Cross-country skiing at the 1952 Winter Olympics

The 1952 Winter Olympics cross-country skiing competition consisted of three events for men (18 km, 50 km and 4 × 10 km relay) and the first women's cross-country competition at an Olympic Games, of 10 km. The competitions were held from Monday, 18 February to Saturday, 23 February 1952.^[1]

Cross-country skiing at the VI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Holmenkollen
Dates	18–23 February
No. of events	4
Competitors	138 from 19 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland (FIN)	3	3	2	8
2	Norway (NOR)	1	1	1	3
3	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		4	4	4	12

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
18 km details	Hallgeir Brenden  Norway	Tapio Mäkelä  Finland	Paavo Lonkila  Finland
50 km details	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Eero Kolehmainen  Finland	Magnar Estenstad  Norway
4 × 10 km relay details	Finland (FIN) Heikki Hasu Paavo Lonkila Urpo Korhonen Tapio Mäkelä	Norway (NOR) Magnar Estenstad Mikal Kirkholt Martin Stokken Hallgeir Brenden	Sweden (SWE) Nils Täpp Sigurd Andersson Enar Josefsson Martin Lundström

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km details	Lydia Wideman  Finland	Mirja Hietamies  Finland	Siiri Rantanen  Finland

Participating nations

A total of 138 cross-country skiers from 19 nations competed at the Oslo Games:^[1]

•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (10)
•  Bulgaria (6)
•  Canada (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (5)
•  Finland (17)
•  France (8)
•  Germany (9)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Iceland (6)
•  Italy (11)
•  Japan (2)
•  Norway (15)
•  Poland (1)
•  Romania (9)
•  Sweden (15)
•  Switzerland (9)
•  United States (7)
•  Yugoslavia (2)