FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 – Men's sprint

Men's sprint at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005
Venue	Oberstdorf
Date	22 February 2005
Competitors	89 from 40 nations
Medalists
Vasily Rochev    Russia   Tor Arne Hetland    Norway   Thobias Fredriksson    Sweden
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The men's sprint cross-country skiing competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 was held on 22 February 2005 in Oberstdorf, Germany.

Results

Qualification

89 competitors started the qualification race.^[1]

Rank	Bib	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	46	Vasily Rochev	Russia	2:33.52	—	Q
2	40	Björn Lind	Sweden	2:34.25	+0.73	Q
3	26	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	2:34.26	+0.74	Q
4	13	Mats Larsson	Sweden	2:34.97	+1.45	Q
5	49	Tor Arne Hetland	Norway	2:35.83	+2.31	Q
6	37	Trond Iversen	Norway	2:35.87	+2.35	Q
7	41	Thobias Fredriksson	Sweden	2:35.90	+2.38	Q
8	30	Lauri Pyykönen	Finland	2:36.20	+2.68	Q
9	45	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Norway	2:36.39	+2.87	Q
10	35	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia	2:36.65	+3.13	Q
11	48	Janusz Krezelok	Poland	2:36.78	+3.26	Q
12	42	Eldar Rønning	Norway	2:37.02	+3.50	Q
13	21	Devon Kershaw	Canada	2:37.03	+3.51	Q
14	34	Keijo Kurttila	Finland	2:37.09	+3.57	Q
15	29	Priit Narusk	Estonia	2:38.37	+4.85	Q
16	28	Andrew Newell	United States	2:38.40	+4.88	Q
17	23	Maciej Kreczmer	Poland	2:38.42	+4.90
18	10	Andreas Schlütter	Germany	2:38.97	+5.45
19	18	George Grey	Canada	2:39.04	+5.52
20	2	Franz Göring	Germany	2:39.07	+5.55
21	20	Drew Goldsack	Canada	2:39.82	+6.30
22	5	Yevgeniy Koschevoy	Kazakhstan	2:40.20	+6.68
23	24	Fabio Pasini	Italy	2:40.24	+6.72
24	44	Fredrik Östberg	Sweden	2:40.26	+6.74
25	31	Jari Joutsen	Finland	2:40.42	+6.90
26	32	Loris Frasnelli	Italy	2:40.45	+6.93
27	47	Jörgen Brink	Sweden	2:40.60	+7.08
28	55	Vitaly Martsyv	Ukraine	2:40.73	+7.21
29	50	Christoph Eigenmann	Switzerland	2:40.74	+7.22
30	43	Renato Pasini	Italy	2:40.88	+7.36
31	17	Paul Murray	Australia	2:41.11	+7.59
32	25	Torin Koos	United States	2:41.39	+7.87
33	38	Freddy Schwienbacher	Italy	2:41.49	+7.97
34	39	Ivan Alypov	Russia	2:41.54	+8.02
35	51	Roddy Darragon	France	2:42.83	+9.31
36	52	Li Geliang	China	2:43.17	+9.65
37	6	Gordon Jewett	Canada	2:43.24	+9.72
38	19	Dusan Kozisek	Czech Republic	2:43.28	+9.76
39	56	Roman Leybyuk	Ukraine	2:43.36	+9.84
40	27	Lefteris Fafalis	Greece	2:43.49	+9.97
41	14	Shunsuke Komamura	Japan	2:43.83	+10.31
42	11	Nejc Brodar	Slovenia	2:44.09	+10.57
43	9	Stanislav Holenčík	Slovakia	2:44.16	+10.64
44	33	Peter von Allmen	Switzerland	2:45.37	+11.85
45	15	Benoît Chauvet	France	2:45.40	+11.88
46	68	Mikhail Gumenyak	Ukraine	2:46.39	+12.87
47	3	Michal Malak	Slovakia	2:46.40	+12.88
48	1	Andrey Kondroschev	Kazakhstan	2:47.24	+13.72
49	16	Martin Møller	Denmark	2:48.51	+14.99
50	8	Alexander Legkov	Russia	2:48.60	+15.08
51	53	Tian Ye	China	2:48.92	+15.40
52	54	Lars Flora	United States	2:48.96	+15.44
53	7	Artem Norin	Russia	2:49.19	+15.67
54	57	Ben Sim	Australia	2:50.39	+16.87
55	59	Alexey Ivanov	Belarus	2:50.50	+16.98
56	22	Thomas Stöggl	Austria	2:50.76	+17.24
57	69	Olexandr Putsko	Ukraine	2:51.42	+17.90
58	64	Mihai Galiteanu	Romania	2:51.67	+18.15
59	4	Oliver Kraas	South Africa	2:51.86	+18.34
60	67	Zhiguang Li	China	2:52.51	+18.99
61	62	Dawei Han	China	2:53.34	+19.82
62	60	Aleksei Novoselki	Lithuania	2:53.54	+20.02
63	61	Sebastian Sørensen	Denmark	2:55.64	+22.12
64	12	Zoltan Tagscherer	Hungary	2:55.73	+22.21
65	58	Denis Klobučar	Croatia	2:57.90	+24.38
66	71	Andrew Mock	Australia	2:58.42	+24.90
67	66	Damir Jurčević	Croatia	2:59.65	+26.13
68	72	Jakob Jakobsson	Iceland	3:00.15	+26.63
69	65	Daniel Kuzmin	Israel	3:00.89	+27.37
70	70	Ivan Bariakov	Bulgaria	3:01.77	+28.25
71	63	Ben Derrick	Australia	3:02.93	+29.41
72	89	Khurebaatar Khah-Erdene	Mongolia	3:03.51	+29.99
73	73	Muhammet Kizilarslan	Turkey	3:06.16	+32.64
74	75	Veselin Tzinzov	Bulgaria	3:09.02	+35.50
75	83	Csaba Cseke	Hungary	3:09.95	+36.43
76	79	Hovhannes Sargsyan	Armenia	3:10.49	+36.97
77	76	Martin Bianchi	Argentina	3:12.00	+38.48
78	86	Edmond Khachatryan	Armenia	3:14.80	+41.28
79	78	Alan Eason	Great Britain	3:16.15	+42.63
80	36	Erki Jallai	Estonia	3:18.02	+44.50
80	80	Burhan Oglago	Turkey	3:18.02	+44.50
82	74	Matyas Hollo	Hungary	3:18.09	+44.57
83	88	Igor Ilieski	Macedonia	3:23.51	+49.99
84	82	Berau Ferreira	South Africa	3:27.72	+54.20
85	77	Gjoko Icoski	Macedonia	3:32.14	+58.62
86	81	Borce Jovanoski	Macedonia	3:45.20	+1:11.68
87	87	Ile Spaseski	Macedonia	3:48.87	+1:15.35
88	84	Danny Silva	Portugal	4:27.76	+1:54.24
89	85	Helio Freitas	Brazil	4:38.41	+2:04.89

