| | Event type
15 kilometres, Classical, Men
| Date | 17 February 2006 — 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Status | Olympic |
| Location | Stadio del Trampolino, Pragelato Plan |
| Participants | 99 from 46 countries |
| Venue details | Course Length: 15,000 m Height Differential: 76 m Intermediate 1: 4.9 km Intermediate 2: 9.9 km Maximum Climb: 54 m Total Climbing: 522 m |
The early lead was taken by Germany’s Tobias Angerer, with the defending champion, Andrus Veerpalu of Estonia, second at the 4.9 km checkpoint. But by the 9.9 km time check, Veerpalu had moved ahead, and would ski on to his second consecutive gold medal in the event. Angerer would hang on to a medal, but dropped back to bronze, passed by Czech skier Lukáš Bauer.
Veerpalu won the Holmenkollen 50 km in 2003 and 2005, and was World Champion at 30 km in 2001 and at this distance in 2009. In 2007-08 Bauer would win both the seasonal World Cup, the distance World Cup, and the Tour de Ski. Angerer had won the first Tour de Ski in 2006-07, and through has 2009 won six medals at the World Championships, but has yet to win a major international title.
| Pos | Nr | Skier | NOC | Time | Int 1 (Pos) | Int 2 (Pos) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 89 | Andrus Veerpalu |  EST | 38:01.3 | 12:35.1 (2) | 26:23.1 (1) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 93 | Lukáš Bauer |  CZE | 38:15.8 | 12:39.0 (4) | 26:25.8 (2) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 99 | Tobias Angerer |  GER | 38:20.5 | 12:28.1 (1) | 26:26.8 (3) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 91 | Vasily Rochev |  RUS | 38:24.4 | 12:39.2 (5) | 26:29.8 (4) | |||
| 5 | 79 | Jaak Mae | EST | 38:35.2 | 12:48.3 (=8) | 26:45.2 (7) | |||
| 6 | 74 | Johan Olsson |  SWE | 38:38.8 | 12:44.5 (6) | 26:36.4 (5) | |||
| 7 | 85 | Andreas Schlütter | GER | 38:44.7 | 12:55.0 (11) | 26:41.7 (6) | |||
| 8 | 90 | Sergey Novikov | RUS | 39:15.0 | 12:59.0 (13) | 27:11.0 (11) | |||
| 9 | 88 | Sami Jauhojärvi |  FIN | 39:15.3 | 12:58.4 (12) | 27:12.0 (12) | |||
| 10 | 84 | Anders Södergren | SWE | 39:17.1 | 13:15.9 (26) | 27:22.7 (15) | |||
| 11 | 92 | René Sommerfeldt | GER | 39:17.2 | 12:48.2 (7) | 26:56.9 (8) | |||
| 12 | 95 | Fulvio Valbusa |  ITA | 39:18.8 | 13:07.0 (20) | 27:14.7 (13) | |||
| 13 | 80 | Mathias Fredriksson | SWE | 39:19.1 | 12:53.3 (10) | 27:04.0 (10) | |||
| 14 | 94 | Vincent Vittoz |  FRA | 39:27.3 | 12:48.3 (=8) | 26:57.4 (9) | |||
| 15 | 98 | Aliaksandr Lazutkin |  BLR | 39:35.3 | 13:09.0 (=22) | 27:36.1 (21) | |||
| 16 | 49 | Frode Estil |  NOR | 39:39.6 | 13:01.6 (15) | 27:20.0 (14) | |||
| 17 | 96 | Roman Leibiuk |  UKR | 39:48.1 | 13:01.9 (16) | 27:30.6 (17) | |||
| 18 | 65 | Alexandre Rousselet | FRA | 39:48.4 | 13:04.3 (19) | 27:29.8 (16) | |||
| 19 | 87 | Mats Larsson | SWE | 39:51.7 | 13:03.8 (18) | 27:35.5 (20) | |||
| 20 | 69 | Anders Aukland | NOR | 39:53.6 | 13:09.2 (24) | 27:36.9 (22) | |||
| 21 | 76 | Kris Freeman |  USA | 39:57.4 | 13:19.6 (29) | 27:32.3 (18) | |||
| 22 | 73 | Ivan Babikov | RUS | 39:59.5 | 13:08.4 (21) | 27:45.9 (=26) | |||
