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

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]

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
← 1968
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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

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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

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  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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