The men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 9 February at Soldier Hollow.
All skiers started at once, making it the first mass start in cross-country skiing in Olympic history. The defending Olympic champion was the Finnish Mika Myllylä, who won in Nagano, but the 30 kilometre event was held in an interval start and in classical style. Johann Mühlegg of Spain originally won the competition, but he failed a doping test following his gold medal win in the 50 km classical race.
Results Rank Name Country Time Christian Hoffmann 1:11:31.0 Mikhail Botvinov 1:11:32.3 Kristen Skjeldal 1:11:42.7 4 Pietro Piller Cottrer 1:11:42.8 5 Ole Einar Bjørndalen 1:11:44.5 6 Lukáš Bauer 1:12:22.3 7 Nikolay Bolshakov 1:12:50.6 8 Sergey Kryanin 1:12:52.0 9 Cristian Zorzi 1:13:10.0 10 Emmanuel Jonnier 1:13:15.1 11 Vincent Vittoz 1:13:21.7 12 Thomas Alsgaard 1:13:30.2 13 Fabio Maj 1:13:43.5 14 Sergey Dolidovich 1:13:51.1 15 Vladimir Vilisov 1:13:54.1 16 René Sommerfeldt 1:13:55.8 17 Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 1:14:05.1 18 Andrey Nevzorov 1:14:12.1 19 Axel Teichmann 1:14:23.8 20 Martin Koukal 1:14:25.9 21 Andrew Johnson 1:14:26.9 22 Nikolay Chebotko 1:14:32.2 23 Gerhard Urain 1:14:33.9 24 Petr Michl 1:14:40.0 25 Markus Hasler 1:14:47.0 26 Zsolt Antal 1:14:47.1 27 Hiroyuki Imai 1:14:55.6 28 Patrick Mächler 1:15:03.4 29 Dmitry Tishkin 1:15:10.2 30 Masaaki Kozu 1:15:32.4 31 Stefan Kunz 1:15:56.8 32 Martin Bajčičák 1:16:08.5 33 Tobias Angerer 1:16:13.1 34 Gion-Andrea Bundi 1:16:19.6 35 Teemu Kattilakoski 1:16:20.9 36 Niklas Jonsson 1:16:25.2 37 Maksim Odnodvortsev 1:16:25.6 38 Wilhelm Aschwanden 1:16:32.4 39 Patrick Rölli 1:16:36.5 40 Sami Repo 1:16:48.2 41 Haritz Zunzunegui 1:17:06.5 42 Katsuhito Ebisawa 1:17:18.2 43 Jiří Magál 1:17:18.3 44 Denis Vorobyov 1:17:43.2 45 Donald Farley 1:17:43.6 46 Vladimir Bortsov 1:17:47.5 47 Alexandre Rousselet 1:18:01.3 48 Mitsuo Horigome 1:18:06.3 49 Tor-Arne Hetland 1:18:28.5 50 Roman Leybyuk 1:18:52.3 51 Silvio Fauner 1:19:49.3 52 Nikolay Semenyako 1:19:45.6 53 Aleksandr Sannikov 1:19:46.9 54 Lars Flora 1:20:42.7 55 Park Byeong-Ju 1:20:57.5 56 Carl Swenson 1:21:17.3 57 Vladislavas Zybaila 1:21:27.1 58 Juris Ģērmanis 1:22:30.4 59 Shin Doo-Sun 1:23:03.0 60 Pavo Raudsepp 1:23:08.3 61 Damir Jurčević 1:23:53.3 62 Aram Hadzhiyan 1:24:07.5 63 Vadim Gusevas 1:24:26.3 64 Denis Klobučar 1:25:39.0 65 Han Dawei 1:25:42.4 66 Zoltán Tagscherer 1:30:50.1 67 Ion Bucsa 1:32:48.9 68 Gjoko Dineski 1:33:33.9 Per Elofsson DNF Morgan Göransson DNF Justin Wadsworth DNF Sami Pietilä DNF Christophe Perrillat DNF Jeong Ui-myeong DNF Sabahattin Oğlago DNF Prawat Nagvajara DNF Johann Mühlegg DSQ Achim Walcher DSQ
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