Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start

Men's 30 kilometre freestyle
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Men's 30 kilometre freestyle; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Soldier Hollow
Dates	9 February
Competitors	78 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:11:31.0
Medalists
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The men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 9 February at Soldier Hollow.^[1]

All skiers started at once, making it the first mass start in cross-country skiing in Olympic history. The defending Olympic champion was the Finnish Mika Myllylä, who won in Nagano, but the 30 kilometre event was held in an interval start.

Results[edit]

Rank	Name	Country	Time
	Christian Hoffmann	Austria	1:11:31.0
	Mikhail Botvinov	Austria	1:11:32.3
	Kristen Skjeldal	Norway	1:11:42.7
4	Pietro Piller Cottrer	Italy	1:11:42.8
5	Ole Einar Bjørndalen	Norway	1:11:44.5
6	Lukáš Bauer	Czech Republic	1:12:22.3
7	Nikolay Bolshakov	Russia	1:12:50.6
8	Sergey Kryanin	Russia	1:12:52.0
9	Cristian Zorzi	Italy	1:13:10.0
10	Emmanuel Jonnier	France	1:13:15.1
11	Vincent Vittoz	France	1:13:21.7
12	Thomas Alsgaard	Norway	1:13:30.2
13	Fabio Maj	Italy	1:13:43.5
14	Sergey Dolidovich	Belarus	1:13:51.1
15	Vladimir Vilisov	Russia	1:13:54.1
16	René Sommerfeldt	Germany	1:13:55.8
17	Juan Jesús Gutiérrez	Spain	1:14:05.1
18	Andrey Nevzorov	Kazakhstan	1:14:12.1
19	Axel Teichmann	Germany	1:14:23.8
20	Martin Koukal	Czech Republic	1:14:25.9
21	Andrew Johnson	United States	1:14:26.9
22	Nikolay Chebotko	Kazakhstan	1:14:32.2
23	Gerhard Urain	Austria	1:14:33.9
24	Petr Michl	Czech Republic	1:14:40.0
25	Markus Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:14:47.0
26	Zsolt Antal	Romania	1:14:47.1
27	Hiroyuki Imai	Japan	1:14:55.6
28	Patrick Mächler	Switzerland	1:15:03.4
29	Dmitry Tishkin	Russia	1:15:10.2
30	Masaaki Kozu	Japan	1:15:32.4
31	Stefan Kunz	Liechtenstein	1:15:56.8
32	Martin Bajčičák	Slovakia	1:16:08.5
33	Tobias Angerer	Germany	1:16:13.1
34	Gion-Andrea Bundi	Switzerland	1:16:19.6
35	Teemu Kattilakoski	Finland	1:16:20.9
36	Niklas Jonsson	Sweden	1:16:25.2
37	Maksim Odnodvortsev	Kazakhstan	1:16:25.6
38	Wilhelm Aschwanden	Switzerland	1:16:32.4
39	Patrick Rölli	Switzerland	1:16:36.5
40	Sami Repo	Finland	1:16:48.2
41	Haritz Zunzunegui	Spain	1:17:06.5
42	Katsuhito Ebisawa	Japan	1:17:18.2
43	Jiří Magál	Czech Republic	1:17:18.3
44	Denis Vorobyov	Belarus	1:17:43.2
45	Donald Farley	Canada	1:17:43.6
46	Vladimir Bortsov	Kazakhstan	1:17:47.5
47	Alexandre Rousselet	France	1:18:01.3
48	Mitsuo Horigome	Japan	1:18:06.3
49	Tor-Arne Hetland	Norway	1:18:28.5
50	Roman Leybyuk	Ukraine	1:18:52.3
51	Silvio Fauner	Italy	1:19:49.3
52	Nikolay Semenyako	Belarus	1:19:45.6
53	Aleksandr Sannikov	Belarus	1:19:46.9
54	Lars Flora	United States	1:20:42.7
55	Park Byeong-Ju	South Korea	1:20:57.5
56	Carl Swenson	United States	1:21:17.3
57	Vladislavas Zybaila	Lithuania	1:21:27.1
58	Juris Ģērmanis	Latvia	1:22:30.4
59	Shin Doo-Sun	South Korea	1:23:03.0
60	Pavo Raudsepp	Estonia	1:23:08.3
61	Damir Jurčević	Croatia	1:23:53.3
62	Aram Hadzhiyan	Armenia	1:24:07.5
63	Vadim Gusevas	Lithuania	1:24:26.3
64	Denis Klobučar	Croatia	1:25:39.0
65	Han Dawei	China	1:25:42.4
66	Zoltán Tagscherer	Hungary	1:30:50.1
67	Ion Bucsa	Moldova	1:32:48.9
68	Gjoko Dineski	Macedonia	1:33:33.9
	Per Elofsson	Sweden	DNF
	Morgan Göransson	Sweden	DNF
	Justin Wadsworth	United States	DNF
	Sami Pietilä	Finland	DNF
	Christophe Perrillat	France	DNF
	Jeong Ui-myeong	South Korea	DNF
	Sabahattin Oğlago	Turkey	DNF
	Prawat Nagvajara	Thailand	DNF
	Johann Mühlegg	Spain	DSQ
	Achim Walcher	Austria	DSQ