Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the I Paralympic Winter Games

Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics consisted of 25 events, 15 for men and 10 for women.

Medal table

Rank	Nation				Total
1	Finland (FIN)	8	7	7	22
2	Norway (NOR)	7	3	2	12
3	Sweden (SWE)	6	7	7	20
4	West Germany (FRG)	2	5	4	11
5	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	1	2
6	Canada (CAN)	1	0	0	1
7	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
Total		25	22	22	69

Medal summary

The competition events were:

• 5 km: men - women
• 10 km: men - women
• 15 km: men
• 3x5 km relay: men - women
• 3x10 km relay: men

Each event had separate standing, or visually impaired classifications:

• I - standing, single-leg amputation above the knee
• II - standing, single-leg amputation below the knee
• III - standing, single-arm amputation
• IV B - standing, double-arm amputation
• A - visually impaired, no functional vision
• B - visually impaired, under 10% functional vision

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	I	Pertti Sankilampi  Finland	Otto Malkki  Finland	Tauno Seppaenen  Finland
	II	Bertil Lundmark  Sweden	Kalle Tiusanen  Finland	Erkki Kukkanen  Finland
	III	Teuvo Sahi  Finland	Walter Klenk  West Germany	Edmund Zahner  West Germany
	IV B	Reino Vesander  Finland	Ernst Schwarz  West Germany	Adolf Fritsche  West Germany
10 km - short distance	A	Germain Oberli  Switzerland	Jarle Johnsen  Norway	Mauno Sulisalo  Finland
	B	Morten Langeroed  Norway	Sven-Ivar Martin  Sweden	Terje Hansen  Norway
10 km - middle distance	I	Pertti Sankilampi  Finland	Otto Malkki  Finland	Tauno Seppaenen  Finland
	II	Bertil Lundmark  Sweden	Kalle Tiusanen  Finland	Erkki Kukkanen  Finland
	III	Teuvo Sahi  Finland	Edmund Zahner  West Germany	Raimo Hiiri  Finland
	IV B	Reino Vesander  Finland	Adolf Fritsche  West Germany	Ernst Schwarz  West Germany
15 km - middle distance	A	Jarle Johnsen  Norway	Ingemar Lundquist  Sweden	Germain Oberli  Switzerland
	B	Morten Langeroed  Norway	Sven-Ivar Martin  Sweden	Terje Hansen  Norway
3×5 km relay	I-II	Finland (FIN) Otto Malkki Pertti Sankilampi Kalle Tiusanen	Sweden (SWE) Bertil Lundmark Kalevi Mattila Sven-Olof Tornvall	West Germany (FRG) Hermann Heckel Helmut Kaidisch Siegfried Loose
3×10 km relay	A-B	Norway (NOR) Terje Hansen Jarle Johnsen Morten Langeroed	Finland (FIN) Martti Juntunen Manu Laakso Matti Ojanen	Sweden (SWE) Yngve Eriksson Ingemar Lundquist Sven-Ivar Martin
	III-IV B	Finland (FIN) Raimo Hiiri Teuvo Sahi Arvo Stahl	West Germany (FRG) Walter Klenk Ludwig Wagner Edmund Zahner	Austria (AUT) Wolfgang Pickl Josef Scheiber Eugen Wilhelm

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	A	Birgitta Sund  Sweden	Gunhild Sundstrom  Sweden	Marianne Edfeldt  Sweden
	B	Karin Gustavsson  Sweden	Reidun Laengen  Norway	Astrid Nilsson  Sweden
	I	Vigdis Bente Mordre  Norway	None	None
	II	Lorna Manzer  Canada	None	None
	III	Dorothea Neuweiler  West Germany	Aino Turpeinen  Finland	Ellen Sjodin  Sweden
10 km - middle distance	A	Birgitta Sund  Sweden	Gunhild Sundstrom  Sweden	Marianne Edfeldt  Sweden
	B	Reidun Laengen  Norway	Astrid Nilsson  Sweden	Karin Gustavsson  Sweden
	I	Vigdis Bente Mordre  Norway	None	None
	III	Dorothea Neuweiler  West Germany	Aino Turpeinen  Finland	Ellen Sjodin  Sweden
3×5 km relay	A-B	Sweden (SWE) Karin Gustavsson Astrid Nilsson Birgitta Sund	Norway (NOR) Aud Berntsen Aud Grundvik Reidun Laengen	Finland (FIN) Ella Kinnunen Sirkka Sulisalo Matleena Talonen

See also

• Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics

References

• "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
  • The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which do not present all information from earlier paralympic games (1960–1984), such as relay and team members.[1] (Per Nov.20, 2010)
• "Ornskoldsvik 1976". paralympia.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-20.
• Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee