Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay

		Nina Baldycheva Zinaida Amosova Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova	Soviet Union
		Liisa Suikhonen Marjatta Kajosmaa Hiikka Kuntola Helena Takalo	Finland
		Veronika Hesse	1972 1980  →

Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics
5 km		women
10 km		women
15 km	men
30 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men	women
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The Women's 4 × 5 kilometre relay cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing programme at the 1976 Winter Olympics, in Innsbruck, Austria. It was the sixth appearance of the women's relay event and the first to have a team of four skiers, instead of three. The competition was held on 12 February 1976, at the Cross Country Skiing Stadium.^[1]

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Nina Baldycheva Zinaida Amosova Raisa Smetanina Galina Kulakova	Soviet Union	1:07:49.75
2	Liisa Suihkonen Marjatta Kajosmaa Hiikka Kuntola Helena Takalo	Finland	1:08:36.57
3	Veronika Hesse	East Germany	1:09:57.95
4	Marie Johansson-Risby Eva Olsson	Sweden	1:10:14.68
5	Berit Kvello Marit Myrmæl Berit Johannessen Grete Kummen	Norway	1:11:09.08
6	Gabriela Svobodová-Sekajová Alena Bartošová Blanka Paulů	Czechoslovakia	1:11:27.83
7	Shirley Firth Joan Groothuysen Sue Holloway Sharon Firth	Canada	1:14:02.72
8	Anna Pawlusiak Anna Gębala-Duraj Maria Trebunia Władysława Majerczyk	Poland	1:14:13.40
9	Martha Rockwell Jana Hlavaty Terry Porter Twila Hinkle	United States	1:17:58.18

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