Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

The 1980 Winter Olympics results in cross-country skiing.^[1]

Cross-country skiing at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Cross-country skiing
Venue	Mount Van Hoevenberg
Date	February 14–23
No. of events	7
Competitors	131 (86 men, 45 women) from 24 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	4	2	1	7
2	East Germany (GDR)	2	0	0	2
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
4	Finland (FIN)	0	4	2	6
5	Norway (NOR)	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		7	7	7	21

Participating NOCs

Twenty four nations sent cross-country skiers to compete in the events at Lake Placid.

•  Argentina
•  Australia
•  Bulgaria
•  Canada
•  China
•  Czechoslovakia
•  East Germany
•  Finland
•  France
•  Great Britain
•  Iceland
•  Italy
•  Japan
•  Mongolia
•  Norway
•  Poland
•  South Korea
•  Soviet Union
•  Spain
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  United States
•  West Germany
•  Yugoslavia

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Thomas Wassberg  Sweden	41:57.63	Juha Mieto  Finland	41:57.64	Ove Aunli  Norway	42:28.62
30 km details	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	1:27:02.80	Vasily Rochev  Soviet Union	1:27:34.22	Ivan Lebanov  Bulgaria	1:28:03.87
50 km details	Nikolay Zimyatov  Soviet Union	2:27:24.60	Juha Mieto  Finland	2:30:20.52	Alexander Zavyalov  Soviet Union	2:30:51.52
4 × 10 km relay details	Soviet Union (URS) Vasily Rochev Nikolay Bazhukov Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolay Zimyatov	1:57:03.46	Norway (NOR) Lars Erik Eriksen Per Knut Aaland Ove Aunli Oddvar Brå	1:58:45.77	Finland (FIN) Harri Kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto	2:00:00.18

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km details	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	15:06.92	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	15:11.96	Květa Jeriová  Czechoslovakia	15:23.44
10 km details	Barbara Petzold  East Germany	30:31.54	Hilkka Riihivuori  Finland	30:35.05	Helena Takalo  Finland	30:45.25
4 × 5 km relay details	East Germany (GDR) Marlies Rostock Carola Anding Veronika Hesse Barbara Petzold	1:02:11.10	Soviet Union (URS) Nina Baldychova Nina Selyunina Galina Kulakova Raisa Smetanina	1:03:18.30	Norway (NOR) Brit Pettersen Anette Bøe Marit Myrmæl Berit Aunli	1:04:13.50

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Paralympics