| 23 | 77 | Jean-Marc Gaillard | FRA | 40:09.2 | 13:13.7 (25) | 27:37.8 (23) | |||
| 24 | 71 | Christophe Perrillat-Collomb | FRA | 40:12.0 | 13:19.5 (28) | 27:34.1 (19) | |||
| 25 | 78 | Janusz Krężelok |  POL | 40:24.5 | 13:03.6 (17) | 27:45.9 (=26) | |||
| 26 | 54 | Ivan Bátory |  SVK | 40:26.1 | 13:09.0 (=22) | 28:01.7 (30) | |||
| 27 | 64 | Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset | NOR | 40:31.3 | 13:18.4 (27) | 27:58.0 (28) | |||
| 28 | 81 | Martin Bajčičák | SVK | 40:35.6 | 13:34.0 (40) | 28:13.4 (34) | |||
| 29 | 82 | Christian Stebler |  SUI | 40:38.6 | 13:40.8 (46) | 28:32.4 (41) | |||
| 30 | 63 | Dmitry Yeryomenko |  KAZ | 40:42.8 | 13:37.0 (43) | 28:10.6 (32) | |||
| 31 | 48 | George Grey |  CAN | 40:43.9 | 13:34.2 (41) | 28:20.0 (36) | |||
| 32 | 61 | Tero Similä | FIN | 40:44.5 | 13:00.6 (14) | 27:42.8 (24) | |||
| 33 | 72 | Fabio Santus | ITA | 40:47.0 | 13:28.4 (35) | 27:58.5 (29) | |||
| 34 | 83 | Ivan Arteyev | RUS | 40:49.1 | 13:43.7 (49) | 28:34.4 (43) | |||
| 35 | 46 | Kaspar Kokk | EST | 40:51.7 | 13:42.7 (47) | 28:33.3 (42) | |||
| 36 | 55 | Maksim Odnodvortsev | KAZ | 40:53.2 | 13:20.9 (31) | 28:23.3 (37) | |||
| 37 | 67 | Andrey Golovko | KAZ | 40:58.0 | 13:20.2 (30) | 28:35.2 (44) | |||
| 38 | 52 | Valerio Checchi | ITA | 41:01.5 | 13:24.5 (34) | 28:08.0 (31) | |||
| 39 | 86 | Aleksey Poltoranin | KAZ | 41:09.7 | 12:37.4 (3) | 27:44.8 (25) | |||
| 40 | 21 | Cristian Saracco | ITA | 41:12.0 | 13:35.4 (42) | 28:25.5 (38) | |||
| 41 | 68 | Nobu Naruse |  JPN | 41:22.0 | 13:33.8 (39) | 28:16.1 (35) | |||
| 42 | 53 | Katsuhito Ebisawa | JPN | 41:25.8 | 13:33.7 (38) | 28:26.1 (39) | |||
| 43 | 70 | Franz Göring | GER | 41:29.9 | 13:23.1 (33) | 28:26.9 (40) | |||
| 44 | 75 | Jens Arne Svartedal | NOR | 41:32.4 | 13:21.3 (32) | 28:12.7 (33) | |||
| 45 | 97 | Priit Narusk | EST | 41:35.8 | 13:48.8 (=52) | 28:51.7 (46) | |||
| 46 | 60 | Diego Ruiz |  ESP | 41:37.9 | 13:32.0 (36) | 28:54.5 (47) | |||
| 47 | 66 | Devon Kershaw | CAN | 41:42.7 | 13:56.1 (59) | 29:11.3 (53) | |||
| 48 | 41 | Olli Ohtonen | FIN | 41:47.4 | 13:43.1 (48) | 29:03.0 (49) | |||
| 49 | 62 | Xia Wan |  CHN | 41:48.0 | 13:46.0 (51) | 28:44.1 (45) | |||
| 50 | 36 | Lars Flora | USA | 41:53.1 | 13:54.1 (55) | 28:55.7 (48) | |||
| 51 | 47 | Andrew Johnson | USA | 41:53.9 | 14:19.1 (74) | 29:22.9 (56) | |||
| 52 | 59 | Justin Freeman | USA | 42:00.9 | 13:54.9 (56) | 29:05.3 (51) | |||
| 53 | 51 | Drew Goldsack | CAN | 42:09.3 | 13:58.9 (61) | 29:11.1 (52) | |||
| 54 | 42 | Lauri Pyykönen | FIN | 42:10.4 | 14:01.4 (62) | 29:18.4 (54) | |||
| 55 | 39 | Sabahattin Oğlago |  TUR | 42:18.9 | 13:48.8 (=52) | 29:03.5 (50) | |||
| 56 | 27 | Volodymyr Olshanskyi | UKR | 42:39.6 | 13:52.9 (54) | 29:18.9 (55) | |||
| 57 | 32 | Dan Roycroft | CAN | 42:39.7 | 14:11.6 (70) | 29:51.8 (61) | |||
| 58 | 58 | Petr Michl | CZE | 42:54.0 | 14:03.7 (64) | 29:50.2 (60) | |||
| 59 | 57 | Jože Mehle |  SLO | 42:56.9 | 14:26.7 (77) | 29:56.6 (64) | |||
| 60 | 45 | Vitaliy Martsiv | UKR | 42:57.4 | 13:37.8 (44) | 29:40.6 (57) | |||
