# FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2005 – Men's sprint

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.
| 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 |