Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre

The men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, was held on Sunday 8 February at Seefeld in Tirol.^[1] Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course.^[2]

Men's 15 kilometre at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Seefeld
Dates	8 February
Competitors	80 from 23 nations
Winning time	43:58.47
Medalists
Nikolay Bazhukov  Soviet Union Yevgeny Belyayev  Soviet Union Arto Koivisto  Finland
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Results

Sources:^[3][1]

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	55	Nikolay Bazhukov	Soviet Union	43:58.47	–
	7	Yevgeny Belyayev	Soviet Union	44:01.10	+2.63
	52	Arto Koivisto	Finland	44:19.25	+20.78
4	78	Ivan Garanin	Soviet Union	44:41.98	+43.51
5	31	Ivar Formo	Norway	45:29.11	+1:30.64
6	4	Bill Koch	United States	45:33.22	+1:34.75
7	61	Georg Zipfel	West Germany	45:38.10	+1:39.63
8	13	Odd Martinsen	Norway	45:41.33	+1:42.86
9	34	Gert-Dietmar Klause	East Germany	45:42.97	+1:44.50
10	37	Juha Mieto	Finland	45:46.27	+1:47.80
11	8	Albert Giger	Switzerland	45:47.07	+1:48.60
12	43	Franz Renggli	Switzerland	45:53.49	+1:55.02
13	12	Benny Södergren	Sweden	45:59.91	+2:01.44
14	65	Pertti Teurajärvi	Finland	46:04.84	+2:06.37
15	76	Thomas Wassberg	Sweden	46:13.35	+2:14.88
16	35	Yury Skobov	Soviet Union	46:16.27	+2:17.80
17	54	Edi Hauser	Switzerland	46:29.14	+2:30.67
18	33	Jean-Paul Pierrat	France	46:35.64	+2:37.17
19	23	Herbert Wachter	Austria	46:46.39	+2:47.92
20	74	Pål Tyldum	Norway	46:50.57	+2:52.10
21	18	Giulio Capitanio	Italy	46:51.14	+2:52.67
22	16	Wiesław Gębala	Poland	46:59.00	+3:00.53
23	59	Tommy Limby	Sweden	47:00.06	+3:01.59
24	50	Ivan Lebanov	Bulgaria	47:02.41	+3:03.94
25	73	Jürgen Wolf	East Germany	47:04.49	+3:06.02
26	29	Lyubomir Toskov	Bulgaria	47:04.87	+3:06.40
27	68	Fredel Kälin	Switzerland	47:05.39	+3:06.92
28	10	Gerd Heßler	East Germany	47:08.77	+3:10.30
29	57	Renzo Chiocchetti	Italy	47:11.22	+3:12.75
30	40	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	Sweden	47:12.85	+3:14.38
31	1	Georg Kandlinger	West Germany	47:20.13	+3:21.66
32	20	Risto Kiiskinen	Finland	47:21.06	+3:22.59
33	39	Bert Bullock	Canada	47:23.38	+3:24.91
34	48	František Šimon	Czechoslovakia	47:24.90	+3:26.43
35	69	Ján Fajstavr	Czechoslovakia	47:25.77	+3:27.30
36	25	Roberto Primus	Italy	47:29.02	+3:30.55
37	27	Tim Caldwell	United States	47:33.59	+3:35.12
38	44	Frank Betz	West Germany	47:39.15	+3:40.68
39	41	Milan Jarý	Czechoslovakia	47:50.01	+3:51.54
40	53	Jan Staszel	Poland	48:04.31	+4:05.84
41	19	Petar Pankov	Bulgaria	48:04.46	+4:05.99
42	15	Rudolf Horn	Austria	48:10.52	+4:12.05
43	47	Werner Vogel	Austria	48:17.47	+4:19.00
44	26	Władysław Podgórski	Poland	48:18.62	+4:20.15
45	79	Hans Speicher	West Germany	48:28.90	+4:30.43
46	22	Stanislav Henych	Czechoslovakia	48:31.23	+4:32.76
47	32	Halldór Matthíasson	Iceland	48:42.22	+4:43.75
48	70	Josef Vogel	Austria	48:42.32	+4:43.85
49	63	Gerhard Grimmer	East Germany	48:45.04	+4:46.57
50	42	Kiyoshi Hayasaka	Japan	48:46.93	+4:48.46
51	5	Daniel Drezet	France	48:56.97	+4:58.50
52	77	Ronny Yeager	United States	48:58.16	+4:59.69
53	67	Fabrizio Pedranzini	Italy	48:58.30	+4:59.83
54	64	Doug Peterson	United States	49:00.98	+5:02.51
55	56	Magne Myrmo	Norway	49:26.89	+5:28.42
56	2	Hans Skinstad	Canada	49:30.36	+5:31.89
57	24	Maksi Jelenc	Yugoslavia	49:35.35	+5:36.88
58	17	Ryoji Fujiki	Japan	49:40.48	+5:42.01
59	46	Edward Day	Canada	49:59.43	+6:00.96
60	75	Khristo Barzanov	Bulgaria	50:08.09	+6:09.62
61	62	Roland Jeannerod	France	50:18.27	+6:19.80
62	80	Gérard Verguet	France	50:29.28	+6:30.81
63	60	Paul Gibbins	Great Britain	51:48.02	+7:49.55
64	51	Bahri Yılmaz	Turkey	51:57.08	+7:58.61
65	11	Douglas Elliott	Great Britain	52:14.27	+8:15.80
66	36	Sacit Özbey	Turkey	52:15.41	+8:16.94
67	71	Ernie Lennie	Canada	52:27.04	+8:28.57
68	28	Keith Oliver	Great Britain	52:31.00	+8:32.53
69	3	Trausti Sveinsson	Iceland	52:50.29	+8:51.82
70	72	Şeref Çınar	Turkey	52:50.67	+8:52.20
71	38	Marcos Luis Jerman	Argentina	53:43.30	+9:44.83
72	6	Yavuz Özbey	Turkey	55:47.50	+11:49.03
73	45	Ueng Ming-Yih	Republic of China	57:02.70	+13:04.23
74	9	Martín Tomás Jerman	Argentina	1:00:07.30	+16:08.83
75	21	Efstathios Vogdanos	Greece	1:05:51.20	+21:52.73
76	14	Liang Reng-Guey	Republic of China	1:06:02.70	+22:04.23
77	49	Shen Li-Chien	Republic of China	1:06:45.70	+22:47.23
78	30	Athanasios Koutsogiannis	Greece	1:07:49.40	+23:50.93
	58	Matías José Jerman	Argentina	DNF
	66	Jan Dragon	Poland	DNF

References

1. "Seefeld in Tirol 15 km Men". www.skisport365.com. skisport365. Retrieved 25 February 2019.
2. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 15 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
3. "15 km Men". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 25 February 2019.

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)