The first 16 from each semi-final qualified for the final (much to my disgust...).
Men C (5.3km)
1 Tomas Dolezal CZE 23.38 2 Markus Prolingheuer GER 25.21 3 Chris Terkelsen DEN 25.22 4 James Pearce GBR 25.25 5 Aarto Hirvi FIN 25.30 6 Slawomir Wozniak POL 25.31 7 Magnus Palmberg SWE 25.58 8= Girts Vegeris URS 26.19 8= Fredrik Lowegren SWE 26.19 10 Kurt Schmid SUI 26.41 11 Oyvind Stokseth NOR 27.06 12 Thierry Lamury BEL 27.39 13 Rafal Fronia POL 27.49 14 Jesper D.Jensen DEN 28.12 15 Aleksander Klotchkov URS 28.16 16 Sebastian Bousser FRA 28.27 17 Blair Trewin AUS 28.40 18 Roberto Tunesi SUI 28.51 19 Zoltan Denes HUN 29.10 20 Libor Zridkavesely CZE 29.16 21 Marius Viorel Cristina ROM 29.26 22 Pierpaolo Corona ITA 29.37 23 Tore Sandvik NOR 29.41 24 Andrew Bourne AUS 29.54 25 Bernard Vliegen BEL 30.58 26 Andreas Polzl AUT 31.21 27 Mark Hemsted GBR 31.45 28 Peter O'Hara IRL 32.51 29 Aidan Boswell NZL 33.09 30 Fabio Hueller ITA 34.07 31 Stefan Wedlich GER 34.43 32 Thomas Krejci AUT 34.47 33 Jean Delaume FRA 36.19 34 Orlin Stanev BUL 36.40 35 Damir Gobec YUG 38.00 36 Tadahiro Inagaki JPN 41.31 37 Forest Pearson CAN 45.49 38 Juan Gonzalez ESP 56.12 39 Oscar Fidalgo ESP 56.13 Jouni Kahelin FIN DNF