# Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre

The men's 30 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Thursday 14 February at the Mount Van Hoevenberg in Essex County, New York.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course. Sergey Savelyev of the Soviet Union was the 1978 World champion and also the defending Olympic champion from 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

## Results

Sources:
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 56 | Nikolay Zimyatov | Soviet Union | 1:27:02.80 | – |
| | 36 | Vasily Rochev | Soviet Union | 1:27:34.22 | +31.42 |
| | 54 | Ivan Lebanov | Bulgaria | 1:28:03.87 | +1:01.07 |
| 4 | 58 | Thomas Wassberg | Sweden | 1:28:40.35 | +1:37.55 |
| 5 | 57 | Józef Łuszczek | Poland | 1:29:03.64 | +2:00.84 |
| 6 | 49 | Matti Pitkänen | Finland | 1:29:35.03 | +2:32.23 |
| 7 | 26 | Juha Mieto | Finland | 1:29:45.08 | +2:42.28 |
| 8 | 25 | Ove Aunli | Norway | 1:29:54.02 | +2:51.22 |
| 9 | 40 | Alf-Gerd Deckert | East Germany | 1:30:05.17 | +3:02.37 |
| 10 | 45 | Lars Erik Eriksen | Norway | 1:30:34.34 | +3:31.54 |
| 11 | 19 | Yevgeny Belyayev | Soviet Union | 1:30:35.32 | +3:32.52 |
| 12 | 47 | Oddvar Brå | Norway | 1:30:46.70 | +3:43.90 |
| 13 | 16 | Benny Kohlberg | Sweden | 1:30:57.56 | +3:54.76 |
| 14 | 10 | Nikolay Bazhukov | Soviet Union | 1:31:06.28 | +4:03.48 |
| 15 | 20 | Edi Hauser | Switzerland | 1:31:20.09 | +4:17.29 |
| 16 | 8 | Per Knut Aaland | Norway | 1:31:26.58 | +4:23.78 |
| 17 | 38 | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | Sweden | 1:31:31.96 | +4:29.16 |
| 18 | 43 | Harri Kirvesniemi | Finland | 1:31:35.13 | +4:32.33 |
| 19 | 46 | Jean-Paul Pierrat | France | 1:31:43.03 | +4:40.23 |
| 20 | 50 | Maurilio De Zolt | Italy | 1:31:43.74 | +4:40.94 |
| 21 | 27 | Jiří Beran | Czechoslovakia | 1:31:46.11 | +4:43.31 |
| 22 | 34 | Dieter Notz | West Germany | 1:31:58.27 | +4:55.47 |
| 23 | 44 | Khristo Barzanov | Bulgaria | 1:32:03.49 | +5:00.69 |
| 24 | 42 | Gaudenz Ambühl | Switzerland | 1:32:06.20 | +5:03.40 |
| 25 | 12 | Stig Jäder | Sweden | 1:32:08.09 | +5:05.29 |
| 26 | 13 | Jorma Aalto | Finland | 1:32:48.10 | +5:45.30 |
| 27 | 35 | Giulio Capitanio | Italy | 1:33:07.48 | +6:04.68 |
| 28 | 5 | Jiří Švub | Czechoslovakia | 1:33:12.73 | +6:09.93 |
| 29 | 4 | Heinz Gähler | Switzerland | 1:33:43.68 | +6:40.88 |
| 30 | 33 | Stan Dunklee | United States | 1:33:48.02 | +6:45.22 |
| 31 | 11 | Josef Schneider | West Germany | 1:34:05.33 | +7:02.53 |
| 32 | 39 | Miloš Bečvář | Czechoslovakia | 1:34:08.79 | +7:05.99 |
| 33 | 30 | Ivo Čarman | Yugoslavia | 1:34:09.59 | +7:06.79 |
| 34 | 3 | Benedetto Carrara | Italy | 1:34:27.45 | +7:24.65 |
| 35 | 32 | Paul Fargeix | France | 1:35:12.25 | +8:09.45 |
| 36 | 53 | František Šimon | Czechoslovakia | 1:35:32.70 | +8:29.90 |
| 37 | 51 | Wolfgang Müller | West Germany | 1:35:34.76 | +8:31.96 |
| 38 | 1 | Philippe Poirot | France | 1:35:47.39 | +8:44.59 |
| 39 | 23 | Shiro Sato | Japan | 1:35:52.77 | +8:49.97 |
| 40 | 22 | Peter Zipfel | West Germany | 1:36:06.95 | +9:04.15 |
| 41 | 21 | Jim Galanes | United States | 1:36:15.17 | +9:12.37 |
| 42 | 55 | Francis Jacot | Switzerland | 1:36:50.46 | +9:47.66 |
| 43 | 29 | Roberto Primus | Italy | 1:37:55.47 | +10:52.67 |
| 44 | 28 | Michel Thierry | France | 1:38:17.35 | +11:14.55 |
| 45 | 6 | Doug Peterson | United States | 1:38:29.86 | +11:27.06 |
| 46 | 24 | Tone Ðuričič | Yugoslavia | 1:38:46.90 | +11:44.10 |
| 47 | 41 | Jose Giro | Spain | 1:41:57.97 | +14:55.17 |
| 48 | 7 | Ingólfur Jónsson | Iceland | 1:45:55.26 | +18:52.46 |
| 49 | 18 | Emiliano Morlans | Spain | 1:46:28.42 | +19:25.62 |
| 50 | 9 | Marcos Luis Jerman | Argentina | 1:47:56.17 | +20:53.37 |
| 51 | 17 | Kim Dong-Hwan | South Korea | 1:51:13.35 | +24:10.55 |
| 52 | 14 | Luvsandashiin Dorj | Mongolia | 1:53:52.24 | +26:49.44 |
| | 2 | Kim Nam-Young | South Korea | DNF | |
| | 15 | Þröstur Jóhannesson | Iceland | DNF | |
| | 31 | Haukur Sigurðsson | Iceland | DNF | |
| | 37 | Hwang Byung-Dae | South Korea | DNF | |
| | 43 | Bill Koch | United States | DNF | |
| | 52 | Kim Chun-Ki | South Korea | DNS | |