Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre
The men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, was held on Saturday 10 February at Autrans.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Gjermund Eggen of Norway was the 1966 World champion and Eero Mäntyranta of Finland was the defending Olympic champion from the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Results
Sources:| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| 5 | Harald Grønningen | 47:54.2 | |||
| 29 | Eero Mäntyranta | 47:56.1 | |||
| 66 | Gunnar Larsson | 48:33.7 | |||
| 65 | Kalevi Laurila | 48:37.6 | |||
| 12 | Jan Halvarsson | 48:39.1 | |||
| 41 | Bjarne Andersson | 48:41.1 | |||
| 57 | Pål Tyldum | 48:42.0 | |||
| 62 | Odd Martinsen | 48:49.3 | |||
| 17 | Valery Tarakanov | 49:04.4 | |||
| 10 | 54 | Kalevi Oikarainen | 49:11.1 | ||
| 11 | 26 | Assar Rönnlund | 49:25.3 | ||
| 12 | 55 | Walter Demel | 49:38.4 | ||
| 13 | 14 | Franco Stella | 49:59.8 | ||
| 14 | 72 | Karel Štefl | 50:15.4 | ||
| 15 | 47 | Giulio Deflorian | 50:19.4 | ||
| 16 | 48 | Anatoly Akentyev | 50:19.9 | ||
| 17 | 39 | Reidar Hjermstad | 50:25.7 | ||
| 18 | 42 | Josef Haas | 50:34.8 | ||
| 19 | 74 | Flury Koch | 50:37.2 | ||
| 20 | 38 | Karl Buhl | 50:38.1 | ||
| 21 | 52 | Józef Rysula | 50:38.5 | ||
| 22 | 69 | Vladimir Voronkov | 50:40.7 | ||
| 23 | 45 | Ján Fajstavr | 50:46.5 | ||
| 24 | 4 | Roger Pires | 50:52.6 | ||
| 25 | 19 | Petar Pankov | 50:54.1 | ||
| 26 | 28 | Fyodor Simashov | 51:05.3 | ||
| 27 | 27 | Václav Peřina | 51:06.6 | ||
| 28 | 32 | Victor Arbez | 51:20.5 | ||
| 29 | 33 | Gerhard Grimmer | 51:22.1 | ||
| 30 | 8 | Albert Giger | 51:26.6 | ||
| 31 | 53 | Andreas Janc | 51:29.8 | ||
| 32 | 68 | Franco Manfroi | 51:47.7 | ||
| 33 | 58 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | 51:51.6 | ||
| 34 | 44 | Mike Gallagher | 52:02.4 | ||
| 35 | 20 | Konrad Hischier | 52:06.4 | ||
| 36 | 22 | Franco Nones | 52:06.8 | ||
| 37 | 2 | Peter Thiel | 52:07.8 | ||
| 38 | 71 | Helmut Gerlach | 52:21.8 | ||
| 39 | 7 | Klaus Ganter | 52:30.0 | ||
| 40 | 9 | Alojz Kerštajn | 52:31.7 | ||
| 41 | 21 | Mike Elliott | 52:40.8 | ||
| 42 | 67 | Heinrich Wallner | 52:53.6 | ||
| 43 | 31 | Janez Mlinar | 52:54.4 | ||
| 44 | 59 | Felix Mathieu | 52:58.8 | ||
| 45 | 50 | Mirko Bavče | 53:10.7 | ||
| 46 | 64 | Jean Jobez | 53:22.1 | ||
| 47 | 35 | Ernst Pühringer | 53:23.0 | ||
| 48 | 6 | Bob Gray | 53:24.8 | ||
| 49 | 46 | Tibor Holéczy | 53:35.9 | ||
| 50 | 75 | Tokio Sato | 53:41.2 | ||
| 51 | 15 | Walter Failer | 54:12.5 | ||
| 52 | 60 | Gendgeegin Batmönkh | 54:21.3 | ||
| 53 | 34 | Akiyoshi Matsuoka | 54:46.2 | ||
| 54 | 30 | Luvsan-Ayuushiin Dashdemberel | 54:46.4 | ||
| 55 | 73 | Larry Damon | 55:07.2 | ||
| 56 | 76 | Nils Skulbru | 55:53.4 | ||
| 57 | 51 | Svend Carlsen | 56:09.5 | ||
| 58 | 43 | Tom Dakin | 56:49.9 | ||
| 59 | 63 | Peter Tancock | 57:31.1 | ||
| 60 | 24 | Ross Martin | 58:00.2 | +10:06.0 | |
| 61 | 56 | David Rees | 58:25.9 | +10:31.7 | |
| 62 | 13 | Yun Jong-im | 58:28.2 | +10:34.0 | |
| 63 | 37 | Rolf Pettersen | 58:31.8 | +10:37.6 | |
| 64 | 36 | Miklós Holló | 58:37.2 | +10:43.0 | |
| 65 | 10 | Hiroshi Ogawa | 59:55.4 | +12:01.2 | |
| 66 | 23 | Kim Chun-gi | +12:10.6 | ||
| 67 | 18 | Apollo Lynge | +12:40.6 | ||
| 68 | 3 | Dimitrios Andreadis | +12:57.9 | ||
| 69 | 1 | Şeref Çınar | +16:18.0 | ||
| 70 | 61 | Rızvan Özbey | +17:08.1 | ||
| 71 | 25 | Naci Öğün | +18:02.2 | ||
| 72 | 49 | Yaşar Ören | +21:09.4 | ||
| 11 | Hannu Taipale | ||||
| 40 | Kazuo Sato | ||||
| 70 | Axel Lesser | ||||
| 16 | Vít Fousek Jr. |