Stepan BurlakovChief Editor SportAll materialsBeijing, 19 Feb. Russian skier Alexander Bolshunov won the third gold at the Olympic Games in Beijing. He became the first in the final race of the men's program — free style mass start. Due to bad weather, the distance was reduced from 50 to 28.4 kilometers. Bolshunov covered this distance in 1 hour 11 minutes 32.7 seconds. Silver was also on the account of the Russian team — Ivan Yakimushkin was 5.5 seconds behind Bolshunov. The third place was taken by Norwegian Simen Hegstad Kruger (+7.0). Another Russian, Artem Maltsev, was fourth (+10.7), Denis Spitsov was sixth (+26.2). Norwegian Johannes Klebo, who won two gold medals at the Olympics, retired at the 21st kilometer.
