Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre
Appearance
Men's 50 kilometre at the X Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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Venue | Autrans | |||||||||
Dates | 17 February | |||||||||
Competitors | 51 | |||||||||
Winning time | 2:28:45.8 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics | ||
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5 km | women | |
10 km | women | |
15 km | men | |
30 km | men | |
50 km | men | |
Relay | men | women |
The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, was held on Saturday 17 February at Autrans.[1] Gjermund Eggen of Norway was the defending World champion while Sixten Jernberg of Sweden was the defending Olympic champion.[2]
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 51 athletes who started the race, 4 did not finish.
Ole Ellefsæter of Norway took his second gold medal of the Games after being a part of Norway's winning team in the 4×10 kilometre relay earlier in the games.
Results
[edit]Rank | Bib | Name | Country | Time | Deficit |
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23 | Ole Ellefsæter | ![]() |
2:28:45.8 | – |
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41 | Vyacheslav Vedenin | ![]() |
2:29:02.5 | +16.7 |
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31 | Josef Haas | ![]() |
2:29:14.8 | +29.0 |
4 | 42 | Pål Tyldum | ![]() |
2:29:26.7 | +40.9 |
5 | 5 | Melcher Risberg | ![]() |
2:29:37.0 | +51.2 |
6 | 52 | Gunnar Larsson | ![]() |
2:29:37.2 | +51.4 |
7 | 25 | Jan Halvarsson | ![]() |
2:30:05.9 | +1:20.1 |
8 | 51 | Reidar Hjermstad | ![]() |
2:31:01.8 | +2:16.0 |
9 | 28 | Walter Demel | ![]() |
2:31:14.4 | +2:28.6 |
10 | 45 | Assar Rönnlund | ![]() |
2:31:19.3 | +2:33.5 |
11 | 46 | Kalevi Laurila | ![]() |
2:31:24.9 | +2:39.1 |
12 | 36 | Mario Bacher | ![]() |
2:31:33.8 | +2:48.0 |
13 | 1 | Andreas Janc | ![]() |
2:32:32.2 | +3:46.4 |
14 | 60 | Hannu Taipale | ![]() |
2:32:37.7 | +3:51.9 |
15 | 24 | Eero Mäntyranta | ![]() |
2:32:53.8 | +4:08.0 |
16 | 9 | Vladimir Voronkov | ![]() |
2:33:07.3 | +4:21.5 |
17 | 13 | Aldo Stella | ![]() |
2:33:17.9 | +4:32.1 |
18 | 2 | Odd Martinsen | ![]() |
2:33:51.4 | +5:05.6 |
19 | 3 | Pauli Siitonen | ![]() |
2:34:31.2 | +5:45.4 |
20 | 19 | Anatoly Akentyev | ![]() |
2:34:54.5 | +6:08.7 |
21 | 22 | Józef Rysula | ![]() |
2:35:30.9 | +6:45.1 |
22 | 16 | Mike Gallagher | ![]() |
2:36:26.1 | +7:40.3 |
23 | 47 | Alois Kälin | ![]() |
2:36:40.8 | +7:55.0 |
24 | 30 | Roger Pires | ![]() |
2:36:44.8 | +7:59.0 |
25 | 21 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | ![]() |
2:36:52.5 | +8:06.7 |
26 | 27 | Livio Stuffer | ![]() |
2:37:46.6 | +9:00.8 |
27 | 53 | Elviro Blanc | ![]() |
2:38:12.4 | +9:26.6 |
28 | 37 | Ján Fajstavr | ![]() |
2:39:25.3 | +10:39.5 |
29 | 12 | Tokio Sato | ![]() |
2:40:00.5 | +11:14.7 |
30 | 44 | Mike Elliot | ![]() |
2:40:38.5 | +11:52.7 |
31 | 59 | Igor Voronchikhin | ![]() |
2:40:48.2 | +12:02.4 |
32 | 29 | Larry Damon | ![]() |
2:41:25.2 | +12:39.4 |
33 | 17 | Helmut Gerlach | ![]() |
2:41:55.8 | +13:10.0 |
34 | 35 | Franz Vetter | ![]() |
2:43:51.1 | +15:05.3 |
35 | 14 | Alojz Kerštajn | ![]() |
2:43:54.1 | +15:08.3 |
36 | 54 | Charles Kellogg | ![]() |
2:44:00.4 | +15:14.6 |
37 | 6 | Franz Kälin | ![]() |
2:44:29.7 | +15:43.9 |
38 | 34 | Sotoo Okushiba | ![]() |
2:45:09.5 | +16:23.7 |
39 | 56 | Vít Fousek Jr. | ![]() |
2:45:09.8 | +16:24.0 |
40 | 50 | Fernand Borrel | ![]() |
2:45:10.6 | +16:24.8 |
41 | 7 | Claude Legrand | ![]() |
2:45:36.9 | +16:51.1 |
42 | 20 | Tibor Holéczy | ![]() |
2:45:38.0 | +16:52.2 |
43 | 40 | Siegfried Weiss | ![]() |
2:46:53.4 | +18:07.6 |
44 | 38 | Luc Colin | ![]() |
2:48:27.9 | +19:42.1 |
45 | 8 | Miklós Holló | ![]() |
2:51:24.1 | +22:38.3 |
46 | 32 | David Rees | ![]() |
2:56:00.5 | +27:14.7 |
47 | 10 | Chong-Ihm Yoon | ![]() |
3:27:22.5 | +58:36.7 |
11 | Václav Peřina | ![]() |
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26 | Janez Mlinar | ![]() |
DNF | ||
49 | Denis Mast | ![]() |
DNF | ||
57 | Klaus Ganter | ![]() |
DNF | ||
4 | Petar Pankov | ![]() |
DNS | ||
15 | Gerhard Grimmer | ![]() |
DNS | ||
18 | Karel Štefl | ![]() |
DNS | ||
33 | Choon-Kie Kim | ![]() |
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39 | Akiyoshi Matsuoka | ![]() |
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43 | Nils Skulbru | ![]() |
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48 | Helmut Unger | ![]() |
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55 | Peter Thiel | ![]() |
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39 | Kazuo Sato | ![]() |
DNS |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "50 km Men Autrans". www.skisport365.com. skisport365. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2019.
- ^ "50 km Men". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 14 February 2019.