Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre explained

Event:	Men's 30 kilometre
Games:	1980 Winter
Venue:	Mount Van Hoevenberg
Dates:	14 February
Competitors:	57
Nations:	20
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	1:27:02.80
Gold:	Nikolay Zimyatov
Goldnoc:	URS
Silver:	Vasily Rochev
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Ivan Lebanov
Bronzenoc:	BUL
Prev:	1976
Next:	1984

The men's 30 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Thursday 14 February at the Mount Van Hoevenberg in Essex County, New York.^[1]

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course. Sergey Savelyev of the Soviet Union was the 1978 World champion and also the defending Olympic champion from 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.^[2]

Results

Sources:^{[3] [4]}

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	56			1:27:02.80
	36			1:27:34.22
	54			1:28:03.87
	58			1:28:40.35
	57			1:29:03.64
	49			1:29:35.03
	26			1:29:45.08
	25			1:29:54.02
	40			1:30:05.17
10	45			1:30:34.34
11	19			1:30:35.32
12	47			1:30:46.70
13	16			1:30:57.56
14	10			1:31:06.28
15	20			1:31:20.09
16	8			1:31:26.58
17	38			1:31:31.96
18	43			1:31:35.13
19	46			1:31:43.03
20	50			1:31:43.74
21	27			1:31:46.11
22	34			1:31:58.27
23	44			1:32:03.49
24	42			1:32:06.20
25	12			1:32:08.09
26	13			1:32:48.10
27	35			1:33:07.48
28	5			1:33:12.73
29	4			1:33:43.68
30	33			1:33:48.02
31	11			1:34:05.33
32	39			1:34:08.79
33	30			1:34:09.59
34	3			1:34:27.45
35	32			1:35:12.25
36	53			1:35:32.70
37	51			1:35:34.76
38	1			1:35:47.39
39	23			1:35:52.77
40	22			1:36:06.95
41	21			1:36:15.17
42	55			1:36:50.46
43	29			1:37:55.47	+10:52.67
44	28			1:38:17.35	+11:14.55
45	6			1:38:29.86	+11:27.06
46	24			1:38:46.90	+11:44.10
47	41			1:41:57.97	+14:55.17
48	7			1:45:55.26	+18:52.46
49	18			1:46:28.42	+19:25.62
50	9			1:47:56.17	+20:53.37
51	17			1:51:13.35	+24:10.55
52	14			1:53:52.24	+26:49.44
	2	Kim Nam-Young
	15	Þröstur Jóhannesson
	31	Haukur Sigurðsson
	37	Hwang Byung-Dae
	43	Bill Koch
	52	Kim Chun-Ki

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's 30 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181616/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1980/CCS/mens-30-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 30 June 2019.
2. Web site: 30 km Men Innsbruck. www.olympic.org . IOC . 20 February 2019.
3. Web site: 30 km Men Lake Placid . www.olympic.org . IOC . 20 February 2019.
4. Web site: Lake Placid 30 km Men . www.skisport365.com . skisport365 . 20 February 2019.