| Event: | Cross-country skiing |
| Games: | 1976 Winter |
| Venue: | Seefeld |
| Dates: | February 5–14 |
| Num Events: | 7 |
| Competitors: | 165 (114 men, 51 women) |
| Nations: | 24 |
| Prev: | Sapporo 1972 |
| Next: | Lake Placid 1980 |
The 1976 Winter Olympic Games cross-country skiing results. The women's 3 × 5 km relay was replaced by a 4 × 5 km relay at these games.[1]
| 15 km | 43:58.47 | 44:01.10 | 44:19.25 | ||||
| 30 km | 1:30:29.38 | 1:30:57.84 | 1:31:09.29 | ||||
| 50 km | 2:37:30.05 | 2:38:13.21 | 2:39:39.21 | ||||
| 4 × 10 km relay | Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto Pertti Teurajärvi Arto Koivisto | 2:07:59.72 | Pål Tyldum Einar Sagstuen Ivar Formo Odd Martinsen | 2:09:58.36 | Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Bazhukov Sergey Savelyev Ivan Garanin | 2:10:51.46 |
| 5 km | 15:48.69 | 15:49.73 | 16:12.82 | ||||
| 10 km | 30:13.41 | 30:14.28 | 30:38.61 | ||||
| 4 × 5 km relay | Nina Baldycheva Zinaida Amosova Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova | 1:07:49.75 | Liisa Suikhonen Marjatta Kajosmaa Hilkka Riihivuori Helena Takalo | 1:08:36.57 | Monika Debertshäuser Sigrun Krause Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse | 1:09:57.95 |
Twenty four nations participated in Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games.
Galina Kulakova of the Soviet Union finished third in the women's 5 km event, but was disqualified due to a positive test for banned substance ephedrine. She claimed that this was a result of using the nasal spray that contained the substance. Both the FIS and the IOC allowed her to compete in the 10 km and the 4 × 5 km relay.[2] This was the first stripped medal at the Winter Olympics.