Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre


The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Saturday 23 February at Mount Van Hoevenberg, Essex County, New York. Sven-Åke Lundbäck of Sweden was the 1978 World champion and Ivar Formo of Norway was the defending champion from the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 43 athletes who started the race, 6 did not finish. Nikolay Zimyatov of the Soviet Union took his third Gold medal of the games after winning the 30 kilometre and being part of Soviet Union's winning 4 × 10 km relay team.

Results

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RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
41Nikolay Zimyatov2:27:24.60
38Juha Mieto2:30:20.52
14Alexander Zavyalov2:30:51.52
47Lars Erik Eriksen2:30:53.03
6Sergey Savelyev2:31:15.82
28Yevgeny Belyayev2:31:21.19
20Oddvar Brå2:31:46.83
36Sven-Åke Lundbäck2:31:59.65
21Asko Autio2:32:25.57
1018Franz Renggli2:33:27.56
1133Matti Pitkänen2:34:09.04
1240Jean-Paul Pierrat2:34:13.07
1337Bill Koch2:34:31.62
1410Heinz Gähler2:35:11.20
152Anders Bakken2:35:33.26
168Thomas Eriksson2:36:33.85
1742Józef Łuszczek2:36:38.05
185Pertti Teurajärvi2:36:44.08
1922Giulio Capitanio2:37:01.40
2023Jim Galanes2:37:09.64
2112Peter Zipfel2:37:09.74
2246Dieter Notz2:37:47.41
2344Jiří Beran2:37:51.58
2432Kjell Jakob Sollie2:38:06.07
2539Roberto Primus2:38:10.10
2624Alf-Gerd Deckert2:38:13.53
2717František Šimon2:39:53.03
284Franz Schöbel2:40:25.96
2930Josef Schneider2:40:49.68
3026Jiří Švub2:40:53.94
3111Michel Thierry2:41:38.26
321Gianfranco Polvara2:41:51.58
3327Stan Dunklee2:42:20.20
3435Erik Gustavsson2:43:39.93
3529Paul Fargeix2:45:39.70
3619Luvsandashiin Dorj2:48:22.97
3734Shiro Sato2:48:33.02
7Philippe Poirot
9Doug Peterson
15Stig Jäder
25Gaudenz Ambühl
31Maurilio De Zolt
45Konrad Hallenbarter
3Þröstur Johannesson
13Tone Ðuričič
16Haukur Sigurðsson
43Khristo Barzanov