| Ranking | | time | gap | | bib |
| 1. Pål Golberg and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo |  Norway | 5:21.43 | | Q | 1 |
| 2. Calle Halfvarsson and Edvin Anger |  Sweden | 5:28.94 | +7.51s | Q | 3 |
| 3. JC Schoonmaker and Ben Ogden |  United States | 5:29.89 | +8.46s | Q | 9 |
| 4. Maciej Staręga and Dominik Bury |  Poland | 5:30.85 | +9.42s | Q | 13 |
| 5. Niilo Moilanen and Joni Mäki |  Finland | 5:31.14 | +9.71s | Q | 4 |
| 6. Francesco De Fabiani and Federico Pellegrino |  Italy | 5:31.72 | +10.29s | Q | 2 |
| 7. Renaud Jay and Richard Jouve |  France | 5:32.66 | +11.23s | Q | 6 |
| 8. Luděk ŀeller and Michal Novák |  Czechia | 5:32.76 | +11.33s | Q | 7 |
| 9. Marko Kilp and Martin Himma |  Estonia | 5:34.38 | +12.95s | Q | 15 |
| 10.Antoine Cyr and Graham Ritchie |  Canada | 5:35.21 | +13.78s | Q | 8 |
| 11.Roman Schaad and Janik Riebli |  Switzerland | 5:35.87 | +14.44s | Q | 12 |
| 12.James Clugnet and Andrew Young |  Great Britain | 5:37.52 | +16.09s | Q | 10 |
| 13.Vili Ŭrv and Miha ŀimenc |  Slovenia | 5:38.47 | +17.04s | Q | 19 |
| 14.Benjamin Moser and Lukas Mrkonjic |  Austria | 5:39.01 | +17.58s | Q | 16 |
| 15.Friedrich Moch and Janosch Brugger |  Germany | 5:39.69 | +18.26s | Q | 5 |
| eliminated |
| 16.Takanori Ebina and Haruki Yamashita |  Japan | 5:43.89 | +22.46s | | 11 |
| 17.Raimo Vīgants and Lauris Kaparkalējs |  Latvia | 5:44.24 | +22.81s | | 20 |
| 18.Lars Young Vik and Seve de Campo |  Australia | 5:49.15 | +27.72s | | 22 |
| 19.Paul Constantin Pepene and Raul Mihai Popa |  Romania | 5:54.23 | +32.80s | | 14 |
| 20.Modestas Vaičiulis and Tautvydas Strolia |  Lithuania | 5:54.55 | +33.12s | | 29 |
| 21.Konstantin Bortsov and Svyatoslav Matassov |  Kazakhstan | 5:54.89 | +33.46s | | 17 |
| 22.Snorri Einarsson and Dagur Benediktsson |  Iceland | 5:56.11 | +34.68s | | 21 |
| 23.Daniel Peshkov and Simeon Deyanov |  Bulgaria | 6:01.76 | +40.33s | | 18 |
| 24.Dmytro Drahun and Oleksandr Lisohor |  Ukraine | 6:03.71 | +42.28s | | 23 |
| 25.Marko Skender and Petar Perušić |  Croatia | 6:08.96 | +47.53s | | 27 |
| 26.Franco Dal Farra and Mateo Lorenzo Sauma |  Argentina | 6:10.77 | +49.34s | | 28 |
| 27.Kristóf Lágler and Ádám Kónya |  Hungary | 6:12.51 | +51.08s | | 26 |
| 28.Strahinja Erić and Miloš Stević |  Bosnia Herzegovina | 6:14.81 | +53.38s | | 25 |
| 29.Nikolaos Tsourekas and Apostolos Angelis |  Greece | 6:18.52 | +57.09s | | 31 |
| 30.Yusuf Emre Fırat and Yusuf Talay |  Turkey | 6:22.50 | +1:01.07 | | 30 |
| 31.Theo Mallett and Stevenson Savart |  Haiti | 6:30.37 | +1:08.94 | | 32 |
| 32.Stavre Jada and Darko Damjanovski |  North Macedonia | 6:36.98 | +1:15.55 | | 24 |
| 33.Sebastian Endrestad and Juan Luis Uberuaga |  Chile | 6:46.34 | +1:24.91 | | 33 |
| 34.José Cabeça and Filipe Cabrita |  Portugal | 7:47.78 | +2:26.35 | | 34 |
