Cross Country Skiing — 15 kilometres, Men

Times held	15
Total participants	888
Total countries	84

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1956	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	62	20
1960	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	54	19
1964	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	71	21
1968	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	75	25
1972	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	62	19
1976	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	80	23
1980	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	63	22
1984	15 kilometres, Men	Olympic	91	31
1988	15 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	90	32
2002	15 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	67	26
2006	15 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	99	46
2010	15 kilometres (Freestyle), Men	Olympic	95	49
2014	15 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	91	45
2018	15 kilometres (Freestyle), Men	Olympic	119	62
2022	15 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	97	50

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1956	Hallgeir Brenden	NOR	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Pavel Kolchin	URS
1960	Håkon Brusveen	NOR	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Veikko Hakulinen	FIN
1964	Eero Mäntyranta	FIN	Harald Grønningen	NOR	Sixten Jernberg	SWE
1968	Harald Grønningen	NOR	Eero Mäntyranta	FIN	Gunnar Larsson	SWE
1972	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	SWE	Fyodor Simashov	URS	Ivar Formo	NOR
1976	Nikolay Bazhukov	URS	Yevgeny Belyayev	URS	Arto Koivisto	FIN
1980	Thomas Wassberg	SWE	Juha Mieto	FIN	Ove Aunli	NOR
1984	Gunde Svan	SWE	Aki Karvonen	FIN	Harri Kirvesniemi	FIN
1988	Mikhail Devyatyarov	URS	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass	NOR	Vladimir Smirnov	URS
2002	Andrus Veerpalu	EST	Frode Estil	NOR	Jaak Mae	EST
2006	Andrus Veerpalu	EST	Lukáš Bauer	CZE	Tobias Angerer	GER
2010	Dario Cologna	SUI	Pietro Piller Cottrer	ITA	Lukáš Bauer	CZE
2014	Dario Cologna	SUI	Johan Olsson	SWE	Daniel Rickardsson	SWE
2018	Dario Cologna	SUI	Simen Hegstad Krüger	NOR	Denis Spitsov	ROC
2022	Iivo Niskanen	FIN	Aleksandr Bolshunov	ROC	Johannes Høsflot Klæbo	NOR

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Norway	NOR	3	4	3	10
Sweden	SWE	3	3	3	9
Switzerland	SUI	3	0	0	3
Finland	FIN	2	3	3	8
Soviet Union	URS	2	2	2	6
Estonia	EST	2	0	1	3
Czechia	CZE	0	1	1	2
ROC	ROC	0	1	1	2
Italy	ITA	0	1	0	1
Germany	GER	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Dario Cologna	SUI	3	0	0	3
Andrus Veerpalu	EST	2	0	0	2
Harald Grønningen	NOR	1	1	0	2
Eero Mäntyranta	FIN	1	1	0	2
Nikolay Bazhukov	RUS URS	1	0	0	1
Hallgeir Brenden	NOR	1	0	0	1
Håkon Brusveen	NOR	1	0	0	1
Mikhail Devyatyarov	RUS URS	1	0	0	1
Sven-Åke Lundbäck	SWE	1	0	0	1
Gunde Svan	SWE	1	0	0	1
Thomas Wassberg	SWE	1	0	0	1
Iivo Niskanen	FIN	1	0	0	1