Nordic World Ski Championships 1978 / cross-country skiing men

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1978 , the men's cross-country skiing competitions showed the following individual results:

15 km

space	Start number	athlete	Time [min]
1	73	Józef Łuszczek	49: 09.37
2	12	Yevgeny Belyayev	49: 11.62
3	45	Juha Mieto	49: 14.37
4th	72	Matti Pitkänen	49: 23.85
5	53	Nikolai Simjatov	49: 33.33
6th	61	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	49: 50.86
7th	83	Christer Johansson	49: 54.06
8th	29	Vasily Rotschew	50: 06.49
9	79	Nikolai Bashukov	50: 09.56
10	48	Ove Aunli	50: 21.23
11	74	Lars Erik Eriksen	50: 28.82
12	22nd	Pertti Teurajärvi	50: 31.33
13	66	Dieter Notz	50: 32.90
14th	27	Ivar Formo	50: 33.64
15th	81	Bill Koch	50: 36.00
16	67	Ivan Lebanov	50: 44.64
17th	60	Stan Dunklee	50: 48.14
18th	?	Hansueli cruiser	50: 55.34
19th	64	Giulio Capitanio	50: 57.52
20th	?	Tim Caldwell	51: 02.43
21st	?	Christo Barsanov	51: 03.85
22nd	46	Peter Zipfel	51: 09.65
23	44	Erik Wäppling	51: 11.77
24	38	Roberto Primus	51: 16.57
25th	?	Gaudenz Ambühl	51: 20.49
26th	34	Georg Zipfel	51: 20.73
27	13	Odd Martinsen	51: 02.91
28	75	Frantisek Simon	51: 27.90
29	63	Gert-Dietmar Klause	51: 30.23
30th	55	Jiri Beran	51: 22.52
31	21st	Arnd Krause	51: 38.35
32	14th	Pertti Vahvaselkä	51: 46.78
33	11	Benny Sodergren	51: 47.66
34	?	Josef Vogel	51: 49.36
35	78	Franz Renggli	51: 52.66
36	?	Benedetto Carrara	51: 53.35
37	?	Jiri Svub	52: 02.95
38	?	Paul Fargeix	52: 14.57
39	?	Daniel Drezet	52: 15.70
40	?	Shiro Sato	52: 18.89
41	65	Jean-Paul Pierrat	52: 23.49
42	?	Peter Juric	52: 29.83
43	20th	Peter Anders	52: 30.80
44	?	Doug Peterson	52: 31.83
45	?	Venanz Egger	52: 40.42
46	?	Fabrizio Pedranzini	52: 42.51
47	?	Rudolf Horn	52: 43.76
48	?	Kiyoshi Hayasaka	52: 51.28
49	?	Doug Gudwer	53: 01.03
50	?	Josef Schneider	53: 09.22
51	?	Hans Skinstad	53: 12.87
52	77	Alf-Gerd Deckert	53: 19.79
53	?	Reinhard Grossegger	53: 21.65
54	?	Ewald Ritter	53: 38.47
55	?	Michel Thiery	53: 41.49
56	?	Pierre Vezina	54: 19.69
57	?	Franc Tajnikar	54: 29.14
58	?	Reino Keski-Salmi	54: 33.04
59	?	Anton Djuricic	54: 39.24
60	?	Steen balls	55: 02.43
61	?	Halldor Matthiasson	55: 30.66
62	?	Marcos Jerman	57: 42.14
63	?	Ken Baxter	57: 59.66
64	?	Ian Bradley	58: 00.81
65	?	Emilio Morlans	58: 26.15
66	?	Chris Allan	58: 51.34
67	?	Andrew Horsley	60: 10.35
68	?	Jos Smits	60: 43.69
69	?	Klaas Vos	63: 09.80
70	?	Angel Bano	63: 10.72
71	?	John van Zanten	63: 21.79
72	?	Joop Teeuwisse	63: 51.25
73	?	Raul Abella	63: 54.90
74	?	Jorge Salas	65: 38.34
75	?	Athanasisios Kotsougiannis	70: 34.86
76	?	Ming-Yih Ueng	71: 04.77
77	?	Christos Pappas	72: 58.17
78	?	Theodoros Patronas	75: 07.48
79	?	Chi-Thung Wang	78: 00.68
DNF	?	?	-
DNS	?	?	-
DNS	?	?	-
DNS	?	?	-

