# Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre

The men's 30 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, was held on Thursday 5 February at Seefeld in Tirol.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course.

## Results

Sources:
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| | 35 | Sergey Savelyev | Soviet Union | 1:30:29.38 | – |
| | 7 | Bill Koch | United States | 1:30:57.84 | +28.46 |
| | 14 | Ivan Garanin | Soviet Union | 1:31:09.29 | +39.91 |
| 4 | 2 | Juha Mieto | Finland | 1:31:20.39 | +51.01 |
| 5 | 51 | Nikolay Bazhukov | Soviet Union | 1:31:33.14 | +1:03.76 |
| 6 | 47 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | East Germany | 1:32:00.91 | +1:31.53 |
| 7 | 13 | Albert Giger | Switzerland | 1:32:17.71 | +1:48.33 |
| 8 | 67 | Arto Koivisto | Finland | 1:32:23.11 | +1:53.73 |
| 9 | 63 | Odd Martinsen | Norway | 1:32:38.91 | +2:09.53 |
| 10 | 56 | Vasily Rochev | Soviet Union | 1:32:39.42 | +2:10.04 |
| 11 | 48 | Ivar Formo | Norway | 1:33:01.68 | +2:32.30 |
| 12 | 36 | Benny Södergren | Sweden | 1:33:10.98 | +2:41.60 |
| 13 | 29 | Matti Pitkänen | Finland | 1:33:44.74 | +3:15.36 |
| 14 | 62 | Georg Zipfel | West Germany | 1:34:04.71 | +3:35.33 |
| 15 | 3 | Tommy Limby | Sweden | 1:34:32.47 | +4:03.09 |
| 16 | 37 | Gerhard Grimmer | East Germany | 1:34:52.15 | +4:22.77 |
| 17 | 8 | Axel Lesser | East Germany | 1:34:53.14 | +4:23.76 |
| 18 | 21 | Frank Betz | West Germany | 1:34:55.54 | +4:26.16 |
| 19 | 31 | Oddvar Brå | Norway | 1:34:59.57 | +4:30.19 |
| 20 | 33 | Wiesław Gębala | Poland | 1:35:09.65 | +4:40.27 |
| 21 | 42 | Christer Johansson | Sweden | 1:35:23.27 | +4:53.89 |
| 22 | 40 | Juhani Repo | Finland | 1:35:31.06 | +5:01.68 |
| 23 | 16 | Magne Myrmo | Norway | 1:35:33.34 | +5:03.96 |
| 24 | 5 | Jan Staszel | Poland | 1:35:46.82 | +5:17.44 |
| 25 | 28 | Edi Hauser | Switzerland | 1:35:50.29 | +5:20.91 |
| 26 | 32 | Milan Jarý | Czechoslovakia | 1:35:52.55 | +5:23.17 |
| 27 | 26 | Tim Caldwell | United States | 1:35:57.97 | +5:28.59 |
| 28 | 45 | Giulio Capitanio | Italy | 1:35:58.29 | +5:28.91 |
| 29 | 46 | Fredel Kälin | Switzerland | 1:36:09.97 | +5:40.59 |
| 30 | 23 | Hans Skinstad | Canada | 1:36:16.95 | +5:47.57 |
| 31 | 11 | Bert Bullock | Canada | 1:36:24.55 | +5:55.17 |
| 32 | 34 | Herbert Wachter | Austria | 1:36:28.48 | +5:59.10 |
| 33 | 60 | Dieter Meinel | East Germany | 1:36:37.35 | +6:07.97 |
| 34 | 27 | Roberto Primus | Italy | 1:36:40.33 | +6:10.95 |
| 35 | 68 | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | Sweden | 1:36:40.86 | +6:11.48 |
| 36 | 17 | Hans Speicher | West Germany | 1:36:52.45 | +6:23.07 |
| 37 | 25 | Jean-Paul Vandel | France | 1:37:11.67 | +6:42.29 |
| 38 | 12 | Renzo Chiocchetti | Italy | 1:37:15.82 | +6:46.44 |
| 39 | 6 | Reinhold Feichter | Austria | 1:37:43.73 | +7:14.35 |
| 40 | 38 | Walter Demel | West Germany | 1:37:44.17 | +7:14.79 |
| 41 | 57 | Ulrico Kostner | Italy | 1:37:49.85 | +7:20.47 |
| 42 | 41 | Edward Day | Canada | 1:38:09.10 | +7:39.72 |
| 43 | 65 | Yves Blondeau | France | 1:38:20.86 | +7:51.48 |
| 44 | 49 | František Šimon | Czechoslovakia | 1:38:34.16 | +8:04.78 |
| 45 | 64 | Jiří Beran | Czechoslovakia | 1:38:39.61 | +8:10.23 |
| 46 | 18 | Ján Michalko | Czechoslovakia | 1:38:40.28 | +8:10.90 |
| 47 | 66 | Jerzy Koryciak | Poland | 1:39:02.46 | +8:33.08 |
| 48 | 43 | Lyubomir Toskov | Bulgaria | 1:39:10.94 | +8:41.56 |
| 49 | 24 | Petar Pankov | Bulgaria | 1:39:27.77 | +8:58.39 |
| 50 | 69 | Hansüli Kreuzer | Switzerland | 1:39:58.44 | +9:29.06 |
| 51 | 44 | Werner Vogel | Austria | 1:40:16.10 | +9:46.72 |
| 52 | 53 | Chris Haines | United States | 1:40:58.43 | +10:29.05 |
| 53 | 4 | Khristo Barzanov | Bulgaria | 1:41:05.91 | +10:36.53 |
| 54 | 52 | Pierre Salvi | France | 1:41:06.69 | +10:37.31 |
| 55 | 30 | Kiyoshi Hayasaka | Japan | 1:41:33.76 | +11:04.38 |
| 56 | 59 | Reijo Puiras | Canada | 1:41:34.43 | +11:05.05 |
| 57 | 50 | Ryoji Fujiki | Japan | 1:42:59.25 | +12:29.87 |
| 58 | 61 | Franz Gattermann | Austria | 1:43:04.88 | +12:35.50 |
| 59 | 58 | Bela Bodnar | United States | 1:43:10.73 | +12:41.35 |
| 60 | 20 | Maksi Jelenc | Yugoslavia | 1:44:20.25 | +13:50.87 |
| 61 | 1 | Michel Thierry | France | 1:44:25.33 | +13:55.95 |
| 62 | 55 | Bahri Yılmaz | Turkey | 1:45:15.78 | +14:46.40 |
| 63 | 15 | Trausti Sveinsson | Iceland | 1:47:48.45 | +17:19.07 |
| 64 | 19 | Halldór Matthíasson | Iceland | 1:50:02.09 | +19:32.71 |
| 65 | 10 | Marcos Luis Jerman | Argentina | 1:50:06.99 | +19:37.61 |
| 66 | 39 | Ahmet Ünal | Turkey | 1:51:14.75 | +20:45.37 |
| 67 | 9 | Athanassios Koutsougiannis | Greece | 2:21:20.64 | +50:51.26 |
| | 22 | Estathios Vogdanos | Greece | DNF | |
| | 54 | Władysław Podgórski | Poland | DNF | |