| Date | 19 February 2014 | |
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| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Kompleks Dlya Sorevnovaniy Po Lyzhnym Gonkam i Biatlonu Laura, Mountain Cluster, Krasnaya Polyana | |
| Participants | 44 from 22 countries | |
| Format | Two-man teams, each skiing three alternate legs of approximately 1,500 metres. | |
| Details | Course Length: 1800 m Height Differential: 35 m Maximum Climb: 32 m Total Climbing: 62 m | |
The two semi-finals saw all the favored teams advance to the final with Finland the fastest, while Norway barely made the final as the slowest of the “lucky losers”. A strong German team consisting of Hannes Dotzler and Tim Tscharnke won the other semi-final.
For most of the final it looked as if Finland would be the only Nordic country able to medal. On the final leg, Germany was marginally ahead of Finland with Russia close behind, racing abreast up the final hill and down towards the final turn and into the stadium. It looked as if the leading group of Tscharnke, Finland’s Sami Jauhojärvi and Russia’s Nikita Kryukov would be fighting for the medals, when Jauhojärvi, just ahead of Tscharnke, moved to the inside, colliding with the German, and Tscharnke fell, almost bringing down Kryukov. Jauhojärvi opened up a small lead which he maintained to the end of the race, finishing just under a second ahead of the fast finishing Russian. Tscharnke was unable to recover quickly enough and eventually finished seventh. Finland had to withstand an appeal from Germany before Iivo Niskanen and Jauhojärvi could enjoy their victory. Sweden benefitted from the accident, taking bronze.
In May 2016 WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) commissioned a report, the McLaren Report, to look into allegations of systematic Russian doping and a cover-up to avoid positives at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. The report was released in two parts, in July and December 2016, and confirmed the allegations. In 2017 the IOC formed a commission to investigate this, headed by IOC Member Denis Oswald, and usually referred to as the Oswald Commission. In late October 2017 the Oswald Commission began to release its findings. On 9 November 2017, one of the silver medalists in this event, Russian Maksim Vylegzhanin, was implicated by the Oswald Commission and he and his teammate, Nikita Kryukov were disqualified, losing their silver medal. About 10 days before the PyeongChang Winter Olympics began, the CAS reached a decision, stating that Veglyzhanin’s guilt could not be proven, and he and Kryukov had their medal restored.
| Date | 19 February 2014 — 14:05 |
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| Format | First 3 teams in each heat plus the four fastest losers qualify for final. |
| Time | 14:05 |
