The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, was held on Saturday 17 February at Autrans. Gjermund Eggen of Norway was the defending World champion while Sixten Jernberg of Sweden was the defending Olympic champion.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 51 athletes who started the race, 4 did not finish.
Ole Ellefsæter of Norway took his second gold medal of the Games after being a part of Norway's winning team in the 4×10 kilometre relay earlier in the games.
Results Sources: Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 23 Ole Ellefsæter 2:28:45.8 41 Vyacheslav Vedenin 2:29:02.5 31 Josef Haas 2:29:14.8 42 Pål Tyldum 2:29:26.7 5 Melcher Risberg 2:29:37.0 52 Gunnar Larsson 2:29:37.2 25 Jan Halvarsson 2:30:05.9 51 Reidar Hjermstad 2:31:01.8 28 Walter Demel 2:31:14.4 10 45 Assar Rönnlund 2:31:19.3 11 46 Kalevi Laurila 2:31:24.9 12 36 Mario Bacher 2:31:33.8 13 1 Andreas Janc 2:32:32.2 14 60 Hannu Taipale 2:32:37.7 15 24 Eero Mäntyranta 2:32:53.8 16 9 Vladimir Voronkov 2:33:07.3 17 13 Aldo Stella 2:33:17.9 18 2 Odd Martinsen 2:33:51.4 19 3 Pauli Siitonen 2:34:31.2 20 19 Anatoly Akentyev 2:34:54.5 21 22 Józef Rysula 2:35:30.9 22 16 Mike Gallagher 2:36:26.1 23 47 Alois Kälin 2:36:40.8 24 30 Roger Pires 2:36:44.8 25 21 Gert-Dietmar Klause 2:36:52.5 26 27 Livio Stuffer 2:37:46.6 27 53 Elviro Blanc 2:38:12.4 28 37 Ján Fajstavr 2:39:25.3 +10:39.5 29 12 Tokio Sato 2:40:00.5 +11:14.7 30 44 Mike Elliot 2:40:38.5 +11:52.7 31 59 Igor Voronchikhin 2:40:48.2 +12:02.4 32 29 Larry Damon 2:41:25.2 +12:39.4 33 17 Helmut Gerlach 2:41:55.8 +13:10.0 34 35 Franz Vetter 2:43:51.1 +15:05.3 35 14 Alojz Kerštajn 2:43:54.1 +15:08.3 36 54 Charles Kellogg 2:44:00.4 +15:14.6 37 6 Franz Kälin 2:44:29.7 +15:43.9 38 34 Sotoo Okushiba 2:45:09.5 +16:23.7 39 56 Vít Fousek Jr. 2:45:09.8 +16:24.0 40 50 Fernand Borrel 2:45:10.6 +16:24.8 41 7 Claude Legrand 2:45:36.9 +16:51.1 42 20 Tibor Holéczy 2:45:38.0 +16:52.2 43 40 Siegfried Weiss 2:46:53.4 +18:07.6 44 38 Luc Colin 2:48:27.9 +19:42.1 45 8 Miklós Holló 2:51:24.1 +22:38.3 46 32 David Rees 2:56:00.5 +27:14.7 47 10 Chong-Ihm Yoon 3:27:22.5 +58:36.7 11 Václav Peřina 26 Janez Mlinar 49 Denis Mast 57 Klaus Ganter 4 Petar Pankov 15 Gerhard Grimmer 18 Karel Štefl 33 Choon-Kie Kim 39 Akiyoshi Matsuoka 43 Nils Skulbru 48 Helmut Unger 55 Peter Thiel 39 Kazuo Sato
References
External links Final results (International Ski Federation)