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

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. 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.
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

Sources:
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 48 | Thomas Wassberg | Sweden | 2:15:55.8 | – |
| | 38 | Gunde Svan | Sweden | 2:16:00.7 | +4.9 |
| | 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 | |