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| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Time | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Germany |  GER | 23:36.23 | – | – | – | ||
| Hannes Dotzler | – | 3:55.28 | 3:50.26 | 3:45.73 | ||||
| Tim Tscharnke | – | 3:52.61 | 3:54.12 | 4:18.23 | ||||
| 2 | Czech Republic |  CZE | 23:39.06 | – | – | – | ||
| Martin Jakš | – | 3:56.26 | 3:48.73 | 3:52.61 | ||||
| Aleš Razým | – | 3:54.36 | 3:54.67 | 4:12.43 | ||||
| 3 | Switzerland |  SUI | 23:42.31 | – | – | – | ||
| Dario Cologna | – | 3:53.64 | 3:48.52 | 3:51.51 | ||||
| Gianluca Cologna | – | 3:55.67 | 3:54.88 | 4:18.09 | ||||
| 4 | Norway |  NOR | 23:43.63 | – | – | – | ||
| Ola Vigen Hattestad | – | 3:54.95 | 3:50.26 | 4:00.24 | ||||
| Petter Northug | – | 3:53.27 | 3:54.78 | 4:10.13 | ||||
| 5 | Italy |  ITA | 23:58.12 | – | – | – | ||
| Federico Pellegrino | – | 3:55.72 | 3:50.49 | 4:10.95 | ||||
| Dietmar Nöckler | – | 3:52.71 | 3:53.35 | 4:14.90 | ||||
| 6 | Canada |  CAN | 24:20.37 | – | – | – | ||
| Devon Kershaw | – | 3:56.05 | 3:55.29 | 4:16.09 | ||||
| Alex Harvey | – | 3:52.82 | 3:53.68 | 4:26.44 | ||||
| 7 | Estonia |  EST | 24:26.49 | – | – | – | ||
| Peeter Kümmel | – | 3:57.58 | 3:53.87 | 4:30.50 | ||||
| Raido Ränkel | – | 3:51.73 | 3:54.33 | 4:18.48 | ||||
| 8 | Austria |  AUT | 25:01.23 | – | – | – | ||
| Harald Wurm | – | 3:54.74 | 3:59.22 | 4:48.41 | ||||
| Max Hauke | – | 3:55.22 | 3:49.32 | 4:34.32 | ||||
| 9 | Romania |  ROU | 26:06.80 | – | – | – | ||
| Daniel Pripici | – | 3:59.10 | 4:21.49 | 5:00.07 | ||||
| Paul Pepene | – | 3:49.66 | 4:16.41 | 4:40.07 | ||||
| Great Britain |  GBR | – | – | – | – | |||
| Andrew Young | – | 3:57.03 | – | – | ||||
| Andrew Musgrave | – | 3:53.04 | – | – | ||||
| People's Republic of China |  CHN | – | – | – | – | |||
| Sun Qinghai DNS | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Xu Wenlong DNS | – | – | – | – |
| Time | 14:40 |
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| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Time | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland |  FIN | 23:26.13 | – | – | – | ||
| Iivo Niskanen | – | 3:51.17 | 3:57.30 | 3:44.86 | ||||
| Sami Jauhojärvi | – | 3:52.85 | 3:51.17 | 4:08.78 | ||||
| 2 | Russian Federation |  RUS | 23:26.91 | – | – | – | ||
| Maksim Vylegzhanin | – | 3:53.13 | 3:57.20 | 3:43.76 | ||||
| Nikita Kryukov | – | 3:51.87 | 3:50.84 | 4:10.11 | ||||
| 3 | Sweden |  SWE | 23:28.22 | – | – | – | ||
| Emil Jönsson | – | 3:51.60 | 3:56.65 | 3:43.76 | ||||
| Teodor Peterson | – | 3:52.42 | 3:52.04 | 4:11.75 | ||||
| 3 | Kazakhstan |  KAZ | 23:28.50 | – | – | – | ||
| Nikolay Chebotko | – | 3:51.93 | 3:56.43 | 3:47.81 | ||||
| Aleksey Poltoranin | – | 3:53.51 | 3:51.60 | 4:07.22 | ||||
| 4 | United States |  USA | 23:29.14 | – | – | – | ||
| Simi Hamilton | – | 3:52.26 | 3:55.55 | 3:44.63 | ||||
| Erik Bjornsen | – | 3:53.73 | 3:52.81 | 4:10.16 | ||||
| 5 | France |  FRA | 23:41.79 | – | – | – | ||
| Cyril Miranda | – | 3:54.33 | 3:56.10 | 3:55.33 | ||||
