Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Paralympics consisted of 39 events, 24 for men and 15 for women.

Cross-country skiing at the VII Paralympic Winter Games
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For the first and only time the classification Intellectual disability (ID) was included in cross-country skiing events at the Paralympic Games.^[1]

Medal table

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Rank	Nation				Total
1	Russia (RUS)	11	8	7	26
2	Norway (NOR)	9	5	7	21
3	Finland (FIN)	7	5	5	17
4	Germany (GER)	3	10	5	18
5	France (FRA)	3	1	3	7
5	Ukraine (UKR)	3	1	3	7
7	Austria (AUT)	1	2	1	4
8	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	3	5
9	Denmark (DEN)	1	0	0	1
10	Canada (CAN)	0	2	0	2
10	Italy (ITA)	0	2	0	2
12	Japan (JPN)	0	1	1	2
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
14	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
14	United States (USA)	0	0	2	2
16	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Total		39	39	40	118

Medal summary

The competition events were:

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

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

• LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
• LW3 - 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
• LW 10 - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• LW 11 - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• LW 12 - sitting: double leg amputation above the knees, or paraplegia with some leg function and good sitting balance
• B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
• B3 - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision
• ID - intellectual disability

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km classical technique	B1 details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov  Russia	Magne Lunde guide: Roar Lunde  Norway	Helge Flo guide: Paal Sneve  Norway
	B2 details	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel  Germany	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Goumerov  Russia	Torbjoern Ek guide: Christer Wennergrund  Sweden
	B3 details	Alexandre Nassarouline guide: Alexei Kopytine  Russia	Alexander Schwarz guide: Ralf Rombach  Germany	Grigori Klimov guide: Nikolai Kireitcmev  Russia
	ID details	Pedro Kardash  Ukraine	Satoru Abiko  Japan	Iuri Isaev  Russia
	LW3/4/9 details	Andre Favre  France	Kjartan Haugen  Norway	Kalervo Pieksaemaeki  Finland
	LW5/7,6/8 details	Sten Oluf Horn  Norway	Thomas Oelsner  Germany	Axel Hecker  Germany
5 km sitski	LW10 details	Sergej Shilov  Russia	Alexander Brunet  France	Klaus Kleiser  Germany
	LW11 details	Ruedi Weber  Switzerland	Oliver Anthofer  Austria	Karl Einar Henriksen  Norway
	LW12 details	Kari Joki-Erkkila  Finland	Michael Weymann  Germany	Teuvo Ojala  Finland
10 km sitski	LW10 details	Alexander Brunet  France	Mikhail Terentiev  Russia	Heinz Frei  Switzerland
	LW11 details	Karl Einar Henriksen  Norway	Roland Ruepp  Italy	Ruedi Weber  Switzerland
	LW12 details	Kari Joki-Erkkila  Finland	Michael Weymann  Germany	Robert Balk  United States
				Teuvo Ojala  Finland
15 km free technique	B1 details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide:  Russia	Wilhelm Brem guide:  Germany	Oleh Munts guide:  Russia
	B2 details	Irek Mannanov guide:  Russia	Frank Hoefle guide:  Germany	Nikolai Ilioutchenko guide:  Russia
	B3 details	Alexandre Nassarouline guide:  Russia	Alexander Schwarz guide:  Germany	Elie Zampin guide:  France
	ID details	Pedro Kardash  Ukraine	Iuri Isaev  Russia	Louri Semiannikov  Russia
	LW2/3/4/9 details	Andre Favre  France	Kalervo Pieksaemaeki  Finland	Wolfgang Mahler  Germany
	LW5/7,6/8 details	Thomas Oelsner  Germany	Andreas Hustveit  Norway	Emmanuel Lacroix  France
15 km sitski	LW10-12 details	Karl Einar Henriksen  Norway	Mikhail Terentiev  Russia	Heinz Frei  Switzerland
20 km classical technique	B1-3 details	Valeri Kouptchinski guide: Viatcheslav Doubov  Russia	Irek Mannanov guide: Salavat Goumerov  Russia	Frank Hoefle guide: Ulrich Zipfel  Germany
	ID details	Pedro Kardash  Ukraine	Iuri Isaev  Russia	Hiroki Shinohara  Japan
	LW2-9 details	Sten Oluf Horn  Norway	Kalervo Pieksaemaeki  Finland	Michael Crenshaw  United States
3×2.5 km relay	LW10-12 details	Germany (GER) Klaus Kleiser Michael Weymann Bruno Zimmermann	Switzerland (SUI) Franco Belletti Ruedi Weber Walter Widmer	France (FRA) Omar Bouyoucef Alexander Brunet Didier Riedlinger
4×5 km relay	standing/ blind details	Russia (RUS) Valeri Kouptchinski Irek Mannanov Oleh Munts Alexandre Nassarouline	Germany (GER) Wilhelm Brem Frank Hoefle Wolfgang Mahler Thomas Oelsner	Norway (NOR) Kjartan Haugen Sten Oluf Horn Andreas Hustveit Magne Lunde

