The 18 kilometre cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday, 2 February 1924. Forty-one cross-country skiers from twelve nations competed.[1]
The competition began at 9:30 a.m. with the first starter Antonín Gottstein. The last starter was Ragnar Omtvedt at 9:55:30 a.m. The first finisher was Tapani Niku at 10:51:56 a.m. and the event ended with the last finisher, who was again Ragnar Omtvedt at 12:00:33 p.m.
so=Starting order, there was a 30 second start interval (including those who only participated in nordic combined).
| Place | width=40 | so | Competitor | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 | 1'14:31.4 | ||
| 2 | 27 | 1'15:51.0 | ||
| 3 | 9 | 1'16:26.0 | ||
| 4 | 35 | 1'16:56.8 | ||
| 5 | 10 | 1'17:27.4 | ||
| 6 | 12 | 1'17:49.4 | ||
| 7 | 38 | 1'19:10.4 | ||
| 8 | 8 | 1'19:24.0 | ||
| 9 | 20 | 1'19:29.8 | ||
| 10 | 33 | 1'20:29.4 | ||
| 11 | 22 | 1'25:13.0 | ||
| 12 | 40 | 1'26:32.4 | ||
| 13 | 7 | 1'33:06.4 | ||
| 14 | 21 | 1'33:34.8 | ||
| 15 | 24 | 1'33:45.2 | ||
| 16 | 30 | 1'33:54.6 | ||
| 17 | 14 | 1'34:43.4 | ||
| 18 | 1 | 1'34:54.0 | ||
| 19 | 6 | 1'34:56.0 | ||
| 20 | 5 | 1'35:33.4 | ||
| 21 | 29 | 1'36:03.8 | ||
| 22 | 39 | 1'36:36.2 | ||
| 23 | 17 | 1'37:20.8 | ||
| 24 | 16 | 1'39:41.6 | ||
| 25 | 19 | 1'39:51.8 | ||
| 26 | 31 | 1'41:43.4 | ||
| 27 | 15 | 1'42:13.0 | ||
| 28 | 3 | 1'43:02.8 | ||
| 29 | 11 | 1'43:58.0 | ||
| 30 | 13 | 1'45:49.8 | ||
| 31 | 25 | 1'50:20.8 | ||
| 32 | 37 | 1'50:27.6 | ||
| 33 | 2 | 1'55:04.2 | ||
| 34 | 26 | 2'00:43.0 | ||
| 35 | 41 | 2'05:03.0 | ||
| 36 | 4 | 2'12:19.4 | ||
| – | 23 | DNF | ||
| 32 | DNF | |||
| 28 | DNF | |||
| 36 | DNF | |||
| 18 | DNF |