Quarterfinals

Q - Qualified for next round
PF - Photo Finish

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	1	Vasily Rochev	Russia	2:33.9	—	Q
2	9	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Norway	2:35.0	+1.1	Q
3	16	Andrew Newell	United States	2:36.1	+2.2	12th PF
4	8	Lauri Pyykönen	Finland	2:36.2	+2.3	13th PF

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	5	Tor Arne Hetland	Norway	2:33.5	—	Q
2	4	Mats Larsson	Sweden	2:33.9	+0.4	Q
3	12	Eldar Rønning	Norway	2:31.4	+0.1	11th
4	13	Devon Kershaw	Canada	2:37.9	+4.4	14th

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	7	Thobias Fredriksson	Sweden	2:32.3	—	Q
2	2	Björn Lind	Sweden	2:32.5	+0.2	Q
3	10	Anti Saarepuu	Estonia	2:32.9	+0.6	10th
4	15	Priit Narusk	Estonia	2:38.2	+5.9	16th

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	3	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	2:33.1	—	Q
2	11	Janusz Krezelok	Poland	2:33.3	+0.2	Q PF
3	6	Trond Iversen	Norway	2:33.3	+0.2	9th PF
4	14	Keijo Kurttila	Finland	2:33.4	+0.3	15th

Semifinals

Semifinal 1

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	5	Tor Arne Hetland	Norway	2:31.3	—	QA PF
2	1	Vasily Rochev	Russia	2:31.4	+0.1	QA PF
3	9	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Norway	2:31.4	+0.1	QB PF
4	4	Mats Larsson	Sweden	2:37.9	+6.6	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	7	Thobias Fredriksson	Sweden	2:37.4	—	QA
2	2	Björn Lind	Sweden	2:37.9	+0.5	QA
3	3	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	2:38.7	+1.3	QB
4	11	Janusz Krezelok	Poland	2:41.1	+3.7	QB

Finals

Final A

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
	1	Vasily Rochev	Russia	2:32.1	—	1st
	5	Tor Arne Hetland	Norway	2:32.3	+0.2	2nd
	7	Thobias Fredriksson	Sweden	2:39.0	+6.9	3rd
4	2	Björn Lind	Sweden	3:15.9	+43.8	4th

Final B

Rank	Seed	Athlete	Country	Time	Deficit	Note
1	9	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset	Norway	2:36.0	—	5th PF
2	4	Mats Larsson	Sweden	2:36.1	+0.1	6th PF
3	11	Janusz Krezelok	Poland	2:42.9	+6.9	7th
4	3	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	2:48.4	+12.4	8th

References

External links

• Qualification results
• Final results