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Skiathlon (20 kilometres), Men

Date	8 February 2026 — 12:30
Status	Olympic
Location	Lago di Tésero Cross Country Stadium, Tésero, Trentino
Participants	74 from 37 countries
Format	10 km of classical style followed by 10 km of freestyle.
Details	Course Length: 20.40 km Height Differential: 59 m / 44 m Lap Length: 3383 m / 3418 m Maximum Climb: 46 m / 30 m Number of Laps: 3 / 3 Total Climbing: 123 m / 134 m

This was the first event of the Milano-Cortina men’s cross-country programme and it was expected to be a coronation for Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, by consensus the greatest cross-country skier in the world. Klæbo had won the event at the 2025 World Championships, when he won all six of the men’s events, and coming into the 2026 Winter Olympics he had 109 wins on the World Cup circuit. The only question seemed to be if Norway could sweep the medals in the event.

Klæbo won his first gold medal at Milano-Cortina 2026 but it was more difficult than expected. He trailed his teammate Martin Nyenget at the 10 km exchange, and France’s Hugo Lapalus and Mathis Desloges were right with him. Lapalus took the lead on the freestyle leg and held it thru 17 km, but Klæbo finally passed him at 18.8 km, and moved ahead to win his first gold medal of the 2026 Winter Olympics, winning by two seconds. Behind him Desloges and Nyenget passed Lapalus and took silver and bronze.

