The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Saturday 23 February at Mount Van Hoevenberg, Essex County, New York. Sven-Åke Lundbäck of Sweden was the 1978 World champion and Ivar Formo of Norway was the defending champion from the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 43 athletes who started the race, 6 did not finish. Nikolay Zimyatov of the Soviet Union took his third Gold medal of the games after winning the 30 kilometre and being part of Soviet Union's winning 4 × 10 km relay team.
Results Sources: Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 41 Nikolay Zimyatov 2:27:24.60 38 Juha Mieto 2:30:20.52 14 Alexander Zavyalov 2:30:51.52 47 Lars Erik Eriksen 2:30:53.03 6 Sergey Savelyev 2:31:15.82 28 Yevgeny Belyayev 2:31:21.19 20 Oddvar Brå 2:31:46.83 36 Sven-Åke Lundbäck 2:31:59.65 21 Asko Autio 2:32:25.57 10 18 Franz Renggli 2:33:27.56 11 33 Matti Pitkänen 2:34:09.04 12 40 Jean-Paul Pierrat 2:34:13.07 13 37 Bill Koch 2:34:31.62 14 10 Heinz Gähler 2:35:11.20 15 2 Anders Bakken 2:35:33.26 16 8 Thomas Eriksson 2:36:33.85 17 42 Józef Łuszczek 2:36:38.05 18 5 Pertti Teurajärvi 2:36:44.08 19 22 Giulio Capitanio 2:37:01.40 20 23 Jim Galanes 2:37:09.64 21 12 Peter Zipfel 2:37:09.74 22 46 Dieter Notz 2:37:47.41 23 44 Jiří Beran 2:37:51.58 24 32 Kjell Jakob Sollie 2:38:06.07 25 39 Roberto Primus 2:38:10.10 26 24 Alf-Gerd Deckert 2:38:13.53 27 17 František Šimon 2:39:53.03 28 4 Franz Schöbel 2:40:25.96 29 30 Josef Schneider 2:40:49.68 30 26 Jiří Švub 2:40:53.94 31 11 Michel Thierry 2:41:38.26 32 1 Gianfranco Polvara 2:41:51.58 33 27 Stan Dunklee 2:42:20.20 34 35 Erik Gustavsson 2:43:39.93 35 29 Paul Fargeix 2:45:39.70 36 19 Luvsandashiin Dorj 2:48:22.97 37 34 Shiro Sato 2:48:33.02 7 Philippe Poirot 9 Doug Peterson 15 Stig Jäder 25 Gaudenz Ambühl 31 Maurilio De Zolt 45 Konrad Hallenbarter 3 Þröstur Jóhannesson 13 Tone Ðuričič 16 Haukur Sigurðsson 43 Khristo Barzanov
References
External links Final results (International Ski Federation)