Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics – Men's mass start
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The men's mass start competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 21 February, at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan.[1][2] Jorrit Bergsma of the Netherlands won the event. Viktor Hald Thorup of Denmark won the silver medal, marking the second Winter Olympic medal for Denmark. Andrea Giovannini of Italy won bronze, his first individual Olympic medal.[3][4]
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| Venue | Milano Speed Skating Stadium, Milan | ||||||||||||
| Date | 21 February 2026 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 29 from 17 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning points | 68 | ||||||||||||
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Background
The defending champion, Bart Swings, qualified for the event, as did the 2022 silver medalist, Chung Jae-won. The bronze medalist, Lee Seung-hoon, did not qualify. Before the Olympics, Jorrit Bergsma was leading the mass-start standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, closely followed by Andrea Giovannini, who was also the 2025 World champion in mass start.
Summary
Bergsma and Thorup escaped, and at some point were half a lap ahead of the pursuit group, which did not manage to catch them. Two laps before the finish, Bergsma escaped from Thorup. Giovannini was the first at the finish from the pursuit group.
Qualification
Results
Semifinals
| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Laps | Points | Time | Notes | ||||
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| S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | Total | |||||||
| 1 | 1 | Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu |  Canada | 16 | 60 | 60 | 7:42.49 | Q | |||
| 2 | 1 | Shomu Sasaki |  Japan | 16 | 40 | 40 | 7:42.61 | Q | |||
| 3 | 1 | Chung Jae-won |  South Korea | 16 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 7:42.81 | Q | ||
| 4 | 1 | Jordan Stolz |  United States | 16 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 7:43.81 | Q | |
| 5 | 1 | Mathieu Belloir |  France | 16 | 10 | 10 | 7:43.78 | Q | |||
| 6 | 1 | Indra Médard |  Belgium | 16 | 3 | 3 | 7:44.03 | Q | |||
| 7 | 1 | Jorrit Bergsma |  Netherlands | 16 | 3 | 3 | 7:47.81 | Q | |||
| 8 | 1 | Viktor Hald Thorup |  Denmark | 16 | 3 | 3 | 8:01.77 | Q | |||
| 9 | 1 | Daniele Di Stefano |  Italy | 16 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8:05.12 | |||
| 10 | 1 | Li Wenhao |  China | 16 | 2 | 2 | 7:53.54 | ||||
| 11 | 1 | Vladimir Semirunniy |  Poland | 16 | 1 | 1 | 7:46.08 | ||||
| 12 | 1 | Sigurd Holbø Dyrset |  Norway | 16 | 0 | 7:44.18 | |||||
| 13 | 1 | Felix Maly |  Germany | 16 | 0 | 7:46.65 | |||||
| 14 | 1 | Alexander Farthofer |  Austria | 16 | 0 | 7:55.59 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | Timothy Loubineaud | France | 16 | 1 | 60 | 61 | 7:47.23 | Q | ||
| 2 | 2 | Wu Yu | China | 16 | 40 | 40 | 7:47.92 | Q | |||
| 3 | 2 | Stijn van de Bunt | Netherlands | 16 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 24 | 7:51.46 | Q | |
| 4 | 2 | Andrea Giovannini | Italy | 16 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 7:51.81 | Q | ||
| 5 | 2 | Bart Swings | Belgium | 16 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 7:52.03 | Q | ||
| 6 | 2 | Metoděj Jílek |  Czech Republic | 16 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8:12.96 | Q | ||
| 7 | 2 | Gabriel Odor | Austria | 16 | 3 | 3 | 7:52.45 | Q | |||
| 8 | 2 | Motonaga Arito | Japan | 16 | 2 | 2 | 7:53.95 | Q | |||
| 9 | 2 | Ethan Cepuran | United States | 16 | 1 | 1 | 7:53.07 | ||||
| 10 | 2 | Livio Wenger |  Switzerland | 16 | 0 | 7:52.74 | |||||
| 11 | 2 | Daniel Hall | Canada | 16 | 0 | 7:53.68 | |||||
| 12 | 2 | Kim Min-seok |  Hungary | 16 | 0 | 7:53.86 | |||||
| 13 | 2 | Cho Seung-min | South Korea | 16 | 0 | 7:56.44 | |||||
| 14 | 2 | Fridtjof Petzold | Germany | 16 | 0 | 8:00.76 | |||||
| 15 | 2 | Didrik Eng Strand | Norway | 16 | 0 | 8:42.18 | |||||
Final
| Rank | Name | Country | Laps | Points | Time | ||||
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| S1 | S2 | S3 | S4 | Total | |||||
 | Jorrit Bergsma | Netherlands | 16 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 60 | 68 | 7:55.50 |
 | Viktor Hald Thorup | Denmark | 16 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 40 | 47 | 8:00.52 |
 | Andrea Giovannini | Italy | 16 | 1 | 20 | 21 | 8:04.42 | ||
| 4 | Jordan Stolz | United States | 16 | 10 | 10 | 8:04.51 | |||
| 5 | Chung Jae-won | South Korea | 16 | 6 | 6 | 8:04.60 | |||
| 6 | Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu | Canada | 16 | 3 | 3 | 8:04.76 | |||
| 7 | Mathieu Belloir | France | 16 | 1 | 1 | 8:12.96 | |||
| 8 | Indra Médard | Belgium | 16 | 1 | 1 | 8:26.25 | |||
| 9 | Bart Swings | Belgium | 16 | 0 | 8:05.37 | ||||
| 10 | Shomu Sasaki | Japan | 16 | 0 | 8:05.56 | ||||
| 11 | Timothy Loubineaud | France | 16 | 0 | 8:06.93 | ||||
| 12 | Gabriel Odor | Austria | 16 | 0 | 8:07.08 | ||||
| 13 | Motonaga Arito | Japan | 16 | 0 | 8:09.46 | ||||
| 14 | Metoděj Jílek | Czech Republic | 16 | 0 | 8:10.90 | ||||
| 15 | Wu Yu | China | 16 | 0 | 8:12.04 | ||||
| 16 | Stijn van de Bunt | Netherlands | 16 | 0 | 8:18.60 | ||||