Cross Country Skiing — 50 kilometres, Men

Times held 24
Total participants 953
Total countries 59

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1924 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 33 11
1928 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 41 11
1932 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 32 9
1936 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 36 11
1948 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 28 9
1952 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 36 13
1956 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 33 13
1960 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 31 10
1964 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 41 14
1968 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 51 18
1972 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 40 13
1976 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 59 17
1980 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 43 14
1984 50 kilometres, Men Olympic 54 21
1988 50 kilometres (Freestyle), Men Olympic 70 23
1992 50 kilometres (Freestyle), Men Olympic 73 29
1994 50 kilometres (Classical), Men Olympic 66 25
1998 50 kilometres (Freestyle), Men Olympic 75 28
2002 50 kilometres (Classical), Men Olympic 61 24
2006 50 kilometres (Mass Start, Freestyle), Men Olympic 79 31
2010 50 kilometres (Mass Start, Classical), Men Olympic 53 21
2014 50 kilometres (Mass Start, Freestyle), Men Olympic 64 26
2018 50 kilometres (Mass Start, Classical), Men Olympic 69 31
2022 50 kilometres (Mass Start, Freestyle), Men Olympic 60 32

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1924 Thorleif HaugNOR Thoralf StrømstadNOR Johan GrøttumsbraatenNOR
1928 Per Erik HedlundSWE Gustaf JonssonSWE Volger AnderssonSWE
1932 Veli SaarinenFIN Väinö LiikkanenFIN Arne RustadstuenNOR
1936 Elis WiklundSWE Axel WikströmSWE Nils EnglundSWE
1948 Nils KarlssonSWE Harald EricsonSWE Benjam VanninenFIN
1952 Veikko HakulinenFIN Eero KolehmainenFIN Magnar EstenstadNOR
1956 Sixten JernbergSWE Veikko HakulinenFIN Fyodor TerentyevURS
1960 Kalevi HämäläinenFIN Veikko HakulinenFIN Rolf RämgårdSWE
1964 Sixten JernbergSWE Assar RönnlundSWE Arto TiainenFIN
1968 Ole EllefsæterNOR Vyacheslav VedeninURS Josef HaasSUI
1972 Pål TyldumNOR Magne MyrmoNOR Vyacheslav VedeninURS
1976 Ivar FormoNOR Gert-Dietmar KlauseGDR Benny SödergrenSWE
1980 Nikolay ZimyatovURS Juha MietoFIN Aleksandr ZavyalovURS
1984 Thomas WassbergSWE Gunde SvanSWE Aki KarvonenFIN
1988 Gunde SvanSWE Maurilio De ZoltITA Andi GrünenfelderSUI
1992 Bjørn DæhlieNOR Maurilio De ZoltITA Giorgio VanzettaITA
1994 Vladimir SmirnovKAZ Mika MyllyläFIN Sture SivertsenNOR
1998 Bjørn DæhlieNOR Niklas JonssonSWE Christian HoffmannAUT
2002 Mikhail IvanovRUS Andrus VeerpaluEST Odd-Bjørn HjelmesetNOR
2006 Giorgio Di CentaITA Yevgeny DementyevRUS Mikhail BotvinovAUT
2010 Petter NorthugNOR Axel TeichmannGER Johan OlssonSWE
2014 Aleksandr LegkovRUS Maksim VylegzhaninRUS Ilya ChernousovRUS
2018 Iivo NiskanenFIN Aleksandr BolshunovROC Andrey LarkovROC
2022 Aleksandr BolshunovROC Ivan YakimushkinROC Simen Hegstad KrügerNOR

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Sweden SWE 7 6 5 18
Norway NOR 7 2 6 15
Finland FIN 4 6 3 13
Russian Federation RUS 2 2 1 5
Italy ITA 1 2 1 4
ROC ROC 1 2 1 4
Soviet Union URS 1 1 3 5
Kazakhstan KAZ 1 0 0 1
East Germany GDR 0 1 0 1
Estonia EST 0 1 0 1
Germany GER 0 1 0 1
Austria AUT 0 0 2 2
Switzerland SUI 0 0 2 2

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Bjørn Dæhlie NOR 2 0 0 2
Sixten Jernberg SWE 2 0 0 2
Veikko Hakulinen FIN 1 2 0 3
Gunde Svan SWE 1 1 0 2
Aleksandr Bolshunov ROC 1 1 0 2