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 Sepp 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

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Algeria ALG 2006 Winter Olympics Noureddine Bentoumi DNF See all
Andorra AND 2022 Winter Olympics Irineu Esteve Altimiras 25 See all
Argentina ARG 1984 Winter Olympics Ricardo Holler 50 See all
Armenia ARM 2002 Winter Olympics Aram Hadzhiyan 56 See all
Australia AUS 1992 Winter Olympics Anthony Evans 34 See all
Austria AUT 1998 Winter Olympics Christian Hoffmann 3 Bronze See all
2006 Winter Olympics Mikhail Botvinov 3 Bronze
Belarus BLR 2014 Winter Olympics Siarhei Dalidovich 5 See all
Belgium BEL 2022 Winter Olympics Thibaut De Marre 47 See all
Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH 2022 Winter Olympics Strahinja Erić 52 See all
Brazil BRA 2002 Winter Olympics Alexander Penna 57 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1960 Winter Olympics Stefan Mitkov 22 See all
Canada CAN 2018 Winter Olympics Alex Harvey 4 See all
Croatia CRO 1994 Winter Olympics Antonio Rački 52 See all
2002 Winter Olympics Damir Jurčević 52
Czechia CZE 2006 Winter Olympics Martin Koukal 7 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1992 Winter Olympics Radim Nyč 6 See all
Denmark DEN 1998 Winter Olympics Michael Binzer 41 See all
East Germany GDR 1976 Winter Olympics Gert-Dietmar Klause 2 Silver See all
Estonia EST 2002 Winter Olympics Andrus Veerpalu 2 Silver See all
Finland FIN 1932 Winter Olympics Veli Saarinen 1 Gold See all
1952 Winter Olympics Veikko Hakulinen 1 Gold
1960 Winter Olympics Kalevi Hämäläinen 1 Gold
2018 Winter Olympics Iivo Niskanen 1 Gold
France FRA 2006 Winter Olympics Emmanuel Jonnier 4 See all
Germany GER 2010 Winter Olympics Axel Teichmann 2 Silver See all
Great Britain GBR 2022 Winter Olympics Andrew Musgrave 12 See all
Greece GRE 2022 Winter Olympics Apostolos Angelis 59 See all
Hungary HUN 1924 Winter Olympics Ferenc Németh 20 See all
Iceland ISL 2022 Winter Olympics Snorri Einarsson 23 See all
Ireland IRL 2022 Winter Olympics Thomas Maloney Westgård 29 See all
Italy ITA 2006 Winter Olympics Giorgio Di Centa 1 Gold See all
Japan JPN 2002 Winter Olympics Hiroyuki Imai 6 See all
Kazakhstan KAZ 1994 Winter Olympics Vladimir Smirnov 1 Gold See all
Latvia LAT 2022 Winter Olympics Raimo Vīgants 44 See all
Liechtenstein LIE 1998 Winter Olympics Stephan Kunz 28 See all
Lithuania LTU 1994 Winter Olympics Ričardas Panavas 32 See all
Mexico MEX 1988 Winter Olympics Roberto Álvarez 61 See all
Mongolia MGL 1980 Winter Olympics Luvsandashiin Dorj 36 See all
New Zealand NZL 2010 Winter Olympics Ben Koons 46 See all
North Macedonia MKD 2022 Winter Olympics Stavre Jada 56 See all
Norway NOR 1924 Winter Olympics Thorleif Haug 1 Gold See all
1968 Winter Olympics Ole Ellefsæter 1 Gold
1972 Winter Olympics Pål Tyldum 1 Gold
1976 Winter Olympics Ivar Formo 1 Gold
1992 Winter Olympics Bjørn Dæhlie 1 Gold
1998 Winter Olympics Bjørn Dæhlie 1 Gold
2010 Winter Olympics Petter Northug 1 Gold
People's Republic of China CHN 1998 Winter Olympics Qu Donghai 29 See all
Poland POL 1928 Winter Olympics Andrzej Krzeptowski II 13 See all
1956 Winter Olympics Stanisław Bukowski 13
ROC ROC 2022 Winter Olympics Aleksandr Bolshunov 1 Gold See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2018 Winter Olympics Kim Magnus 43 See all
Romania ROU 1952 Winter Olympics Gheorghe Olteanu 22 See all
Russian Federation RUS 2002 Winter Olympics Mikhail Ivanov 1 Gold See all
2014 Winter Olympics Aleksandr Legkov 1 Gold
Serbia SRB 2014 Winter Olympics Milanko Petrović 50 See all
Serbia and Montenegro SCG 2006 Winter Olympics Aleksandar Milenković DNF See all
Slovakia SVK 2002 Winter Olympics Martin Bajčičák 12 See all
Slovenia SLO 1992 Winter Olympics Jožko Kavalar 24 See all
South Africa RSA 2006 Winter Olympics Oliver Kraas DNF See all
Soviet Union URS 1980 Winter Olympics Nikolay Zimyatov 1 Gold See all
Spain ESP 1992 Winter Olympics Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 19 See all
1994 Winter Olympics Juan Jesús Gutiérrez 19
Sweden SWE 1928 Winter Olympics Per Erik Hedlund 1 Gold See all
1936 Winter Olympics Elis Wiklund 1 Gold
1948 Winter Olympics Nils Karlsson 1 Gold
1956 Winter Olympics Sixten Jernberg 1 Gold
1964 Winter Olympics Sixten Jernberg 1 Gold
1984 Winter Olympics Thomas Wassberg 1 Gold
1988 Winter Olympics Gunde Svan 1 Gold
Switzerland SUI 1968 Winter Olympics Sepp Haas 3 Bronze See all
1988 Winter Olympics Andi Grünenfelder 3 Bronze
Thailand THA 2022 Winter Olympics Mark Chanloung 49 See all
Türkiye TUR 2006 Winter Olympics Sabahattin Oğlago DNF See all
Ukraine UKR 2002 Winter Olympics Roman Leibiuk 22 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Winter Olympics Aleksey Prokurorov 4 See all
United States USA 2022 Winter Olympics Scott Patterson 8 See all
West Germany FRG 1972 Winter Olympics Walter Demel 5 See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1936 Winter Olympics Franc Smolej 10 See all