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

Men's 50 kilometre at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Makomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates	10 February 1972
Competitors	40 from 13 nations
Winning time	2:43:14.75
Medalists
Pål Tyldum   Norway Magne Myrmo   Norway 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
	40	Pål Tyldum	Norway	2:43:14.75	–
	19	Magne Myrmo	Norway	2:43:29.45	+14.70
	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. "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.

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)