Cross-country skiing at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre explained

Event:	Men's 50 kilometre
Games:	1972 Winter
Venue:	Makomanai Cross Country Events Site
Dates:	10 February
Competitors:	40
Nations:	13
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	2:43:14.75
Gold:	Pål Tyldum
Goldnoc:	NOR
Silver:	Magne Myrmo
Silvernoc:	NOR
Bronze:	Vyacheslav Vedenin
Bronzenoc:	URS
Prev:	1968
Next:	1976

The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was held on Thursday 10 February at Makomanai Cross Country Events Site. Kalevi Oikarainen of Finland was the 1970 World champion and Ole Ellefsæter of Norway was the defending champion from the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.^[1]

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 40 athletes who started the race, seven did not finish. Pål Tyldum of Norway took his third medal of the Games; his first individual Olympic gold medal.

Results

Sources:^{[2] [3]}

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	40			2:43:14.75
	19			2:43:29.45
	37			2:44:00.19
	32			2:44:14.51
	27			2:44:32.67
	11			2:44:34.13
	16			2:45:06.80
	29			2:45:08.93
	35			2:46:17.43
10	2			2:46:46.94
11	36			2:47:59.37
12	8			2:48:24.83
13	5			2:48:53.51
14	1			2:49:35.35
15	22			2:49:45.59
16	12			2:49:53.01
17	9			2:50:00.78
18	33			2:50:16.91
19	15			2:51:12.92
20	31			2:51:17.56
21	26			2:51:25.19
22	39			2:51:39.65
23	25			2:53:00.78
24	13			2:54:01.52
25	4			2:54:28.39
26	34			2:56:24.21
27	41			2:56:42.49
28	10			2:57:12.15
29	20			2:57:42.62
30	24			2:58:31.83
31	21			3:00:08.32
32	18			3:00:41.72
33	28			3:01:15.37
	3	Joe McNulty
	6	Ventseslav Stoyanov
	14	Ulrico Kostner
	17	Jean Jobez
	23	Eero Mäntyranta
	30	Motoharu Matsumura
	38	Kalevi Oikarainen
	7	Gerhard Gehring

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417181303/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1972/CCS/mens-50-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 28 June 2019.
2. Web site: 50 km Men . www.olympic.org . IOC . 11 February 2019.
3. Web site: Sapporo 50 km Men . www.skisport365.com . skisport365 . 11 February 2019.