The Sports Almanac

Winter Olympics
Cross Country Skiing - Pursuit

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

NORWAY - 9 Medals

ITALY - 6 Medals

RUSSIA - 5 Medals
Discontinued After 2010 Vancouver Games
Pursuit
Sprint
Team Sprint
Relay
Men's 18/15KM
Men's 50KM
Men's 30KM
Men's and Women's 10KM
Women's 5KM
Women's 20/30KM
Women's 15KM
Skiathlon

Men's Pursuit  Women's Pursuit  Medal Total
Through 2010 Vancouver Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1992
Bjorn Daehlie - Norway
Vegard Ulvang - Norway
Giorgio Vanzetta - Italy
1994
Bjorn Daehlie - Norway
Vladimir Smirnoz - Kazakhstan
Silvio Fauner - Italy
1998
Thomas Alsgaard - Norway
Bjorn Daehlie - Norway
Vladimir Smirnov - Kazakhstan
2002
Thomas Alsgaard - Norway/Frode Estil - Norway
NONE
Per Elofsson - Sweden
2006
Yevgeny Dementyev - Russia
Frode Estil - Norway
Pietro Piller Cottrer - Italy
2010
Marcus Hellner - Sweden
Tobias Angerer - Germany
Johan Olsson - Sweden

Women's Pursuit  Men's Pursuit  Medal Total
Through 2010 Vancouver Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1992
Lyubov Yegorova - Unified Team
Stefania Belmondo - Italy
Yelena Valbe - Unified Team
1994
Lyubov Yegorova - Russia
Manuela Di Centa - Italy
Stefania Belmondo - Italy
1998
Larisa Lazutina - Russia
Olga Danilova - Russia
Katerina Neumannova - Czech Republic
2002
Becky Scott - Canada
Katerina Neumannova - Czech Reoublic
Viola Bauer - Germany
2006
Kristina Smigun - Estonia
Katerina Neumannova - Czech Republic
Yevgeniya Medvedeva-Arbuzova - Russia
2010
Marit Bjorgen - Norway
Anna Haag - Sweden
Justyna Kowalczyk - Poland

Medal Total  Women's Pursuit  Men's Pursuit
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Norway
6
3
0
9
2
Italy
0
2
4
6
3
Russia
3
1
1
5
4
Sweden
1
1
2
4
5
Czech Republic
0
2
1
3
6
Unified Team
1
0
1
2
7
Kazakhstan
0
1
1
2
8
Germany
0
1
1
2
9
Canada
1
0
0
1
10
Estonia
1
0
0
1
11
Poland
0
0
1
1