Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiingat the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Cross-country skiing
Venue	Mount Van Hoevenberg
Date	February 14–23, 1980
No. of events	7
Competitors	131 (86 men, 45 women) from 24 nations
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Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
5 km		women
10 km		women
15 km	men
30 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men	women
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The 1980 Winter Olympics results in cross-country skiing.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	1	7
2	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	0	2
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
4	Finland (FIN)	0	4	2	6
5	Norway (NOR)	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 nations)		7	7	7	21

Participating NOCs

Twenty four nations sent cross-country skiers to compete in the events at Lake Placid.

Argentina  Australia  Bulgaria  Canada  China  Czechoslovakia  East Germany  Finland

France  Great Britain  Iceland  Italy  Japan  Mongolia  Norway  Poland

South Korea  Soviet Union  Spain  Sweden  Switzerland  United States  West Germany  Yugoslavia

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Thomas Wassberg  Sweden	41:57.63	Juha Mieto  Finland	41:57.64	Ove Aunli  Norway	42:28.62
30 km details	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	1:27:02.80	Vasily Rochev  Soviet Union	1:27:34.22	Ivan Lebanov  Bulgaria	1:28:03.87
50 km details	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	2:27:24.60	Juha Mieto  Finland	2:30:20.52	Alexander Zavyalov  Soviet Union	2:30:51.52
4 × 10 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Zimyatov	1:57:03.46	Norway (NOR) Lars Erik Eriksen Per Knut Aaland Ove Aunli Oddvar Brå	1:58:45.77	Finland (FIN) Harri Kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto	2:00:00.18

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	15:06.92	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	15:11.96	Květa Jeriová  Czechoslovakia	15:23.44
10 km details	Barbara Petzold  East Germany	30:31.54	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	30:35.05	Helena Takalo  Finland	30:45.25
4 × 5 km relay details	East Germany (GDR) Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse Barbara Petzold	1:02:11.10	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Baldychova Nina Selyunina Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina	1:03:18.30	Norway (NOR) Brit Pettersen Anette Bøe Marit Myrmæl Berit Aunli	1:04:13.50

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Paralympics

References

1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2019.

External links

• Official Olympic Report