Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre freestyle


The men's 50 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, was held on 27 February at the Canmore Nordic Centre.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Maurilio De Zolt of Italy was the 1987 World champion and Thomas Wassberg was the defending champion from the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.

Results

Sources:
RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
69Gunde Svan2:04:30.9
64Maurilio De Zolt2:05:36.4
31Andreas Grünenfelder2:06:01.9
40Vegard Ulvang2:06:32.3
22Holger Bauroth2:07:02.4
20Jan Ottosson2:07:34.8
37Kari Ristanen2:08:08.1
38Uwe Bellmann2:08:18.6
6Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass2:08:20.0
1058Gianfranco Polvara2:08:40.3
1157Torgeir Bjørn2:08:41.0
1217Vladimir Sakhnov2:09:00.1
1316Giachem Guidon2:09:02.2
1455Jeremias Wigger2:09:05.3
1535Ladislav Švanda2:09:08.1
1641Albert Walder2:09:19.6
1747Claude Pierrat2:09:54.9
1812Fausto Bormetti2:10:20.7
1956Andre Blatter2:10:43.6
205Radim Nyč2:10:46.3
2143Pierre Harvey2:10:54.8
2259Harri Kirvesniemi2:11:41.8
2354Petr Lisičan2:11:44.4
242Guy Balland2:11:58.7
2551Mikhail Devyatyarov2:12:01.7
2672Yuri Burlakov2:12:02.2
2765Pavel Benc2:12:08.4
2848Torgny Mogren2:12:20.2
2910Heikki Kivikko2:12:27.1
3011Janež Kršinar2:12:33.5
3170Tor Håkon Holte2:12:56.6
3250Kazunari Sasaki2:13:09.6
3349Herbert Fritzenwenger2:13:27.6
3444Georg Fischer2:13:31.3
3574Markus Fähndrich2:13:33.2
3671Johann Standmann2:13:39.3
3768Dominique Locatelli2:13:56.8
3836Alexey Prokourorov2:14:01.0
3928Tanayuki Yuki2:16:24.7
4052Atanas Simidchev2:17:02.4
4142Alois Schwarz2:17:03.5
423Atsushi Egawa2:17:52.8
4323Dennis Lawrence2:17:55.7
448Einar Ólafsson2:18:21.9
4566Antti Ticklen2:18:41.8
4653Alain Masson2:19:21.7
4714Kevin Brochman2:19:45.5
4832Young Hae-Jun2:20:50.8
4961Wayne Dustin2:21:31.8
5015Ki Ho Park2:22:36.4
5146Kun Pyo Hong2:23:13.6
5233Sašo Grajf2:23:47.1
5326Jordi Ribó2:24:10.4
5425Martin Watkins2:24:48.3
5518Ewan MacKenzie2:24:58.2
5663Bill Spencer2:25:22.6
574Zidtsagaany Ganbat2:26:22.0
5821José Giro2:27:05.8
5919Julio Moreschi2:28:36.5
6045Dambajantsagiin Battulga2:30:33.7
617Roberto Alvárez3:22:25.1
1Alois Stadlober
13Walter Kuss
24Todor Makhov
27Mano Ketenzhiev
29Jean-Luc Thomas
30Dan Simoneau
39Thomas Wassberg
60Jon Engen
67Park Byung-woo
9Konstantin Ritter
34David Hislop
62Masaharu Yamazaki
73Milush Ivanchev