The 15 kilometre cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing programme at the 1984 Winter Olympics, in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It was the eighth appearance of the event at its length of 15 km. The competition was held on Monday, 13 February 1984 at Veliko Polje, Igman. Of the 91 athletes who started the race, 8 did not finish or were disqualified.

Gunde Svan of Sweden won gold, his first Olympic gold medal, being the youngest ever Olympic cross-country gold medallist. Defending Olympic champion and fellow Swede, Thomas Wassberg did not defend his title preferring to concentrate on other events. Ove Aunli of Norway was disqualified after finishing fifth for using illegal skate strokes at the climax of the race.

Results Rank Bib Name Country Time 1 73 Gunde Svan 41:25.6 2 63 Aki Karvonen 41:34.9 3 37 Harri Kirvesniemi 41:45.6 4 88 Juha Mieto 42:05.8 5 8 Vladimir Nikitin 42:31.6 6 86 Nikolay Zimyatov 42:34.5 7 74 Uwe Bellmann 42:35.8 8 54 Tor Håkon Holte 42:37.4 9 72 Maurilio De Zolt 42:40.0 10 33 Oleksandr Batyuk 42:42.2 11 89 Andi Grünenfelder 42:45.7 12 35 Giachem Guidon 42:45.9 13 5 Kari Härkönen 42:49.3 14 46 Giorgio Vanzetta 42:54.9 15 17 Sven-Erik Danielsson 42:55.9 16 62 Aleksandr Zavyalov 42:59.0 17 27 Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass 42:59.7 18 70 Dan Simoneau 43:03.4 19 42 Benny Kohlberg 43:21.5 20 13 Geir Holte 43:23.3 21 49 Pierre Harvey 43:36.4 22 52 Torgny Mogren 43:39.4 23 56 Uwe Wünsch 43:49.9 24 1 Giulio Capitanio 43:50.8 25 79 Alois Stadlober 43:51.6 26 4 Frank Schröder 43:52.1 27 77 Bill Koch 43:53.7 28 59 Konrad Hallenbarter 44:00.3 29 91 Miloš Bečvář 44:00.8 30 57 Stefan Dotzler 44:02.6 31 69 Dominique Locatelli 44:07.5 32 19 Markus Fähndrich 44:08.0 33 44 Franz Schöbel 44:11.1 34 32 Gianfranco Polvara 44:35.7 35 22 Ivo Čarman 45:04.0 36 87 Józef Łuszczek 45:04.8 37 7 Josef Schneider 45:08.7 38 80 Atanas Simidchiev 45:17.0 39 45 Tim Caldwell 45:21.2 40 82 Dušan Đurišič 45:24.6 41 21 Karsten Brandt 45:40.1 42 20 Konstantin Ritter 45:41.5 43 65 Hideaki Yamada 45:42.3 44 26 Jean-Denis Jaussaud 45:44.4 45 50 José Giro 45:50.3 46 67 Pavel Benc 46:03.8 47 84 Kazunari Sasaki 46:04.8 48 2 Sašo Grajf 46:21.1 49 68 Einar Ólafsson 46:21.7 50 38 Satoshi Sato 46:25.5 51 25 Svetoslav Atanasov 46:28.9 52 61 Milush Ivanchev 46:30.1 53 47 Andreas Gumpold 46:34.5 54 3 Todd Boonstra 46:36.5 55 23 Gottlieb Konráðsson 46:37.8 56 9 Yusei Nakazawa 46:38.6 57 85 John Spotswood 46:53.7 58 60 Mark Moore 47:03.2 59 53 David Hislop 47:25.5 60 31 Mike Dixon 48:18.6 61 24 Miguel Prat 48:30.6 62 83 Park Ki-ho 48:55.6 63 15 Marty Watkins 49:08.7 64 40 Chris Allen 49:14.5 65 58 Luvsandashiin Dorj 49:17.8 66 71 Song Shi 49:42.1 67 90 Li Xiaoming 50:03.3 68 28 Lin Guanghao 50:26.1 69 16 Zhu Dianfa 50:42.3 70 6 Nihattin Koca 51:58.7 71 48 Kim Bo-nam 52:04.4 72 75 Norberto von Baumann 52:08.9 73 64 Julio Moreschi 52:19.1 74 55 Erhan Dursun 53:40.3 75 41 Ricardo Holler 54:34.6 76 18 Martín Pearson 54:50.0 77 14 Dimitrios Biliouris 56:07.7 78 43 Lazaros Tosounidis 57:09.7 79 29 Arturo Kinch 58:42.9 80 66 Ueng Ming-yih 1:00:10.6 81 12 Chang Kun-shung 1:02:57.7 82 11 Andrea Sammaritani 1:03:05.3 83 36 Wang Chi-hing 1:03:17.0 34 Muzaffer Selçuk DNF 78 Jochen Behle DNF DQ 10 Dondogiin Gankhuyag DQ DQ 30 Vangansürengiin Renchinkhorol DQ DQ 39 Cho Sung-hoon DQ DQ 51 Jože Klemenčič DQ DQ 81 Ove Aunli DQ DQ 76 Pürevjavyn Batsükh DQ

References

External links Official Olympic Report