- Maria Gusakova
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Medal record Women's cross country skiing Competitor for 
Soviet UnionOlympic Games Gold 1960 Squaw Valley 10 km Silver 1960 Squaw Valley 3 x 5 km Bronze 1964 Innsbruck 10 km World Championships Gold 1962 Zakopane 3 x 5 km Silver 1962 Zakopane 10 km Bronze 1962 Zakopane 5 km Maria Ivanovna Gusakova (Russian: Мари́я Ива́новна Гусако́ва; born 2 February 1931) in the village of Timoshkino, Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast) was a former Soviet cross country skier who competed from the late 1950s to the early 1960s for VSS Spartak. She won a complete set Winter Olympic medals with a gold in the 10 km (1960), a silver in the 3x5 km (1960) and a bronze in the 10 km (1964).
Gusakova also earned a complete set of medals at the 1962 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 3x5 km, a silver in the 10 km, and a bronze in the 5 km.
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Olympic champions in women's 10 km cross-country skiing 1952: Lydia Wideman (FIN) * 1956: Lyubov Kozyreva (URS) * 1960: Maria Gusakova (URS) * 1964: Klavdiya Boyarskikh (URS) * 1968: Toini Gustafsson (SWE) * 1972: Galina Kulakova (URS) * 1976: Raisa Smetanina (URS) * 1980: Barbara Petzold (GDR) * 1984: Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen (FIN) * 1988: Vida Vencienė (URS) * 2002: Bente Skari (NOR) * 2006: Kristina Šmigun (EST) * 2010: Charlotte Kalla (SWE)Categories:- 1931 births
- Living people
- Soviet cross-country skiers
- Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
- Cross-country skiers at the 1960 Winter Olympics
- Cross-country skiers at the 1964 Winter Olympics
- Spartak athletes
- People from Ryazan Oblast
- Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
- Soviet Winter Olympic medalist stubs
- Russian cross-country skiing biography stubs
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