Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics

The 1968 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing results.^[1]

Cross-country skiing at the X Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Autrans
Dates	February 7–17
No. of events	7
Competitors	147 (110 men, 37 women) from 25 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

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

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Harald Grønningen  Norway	47:54.2	Eero Mäntyranta  Finland	47:56.1	Gunnar Larsson  Sweden	48:33.7
30 km details	Franco Nones  Italy	1:35:39.2	Odd Martinsen  Norway	1:36:28.9	Eero Mäntyranta  Finland	1:36:55.3
50 km details	Ole Ellefsæter  Norway	2:28:45.8	Vyacheslav Vedenin  Soviet Union	2:29:05.5	Josef Haas  Switzerland	2:29:14.8
4 × 10 km relay details	Norway (NOR) Odd Martinsen Pål Tyldum Harald Grønningen Ole Ellefsæter	2:08:33.5	Sweden (SWE) Jan Halvarsson Bjarne Andersson Gunnar Larsson Assar Rönnlund	2:10:13.2	Finland (FIN) Kalevi Oikarainen Hannu Taipale Kalevi Laurila Eero Mäntyranta	2:10:56.7

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Toini Gustafsson  Sweden	16:45.2	Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union	16:48.4	Alevtina Kolchina  Soviet Union	16:51.6
10 km details	Toini Gustafsson  Sweden	36:45.5	Berit Mørdre  Norway	37:54.6	Inger Aufles  Norway	37:59.9
3 × 5 km relay details	Norway (NOR) Inger Aufles Babben Enger Berit Mørdre Lammedal	57:30.0	Sweden (SWE) Barbro Martinsson Toini Gustafsson Britt Strandberg	57:51.0	Soviet Union (URS) Alevtina Kolchina Rita Achkina Galina Kulakova	58:13.6

References

1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2019.

External links

• Official Olympic Report