Cross Country Skiing — 30 kilometres, Men (discontinued)

Times held	13
Total participants	652
Total countries	55

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1956	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	54	18
1960	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	48	17
1964	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	69	23
1968	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	66	22
1972	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	59	18
1976	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	69	21
1980	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	57	20
1984	30 kilometres, Men	Olympic	72	26
1988	30 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	90	32
1992	30 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	87	34
1994	30 kilometres (Freestyle), Men	Olympic	74	28
1998	30 kilometres (Classical), Men	Olympic	72	27
2002	30 kilometres (Mass Start, Freestyle), Men	Olympic	78	32

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1956	Veikko Hakulinen	FIN	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Pavel Kolchin	URS
1960	Sixten Jernberg	SWE	Rolf Rämgård	SWE	Nikolay Anikin	URS
1964	Eero Mäntyranta	FIN	Harald Grønningen	NOR	Igor Voronchikhin	URS
1968	Franco Nones	ITA	Odd Martinsen	NOR	Eero Mäntyranta	FIN
1972	Vyacheslav Vedenin	URS	Pål Tyldum	NOR	Johs Harviken	NOR
1976	Sergey Savelyev	URS	Bill Koch	USA	Ivan Garanin	URS
1980	Nikolay Zimyatov	URS	Vasily Rochev	URS	Ivan Lebanov	BUL
1984	Nikolay Zimyatov	URS	Aleksandr Zavyalov	URS	Gunde Svan	SWE
1988	Aleksey Prokurorov	URS	Vladimir Smirnov	URS	Vegard Ulvang	NOR
1992	Vegard Ulvang	NOR	Bjørn Dæhlie	NOR	Terje Langli	NOR
1994	Thomas Alsgaard	NOR	Bjørn Dæhlie	NOR	Mika Myllylä	FIN
1998	Mika Myllylä	FIN	Erling Jevne	NOR	Silvio Fauner	ITA
2002	Christian Hoffmann	AUT	Mikhail Botvinov	AUT	Kristen Skjeldal	NOR

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Soviet Union	URS	5	3	4	12
Finland	FIN	3	0	2	5
Norway	NOR	2	6	4	12
Sweden	SWE	1	2	1	4
Austria	AUT	1	1	0	2
Italy	ITA	1	0	1	2
United States	USA	0	1	0	1
Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Nikolay Zimyatov	RUS URS	2	0	0	2
Sixten Jernberg	SWE	1	1	0	2
Mika Myllylä	FIN	1	0	1	2
Eero Mäntyranta	FIN	1	0	1	2
Vegard Ulvang	NOR	1	0	1	2