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1998 Giro d'Italia

Of the mass-start stages that contained mountains, four contained summit finishes: stage 11 to San Marino, stage 14 to Piancavallo, stage 18 to Passo di Pampeago, and stage 19 to Plan di Montecampione.

Andreja Koblar

Her best results were a sixth place at the Sprint 1995 in Antholz, a fourth place at 1999 in Holmenkollen at the mass start and a seventh place at the home World Cup 2001 individual race in Pokljuka.

Caitlin Compton

Compton's best finish at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships was 14th in the 4 x 5 km relay at Liberec in 2009 while her best individual finish was 48th in the 30 km mass start event at those same championships.

César Baena

Along with his brother Bernardo Baena he participated at the Oslo 2011 World Ski Championships, racing the 10 km classic qualification, the free sprint, the pursuit, the team sprint, and the 50 km mass start race.

Emil Hegle Svendsen

He was 32nd in the pursuit, 21st in the sprint, and 7th in the mass start, only seven points behind Sven Fischer in fourth place.

Eric Frenzel

Frenzel won a silver medal in the 4 x 5 km team event at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec and earned his best individual finish of eighth in the 10 km mass start at those same championships.

Geoffrey Soupe

Soupe made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, taking a third place finish during the race's first mass-start stage in Herning, Denmark; a result that Soupe stated that he was "sorry" for, after he was supposed to be leading out the team's main sprinter Arnaud Démare, until he was caught up in a final-corner crash.

Mariska Huisman

She did not start in the 2013 national championship mass start on 30 December 2013 due to the untimely death of her brother Sjoerd Huisman a few hours beforehand.

Olga Zaitseva

The best result is the 4th place in the 2004—05 season and winning the mass start discipline cup of the same season.

Tarjei Bø

One week later in Fort Kent, Maine, Bø finished all three races in third place (sprint, pursuit and mass start).

Thomas Wassberg

At the 1984 Winter Olympics, Wassberg beat out fellow Swede Gunde Svan by 4.9 seconds in the 50 km, the closest margin of victory ever in that event until Giorgio Di Centa (Italy) edged out Yevgeny Dementyev (Russia) by 0.8 seconds at the 2006 Winter Olympics though the 2006 event was a mass start event while the 1984 event was an interval start event.

Tim Hug

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2009 in Liberec, Hug finished 30th in the 10 km individual large hill, 39th in the 10 km mass start, and 41st in the 10 km individual normal hill events.

Vyacheslav Derkach

He has also won a pair of individual bronze medals, in the pursuit at Pokljuka in 1999/00 and the mass start at Osrblie in 2001/02.