Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

The 1976 Winter Olympic Games cross country skiing results. The women's 3 x 5 km relay was replaced by a 4 x 5 km relay at these games.

Men's events

15 km

February 8, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Nikolay Bazhukov Soviet Union (URS)	43:58.47
2 ! Silver	Yevgeny Belyayev Soviet Union (URS)	44:01.10
3 ! Bronze	Arto Koivisto Finland (FIN)	44:19.25
4	Ivan Garanin (URS)	44:41.98
5	Ivar Formo (NOR)	45:29.11
6	Bill Koch (USA)	45:32.22
7	Georg Zipfel (FRG)	45:38.10
8	Odd Martinsen (NOR)	45:41.33

30 km

February 5, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Sergey Savelyev Soviet Union (URS)	1:30:29.38
2 ! Silver	Bill Koch United States (USA)	1:30:57.84
3 ! Bronze	Ivan Garanin Soviet Union (URS)	1:31:09.29
4	Juha Mieto (FIN)	1:31:20.39
5	Nikolay Bazhukov (URS)	1:31:33.14
6	Gert-Dietmar Klause (GDR)	1:32:00.91
7	Albert Giger (SUI)	1:32:17.71
8	Arto Koivisto (FIN)	1:32:23.11

Koch is the only American, the first North American (Chandra Crawford, Sara Renner, and Beckie Scott, all from Canada, are the others.), and the only North American male to win a cross country Olympic medal.

50 km

February 14, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Ivar Formo Norway (NOR)	2:37:30.05
2 ! Silver	Gert-Dietmar Klause East Germany (GDR)	2:38:13.21
3 ! Bronze	Benny Södergren Sweden (SWE)	2:39:39.21
4	Ivan Garanin (URS)	2:40:38.94
5	Gerhard Grimmer (GDR)	2:41:15.46
6	Per Knut Aaland (NOR)	2:41:18.06
7	Pål Tyldum (NOR)	2:42:21.86
8	Tommy Limby (SWE)	2:42:43.58

4 x 10 km relay

February 12, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Finland (Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, Arto Koivisto)	2:07:59.72
2 ! Silver	Norway (Pål Tyldum, Einar Sagstuen, Ivar Formo, Odd Martinsen)	2:09:58.36
3 ! Bronze	Soviet Union (Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Sergey Savelyev, Ivan Garanin)	2:10:51.46
4	Sweden (Benny Södergren, Christer Johansson, Thomas Wassberg, Sven-Åke Lundbäck)	2:11:16.88
5	Switzerland (Franz Renggli, Edi Hauser, Heinz Gähler, Alfred Kälin)	2:11:28.53
6	United States (Doug Peterson, Tim Caldwell, Bill Koch, Ronny Yeager)	2:11:41.35
7	Italy (Renzo Chiochetti, Tonio Biondini, Ulrico Kostner, Giulio Capitanio)	2:12:07.12
8	Austria (Rudolf Horn, Reinhold Feichter, Werner Vogel, Herbert Wachter)	2:12:22.80

Women's events

5 km

February 9, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Helena Takalo Finland (FIN)	15:48.69
2 ! Silver	Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union (URS)	15:49.73
3 ! Bronze	Nina Fyodorova (URS)	16:12.82
4	Hilkka Kuntola (FIN)	16:17.74
5	Eva Olsson (SWE)	16:27.15
6	Zinaida Amosova (URS)	16:33.78
7	Monika Debertshäuser (GDR)	16:34.94
8	Grete Kummen (NOR)	16:35.43

Galina Kulakova finished third, but was disqualified for using a nasal spray containing the banned drug ephedrine. Despite this, she was allowed to compete in the 10 km and 4 x 5 km events.

10 km

February 10, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union (URS)	30:13.41
2 ! Silver	Helena Takalo Finland (FIN)	30:14.28
3 ! Bronze	Galina Kulakova Soviet Union (URS)	30:38.61
4	Nina Fyodorova (URS)	30:52.58
5	Eva Olsson (SWE)	31:08.72
6	Zinaida Amosova (URS)	31:11.23
7	Barbara Petzold (GDR)	31:12.20
8	Veronika Hesse (GDR)	31:12.33

4 x 5 km relay

February 12, 1976

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Soviet Union (Nina Fyodorova, Zinaida Amosova, Raisa Smetanina, Galina Kulakova)	1:07:49.75
2 ! Silver	Finland (Liisa Suihkonen, Marjatta Kajosmaa, Hilkka Riihivuori, Helena Takalo)	1:08:36.57
3 ! Bronze	East Germany (Monika Debertshäuser, Sigrun Krause, Barbara Petzold, Veronika Schmidt)	1:09:57.95
4	Sweden (Lena Carlzon, Görel Partapuoli, Marie Johansson, Eva Olsson)	1:10:14.68
5	Norway (Berit Kvello, Marit Myrmæl, Berit Johannessen, Grete Kummen)	1:11:09.08
6	Czechoslovakia (Anna Pasiárová, Gabriela Sekajová, Alena Bartošová, Blanka Paulů)	1:11:27.83

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics

References

• Official Olympic Report