Date: February 21, 1978

Participants: 83 named; 80 started; 79 rated;

swell

• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 15 km miehet February 21 , 1978 Lahdenmuseot , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on April 27, 2020.
• Men 15 km Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) on todor66.com, accessed April 27, 2020

30 km

space	Start number	athlete	Time [h]
1	25th	Sergei Savelyev	1: 32: 52.00
2	66	Nikolai Simjatov	1: 33: 48.23
3	62	Józef Łuszczek	1: 33: 52.21
4th	60	Matti Pitkänen	1: 34: 16.23
5	45	Yevgeny Belyayev	1: 34: 46.66
6th	67	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	1: 34: 56.08
7th	49	Juha Mieto	1: 35: 40.90
8th	57	Lars Erik Eriksen	1: 35: 51.20
9	40	Oddvar Brå	1: 35: 59.26
10	2	Tommy Limby	1: 36: 01.09
11	56	Frantisek Simon	1: 36: 22.08
12	70	Franz Renggli	1: 36: 29.17
13	1	Bakken is different	1: 36: 30.69
14th	35	Giulio Capitanio	1: 36: 39.28
15th	15th	Rozalin Bakiew	1: 36: 57.74
16	33	Risto Kiiskinen	1: 37: 06.52
17th	58	Maurilio de Zolt	1: 37: 10.26
18th	54	Thomas Magnusson	1: 37: 13.62
19th	23	Tommy Lundberg	1: 37: 13.70
20th	44	Gert-Dietmar Klause	1: 37: 46.50
21st	31	Alf-Gerd Deckert	1: 37: 51.05
22nd	61	Christo Barsanov	1: 37: 56.61
23	21st	Magne Myrmo	1: 38: 01.52
24	19th	Dieter Notz	1: 38: 03.64
25th	52	Roberto Primus	1: 38: 14.21
26th	38	Jiri Beran	1: 38: 18.87
27	?	Paul Fargeix	1: 38: 34.39
28	36	Gaudenz Ambühl	1: 38: 38.01
29	9	Arto Koivisto	1: 38: 44.82
30th	?	Edi Hauser	1: 38: 47.87
31	16	Ulrico Kostner	1: 38: 52.73
32	64	Jürgen Wolf	1: 38: 54.69
33	68	Bill Koch	1: 39: 07.92
34	?	Tim Caldwell	1: 39: 20.06
35	?	Kiyoshi Hayasaka	1: 39: 20.15
36	48	Peter Zipfel	1: 39: 34.98
37	?	Josef Vogel	1: 39: 52.47
38	?	Hartmut Döpp	1: 40: 09.76
39	?	Stan Dunklee	1: 40: 14.61
40	?	Rudolf Horn	1: 40: 19.92
41	5	Hartmut Freyer	1: 40: 24.86
42	71	Georg Zipfel	1: 40: 32.81
43	17th	Konrad Hallenbarter	1: 41: 22.36
44	12	Stanislav Henych	1: 41: 49.92
45	?	Reinhard Grossegger	1: 41: 51.34
46	?	Roland Jeannerod	1: 41: 56.71
47	?	Shiro Sato	1: 42: 20.10
48	?	Craig Ward	1: 42: 24.00
49	?	Hans Skinstad	1: 43: 14.26
50	?	Werner Vogel	1: 43: 52.24
51	?	Pierre Vezina	1: 44: 44.48
52	?	Franc Tajnikar	1: 44: 52.62
53	?	Reino Keski-Salmi	1: 45: 34.22
54	?	Steen balls	1: 45: 55.75
55	27	Milan Jary	1: 47: 55.48
56	?	Anton Djuricic	1: 49: 44.65
57	?	Ian Bradley	1: 49: 57.43
58	?	Herbert Ritter	1: 50: 45.23
59	?	Marcos Jerman	1: 52: 11.54
60	?	Ken Baxter	1: 52: 19.15
61	?	Gerry van der Ploeg	1: 55: 15.14
62	?	Lauri Jortikka	1: 55: 14.16
63	?	Jorge Salas	2:08:04, 17
64	?	Athanassios Kotsougiannis	2: 23: 32.73
DNF / DNS	43	Ivan Lebanov	-
DNF / DNS	69	Jean-Paul Pierrat	-

