# Cross-country skiing at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre classical

The men's 50 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 24 February 2018 at 14:00 KST at the Alpensia Cross-Country Skiing Centre in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

## Qualification

A total of up to 310 cross-country skiers qualified across all eleven events. Athletes qualified for this event by having met the A qualification standard, which meant having 100 or less FIS Points in the distance classification. The Points list takes into average the best results of athletes per discipline during the qualification period (1 July 2016 to 21 January 2018). Countries received additional quotas by having athletes ranked in the top 30 of the FIS Olympics Points list (two per gender maximum, overall across all events). Countries also received an additional quota (one per gender maximum) if an athlete was ranked in the top 300 of the FIS Olympics Points list. After the distribution of B standard quotas, the remaining quotas were distributed using the Olympic FIS Points list, with each athlete only counting once for qualification purposes. A country could only enter a maximum of four athletes for the event.

## Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+9).
| Date | Time | Event |
| 24 February | 14:00 | Final |

## Results

The race started at 14:00.
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 8 | Iivo Niskanen | Finland | 2:08:22.1 | — |
| | 7 | Alexander Bolshunov | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 2:08:40.8 | +18.7 |
| | 11 | Andrey Larkov | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 2:10:59.6 | +2:37.5 |
| 4 | 2 | Alex Harvey | Canada | 2:11:05.7 | +2:43.6 |
| 5 | 4 | Martin Johnsrud Sundby | Norway | 2:11:05.8 | +2:43.7 |
| 6 | 3 | Hans Christer Holund | Norway | 2:11:12.2 | +2:50.1 |
| 7 | 15 | Daniel Rickardsson | Sweden | 2:12:12.5 | +3:50.4 |
| 8 | 22 | Martin Jakš | Czech Republic | 2:12:32.6 | +4:10.5 |
| 9 | 1 | Dario Cologna | Switzerland | 2:12:43.2 | +4:21.1 |
| 10 | 12 | Emil Iversen | Norway | 2:12:59.0 | +4:36.9 |
| 11 | 29 | Scott Patterson | United States | 2:13:14.2 | +4:52.1 |
| 12 | 6 | Aleksey Chervotkin | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 2:13:19.0 | +4:56.9 |
| 13 | 21 | Niklas Dyrhaug | Norway | 2:13:20.5 | +4:58.4 |
| 14 | 28 | Andreas Katz | Germany | 2:13:32.3 | +5:10.2 |
| 15 | 5 | Alexey Poltoranin | Kazakhstan | 2:13:37.1 | +5:15.0 |
| 16 | 27 | Giandomenico Salvadori | Italy | 2:13:45.4 | +5:23.3 |
| 17 | 56 | Algo Kärp | Estonia | 2:13:45.7 | +5:23.6 |
| 18 | 9 | Jean-Marc Gaillard | France | 2:14:31.4 | +6:09.3 |
| 19 | 37 | Maicol Rastelli | Italy | 2:15:10.0 | +6:47.9 |
| 20 | 16 | Denis Spitsov | Olympic Athletes from Russia | 2:16:24.6 | +8:02.5 |
| 21 | 26 | Dietmar Nöckler | Italy | 2:16:29.2 | +8:07.1 |
| 22 | 14 | Francesco De Fabiani | Italy | 2:17:14.3 | +8:52.2 |
