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


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.
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

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RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
40Pål Tyldum2:43:14.75
19Magne Myrmo2:43:29.45
37Vyacheslav Vedenin2:44:00.19
32Reidar Hjermstad2:44:14.51
27Walter Demel2:44:32.67
11Werner Geeser2:44:34.13
16Lars-Arne Bölling2:45:06.80
29Fyodor Simashov2:45:08.93
35Gert-Dietmar Klause2:46:17.43
102Ole Ellefsæter2:46:46.94
1136Hans-Erik Larsson2:47:59.37
128Hannu Taipale2:48:24.83
135Tord Backman2:48:53.51
141Ulrich Wenger2:49:35.35
1522Ivan Pronin2:49:45.59
1612Eberhard Klessen2:49:53.01
179Ivan Garanin2:50:00.78
1833Rainer Gross2:50:16.91
1915Ján Fajstavr2:51:12.92
2031Gunnar Larsson2:51:17.56
2126Elviro Blanc2:51:25.19
2239Attilio Lombard2:51:39.65
2325Louis Jäggi2:53:00.78
2413Gene Morgan2:54:01.52
254Tonio Biondini2:54:28.39
2634Giuseppe Dermon2:56:24.21
2741Everett Dunklee2:56:42.49
2810Petar Pankov2:57:12.15
2920Seiji Kudo2:57:42.62
3024Ján Michalko2:58:31.83
3121Edgar Eckert3:00:08.32
3218Teuvo Hatunen3:00:41.72
3328Bob Gray3:01:15.37
3Joe McNulty
6Ventseslav Stoyanov
14Ulrico Kostner
17Jean Jobez
23Eero Mäntyranta
30Motoharu Matsumura
38Kalevi Oikarainen
7Gerhard Gehring