CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING AT THE 1972 WINTER OLYMPICS

Cross country skiing
at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Cross country skiing; at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Makomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates	February 4-13
No. of events	7
Competitors	152 (104 men, 48 women) from 19 nations
	← Grenoble 1968 Innsbruck 1976 →

Medal summary


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	2	1	8
2	Norway (NOR)	1	3	3	7
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
4	Finland (FIN)	0	2	1	3
5	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
5	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	7	21

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Sven-Åke Lundbäck Sweden	45:28.24	Fyodor Simachov Soviet Union	46:00.84	Ivar Formo Norway	46:02.68
30 km details	Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union	1:36:31.15	Pål Tyldum Norway	1:37:25.30	Johs Harviken Norway	1:37:32.44
50 km details	Pål Tyldum Norway	2:43:14.75	Magne Myrmo Norway	2:43:29.45	Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union	2:44:00.19
4 × 10 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Voronkov Yuriy Skobov Fyodor Simachov Vyacheslav Vedenin	2:04:47.94	Norway (NOR) Oddvar Brå Pål Tyldum Ivar Formo Johs Harviken	2:04:57.06	Switzerland (SUI) Alfred Kälin Albert Giger Alois Kälin Eduard Hauser	2:07:00.06

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Galina Kulakova Soviet Union	17:00.50	Marjatta Kajosmaa Finland	17:05.50	Helena Šikolová Czechoslovakia	17:07.32
10 km details	Galina Kulakova Soviet Union	34:17.82	Alevtina Olyunina Soviet Union	34:54.11	Marjatta Kajosmaa Finland	34:56.45
3 × 5 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Lyubov Mukhachyova Alevtina Olyunina Galina Kulakova	48:46.15	Finland (FIN) Helena Takalo Hilkka Riihivuori Marjatta Kajosmaa	49:19.37	Norway (NOR) Inger Aufles Aslaug Dahl Berit Mørdre	49:51.49

Nineteen nations participated in Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Games.

^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2019.

Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

5 km		women
10 km		women
15 km	men
30 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men	women
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