Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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The 1956 Winter Olympics cross country skiing results. Men's 30 km and women's 3 x 5 km relay was added.

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[edit] Men's events

[edit] 15 km

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Hallgeir Brenden (NOR) 49:39
Silver Sixten Jernberg (SWE) 50:14
Bronze Pavel Kolchin (URS) 50:17

This was the first race run at 15 km after being held at 18 km from 1924 to 1952. Kolchin was the first non-Scandinavian to earn an Olympic medal.

[edit] 30 km

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) 1:44:06
Silver Sixten Jernberg (SWE) 1:44:30
Bronze Pavel Kolchin (URS) 1:45:45

[edit] 50 km

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Sixten Jernberg (SWE) 2:50:27
Silver Veikko Hakulinen (FIN) 2:51:45
Bronze Fyodor Terentyev (URS) 2:53:32

[edit] 4 x 10 km

Medal Team Time
Gold Soviet Union (Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin) 2:15:30
Silver Finland (August Kiuru, Jorma Kortelainen, Arvo Viitanen, Veikko Hakulinen) 2:16:31
Bronze Sweden (Lennart Larsson, Gunnar Samuelsson, Per-Erik Larsson, Sixten Jernberg) 2:17:42

[edit] Women's events

[edit] 10 km

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Lyubov Kozyreva (URS) 38:11
Silver Radia Yeroshina (URS) 38:16
Bronze Sonja Edström (SWE) 38:23

[edit] 3 x 5 km

Medal Team Time
Gold Finland (Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, Siiri Rantanen) 1:09:01
Silver Soviet Union (Lyubov Kozyreva, Alevtina Kolchina, Radia Yeroshina) 1:09:28
Bronze Sweden (Irma Johansson, Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Sonja Edström) 1:09:48