Cross-country skiing at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Whistler Olympic Park
Dates	15–28 February
No. of events	12
Competitors	292 from 55 nations

Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Olympics
Distance
10 km		women
15 km	men	women
30 km	men	women
50 km	men
4 × 5 km relay		women
4 × 10 km relay	men
Sprint
Individual	men	women
Team	men	women

The cross-country skiing competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver were held at Whistler Olympic Park. The events were held between 15 and 28 February 2010.

Medals summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	5	2	2	9
2	Sweden	3	2	2	7
3	Germany	1	4	0	5
4	Russia	1	1	2	4
5	Poland	1	1	1	3
6	Switzerland	1	0	0	1
7	Estonia	0	1	0	1
	Italy	0	1	0	1
9	Czech Republic	0	0	2	2
	Finland	0	0	2	2
11	Slovenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		12	12	12	36

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km freestyle	Dario Cologna  Switzerland	33:36.3	Pietro Piller Cottrer  Italy	34:00.9	Lukáš Bauer  Czech Republic	34:12.0
30 km pursuit	Marcus Hellner  Sweden	1:15:11.4	Tobias Angerer  Germany	1:15:13.5	Johan Olsson  Sweden	1:15:14.2
50 km classical	Petter Northug  Norway	2:05:35.5	Axel Teichmann  Germany	2:05:35.8	Johan Olsson  Sweden	2:05:36.5
4 × 10 km relay	Sweden Daniel Richardsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Marcus Hellner	1:45:05.4	Norway Martin Johnsrud Sundby Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Lars Berger Petter Northug	1:45:21.3	Czech Republic Martin Jakš Lukáš Bauer Jiří Magál Martin Koukal	1:45:21.9
Sprint	Nikita Kryukov  Russia	3:36.3	Alexander Panzhinskiy  Russia	3:36.3	Petter Northug  Norway	3:45.5
Team Sprint	Norway Øystein Pettersen Petter Northug	19:01.0	Germany Tim Tscharnke Axel Teichmann	19:02.3	Russia Nikolay Morilov Alexey Petukhov	19:02.5

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km freestyle	Charlotte Kalla  Sweden	24:58.4	Kristina Šmigun-Vähi  Estonia	25:05.0	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	25:14.3
15 km pursuit	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	39:58.1	Anna Haag  Sweden	40:07.0	Justyna Kowalczyk  Poland	40:07.4
30 km classical	Justyna Kowalczyk  Poland	1:30:33.7	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	1:30:34.0	Aino-Kaisa Saarinen  Finland	1:31:38.7
4 × 5 km relay	Norway Vibeke Skofterud Therese Johaug Kristin Størmer Steira Marit Bjørgen	55:19.5	Germany Katrin Zeller Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Miriam Gössner Claudia Nystad	55:44.1	Finland Pirjo Muranen Virpi Kuitunen Riitta-Liisa Roponen Aino-Kaisa Saarinen	55:49.9
Sprint	Marit Bjørgen  Norway	3:39.2	Justyna Kowalczyk  Poland	3:40.3	Petra Majdič  Slovenia	3:41.0
Team Sprint	Germany Evi Sachenbacher-Stehle Claudia Nystad	18:03.7	Sweden Charlotte Kalla Anna Haag	18:04.3	Russia Irina Khazova Natalya Korostelyova	18:07.7

Competition schedule

All times are Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

Qualification

Across the twelve cross-country skiing events, a maximum of 310 athletes are allowed to compete. No nation can have more than 20 skiers competing, with an additional limit of 12 men or 12 women per specific nation. For each event, a nation can enter four skiers in individual events and one team in relay races.

"A" Competitors with less than 100 distance FIS points will be allowed to compete in any event. Competitors with less than 120 sprint FIS points will be allowed to compete in sprint events only.

"B" Countries that do not have a skier that meets the "A" Qualification standard have the right to enter one male and one female skier in either the sprint or the 10 km (women)/ 15 km (men) on condition that the skiers competed at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 and have a maximum of 300 FIS points in the event concerned.

A basic quota of one man and one woman was assigned to all nations competing. Each nation with a skier in the top 300 of the distance or sprint FIS points lists was allocated one additional quota place. For top 30 in the 2009-10 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup extra quota places were allocated separately for both genders, nations with two or more skiers in the top 30 earning two more skiers and nations with one skier in the top 30 earning one extra place. The remaining quotas were allocated to countries based on the FIS point allocation list. Once a nation reached the maximum of 20 slots it became ineligible to earn any more slots. Quota places not used up by the National Olympic Committees were returned to the pool and reallocated. This process started on 18 January 2006 and ran until 28 January 2010.

Participating nations

55 countries participated in the 2010 edition.

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 2010 Winter Paralympics

References

• May 2009 FIS Qualification for the 2010 Winter Olympics. - accessed 21 January 2010. Cross-country skiing is on pages 4–6.
• Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule v13 at the Wayback Machine (archived January 16, 2010)