The men's 15 kilometre classical cross-country skiing competition at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, United States, was held on 12 February at Soldier Hollow.

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Per Elofsson was the 2001 World champion. The defending Olympic champion was the Norwegian Thomas Alsgaard, who won in Nagano, but the 15 kilometre event was held as a pursuit.

Results Rank Name Country Time Andrus Veerpalu 37:07.4 Frode Estil 37:43.4 Jaak Mae 37:50.8 4 Anders Aukland 38:08.3 5 Per Elofsson 38:10.8 6 Erling Jevne 38:13.6 7 Vitaly Denisov 38:17.9 8 Magnus Ingesson 38:38.5 9 Reto Burgermeister 38:49.2 10 Sergey Novikov 38:49.3 11 Mikhail Ivanov 38:51.3 12 John Bauer 38:55.7 13 Roman Virolaynen 39:02.4 14 Axel Teichmann 39:05.3 15 Andreas Schlütter 39:19.2 16 Patrick Weaver 39:24.4 17 Urban Lindgren 39:24.8 18 Andrey Golovko 39:28.1 19 Masaaki Kozu 39:28.3 20 Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset 39:31.4 21 Ivan Bátory 39:32.0 22 Kris Freeman 39:34.3 23 Alexander Marent 39:36.2 24 Martin Bajčičák 39:39.4 25 Vasily Rochev 39:42.1 26 Freddy Schwienbacher 39:44.9 27 Morgan Göransson 39:45.7 28 Cristian Saracco 39:48.4 29 Jiří Magál 39:48.6 30 Kuisma Taipale 39:50.3 31 Fulvio Valbusa 39:50.6 32 Roman Leybyuk 39:50.9 33 Jens Filbrich 39:57.0 34 Petr Michl 40:00.2 35 Giorgio Di Centa 40:22.6 36 Hiroyuki Imai 40:27.1 37 Denis Krivushkin 40:27.7 38 Hiroshi Kudo 40:29.9 39 Ričardas Panavas 40:31.0 40 Meelis Aasmäe 40:31.2 41 Gerhard Urain 40:38.0 42 Pavel Ryabinin 41:03.2 43 Karri Hietamäki 41:13.6 44 Igor Zubrilin 41:15.5 45 Milan Šperl 41:16.7 46 Donald Farley 41:26.6 47 Aleksandr Shalak 41:44.5 48 Nikolay Semenyako 41:48.0 49 Juris Ģērmanis 41:50.1 50 Katsuhito Ebisawa 41:51.4 51 Aleksey Tregubov 42:00.7 52 Vladislavas Zybaila 42:07.9 53 Ari Palolahti 42:10.7 54 Lars Flora 42:11.5 55 Peter Schlickenrieder 42:34.0 56 Han Dawei 42:34.5 57 Priit Narusk 43:03.2 58 Denis Klobučar 43:45.0 59 Vadim Gusevas 43:56.2 60 Ivan Bayrakov 45:41.2 61 Damir Jurčević 45:49.6 62 Park Byeong-Ju 45:51.4 63 Jargalyn Erdenetülkhüür 45:54.7 64 Choi Im-heon 46:13.3 65 Lefteris Fafalis 46:17.9 66 Aram Hadzhiyan 46:42.9 Slavcho Batinkov DNF

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