Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

The 1976 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing results. The women's 3 x 5 km relay was replaced by a 4 x 5 km relay at these games.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km	Nikolay Bazhukov  Soviet Union	43:58.47	Yevgeny Belyayev  Soviet Union	44:01.10	Arto Koivisto  Finland	44:19.25
30 km	Sergey Savelyev  Soviet Union	1:30:29.38	Bill Koch  United States	1:30:57.84	Ivan Garanin  Soviet Union	1:31:09.29
50 km	Ivar Formo  Norway	2:37:30.05	Gert-Dietmar Klause  East Germany	2:38:13.21	Benny Södergren  Sweden	2:39:39.21
4×10 km	Finland (FIN) Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto Pertti Teurajärvi Arto Koivisto	2:07:59.72	Norway (NOR) Pål Tyldum Einar Sagstuen Ivar Formo Odd Martinsen	2:09:58.36	Soviet Union (URS) Yevgeniy Belyayev Nikolay Bazhukov Sergey Savelyev Ivan Garanin	2:10:51.46

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km	Helena Takalo  Finland	15:48.69	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	15:49.73	Nina Baldycheva  Soviet Union	16:12.82
10 km	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	30:13.41	Helena Takalo  Finland	30:14.28	Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union	30:38.61
4×5 km	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Baldycheva Zinaida Amosova Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova	1:07:49.75	Finland (FIN) Liisa Suikhonen Marjatta Kajosmaa Hilkka Riihivuori Helena Takalo	1:08:36.57	East Germany (GDR) Monika Debertshäuser Sigrun Krause Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse	1:09:57.95

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	4	10
2	Finland (FIN)	2	2	1	5
3	Norway (NOR)	1	1	0	2
4	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
5	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
6	Sweden (SWE)	0	0	1	1

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics

References

• Official Olympic Report

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