# Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre classical

The men's 30 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, was held on 9 February at Snow Harp. The competitors started with a 30-second interval.

## Results

The results:
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 70 | Mika Myllylä | Finland | 1:33:55.8 | — |
| | 73 | Erling Jevne | Norway | 1:35:27.1 | +1:31.3 |
| | 71 | Silvio Fauner | Italy | 1:36:08.5 | +2:12.7 |
| 4 | 65 | Jari Isometsä | Finland | 1:36:51.4 | +2:55.6 |
| 5 | 67 | Fulvio Valbusa | Italy | 1:37:31.1 | +3:35.3 |
| 6 | 18 | Harri Kirvesniemi | Finland | 1:37:45.9 | +3:50.1 |
| 7 | 38 | Marco Albarello | Italy | 1:38:07.1 | +4:11.3 |
| 8 | 27 | Giorgio Di Centa | Italy | 1:38:14.9 | +4:19.1 |
| 9 | 42 | Vladimir Legotine | Russia | 1:38:23.7 | +4:27.9 |
| 10 | 32 | Per Elofsson | Sweden | 1:38:47.0 | +4:51.2 |
| 11 | 56 | Jaak Mae | Estonia | 1:38:52.3 | +4:56.5 |
| 12 | 72 | Vladimir Smirnov | Kazakhstan | 1:38:59.1 | +5:03.3 |
| 13 | 54 | Pavel Riabinine | Kazakhstan | 1:39:31.6 | +5:35.8 |
| 14 | 21 | Stephan Kunz | Liechtenstein | 1:39:33.3 | +5:37.5 |
| 15 | 64 | Sture Sivertsen | Norway | 1:39:44.9 | +5:49.1 |
| 16 | 41 | Jeremias Wigger | Switzerland | 1:39:46.4 | +5:50.6 |
| 17 | 29 | Raul Olle | Estonia | 1:40:03.5 | +6:07.7 |
| 18 | 20 | Aleksey Tregubov | Belarus | 1:40:05.9 | +6:10.1 |
| 19 | 52 | Andrus Veerpalu | Estonia | 1:40:09.9 | +6:14.1 |
| 20 | 75 | Bjørn Dæhlie | Norway | 1:40:18.5 | +6:22.7 |
| 21 | 53 | Andreas Schlütter | Germany | 1:40:27.1 | +6:31.3 |
| 22 | 26 | Jiri Magal | Czech Republic | 1:40:29.6 | +6:33.8 |
| 23 | 74 | Anders Bergström | Sweden | 1:40:44.1 | +6:35.0 |
| 24 | 23 | Hiroyuki Imai | Japan | 1:40:40.9 | +6:45.1 |
| 25 | 66 | Henrik Forsberg | Sweden | 1:40:44.1 | +6:48.3 |
| 26 | 48 | Ivan Batory | Slovakia | 1:40:47.8 | +6:52.0 |
| 27 | 39 | Katsuhito Ebisawa | Japan | 1:40:48.0 | +6:52.2 |
| 28 | 49 | Martin Bajcicak | Slovakia | 1:40:52.5 | +6:56.7 |
| 29 | 62 | Mikhailo Artyukhov | Ukraine | 1:41:13.0 | +7:17.2 |
| 30 | 61 | Ricardas Panavas | Lithuania | 1:41:15.6 | +7:19.8 |
| 31 | 11 | Aleksandr Kravchenko | Russia | 1:41:22.3 | +7:26.5 |
| 32 | 30 | Sergei Tchepikov | Russia | 1:41:59.9 | +8:04.1 |
| 33 | 40 | Lukas Bauer | Czech Republic | 1:42:08.8 | +8:13.0 |
| 34 | 46 | Sami Repo | Finland | 1:42:16.8 | +8:21.0 |
