Cross-country skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay explained

Event:	Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay
Games:	1936 Winter
Date:	10 February
Competitors:	64
Nations:	16
Win Value:	2:41:33
Gold:	Sulo Nurmela Klaes Karppinen Matti Lähde Kalle Jalkanen
Goldnoc:	FIN
Silver:	Oddbjørn Hagen Olaf Hoffsbakken Sverre Brodahl Bjarne Iversen
Silvernoc:	NOR
Bronze:	John Berger Erik August Larsson Arthur Häggblad Martin Matsbo
Bronzenoc:	SWE
Next:	1948

The men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of the event. The competition was held on Monday, 10 February 1936. Sixty-four cross-country skiers from 16 nations competed.^[1]

Medalists

Kalle Jalkanen
Klaes Karppinen
Matti Lähde
Sulo Nurmela

Sverre Brodahl
Oddbjørn Hagen
Olaf Hoffsbakken
Bjarne Iversen

John Berger
Arthur Häggblad
Erik August Larsson
Martin Matsbo

Results

Place	Competitor	Time
1
align=left bgcolor=gold		bgcolor=gold	2'41:33
	42:34
	39:56
	39:49
	39:14
2
align=left bgcolor=silver		bgcolor=silver	2'41:39
	41:32
	39:33
	39:52
	40:42
3
align=left bgcolor=cc9966		2'43:03
	42:49
	39:39
	40:34
	40:01
4
		2'50:05
		43:59
		40:59
		41:51
		43:16
5
		2'51:56
		45:50
		42:14
		41:27
		42:25
6
		2'54:54
		49:22
		41:29
		41:37
		42:26
7
		2'58:50
		46:37
		42:55
		44:35
		44:43
8
		3'02:48
		49:19
		45:00
		45:13
		43:16
9
		3'03:33
		47:15
		46:06
		44:23
		45:49
10
		3'04:38
		48:34
		47:22
		44:51
		43:51
11
		3'06:26
		49:25
		44:24
		45:02
		47:35
12
		3'10:59
		51:38
		45:49
		45:57
		47:35
13
		3'26:08
		54:25
		50:15
		48:25
		53:03
14
		3'27:50
		56:56
		50:23
		48:32
		51:59
15
		3'29:39
		56:56
		50:23
		48:32
		51:59
–
		DNF
		1'14:59
		1'04:06
		1'10:26
		DNF

External links

Official Olympic Report
Web site: Wudarski . Pawel . 1999 . Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich . 23 May 2008 . pl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090216130930/http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ . 16 February 2009 .

Notes and References

Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games: Men's 4 x 10 kilometres Relay . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417182639/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1936/CCS/mens-4-x-10-kilometres-relay.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 13 June 2019.