1976 Winter Olympics / Nordic skiing

Nordic skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
information
venue	Seefeld in Tirol / Innsbruck
Competition venue	Olympiaregion Seefeld , Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze / Bergiselschanze
Nations	24
Athletes	259 (208 , 51 )
date	7-15 February 1976
decisions	10
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At the XII. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , ten competitions were held in Nordic skiing . This was also the 31st Nordic World Ski Championships . In addition to Olympic medals, world championship medals were also awarded. The only exception was the Nordic Combined, in which there were only Olympic medals. The venues were the Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze with the ski stadium in Seefeld in Tyrol and the Bergiselschanze in Innsbruck.

There was a change compared to the 1972 Winter Games for women’s cross-country skiing. As in the previous World Championships, the relay with three runners per nation has now become a competition with four runners each. In the medal ranking, the Soviet Union was ahead of the GDR and Finland . Overall, it was more balanced among the top nations than at the previous Nordic World Ski Championships and Olympic Winter Games.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Soviet Union	4th	2	4th	10
2	GDR	2	2	3	7th
3	Finland	2	2	1	5
4th	Austria	1	1	1	3
5	Norway	1	1	-	2
6th	BR Germany	-	1	-	1
	United States	-	1	-	1
8th	Sweden	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Cross-country men

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
15 km	Nikolai Bashukov	Yevgeny Belyayev	Arto Koivisto
30 km	Sergei Savelyev	Bill Koch	Ivan Garanin
50 km	Ivar Formo	Gert-Dietmar Klause	Benny Sodergren
4 × 10 km relay	Arto Koivisto Juha Mieto , Matti Pitkänen , Pertti Teurajärvi	Ivar Formo , Odd Martinsen , Einar Sagstuen , Pål Tyldum	Nikolai Baschukow , Evgeni Belyayev , Ivan Garanin , Sergei Saweljew

Cross-country women

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
5 km	Helena Takalo	Raissa Smetanina	Nina Baldycheva
10 km	Raissa Smetanina	Helena Takalo	Galina Kulakova
4 × 5 km relay	Sinaida Amossowa , Nina Baldytschewa , Galina Kulakowa , Raissa Smetanina	Marjatta Kajosmaa , Hilkka Riihivuori , Liisa Suihkonen , Helena Takalo	Monika Debertshäuser , Sigrun Krause , Barbara Petzold , Veronika Schmidt

Ski jumping

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
Normal hill	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	Jochen Danneberg	Karl Schnabl
Large hill	Karl Schnabl	Toni Innauer	Henry Glass

Nordic combination

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
singles	Ulrich Wehling	Urban Hettich	Konrad Winkler

Cross-country men

15 km

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	URS	Nikolai Bashukov	43: 58.47
2	URS	Yevgeny Belyayev	44: 01.10
3	FIN	Arto Koivisto	44: 19.25
4th	URS	Ivan Garanin	44: 41.98
5	NOR	Ivar Formo	45: 29.11
6th	United States	Bill Koch	45: 32.22
7th	FRG	Georg Zipfel	45: 38.10
8th	NOR	Odd Martinsen	45: 32.22
9	GDR	Gert-Dietmar Klause	45: 42.97
10	FIN	Juha Mieto	45: 46.27
11	SUI	Albert Giger	45: 47.07
12	SUI	Franz Renggli	45: 53.49
17th	SUI	Edi Hauser	46: 29.14
19th	AUT	Herbert Wachter	46: 46.39
25th	GDR	Jürgen Wolf	47: 04.49
27	SUI	Alfred Kälin	47: 05.39
28	GDR	Gerd Hessler	47: 08.77
31	FRG	Georg Kandlinger	47: 20.13
38	FRG	Franz Betz	47: 39.15
42	AUT	Rudolf Horn	48: 10.55
43	AUT	Werner Vogel	48: 17.47
45	FRG	Hans Speicher	48: 28.90
47	AUT	Josef Vogel	48: 42.32
49	GDR	Gerhard Grimmer	48: 45.04

Date: February 8, 1976
Difference in altitude: 205 m; Maximum ascent: 75 m; Total ascent: 565 m
80 participants from 23 countries, 78 of them in the rating.