| 35 | 55 | Markus Hasler | Liechtenstein | 1:42:17.4 | +8:21.6 |
| 36 | 45 | Sergei Dolidovich | Belarus | 1:42:18.7 | +8:22.9 |
| 37 | 43 | Justin Wadsworth | United States | 1:42:21.1 | +8:25.3 |
| 38 | 34 | Gennadiy Nikon | Ukraine | 1:42:32.7 | +8:36.9 |
| 39 | 31 | Maxim Pitchougine | Russia | 1:42:41.7 | +8:45.9 |
| 40 | 12 | Alexander Sannikov | Belarus | 1:42:48.0 | +8:52.2 |
| 41 | 16 | Andrey Nevzorov | Kazakhstan | 1:42:48.8 | +8:53.0 |
| 42 | 5 | Kazutoshi Nagahama | Japan | 1:42:58.7 | +9:02.9 |
| 43 | 51 | Gerhard Urain | Austria | 1:43:22.9 | +9:27.1 |
| 44 | 6 | Olexander Zarovnyi | Ukraine | 1:43:26.2 | +9:30.4 |
| 45 | 44 | Zsolt Antal | Romania | 1:43:56.6 | +10:00.8 |
| 46 | 17 | Stanislav Jezik | Slovakia | 1:44:01.0 | +10:05.2 |
| 47 | 19 | John Bauer | United States | 1:44:15.3 | +10:19.5 |
| 48 | 28 | Alexander Ushkalenko | Ukraine | 1:44:15.7 | +10:19.9 |
| 49 | 37 | Marcus Nash | United States | 1:44:37.7 | +10:41.9 |
| 50 | 7 | Vladimir Bortsov | Kazakhstan | 1:45:12.8 | +11:17.0 |
| 51 | 36 | Anthony Evans | Australia | 1:45:26.3 | +11:30.5 |
| 52 | 9 | Meelis Aasmäe | Estonia | 1:46:08.8 | +12:13.0 |
| 53 | 13 | Beat Koch | Switzerland | 1:46:38.3 | +12:42.5 |
| 54 | 63 | Nikolai Semeniako | Belarus | 1:47:32.5 | +13:36.7 |
| 55 | 14 | Byung-Chul Park | South Korea | 1:47:41.5 | +13:45.7 |
| 56 | 59 | Masaaki Kozu | Japan | 1:48:15.3 | +14:19.5 |
| 57 | 24 | Torald Rein | Germany | 1:49:06.7 | +15:10.9 |
| 58 | 35 | Michael Binzer | Denmark | 1:49:42.2 | +15:46.4 |
| 59 | 4 | Ivan Hudac | Slovakia | 1:50:11.6 | +16:15.8 |
| 60 | 50 | Slavtscho Batinkov | Bulgaria | 1:50:35.0 | +16:39.2 |
| 61 | 25 | Donald Farley | Canada | 1:50:47.8 | +16:52.0 |
| 62 | 57 | Robin McKeever | Canada | 1:51:23.5 | +17:27.7 |
| 63 | 10 | Jin-Soo Ahn | South Korea | 1:54:12.2 | +20:16.4 |
| 64 | 8 | Guido Visser | Canada | 1:55:04.1 | +21:08.3 |
| DNF | 2 | Patrick Weaver | United States | — | — |
| DNF | 3 | Janis Hermanis | Latvia | — | — |
| DNF | 15 | Vladislavas Zybailo | Lithuania | — | — |
| DNF | 33 | Jintao Wu | China | — | — |
| DNF | 47 | Jochen Behle | Germany | — | — |
| DNF | 58 | Patrick Remy | France | — | — |
| DNF | 68 | Thomas Alsgaard | Norway | — | — |
| DNF | 69 | Lubos Buchta | Czech Republic | — | — |
| DNS | 1 | René Sommerfeldt | Germany | — | — |
| DNS | 22 | Lars Håland | Sweden | — | — |
| DNS | 60 | Antonio Racki | Croatia | — | — |