Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre classical

The men's 30 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Canada, was held on Monday 15 February at the Canmore Nordic Centre in Canmore.^[1][2]

Men's 30 kilometre classical at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park
Dates	15 February 1988
Competitors	90 from 32 nations
Winning time	1:24:26.3
Medalists
Alexey Prokurorov  Soviet Union Vladimir Smirnov  Soviet Union Vegard Ulvang  Norway
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Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course. The Swede Thomas Wassberg was the 1987 World champion and Nikolay Zimyatov of the Soviet Union was the defending Olympic champion from 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia.^[3]

Results

Sources:^[4][1]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	28	Alexey Prokurorov	Soviet Union	1:24:26.3	–
	78	Vladimir Smirnov	Soviet Union	1:24:35.1	+8.8
	80	Vegard Ulvang	Norway	1:25:11.6	+45.3
4	71	Mikhail Devyatyarov	Soviet Union	1:25:31.3	+1:05.0
5	77	Giorgio Vanzetta	Italy	1:25:37.2	+1:10.9
6	54	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass	Norway	1:25:44.6	+1:18.3
7	49	Gianfranco Polvara	Italy	1:26:02.7	+1:36.4
8	74	Marco Albarello	Italy	1:26:09.1	+1:42.8
9	33	Harri Kirvesniemi	Finland	1:26:59.6	+2:33.3
10	82	Gunde Svan	Sweden	1:27:30.8	+3:04.5
11	18	Torgny Mogren	Sweden	1:27:55.7	+3:29.4
12	1	Yuriy Burlakov	Soviet Union	1:28:02.4	+3:36.1
13	45	Giachem Guidon	Switzerland	1:28:05.9	+3:39.6
14	87	Pierre Harvey	Canada	1:28:21.7	+3:55.4
15	90	Uwe Bellmann	East Germany	1:28:37.2	+4:10.9
16	57	Jan Ottosson	Sweden	1:28:51.7	+4:25.4
17	27	Ladislav Švanda	Czechoslovakia	1:28:55.1	+4:28.8
18	24	Alois Schwarz	Austria	1:29:34.4	+5:08.1
19	64	Aki Karvonen	Finland	1:29:49.5	+5:23.2
20	26	Kazunari Sasaki	Japan	1:29:59.2	+5:32.9
21	46	Tor Håkon Holte	Norway	1:29:59.5	+5:33.2
22	56	Holger Bauroth	East Germany	1:30:03.4	+5:37.1
23	34	Jochen Behle	West Germany	1:30:08.3	+5:42.0
24	16	Guy Balland	France	1:30:20.4	+5:54.1
25	15	Radim Nyč	Czechoslovakia	1:30:34.4	+6:08.1
26	8	Jeremias Wigger	Switzerland	1:30:47.1	+6:20.8
27	5	Kari Ristanen	Finland	1:31:05.2	+6:38.9
28	10	Svetoslav Atanasov	Bulgaria	1:31:15.7	+6:49.4
29	88	Petr Lisičan	Czechoslovakia	1:31:23.1	+6:56.8
30	70	Jürg Capol	Switzerland	1:31:35.8	+7:09.5
31	3	Martin Hole	Norway	1:31:47.5	+7:21.2
32	68	Martin Petrásek	Czechoslovakia	1:31:56.1	+7:29.8
33	63	Alois Stadlober	Austria	1:32:00.0	+7:33.7
34	51	Janež Kršinar	Yugoslavia	1:32:02.1	+7:35.8
35	52	Yves Bilodeau	Canada	1:32:17.8	+7:51.5
36	69	Ivan Smilenov	Bulgaria	1:32:26.9	+8:00.6
