Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre

Men's 50 kilometre
at the XI Olympic Winter Games
VenueMakomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates10 February
Competitors40 from 13 nations
Winning time2:43:14.75
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Pål Tyldum
 Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Magne Myrmo
 Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vyacheslav Vedenin
 Soviet Union
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The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was held on Thursday 10 February at Makomanai Cross Country Events Site.[1] Kalevi Oikarainen of Finland was the 1970 World champion and Ole Ellefsæter of Norway was the defending champion from the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.[2]

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 40 athletes who started the race, seven did not finish. Pål Tyldum of Norway took his third medal of the Games; his first individual Olympic gold medal.

Results

Sources:[3][1]

Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 40 Pål Tyldum  Norway 2:43:14.75 –
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 19 Magne Myrmo  Norway 2:43:29.45 +14.70
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 37 Vyacheslav Vedenin  Soviet Union 2:44:00.19 +45.44
4 32 Reidar Hjermstad  Norway 2:44:14.51 +59.76
5 27 Walter Demel  West Germany 2:44:32.67 +1:17.92
6 11 Werner Geeser  Switzerland 2:44:34.13 +1:19.38
7 16 Lars-Arne Bölling  Sweden 2:45:06.80 +1:52.05
8 29 Fyodor Simashov  Soviet Union 2:45:08.93 +1:54.18
9 35 Gert-Dietmar Klause  East Germany 2:46:17.43 +3:02.68
10 2 Ole Ellefsæter  Norway 2:46:46.94 +3:32.19
11 36 Hans-Erik Larsson  Sweden 2:47:59.37 +4:44.62
12 8 Hannu Taipale  Finland 2:48:24.83 +5:10.08
13 5 Tord Backman  Sweden 2:48:53.51 +5:38.76
14 1 Ulrich Wenger  Switzerland 2:49:35.35 +6:20.60
15 22 Ivan Pronin  Soviet Union 2:49:45.59 +6:30.84
16 12 Eberhard Klessen  East Germany 2:49:53.01 +6:38.26
17 9 Ivan Garanin  Soviet Union 2:50:00.78 +6:46.03
18 33 Rainer Gross  East Germany 2:50:16.91 +7:02.16
19 15 Ján Fajstavr  Czechoslovakia 2:51:12.92 +7:58.17
20 31 Gunnar Larsson  Sweden 2:51:17.56 +8:02.81
21 26 Elviro Blanc  Italy 2:51:25.19 +8:10.44
22 39 Attilio Lombard  Italy 2:51:39.65 +8:24.90
23 25 Louis Jäggi  Switzerland 2:53:00.78 +9:46.03
24 13 Gene Morgan  United States 2:54:01.52 +10:46.77
25 4 Tonio Biondini  Italy 2:54:28.39 +11:13.64
26 34 Giuseppe Dermon  Switzerland 2:56:24.21 +13:09.46
27 41 Everett Dunklee  United States 2:56:42.49 +13:27.74
28 10 Petar Pankov  Bulgaria 2:57:12.15 +13:57.40
29 20 Seiji Kudo  Japan 2:57:42.62 +14:27.87
30 24 Ján Michalko  Czechoslovakia 2:58:31.83 +15:17.08
31 21 Edgar Eckert  West Germany 3:00:08.32 +16:53.57
32 18 Teuvo Hatunen  Finland 3:00:41.72 +17:26.97
33 28 Bob Gray  United States 3:01:15.37 +18:00.62
3 Joe McNulty  United States DNF
6 Ventseslav Stoyanov  Bulgaria DNF
14 Ulrico Kostner  Italy DNF
17 Jean Jobez  France DNF
23 Eero Mäntyranta  Finland DNF
30 Motoharu Matsumura  Japan DNF
38 Kalevi Oikarainen  Finland DNF
7 Gerhard Gehring  West Germany DNS

References

  1. ^ a b "Sapporo 50 km Men". www.skisport365.com. skisport365. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  3. ^ "50 km Men". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 11 February 2019.

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