Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the III Paralympic Winter Games

Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics consisted of 35 events, 23 for men and 12 for women.

Medal table

Rank	Nation				Total
1	Finland (FIN)	12	9	6	27
2	Austria (AUT)	8	8	5	21
3	Norway (NOR)	6	3	2	11
4	West Germany (FRG)	3	8	2	13
5	Poland (POL)	3	2	4	9
6	France (FRA)	2	0	0	2
7	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	4	6
8	Switzerland (SUI)	0	3	9	12
9	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Total		35	35	33	103

Medal summary

The competition events were:

• 2.5 km: - women
• 5 km: men - women
• 10 km: men - women
• 20 km: men
• 3x2.5 km relay: men
• 3x5 km relay: - women
• 4x5 km relay: men - women
• 4x10 km relay: men

Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:

• LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
• LW 3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
• LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
• LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
• Gr I - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• Gr II - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	Gr I	Reinhold Sager  Austria	Adolf Stuber  West Germany	Peter Gilomen  Switzerland
	Gr II	Georg Freund  Austria	Siegwald Mussger  Austria	Josef Dietziker  Switzerland
	LW2	Pertti Sankilampi  Finland	Samuli Kaemi  Finland	Ari Mustonen  Finland
	LW3	Marianne Niedzwiadek  Poland	Kazimierz Wyszowski  Poland	Czeslav Kwiatkowski  Poland
	LW4	Veikko Jantunen  Finland	Svein Lilleberg  Norway	Reinhold Schwer  West Germany
	LW5/7	Pierre Delaval  France	Frank Rawiel  West Germany	Horst Morokutti  Austria
	LW9	Ludwig Wagner  West Germany	Armin Arnold  Switzerland	Peter Kieweg  Austria
10 km - short distance	B1	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway	Martti Juntunen  Finland	Peter Young  Great Britain
	B2	Terje Loevaas  Norway	Gorm Borgersen  Norway	Morten Langeroed  Norway
	LW6/8	Jouko Grip  Finland	Kimmo Kettunen  Finland	Heikki Miettinen  Finland
10 km - middle distance	B1	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway	Martti Juntunen  Finland	Mauno Sulisalo  Finland
	B2	Terje Loevaas  Norway	Morten Langeroed  Norway	Gorm Borgersen  Norway
	Gr I	Reinhold Sager  Austria	Adolf Stuber  West Germany	Heinz Frei  Switzerland
	Gr II	Georg Freund  Austria	Siegwald Mussger  Austria	Josef Dietziker  Switzerland
	LW2	Samuli Kaemi  Finland	Pertti Sankilampi  Finland	Tauno Seppaenen  Finland
	LW3	Marianne Niedzwiadek  Poland	Kazimierz Wyszowski  Poland	Czeslav Kwiatkowski  Poland
	LW4	Svein Lilleberg  Norway	Reinhold Schwer  West Germany	Veikko Jantunen  Finland
	LW5/7	Pierre Delaval  France	Horst Morokutti  Austria	Frank Rawiel  West Germany
	LW9	Ludwig Wagner  West Germany	Armin Arnold  Switzerland	Peter Kieweg  Austria
20 km - middle distance	LW6/8	Jouko Grip  Finland	Theo Feger  West Germany	Rune Karlsson  Sweden
3×2.5 km relay	Gr I-II	Austria (AUT) Hermann Gaun Josef Siebenhofer Reinhold Wessely	Austria (AUT) Hermann Gaun Josef Siebenhofer Reinhold Wessely	Switzerland (SUI) Josef Dietziker Heinz Frei Peter Gilomen
4×5 km relay	LW2-9	Finland (FIN) Samuli Kaemi Lauri Moilanen Pertti Sankilampi Erkki Seppaenen	Finland (FIN) Samuli Kaemi Lauri Moilanen Pertti Sankilampi Erkki Seppaenen	Sweden (SWE) Allan Danielsson Kent Engstroem Rune Karlsson Bertil Lundmark
4×10 km relay	B1-2	Norway (NOR) Hans Anton Aalien Gorm Borgersen Terje Loevaas Olai Myklebust	Finland (FIN) Ismo Alanko Martti Juntunen Mauno Sulisalo Teuvo Talmia	Sweden (SWE) Yngve Eriksson Ove Karlsson Ake Pettersson George Witthof

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km - short distance	Gr II	Hildegard Fetz  Austria	Johanna Ratzinger  Austria	Karoline Pavlicek  Switzerland
5 km - short distance	B1	Kirsti Pennanen  Finland	Margret Heger  Austria	Marianne Edfeldt  Sweden
	B2	Kyllikki Luhtapuro  Finland	Desiree Johansson  Sweden	Tarja Hovinen  Finland
	LW4	Liisa Maekelae  Finland	Anneliese Tenzler  West Germany	Monika Waelti  Switzerland
	LW6/8	Alli Hatva  Finland	Dorothea Neuweiler  West Germany	Barbara Chmielecka  Poland
5 km - middle distance	Gr II	Hildegard Fetz  Austria	Johanna Ratzinger  Austria	Karoline Pavlicek  Switzerland
10 km - middle distance	B1	Kirsti Pennanen  Finland	Margret Heger  Austria	Doris Campbell  Austria
	B2	Desiree Johansson  Sweden	Kyllikki Luhtapuro  Finland	Renata Hoenisch  Austria
	LW4	Anneliese Tenzler  West Germany	Liisa Maekelae  Finland	Monika Waelti  Switzerland
	LW6/8	Alli Hatva  Finland	Dorothea Neuweiler  West Germany	Barbara Chmielecka  Poland
3×5 km relay	LW2-9	Poland (POL) Barbara Chmielecka Jolanta Kochanaowska Henryka Sadowska	Switzerland (SUI) Heidi Aviolat Monika Waelti Yvonne Wyssen	None
4×5 km relay	B1-2	Austria (AUT) Doris Campbell Margret Heger Renata Hoenisch Marianne Kriegl	United States (USA) Barbara Lewis Laura Oftedahl Jean Parker Billie Ruth Schlank	None

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

References

• "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  • The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members.[1] (Per nov.18, 2010)
• "Innsbruck 1984". paralympia.de. 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
• Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee