Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Women's 10 kilometre explained

Event:	Women's 10 km
Games:	1984 Winter
Venue:	Igman
Date:	February 9
Competitors:	52
Nations:	15
Longnames:	yes
Win Value:	31:44.2
Gold:	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen
Goldnoc:	FIN
Silver:	Raisa Smetanina
Silvernoc:	URS
Bronze:	Britt Pettersen
Bronzenoc:	NOR
Prev:	1980
Next:	1988

The 10 kilometre cross-country skiing event was the first event cross-country skiing programme to take place at the 1984 Winter Olympics, in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. It was the ninth appearance of the 10 km race. The competition was held on Thursday, February 9, 1984 at Veliko Polje, Igman and was the first final to be held at the games.^[1]

Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen of Finland took Gold and was the second Finn to win this event after Lydia Wideman in 1952. The 1976 gold medal winner, Raisa Smetanina, won silver. All 52 athletes who entered the race finished with an official time.

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1			31:44.2
2			32:02.9
3			32:12.7
4			32:17.7
5			32:26.2
6			32:34.6
7			32:35.3
8			32:45.7
9			32:55.8
10			32:58.7
11			33:04.8
12			33:05.8
13			33:07.8
14			33:29.1
15			33:37.5
16			33:48.2
17			34:00.3
18			34:01.3
19			34:13.4
20			34:17.8
21			34:28.0
22			34:31.3
23			34:31.6
24			34:33.3
25			34:33.8
26			34:35.1
27			34:35.9
28			34:41.6
29			34:47.0
30			34:52.2
31			34:52.4
32			34:58.9
33			35:05.2
34			35:30.8
35	Clara Angerer		35:31.1
36			35:35.0
37			35:35.2
38			35:36.0
39			35:41.3
40			35:47.4
41			36:10.4
42			36:20.9
43			37:18.4
44			37:58.1
45			38:12.2
46			39:05.2
47			39:28.4
48			40:11.2
49			41:27.7
50			41:35.7
51			42:26.6
52			42:28.1

External links

• Official Olympic Report

Notes and References

1. Web site: Cross Country Skiing at the 1984 Sarajevo Winter Games: Women's 10 kilometres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417180532/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1984/CCS/womens-10-kilometres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 13 February 2018 . sports-reference.com.