Date: February 19, 1978

Participants: 71 named; 68 started; 64 rated;

swell

• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 30 km miehet February 19 , 1978 Lahdenmuseot , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on April 27, 2020.
• Men 30 km Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) on todor66.com, accessed April 27, 2020

50 km

space	Start number	athlete	Time 30 km [h]	Time [h]
1	60	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	1: 35.24	2: 46: 43.06
2	40	Yevgeny Belyayev	1: 36.21	2: 47: 34.48
3	45	Jean-Paul Pierrat	1: 36.47	2: 47: 52.27
4th	52	Matti Pitkänen	1: 36.06	2: 49: 46.28
5	56	Lars Erik Eriksen	1: 37.33	2: 50: 44.82
6th	44	Jiří Beran	1: 38.56	2: 51: 17.86
7th	54	Józef Łuszczek	1: 38.06	2: 51: 33.75
8th	2	Tommy Lundberg	1: 38.49	2: 51: 43.10
9	25th	Nikolai Bashukov	1: 38.25	2: 52: 13.85
10	19th	Alf-Gerd Deckert	1: 39.07	2: 52: 17.78
11	42	Stan Dunklee	?	2: 52: 19.25
12	22nd	Bakken is different	1: 39.30	2: 53: 50.81
13	24	Christer Johansson	?	2: 53: 56.68
14th	8th	Anatoly Ivanov	?	2: 54: 18.61
15th	16	Pertti Teurajärvi	?	2: 54: 25.11
16	13	Per Knut Aaland	1:37:23	2: 54: 43.52
17th	21st	Konrad Hallenbarter	?	2: 54: 45.06
18th	?	Shiro Sato	?	2: 55: 02.15
19th	?	Werner Vogel	?	2: 55: 34.61
20th	34	Edi Hauser	?	2: 56: 21.43
21st	23	Giulio Capitanio	?	2: 56: 33.25
22nd	35	Dieter Notz	?	2: 57: 22.30
23	49	Sergei Savelyev	?	2: 57: 33.90
24	?	Reinhard Grossegger	?	2: 58: 10.24
25th	46	Gert-Dietmar Klause	?	2: 58: 17.31
26th	?	Venanz Egger	?	2: 58: 28.87
27	6th	Ulrico Kostner	?	2: 58: 33.35
28	5	Jürgen Wolf	?	2: 58: 43.59
29	?	Kiyoshi Hayasaka	?	2: 58: 51.54
30th	58	Peter Zipfel	?	2: 59: 19.61
31	4th	Heikki Torvi	?	2: 59: 49.57
32	?	Wolfgang Müller	?	3: 00: 26.91
33	57	Roberto Primus	?	3: 00: 40.77
34	?	Josef Vogel	?	3: 01: 23.37
35	?	Paul Fargeix	?	3: 02: 01.67
36	17th	Stanislav Henych	?	3: 03: 02.85
37	?	Craig Ward	?	3: 03: 10.68
38	48	Hartmut Freyer	?	3: 03: 16.01
39	?	Yves Blondeau	?	3: 03: 16.09
40	55	Frantisek Simon	?	3: 03: 18.55
41	?	Daniel Drezet	?	3: 06: 54.68
42	47	Maurilio de Zolt	?	3: 07: 11.97
43	?	Herbert Ritter	?	3: 07: 21.00
44	41	Juha Mieto	?	3: 12: 15.74
DNF	34	Georg Zipfel	?	-
DNF	37	Thomas Magnusson	?	-
DNF	43	Oddvar Brå	?	-
DNF	59	Tim Caldwell	?	-
DNF	61	Gaudenz Ambühl	?	-

Date: February 26, 1978

Participants: 61 named; 57 started; 44 rated;

swell

• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 50 km miehet 26.2.1978 Lahdenmuseot , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on April 27, 2020.
• Men 50 km Nordic Skiing XX World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) on todor66.com, accessed on April 27, 2020

