Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre
The men's 30 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was held on Wednesday 7 February at Autrans.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course. Eero Mäntyranta of Finland was the 1966 World champion and also the defending Olympic champion from the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.
Results
Sources:| Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
| 26 | Franco Nones | 1:35:39.2 | |||
| 52 | Odd Martinsen | 1:36:28.9 | |||
| 33 | Eero Mäntyranta | 1:36:55.3 | |||
| 45 | Vladimir Voronkov | 1:37:10.8 | |||
| 64 | Giulio Deflorian | 1:37:12.9 | |||
| 55 | Kalevi Laurila | 1:37:29.8 | |||
| 46 | Kalevi Oikarainen | 1:37:34.4 | |||
| 25 | Gunnar Larsson | 1:37:48.1 | |||
| 62 | Walter Demel | 1:37:49.2 | |||
| 10 | 12 | Anatoly Akentyev | 1:37:52.4 | ||
| 11 | 2 | Lorns Skjemstad | 1:37:53.4 | ||
| 12 | 41 | Jan Halvarsson | 1:38:23.2 | ||
| 13 | 50 | Harald Grønningen | 1:38:26.7 | ||
| 14 | 30 | Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1:38:36.1 | ||
| 15 | 47 | Gerhard Grimmer | 1:38:46.0 | ||
| 16 | 4 | Arto Tiainen | 1:38:51.1 | ||
| 17 | 54 | Valery Tarakanov | 1:39:25.0 | ||
| 18 | 60 | Karel Štefl | 1:39:25.7 | ||
| 19 | 32 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | 1:39:30.5 | ||
| 20 | 8 | Bruno Åvik | 1:39:38.1 | ||
| 21 | 66 | Ingvar Sandström | 1:39:47.5 | ||
| 22 | 35 | Ján Fajstavr | 1:40:05.1 | ||
| 23 | 51 | Franco Stella | 1:40:42.0 | ||
| 24 | 17 | Václav Peřina | 1:40:58.0 | ||
| 25 | 3 | Franco Manfroi | 1:41:11.8 | ||
| 26 | 21 | Petar Pankov | 1:41:42.9 | ||
| 27 | 28 | Mike Gallagher | 1:41:58.2 | ||
| 28 | 6 | Denis Mast | 1:41:58.8 | ||
| 29 | 5 | Mike Elliott | 1:42:22.6 | ||
| 30 | 22 | Konrad Hischier | 1:42:26.1 | ||
| 31 | 15 | Karl Buhl | 1:42:52.2 | ||
| 32 | 65 | Flury Koch | 1:43:06.9 | ||
| 33 | 40 | Tokio Sato | 1:43:13.8 | ||
| 34 | 24 | Gjermund Eggen | 1:43:29.6 | ||
| 35 | 49 | Fritz Stuessi | 1:43:57.8 | ||
| 36 | 58 | Axel Lesser | 1:44:16.2 | ||
| 37 | 14 | Helmut Unger | 1:44:47.9 | ||
| 38 | 63 | Ernst Pühringer | 1:44:51.0 | ||
| 39 | 9 | Jean Jobez | 1:45:08.8 | ||
| 40 | 20 | Franz Vetter | 1:45:11.2 | ||
| 41 | 37 | Philippe Baradel | 1:45:33.3 | ||
| 42 | 16 | Luc Colin | 1:45:40.7 | +10:01.5 | |
| 43 | 56 | Roger Pires | 1:45:54.6 | +10:15.4 | |
| 44 | 10 | Alojz Kerštajn | 1:46:09.5 | +10:30.3 | |
| 45 | 53 | Kazuo Sato | 1:46:12.4 | +10:33.2 | |
| 46 | 34 | Herbert Steinbeßer | 1:46:31.2 | +10:52.0 | |
| 47 | 38 | Janez Mlinar | 1:46:43.2 | +11:04.0 | |
| 48 | 1 | Karl-Heinz Scherzinger | 1:47:08.4 | +11:29.2 | |
| 49 | 18 | Mirko Bavče | 1:47:48.9 | +12:09.7 | |
| 50 | 42 | Hansjörg Farbmacher | 1:49:43.3 | +14:04.1 | |
| 51 | 57 | Charles Kellogg | 1:50:03.7 | +14:24.5 | |
| 52 | 59 | Nils Skulbru | 1:50:06.1 | +14:26.9 | |
| 53 | 29 | Svend Carlsen | 1:50:51.8 | +15:12.6 | |
| 54 | 48 | Luvsan-Ayuushiin Dashdemberel | 1:50:52.7 | +15:13.5 | |
| 55 | 36 | Jon Lufkin | 1:51:21.2 | +15:42.0 | |
| 56 | 61 | Gendgeegiin Batmönkh | 1:51:39.1 | +15:59.9 | |
| 57 | 23 | Tibor Holéczy | 1:51:42.0 | +16:02.8 | |
| 58 | 39 | David Rees | 1:52:46.6 | +17:07.4 | |
| 59 | 44 | Miklós Holló | 1:53:41.1 | +18:01.9 | |
| 60 | 19 | Ross Martin | 1:55:17.3 | +19:38.1 | |
| 61 | 27 | Rolf Pettersen | 1:55:37.2 | +19:58.0 | |
| 62 | 7 | Apollo Lynge | 1:55:40.0 | +20:00.8 | |
| 63 | 31 | Choon-Kie Kim | 2:11:51.3 | +36:12.1 | |
| 11 | Dimitrios Andreadis | ||||
| 13 | Vít Fousek Jr. | ||||
| 33 | Chong-Ihm Yoon |