30 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	URS	Sergei Savelyev	1: 30: 29.38
2	United States	Bill Koch	1: 30: 57.84
3	URS	Ivan Garanin	1: 31: 09.29
4th	FIN	Juha Mieto	1: 31: 20.39
5	URS	Nikolai Bashukov	1: 31: 33.14
6th	GDR	Gert-Dietmar Klause	1: 32: 00.91
7th	SUI	Albert Giger	1: 32: 17.71
8th	FIN	Arto Koivisto	1: 32: 23.11
9	NOR	Odd Martinsen	1: 32: 38.91
10	URS	Vasily Rotschew	1: 32: 39.42
14th	FRG	Georg Zipfel	1: 34: 04.71
16	GDR	Gerhard Grimmer	1: 34: 52.15
17th	GDR	Axel Lesser	1: 34: 53.14
18th	FRG	Franz Betz	1: 34: 55.54
25th	SUI	Edi Hauser	1: 35: 50.29
29	SUI	Alfred Kälin	1: 36: 09.97
32	AUT	Herbert Wachter	1: 36: 28.48
33	GDR	Dieter Meinel	1: 36: 37.35
36	FRG	Hans Speicher	1: 36: 52.45
40	FRG	Walter Demel	1: 37: 44.17
50	SUI	Hansueli cruiser	1: 39: 58.44
51	AUT	Werner Vogel	1: 40: 16.10
58	AUT	Franz Gattermann	1: 43: 04.88

Date: February 5, 1976
Difference in altitude: 174 m; Maximum ascent: 55 m; Total ascent: 825 m
69 participants from 21 countries, 67 of them in the rating.

50 km

space	country	athlete	Time (h)
1	NOR	Ivar Formo	2: 37: 30.05
2	GDR	Gert-Dietmar Klause	2: 38: 13.21
3	SWE	Benny Sodergren	2: 39: 39.21
4th	URS	Ivan Garanin	2: 40: 38.94
5	GDR	Gerhard Grimmer	2: 41: 15.46
6th	NOR	Per Knut Aaland	2: 41: 18.06
7th	NOR	Pål Tyldum	2: 42: 21.86
8th	SWE	Tommy Limby	2: 42: 43.58
9	FIN	Juhani Repo	2: 42: 54.89
10	FIN	Arto Koivisto	2: 43: 44.79
18th	SUI	Franz Renggli	2: 45: 25.24
20th	SUI	Heinz Gähler	2: 45: 51.64
23	GER	Georg Zipfel	2: 46: 20.30
24	AUT	Herbert Wachter	2: 46: 40.25
25th	FRG	Walter Demel	2: 46: 55.95
26th	AUT	Werner Vogel	2: 47: 05.63
28	GDR	Gerd Hessler	2: 47: 34.90
31	SUI	Venanz Egger	2: 48: 30.70
32	SUI	Christian Pfeuti	2: 49: 50.90
33	GDR	Dieter Meinel	2: 49: 52.42
35	AUT	Reinhold Feichter	2: 50: 53.00
43	AUT	Heinrich Wallner	3: 03: 58.19

Date: February 14, 1976
Difference in altitude: 162 m; Maximum ascent: 98 m; Total ascent: 1190 m
59 participants from 17 countries, 44 of them in the rating.

