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
Venue	Soldier Hollow
Dates	9 February
Competitors	78 from 31 nations
Winning time	1:11:31.0
Medalists
Christian Hoffmann   Austria   Mikhail Botvinov   Austria   Kristen Skjeldal   Norway

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 on9 February at Soldier Hollow.

All skier 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

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Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Christian Hoffmann	Austria	1:11:31.0
2	Mikhail Botvinov	Austria	1:11:32.3
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 Leibiuk	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
69	Per Elofsson	Sweden	DNF
70	Morgan Göransson	Sweden	DNF
71	Justin Wadsworth	United States	DNF
72	Sami Pietilä	Finland	DNF
73	Christophe Perrillat	France	DNF
74	Jeong Ui-Myeong	South Korea	DNF
75	Sabahattin Oğlago	Turkey	DNF
76	Prawat Nagvajara	Thailand	DNF
77	Johann Mühlegg	Spain	DSQ
78	Achim Walcher	Austria	DSQ

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