Cross-country skiing at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre freestyle


The men's 50 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 2014 Sochi Olympics took place on 23 February at Laura Biathlon & Ski Complex.

Summary

Initially, the podium was taken by Alexander Legkov, Maxim Vylegzhanin, and Ilia Chernousov, all represented Russia. This was the first clean sweep in men's cross-country skiing since 1992, when all medals were won by Norwegians and the first ever for Russia/Soviet Union.
In November 2017, Legkov and Vylegzhanin were disqualified for doping offences, and their gold and silver medals respectively were stripped. On 1 February 2018, their results were restored as a result of the successful appeal.

Qualification

Athletes with a maximum of 100 FIS distance points were allowed to compete in either the sprint or distance events, or both. Athletes with a maximum 120 FIS sprint points were allowed to compete in the sprint and distance, provided their distance points did not exceed 300 FIS points. National Olympic Committees who did not have any athletes meeting the A standard could enter one competitor of each gender, known as the basic quota, in only the classical event. They must have a maximum of 300 FIS distance points at the end of qualifying on 20 January 2014. The qualification period began in July 2012.

Results

The race was started at 11:00.
RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
3Alexander Legkov1:46:55.2—
7Maxim Vylegzhanin1:46:55.9+0.7
8Ilia Chernousov1:46:56.0+0.8
11:46:56.2+1.0
40Sergei Dolidovich1:47:09.5+14.3
10Robin Duvillard1:47:10.1+14.9
21Anders Södergren1:47:13.0+17.8
12Daniel Richardsson1:47:19.6+24.4
19Johan Olsson1:47:27.3+32.1
1042Iivo Niskanen1:47:27.5+32.3
1120Roland Clara1:47:28.6+33.4
1227Curdin Perl1:47:31.3+36.1
1330Ivan Perrillat Boiteux1:47:31.7+36.5
1443Martin Bajčičák1:47:34.4+39.2
1513Matti Heikkinen1:47:35.0+39.8
1649David Hofer1:47:35.7+40.5
1729Michail Semenov1:47:36.0+40.8
185Petter Northug1:47:39.7+44.5
194Alex Harvey1:47:40.9+45.7
2014Ivan Babikov1:47:41.8+46.6
2117Tord Asle Gjerdalen1:47:43.5+48.3
2236Remo Fischer1:47:44.2+49.0
2325Lari Lehtonen1:47:48.7+53.5
2445Bernhard Tritscher1:47:51.7+56.5
2533Francesco de Fabiani1:47:51.8+56.6
2622Noah Hoffman1:48:04.3+1:09.1
2718Dario Cologna1:48:21.6+1:26.4
2838Graeme Killick1:48:22.4+1:27.2
2928Petr Novák1:48:41.0+1:45.8
3035Toni Livers1:48:49.9+1:54.7
3116Lukáš Bauer1:48:51.3+1:56.1
322Chris Jespersen1:49:21.3+2:26.1
3350Imanol Rojo1:49:21.9+2:26.7
3448Mark Starostin1:49:34.1+2:38.9
3511Jean-Marc Gaillard1:49:49.7+2:54.5
3615Thomas Bing1:49:56.1+3:00.9
3726Martin Jakš1:50:00.5+3:05.3
3823Konstantin Glavatskikh1:50:33.4+3:38.2
3924Axel Teichmann1:51:03.4+4:08.2
4062Arnd Peiffer1:51:31.5+4:36.3
4160Andrey Gridin1:51:41.7+4:46.5
4256Erik Lesser1:51:55.8+5:00.6
439Maurice Manificat1:52:01.6+5:06.4
4441Aivar Rehemaa1:52:22.1+5:26.9
4561Martin Møller1:52:32.7+5:37.5
4652Aliaksei Ivanou1:52:52.9+5:57.7
4751Javier Gutiérrez Cuevas1:53:02.5+6:07.3
4854Yerdos Akhmadiyev1:53:07.4+6:12.2
4953Karel Tammjärv1:53:23.0+6:27.8
5055Milanko Petrović1:53:35.1+6:39.9
5139Brian Gregg1:55:02.3+8:07.1
5232Jiří Magál1:56:28.7+9:33.5
5344Andrew Musgrave1:57:08.9+10:13.7
5447Sergey Cherepanov1:57:24.2+10:29.0
5534Yevgeniy Velichko1:58:10.6+11:15.4
5646Jesse Cockney1:59:16.6+12:21.4
5731Kris Freeman1:59:46.7+12:51.5
5858Edi Dadić2:02:35.5+15:40.3
5963Arvis Liepiņš2:04:45.6+17:50.4
6064Xu Wenlong2:08:02.0+21:06.8
66Darko Damjanovski
37Veselin Tzinzov
65Mladen Plakalović
59Martti Jylhä
6Johannes Dürr
57Torin Koos