The men's 15 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 14 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex. Dario Cologna from Switzerland was the defending champion from Vancouver and was successful in defending the title. Johan Olsson and Daniel Rickardsson from Sweden took silver and bronze.

Qualification

An athlete with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points (the A standard) will be allowed to compete in both or one of the event (sprint/distance). An athlete with a maximum 120 FIS sprint points will be allowed to compete in the sprint event and 10 km for women or 15 km for men provided their distance points do not exceed 300 FIS points. NOC's who do not have any athlete meeting the A standard can enter one competitor of each sex (known as the basic quota) in only 10 km classical event for women or 15 km classical event for men. They must have a maximum of 300 FIS distance points at the end of qualifying on January 20, 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.

Results The race was started at 14:00.

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 35 Dario Cologna 38:29.7 — 34 Johan Olsson 38:58.2 +28.5 43 Daniel Rickardsson 39:08.5 +38.8 13 Iivo Niskanen 39:08.7 +39.0 37 Lukáš Bauer 39:28.6 +58.9 52 Chris Jespersen 39:30.6 +1:00.9 31 Alexander Bessmertnykh 39:37.7 +1:08.0 26 Axel Teichmann 39:42.4 +1.12.7 51 Alexey Poltoranin 39:43.2 +1:13.5 10 48 Marcus Hellner 39:46.9 +1:17.2 11 49 Hannes Dotzler 39:49.9 +1:20.2 12 33 Eldar Rønning 40:02.8 +1:33.1 13 53 Martin Johnsrud Sundby 40:07.4 +1:37.7 14 29 Jens Filbrich 40:08.5 +1:38.8 15 28 Lars Nelson 40:08.8 +1.39.1 16 47 Dmitry Yaparov 40:10.7 +1:41.0 17 40 Sami Jauhojärvi 40.14.4 +1:44.7 18 45 Pål Golberg 40:14.5 +1.44.8 19 42 Stanislav Volzhentsev 40:15.0 +1:45.3 20 41 Matti Heikkinen 40:17.8 +1:48.1 21 44 Jean-Marc Gaillard 40:22.8 +1:53.1 22 25 Curdin Perl 40:27.8 +1:58.1 23 10 Martin Bajčičák 40:28.0 +1:58.3 24 11 Jonas Baumann 40.33.2 +2:03.5 25 46 Evgeniy Belov 40:36.8 +2:07.1 26 36 Tim Tscharnke 40:41.3 +2:11.6 27 60 Philipp Haelg 40:41.5 +2:11.8 28 14 Ville Nousiainen 40:52.6 +2:22.9 29 4 Maciej Kreczmer 40.58.7 +2:29.0 30 22 Francesco de Fabiani 41:00.8 +2:31.1 31 32 Noah Hoffman 41:02.7 +2:33.0 32 30 Dietmar Nöckler 41:11.9 +2:42.2 33 7 Nikolay Chebotko 41.14.1 +2:44.4 34 21 Yevgeniy Velichko 41:16.4 +2:46.7 35 38 Devon Kershaw 41:17.1 +2:47.4 36 27 Mattia Pellegrin 41:20.1 +2:50.4 37 70 Andrew Young 41:29.6 +2:59.9 38 12 Erik Bjornsen 41:44.7 +3:15.0 39 39 Ivan Babikov 41:49.2 +3:19.5 40 15 Aivar Rehemaa 41.49.8 +3:20.1 41 20 Veselin Tzinzov 42:06.3 +3:36.6 42 6 Algo Kärp 42:16.5 +3.46.8 43 16 Adrien Backscheider 42.21.7 +3:52.0 44 9 Andrew Musgrave 42.25.7 +3.56.0 45 57 Karel Tammjärv 42:27.7 +3.58.0 46 1 Sergey Mikayelyan 42:39.1 +4:09.4 47 18 Brian Gregg 42:42.0 +4:12.3 48 2 Fabio Pasini 42:42.3 +4.12.6 49 54 Alexander Lasutkin 42:45.1 +4.15.4 50 55 Imanol Rojo 42:45.4 +4.15.7 51 64 Peter Mlynár 42:50.3 +4.20.6 52 23 Kris Freeman 42:54.8 +4:25.1 53 17 Sergei Dolidovich 42:55.4 +4:25.7 54 58 Yerdos Akhmadiyev 43:02.2 +4:32.5 55 65 Sebastian Gazurek 43:06.7 +4:37.0 56 5 Cyril Miranda 43:22.5 +4:52.8 57 3 Max Hauke 43:23.4 +4:53.7 58 68 Martin Møller 43:29.7 +5:00.0 59 24 Michail Semenov 43:36.0 +5:06.3 60 62 Edi Dadić 43:38.8 +5:09.1 61 59 Raido Ränkel 43:38.9 +5:09.2 62 8 Paul Constantin Pepene 43:39.4 +5:09.7 63 56 43:43.9 +5:14.2 64 69 Pawel Klisz 43:51.6 +5:21.9 65 19 Graeme Killick 44:04.8 +5:35.1 66 63 Maciej Staręga 44:07.1 +5:37.4 67 66 Callum Smith 44:14.7 +5:45.0 68 78 Hwang Jun-Ho 44:34.8 +6:05.1 69 71 Oleksiy Krasovsky 44:35.4 +6:05.7 70 72 Vytautas Strolia 45:08.0 +6:38.3 71 73 Sabahattin Oğlago 45:16.0 +6:46.3 72 81 Sun Qinghai 45:28.2 +6:58.5 73 75 Arvis Liepiņš 45:36.2 +7:06.5 74 85 Sævar Birgisson 45:44.2 +7:14.5 75 67 Callum Watson 45:46.5 +7:16.8 76 74 Phillip Bellingham 46:16.4 +7:46.7 77 61 Milanko Petrović 46:42.2 +8:12.5 78 80 Milán Szabó 47:01.3 +8:31.6 79 83 Sattar Seid 47:16.1 +8:46.4 80 86 Bold Byambadorj 48:29.6 +9:59.9 81 79 Darko Damjanovski 48:34.9 +10:05.2 82 87 Jan Rossiter 48:44.6 +10:14.9 83 84 Federico Cichero 49:11.3 +10:41.6 84 88 Tucker Murphy 49:19.9 +10:50.2 85 89 Nadeem Iqbal 55:12.5 +16:42.8 86 91 Dachhiri Sherpa 55:39.3 +17:09.6 87 92 Roberto Carcelen 1:06:28.9 +27:59.2 50 Alex Harvey DNF 82 Jānis Paipals DNF 77 Rejhan Šmrković DNF 90 Gary di Silvestri DNF 76 Artur Yeghoyan DNS

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