# FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 – Men's 50 kilometre classical

The Men's 50 kilometre classical competition at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2021 was held on 7 March 2021.

## Results

The race was started at 13:00.
| Rank | Bib | Athlete | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 3 | Emil Iversen | Norway | 2:10:52.9 | |
| | 1 | Alexander Bolshunov | Russian Ski Federation | 2:10:53.6 | +0.7 |
| | 9 | Simen Hegstad Krüger | Norway | 2:11:01.1 | +8.2 |
| 4 | 10 | Hans Christer Holund | Norway | 2:11:01.5 | +8.6 |
| 5 | 19 | Jens Burman | Sweden | 2:11:18.5 | +25.6 |
| 6 | 14 | Iivo Niskanen | Finland | 2:11:24.3 | +31.4 |
| 7 | 8 | Andrew Musgrave | Great Britain | 2:11:36.4 | +43.5 |
| 8 | 11 | Pål Golberg | Norway | 2:11:51.6 | +58.7 |
| 9 | 5 | Dario Cologna | Switzerland | 2:11:52.0 | +59.1 |
| 10 | 33 | Scott Patterson | United States | 2:12:17.6 | +1:24.7 |
| 11 | 27 | Jason Rüesch | Switzerland | 2:12:31.1 | +1:38.2 |
| 12 | 18 | William Poromaa | Sweden | 2:12:40.1 | +1:47.2 |
| 13 | 13 | Clément Parisse | France | 2:12:46.0 | +1:53.1 |
| 14 | 6 | Aleksey Chervotkin | Russian Ski Federation | 2:12:55.2 | +2:02.3 |
| 15 | 7 | Ilia Semikov | Russian Ski Federation | 2:13:19.7 | +2:26.8 |
| 16 | 45 | David Norris | United States | 2:13:20.8 | +2:27.9 |
| 17 | 17 | Jonas Dobler | Germany | 2:13:39.3 | +2:46.4 |
| 18 | 32 | Imanol Rojo | Spain | 2:13:44.9 | +2:52.0 |
| 19 | 2 | Evgeniy Belov | Russian Ski Federation | 2:13:49.2 | +2:56.3 |
| 20 | 28 | Friedrich Moch | Germany | 2:13:49.7 | +2:56.8 |
| 21 | 35 | Candide Pralong | Switzerland | 2:14:04.9 | +3:12.0 |
| 22 | 23 | Jonas Baumann | Switzerland | 2:14:47.4 | +3:54.5 |
| 23 | 47 | Keishin Yoshida | Japan | 2:14:52.7 | +3:59.8 |
| 24 | 21 | Michal Novák | Czech Republic | 2:15:02.3 | +4:09.4 |
| 25 | 30 | Thomas Hjalmar Westgård | Ireland | 2:15:13.6 | +4:20.7 |
| 26 | 4 | Maurice Manificat | France | 2:15:27.8 | +4:34.9 |
| 27 | 37 | Antoine Cyr | Canada | 2:15:31.2 | +4:38.3 |
| 28 | 43 | Russell Kennedy | Canada | 2:15:45.6 | +4:52.7 |
| 29 | 16 | Gus Schumacher | United States | 2:15:51.3 | +4:58.4 |
| 30 | 26 | Björn Sandström | Sweden | 2:16:03.1 | +5:10.2 |
| 31 | 49 | Rémi Drolet | Canada | 2:17:05.7 | +6:12.8 |
| 32 | 20 | Perttu Hyvärinen | Finland | 2:17:24.0 | +6:31.1 |
| 33 | 15 | Lucas Bögl | Germany | 2:17:50.1 | +6:57.2 |
| 34 | 22 | Irineu Esteve Altimiras | Andorra | 2:18:02.2 | +7:09.3 |
| 35 | 57 | Kaarel Kasper Kõrge | Estonia | 2:18:09.5 | +7:16.6 |
| 36 | 38 | Lauri Lepistö | Finland | 2:18:52.3 | +7:59.4 |
| 37 | 36 | Hunter Wonders | United States | 2:19:21.2 | +8:28.3 |
| 38 | 34 | Dominik Bury | Poland | 2:19:44.5 | +8:51.6 |
| 39 | 29 | Janosch Brugger | Germany | 2:19:54.4 | +9:01.5 |
| 40 | 24 | Jean-Marc Gaillard | France | 2:19:56.1 | +9:03.2 |
| 41 | 39 | Petr Knop | Czech Republic | 2:20:33.5 | +9:40.6 |
| 42 | 52 | Takatsugu Uda | Japan | 2:20:53.9 | +10:01.0 |
| 43 | 46 | Juho Mikkonen | Finland | 2:21:25.8 | +10:32.9 |
| 44 | 25 | Johan Häggström | Sweden | 2:25:08.8 | +14:15.9 |
| 45 | 48 | Nail Bashmakov | Kazakhstan | 2:25:24.9 | +14:32.0 |
| 46 | 51 | Mateusz Haratyk | Poland | 2:25:58.4 | +15:05.5 |
| 47 | 59 | Phillip Bellingham | Australia | 2:27:18.6 | +16:25.7 |
| 48 | 40 | Adam Fellner | Czech Republic | 2:27:45.7 | +16:52.8 |
| 49 | 56 | Indulis Bikše | Latvia | Lapped | Lapped |
| 50 | 55 | Kacper Antolec | Poland | Lapped | Lapped |
| 51 | 58 | Franco Dal Farra | Argentina | Lapped | Lapped |
| 52 | 50 | Kim Eun-ho | South Korea | Lapped | Lapped |
| 53 | 53 | Kim Min-woo | South Korea | Lapped | Lapped |
| | 31 | Vitaliy Pukhkalo | Kazakhstan | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 44 | Philippe Boucher | Canada | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 54 | Marko Kilp | Estonia | Did not finish | Did not finish |
| | 12 | Johannes Høsflot Klæbo | Norway | Disqualified | Disqualified |
| | 41 | Yevgeniy Velichko | Kazakhstan | Did not start | Did not start |
| | 42 | Jonáš Bešťák | Czech Republic | Did not start | Did not start |