# Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre classical

The men's 15 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 17 February at Pragelato.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Pietro Piller Cottrer was the 2005 World champion, though he did it in freestyle. The defending Olympic champion was the Estonian Andrus Veerpalu, who won in Salt Lake. There had been three World Cup events in this competition: German Tobias Angerer won the first in November, Vasily Rochev of Russia won in Estonia in January, and Jens Arne Svartedal won in Davos a week and a half before the games. However, neither of the World Cup winners took the gold in Turin, as defending champion Veerpalu peaked at the right time to win by 14 seconds.

## Results

Martin Tauber, an Austrian skier, originally placed 8th, but was disqualified after the IOC declared him permanently ineligible for doping-related violations.
The race was started at 10:00.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 89 | Andrus Veerpalu | Estonia | 38:01.3 | – |
| | 93 | Lukáš Bauer | Czech Republic | 38:15.8 | +14.5 |
| | 99 | Tobias Angerer | Germany | 38:20.5 | +19.2 |
| 4 | 91 | Vasily Rochev | Russia | 38:24.4 | +23.1 |
| 5 | 79 | Jaak Mae | Estonia | 38:35.2 | +33.9 |
| 6 | 74 | Johan Olsson | Sweden | 38:38.8 | +37.5 |
| 7 | 85 | Andreas Schlütter | Germany | 38:44.7 | +43.4 |
| 8 | 88 | Sergey Novikov | Russia | 39:15.0 | +1:13.7 |
| 9 | 84 | Sami Jauhojärvi | Finland | 39:15.3 | +1:14.0 |
| 10 | 92 | Anders Södergren | Sweden | 39:17.1 | +1:15.8 |
| 11 | 95 | René Sommerfeldt | Germany | 39:17.2 | +1:15.9 |
| 12 | 80 | Fulvio Valbusa | Italy | 39:18.8 | +1:17.5 |
| 13 | 94 | Mathias Fredriksson | Sweden | 39:19.1 | +1:17.8 |
| 14 | 98 | Vincent Vittoz | France | 39:27.3 | +1:26.0 |
| 15 | 49 | Alexander Lasutkin | Belarus | 39:35.3 | +1:34.0 |
| 16 | 96 | Frode Estil | Norway | 39:39.6 | +1:38.3 |
| 17 | 65 | Roman Leybyuk | Ukraine | 39:48.1 | +1:46.8 |
| 18 | 87 | Alexandre Rousselet | France | 39:48.4 | +1:47.1 |
| 19 | 69 | Mats Larsson | Sweden | 39:51.7 | +1:50.4 |
| 20 | 76 | Anders Aukland | Norway | 39:53.6 | +1:52.3 |
| 21 | 73 | Kris Freeman | United States | 39:57.4 | +1:56.1 |
| 22 | 77 | Ivan Babikov | Russia | 39:59.5 | +1:58.2 |
| 23 | 71 | Jean-Marc Gaillard | France | 40:09.2 | +2:07.9 |
| 24 | 78 | Christophe Perrillat | France | 40:12.0 | +2:10.7 |
| 25 | 54 | Janusz Krężelok | Poland | 40:24.5 | +2:23.2 |
| 26 | 64 | Ivan Bátory | Slovakia | 40:26.1 | +2:24.8 |
| 27 | 81 | Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset | Norway | 40:31.3 | +2:30.0 |
| 28 | 82 | Martin Bajčičák | Slovakia | 40:35.6 | +2:34.3 |
| 29 | 63 | Christian Stebler | Switzerland | 40:38.6 | +2:37.3 |
| 30 | 48 | Dmitrij Eremenko | Kazakhstan | 40:42.8 | +2:41.5 |
| 31 | 61 | George Grey | Canada | 40:43.9 | +2:42.6 |
| 32 | 72 | Tero Similä | Finland | 40:44.5 | +2:43.2 |
| 33 | 83 | Fabio Santus | Italy | 40:47.0 | +2:45.7 |
| 34 | 46 | Ivan Arteev | Russia | 40:49.1 | +2:47.8 |
| 35 | 55 | Kaspar Kokk | Estonia | 40:51.7 | +2:50.4 |
| 36 | 67 | Maxim Odnodvortsev | Kazakhstan | 40:53.2 | +2:51.9 |
| 37 | 52 | Andrey Golovko | Kazakhstan | 40:58.0 | +2:56.7 |
| 38 | 86 | Valerio Checchi | Italy | 41:01.5 | +3:00.2 |
| 39 | 21 | Alexey Poltaranin | Kazakhstan | 41:09.7 | +3:08.4 |
| 40 | 68 | Cristian Saracco | Italy | 41:12.0 | +3:10.7 |
| 41 | 53 | Nobu Naruse | Japan | 41:22.0 | +3:20.7 |
