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

Men's 50km; at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
	Cross-country skiing
Venue	Igman
Date	February 19
Competitors	56 from 21 nations
Winning time	2:15:55.8
Medalists

The 50 kilometre cross-country skiing event was the last event of the men's cross-country skiing programme at the 1984 Winter Olympics, in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It was the fourteenth appearance of the 50 km race and had appeared in every Winter games. The competition was held on Sunday, February 19, 1984, at Veliko Polje, Igman.

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.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thomas Wassberg Sweden	Gunde Svan Sweden	Aki Karvonen Finland

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Thomas Wassberg	Sweden	2:15:55.8
2	Gunde Svan	Sweden	2:16:00.7
3	Aki Karvonen	Finland	2:17:04.7
4	Harri Kirvesniemi	Finland	2:18:34.1
5	Jan Lindvall	Norway	2:19:27.1
6	Andi Grünenfelder	Switzerland	2:19:46.2
7	Alexander Zavyalov	Soviet Union	2:20:27.6
8	Vladimir Sakhnov	Soviet Union	2:20:53.7
9	Konrad Hallenbarter	Switzerland	2:21:11.6
10	Juha Mieto	Finland	2:21:53.1
11	Lars-Erik Eriksen	Norway	2:22:09.5
12	Tor Håkon Holte	Norway	2:22:12.7
13	Nikolay Zimyatov	Soviet Union	2:22:15.0
14	Jan Ottosson	Sweden	2:22:24.0
15	Kari Ristanen	Finland	2:23:10.6
16	Oleksandr Batiuk	Soviet Union	2:23:17.0
17	Bill Koch	United States	2:24:02.3
18	Audun Endestad	United States	2:24:14.4
19	Giachem Guidon	Switzerland	2:24:25.9
20	Pierre Harvey	Canada	2:25:04.1
21	Gianfranco Polvara	Italy	2:25:07.5
22	Maurilio De Zolt	Italy	2:25:14.9
23	Miloš Bečvář	Czechoslovakia	2:25:23.7
24	Alois Stadlober	Austria	2:25:26.3
25	Markus Fähndrich	Switzerland	2:25:26.4
26	Dan Simoneau	United States	2:25:43.1
27	Józef Łuszczek	Poland	2:25:46.9
28	Dominique Locatelli	France	2:26:21.3
29	Franz Gattermann	Austria	2:26:40.8
30	Giorgio Vanzetta	Italy	2:27:08.3
31	Jim Galanes	United States	2:28:00.7
32	Dušan Đurišič	Yugoslavia	2:28:23.4
33	Peter Juric	Austria	2:28:38.8
34	Giulio Capitanio	Italy	2:28:51.7
35	Josef Schneider	Switzerland	2:29:29.5
36	Janež Kršinar	Yugoslavia	2:30:16.2
37	Franz Schöbel	West Germany	2:30:30.2
38	Peter Zipfel	West Germany	2:30:57.7
39	Anders Larsson	Sweden	2:31:43.6
40	Milush Ivanchev	Bulgaria	2:32:15.9
41	José Giro	Spain	2:33:31.5
42	Jože Klemenčič	Yugoslavia	2:35:22.4
43	Uwe Wünsch	East Germany	2:35:48.9
44	Mark Moore	Great Britain	2:36:32.8
45	John Spotswood	Great Britain	2:38:30.2
46	Miguel Prat	Spain	2:38:07.0
47	Satoshi Sato	Japan	2:39:43.1
48	David Hislop	Australia	2:39:53.1
49	Chris Allen	Australia	2:44:19.1
50	Ricardo Holler	Argentina	3:05:41.2
DNF	Uwe Bellmann	East Germany	DNF
DNF	Ove Aunli	Norway	DNF
DNF	Kazunari Sasaki	Japan	DNF
DNF	Atanas Simidchiev	Bulgaria	DNF
DNS	Jean-Denis Jaussaud	France	DNS
DNS	Jochen Behle	West Germany	DNS

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Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

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10 km		women
15 km	men
20 km		women
30 km	men
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