The victory of Formo, who demonstrated his stamina and strength on the second 25 km and with a brilliant finish, brought the Norwegians back to their position as ski kings. Södergren, who jumped in for Thomas Magnusson, who was unable to attend due to family reasons , won bronze and thus the only medal for Sweden on the trails. He was overtaken by Klause at kilometer 36 and hung on his heels. The Soviet Union was surprisingly without a medal. Sergei Saweljew broke his third shoe at these games to fate, Vasili Rotschew led initially, but only crossed the finish line in twelfth place. Per Knut Aaland also had bad luck with a broken ski. Many athletes had chosen the wrong wax in the deep snow .

4 × 10 km relay

space	Country / athlete	time
1	Finland Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto Pertti Teurajärvi Arto Koivisto	2:07 : 59.72 h 35: 03.59 min 31: 14.89 min 31: 25.04 min 30: 16.20 min
2	Norway Pål Tyldum Einar Sagstuen Ivar Formo Odd Martinsen	2: 09: 58.36 h 34: 46.22 min 32: 22.40 min 31: 35.98 min 31: 13.76 min
3	Soviet Union Yevgeny Belyayev Nikolai Bashukov Sergei Saveliev Ivan Garanin	2:10 : 51.46 h 35: 53.69 min 31: 57.04 min 32: 19.06 min 30: 41.67 min
4th	Sweden Benny Södergren Christer Johansson Thomas Wassberg Sven-Åke Lundbäck	2:11 : 16.88 h 34: 42.63 min 33: 12.47 min 31: 37.72 min 31: 44.06 min
5	Switzerland Franz Renggli Edi Hauser Heinz Gähler Alfred Kälin	2: 11: 28.53 h 35: 25.86 min 32: 30.09 min 31: 38.46 min 31: 54.12 min
6th	United States Doug Peterson Tim Caldwell Bill Koch Ronny Yeager	2: 11: 41.35 h 36: 06.24 min 32: 16.01 min 30: 43.61 min 32: 35.49 min
7th	Italy Renzo Chiocchetti Tonio Biondini Ulrich Kostner Giulio Capitanio	2:12: 07.12 h 37: 32.55 min 32: 24.33 min 30: 56.09 min 31: 14.15 min
8th	Austria Rudolf Horn Reinhold Feichter Werner Vogel Herbert Wachter	2: 12: 22.80 h 34: 54.64 min 33: 06.58 min 32: 57.12 min 31: 24.46 min
9	Federal Republic of Germany Franz Betz Georg Kandlinger Walter Demel Georg Zipfel	2:12: 38.96 h 35: 59.91 min 33: 05.50 min 31: 51.36 min 31: 42.19 min

Date: February 11, 1976
Difference in altitude: 95 m; Maximum ascent: 65 m; Total ascent: 350 m
16 relays at the start, 14 of them in the rating.

Cross-country women

5 km

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	FIN	Helena Takalo	15: 48.69
2	URS	Raissa Smetanina	15: 49.73
3	URS	Nina Baldycheva	16: 12.82
4th	FIN	Hilkka Riihivuori	16: 17.74
5	SWE	Eva Olsson	16: 27.15
6th	URS	Zinaida Amosova	16: 33.78
7th	GDR	Monika Debertshäuser	16: 34.94
8th	NOR	Grete Kummen	16: 35.43
9	FIN	Marjatta Kajosmaa	16: 36.25
10	TCH	Blanka Paulů	16: 41.65
11	GDR	Barbara Petzold	16: 42.44
12	GDR	Veronika Hesse	16: 42.86
16	GDR	Sigrun Krause	16: 55.54
21st	FRG	Michaela Endler	17: 08.68
33	FRG	Iris Schulze	18: 04.81
38	AUT	Barbara Stoeckl	18: 49.16
40	LIE	Claudia Sprenger	19: 51.66
41	AUT	Gertrud Gasteiger	20: 14.94
42	AUT	Sylvia Schweiger	20: 17.43

Date: February 7, 1976
Difference in altitude: 53 m; Maximum ascent: 40 m; Total ascent: 234 m
44 participants from 14 countries, 42 of them in the rating. The originally third-placed Galina Kulakowa (URS) was disqualified for using a nasal spray containing ephedrine .

