Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre
The men's 30 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States, was held on Thursday 14 February at the Mount Van Hoevenberg in Essex County, New York.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course. Sergey Savelyev of the Soviet Union was the 1978 World champion and also the defending Olympic champion from 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.Results
Sources:
| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| 56 | Nikolay Zimyatov | | 1:27:02.80 | |
| 36 | Vasily Rochev | | 1:27:34.22 | |
| 54 | Ivan Lebanov | | 1:28:03.87 | |
| 58 | Thomas Wassberg | | 1:28:40.35 | |
| 57 | Józef Łuszczek | | 1:29:03.64 | |
| 49 | Matti Pitkänen | | 1:29:35.03 | |
| 26 | Juha Mieto | | 1:29:45.08 | |
| 25 | Ove Aunli | | 1:29:54.02 | |
| 40 | Alf-Gerd Deckert | | 1:30:05.17 | |
| 10 | 45 | Lars Erik Eriksen | | 1:30:34.34 | |
| 11 | 19 | Yevgeny Belyayev | | 1:30:35.32 | |
| 12 | 47 | Oddvar Brå | | 1:30:46.70 | |
| 13 | 16 | Benny Kohlberg | | 1:30:57.56 | |
| 14 | 10 | Nikolay Bazhukov | | 1:31:06.28 | |
| 15 | 20 | Edi Hauser | | 1:31:20.09 | |
| 16 | 8 | Per Knut Aaland | | 1:31:26.58 | |
| 17 | 38 | Sven-Åke Lundbäck | | 1:31:31.96 | |
| 18 | 43 | Harri Kirvesniemi | | 1:31:35.13 | |
| 19 | 46 | Jean-Paul Pierrat | | 1:31:43.03 | |
| 20 | 50 | Maurilio De Zolt | | 1:31:43.74 | |
| 21 | 27 | Jiří Beran | | 1:31:46.11 | |
| 22 | 34 | Dieter Notz | | 1:31:58.27 | |
| 23 | 44 | Khristo Barzanov | | 1:32:03.49 | |
| 24 | 42 | Gaudenz Ambühl | | 1:32:06.20 | |
| 25 | 12 | Stig Jäder | | 1:32:08.09 | |
| 26 | 13 | Jorma Aalto | | 1:32:48.10 | |
| 27 | 35 | Giulio Capitanio | | 1:33:07.48 | |
| 28 | 5 | Jiří Švub | | 1:33:12.73 | |
| 29 | 4 | Heinz Gähler | | 1:33:43.68 | |
| 30 | 33 | Stan Dunklee | | 1:33:48.02 | |
| 31 | 11 | Josef Schneider | | 1:34:05.33 | |
| 32 | 39 | Miloš Bečvář | | 1:34:08.79 | |
| 33 | 30 | Ivo Čarman | | 1:34:09.59 | |
| 34 | 3 | Benedetto Carrara | | 1:34:27.45 | |
| 35 | 32 | Paul Fargeix | | 1:35:12.25 | |
| 36 | 53 | František Šimon | | 1:35:32.70 | |
| 37 | 51 | Wolfgang Müller | | 1:35:34.76 | |
| 38 | 1 | Philippe Poirot | | 1:35:47.39 | |
| 39 | 23 | Shiro Sato | | 1:35:52.77 | |
| 40 | 22 | Peter Zipfel | | 1:36:06.95 | |
| 41 | 21 | Jim Galanes | | 1:36:15.17 | |
| 42 | 55 | Francis Jacot | | 1:36:50.46 | |
| 43 | 29 | Roberto Primus | | 1:37:55.47 | +10:52.67 |
| 44 | 28 | Michel Thierry | | 1:38:17.35 | +11:14.55 |
| 45 | 6 | Doug Peterson | | 1:38:29.86 | +11:27.06 |
| 46 | 24 | Tone Ðuričič | | 1:38:46.90 | +11:44.10 |
| 47 | 41 | Jose Giro | | 1:41:57.97 | +14:55.17 |
| 48 | 7 | Ingólfur Jónsson | | 1:45:55.26 | +18:52.46 |
| 49 | 18 | Emiliano Morlans | | 1:46:28.42 | +19:25.62 |
| 50 | 9 | Marcos Luis Jerman | | 1:47:56.17 | +20:53.37 |
| 51 | 17 | Kim Dong-Hwan | | 1:51:13.35 | +24:10.55 |
| 52 | 14 | Luvsandashiin Dorj | | 1:53:52.24 | +26:49.44 |
| 2 | Kim Nam-Young | | | |
| 15 | Þröstur Johannesson | | | |
| 31 | Haukur Sigurðsson | | | |
| 37 | Hwang Byung-Dae | | | |
| 43 | Bill Koch | | | |
| 52 | Kim Chun-Ki | | | |
