title: Cross-country skiing at the 2011 Asian Winter Games
text: # 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)
  