Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start
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
Results
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 on 9 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.