Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay

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Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay
at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Lo Stadio della neve
Date4 February
Competitors56 from 14 nations
Winning time2:15:30
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)
Nikolai Anikin
Vladimir Kuzin
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) August Kiuru
Jorma Kortelainen
Arvo Viitanen
Veikko Hakulinen
 Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Lennart Larsson
Gunnar Samuelsson
Per-Erik Larsson
Sixten Jernberg
 Sweden
← 1952
1960 →

The men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the

Lo Stadio della neve), which was about 2 km (1.2 mi) from Cotrina. Fourteen teams and fifty-six skiers participated in the event. The Soviet team won the event. Finland came in second and Sweden took the bronze.[1][2]

Medalists

Medal Team Time
Gold  
Nikolai Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin
)
2:15.30
Silver  Finland (FIN) (August Kiuru, Jorma Kortelainen, Arvo Viitanen, Veikko Hakulinen) 2:16.31
Bronze  Sweden (SWE) (Lennart Larsson, Gunnar Samuelsson, Per-Erik Larsson, Sixten Jernberg) 2:17.42

Source:[3]

Results

Rank Bib Country Time Deficit*
1 6  
Nikolai Anikin
Vladimir Kuzin
2:15.30
33:25
33:05
34:23
34:37
+0.00
2 2  Finland
August Kiuru
Jorma Kortelainen
Arvo Viitanen
Veikko Hakulinen
2:16.31
34:56
34:20
33:34
33:41
+1:01
3 14  Sweden
Lennart Larsson
Gunnar Samuelsson
Per-Erik Larsson
Sixten Jernberg
2:17.42
35:46
34:22
33:50
33:44
+2:12
4 4  Norway
Håkon Brusveen
Per Olsen
Martin Stokken
Hallgeir Brenden
2:21.16
35:13
36:41
34:47
34:35
+5:46
5 1  Italy
Pompeo Fattor
Ottavio Compagnoni
Innocenzo Chatrian
Federico Deflorian
2:23.28
35:43
34:55
35:59
36:51
+7.58
6 9  
Benoit Carrara
Jean Mermet
2:24.06
36:51
36:14
35:18
35:43
+8.36
7 8  Switzerland
Werner Zwingli
Victor Kronig
Fritz Kocher
Marcel Huguenin
2:24.30
36:24
36:50
35:17
35:59
+9.00
8 3  
Ilja Matous
2:24.54
37:02
36:11
36:13
35:28
+9.24
9 12  
Tadeusz Kwapien
Andrzej Mateja
2:25.55
37:03
36:40
35:49
36:23
+10.25
10 11  
Hermann Mochel
2:26.37
36:19
37:21
36:35
36:22
+11.07
11 13  
Karl Refreider
2:30.50
35:26
38:37
39:09
37:38
+15.20
12 10  
Lawrence Damon
Marvin Crawford
2:32.04
37:42
37:22
37:27
39:33
+16.34
13 5  
Janez Pavcic
2:33.45
38:10
39:03
38:27
38:05
+18.15
14 7  Great Britain
Andrew Morgan
James Spencer
Aubrey Fielder
Maurice Gover
2:38.44
38:44
40:40
39:25
39:55
+23.14

* Deficit is minutes and seconds

Source:[3]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), p. 614
  2. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 4 x 10 kilometres Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), p. 614–615

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