| 23 | 23 | Keishin Yoshida | Japan | 2:17:21.9 | +8:59.8 |
| 24 | 18 | Clément Parisse | France | 2:17:25.4 | +9:03.3 |
| 25 | 13 | Matti Heikkinen | Finland | 2:17:34.8 | +9:12.7 |
| 26 | 32 | Devon Kershaw | Canada | 2:17:49.4 | +9:27.3 |
| 27 | 48 | Graeme Killick | Canada | 2:18:28.8 | +10:06.7 |
| 28 | 25 | Jens Burman | Sweden | 2:18:34.5 | +10:12.4 |
| 29 | 35 | Perttu Hyvärinen | Finland | 2:18:38.5 | +10:16.4 |
| 30 | 19 | Thomas Bing | Germany | 2:18:41.1 | +10:19.0 |
| 31 | 30 | Candide Pralong | Switzerland | 2:18:41.5 | +10:19.4 |
| 32 | 38 | Paul Constantin Pepene | Romania | 2:18:44.0 | +10:21.9 |
| 33 | 42 | Noah Hoffman | United States | 2:19:04.1 | +10:42.0 |
| 34 | 34 | Irineu Esteve Altimiras | Andorra | 2:19:08.3 | +10:46.2 |
| 35 | 51 | Imanol Rojo | Spain | 2:19:10.1 | +10:48.0 |
| 36 | 33 | Max Hauke | Austria | 2:20:39.9 | +12:17.8 |
| 37 | 10 | Andrew Musgrave | Great Britain | 2:20:57.9 | +12:35.8 |
| 38 | 46 | Andreas Veerpalu | Estonia | 2:21:13.2 | +12:51.1 |
| 39 | 40 | Yevgeniy Velichko | Kazakhstan | 2:21:43.2 | +13:21.1 |
| 40 | 36 | Viktor Thorn | Sweden | 2:21:53.8 | +13:31.7 |
| 41 | 47 | Aleš Razým | Czech Republic | 2:22:06.8 | +13:44.7 |
| 42 | 54 | Bernhard Tritscher | Austria | 2:22:47.7 | +14:25.6 |
| 43 | 24 | Ristomatti Hakola | Finland | 2:22:50.1 | +14:28.0 |
| 44 | 41 | Michail Semenov | Belarus | 2:22:51.2 | +14:29.1 |
| 45 | 39 | Ueli Schnider | Switzerland | 2:23:17.3 | +14:55.2 |
| 46 | 20 | Lucas Bögl | Germany | 2:23:42.8 | +15:20.7 |
| 47 | 58 | Kim Magnus | South Korea | 2:24:14.0 | +15:51.9 |
| 48 | 57 | Tyler Kornfield | United States | 2:24:36.5 | +16:14.4 |
| 49 | 49 | Russell Kennedy | Canada | 2:25:16.6 | +16:54.5 |
| 50 | 55 | Oleksiy Krasovsky | Ukraine | 2:25:36.4 | +17:14.3 |
| 51 | 60 | Peter Mlynár | Slovakia | 2:26:14.7 | +17:52.6 |
| 52 | 45 | Vitaliy Pukhkalo | Kazakhstan | 2:27:10.6 | +18:48.5 |
| 53 | 64 | Andrej Segeč | Slovakia | 2:27:44.3 | +19:22.2 |
| 54 | 66 | Callum Smith | Great Britain | 2:27:56.3 | +19:34.2 |
| 55 | 53 | Petr Knop | Czech Republic | 2:29:20.9 | +20:58.8 |
| 56 | 62 | Phillip Bellingham | Australia | 2:30:39.7 | +22:17.6 |
| 57 | 59 | Indulis Bikše | Latvia | 2:31:07.5 | +22:45.4 |
| 58 | 63 | Callum Watson | Australia | 2:33:28.6 | +25:06.5 |
| 59 | 67 | Wang Qiang | China | 2:34:43.0 | +26:20.9 |
| 60 | 71 | Martin Møller | Denmark | 2:36:10.8 | +27:48.7 |
| | 68 | Mantas Strolia | Lithuania | LAP | |
| | 70 | Mark Chanloung | Thailand | LAP | |
| | 69 | Kim Eun-ho | South Korea | LAP | |
| | 31 | Jonas Dobler | Germany | DNF | |
| | 43 | Veselin Tzinzov | Bulgaria | DNF | |
| | 50 | Miroslav Rypl | Czech Republic | DNF | |
| | 65 | Miroslav Šulek | Slovakia | DNF | |
| | 17 | Calle Halfvarsson | Sweden | DNF | |
| | 44 | Snorri Einarsson | Iceland | DNF | |
| | 52 | Denis Volotka | Kazakhstan | DNS | |
| | 61 | Thomas Hjalmar Westgård | Ireland | DNS | |