10 km

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	URS	Raissa Smetanina	30: 13.41
2	FIN	Helena Takalo	30: 14.28
3	URS	Galina Kulakova	30: 38.61
4th	URS	Nina Baldycheva	30: 52.58
5	SWE	Eva Olsson	31: 08.72
6th	URS	Zinaida Amosova	31: 11.23
7th	GDR	Barbara Petzold	31: 12.20
8th	GDR	Veronika Hesse	31: 12.33
9	FIN	Hilkka Riihivuori	31: 29.39
10	SWE	Lena Carlzon	31: 12.33
12	GDR	Sigrun Krause	31: 39.76
14th	GDR	Monika Debertshäuser	31: 50.06
25th	FRG	Michaela Endler	32: 55.62
31	FRG	Iris Schulze	33: 43.82
38	LIE	Claudia Sprenger	34: 57.03
40	AUT	Barbara Stoeckl	35: 28.99
41	AUT	Sylvia Schweiger	36: 32.93
44	AUT	Gertrud Gasteiger	37: 35.77

Date: February 10, 1976
Difference in altitude: 80 m; Maximum ascent: 55 m; Total ascent: 255 m
44 participants from 14 countries, all in the rating.

4 × 5 km relay

space	Country / athletes	Time (min)
1	Soviet Union Nina Baldytschewa Sinaida Amossowa Raissa Smetanina Galina Kulakowa	1: 07: 49.75 h 17: 31.01 min 17:02.81 min 16: 26.32 min 16: 49.61 min
2	Finland Liisa Suihkonen Marjatta Kajosmaa Hilkka Riihivuori Helena Takalo	1:08:36.57 h 17:29.02 min 17:22.06 min 17:08.98 min 16: 36.51 min
3	GDR Monika Debertshäuser Sigrun Krause Barbara Petzold Veronika Hesse	1:09 : 57.95 min 18:02.73 min 17:46.43 min 17:01.71 min 17:07.08 min
4th	Sweden Lena Carlzon Görel Partapuoli Marie Johansson Eva Olsson	1:10 : 14.68 h 17: 27.25 min 17: 32.41 min 17: 53.05 min 17: 21.97 min
5	Norway Berit Kvello Marit Myrmæl Berit Johannessen Grete Kummen	1: 11:09.08 h 18:20.16 min 18:02.14 min 17: 33.56 min 17: 13.22 min
6th	Czechoslovakia Anna Pasiarová Gabriela Sekajová Alena Bartošová Blanka Paulů	1: 11:27.83 h 18: 13.77 min 17: 34.71 min 17: 56.91 min 17: 42.44 min
7th	Canada Shirley Firth Joan Groothuysen Sue Holloway Sharon Firth	1: 14: 02.72 h 18: 14.69 min 18: 42.83 min 18: 38.29 min 18: 26.91 min
8th	Poland Anna Pawlusiak Anna Gębala Maria Trebunia Władysława Majerczyk	1:14: 13.40 h 18: 44.10 min 18: 25.38 min 18: 53.49 min 18: 10.43 min
9	United States Martha Rockwell Jana Hlavaty Terry Porter Twila Hinkle	1: 17: 58.18 h 18: 44.86 min 19:06.32 min 19: 28.91 min 20: 38.09 min

Date: February 12, 1976
Difference in altitude: 53 m; Maximum ascent: 40 m; Total ascent: 234 m
9 relays at the start, all in the ranking.

