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
Pål Tyldum
 Norway
Magne Myrmo
 Norway
Vyacheslav Vedenin
 Soviet Union
Cross-country skiing at the
1972 Winter Olympics
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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

Sources:[3][1]

RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
40Pål Tyldum Norway2:43:14.75–
19Magne Myrmo Norway2:43:29.45+14.70
37Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union2:44:00.19+45.44
432Reidar Hjermstad Norway2:44:14.51+59.76
527Walter Demel West Germany2:44:32.67+1:17.92
611Werner Geeser Switzerland2:44:34.13+1:19.38
716Lars-Arne Bölling Sweden2:45:06.80+1:52.05
829Fyodor Simashov Soviet Union2:45:08.93+1:54.18
935Gert-Dietmar Klause East Germany2:46:17.43+3:02.68
102Ole Ellefsæter Norway2:46:46.94+3:32.19
1136Hans-Erik Larsson Sweden2:47:59.37+4:44.62
128Hannu Taipale Finland2:48:24.83+5:10.08
135Tord Backman Sweden2:48:53.51+5:38.76
141Ulrich Wenger Switzerland2:49:35.35+6:20.60
1522Ivan Pronin Soviet Union2:49:45.59+6:30.84
1612Eberhard Klessen East Germany2:49:53.01+6:38.26
179Ivan Garanin Soviet Union2:50:00.78+6:46.03
1833Rainer Gross East Germany2:50:16.91+7:02.16
1915Ján Fajstavr Czechoslovakia2:51:12.92+7:58.17
2031Gunnar Larsson Sweden2:51:17.56+8:02.81
2126Elviro Blanc Italy2:51:25.19+8:10.44
2239Attilio Lombard Italy2:51:39.65+8:24.90
2325Louis Jäggi Switzerland2:53:00.78+9:46.03
2413Gene Morgan United States2:54:01.52+10:46.77
254Tonio Biondini Italy2:54:28.39+11:13.64
2634Giuseppe Dermon Switzerland2:56:24.21+13:09.46
2741Everett Dunklee United States2:56:42.49+13:27.74
2810Petar Pankov Bulgaria2:57:12.15+13:57.40
2920Seiji Kudo Japan2:57:42.62+14:27.87
3024Ján Michalko Czechoslovakia2:58:31.83+15:17.08
3121Edgar Eckert West Germany3:00:08.32+16:53.57
3218Teuvo Hatunen Finland3:00:41.72+17:26.97
3328Bob Gray United States3:01:15.37+18:00.62
3Joe McNulty United StatesDNF
6Ventseslav Stoyanov BulgariaDNF
14Ulrico Kostner ItalyDNF
17Jean Jobez FranceDNF
23Eero Mäntyranta FinlandDNF
30Motoharu Matsumura JapanDNF
38Kalevi Oikarainen FinlandDNF
7Gerhard Gehring West GermanyDNS

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.
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