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

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Men's 50 kilometre
at the XI Olympic Winter Games
Cross country skiing pictogram.svg
Venue Makomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates10 February 1972
Competitors40 from 13 nations
Winning time2:43:14.75
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Pål Tyldum
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Silver medal icon.svg Magne Myrmo
Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Bronze medal icon.svg Vyacheslav Vedenin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
  1968
1976  

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]

RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
Gold medal icon.svg40 Pål Tyldum Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2:43:14.75
Silver medal icon.svg19 Magne Myrmo Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2:43:29.45+14.70
Bronze medal icon.svg37 Vyacheslav Vedenin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:44:00.19+45.44
432 Reidar Hjermstad Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2:44:14.51+59.76
527 Walter Demel Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 2:44:32.67+1:17.92
611 Werner Geeser Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 2:44:34.13+1:19.38
716 Lars-Arne Bölling Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:45:06.80+1:52.05
829 Fyodor Simashov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:45:08.93+1:54.18
935 Gert-Dietmar Klause Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 2:46:17.43+3:02.68
102 Ole Ellefsæter Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 2:46:46.94+3:32.19
1136 Hans-Erik Larsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:47:59.37+4:44.62
128 Hannu Taipale Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 2:48:24.83+5:10.08
135 Tord Backman Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:48:53.51+5:38.76
141 Ulrich Wenger Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 2:49:35.35+6:20.60
1522 Ivan Pronin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:49:45.59+6:30.84
1612 Eberhard Klessen Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 2:49:53.01+6:38.26
179 Ivan Garanin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 2:50:00.78+6:46.03
1833 Rainer Gross Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 2:50:16.91+7:02.16
1915 Ján Fajstavr Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 2:51:12.92+7:58.17
2031 Gunnar Larsson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 2:51:17.56+8:02.81
2126 Elviro Blanc Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:51:25.19+8:10.44
2239 Attilio Lombard Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:51:39.65+8:24.90
2325 Louis Jäggi Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 2:53:00.78+9:46.03
2413 Gene Morgan Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:54:01.52+10:46.77
254 Tonio Biondini Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 2:54:28.39+11:13.64
2634 Giuseppe Dermon Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 2:56:24.21+13:09.46
2741 Everett Dunklee Flag of the United States.svg  United States 2:56:42.49+13:27.74
2810 Petar Pankov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 2:57:12.15+13:57.40
2920 Seiji Kudo Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 2:57:42.62+14:27.87
3024 Ján Michalko Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 2:58:31.83+15:17.08
3121 Edgar Eckert Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 3:00:08.32+16:53.57
3218 Teuvo Hatunen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 3:00:41.72+17:26.97
3328 Bob Gray Flag of the United States.svg  United States 3:01:15.37+18:00.62
3 Joe McNulty Flag of the United States.svg  United States DNF
6 Ventseslav Stoyanov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria DNF
14 Ulrico Kostner Flag of Italy.svg  Italy DNF
17 Jean Jobez Flag of France.svg  France DNF
23 Eero Mäntyranta Flag of Finland.svg  Finland DNF
30 Motoharu Matsumura Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan DNF
38 Kalevi Oikarainen Flag of Finland.svg  Finland DNF
7 Gerhard Gehring Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany DNS

References

  1. 1 2 "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.