Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre

The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Saturday 23 February at Mount Van Hoevenberg, Essex County, New York. Sven-Åke Lundbäck of Sweden was the 1978 World champion and Ivar Formo of Norway was the defending champion from the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Men's 50 kilometre at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Mount Van Hoevenberg
Dates	23 February
Competitors	43 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:27:24.60
Medalists
Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union Juha Mieto  Finland Alexander Zavyalov  Soviet Union

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 43 athletes who started the race, 6 did not finish. Nikolay Zimyatov of the Soviet Union took his third Gold medal of the games after winning the 30 kilometre and being part of Soviet Union's winning 4 × 10 km relay team.

Results

Sources:

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	41	Nikolay Zimyatov	Soviet Union	2:27:24.60	–
	38	Juha Mieto	Finland	2:30:20.52	+2.55.92
	14	Alexander Zavyalov	Soviet Union	2:30:51.52	+3:26.92
4	47	Lars Erik Eriksen	Norway	2:30:53.03	+3:28.43
5	6	Sergey Savelyev	Soviet Union	2:31:15.82	+3:51.22
6	28	Yevgeny Belyayev	Soviet Union	2:31:21.19	+3:56.59
7	20	Oddvar Brå	Norway	2:31:46.83	+4:22.23
8	36	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	Sweden	2:31:59.65	+4:35.05
9	21	Asko Autio	Finland	2:32:25.57	+5:00.97
10	18	Franz Renggli	Switzerland	2:33:27.56	+6:02.96
11	33	Matti Pitkänen	Finland	2:34:09.04	+6:44.44
12	40	Jean-Paul Pierrat	France	2:34:13.07	+6:48.47
13	37	Bill Koch	United States	2:34:31.62	+7:07.02
14	10	Heinz Gähler	Switzerland	2:35:11.20	+7:46.60
15	2	Anders Bakken	Norway	2:35:33.26	+8:08.66
16	8	Thomas Eriksson	Sweden	2:36:33.85	+9:09.25
17	42	Józef Łuszczek	Poland	2:36:38.05	+9:13.45
18	5	Pertti Teurajärvi	Finland	2:36:44.08	+9:19.48
19	22	Giulio Capitanio	Italy	2:37:01.40	+9:36.80
20	23	Jim Galanes	United States	2:37:09.64	+9:45.04
21	12	Peter Zipfel	West Germany	2:37:09.74	+9:45.14
22	46	Dieter Notz	West Germany	2:37:47.41	+10:22.81
23	44	Jiří Beran	Czechoslovakia	2:37:51.58	+10:26.98
24	32	Kjell Jakob Sollie	Norway	2:38:06.07	+10:41.47
25	39	Roberto Primus	Italy	2:38:10.10	+10:45.50
26	24	Alf-Gerd Deckert	East Germany	2:38:13.53	+10:48.93
27	17	František Šimon	Czechoslovakia	2:39:53.03	+12:28.43
28	4	Franz Schöbel	West Germany	2:40:25.96	+13:01.36
29	30	Josef Schneider	West Germany	2:40:49.68	+13:25.08
30	26	Jiří Švub	Czechoslovakia	2:40:53.94	+13:29.34
31	11	Michel Thierry	France	2:41:38.26	+14:13.66
32	1	Gianfranco Polvara	Italy	2:41:51.58	+14:26.98
33	27	Stan Dunklee	United States	2:42:20.20	+14:55.60
34	35	Erik Gustavsson	Sweden	2:43:39.93	+16:15.33
35	29	Paul Fargeix	France	2:45:39.70	+18:15.10
36	19	Luvsandashiin Dorj	Mongolia	2:48:22.97	+20:58.37
37	34	Shiro Sato	Japan	2:48:33.02	+21:08.42
	7	Philippe Poirot	France	DNF
	9	Doug Peterson	United States	DNF
	15	Stig Jäder	Sweden	DNF
	25	Gaudenz Ambühl	Switzerland	DNF
	31	Maurilio De Zolt	Italy	DNF
	45	Konrad Hallenbarter	Switzerland	DNF
	3	Þröstur Jóhannesson	Iceland	DNS
	13	Tone Ðuričič	Yugoslavia	DNS
	16	Haukur Sigurðsson	Iceland	DNS
	43	Khristo Barzanov	Bulgaria	DNS

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)