Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start
# Cross-country skiing at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre freestyle mass start

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 skiers 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.

## Results

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Christian Hoffmann | Austria | 1:11:31.0 |
| | Mikhail Botvinov | Austria | 1:11:32.3 |
| | 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 |
| 21 | Andrew Johnson | United States | 1:14:26.9 |
| 22 | Nikolay Chebotko | Kazakhstan | 1:14:32.2 |
| 23 | Gerhard Urain | Austria | 1:14:33.9 |
| 24 | Petr Michl | Czech Republic | 1:14:40.0 |
| 25 | Markus Hasler | Liechtenstein | 1:14:47.0 |
| 26 | Zsolt Antal | Romania | 1:14:47.1 |
| 27 | Hiroyuki Imai | Japan | 1:14:55.6 |
| 28 | Patrick Mächler | Switzerland | 1:15:03.4 |
| 29 | Dmitry Tishkin | Russia | 1:15:10.2 |
| 30 | Masaaki Kozu | Japan | 1:15:32.4 |
| 31 | Stefan Kunz | Liechtenstein | 1:15:56.8 |
| 32 | Martin Bajčičák | Slovakia | 1:16:08.5 |
| 33 | Tobias Angerer | Germany | 1:16:13.1 |
| 34 | Gion-Andrea Bundi | Switzerland | 1:16:19.6 |
| 35 | Teemu Kattilakoski | Finland | 1:16:20.9 |
| 36 | Niklas Jonsson | Sweden | 1:16:25.2 |
| 37 | Maksim Odnodvortsev | Kazakhstan | 1:16:25.6 |
| 38 | Wilhelm Aschwanden | Switzerland | 1:16:32.4 |
| 39 | Patrick Rölli | Switzerland | 1:16:36.5 |
| 40 | Sami Repo | Finland | 1:16:48.2 |
| 41 | Haritz Zunzunegui | Spain | 1:17:06.5 |
| 42 | Katsuhito Ebisawa | Japan | 1:17:18.2 |
| 43 | Jiří Magál | Czech Republic | 1:17:18.3 |
| 44 | Denis Vorobyov | Belarus | 1:17:43.2 |
| 45 | Donald Farley | Canada | 1:17:43.6 |
| 46 | Vladimir Bortsov | Kazakhstan | 1:17:47.5 |
| 47 | Alexandre Rousselet | France | 1:18:01.3 |
| 48 | Mitsuo Horigome | Japan | 1:18:06.3 |
| 49 | Tor-Arne Hetland | Norway | 1:18:28.5 |
| 50 | Roman Leybyuk | Ukraine | 1:18:52.3 |
| 51 | Silvio Fauner | Italy | 1:19:49.3 |
| 52 | Nikolay Semenyako | Belarus | 1:19:45.6 |
| 53 | Aleksandr Sannikov | Belarus | 1:19:46.9 |
| 54 | Lars Flora | United States | 1:20:42.7 |
| 55 | Park Byeong-Ju | South Korea | 1:20:57.5 |
| 56 | Carl Swenson | United States | 1:21:17.3 |
| 57 | Vladislavas Zybaila | Lithuania | 1:21:27.1 |
| 58 | Juris Ģērmanis | Latvia | 1:22:30.4 |
| 59 | Shin Doo-Sun | South Korea | 1:23:03.0 |
| 60 | Pavo Raudsepp | Estonia | 1:23:08.3 |
| 61 | Damir Jurčević | Croatia | 1:23:53.3 |
| 62 | Aram Hadzhiyan | Armenia | 1:24:07.5 |
| 63 | Vadim Gusevas | Lithuania | 1:24:26.3 |
| 64 | Denis Klobučar | Croatia | 1:25:39.0 |
| 65 | Han Dawei | China | 1:25:42.4 |
| 66 | Zoltán Tagscherer | Hungary | 1:30:50.1 |
| 67 | Ion Bucsa | Moldova | 1:32:48.9 |
| 68 | Gjoko Dineski | Macedonia | 1:33:33.9 |
| | Per Elofsson | Sweden | DNF |
| | Morgan Göransson | Sweden | DNF |
| | Justin Wadsworth | United States | DNF |
| | Sami Pietilä | Finland | DNF |
| | Christophe Perrillat | France | DNF |
| | Jeong Ui-myeong | South Korea | DNF |
| | Sabahattin Oğlago | Turkey | DNF |
| | Prawat Nagvajara | Thailand | DNF |
| | Johann Mühlegg | Spain | DSQ |
| | Achim Walcher | Austria | DSQ |
