Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

The 1980 Winter Olympics results in cross country skiing.

Men's events

15 km

February 17, 1980

Pos.	Athlete	Time
01 !	Thomas Wassberg Sweden (SWE)	41:57.63
02 !	Juha Mieto Finland (FIN)	41:57.64
03 !	Ove Aunli Norway (NOR)	42:28.62
4	Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)	42:33.96
5	Yevgeniy Belyayev (URS)	42:46.02
6	Józef Łuszczek (POL)	42:59.03
7	Alexander Zavyalov (URS)	43:00.81
8	Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN)	43:02.01

This extremely close race in electronic timing led to the International Ski Federation having all cross-country competitions being timed to the 1/10 second in future.

30 km

February 14, 1980

Pos.	Athlete	Time
01 !	Nikolay Zimyatov Soviet Union (URS)	1:27:02.80
02 !	Vasily Rochev Soviet Union (URS)	1:27:34.22
03 !	Ivan Lebanov Bulgaria (BUL)	1:28:03.87
4	Thomas Wassberg (SWE)	1:28:40.35
5	Józef Łuszczek (POL)	1:29:03.64
6	Matti Pitkänen (FIN)	1:29:35.03
7	Juha Mieto (FIN)	1:29:45.08
8	Ove Aunli (NOR)	1:29:54.02

Lebanov was the first Bulgarian to win a Winter Olympics Medal.

50 km

February 23, 1980

Pos.	Athlete	Time
01 !	Nikolay Zimyatov Soviet Union (URS)	2:27:24.60
02 !	Juha Mieto Finland (FIN)	2:30:20.52
03 !	Alexander Zavyalov Soviet Union (URS)	2:30:51.52
4	Lars-Erik Eriksen (NOR)	2:30:53.02
5	Sergey Savelyev (URS)	2:31:15.85
6	Yevgeniy Belyayev (URS)	2:31:21.19
7	Oddvar Brå (NOR)	2:31:46.83
8	Sven-Åke Lundbäck (SWE)	2:31:59.65

4 x 10 km relay

February 20, 1980

Pos.	Athlete	Time
01 !	Soviet Union (Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Zimyatov)	1:57:03.46
02 !	Norway (Lars-Erik Eriksen, Per Knut Aaland, Ove Aunli, Oddvar Brå)	1:58:45.77
03 !	Finland (Harri Kirvesniemi, Pertti Teurajärvi, Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto)	2:00:00.18
4	West Germany (Peter Zipfel, Wolfgang Müller, Dieter Notz, Jochen Behle)	2:00:22.74
5	Sweden (Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Thomas Eriksson, Benny Kohlberg, Thomas Wassberg)	2:00:42.71
6	Italy (Maurilio De Zolt, Benedetto Carrara, Giulio Capitanio, Giorgio Vanzetta)	2:01:09.93
7	Switzerland (Hansüli Kreutzer, Konrad Hallenbarter, Eduard Hauser, Gaudenz Ambühl)	2:03:36.57
8	United States (Bill Koch, Tim Caldwell, James Galanes, Stan Ducklee)	2:04:12.17

Women's events

5 km

February 15, 1980

Medal	Athlete	Time
01 !	Raisa Smetanina Soviet Union (URS)	15:06.92
02 !	Hilkka Riihivuori Finland (FIN)	15:11.96
03 !	Květa Jeriová Czechoslovakia (TCH)	15:23.44
4	Barbara Petzold (GDR)	15:23.62
5	Nina Baldycheva (URS)	15:29.03
6	Galina Kulakova (URS)	15:29.58
7	Veronika Hesse (GDR)	15:31.83
8	Helena Takalo (FIN)	15:32.12

10 km

February 18, 1980

Medal	Athlete	Time
01 !	Barbara Petzold East Germany (GDR)	30:31.54
02 !	Hilkka Riihivuori Finland (FIN)	30:35.05
03 !	Helena Takalo Finland (FIN)	30:45.25
4	Raisa Smetanina (URS)	30:54.48
5	Galina Kulakova (URS)	30:58.46
6	Nina Baldycheva (URS)	31:22.93
7	Marlies Rostock (GDR)	31:28.79
8	Veronika Hesse (GDR)	31:29.14

4 x 5 km relay

February 21, 1980

Medal	Athlete	Time
01 !	East Germany (Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse, Barbara Petzold)	1:02:11.10
02 !	Soviet Union (Nina Fyodorova, Nina Rocheva, Galina Kulakova, Raisa Smetanina)	1:03:18.30
03 !	Norway (Britt Pettersen, Anette Bøe, Marit Myrmæl, Berit Aunli)	1:04:13.50
4	Czechoslovakia (Dagmar Palečková, Gabriela Svobodová, Blanka Paulů, Květa Jeriová)	1:04:31.39
5	Finland (Marja Auroma, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Helena Takalo, Hilkka Riihivuori)	1:04:41.28
6	Sweden (Marie Johansson, Karin Lamberg, Eva Olsson, Lena Carlzon)	1:05:16.32
7	United States (Allison Owen-Spencer, Beth Paxson, Leslie Bancroft, Lynn Spencer)	1:06:55.41
8	Canada (CAN) (Angela Schmidt, Shirley Firth, Esther Miller, Joan Groothuysen)	1:07:45.75

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Paralympics

References

• Official Olympic Report