Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre explained

Event:	Men's 30 kilometre
Games:	1972 Winter
Venue:	Makomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates:	4 February
Competitors:	59
Nations:	18
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	1:36:31.15
Gold:	Vyacheslav Vedenin
Goldnoc:	URS
Silver:	Pål Tyldum
Silvernoc:	NOR
Bronze:	Johs Harviken
Bronzenoc:	NOR
Prev:	1968
Next:	1976

The men's 30 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was held on Friday 4 February at the Makomanai Cross Country Events Site.^{[1] [2]}

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 30 kilometre course. Vyacheslav Vedenin of the Soviet Union was the 1970 World champion and Franco Nones of Italy was the defending Olympic champion from the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.^[3]

Results

Sources:^{[1] [4]}

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	54			1:36:31.15
	60			1:37:25.30
	36			1:37:32.44
	35			1:37:33.72
	57			1:37:45.53
	18			1:38:22.50
	12			1:38:40.72
	53			1:39:15.54
	58			1:39:24.29
10	45			1:39:44.47
11	27			1:39:45.29
12	24			1:39:49.24
13	52			1:39:54.35
14	44			1:40:14.98
15	2			1:40:18.70
16	43			1:40:48.85
17	50			1:41:35.34
18	8			1:41:37.47
19	15			1:41:40.51
20	38			1:41:44.32
21	19			1:42:23.40
22	13			1:42:27.18
23	49			1:42:30.83
24	48			1:42:44.06
25	41			1:42:45.88
26	47			1:43:15.03
27	37			1:43:15.99
28	7			1:43:26.02
29	39			1:43:35.68
30	23			1:43:39.41
31	6			1:44:25.21
32	9			1:44:35.03
33	55			1:44:45.67
34	40			1:44:49.45
35	29			1:44:51.05
36	14			1:45:03.72
37	32			1:45:37.13
38	10			1:45:38.51
39	26			1:45:50.66
40	30			1:46:19.36
41	21			1:46:20.36
42	11			1:46:38.31	+10:07.16
43	46			1:46:51.47	+10:20.32
44	3			1:47:00.40	+10:29.25
45	56			1:47:03.01	+10:31.86
46	42			1:47:11.68	+10:40.53
47	22			1:47:50.22	+11:19.07
48	34			1:48:05.42	+11:34.27
49	1			1:48:12.19	+11:41.04
50	20			1:51:14.04	+14:42.89
51	17			1:51:29.88	+14:58.73
52	4			1:52:14.67	+15:43.52
53	59			1:52:18.52	+15:47.37
54	31			1:54:10.60	+17:39.45
55	25			1:54:39.41	+18:08.26
	16	Josef Hauser
	28	Roland Jeannerod
	33	Raimo Lehtinen
	51	Osmo Karjalainen
	5	Ján Ilavský

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Sapooro 30 km Men . www.skisport365.com . skisport365 . 1 March 2019.
2. Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's 30 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181311/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1972/CCS/mens-30-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 28 June 2019.
3. Web site: 30 km Men Grenoble. www.olympic.org . IOC . 1 March 2019.
4. Web site: 30 km Men Sapporo . www.olympic.org . IOC . 1 March 2019.