Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics

The 1972 Winter Olympic Games cross country skiing results.

Men's events

15 km

February 7, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Sven-Åke Lundbäck Sweden (SWE)	45:28.24
2 Silver	Fyodor Simashev Soviet Union (URS)	46:00.84
3 Bronze	Ivar Formo Norway (NOR)	46:02.68
4	Juha Mieto (FIN)	46:02.74
5	Yuriy Skobov (URS)	46:04.59
6	Axel Lesser (GDR)	46:17.01
7	Walter Demel (FRG)	46:17.36
8	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	46:23.29

30 km

February 4, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union (URS)	1:36:31.15
2 Silver	Pål Tyldum Norway (NOR)	1:37:25.30
3 Bronze	Johs Harviken Norway (NOR)	1:37:32.44
4	Gunnar Larsson (SWE)	1:37:33,72
5	Walter Demel (FRG)	1:37:45.53
6	Fyodor Simashev (URS)	1:38:22.50
7	Alois Kälin (SUI)	1:38:40.72
8	Gert-Dietmar Klause (GDR)	1:39:15.54

Vedenin was the first Soviet male athlete to win an Olympic cross-country skiing gold medal.

50 km

February 10, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Pål Tyldum Norway (NOR)	2:43:14.75
2 Silver	Magne Myrmo Norway (NOR)	2:43:29.45
3 Bronze	Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union (URS)	2:44:00.19
4	Reidar Hjermstad (NOR)	2:44:14.51
5	Walter Demel (FRG)	2:44:32.67
6	Werner Geeser (SUI)	2:44:34.13
7	Lars-Årne Bölling (SWE)	2:45:06.80
8	Fyodor Simashev (URS)	2:45:08.93

4 x 10 km relay

February 13, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Soviet Union (Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, Vyacheslav Vedenin)	2:04:47.94
2 Silver	Norway (Oddvar Brå, Pål Tyldum, Ivar Formo, Johs Harviken)	2:04:57.06
3 Bronze	Switzerland (Alfred Kälin, Albert Giger, Alois Kälin, Eduard Hauser)	2:07:00.06
4	Sweden (Thomas Magnusson, Lars-Göran Åslund, Gunnar Larsson, Sven-Åke Lundbäck)	2:07:03.60
5	Finland (Hannu Taipale, Juha Mieto, Juhani Repo, Osmo Karjalainen)	2:07:50.19
6	East Germany (Gerd Hessler, Axel Lesser, Gerhard Grimmer, Gert-Dietmar Klause)	2:10:03.73
7	West Germany (Franz Betz, Urban Hettich, Hartmut Döpp, Walter Demel)	2:10:42.85
8	Czechoslovakia (Stanislav Henych, Jan Fastavr, Jan Michalko, Ján Ilavský)	2:11:27.55

Women's events

5 km

February 9, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Galina Kulakova Soviet Union (URS)	17:00.50
2 Silver	Marjatta Kajosmaa Finland (FIN)	17:05.50
3 Bronze	Helena Šikolová Czechoslovakia (TCH)	17:07.32
4	Alevtina Olyunina (URS)	17:07.40
5	Hilkka Kuntola (FIN)	17:11.67
6	Lyubov Mukhachyova (URS)	17:12.08

10 km

February 6, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Galina Kulakova Soviet Union (URS)	34:17.82
2 Silver	Alevtina Olyunina Soviet Union (URS)	34:54.11
3 Bronze	Marjatta Kajosmaa Finland (FIN)	34:56.45
4	Lyubov Mukhachyova (URS)	34:58.56
5	Helena Takalo (FIN)	35:06.34
6	Åslaug Dahl (NOR)	35:18.84

3 x 5 km relay

February 12, 1972

Medal	Athlete	Time
1 Gold	Soviet Union (Lyubov Mukhachyova, Alevtina Olyunina, Galina Kulakova)	48:46.15
2 Silver	Finland (Helena Takalo, Hilkka Riihivuori, Marjatta Kajosmaa)	49:19.37
3 Bronze	Norway (Inger Aufles, Aslaug Dahl, Berit Mørdre)	49:51.49
4	West Germany (Monika Mrklas, Ingrid Rothfuss, Michaela Enler)	50:25.61
5	East Germany (Gabriele Haupt, Renate Fischer, Anna Unger)	50:28.45
6	Czechoslovakia (Alena Bartošová, Helena Šikolová, Milena Cillerova)	51:16.16

References

• Official Olympic Report