The 18 kilometre cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme.
The competition was held on Saturday, 2 February 1924.
Forty-one cross-country skiers from twelve nations competed.
[1] The competition began at 9:30 a.m. with the first starter Antonín Gottstein.
The first finisher was Tapani Niku at 10:51:56 a.m. and the event ended with the last finisher, who was again Ragnar Omtvedt at 12:00:33 p.m. so=Starting order, there was a 30 second start interval (including those who only participated in nordic combined).