Ski jumping

Normal hill

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	GDR	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	84.5 / 82.0	252.0
2	GDR	Jochen Danneberg	83.5 / 82.5	246.2
3	AUT	Karl Schnabl	82.5 / 81.5	242.0
4th	TCH	Jaroslav Balcar	81.0 / 81.5	239.6
5	SUI	Ernst von Grünigen	80.0 / 80.5	238.7
6th	AUT	Reinhold Bachler	80.5 / 80.5	237.2
7th	AUT	Toni Innauer	80.5 / 80.5	233.5
8th	AUT	Rudolf Wanner	79.5 / 79.5	233.5
9	SUI	Walter Steiner	80.0 / 78.5	233.2
10	FRG	Alfred Grosche	80.0 / 80.5	231.9
13	SUI	Hans Schmid	78.0 / 79.0	226.3
23	FRG	Sepp Schwinghammer	75.5 / 76.5	215.3
32	GDR	Bernd Eckstein	80.5 / 81.5	209.3
35	SUI	Robert Mösching	75.0 / 75.0	207.6
44	GDR	Henry Glass	80.0 / 79.5	203.8

Date: February 7th 1974
Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze , K-point : 84 m
55 participants from 15 countries, all in the valuation.

Large hill

space	country	athlete	Widths (m)	Points
1	AUT	Karl Schnabl	097.5 / 97.0	234.8
2	AUT	Toni Innauer	102.5 / 91.0	232.9
3	GDR	Henry Glass	091.0 / 97.0	221.7
4th	GDR	Jochen Danneberg	102.0 / 89.5	221.6
5	AUT	Reinhold Bachler	095.0 / 91.0	217.4
6th	AUT	Hans Wallner	093.2 / 92.5	216.9
7th	GDR	Bernd Eckstein	094.0 / 91.5	206.6
8th	GDR	Hans-Georg Aschenbach	092.5 / 89.0	212.1
9	SUI	Walter Steiner	089.5 / 93.0	208.5
10	FIN	Jouko Törmänen	091.0 / 87.5	204.9
16	FRG	Alfred Grosche	089.5 / 84.5	193.1
20th	SUI	Hans Schmid	086.5 / 83.0	186.3
23	SUI	Ernst von Grünigen	084.5 / 81.5	182.4
38	SUI	Robert Mösching	084.0 / 79.0	167.7

Date: February 15th
Bergiselschanze , K-point: 104 m
54 participants from 15 countries, all in the valuation.

Nordic combination

space	country	athlete	Points jumping	Points running	points total
1	GDR	Ulrich Wehling	225.5	197.89	423.39
2	FRG	Urban Hettich	198.9	220.00	418.90
3	GDR	Konrad Winkler	213.9	203.57	417.47
4th	FIN	Rauno Miettinen	219.9	191.40	411.30
5	GDR	Claus Tuchscherer	218.7	190.81	409.51
6th	URS	Nikolai Nogovitsyn	196.1	210.34	406.44
7th	URS	Valery Kopayev	202.9	203.24	406.14
8th	NOR	Tom Sandberg	195.7	209.83	405.53
9	NOR	Pål Schjetne	204.4	198.19	402.59
10	FIN	Erkki Kilpinen	203.1	199.16	402.26
13	GDR	Günter Deckert	194.2	203.58	397.78
14th	FRG	Günther Abel	196.8	197.77	394.57
19th	SUI	Karl Lustenberger	202.5	175.60	378.10
26th	AUT	Fritz Koch	189.1	174.52	363.62

Ski jumping: February 8, 1976
Toni-Seelos-Olympiaschanze, K-point: 84 m

Cross-country skiing 15 km: February 9, 1976
Difference in altitude: 180 m; Maximum ascent: 65 m; Total ascent: 535 m
34 participants from 14 countries, 33 of them in the rating.

literature

• Cross-country skiing at the Olympic Winter Games: List of Olympic champions in cross-country skiing. Edited by the Bucher Group, General Books Verlag, 2010, 188 pages.

Web links

• Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ski jumping at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Nordic combined at the 1976 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official report of the 1976 Winter Olympics (PDF; 31.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter Elstner: In the finish, Ivar Formo ran away from everyone . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 15, 1976, p. 11 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
2. ↑ Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle IV: Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 , p. 501 .