Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre explained

Event:	Men's 15 kilometre
Games:	1972 Winter
Venue:	Makomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates:	7 February
Competitors:	62
Nations:	19
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	45:28.24
Gold:	Sven-Åke Lundbäck
Goldnoc:	SWE
Silver:	Fyodor Simashov
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Ivar Formo
Bronzenoc:	NOR
Prev:	1968
Next:	1976

The men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was held on Monday 7 February at the Makomanai Cross Country Events Site.^{[1] [2]}

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Lars-Göran Åslund of Sweden was the 1970 World champion and Harald Grønningen of Norway was the defending Olympic champion from the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.^[3]

Results

Sources:^{[1] [4]}

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	54			45:28.24
	52			46:00.84
	34			46:02.68
	57			46:02.74
	23			46:04.59
	35			46:17.01
	61			46:17.36
	37			46:23.29
	9			46:25.88
10	38			46:27.51
11	59			46:30.53
12	12			46:33.43
13	63			46:34.40
14	28			46:38.36
15	46			46:46.36
16	42			46:48.32
17	41			46:50.31
18	29			46:56.23
19	58			47:02.55
20	15			47:22.97
21	56			47:25.81
22	36			47:33.78
23	24			47:56.16
24	53			47:59.07
25	49			48:04.15
26	3			48:05.86
27	47			48:10.09
28	22			48:17.14
29	39			48:18.22
30	21			48:31.64
31	55			48:32.42
32	14			48:46.08
33	50			48:46.72
34	16			48:55.37
35	8			48:59.90
36	27			49:00.41
37	19			49:06.97
38	30			49:17.97
39	44			49:22.89
40	17			49:35.43
41	60			49:38.95
42	51			49:44.13
43	40			49:50.72
44	26			49:52.20
45	43			49:54.08
46	33			50:05.88
47	25			50:06.74
48	4			50:07.11
49	62			50:07.22
50	32			50:41.31
51	6			50:43.76
52	11			50:52.14
53	2			50:54.98
54	45			51:17.92
55	13			51:36.54
56	20			52:06.18
57	1			52:48.54
58	64			53:13.91
59	48			54:11.98
60	31			54:41.99
61	5			56:05.05	+10:36.81
62	18				+18:07.42
	7	Josef Hauser
	10	Ján Ilavský

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sapooro 15 km Men . www.skisport365.com . skisport365 . 4 March 2019.
2. Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's 15 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181611/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1972/CCS/mens-15-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 27 June 2019.
3. Web site: 15 km Men Grenoble. www.olympic.org . IOC . 4 March 2019.
4. Web site: 15 km Men Sapporo . www.olympic.org . IOC . 4 March 2019.