Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay

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Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay
at the XII Olympic Winter Games
VenueSeefeld
Date11 February
Competitors64 (16 teams) from 16 nations
Winning time2:07:59.72
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Matti Pitkänen
Juha Mieto
Pertti Teurajärvi
Arto Koivisto
 Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Pål Tyldum
Einar Sagstuen
Ivar Formo
Odd Martinsen
 Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Yevgeny Belyayev
Nikolay Bazhukov
Sergey Savelyev
Ivan Garanin
 Soviet Union
← 1972
1980 →

The 4 × 10 kilometre relay cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria was held on Thursday 12 February at Seefeld.[1] It was the ninth appearance of the 4 × 10 km relay in the Winter Olympics.[2]

It was the fourth time that Finland won the gold medal in the event. Norway finished second in the relay, the Soviet Union won bronze.

Results[edit]

Sources:[1][3]

Rank Bib Team Time Deficit
1st place, gold medalist(s) 4  Finland
Matti Pitkänen
Juha Mieto
Pertti Teurajärvi
Arto Koivisto
2:07:59.72
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 3  Norway
Pål Tyldum
Einar Sagstuen
Ivar Formo
Odd Martinsen
2:09:58.36 +1:58.64
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 2  Soviet Union
Yevgeny Belyayev
Nikolay Bazhukov
Sergey Savelyev
Ivan Garanin
2:10:51.46 +2:51.74
4 14  Sweden
Benny Södergren
Christer Johansson
Thomas Wassberg
Sven-Åke Lundbäck
2:11:16.88 +3:17.16
5 6  Switzerland
Franz Renggli
Edi Hauser
Heinz Gähler
Fredel Kälin
2:11:28.53 +3:28.81
6 12  United States
Doug Peterson
Tim Caldwell
Bill Koch
Ronny Yeager
2:11:41.35 +3:41.63
7 8  Italy
Renzo Chiocchetti
Tonio Biondini
Ulrico Kostner
Giulio Capitanio
2:12:07.12 +4:07.40
8 9  Austria
Rudolf Horn
Reinhold Feichter
Werner Vogel
Herbert Wachter
2:12:22.80 +4:23.08
9 11  West Germany
Frank Betz
Georg Kandlinger
Walter Demel
Georg Zipfel
2:12:38.96 +4:39.24
10 5  Czechoslovakia
František Šimon
Milan Jarý
Jiří Beran
Stanislav Henych
2:12:49.99 +4:50.27
11 10  France
Daniel Drezet
Jean-Paul Vandel
Yves Blondeau
Jean-Paul Pierrat
2:13:05.26 +5:05.54
12 13  Canada
Bert Bullock
Ernie Lennie
Edward Day
Hans Skinstad
2:15:31.85 +7:32.13
13 7  Poland
Wiesław Gębala
Jan Staszel
Jan Dragon
Władysław Podgórski
2:16:06.63 +8:06.91
14 16  Bulgaria
Lyubomir Toskov
Ivan Lebanov
Khristo Barzanov
Petar Pankov
2:19:45.66 +11:45.94
1  East Germany
Gerd Hessler
Axel Lesser
Gerhard Grimmer
Gert-Dietmar Klause
DNF
15  Turkey
Sacit Özbey
Bahri Yılmaz
Şeref Çınar
Yavuz Özbey
DNF

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "4x10 km relay Seefeld in Tirol". www.skisport365.com. Skisport365.com. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 4 x 10 kilometres Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Relay 4x10 km Men". www.olympic.org. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 22 February 2019.

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