Cross-country skiing at the 1948 Winter Olympics

At the 1948 Winter Olympics, three cross-country skiing events were contested. The 18 km competition was held on Saturday, January 31, 1948, the relay event was held on Tuesday, February 3, 1948, and the 50 km event was held on Friday, February 6, 1948.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
18 km	Martin Lundström Sweden (SWE)	Nils Östensson Sweden (SWE)	Gunnar Eriksson Sweden (SWE)
50 km	Nils Karlsson Sweden (SWE)	Harald Eriksson Sweden (SWE)	Benjamin Vanninen Finland (FIN)
4x10 km	Sweden (SWE) Gunnar Eriksson Martin Lundström Nils Östensson Nils Täpp	Finland (FIN) August Kiuru Teuvo Laukkanen Sauli Rytky Lauri Silvennoinen	Norway (NOR) Erling Evensen Olav Hagen Reidar Nyborg Olav Økern

Participating nations

Seven cross-country skiers competed in all three events.

A total of 106 cross-country skiers from 15 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:

• Austria (8)
• Bulgaria (2)
• Canada (2)
• Czechoslovakia (9)
• Finland (13)
• France (7)
• Hungary (2)
• Italy (9)
• Liechtenstein (5)
• Norway (12)
• Poland (5)
• Sweden (11)
• Switzerland (10)
• United States (5)
• Yugoslavia (6)

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	3	2	1	6
2	Finland	0	1	1	2
3	Norway	0	0	1	1

References

• International Olympic Committee results database

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