Klæbo would go on to win all six of the men’s cross-country events at Milano-Cortina 2026. Nyenget would earn a full set of medals, taking bronze in the 50 km and gold in the men’s relay. Desloges would win three silvers at Milano-Cortina, also finishing second in the 10 km and the men’s relay.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Time	Classical	Pit Stop	Freestyle
1	1	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	NOR	46:11.0	23:22.6 (2)	25.9 (=3)	22:22.5 (2)	Gold
2	9	Mathis Desloges	FRA	46:13.0	23:25.3 (7)	26.6 (=8)	22:21.1 (1)	Silver
3	4	Martin Nyenget	NOR	46:13.1	23:22.1 (1)	28.2 (=16)	22:22.8 (3)	Bronze
4	15	Savely Korostelyov	AIN	46:14.6	23:24.7 (6)	26.3 (5)	22:23.6 (4)
5	6	Hugo Lapalus	FRA	46:15.3	23:24.6 (5)	25.9 (=3)	22:24.8 (6)
6	2	Harald Amundsen	NOR	46:41.4	23:24.3 (4)	25.5 (=1)	22:51.6 (=14)
7	29	Truls Gisselman	SWE	46:47.8	23:27.4 (8)	28.8 (=23)	22:51.6 (=14)
8	19	Davide Graz	ITA	47:00.0	24:04.2 (11)	27.9 (=12)	22:27.9 (8)
9	13	Jules Lapierre	FRA	47:00.3	24:04.7 (12)	26.5 (=6)	22:29.1 (9)
10	17	Andrew Musgrave	GBR	47:00.5	24:05.2 (13)	28.8 (=23)	22:26.5 (7)
11	10	Arsi Ruuskanen	FIN	47:00.9	24:05.7 (14)	31.1 (=42)	22:24.1 (5)
12	16	William Poromaa	SWE	47:22.1	24:09.1 (20)	26.5 (=6)	22:46.5 (13)
13	35	Xavier McKeever	CAN	47:22.3	24:07.0 (17)	30.3 (34)	22:45.0 (12)
14	5	Elia Barp	ITA	47:22.5	24:24.4 (25)	27.7 (11)	22:30.4 (10)
15	20	Victor Lovera	FRA	47:23.1	24:12.6 (23)	28.4 (=18)	22:42.1 (11)
16	31	Joe Davies	GBR	47:35.9	24:08.0 (19)	28.6 (=21)	22:59.3 (16)
17	12	Iivo Niskanen	FIN	47:52.6	23:49.7 (9)	30.4 (=35)	23:32.5 (25)
18	28	Niko Anttola	FIN	47:56.0	24:06.4 (16)	32.7 (=54)	23:16.9 (19)
19	21	Michal Novák	CZE	48:02.2	23:56.4 (10)	28.0 (=14)	23:37.8 (27)
20	11	Federico Pellegrino	ITA	48:02.5	24:26.7 (29)	31.0 (=40)	23:04.8 (17)
21	3	Mattis Stenshagen	NOR	48:03.7	23:23.8 (3)	28.6 (=21)	24:11.3 (37)
22	40	Ryo Hirose	JPN	48:14.8	24:06.0 (15)	27.4 (10)	23:41.4 (28)
23	26	Martino Carollo	ITA	48:27.5	24:38.9 (32)	30.7 (37)	23:17.9 (20)			1
24	14	Gus Schumacher	USA	48:27.5	24:33.0 (31)	28.2 (=16)	23:26.3 (23)			2
25	24	Antoine Cyr	CAN	48:30.9	24:07.5 (18)	30.4 (=35)	23:53.0 (30)
26	18	Friedrich Moch	GER	48:36.3	24:10.5 (22)	31.6 (=45)	23:54.2 (31)
27	42	Max Hollmann	CAN	48:37.0	24:39.8 (34)	34.2 (61)	23:23.0 (21)
28	25	Florian Notz	GER	48:37.7	24:31.8 (30)	28.4 (=18)	23:37.5 (26)
29	39	Matyáš Bauer	CZE	48:41.2	24:10.0 (21)	30.0 (=32)	24:01.2 (33)
30	41	Nicola Wigger	SUI	48:51.1	24:23.7 (24)	25.5 (=1)	24:01.9 (34)
31	44	Hunter Wonders	USA	49:02.1	24:26.2 (28)	32.3 (52)	24:03.6 (35)
32	34	Dominik Bury	POL	49:05.7	25:14.0 (40)	27.9 (=12)	23:23.8 (22)
33	43	Jakob Moch	GER	49:08.9	25:24.6 (41)	28.9 (25)	23:15.4 (18)
34	33	Naoto Baba	JPN	49:09.9	24:52.8 (36)	31.8 (48)	23:45.3 (29)
35	36	Thomas Maloney Westgård	IRL	49:24.6	24:57.2 (37)	31.1 (=42)	23:56.3 (32)
36	38	Zanden McMullen	USA	49:26.3	24:25.7 (27)	38.2 (71)	24:22.4 (40)
37	8	Edvin Anger	SWE	49:26.8	25:26.7 (43)	29.4 (=29)	23:30.7 (24)
38	30	Alvar Alev	EST	49:27.7	24:43.5 (35)	28.0 (=14)	24:16.2 (38)
39	22	Gustaf Berglund	SWE	49:28.0	24:25.1 (26)	31.6 (=45)	24:31.3 (44)
40	46	Mike Ophoff	CZE	49:29.9	24:39.3 (33)	31.7 (47)	24:18.9 (39)
41	7	Mika Vermeulen	AUT	50:00.7	24:58.0 (38)	31.0 (=40)	24:31.7 (45)
42	37	Rémi Drolet	CAN	50:22.0	25:26.9 (44)	29.0 (26)	24:26.1 (42)
43	23	Zak Ketterson	USA	50:23.5	25:26.1 (42)	31.9 (49)	24:25.5 (41)
44	45	Daito Yamazaki	JPN	50:30.9	25:50.6 (49)	29.3 (28)	24:11.0 (36)
45	57	Amirgali Muratbekov	KAZ	50:39.0	25:29.8 (47)	35.5 (67)	24:33.7 (46)			3
46	32	Beda Klee	SUI	50:39.0	25:13.4 (39)	26.6 (=8)	24:59.0 (50)			4
47	51	Sebastian Bryja	POL	51:05.6	25:49.6 (48)	30.9 (39)	24:45.1 (48)
48	58	Mikayel Mikayelyan	ARM	51:06.8	26:07.2 (51)	30.0 (=32)	24:29.6 (43)
49	56	Nail Bashmakov	KAZ	51:12.6	25:54.6 (50)	28.5 (20)	24:49.5 (49)
50	49	Paul Pepene	ROU	51:18.2	26:07.9 (52)	32.1 (=50)	24:38.2 (47)
51	47	Raimo Vīgants	LAT	52:01.8	25:29.2 (46)	35.4 (66)	25:57.2 (54)
52	27	Ristomatti Hakola	FIN	52:11.6	25:27.4 (45)	33.0 (58)	26:11.2 (57)
53	48	Oleksandr Lisohor	UKR	52:45.2	26:22.9 (54)	32.4 (53)	25:49.9 (53)
54	59	Gabriel Cojocaru	ROU	53:00.2	26:48.0 (60)	32.9 (57)	25:39.3 (51)
55	62	Batmönkhiin Achbadrakh	MGL	53:06.2	26:09.7 (53)	44.1 (74)	26:12.4 (59)
56	54	Hugo Hinckfuss	AUS	53:21.6	26:45.7 (59)	34.3 (62)	26:01.6 (56)
57	55	Seve de Campo	AUS	53:24.1	26:42.4 (58)	29.2 (27)	26:12.5 (60)
58	66	Lee Jun-Seo	KOR	53:39.0	26:25.7 (55)	32.1 (=50)	26:41.2 (63)
59	63	Dmytro Drahun	UKR	53:43.0	27:11.1 (61)	30.8 (38)	26:01.1 (55)
60	53	Peter Hinds	SVK	53:44.7	27:24.8 (63)	33.1 (59)	25:46.8 (52)
61	52	Franco dal Farra	ARG	53:48.3	26:39.2 (57)	33.8 (60)	26:35.3 (62)
62	61	Mario Matikanov	BUL	54:04.4	27:21.0 (62)	31.3 (44)	26:12.1 (58)
63	67	Ádám Kónya	HUN	54:12.8	27:25.5 (64)	32.7 (=54)	26:14.6 (61)
64	71	Stevenson Savart	HAI	56:52.8	27:29.7 (65)	38.3 (72)	28:44.8 (64)
65	60	Li Minglin	CHN	–	27:50.6 (66)	32.8 (56)	– (–)		Lapped
66	50	Dagur Benediktsson	ISL	–	27:57.8 (67)	34.5 (=63)	– (–)		Lapped
67	75	Mateo Lorenzo Sauma	ARG	–	28:52.8 (69)	34.5 (=63)	– (–)		Lapped
68	74	Adam Buki	HUN	–	29:14.5 (71)	29.6 (31)	– (–)		Lapped
69	64	Fredrik Fodstad	COL	–	28:50.0 (68)	36.2 (70)	– (–)		Lapped
70	70	Tautvydas Strolia	LTU	–	29:11.9 (70)	34.8 (65)	– (–)		Lapped
71	68	Mark Chanloung	THA	–	29:22.2 (72)	29.4 (=29)	– (–)		Lapped
72	69	Sebastian Endrestad	CHI	–	29:26.8 (73)	40.2 (73)	– (–)		Lapped
73	72	Timo Grönlund	BOL	–	29:42.3 (74)	35.8 (=68)	– (–)		Lapped
DNF	65	Daniel Peshkov	BUL	–	26:29.7 (56)	– (–)	– (–)
DNS	73	Apostolos Angelis	GRE	–	– (–)	– (–)	– (–)