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

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Men's 50 kilometre
at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
VenueIgman
Dates19 February
Competitors54 from 21 nations
Winning time2:15:55.8
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Thomas Wassberg
 Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gunde Svan
 Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Aki Karvonen
 Finland
← 1980
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.[1] 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.[2]

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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Sources:[3][1]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 48 Thomas Wassberg  Sweden 2:15:55.8
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 38 Gunde Svan  Sweden 2:16:00.7 +4.9
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 46 Aki Karvonen  Finland 2:17:04.7 +1:08.9
4 43 Harri Kirvesniemi  Finland 2:18:34.1 +2:38.3
5 41 Jan Lindvall  Norway 2:19:27.1 +3:31.3
6 47 Andi Grünenfelder  Switzerland 2:19:46.2 +3:50.4
7 30 Alexander Zavyalov  Soviet Union 2:20:27.6 +4:31.8
8 19 Vladimir Sakhnov  Soviet Union 2:20:53.7 +4:57.9
9 40 Konrad Hallenbarter  Switzerland 2:21:11.6 +5:15.8
10 24 Juha Mieto  Finland 2:21:53.1 +5:57.3
11 8 Lars Erik Eriksen  Norway 2:22:09.6 +6:13.8
12 22 Tor Håkon Holte  Norway 2:22:12.7 +6:16.9
13 51 Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union 2:22:15.0 +6:19.2
14 16 Jan Ottosson  Sweden 2:22:24.0 +6:28.2
15 7 Kari Ristanen  Finland 2:23:10.6 +7:14.8
16 12 Alexander Batyuk  Soviet Union 2:23:17.0 +7:21.2
17 14 Bill Koch  United States 2:24:02.4 +8:06.6
18 32 Audun Endestad  United States 2:24:14.4 +8:18.6
19 25 Giachem Guidon  Switzerland 2:24:25.9 +8:30.1
20 39 Pierre Harvey  Canada 2:25:04.1 +9:08.3
21 2 Gianfranco Polvara  Italy 2:25:07.6 +9:11.8
22 45 Maurilio De Zolt  Italy 2:25:14.9 +9:19.1
23 31 Miloš Bečvář  Czechoslovakia 2:25:23.7 +9:27.9
24 33 Alois Stadlober  Austria 2:25:26.3 +9:30.5
25 10 Markus Fähndrich  Switzerland 2:25:26.4 +9:30.6
26 21 Dan Simoneau  United States 2:25:43.1 +9:47.3
27 36 Józef Łuszczek  Poland 2:25:46.9 +9:51.1
28 44 Dominique Locatelli  France 2:26:21.3 +10:25.5
29 5 Franz Gattermann  Austria 2:26:40.8 +10:45.0
30 50 Giorgio Vanzetta  Italy 2:27:08.3 +11:12.5
31 55 Jim Galanes  United States 2:28:00.7 +12:04.9
32 15 Dušan Ðuričić  Yugoslavia 2:28:23.4 +12:27.6
33 27 Peter Juric  Austria 2:28:38.8 +12:43.0
34 29 Giulio Capitanio  Italy 2:28:51.7 +12:55.9
35 4 Josef Schneider  West Germany 2:29:29.5 +13:33.7
36 34 Janež Kršinar  Yugoslavia 2:30:16.2 +14:20.4
37 28 Franz Schöbel  West Germany 2:30:30.2 +14:34.4
38 42 Peter Zipfel  West Germany 2:30:57.7 +15:01.9
39 13 Anders Larsson  Sweden 2:31:43.6 +15:47.8
40 35 Milush Ivanchev  Bulgaria 2:32:15.9 +16:20.1
41 11 José Giro  Spain 2:33:31.5 +17:35.7
42 23 Jože Klemenčić  Yugoslavia 2:35:22.4 +19:26.6
43 37 Uwe Wünsch  East Germany 2:35:48.9 +19:53.1
44 9 Mark Moore  Great Britain 2:36:32.8 +20:37.0
45 20 John Spotswood  Great Britain 2:38:03.2 +22:07.4
46 17 Miguel Prat  Spain 2:38:07.0 +22:11.2
47 26 Satoshi Sato  Japan 2:39:43.1 +23:47.3
48 3 David Hislop  Australia 2:39:53.1 +23:57.3
49 18 Chris Allen  Australia 2:44:19.1 +28:23.3
50 1 Ricardo Holler  Argentina 3:05:41.2 +49:45.4
6 Kazunari Sasaki  Japan DNF
49 Atanas Simidchev  Bulgaria DNF
53 Ove Aunli  Norway DNF
54 Uwe Bellmann  East Germany DNF
52 Jochen Behle  West Germany DNS
56 Jean-Denis Jaussaud  France DNS

References

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  1. ^ a b "Veliko Polje 50 km Men". www.skisport365.com. skisport365. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2019.
  3. ^ "50 km Men". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
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