Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing; at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Seefeld
Dates	January 29-February 9
No. of events	7
Competitors	151 from 24 nations

At the 1964 Winter Olympics seven cross-country skiing events – four for men and three for women – were contested. The events began on 30 January 1964 in Seefeld, Austria. The women's 5 km race debuted at this Olympics.[1]

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	1	4	8
2	Finland (FIN)	2	2	2	6
3	Sweden (SWE)	2	2	1	5
4	Norway (NOR)	0	2	0	2
Totals (4 nations)		7	7	7	21

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km	Eero Mäntyranta Finland	50:54.1	Harald Grønningen Norway	51:34.8	Sixten Jernberg Sweden	51:42.2
30 km	Eero Mäntyranta Finland	1:30:50.7	Harald Grønningen Norway	1:32:02.3	Igor Voronchikhin Soviet Union	1:32:15.8
50 km	Sixten Jernberg Sweden	2:43:52.6	Assar Rönnlund Sweden	2:44:58.2	Arto Tiainen Finland	2:45:30.4
4 × 10 km relay	Sweden (SWE) Karl-Åke Asph Sixten Jernberg Janne Stefansson Assar Rönnlund	2:18:34.6	Finland (FIN) Väinö Huhtala Arto Tiainen Kalevi Laurila Eero Mäntyranta	2:18:42.4	Soviet Union (URS) Ivan Utrobin Gennady Vaganov Igor Voronchikhin Pavel Kolchin	2:18:46.9

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 km	Klavdiya Boyarskikh Soviet Union	17:50.5	Mirja Lehtonen Finland	17:52.9	Alevtina Kolchina Soviet Union	18:08.4
10 km	Klavdiya Boyarskikh Soviet Union	40:24.3	Yevdokiya Mekshilo Soviet Union	40:26.6	Maria Gusakova Soviet Union	40:46.6
3 × 5 km relay	Soviet Union (URS) Alevtina Kolchina Yevdokiya Mekshilo Klavdiya Boyarskikh	59:20.2	Sweden (SWE) Barbro Martinsson Britt Strandberg Toini Gustafsson	1:01:27.0	Finland (FIN) Senja Pusula Toini Pöysti Mirja Lehtonen	1:02:45.1

References

"Cross Country Skiing at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2019.

External links

Official Olympic Report

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[SR-1] "Cross Country Skiing at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2019.