| 61 | 50 | Zsolt Antal |  ROU | 43:10.0 | 14:33.3 (79) | 30:12.6 (69) | |||
| 62 | 40 | Li Geliang | CHN | 43:14.7 | 14:07.8 (67) | 29:41.3 (58) | |||
| 63 | 43 | Oleksandr Batiuk | UKR | 43:17.4 | 14:25.1 (76) | 30:05.6 (67) | |||
| 64 | 37 | Tian Ye | CHN | 43:32.2 | 14:10.1 (68) | 29:55.8 (63) | |||
| 65 | 38 | Vicenç Vilarrubla | ESP | 43:47.2 | 14:37.8 (=80) | 30:23.7 (71) | |||
| 66 | 56 | Denis Klobučar |  CRO | 43:55.4 | 13:55.0 (57) | 30:10.9 (68) | |||
| 67 | 33 | Ivan Bayrakov |  BUL | 44:06.3 | 13:55.6 (58) | 29:46.2 (59) | |||
| 68 | 20 | Valts Eiduks |  LAT | 44:12.0 | 14:02.2 (63) | 30:24.4 (72) | |||
| 69 | 24 | Wang Songtao | CHN | 44:12.2 | 14:06.7 (65) | 30:00.3 (65) | |||
| 70 | 28 | Damir Jurčević | CRO | 44:20.8 | 13:33.3 (37) | 29:55.5 (62) | |||
| 71 | 23 | Francesc Soulié |  AND | 44:42.6 | 14:11.7 (71) | 30:37.8 (74) | |||
| 72 | 25 | Mihai Galiceanu | ROU | 44:52.0 | 13:45.1 (50) | 30:05.0 (66) | |||
| 73 | 26 | Michal Malák | SVK | 44:52.9 | 14:47.6 (83) | 31:01.5 (77) | |||
| 74 | 44 | Muhammet Kızılarslan | TUR | 45:06.8 | 14:14.7 (73) | 30:51.9 (75) | |||
| 75 | 29 | Intars Spalviņš | LAT | 45:13.4 | 13:56.9 (60) | 30:24.6 (73) | |||
| 76 | 22 | Zoltán Tagscherer |  HUN | 45:20.3 | 14:12.7 (72) | 30:53.7 (76) | |||
| 77 | 18 | Oļegs Andrejevs | LAT | 45:44.2 | 13:38.2 (45) | 30:22.6 (70) | |||
| 78 | 17 | Choi Im-Heon |  KOR | 46:21.7 | 15:08.0 (89) | 32:01.0 (79) | |||
| 79 | 31 | Park Byeong-Ju | KOR | 46:38.9 | 14:56.7 (85) | 32:01.3 (80) | |||
| 80 | 34 | Jeong Ui-Myeong | KOR | 46:40.8 | 15:01.1 (87) | 32:04.5 (81) | |||
| 81 | 30 | Alen Abramović | CRO | 46:52.1 | 14:07.1 (66) | 31:44.4 (78) | |||
| 82 | 19 | Edmond Khachatryan |  ARM | 47:37.8 | 14:22.7 (75) | 32:04.8 (82) | |||
| 83 | 14 | Robel Teklemariam |  ETH | 47:53.8 | 14:28.1 (78) | 32:27.0 (83) | |||
| 84 | 11 | Darko Damjanovski |  MKD | 48:33.7 | 14:59.8 (86) | 32:44.9 (84) | |||
| 85 | 13 | Khürelbaataryn Khash-Erdene |  MGL | 48:47.2 | 15:03.0 (88) | 33:24.7 (86) | |||
| 86 | 1 | Martín Bianchi |  ARG | 49:08.0 | 14:37.8 (=80) | 33:27.5 (87) | |||
| 87 | 16 | Rory Morrish |  IRL | 50:28.1 | 15:13.9 (90) | 34:06.8 (88) | |||
| 88 | 9 | Hovhannes Sargsyan | ARM | 50:45.7 | 14:54.9 (84) | 34:24.7 (89) | |||
| 89 | 10 | Bojan Samardžija |  BIH | 51:28.8 | 15:27.5 (91) | 35:01.5 (90) | |||
| 90 | 15 | Seyed Mojtaba Mirhashemi |  IRI | 52:27.0 | 16:08.3 (92) | 35:32.7 (91) | |||
| 91 | 8 | Philip Boit |  KEN | 53:32.4 | 16:27.0 (93) | 36:07.8 (92) | |||
| 92 | 7 | Hélio Freitas |  BRA | 54:06.8 | 16:33.3 (94) | 36:46.9 (94) | |||
| 93 | 5 | Danny Silva |  POR | 54:34.1 | 16:37.3 (95) | 36:40.1 (93) | |||
| 94 | 4 | Dachhiri Sherpa |  NEP | 56:47.1 | 17:05.6 (96) | 38:00.4 (95) | |||
| 95 | 6 | Arturo Kinch |  CRC | 1-06:50.3 | 20:15.2 (98) | 45:19.1 (97) | |||
| 96 | 2 | Prawat Nagvajara |  THA | 1-07:15.9 | 19:38.8 (97) | 43:45.5 (96) | |||
| AC | 12 | Martin Tauber |  AUT | 38:49.5 | 12:50.2 (AC) | 26:58.6 (AC) | 1 | ||
| AC | 35 | Oliver Kraas |  RSA | – | 14:10.6 (69) | 33:03.2 (85) | |||
| AC | 3 | Aleksejus Novoselskis |  LTU | – | 14:43.1 (82) | – (–) |