| Jean-Marc Gaillard | – | 3:53.40 | 3:50.96 | 4:11.67 | ||||
| 6 | Japan |  JPN | 23:49.91 | – | – | – | ||
| Hiroyuki Miyazawa | – | 3:55.97 | 3:56.10 | 3:57.63 | ||||
| Yuichi Onda | – | 3:50.78 | 3:52.26 | 4:17.17 | ||||
| 7 | Poland |  POL | 23:53.09 | – | – | – | ||
| Maciej Kreczmer | – | 3:54.11 | 3:54.57 | 3:52.82 | ||||
| Maciej Staręga | – | 3:52.31 | 3:54.89 | 4:24.39 | ||||
| 8 | Slovakia |  SVK | 24:58.06 | – | – | – | ||
| Peter Mlynár | – | 3:53.79 | 3:54.68 | 4:21.11 | ||||
| Martin Bajčičák | – | 3:55.69 | 4:04.28 | 4:48.51 | ||||
| 9 | Bulgaria |  BUL | 25:11.06 | – | – | – | ||
| Andrey Gridin | – | 3:55.53 | 4:20.78 | 4:22.97 | ||||
| Veselin Tsinzov | – | 3:51.77 | 4:08.53 | 4:31.48 | ||||
| 10 | Ukraine |  UKR | 25:31.13 | – | – | – | ||
| Ruslan Perekhoda | – | 3:56.73 | 4:13.25 | 4:40.98 | ||||
| Oleksiy Krasovskyi | – | 3:52.53 | 4:06.02 | 4:41.62 | ||||
| 11 | Australia |  AUS | 25:54.31 | – | – | – | ||
| Phil Bellingham | – | 4:00.65 | 4:20.57 | 4:25.69 | ||||
| Callum Watson | – | 3:59.31 | 4:17.05 | 4:51.04 |
| Date | 19 February 2014 — 16:15 |
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| Pos | Competitors | NOC | Time | Leg 1 | Leg 2 | Leg 3 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Finland | FIN | 23:14.89 | – | – | – | ||
| Iivo Niskanen | – | 3:49.60 | 3:55.79 | 3:40.66 | ||||
| Sami Jauhojärvi | – | 3:55.97 | 3:51.56 | 4:01.31 | ||||
| 2 | Russian Federation | RUS | 23:15.86 | – | – | – | ||
| Maksim Vylegzhanin | – | 3:48.84 | 3:55.25 | 3:41.53 | ||||
| Nikita Kryukov | – | 3:56.95 | 3:51.45 | 4:01.84 | ||||
| 3 | Sweden | SWE | 23:30.01 | – | – | – | ||
| Emil Jönsson | – | 3:49.27 | 3:56.77 | 3:44.70 | ||||
| Teodor Peterson | – | 3:54.56 | 3:52.87 | 4:11.84 | ||||
| 4 | Norway | NOR | 23:33.55 | – | – | – | ||
| Ola Vigen Hattestad | – | 3:52.88 | 3:58.96 | 3:48.52 | ||||
| Petter Northug | – | 3:50.07 | 3:53.31 | 4:09.81 | ||||
| 5 | Switzerland | SUI | 23:35.90 | – | – | – | ||
| Dario Cologna | – | 3:50.47 | 3:55.24 | 3:40.98 | ||||
| Gianluca Cologna | – | 3:56.31 | 3:52.87 | 4:20.03 | ||||
| 6 | United States | USA | 23:49.95 | – | – | – | ||
| Simi Hamilton | – | 3:51.67 | 3:55.46 | 3:55.39 | ||||
| Erik Bjornsen | – | 3:56.20 | 3:53.42 | 4:17.81 | ||||
| 7 | Germany | GER | 23:57.02 | – | – | – | ||
| Hannes Dotzler | – | 3:50.04 | 3:54.37 | 3:39.34 | ||||
| Tim Tscharnke | – | 3:56.41 | 3:52.87 | 4:43.99 | ||||
| 8 | Kazakhstan | KAZ | 24:01.38 | – | – | – | ||
| Nikolay Chebotko | – | 3:52.22 | 3:56.55 | 4:13.53 | ||||
| Aleksey Poltoranin | – | 3:54.67 | 3:50.90 | 4:13.51 | ||||
| 9 | Czech Republic | CZE | 24:01.83 | – | – | – | ||
| Martin Jakš | – | 3:52.55 | 3:53.49 | 3:57.58 | ||||
| Aleš Razým | – | 3:56.52 | 4:05.00 | 4:16.69 | ||||
| France | FRA | – | – | – | – | |||
| Cyril Miranda DNS | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Jean-Marc Gaillard DNS | – | – | – | – |
