Pål Tyldum

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Olympic medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Gold	1968 Grenoble	4 x 10 km
Gold	1972 Sapporo	50 km
Silver	1972 Sapporo	30 km
Silver	1972 Sapporo	4 x 10 km
Silver	1976 Innsbruck	4 x 10 km

Pål Tyldum (born March 28, 1942 at Høylandet) is a former cross country skier from Norway. Specializing in the longer distances, he won a gold medal in the 50 km event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. At the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, he won a gold medal in the 4 x 10km relay. Additionally, he won three Olympic silver medals and seven national cross-country championships.

Tyldum won the 50 km event at the Holmenkollen ski festival twice (1969 and 1972). He received the Holmenkollen medal in 1970.

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• Holmenkollen Winners since 1892
• Holmenkollen Medalists
• FIS Proflie (As Paal Tyldum)

Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross country

1924: Thorleif Haug | 1928: Per Erik Hedlund | 1932: Veli Saarinen | 1936: Elis Wiklund | 1948: Nils Karlsson | 1952: Veikko Hakulinen | 1956: Sixten Jernberg | 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1964: Sixten Jernberg | 1968: Ole Ellefsæter | 1972: Pål Tyldum | 1976: Ivar Formo | 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1984: Thomas Wassberg | 1988: Gunde Svan | 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1994: Vladimir Smirnov | 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie | 2002: Mikhail Ivanov | 2006: Giorgio Di Centa

Olympic champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay

1936 Finland Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Kalle Jalkanen 1948 Sweden Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström 1952 Finland Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä 1956 Soviet Union Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolai Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin 1960 Finland Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen 1964 Sweden Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund 1968 Norway Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter 1972 Soviet Union Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin 1976 Finland Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto 1980 Soviet Union Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeniy Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov 1984 Sweden Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan 1988 Sweden Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren 1992 Norway Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie 1994 Italy Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner 1998 Norway Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard 2002 Norway Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard 2006 Italy Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi

Preceded by: Odd Martinsen

Holmenkollen medal 1970

Succeeded by: Marjatta Kajosmaa, Berit Mørdre Lammedal, & Reidar Hjermstad