The men's 50 kilometre freestyle cross-country skiing competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, was held on 22 February at Snow Harp. The competitors started with a 30-second interval.
Results The results:
Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 3 Bjørn Dæhlie 2:05:08.2 — 2 Niklas Jonsson 2:05:16.3 +8.1 4 Christian Hoffmann 2:06:01.8 +53.6 18 Alexey Prokourorov 2:06:41.5 +1:33.3 6 Fulvio Valbusa 2:06:44.3 +1:36.1 5 Thomas Alsgaard 2:07:21.5 +2:13.3 7 Johann Mühlegg 2:07:25.3 +2:17.1 1 Vladimir Smirnov 2:07:26.4 +2:18.2 15 Maurizio Pozzi 2:08:13.2 +3:05.0 10 14 Silvio Fauner 2:08:44.3 +3:36.1 11 9 Anders Eide 2:11:06.9 +5:58.7 12 8 Alois Stadlober 2:11:22.4 +6:14.2 13 12 Luboš Buchta 2:11:34.8 +6:26.6 14 25 Hervé Balland 2:11:55.9 +6:47.7 15 24 Andrei Noutrikhine 2:12:21.9 +7:13.7 16 16 Pietro Piller Cottrer 2:12:37.9 +7:29.7 17 47 Petr Michl 2:13:08.3 +8:00.1 18 21 Jeremias Wigger 2:13:50.5 +8:42.3 19 20 Ivan Batory 2:13:54.5 +8:46.3 20 17 Mathias Fredriksson 2:14:05.9 +8:57.7 21 26 Vincent Vittoz 2:14:16.2 +9:08.0 22 34 Wilhelm Aschwanden 2:14:18.0 +9:09.8 23 35 Andrey Nevzorov 2:15:14.7 +10:06.5 24 13 Tor Arne Hetland 2:15:21.7 +10:13.5 25 27 Jordi Ribo 2:16:04.8 +10:56.6 26 59 René Sommerfeldt 2:16:19.9 +11:11.7 27 50 Alexander Sannikov 2:16:34.4 +11:26.2 28 31 Stephan Kunz 2:16:36.2 +11:28.0 29 46 Donghai Qu 2:16:42.3 +11:34.1 30 33 Hiroyuki Imai 2:16:49.5 +11:41.3 31 64 Sergei Dolidovich 2:17:07.5 +11:59.3 32 79 Mitsuo Horigome 2:17:09.2 +12:01.0 33 65 Kazutoshi Nagahama 2:17:24.4 +12:16.2 34 10 Torgny Mogren 2:17:28.8 +12:20.6 35 45 Marcus Nash 2:17:37.8 +12:29.6 36 41 Andreas Schlütter 2:17:52.1 +12:43.9 37 76 Maxim Pitchouguine 2:18:19.1 +13:10.9 38 43 Achim Walcher 2:18:31.7 +13:23.5 39 42 Katsuhito Ebisawa 2:18:52.5 +13:44.3 40 39 Janusz Krężelok 2:19:04.4 +13:56.2 41 37 Michael Binzer 2:19:20.7 +14:12.5 42 52 Alvaro Gijon 2:20:24.7 +15:16.5 43 71 Olexander Zarovnyi 2:20:31.0 +15:22.8 44 22 Patrick Weaver 2:20:37.7 +15:29.5 45 75 Vladimir Bortsov 2:20:39.3 +15:31.1 46 66 Mikhailo Artyukhov 2:20:59.2 +15:51.0 47 67 Jiri Magal 2:21:30.5 +16:22.3 48 32 Anthony Evans 2:21:44.4 +16:36.2 49 63 Reto Burgermeister 2:22:28.3 +17:20.1 50 36 Nikolay Popovich 2:22:48.0 +17:39.8 51 57 Vladislavas Zybailo 2:23:34.6 +18:26.4 52 68 Marc Gilbertson 2:24:37.5 +19:29.3 53 53 John Bauer 2:24:45.4 +19:37.2 54 38 Juha Alm 2:25:00.2 +19:52.0 55 54 Vitaly Lilitchenko 2:25:58.0 +20:49.8 56 30 Chris Blanchard 2:26:58.9 +21:50.7 57 19 Aleksandr Ushkalenko 2:27:09.1 +22:00.9 58 58 Robin McKeever 2:28:19.0 +23:10.8 59 62 Paul Gray 2:29:08.2 +24:00.0 60 44 Roberts Raimo 2:30:49.9 +25:41.7 61 23 Doo Sun Sin 2:33:27.3 +28:19.1 62 77 Guido Visser 2:33:49.7 +28:41.5 11 Henrik Forsberg — — 28 Melis Aasmäe — — 29 Ricardas Panavas — — 40 Juan Jesús Gutiérrez — — 48 Donald Farley — — 49 Zsolt Antal — — 51 Viatscheslav Plaksunov — — 56 Gerhard Urain — — 60 Martin Bajcicak — — 61 Grigory Menshenin — — 69 Nikolai Semeniako — — 74 Ivan Hudac — — 78 Haritz Zunzunegui — — 55 Patrick Remy — — 70 Lukas Bauer — — 72 Beat Koch — — 73 Philippe Sanchez — —
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