37	91	Atsushi Egawa	Japan	1:32:35.4	+8:09.1
38	22	Silvano Barco	Italy	1:32:41.8	+8:15.5
39	20	Al Pilcher	Canada	1:33:04.7	+8:38.4
40	65	Stefan Dotzler	West Germany	1:33:06.1	+8:39.8
41	32	Todor Makhov	Bulgaria	1:33:25.5	+8:59.2
42	43	Thomas Wassberg	Sweden	1:34:07.6	+9:41.3
43	81	Claude Pierrat	France	1:34:15.6	+9:49.3
44	14	Johann Standmann	Austria	1:34:24.8	+9:58.5
45	53	Chris Heberle	Australia	1:34:25.6	+9:59.3
46	37	Wayne Dustin	Canada	1:34:37.8	+10:11.5
47	55	Benjamin Eberle	Liechtenstein	1:34:53.8	+10:27.5
48	84	Mano Ketenzhiev	Bulgaria	1:34:57.0	+10:30.7
49	73	Dan Simoneau	United States	1:35:21.4	+10:55.1
50	58	Dominique Locatelli	France	1:35:40.0	+11:13.7
51	12	Jon Engen	United States	1:35:41.9	+11:15.6
52	75	Jari Laukkanen	Finland	1:35:51.6	+11:25.3
53	23	Sašo Grajf	Yugoslavia	1:36:19.2	+11:52.9
54	36	John Spotswood	Great Britain	1:36:42.7	+12:16.4
55	60	Park Ki-Ho	South Korea	1:36:43.9	+12:17.6
56	25	Kevin Brochman	United States	1:37:07.1	+12:40.8
57	72	Tanayuki Yuki	Japan	1:37:11.9	+12:45.6
58	7	Konstantin Ritter	Liechtenstein	1:37:47.6	+13:21.3
59	2	José Giro	Spain	1:38:01.5	+13:35.2
60	19	Jeon Yeung-Hae	South Korea	1:38:05.3	+13:39.0
61	13	Martin Watkins	Great Britain	1:38:30.3	+14:04.0
62	42	David Hislop	Australia	1:38:48.8	+14:22.5
63	47	Gabor Mayer	Hungary	1:39:03.5	+14:37.2
64	31	Jun Zhao	China	1:39:13.9	+14:47.6
65	61	Einar Ólafsson	Iceland	1:39:56.3	+15:30.0
66	62	Patrick Winterton	Great Britain	1:39:57.6	+15:31.3
67	89	Ewan McKenzie	Great Britain	1:40:06.7	+15:40.4
68	40	Patrick Rémy	France	1:40:24.5	+15:58.2
69	48	Dambajantsagiin Battulga	Mongolia	1:40:41.3	+16:15.0
70	4	Christos Titas	Greece	1:41:25.7	+16:59.4
71	44	Julio Moreschi	Argentina	1:41:40.3	+17:14.0
72	66	Ziitsagaany Ganbat	Mongolia	1:42:24.2	+17:57.9
73	29	Hong Kun-Pyo	South Korea	1:43:26.4	+19:00.1
74	35	Patrik Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:43:26.7	+19:00.4
75	76	Cho Sung-Hoon	South Korea	1:43:30.3	+19:04.0
76	67	Athanasios Tsakiris	Greece	1:43:55.1	+19:28.8
77	11	Masaharu Yamazaki	Japan	1:43:58.3	+19:32.0
78	86	Saim Koca	Turkey	1:44:55.7	+20:29.4
79	50	Abdullah Yilmaz	Turkey	1:46:48.2	+22:21.9
80	6	Dag Burgos	Guatemala	1:47:38.5	+23:12.2
81	17	Fikret Ören	Turkey	1:49:30.2	+25:03.9
82	41	Nikos Anastassiadis	Greece	1:50:10.7	+25:44.4
83	30	Ricardo Burgos	Guatemala	1:51:19.4	+26:53.1
84	59	Erhan Dursum	Turkey	1:56:10.7	+31:44.4
85	21	Roberto Alvárez	Mexico	2:09:34.8	+45:08.5
86	9	Andrea Sammaritani	San Marino	2:15:07.7	+50:41.4
87	39	Arturo Kinch	Costa Rica	2:16:20.2	+51:53.9
	38	Jordi Ribó	Spain	DNF
	79	Andi Grünenfelder	Switzerland	DNF
	85	Joe Galanes	United States	DNF
	83	Markus Gandler	Austria	DNS