# Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre classical

The Men's 50 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 23 February at Soldier Hollow.
All skiers started at 30 second intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. The defending Olympic champion was the Norwegian Bjørn Dæhlie, who won in Nagano with freestyle, but he retired after an accident, two years before the Olympics.

## Results

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Mikhail Ivanov | Russia | 2:06:20.8 |
| | Andrus Veerpalu | Estonia | 2:06:44.5 |
| | Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset | Norway | 2:08:41.5 |
| 4 | Andreas Schlütter | Germany | 2:08:54.8 |
| 5 | Mikhail Botvinov | Austria | 2:09:21.7 |
| 6 | Hiroyuki Imai | Japan | 2:09:41.3 |
| 7 | Anders Aukland | Norway | 2:10:02.7 |
| 8 | Lukáš Bauer | Czech Republic | 2:10:41.9 |
| 9 | Frode Estil | Norway | 2:10:44.8 |
| 10 | Erling Jevne | Norway | 2:12:06.6 |
| 11 | Giorgio Di Centa | Italy | 2:12:59.6 |
| 12 | Martin Bajčičák | Slovakia | 2:13:07.9 |
| 13 | Andrey Nevzorov | Kazakhstan | 2:13:53.1 |
| 14 | Fabio Maj | Italy | 2:14:32.4 |
| 15 | Vladimir Vilisov | Russia | 2:14:37.5 |
| 16 | Magnus Ingesson | Sweden | 2:14:48.6 |
| 17 | Per Elofsson | Sweden | 2:14:50.6 |
| 18 | Raul Olle | Estonia | 2:15:00.0 |
| 19 | Jiří Magál | Czech Republic | 2:15:06.8 |
| 20 | Juan Jesús Gutiérrez | Spain | 2:15:14.4 |
| 21 | Jens Filbrich | Germany | 2:15:44.8 |
| 22 | Roman Leybyuk | Ukraine | 2:15:50.9 |
| 23 | Andrey Golovko | Kazakhstan | 2:16:42.2 |
| 24 | Sergey Kryanin | Russia | 2:16:59.8 |
| 25 | Ivan Bátory | Slovakia | 2:17:25.2 |
| 26 | Fabio Santus | Italy | 2:17:41.4 |
| 27 | Masaaki Kozu | Japan | 2:17:51.9 |
| 28 | Aleksey Prokurorov | Russia | 2:18:30.4 |
| 29 | Mathias Fredriksson | Sweden | 2:18:42.1 |
| 30 | Sami Pietilä | Finland | 2:19:10.7 |
| 31 | Karri Hietamäki | Finland | 2:19:32.0 |
| 32 | Wilhelm Aschwanden | Switzerland | 2:19:33.9 |
| 33 | John Bauer | United States | 2:19:35.7 |
| 34 | Maksim Odnodvortsev | Kazakhstan | 2:19:50.3 |
| 35 | Igor Zubrilin | Kazakhstan | 2:20:25.7 |
| 36 | Markus Hasler | Liechtenstein | 2:20:31.8 |
| 37 | Reto Burgermeister | Switzerland | 2:20:43.3 |
| 38 | Katsuhito Ebisawa | Japan | 2:21:05.3 |
| 39 | Donald Farley | Canada | 2:21:26.5 |
| 40 | Aleksey Tregubov | Belarus | 2:22:29.3 |
| 41 | Hiroshi Kudo | Japan | 2:23:02.3 |
| 42 | Petr Michl | Czech Republic | 2:23:43.3 |
| 43 | Ričardas Panavas | Lithuania | 2:23:56.4 |
| 44 | Aleksandr Sannikov | Belarus | 2:24:14.2 |
| 45 | Patrick Rölli | Switzerland | 2:24:34.4 |
| 46 | Aleksandr Shalak | Belarus | 2:24:37.2 |
| 47 | Kuisma Taipale | Finland | 2:24:40.5 |
| 48 | Meelis Aasmäe | Estonia | 2:27:18.8 |
| 49 | Milan Šperl | Czech Republic | 2:28:28.8 |
| 50 | Vladislavas Zybaila | Lithuania | 2:29:27.4 |
| 51 | Andrew Johnson | United States | 2:32:44.3 |
| 52 | Damir Jurčević | Croatia | 2:35:54.9 |
| 53 | Denis Klobučar | Croatia | 2:35:58.8 |
| 54 | Han Dawei | China | 2:44:50.0 |
| 55 | Vadim Gusevas | Lithuania | 2:45:23.0 |
| 56 | Aram Hadzhiyan | Armenia | 2:48:48.1 |
| 57 | Alexander Penna | Brazil | 3:23:58.7 |
| | Haritz Zunzunegui | Spain | DNF |
| | Justin Wadsworth | United States | DNF |
| | Johann Mühlegg | Spain | DSQ |
| | Marc Mayer | Austria | DSQ |