Cross-country skiing at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
# Cross-country skiing at the 2011 Asian Winter Games

Cross-country skiing at the 2011 Asian Winter Games was held at the Biathlon and Cross-Country Ski Complex in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The twelve events were scheduled for January 31 – February 6, 2011.

## Schedule

| Q | Qualification | F | Final |
| - | - | - | - |
| Event↓/Date → | 31st Mon | 31st Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 5th Sat | 6th Sun |
| Men's sprint classical | Q | F | | | | | |
| Men's team sprint freestyle | | | F | | | | |
| Men's 10 km classical | | | | | F | | |
| Men's 15 km freestyle | | | | F | | | |
| Men's 30 km classical | | | | | | | F |
| Men's 4 × 10 km relay | | | | | | F | |
| Women's sprint classical | Q | F | | | | | |
| Women's team sprint freestyle | | | F | | | | |
| Women's 5 km classical | | | | | F | | |
| Women's 10 km freestyle | | | | F | | | |
| Women's 15 km classical | | | | | | | F |
| Women's 4 × 5 km relay | | | | | | F | |

## Medalists

### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Sprint classical details | Alexey Poltoranin Kazakhstan | Nikolay Chebotko Kazakhstan | Yuichi Onda Japan |
| Team sprint freestyle details | Kazakhstan Alexey Poltoranin Nikolay Chebotko | Japan Masaya Kimura Nobu Naruse | South Korea Park Byung-joo Jung Eui-myung |
| 10 km classical details | Keishin Yoshida Japan | Nikolay Chebotko Kazakhstan | Alexey Poltoranin Kazakhstan |
| 15 km freestyle details | Keishin Yoshida Japan | Nobu Naruse Japan | Nikolay Chebotko Kazakhstan |
| 30 km classical details | Alexey Poltoranin Kazakhstan | Sergey Cherepanov Kazakhstan | Keishin Yoshida Japan |
| 4 × 10 km relay details | Kazakhstan Sergey Cherepanov Alexey Poltoranin Nikolay Chebotko Yevgeniy Velichko | Japan Kohei Shimizu Keishin Yoshida Masaya Kimura Nobu Naruse | South Korea Im Yeui-gyu Ha Tae-bok Lee Jun-gil Park Byung-joo |

### Women

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| Sprint classical details | Madoka Natsumi Japan | Yelena Kolomina Kazakhstan | Oxana Yatskaya Kazakhstan |
| Team sprint freestyle details | Kazakhstan Oxana Yatskaya Yelena Kolomina | China Man Dandan Li Hongxue | Japan Naoko Omori Yuki Kobayashi |
| 5 km classical details | Masako Ishida Japan | Madoka Natsumi Japan | Li Hongxue China |
| 10 km freestyle details | Lee Chae-won South Korea | Masako Ishida Japan | Yuki Kobayashi Japan |
| 15 km classical details | Masako Ishida Japan | Yelena Kolomina Kazakhstan | Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina Kazakhstan |
| 4 × 5 km relay details | Kazakhstan Yelena Kolomina Oxana Yatskaya Anastassiya Slonova Svetlana Malahova-Shishkina | Japan Madoka Natsumi Masako Ishida Yuki Kobayashi Michiko Kashiwabara | China Man Dandan Li Hongxue Li Xin Liu Yuanyuan |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 6 | 5 | 4 | 15 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 5 | 6 | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | China (CHN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Totals (4 entries) | Totals (4 entries) | 12 | 12 | 12 | 36 |

## Participating nations

A total of 44 athletes from 7 nations competed in cross-country skiing at the 2011 Asian Winter Games:

* Afghanistan (1)
* China (5)
* India (8)
* Iran (3)
* Japan (10)
* Kazakhstan (8)
* South Korea (9)
