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The Men 's 30 kilometre pursuit cross-country skiing competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin , Italy , was held on 12 February at Pragelato .. Pragelato. Pragelato. pursuit. pursuit racing. cross-country skiing. cross-country skiing. 2006 Winter Olympics. 2006 Winter Olympics. Turin. Turin. Italy. Italy. The pursuit in this format had been skied three times at the Nordic skiing World Championships , and Frenchman Vincent Vittoz was the reigning World Champion .. pursuit. pursuit racing. Nordic skiing World Championships. Nordic skiing World Championships. Vincent Vittoz. Vincent Vittoz. A pursuit event similar to this was skied at the 2002 Winter Olympics , where the gold was shared between Thomas Alsgaard -LRB- now retired -RRB- and Frode Estil , but the distance was 20 kilometres , not 30 .. Frode Estil. Frode Estil. pursuit. pursuit racing. Thomas Alsgaard. Thomas Alsgaard. The event opened dramatically as Estil fell at the start , causing a mass collision .. Then the pack kept together almost until the end , with skiers continually trailing off as they could not keep up with the pace .. Eventually , five men came into the finishing straight together , after Anders Sodergren of Sweden had tried to pull away on the final lap .. Anders Sodergren. Anders Sodergren. However , Sodergren could not keep up with the pace , and Russian Yevgeny Dementyev pulled away to defeat the defending Olympic champion Estil and win Russia 's first gold medal of the Games .. Yevgeny Dementyev. Yevgeny Dementyev