- Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics
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The 1980 Winter Olympics results in cross country skiing.
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Men's events
15 km
February 17, 1980
Pos. Athlete Time Thomas Wassberg
Sweden (SWE)41:57.63 Juha Mieto
Finland (FIN)41:57.64 Ove Aunli
Norway (NOR)42:28.62 4 Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
42:33.96 5 Yevgeniy Belyayev (URS)
42:46.02 6 Józef Łuszczek (POL)
42:59.03 7 Alexander Zavyalov (URS)
43:00.81 8 Harri Kirvesniemi (FIN)
43:02.01 This extremely close race in electronic timing led to the International Ski Federation having all cross-country competitions being timed to the 1/10 second in future.
30 km
February 14, 1980
Pos. Athlete Time Nikolay Zimyatov
Soviet Union (URS)1:27:02.80 Vasily Rochev
Soviet Union (URS)1:27:34.22 Ivan Lebanov
Bulgaria (BUL)1:28:03.87 4 Thomas Wassberg (SWE)
1:28:40.35 5 Józef Łuszczek (POL)
1:29:03.64 6 Matti Pitkänen (FIN)
1:29:35.03 7 Juha Mieto (FIN)
1:29:45.08 8 Ove Aunli (NOR)
1:29:54.02 Lebanov was the first Bulgarian to win a Winter Olympics Medal.
50 km
February 23, 1980
Pos. Athlete Time Nikolay Zimyatov
Soviet Union (URS)2:27:24.60 Juha Mieto
Finland (FIN)2:30:20.52 Alexander Zavyalov
Soviet Union (URS)2:30:51.52 4 Lars-Erik Eriksen (NOR)
2:30:53.02 5 Sergey Savelyev (URS)
2:31:15.85 6 Yevgeniy Belyayev (URS)
2:31:21.19 7 Oddvar Brå (NOR)
2:31:46.83 8 Sven-Åke Lundbäck (SWE)
2:31:59.65 4 x 10 km relay
February 20, 1980
Pos. Athlete Time Soviet Union (Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Zimyatov)
1:57:03.46 Norway (Lars-Erik Eriksen, Per Knut Aaland, Ove Aunli, Oddvar Brå)
1:58:45.77 Finland (Harri Kirvesniemi, Pertti Teurajärvi, Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto)
2:00:00.18 4 West Germany (Peter Zipfel, Wolfgang Müller, Dieter Notz, Jochen Behle)
2:00:22.74 5 Sweden (Sven-Åke Lundbäck, Thomas Eriksson, Benny Kohlberg, Thomas Wassberg)
2:00:42.71 6 Italy (Maurilio De Zolt, Benedetto Carrara, Giulio Capitanio, Giorgio Vanzetta)
2:01:09.93 7 Switzerland (Hansüli Kreutzer, Konrad Hallenbarter, Eduard Hauser, Gaudenz Ambühl)
2:03:36.57 8 United States (Bill Koch, Tim Caldwell, James Galanes, Stan Ducklee)
2:04:12.17 Women's events
5 km
February 15, 1980
Medal Athlete Time Raisa Smetanina
Soviet Union (URS)15:06.92 Hilkka Riihivuori
Finland (FIN)15:11.96 Květa Jeriová
Czechoslovakia (TCH)15:23.44 4 Barbara Petzold (GDR)
15:23.62 5 Nina Baldycheva (URS)
15:29.03 6 Galina Kulakova (URS)
15:29.58 7 Veronika Hesse (GDR)
15:31.83 8 Helena Takalo (FIN)
15:32.12 10 km
February 18, 1980
Medal Athlete Time Barbara Petzold
East Germany (GDR)30:31.54 Hilkka Riihivuori
Finland (FIN)30:35.05 Helena Takalo
Finland (FIN)30:45.25 4 Raisa Smetanina (URS)
30:54.48 5 Galina Kulakova (URS)
30:58.46 6 Nina Baldycheva (URS)
31:22.93 7 Marlies Rostock (GDR)
31:28.79 8 Veronika Hesse (GDR)
31:29.14 4 x 5 km relay
February 21, 1980
Medal Athlete Time East Germany (Marlies Rostock, Carola Anding, Veronika Hesse, Barbara Petzold)
1:02:11.10 Soviet Union (Nina Fyodorova, Nina Rocheva, Galina Kulakova, Raisa Smetanina)
1:03:18.30 Norway (Britt Pettersen, Anette Bøe, Marit Myrmæl, Berit Aunli)
1:04:13.50 4 Czechoslovakia (Dagmar Palečková, Gabriela Svobodová, Blanka Paulů, Květa Jeriová)
1:04:31.39 5 Finland (Marja Auroma, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Helena Takalo, Hilkka Riihivuori)
1:04:41.28 6 Sweden (Marie Johansson, Karin Lamberg, Eva Olsson, Lena Carlzon)
1:05:16.32 7 United States (Allison Owen-Spencer, Beth Paxson, Leslie Bancroft, Lynn Spencer)
1:06:55.41 8 Canada (CAN) (Angela Schmidt, Shirley Firth, Esther Miller, Joan Groothuysen)
1:07:45.75 See also
References
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