Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre explained

Event:	Men's 50 kilometre
Games:	1984 Winter
Venue:	Igman
Dates:	19 February
Competitors:	54
Nations:	21
Win Value:	2:15:55.8
Longnames:	yes
Gold:	Thomas Wassberg
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Gunde Svan
Silvernoc:	SWE
Bronze:	Aki Karvonen
Bronzenoc:	FIN
Prev:	1980
Next:	1988

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.^[1]

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

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Rank	Bib	Name	Time
	48		2:15:55.8
	38		2:16:00.7
	46		2:17:04.7
	43		2:18:34.1
	41		2:19:27.1
	47		2:19:46.2
	30		2:20:27.6
	19		2:20:53.7
	40		2:21:11.6
10	24		2:21:53.1
11	8		2:22:09.6
12	22		2:22:12.7
13	51		2:22:15.0
14	16		2:22:24.0
15	7		2:23:10.6
16	12		2:23:17.0
17	14		2:24:02.4
18	32		2:24:14.4
19	25		2:24:25.9
20	39		2:25:04.1
21	2		2:25:07.6
22	45		2:25:14.9
23	31		2:25:23.7
24	33		2:25:26.3
25	10		2:25:26.4
26	21		2:25:43.1
27	36		2:25:46.9
28	44		2:26:21.3
29	5		2:26:40.8
30	50		2:27:08.3
31	55		2:28:00.7
32	15		2:28:23.4
33	27		2:28:38.8
34	29		2:28:51.7
35	4		2:29:29.5
36	34		2:30:16.2
37	28		2:30:30.2
38	42		2:30:57.7
39	13		2:31:43.6
40	35		2:32:15.9
41	11		2:33:31.5
42	23		2:35:22.4
43	37		2:35:48.9
44	9		2:36:32.8
45	20		2:38:03.2
46	17		2:38:07.0
47	26		2:39:43.1
48	3		2:39:53.1
49	18		2:44:19.1
50	1		3:05:41.2
	6	Kazunari Sasaki
	49	Atanas Simidchev
	53	Ove Aunli
	54	Uwe Bellmann
	52	Jochen Behle
	56	Jean-Denis Jaussaud

External links

Final results (International Ski Federation)

Notes and References

Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181611/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1984/CCS/mens-50-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 3 July 2019.
Web site: 50 km Men . www.olympic.org . IOC . 5 February 2019.
Web site: Veliko Polje 50 km Men . www.skisport365.com . skisport365 . 5 February 2019.