The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, was held on Sunday 19 February at Veliko Polje, Igman. It was the last event of the men's cross-country skiing programme at these games and the fourteenth appearance of the 50 kilometre race as it had appeared in every Winter games. Thomas Wassberg of Sweden was the 1982 World champion and Nikolay Zimyatov of the Soviet Union was the defending champion from the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid, United States.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 54 athletes who started the race, 4 did not finish. Thomas Wassberg of the Sweden took his second gold medal of the games after being part of Sweden's winning men's 4 x 10km relay team, and his third all-time gold medal. His fellow countryman Gunde Svan took silver and therefore won a medal in every cross-country event for men.
Results Sources: Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 48 Thomas Wassberg 2:15:55.8 38 Gunde Svan 2:16:00.7 46 Aki Karvonen 2:17:04.7 43 Harri Kirvesniemi 2:18:34.1 41 Jan Lindvall 2:19:27.1 47 Andi Grünenfelder 2:19:46.2 30 Alexander Zavyalov 2:20:27.6 19 Vladimir Sakhnov 2:20:53.7 40 Konrad Hallenbarter 2:21:11.6 10 24 Juha Mieto 2:21:53.1 11 8 Lars Erik Eriksen 2:22:09.6 12 22 Tor Håkon Holte 2:22:12.7 13 51 Nikolay Zimyatov 2:22:15.0 14 16 Jan Ottosson 2:22:24.0 15 7 Kari Ristanen 2:23:10.6 16 12 Alexander Batyuk 2:23:17.0 17 14 Bill Koch 2:24:02.4 18 32 Audun Endestad 2:24:14.4 19 25 Giachem Guidon 2:24:25.9 20 39 Pierre Harvey 2:25:04.1 21 2 Gianfranco Polvara 2:25:07.6 22 45 Maurilio De Zolt 2:25:14.9 23 31 Miloš Bečvář 2:25:23.7 24 33 Alois Stadlober 2:25:26.3 25 10 Markus Fähndrich 2:25:26.4 26 21 Dan Simoneau 2:25:43.1 27 36 Józef Łuszczek 2:25:46.9 28 44 Dominique Locatelli 2:26:21.3 29 5 Franz Gattermann 2:26:40.8 30 50 Giorgio Vanzetta 2:27:08.3 31 55 Jim Galanes 2:28:00.7 32 15 Dušan Ðuričić 2:28:23.4 33 27 Peter Juric 2:28:38.8 34 29 Giulio Capitanio 2:28:51.7 35 4 Josef Schneider 2:29:29.5 36 34 Janež Kršinar 2:30:16.2 37 28 Franz Schöbel 2:30:30.2 38 42 Peter Zipfel 2:30:57.7 39 13 Anders Larsson 2:31:43.6 40 35 Milush Ivanchev 2:32:15.9 41 11 José Giro 2:33:31.5 42 23 Jože Klemenčić 2:35:22.4 43 37 Uwe Wünsch 2:35:48.9 44 9 Mark Moore 2:36:32.8 45 20 John Spotswood 2:38:03.2 46 17 Miguel Prat 2:38:07.0 47 26 Satoshi Sato 2:39:43.1 48 3 David Hislop 2:39:53.1 49 18 Chris Allen 2:44:19.1 50 1 Ricardo Holler 3:05:41.2 6 Kazunari Sasaki 49 Atanas Simidchev 53 Ove Aunli 54 Uwe Bellmann 52 Jochen Behle 56 Jean-Denis Jaussaud
References
External links Final results (International Ski Federation)