4x10 km relay

space	country	athlete	Stage time [min.]	Rank stage	Time wax [h]	Square wax	Time [h]
1	Sweden	Sven-Åke Lundbäck Christer Johansson Tommy Limby Thomas Magnusson	31: 33.87 30: 42.27 31: 31.72 31: 29.79	1 2 1 1	0: 31: 33.87 1: 02: 16.14 1:33: 47.86	1 2 2	2: 05: 17.63
2	Finland	Esko Länkevänoja Juha Mieto Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen	31: 42.14 30: 31.66 31: 33.45 31: 41.70	4 1 2 2	0: 31: 42.14 1: 02: 13.80 1: 33: 47.25	4 1 1	2:05:28.95
3	Norway	Lars Erik Eriksen Ove Aunli Ivar Formo Oddvar Brå	31: 33.88 30: 43.55 31: 56.86 32: 34.08	2 3 6 10	0: 31: 33.8 1: 02: 17.43 1: 34: 14.29	2 3 3	2: 06: 48.37
4th	Soviet Union	Evgeni Belyayev Nikolai Simjatow Sergei Saweljew Wassili Rotschew	32: 06.73 32: 06.63 31: 36.70 32: 06.48	6 5 3 5	0: 32: 06.73 1: 04: 13.36 1: 35: 50.06	6 6 4	2: 07: 56.54
5	Switzerland	Hansueli cruiser Franz Renggli Eduard Hauser Gaudenz Ambühl	31: 34.77 32: 17.56 32: 34.53 32: 13.56	3 7 8 6	0: 31: 34.77 1: 03: 52.33 1: 36: 26.86	3 5 6	2: 08: 40.42
6th	BR Germany	Peter Zipfel Georg Zipfel Wolfgang Müller Dieter Notz	31: 43.50 32: 05.24 32: 37.29 32: 20.44	5 4 9 9	0: 31: 43.50 1: 03.48.74 1: 36: 26.03	5 4 5	2: 08: 46.47
7th	Czechoslovakia	Jiri Svub Milan Jary František Šimon Jiri Beran	33: 01.48 32: 21.77 31: 39.36 31: 50.75	11 8 4 3	0: 33: 01.48 1: 05: 23.25 1: 37: 02.61	11 9 7	2: 08: 53.36
8th	German Democratic Republic	Peter Anders Alf-Gerd Deckert Jürgen Wolf Gert-Dietmar Klause	32: 27.15 32: 09.66 32: 33.14 32: 00.59	9 6 7 4	0: 32: 27.15 1: 04: 36.81 1: 37: 09.95	9 7 8	2: 09: 10.54
9	United States	Doug Peterson Tim Caldwell Bill Koch Stan Dunklee	33: 41.18 32: 25.78 31: 43.95 32: 15.47	13 9 5 7	0: 33: 41.18 1: 06: 06.96 1: 37: 50.91	13 11 9	2: 10: 06.38
10	France	Jean-Paul Pierrat Daniel Drezet Yves Blondeau Paul Fargeix	32: 11.12 32: 34.77 33: 07.79 32: 15.83	8 10 11 8	0: 32: 11.12 1: 04: 45.89 1: 37: 53.68	8 8 10	2: 10: 09.51
11	Italy	Maurilio de Zolt Ulrico Kostner Roberto Primus Giulio Capitanio	32: 59.29 33: 40.24 32: 39.58 32: 45.43	10 12 10 11	0: 32: 59.29 1: 06: 39.53 1: 39: 19.11	10 12 12	2: 12: 04.54
12	Austria	Rudolf Horn Josef Vogel Werner Vogel Peter Juric	32: 06.74 33: 17.12 33: 49.15 33: 05.37	7 11 12 12	0: 32: 06.74 1: 05: 23.86 1: 39: 13.01	7 10 11	2: 12: 18.38
13	Canada	Hans Skinstad Doug Gudwer Pierre Vezina Reino Keski-Salmi	33: 06.36 34: 01.42 34: 12.12 35: 08.25	12 13 13 13	0: 33: 06.36 1: 07: 07.78 1: 41: 19.90	12 13 13	2: 16: 28.15
14th	Australia	Ken Baxter Chris Allan Peter Thompson Gerry van der Ploeg	38: 07.84 37: 25.37 39: 02.77 37: 38.65	14 14 14 14	0: 38: 07.84 1: 15: 33.21 1: 54: 35.98	14 14 14	2: 32: 14.63

Date: February 23, 1978

Participants: 14 teams registered; 14 started; 14 rated;

swell

• 78 Lahti MM - 4 × 10 km Relay, Men. Official Results, FIS
• MM-kisat Lahti 1978 Viestihiihto miehet 4 × 10 km February 23 , 1978 Lahdenmuseot , on lahdenmuseot.fi, accessed on April 27, 2020.
• Men 4x10km Relay XX Nordic Skiing World Championship 1978 Lahti (FIN) on todor66.com, accessed April 27, 2020.