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km sitski	LW10-12 details	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Colette Bourgonje  Canada	Svitlana Tryfonova  Ukraine
5 km classical technique	B1 details	Elisabeth Maxwald guide: Florian Stoger  Austria	Verena Bentele guide: Ralph Schmidt  Germany	Lioubov Paninykh guide: Alexander Pridtchin  Russia
	B2-3 details	Kaija Tuikkanen guide: Hannu Aaltonen  Finland	Sisko Kiiski guide: Tuomas Toerroenen  Finland	Jaana Argillander guide: Arto Kaukonen  Finland
	ID details	Natalia Smirnova  Russia	Olga Kravchuk  Ukraine	Natalia Lugakova  Russia
	LW2-9 details	Tanja Kari  Finland	Anne Helene Barlund  Norway	Siw Vestengen  Norway
5 km free technique	B1 details	Anne-Mette Bredahl guide:  Denmark	Verena Bentele guide:  Germany	Elisabeth Maxwald guide:  Austria
	B2-3 details	Tone Gravvold guide:  Norway	Kaija Tuikkanen guide:  Finland	Sisko Kiiski guide:  Finland
	ID details	Natalia Smirnova  Russia	Natalia Lugakova  Russia	Danuta Poznanska  Poland
	LW2-9 details	Tanja Kari  Finland	Marjorie van de Bunt  Netherlands	Anne Helene Barlund  Norway
5 km sitski	LW10-12 details	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Colette Bourgonje  Canada	Olena Akopyan  Ukraine
10 km sitski	LW10-12 details	Ragnhild Myklebust  Norway	Dorothea Agetle  Italy	Tamara Kulynych  Ukraine
15 km classical technique	B1-3 details	Sisko Kiiski guide: Tuomas Toerroenen  Finland	Kaija Tuikkanen guide: Hannu Aaltonen  Finland	Tone Gravvold guide: Frode Nilssen  Norway
	ID details	Natalia Smirnova  Russia	Natalia Lugakova  Russia	Danuta Poznanska  Poland
	LW2-9 details	Tanja Kari  Finland	Anne Helene Barlund  Norway	Siw Vestengen  Norway
3×2.5 km relay	open details	Norway (NOR) Anne Helene Barlund Tone Gravvold Ragnhild Myklebust	Austria (AUT) Gabriele Berghofer Renata Hoenisch Elisabeth Maxwald	Germany (GER) Verena Bentele Susanne Ischinger Susanne Wohlmacher

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1998 Winter Olympics

References

1. IPC Historical Results Database - General Search, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
2. Medal Standings - Nagano 1998 Paralympic Winter Games - Cross Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)

• "1998 Nagano - Cross-country skiing". International Paralympic Committee. 2010. Retrieved 2010-12-06.
• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee
• Historical Results - Results by Event - PWG Nagano 1998 - Long Distance, Official site of SaltLake2002
• Historical Results - Results by Event - PWG Nagano 1998 - Short Distance, Official site of SaltLake2002