| 42 | 70 | Katsuhito Ebisawa | Japan | 41:25.8 | +3:24.5 |
| 43 | 75 | Franz Göring | Germany | 41:29.9 | +3:28.6 |
| 44 | 97 | Jens Arne Svartedal | Norway | 41:32.4 | +3:31.1 |
| 45 | 60 | Priit Narusk | Estonia | 41:35.8 | +3:34.5 |
| 46 | 66 | Diego Ruiz | Spain | 41:37.9 | +3:36.6 |
| 47 | 41 | Devon Kershaw | Canada | 41:42.7 | +3:41.4 |
| 48 | 62 | Olli Ohtonen | Finland | 41:47.4 | +3:46.1 |
| 49 | 36 | Xia Wan | China | 41:48.0 | +3:46.7 |
| 50 | 47 | Lars Flora | United States | 41:53.1 | +3:51.8 |
| 51 | 59 | Andrew Johnson | United States | 41:53.9 | +3:52.6 |
| 52 | 51 | Justin Freeman | United States | 42:00.9 | +3:59.6 |
| 53 | 42 | Drew Goldsack | Canada | 42:09.3 | +4:08.0 |
| 54 | 39 | Lauri Pyykönen | Finland | 42:10.4 | +4:09.1 |
| 55 | 27 | Sabahattin Oglago | Turkey | 42:18.9 | +4:17.6 |
| 56 | 32 | Vladimir Olschanski | Ukraine | 42:39.6 | +4:38.3 |
| 57 | 58 | Dan Roycroft | Canada | 42:39.7 | +4:38.4 |
| 58 | 57 | Petr Michl | Czech Republic | 42:54.0 | +4:52.7 |
| 59 | 45 | Jože Mehle | Slovenia | 42:56.9 | +4:55.6 |
| 60 | 50 | Vitaly Martsyv | Ukraine | 42:57.4 | +4:56.1 |
| 61 | 40 | Zsolt Antal | Romania | 43:10.0 | +5:08.7 |
| 62 | 43 | Li Geliang | China | 43:14.7 | +5:13.4 |
| 63 | 37 | Oleksandr Batiuk | Ukraine | 43:17.4 | +5:16.1 |
| 64 | 38 | Tian Ye | China | 43:32.2 | +5:30.9 |
| 65 | 56 | Vicente Vilarrubla | Spain | 43:47.2 | +5:45.9 |
| 66 | 33 | Denis Klobučar | Croatia | 43:55.4 | +5:54.1 |
| 67 | 20 | Ivan Bariakov | Bulgaria | 44:06.3 | +6:05.0 |
| 68 | 24 | Valts Eiduks | Latvia | 44:12.0 | +6:10.7 |
| 69 | 28 | Wang Songtao | China | 44:12.2 | +6:10.9 |
| 70 | 23 | Damir Jurčević | Croatia | 44:20.8 | +6:19.5 |
| 71 | 25 | Francesc Soulie | Andorra | 44:42.6 | +6:41.3 |
| 72 | 26 | Mihai Galiceanu | Romania | 44:52.0 | +6:50.7 |
| 73 | 44 | Michal Malák | Slovakia | 44:52.9 | +6:51.6 |
| 74 | 29 | Muhammet Kızılarslan | Turkey | 45:06.8 | +7:05.5 |
| 75 | 22 | Intars Spalvins | Latvia | 45:13.4 | +7:12.1 |
| 76 | 18 | Zoltan Tagscherer | Hungary | 45:20.3 | +7:19.0 |
| 77 | 17 | Olegs Andrejevs | Latvia | 45:44.2 | +7:42.9 |
| 78 | 31 | Choi Im-heon | South Korea | 46:21.7 | +8:20.4 |
| 79 | 34 | Park Byung-joo | South Korea | 46:38.9 | +8:37.6 |
| 80 | 30 | Jung Eui-myung | South Korea | 46:40.8 | +8:39.5 |
| 81 | 19 | Alen Abramović | Croatia | 46:52.1 | +8:50.8 |
| 82 | 14 | Edmond Khachatryan | Armenia | 47:37.8 | +9:36.5 |
| 83 | 11 | Robel Teklemariam | Ethiopia | 47:53.8 | +9:52.5 |
| 84 | 13 | Darko Damjanovski | Macedonia | 48:33.7 | +10:32.4 |
| 85 | 1 | Khash Erdene Khurelbaatar | Mongolia | 48:47.2 | +10:45.9 |
| 86 | 16 | Martin Bianchi | Argentina | 49:08.0 | +11:06.7 |
| 87 | 9 | Rory Morrish | Ireland | 50:28.1 | +12:26.8 |
| 88 | 10 | Hovhannes Sargsyan | Armenia | 50:45.7 | +12:44.4 |
| 89 | 15 | Bojan Samardija | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 51:28.8 | +13:27.5 |
| 90 | 8 | Mojtaba Mirhashemi | Iran | 52:27.0 | +14:25.7 |
| 91 | 7 | Phillip Kimely Boit | Kenya | 53:32.4 | +15:31.1 |
| 92 | 5 | Helio Freitas | Brazil | 54:06.8 | +16:05.5 |
| 93 | 4 | Danny Silva | Portugal | 54:34.1 | +16:32.8 |
| 94 | 6 | Dachhiri Sherpa | Nepal | 56:47.1 | +18:45.8 |
| 95 | 2 | Arturo Kinch | Costa Rica | 1:06:50.3 | +28:49.0 |
| 96 | 3 | Prawat Nagvajara | Thailand | 1:07:15.9 | +29:14.6 |
| | 12 | Oliver Kraas | South Africa | DNF | |
| | 35 | Aleksei Novoselski | Lithuania | DNF | |
| DQ | 90 | Martin Tauber | Austria | 38:49.5 | +48.2 |