Cross-country skiing at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay

Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Pragelato
Dates	19 February
Competitors	64 from 16 nations
Teams	16
Winning time	1:43:45.7
Medalists
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The men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 19 February at Pragelato.^[1]

A World Cup event in the relay was held at

Val di Fiemme on 15 January 2006, which was won by an Italian team consisting of Giorgio Di Centa, Valerio Checchi, Pietro Piller Cottrer and Cristian Zorzi

. Four teams finished within 2.6 seconds of the Italian winners.

Hosts Italy won this relay, their fifth straight medal in relays in the Winter Olympics. They were over 15 seconds ahead of any competitors. Sweden took bronze, their first medal since 1988, and Norway failed to win a medal for the first time since 1988.

Results

Each team used four skiers, with each completing racing over the same 10 kilometre circuit. The first two raced in the classical style, and the final pair of skiers raced freestyle.^[2] The Austrian team was disqualified after the IOC declared all four members permanently ineligible for doping-related violations. This had a minimal effect on the final standings, as the Austrian team had been lapped during the race, ending up last overall.^[3]

The race was started at 10:00.^[4]

Rank	Bib	Team	Time	Deficit
	4	Italy Fulvio Valbusa Giorgio Di Centa Pietro Piller Cottrer Cristian Zorzi	1:43:45.7 25:54.0 26:50.6 24:59.1 26:02.0	—
	2	Germany Andreas Schlütter Jens Filbrich René Sommerfeldt Tobias Angerer	1:44:01.4 25:53.9 26:50.2 25:18.9 25:58.4	+15.7
	7	Sweden Mats Larsson Johan Olsson Anders Södergren Mathias Fredriksson	1:44:01.7 25:53.4 26:55.4 25:00.5 26:12.4	+16.0
4	6	Christophe Perrillat Alexandre Rousselet Emmanuel Jonnier Vincent Vittoz	1:44:22.8 26:05.4 26:46.2 25:47.1 25:44.1	+37.1
5	1	Norway Jens Arne Svartedal Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset Frode Estil Tore Ruud Hofstad	1:44:56.3 25:53.0 26:50.8 25:42.8 26:29.7	+1:10.6
6	3	Russia Sergey Novikov Vasily Rochev Ivan Alypov Yevgeny Dementyev	1:45:09.9 26:03.7 26:39.8 25:58.2 26:28.2	+1:24.2
7	15	Switzerland Reto Burgermeister Christian Stebler Toni Livers Remo Fischer	1:45:10.9 26:02.0 26:50.2 25:46.4 26:32.3	+1:25.2
8	9	Estonia Aivar Rehemaa Andrus Veerpalu Jaak Mae Kaspar Kokk	1:45:23.8 26:45.7 26:39.9 25:32.0 26:26.2	+1:38.1
9	8	Czech Republic Martin Koukal Lukáš Bauer Jiří Magál Dušan Kožíšek	1:46:03.3 26:01.6 26:41.3 25:19.6 28:00.8	+2:17.6
10	12	Finland Sami Jauhojärvi Tero Similä Olli Ohtonen Teemu Kattilakoski	1:46:36.1 25:56.1 27:28.9 25:53.4 27:17.7	+2:50.4
11	13	Canada Devon Kershaw Sean Crooks Chris Jeffries George Grey	1:48:15.9 25:52.3 29:30.6 26:02.3 26:50.7	+4:30.2
12	11	United States Kris Freeman Lars Flora Andrew Johnson Carl Swenson	1:48:44.2 26:03.1 28:27.8 26:44.1 27:29.2	+4:58.5
13	10	Yevgeniy Koschevoy	1:49:03.6 26:03.5 27:48.5 26:18.9 28:52.7	+5:17.9
14	14	Vladimir Olschanski Olexandr Putsko Mikhail Gumenyak	1:50:01.9 26:36.7 28:32.5 26:28.5 28:24.2	+6:16.2
15	16	Zhang Qing	1:50:40.5 27:27.9 28:46.3 26:23.6 28:02.7	+6:54.8
	5	Martin Täuber Jürgen Pinter Roland Diethart Johannes Eder	DSQ