WHISTLER, British Columbia, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- Dario Cologna of Switzerland won the Olympic gold medal Monday in the men's 15-kilometer cross-country race.
Pietro Piller Cottrer of Italy took the silver and Lukas Bauer of the Czech Republic collected the bronze.
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Petter Northug of Norway, the runaway leader on the World Cup cross-country skiing circuit, faded early and did not finish among the top 30 in a field of 96.
Cologna's gold medal was the third in the Vancouver Games for Switzerland, the most for any country to this point in the Olympics.