Top 50 most World Cup participations individual distances Men
| # | name | total | first race | last race | |
| 1 | Mika Poutala | FIN | 290 | 8 Mar 2002 | 18 Mar 2018 |
| 2 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | KOR | 278 | 26 Nov 1993 | 7 Dec 2013 |
| 3 | Gerard van Velde | NED | 265 | 26 Jan 1991 | 3 Mar 2007 |
| 4 | Jan Bos | NED | 260 | 2 Dec 1995 | 6 Mar 2011 |
| 5 | Erben Wennemars | NED | 256 | 7 Dec 1996 | 11 Dec 2009 |
| 6 | Dmitry Lobkov | RUS | 254 | 9 Dec 2000 | 16 Mar 2014 |
| 7 | Nico Ihle | GER | 244 | 19 Nov 2005 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| 8 | Mike Ireland | CAN | 237 | 21 Jan 1994 | 12 Dec 2009 |
| 9 | Janne Hänninen | FIN | 230 | 5 Dec 1992 | 5 Mar 2006 |
| 10 | Pekka Koskela | FIN | 229 | 27 Jan 2001 | 21 Jan 2018 |
| 11 | Shani Davis | USA | 223 | 12 Nov 2005 | 10 Dec 2017 |
| Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 223 | 10 Feb 1996 | 6 Mar 2010 | |
| 13 | Roland Brunner | AUT | 216 | 18 Feb 1989 | 30 Jan 2000 |
| 14 | Hiroyasu Shimizu | JPN | 210 | 6 Feb 1993 | 7 Dec 2008 |
| 15 | Magnus Enfeldt | SWE | 209 | 25 Nov 1989 | 9 Dec 2001 |
| 16 | Aleksey Yesin | RUS | 206 | 10 Nov 2006 | 15 Dec 2019 |
| 17 | Casey FitzRandolph | USA | 201 | 22 Jan 1994 | 5 Mar 2006 |
| 18 | Paweł Abratkiewicz | POL | 199 | 26 Nov 1988 | 19 Feb 2005 |
| 19 | Ermanno Ioriatti | ITA | 194 | 25 Nov 1995 | 3 Mar 2013 |
| Bart Veldkamp | BEL | 194 | 27 Nov 1988 | 11 Dec 2005 | |
| 21 | Denny Morrison | CAN | 185 | 29 Feb 2004 | 21 Jan 2018 |
| 22 | Kip Carpenter | USA | 182 | 27 Feb 1999 | 24 Feb 2008 |
| 23 | Ådne Søndrål | NOR | 180 | 18 Feb 1989 | 10 Mar 2002 |
| 24 | Joji Kato | JPN | 173 | 7 Dec 2002 | 9 Dec 2017 |
| 25 | Håvard Bøkko | NOR | 170 | 14 Nov 2004 | 8 Feb 2020 |
| 26 | Grunde Njøs | NOR | 167 | 25 Nov 1989 | 9 Mar 2003 |
| 27 | Keiichiro Nagashima | JPN | 165 | 4 Dec 2004 | 22 Mar 2015 |
| 28 | Tucker Fredricks | USA | 163 | 7 Dec 2002 | 16 Mar 2014 |
| Yuya Oikawa | JPN | 163 | 6 Dec 2003 | 29 Jan 2017 | |
| 30 | Bart Swings | BEL | 158 | 29 Jan 2011 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| 31 | Roberto Sighel | ITA | 157 | 11 Jan 1986 | 9 Mar 2002 |
| 32 | Dan Jansen | USA | 155 | 23 Nov 1985 | 20 Mar 1994 |
| Vitaly Mikhaylov | BLR | 155 | 21 Nov 2003 | 8 Mar 2020 | |
| Jan Smeekens | NED | 155 | 26 Nov 2005 | 7 Feb 2020 | |
| 35 | Mirko Nenzi | ITA | 151 | 15 Nov 2009 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| 36 | Manabu Horii | JPN | 150 | 6 Feb 1993 | 9 Mar 2002 |
| Lee Kang-seok | KOR | 150 | 24 Jan 2004 | 11 Dec 2015 | |
| 38 | Roger Strøm | NOR | 147 | 26 Nov 1988 | 12 Dec 1998 |
| 39 | Steven Elm | CAN | 146 | 1 Mar 1996 | 12 Dec 2009 |
| Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | JPN | 146 | 9 Dec 1989 | 8 Dec 2001 | |
| Yu Fengtong | CHN | 146 | 1 Dec 2001 | 2 Dec 2011 | |
| 42 | KC Boutiette | USA | 144 | 26 Nov 1994 | 20 Jan 2018 |
| 43 | Stefan Groothuis | NED | 143 | 7 Dec 2002 | 12 Dec 2015 |
| Artur Waś | POL | 143 | 19 Nov 2005 | 13 Dec 2019 | |
| 45 | Sergey Klevchenya | RUS | 142 | 5 Dec 1992 | 9 Mar 2002 |
| 46 | Christian Eminger | AUT | 139 | 30 Nov 1985 | 18 Jan 1998 |
| 47 | Samuel Schwarz | GER | 138 | 16 Nov 2003 | 8 Feb 2015 |
| 48 | Nick Pearson | USA | 137 | 29 Nov 1997 | 13 Dec 2009 |
| 49 | Håvard Lorentzen | NOR | 135 | 12 Nov 2010 | 24 Jan 2021 |
| Yasunori Miyabe | JPN | 135 | 1 Dec 1990 | 21 Mar 1998 | |
