Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre classical explained

Event:	Men's 50 kilometre classical
Games:	2002 Winter
Venue:	Soldier Hollow
Dates:	23 February
Competitors:	61
Nations:	24
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	2:06:20.8
Gold:	Mikhail Ivanov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Silver:	Andrus Veerpalu
Silvernoc:	EST
Bronze:	Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset
Bronzenoc:	NOR
Prev:	1998
Next:	2006

The Men's 50 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 23 February at Soldier Hollow.^[1]

All skiers started at 30 second intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. The defending Olympic champion was the Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie, who won in Nagano, but he retired after an accident, two years before the Olympics.

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time
			2:06:20.8
			2:06:44.5
			2:08:41.5
4			2:08:54.8
5			2:09:21.7
6			2:09:41.3
7			2:10:02.7
8			2:10:41.9
9			2:10:44.8
10			2:12:06.6
11			2:12:59.6
12			2:13:07.9
13			2:13:53.1
14			2:14:32.4
15			2:14:37.5
16			2:14:48.6
17			2:14:50.6
18			2:15:00.0
19			2:15:06.8
20			2:15:14.4
21			2:15:44.8
22			2:15:50.9
23			2:16:42.2
24			2:16:59.8
25			2:17:25.2
26			2:17:41.4
27			2:17:51.9
28			2:18:30.4
29			2:18:42.1
30			2:19:10.7
31			2:19:32.0
32			2:19:33.9
33			2:19:35.7
34			2:19:50.3
35			2:20:25.7
36			2:20:31.8
37			2:20:43.3
38			2:21:05.3
39			2:21:26.5
40			2:22:29.3
41			2:23:02.3
42			2:23:43.3
43			2:23:56.4
44			2:24:14.2
45			2:24:34.4
46			2:24:37.2
47			2:24:40.5
48			2:27:18.8
49			2:28:28.8
50			2:29:27.4
51			2:32:44.3
52			2:35:54.9
53			2:35:58.8
54			2:44:50.0
55			2:45:23.0
56			2:48:48.1
57			3:23:58.7
			DNF
			DNF
			DSQ
			DSQ

Notes and References

Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417191147/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/2002/CCS/mens-50-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 8 July 2019.