
71	65	Sebastian Sørensen	Denmark	3:22.31	+20.26
72	84		Latvia	3:22.67	+20.62
73	76	Mikhail Gumenyak	Ukraine	3:22.71	+20.66
74	68		Australia	3:23.23	+21.18
75	15	Martin Stockinger	Austria	3:23.40	+21.35
76	75	Oliver Kraas	South Africa	3:23.77	+21.72
77	71	Kari Peters	Luxembourg	3:24.17	+22.12
78	81		Denmark	3:26.13	+24.08
79	80	Paul Constantin Pepene	Romania	3:27.01	+24.96
80	90		South Korea	3:27.24	+25.19
81	129	Karoly Gombos	Hungary	3:28.94	+26.89
82	91		Greece	3:29.84	+27.79
83	97		Israel	3:30.40	+28.35
84	131	Victor Pinzaru	Moldova	3:30.42	+28.37
85	96		Greece	3:30.90	+28.85
86	88		Kyrgyzstan	3:30.94	+28.89
87	95	Imre Tagscherer	Hungary	3:31.24	+29.19
88	82	Arvis Liepins	Latvia	3:31.62	+29.57
89	89		Turkey	3:31.83	+29.78
90	94		Bulgaria	3:32.66	+30.61
91	107	Milan Szabo	Hungary	3:32.76	+30.71
92	93	Hovhannes Sargsyan	Armenia	3:32.94	+30.89
93	83		Croatia	3:33.16	+31.11
94	87		Bulgaria	3:33.43	+31.38
95	100		United Kingdom	3:33.65	+31.60
96	92		Greece	3:33.78	+31.73
97	74		Denmark	3:34.56	+32.51
98	69	Andrew Young	United Kingdom	3:34.89	+32.84
99	78	Andrej Buric	Croatia	3:36.31	+34.26
100	132	Sergiu Balan	Moldova	3:36.44	+34.39
...	...	...	...	...	...
132	127		Venezuela	6:32.17	+3:30.12
DNS	56	Lefteris Fafalis	Greece	—	—
DNS	86	Vicente Vilarrubla	Spain	—	—
DNS	118	Diego Ruiz	Spain	—	—

Quarterfinals[]

Q - Qualified for next round
PF - Photo Finish
LL - Lucky Loser - qualified for next round due to their times

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Johan Kjølstad	Norway		—	Q
2	10	Dario Cologna	Switzerland			Q
3	20	John Kristian Dahl	Norway			15th
4	21	Franz Göring	Germany			19th
5	11	Cristian Zorzi	Italy			23rd
6	30	Phil Widmer	Canada			30th

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	4	Nikolay Morilov	Russia		—	Q
2	14	Ales Razym	Czech Republic			Q
3	24	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan			16th
4	17	Kalle Lassila	Finland			18th
5	7	Eligius Tambornino	Switzerland			21st
6	27	Alex Harvey	Canada			28th

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	6	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:03.2	—	Q
2	15	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia	3:03.5	+0.3	Q PF
3	5	Emil Jönsson	Sweden	3:03.7	+0.5	13th PF
4	16	Fabio Pasini	Italy	3:04.2	+1.0	17th
5	26	Peeter Kummel	Estonia	3:05.6	+2.4	25th
6	25	Yuichi Onda	Japan	3:05.9	+2.7	27th

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	2	Andrew Newell	USA	3:04.7	—	Q PF
2	29	Vasily Rochev	Russia	3:04.7	+0.0	Q PF
3	9	Renato Pasini	Italy	3:04.7	+0.0	14th PF
4	22	Jens Arne Svartedal	Norway	3:05.9	+1.2	20th
5	12	Matias Strandvall	Finland	3:06.8	+2.1	24th
6	19	Josef Wenzl	Germany	3:08.0	+3.3	26th

Quarterfinal 5

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Alexey Petukhov	Russia	2:59.6	—	Q
2	18	Marcus Hellner	Sweden	3:00.8	+1.2	Q
3	13	Fulvio Scola	Italy	3:01.5	+1.9	LL
4	23	Cyril Miranda	France	3:01.6	+2.0	LL
5	8	Tor Arne Hetland	Norway	3:01.7	+2.1	22nd
6	28	Thobias Fredriksson	Sweden	3:08.3	+9.7	29th

Semifinals[]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Johan Kjølstad	Norway	3:03.7	—	QA
2	4	Nikolay Morilov	Russia	3:04.0	+0.3	QA
3	14	Ales Razym	Czech Republic	3:04.0	+0.3	QA LL
4	10	Dario Cologna	Switzerland	3:05.0	+1.3	QA LL
5	13	Fulvio Scola	Italy	3:27.1	+23.4	QB
6	15	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia	3:28.7	+25.0	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	6	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:04.1	—	QA
2	18	Marcus Hellner	Sweden	3:04.9	+0.8	QA
3	23	Cyril Miranda	France	3:05.3	+1.2	QB
4	29	Vasily Rochev	Russia	3:05.6	+1.5	QB
5	2	Andrew Newell	USA	3:05.6	+1.5	QB
6	3	Alexey Petukhov	Russia	3:07.6	+3.5	QB

Finals[]

Final A

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
	6	Ola Vigen Hattestad	Norway	3:00.8	—	1st
	1	Johan Kjølstad	Norway	3:01.2	+0.4	2nd
	4	Nikolay Morilov	Russia	3:01.9	+1.1	3rd
4	10	Dario Cologna	Switzerland	3:02.9	+2.1	4th
5	18	Marcus Hellner	Sweden	3:03.1	+2.3	5th
6	14	Ales Razym	Czech Republic	3:03.6	+2.8	6th

Final B

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	15	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia		—	7th
2	13	Fulvio Scola	Italy			8th
3	3	Alexey Petukhov	Russia			9th
4	23	Cyril Miranda	France			10th
5	29	Vasily Rochev	Russia			11th
6	2	Andrew Newell	USA			12th

References[]

External links[]

• Qualification results
• Final results