Men 15km Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti, Finland - Saturday, 21dt February

Men 15km Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti, Finland - Saturday, 21dt February - Josef Luszczek, Poland

Final Ranking		time	gap	Birth	Bib	5km	30km
1. Josef Luszczek	Poland	49:09.37		1955	73	16:23^2.	32:20^3.
2. Yevgeny Belyayev	Soviet Union	49:11.62	+2.2s	1954	12	16:26^3.	32:11^2.
3. Juha Mieto	Finland	49:14.37	+5.0s	1949	45	16:19^1.	32:05^1.
4. Matti Pitkänen	Finland	49:23.85	+14.5s	1948	72	16:38^6.	32:28^4.
5. Nikolaj Zimjatov	Soviet Union	49:33.33	+24.0s	1955	53	16:42^8.	32:33^6.
6. Sven-Åke Lundbäck	Sweden	49:50.86	+41.5s	1948	61	16:23^5.	32:29^5.
7. Christer Johansson	Sweden	49:54.06	+44.7s	1950	83	16:46^10.	32:40^7.
8. Vasily Rotchev	Soviet Union	50:06.49	+57.1s	1951	29		32:55^10.
9. Nikolay Bazhukov	Soviet Union	50:09.56	+1:00.2	1953	79	16:44^9.	32:46^8.
10.Ove Aunli	Norway	50:21.23	+1:11.9	1956	48	16:39^7.	32:52^9.
11.Lars Erik Eriksen	Norway	50:28.88	+1:19.5	1954	74
12.Pertti Teurajärvi	Finland	50:31.33	+1:22.0	1951	22	16.28⁴
13.Dieter Notz	West Germany	50:32.90	+1:23.5	1955	66
14.Ivar Formo	Norway	50:33.64	+1:24.3	1951	27
15.Bill Koch	United States	50:36.00	+1:26.6	1955	81
16.Ivan Lebanov	Bulgaria	50:44.64	+1:35.3	1957	67
17.Stan Dunklee	United States	50:48.14	+1:38.8	1954	60
18.Hansüli Kreuzer	Switzerland	50:55.34	+1:46.0	1950	37	16:58^19.	33:29^20.
19.Giulio Capitanio	Italy	50:57.52	+1:48.2	1952	64
20.Tim Caldwell	United States	51:02.43	+1:53.1	1954	40
21.Khristo Barzanov	Bulgaria	51:03.85	+1:54.5	1959	51
22.Peter Zipfel	West Germany	51:09.65	+2:00.3	1956	46
23.Erik Wäppling	Sweden	51:11.77	+2:02.4	-	44
24.Roberto Primus	Italy	51:16.57	+2:07.2	1949	38
25.Gaudenz Ambühl	Switzerland	51:20.49	+2:11.1	1954	4	17:12^29.	33:45^29.
26.Georg Zipfel	West Germany	51:20.73	+2:11.4	1953	34
27.Odd Martinsen	Norway	51:20.91	+2:11.5	1942	13
28.Frantisek Simon	Czechoslovakia	51:27.90	+2:18.5	1953	75
29.Gert-Dietmar Klause	East Germany	51:30.23	+2:20.9	1945	63
30.Jiri Beran	Czechoslovakia	51:33.52	+2:24.2	1952	55
31.Arnd Krause	East Germany	51:38.35	+2:29.0	-	21
32.Pentti Vahvaselkä	Finland	51:46.78	+2:37.4	-	14
33.Benny Södergren	Sweden	51:47.66	+2:38.3	1948	11
34.Josef Vogel	Austria	51:49.36	+2:40.0	1952	33
35.Franz Renggli	Switzerland	51:52.66	+2:43.3	1952	78	17:15^31.	34:14^38.
36.Benedetto Carrara	Italy	51:53.35	+2:44.0	1955	2
37.Jiri Svub	Czechoslovakia	52:02.95	+2:53.6	1958	6
38.Paul Fargeix	France	52:14.57	+3:05.2	1955	69
39.Daniel Drezet	France	52:15.70	+3:06.3	1952	42
40.Shiro Sato	Japan	52:18.89	+3:09.5	1953	39
41.Jean-Paul Pierrat	France	52:23.49	+3:14.1	1952	65
42.Peter Juric	Austria	52:29.83	+3:20.5	1958	70
43.Peter Anders	East Germany	52:30.80	+3:21.4	-	20
44.Doug Peterson	United States	52:31.83	+3:22.5	1953	15
45.Venanz Egger	Switzerland	52:40.42	+3:31.1	1954	52	17:24^40.	34:14^44.
46.Fabrizio Pedranzini	Italy	52:42.51	+3:33.1	1954	82
47.Rudolf Horn	Austria	52:43.76	+3:34.4	1954	54
48.Kiyoshi Hayasaka	Japan	52:51.28	+3:41.9	1954	58
49.Doug Gudwer	Canada	53:01.03	+3:51.7	-	19
50.Josef Schneider	West Germany	53:09.22	+3:59.8	1957	10
51.Hans Skinstad	Canada	53:12.87	+4:03.5	1946	80
52.Alf-Gerd Deckert	East Germany	53:19.79	+4:10.4	1955	77
53.Reinhard Grossegger	Austria	53:21.65	+4:12.3	-	16
54.Ewald Ritter	Liechtenstein	53:38.47	+4:29.1	-	18
55.Michel Thierry	France	53:41.49	+4:32.1	1954	7
56.Pierre Vezina	Canada	54:19.69	+5:10.3	-	35
57.Franc Tajnikar	Yugoslavia	54:29.14	+5:19.8	-	32
58.Reino Keski-Salmi	Canada	54:33.04	+5:23.7	-	47
59.Anton Durisic	Yugoslavia	54:39.24	+5:29.9	-	50
60.Steen Balle	Denmark	55:02.43	+5:53.1	-	28
61.Halldor Matthiasson	Iceland	55:30.66	+6:21.3	1949	23
62.Marcos Luis Jerman	Argentina	57:42.14	+8:32.8	1957	59
63.Ken Baxter	Australia	57:59.66	+8:50.3	-	57
64.Ian Bradley	Australia	58:00.81	+8:51.4	-	30
65.Emiliano Morlans	Spain	58:26.15	+9:16.8	1952	43
66.Chris Allen	Australia	58:51.34	+9:42.0	1959	5
67.Andrew Horsley	Australia	1:00:10.35		-	76
68.Jos Smits	Netherlands	1:00:43.69		-	62
69.Klaas Vos	Netherlands	1:03:09.80		-	17
70.Angel Bano	Spain	1:03:10.72		-	8
71.John Van Zanten	Netherlands	1:03:21.79		-	36
72.Joop Teeuwisse	Netherlands	1:03:51.25		-	71
73.Raul Abella	Argentina	1:03:54.90		-	1
74.Jorge Salas	Argentina	1:05:38.34		-	68
75.Athanassios Koutsougiannis	Greece	1:10:34.86		1956	3
76.Ming-Yih Ueng	Taiwan	1:11:04.77		1952	56
77.Christos Pappas	Greece	1:12:58.17		-	49
78.Theodoros Patronas	Greece	1:15:07.48		-	24
79.Chi-Thung Wang	Taiwan	1:18:00.68		-	31