Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics

1988 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing results was contested at the Canmore Nordic Centre in Canmore, Alberta, Canada.

Men's events

15 km classical

19 February 1988

Pos.	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Mikhail Devyatyarov Soviet Union (URS)	41:18.9
2 ! Silver	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass Norway (NOR)	41:33.4
3 ! Bronze	Vladimir Smirnov Soviet Union (URS)	41:48.5
4	Oddvar Brå (NOR)	42:17.3
5	Uwe Bellmann (GDR)	42:17.8
6	Maurilio De Zolt (ITA)	42:31.2
7	Vegard Ulvang (NOR)	42:31.5
8	Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN)	42:42.8

30 km classical

15 February 1988

Pos.	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Alexey Prokurorov Soviet Union (URS)	1:24:26.3
2 ! Silver	Vladimir Smirnov Soviet Union (URS)	1:24:35.1
3 ! Bronze	Vegard Ulvang Norway (NOR)	1:25:11.6
4	Mikhail Devyatyarov (URS)	1:25:31.3
5	Giorgio Vanzetta (ITA)	1:25:37.2
6	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass (NOR)	1:25:44.6
7	Gianfranco Polvara (ITA)	1:26:02.7
8	Marco Albarello (ITA)	1:26:09.1

50 km freestyle

17 February 1988

Pos.	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Gunde Svan Sweden (SWE)	2:04:30.9
2 ! Silver	Maurilio De Zolt Italy (ITA)	2:05:36.4
3 ! Bronze	Andy Grünenfelder Switzerland (SUI)	2:06:01.9
4	Vegard Ulvang (NOR)	2:06:32.3
5	Holger Bauroth (GDR)	2:07:02.4
6	Jan Ottosson (SWE)	2:07:34.8
7	Kari Ristanen (FIN)	2:08:08.1
8	Uwe Bellmann (GDR)	2:08:18.6

4 x 10 km relay

22 February 1988

Pos.	Team	Time
1 ! Gold	Sweden (Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren)	1:43:58.6
2 ! Silver	Soviet Union (Vladimir Smirnov, Vladimir Sakhnov, Mikhail Devyatyarov & Alexey Prokurorov)	1:44:11.3
3 ! Bronze	Czechoslovakia (Radim Nyč, Václav Korunka, Pavel Benc & Ladislav Švanda)	1:45:22.7
4	Switzerland (Andy Grünenfelder, Jürg Capol, Giachem Guidon & Jeremias Wigger)	1:46:16.3
5	Italy (Silviano Barco, Albert Walder, Giorgio Vanzetta & Maurilio De Zolt)	1:46:16.7
6	Norway (Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass, Oddvar Brå, Vegard Ulvang & Terje Langli)	1:46:48.7
7	West Germany (Georg Fischer, Walter Kuss, Jochen Behle & Herbert Fritzenwenger)	1:48:05.0
8	Finland (Jari Laukkanen, Harri Kirvesniemi, Jari Räsänen & Kari Ristanen)	1:48:24.0

Women's events

5 km classical

17 February 1988

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Marjo Matikainen Finland (FIN)	15:04.0
2 ! Silver	Tamara Tikhonova Soviet Union (URS)	15:05.3
3 ! Bronze	Vida Vencienė Soviet Union (URS)	15:11.1
4	Anne Jahren (NOR)	15:12.6
5	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (FIN)	15:16.7
6	Inger Helene Nybråten (NOR)	15:17.7
7	Marie-Helene Westin (SWE)	15:28.9
8	Svetlana Nageykina (URS)	15:29.9

10 km classical

14 February 1988

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Vida Vencienė Soviet Union (URS)	30:08.3
2 ! Silver	Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union (URS)	30:17.0
3 ! Bronze	Marjo Matikainen Finland (FIN)	30:20.5
4	Svetlana Nageykina (URS)	30:26.5
5	Tamara Tikhonova (URS)	30:38.9
6	Inger Helene Nybråten (NOR)	30:51.7
7	Pirkko Määttä (FIN)	30:52.4
8	Marie-Helene Westin (SWE)	30:55.3

20 km freestyle

25 February 1988

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 ! Gold	Tamara Tikhonova Soviet Union (URS)	55:53.6
2 ! Silver	Anfisa Reztsova Soviet Union (URS)	56:12.8
3 ! Bronze	Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union (URS)	57:22.1
4	Christina Gilli-Brügger (SUI)	57:37.4
5	Simone Opitz (GDR)	57:54.3
6	Manuela Di Centa (ITA)	57:55.2
7	Kerstin Mohring (GDR)	58:17.2
8	Marianne Dahlmo (NOR)	58:31.1

4 x 5 km relay

21 February 1988

Medal	Team	Time
1 ! Gold	Soviet Union (Svetlana Nageykina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Tamara Tikhonova & Anfisa Reztsova)	59:51.1
2 ! Silver	Norway (Trude Dybendahl, Marit Wold, Anne Jahren & Marianne Dahlmo)	1:01:33.0
3 ! Bronze	Finland (Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Marjo Matikainen & Jaana Savolainen)	1:01:53.8
4	Switzerland (Karin Thomas, Sandra Parpan, Evi Kratzer & Christina Gilli-Brügger)	1:01:59.4
5	East Germany (Kerstin Mohring, Simone Opitz, Silke Braun & Simone Greiner-Petter)	1:02:19.9
6	Sweden (Lis Frost, Anna-Lena Fritzon, Karin Lamberg-Skog & Marie-Helene Westin)	1:02:24.9
7	Czechoslovakia (Lubomíra Balážová, Věra Klimková, Ivana Rádlová & Alžbeta Havrančíková)	1:03:37.1
8	United States (Dorcas Denhartog, Leslie Thompson, Nancy Fiddler & Leslie Krichko)	1:04:08.8

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1988 Winter Paralympics

References

• Official Olympic Report