Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Les Saisies
Date	9–22 February
No. of events	10
Competitors	223 (139 men, 84 women) from 40 nations
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The 1992 Winter Olympic games cross-country skiing results. The cross-country skiing competitions were held at Les Saisies, about 40 km from the host city Albertville. ^[1]

Evolution of the Olympic program

The combined pursuit (first classical, then freestyle, medals were awarded from both the classical part and the overall pursuit) was added in substitute of the men's 15 km and women's 10 km. Women's 30 km replaced the 20 km event. Also, women's 15 km was held for the first time.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway  (NOR)	5	3	1	9
2	Unified Team  (EUN)	3	2	4	9
3	Italy  (ITA)	1	4	3	8
4	Finland  (FIN)	1	1	1	3
5	Sweden  (SWE)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		10	10	10	30

Participant NOCs

Forty nations sent ski runners to compete in the events.

•   Argentina
•   Australia
•   Austria
•   Bulgaria
•   Canada
•   China
•   Croatia
•   Czechoslovakia
•   Denmark
•   Estonia
•   Finland
•   France
•   Germany
•   Great Britain
•   Greece
•   Honduras
•   Hungary
•   Iceland
•   Italy
•   Japan
•   Latvia
•   Liechtenstein
•   Lithuania
•   Mexico
•   Mongolia
•   Morocco
•   North Korea
•   Norway
•   Poland
•   Romania
•   San Marino
•   Slovenia
•   South Korea
•   Spain
•   Sweden
•   Switzerland
•   Turkey
•   Unified Team
•   United States
•   Yugoslavia

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km classical details	Vegard Ulvang   Norway	27:36.0	Marco Albarello   Italy	27:55.2	Christer Majbäck   Sweden	27:56.4
15 km freestyle pursuit details	Bjørn Dæhlie   Norway	1:05:37.9	Vegard Ulvang   Norway	1:06:31.3	Giorgio Vanzetta   Italy	1:06:32.3
30 km classical details	Vegard Ulvang   Norway	1:22:27.8	Bjørn Dæhlie   Norway	1:23:14.0	Terje Langli   Norway	1:23:42.5
50 km freestyle details	Bjørn Dæhlie   Norway	2:03:41.5	Maurilio De Zolt   Italy	2:04:39.1	Giorgio Vanzetta   Italy	2:06:42.1
4 × 10 km relay details	Norway  (NOR) Terje Langli Vegard Ulvang Kristen Skjeldal Bjørn Dæhlie	1:39:26.0	Italy  (ITA) Giuseppe Pulie Marco Albarello Giorgio Vanzetta Silvio Fauner	1:40:52.7	Finland  (FIN) Mika Kuusisto Harri Kirvesniemi Jari Räsänen Jari Isometsä	1:41:22.9

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km classical details	Marjut Lukkarinen   Finland	14:13.8	Lyubov Yegorova   Unified Team	14:14.7	Yelena Välbe   Unified Team	14:22.7
10 km freestyle pursuit details	Lyubov Yegorova   Unified Team	40:08.4	Stefania Belmondo   Italy	40:44.0	Yelena Välbe   Unified Team	40:52.7
15 km classical details	Lyubov Yegorova   Unified Team	42:20.8	Marjut Lukkarinen   Finland	43:29.9	Yelena Välbe   Unified Team	43:42.3
30 km freestyle details	Stefania Belmondo   Italy	1:22:30.1	Lyubov Yegorova   Unified Team	1:22:52.0	Yelena Välbe   Unified Team	1:24:13.9
4 × 5 km relay details	Unified Team  (EUN) Yelena Välbe Raisa Smetanina Larisa Lazutina Lyubov Yegorova	59:34.8	Norway  (NOR) Solveig Pedersen Inger Helene Nybråten Trude Dybendahl Elin Nilsen	59:56.4	Italy  (ITA) Bice Vanzetta Manuela Di Centa Gabriella Paruzzi Stefania Belmondo	1:00:25.9

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Paralympics

References

1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2019.

External links

Media related to Cross-country skiing at the 1992 Winter Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

• Official Olympic Report