Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre explained

The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Saturday 23 February at Mount Van Hoevenberg, Essex County, New York. Sven-Åke Lundbäck of Sweden was the 1978 World champion and Ivar Formo of Norway was the defending champion from the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.^[1]

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 43 athletes who started the race, 6 did not finish. Nikolay Zimyatov of the Soviet Union took his third Gold medal of the games after winning the 30 kilometre and being part of Soviet Union's winning 4 × 10 km relay team.

Results

Sources:^{[2] [3]}

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	41			2:27:24.60
	38			2:30:20.52
	14			2:30:51.52
	47			2:30:53.03
	6			2:31:15.82
	28			2:31:21.19
	20			2:31:46.83
	36			2:31:59.65
	21			2:32:25.57
10	18			2:33:27.56
11	33			2:34:09.04
12	40			2:34:13.07
13	37			2:34:31.62
14	10			2:35:11.20
15	2			2:35:33.26
16	8			2:36:33.85
17	42			2:36:38.05
18	5			2:36:44.08
19	22			2:37:01.40
20	23			2:37:09.64
21	12			2:37:09.74
22	46			2:37:47.41
23	44			2:37:51.58
24	32			2:38:06.07
25	39			2:38:10.10
26	24			2:38:13.53
27	17			2:39:53.03
28	4			2:40:25.96
29	30			2:40:49.68
30	26			2:40:53.94
31	11			2:41:38.26
32	1			2:41:51.58
33	27			2:42:20.20
34	35			2:43:39.93
35	29			2:45:39.70
36	19			2:48:22.97
37	34			2:48:33.02
	7	Philippe Poirot
	9	Doug Peterson
	15	Stig Jäder
	25	Gaudenz Ambühl
	31	Maurilio De Zolt
	45	Konrad Hallenbarter
	3	Þröstur Jóhannesson
	13	Tone Ðuričič
	16	Haukur Sigurðsson
	43	Khristo Barzanov

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 50 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181616/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1980/CCS/mens-50-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 30 June 2019.
2. Web site: 50 km Men . www.olympic.org . IOC . 5 February 2019.
3. Web site: Lake Placid 50 km Men . www.skisport365.com . skisport365 . 5 February 2019.