Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

The 1976 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing results. The women's 3 × 5 km relay was replaced by a 4 × 5 km relay at these games.^[1]

Cross-country skiing at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Cross-country skiing
Venue	Seefeld
Dates	February 5–14
No. of events	7
Competitors	165 (114 men, 51 women) from 24 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	4	10
2	Finland (FIN)	2	2	1	5
3	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
4	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
5	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		7	7	7	21

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Nikolay Bazhukov  Soviet Union	43:58.47	Yevgeny Belyayev  Soviet Union	44:01.10	Arto Koivisto  Finland	44:19.25
30 km details	Sergey Savelyev  Soviet Union	1:30:29.38	Bill Koch  United States	1:30:57.84	Ivan Garanin  Soviet Union	1:31:09.29
50 km details	Ivar Formo  Norway	2:37:30.05	Gert-Dietmar Klause  East Germany	2:38:13.21	Benny Södergren  Sweden	2:39:39.21
4 × 10 km relay details	Finland (FIN) Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto Pertti Teurajärvi Arto Koivisto	2:07:59.72	Norway (NOR) Pål Tyldum Einar Sagstuen Ivar Formo Odd Martinsen	2:09:58.36	Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Bazhukov Sergey Savelyev Ivan Garanin	2:10:51.46

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Helena Takalo  Finland	15:48.69	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	15:49.73	Nina Baldycheva  Soviet Union	16:12.82
10 km details	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	30:13.41	Helena Takalo  Finland	30:14.28	Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union	30:38.61
4 × 5 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Baldycheva Zinaida Amosova Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova	1:07:49.75	Finland (FIN) Liisa Suikhonen Marjatta Kajosmaa Hilkka Riihivuori Helena Takalo	1:08:36.57	East Germany (GDR) Monika Debertshäuser Sigrun Krause Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse	1:09:57.95

Participating NOCs

Twenty four nations participated in Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games.

•  Argentina
•  Austria
•  Bulgaria
•  Canada
•  Republic of China
•  Czechoslovakia
•  East Germany
•  Finland
•  France
•  Great Britain
•  Greece
•  Iceland
•  Italy
•  Japan
•  Liechtenstein
•  Norway
•  Poland
•  Soviet Union
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  Turkey
•  United States
•  West Germany
•  Yugoslavia

Doping controversy

Galina Kulakova of the Soviet Union finished third in the women's 5 km event, but was disqualified due to a positive test for banned substance ephedrine. She claimed that this was a result of using the nasal spray that contained the substance. Both the FIS and the IOC allowed her to compete in the 10 km and the 4 × 5 km relay.^[2] This was the first stripped medal at the Winter Olympics.

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics

References

1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved June 28, 2019.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 20 January 2011.

External links

• Official Olympic Report