Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre

The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, was held on Saturdayday 17 February at Autrans.[1] Kalevi Oikarainen of Finland was the 1970 World champion and Sixten Jernberg of Sweden was the defending champion from the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.[2]

Men's 50 kilometre
at the X Olympic Winter Games
VenueAutrans
Dates17 February
Competitors51
Winning time2:28:45.8
Medalists
Ole Ellefsæter
 Norway
Vyacheslav Vedenin
 Soviet Union
Josef Haas
 Switzerland
Cross-country skiing at the
1968 Winter Olympics
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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

Sources:[1][3]

RankBibNameCountryTimeDeficit
23Ole Ellefsæter Norway2:28:45.8–
41Vyacheslav Vedenin Soviet Union2:29:02.5+16.7
31Josef Haas Switzerland2:29:14.8+29.0
442Pål Tyldum Norway2:29:26.7+40.9
55Melcher Risberg Sweden2:29:37.0+51.2
652Gunnar Larsson Sweden2:29:37.2+51.4
725Jan Halvarsson Sweden2:30:05.9+1:20.1
851Reidar Hjermstad Norway2:31:01.8+2:16.0
928Walter Demel West Germany2:31:14.4+2:28.6
1045Assar Rönnlund Sweden2:31:19.3+2:33.5
1146Kalevi Laurila Finland2:31:24.9+2:39.1
1236Mario Bacher Italy2:31:33.8+2:48.0
131Andreas Janc Austria2:32:32.2+3:46.4
1460Hannu Taipale Finland2:32:37.7+3:51.9
1524Eero Mäntyranta Finland2:32:53.8+4:08.0
169Vladimir Voronkov Soviet Union2:33:07.3+4:21.5
1713Aldo Stella Italy2:33:17.9+4:32.1
182Odd Martinsen Norway2:33:51.4+5:05.6
193Pauli Siitonen Finland2:34:31.2+5:45.4
2019Anatoly Akentyev Soviet Union2:34:54.5+6:08.7
2122Józef Rysula Poland2:35:30.9+6:45.1
2216Mike Gallagher United States2:36:26.1+7:40.3
2347Alois Kälin Switzerland2:36:40.8+7:55.0
2430Roger Pires France2:36:44.8+7:59.0
2521Gert-Dietmar Klause East Germany2:36:52.5+8:06.7
2627Livio Stuffer Italy2:37:46.6+9:00.8
2753Elviro Blanc Italy2:38:12.4+9:26.6
2837Ján Fajstavr Czechoslovakia2:39:25.3+10:39.5
2912Tokio Sato Japan2:40:00.5+11:14.7
3044Mike Elliot United States2:40:38.5+11:52.7
3159Igor Voronchikhin Soviet Union2:40:48.2+12:02.4
3229Larry Damon United States2:41:25.2+12:39.4
3317Helmut Gerlach West Germany2:41:55.8+13:10.0
3435Franz Vetter Austria2:43:51.1+15:05.3
3514Alojz Kerštajn Yugoslavia2:43:54.1+15:08.3
3654Charles Kellogg United States2:44:00.4+15:14.6
376Franz Kälin Switzerland2:44:29.7+15:43.9
3834Sotoo Okushiba Japan2:45:09.5+16:23.7
3956Vít Fousek Jr. Czechoslovakia2:45:09.8+16:24.0
4050Fernand Borrel France2:45:10.6+16:24.8
417Claude Legrand France2:45:36.9+16:51.1
4220Tibor Holéczy Hungary2:45:38.0+16:52.2
4340Siegfried Weiss West Germany2:46:53.4+18:07.6
4438Luc Colin France2:48:27.9+19:42.1
458Miklós Holló Hungary2:51:24.1+22:38.3
4632David Rees Canada2:56:00.5+27:14.7
4710Chong-Ihm Yoon South Korea3:27:22.5+58:36.7
11Václav Peřina CzechoslovakiaDNF
26Janez Mlinar YugoslaviaDNF
49Denis Mast SwitzerlandDNF
57Klaus Ganter West GermanyDNF
4Petar Pankov BulgariaDNS
15Gerhard Grimmer West GermanyDNS
18Karel Štefl CzechoslovakiaDNS
33Choon-Kie Kim West GermanyDNS
39Akiyoshi Matsuoka JapanDNS
43Nils Skulbru CanadaDNS
48Helmut Unger East GermanyDNS
55Peter Thiel East GermanyDNS
39Kazuo Sato JapanDNS

References
  1. "50 km Men Autrans". www.skisport365.com. skisport365. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
  2. "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.
  3. "50 km Men". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
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