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

The men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the 1956 Winter Olympics took place on 4 February. It was held at the Snow Stadium (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.

Men's 4 × 10 kilometre relay at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing
Venue	Lo Stadio della neve
Date	4 February
Competitors	56 from 14 nations
Winning time	2:15:30
Medalists
Fedor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin Nikolai Anikin Vladimir Kuzin  Soviet Union August Kiuru Jorma Kortelainen Arvo Viitanen Veikko Hakulinen  Finland Lennart Larsson Gunnar Samuelsson Per-Erik Larsson Sixten Jernberg  Sweden

Medalists

Medal	Team	Time
Gold	Soviet Union (URS) (Fedor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, 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

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Results

Rank	Bib	Country	Time	Deficit*
1	6	Soviet Union Fedor Terentyev Pavel Kolchin 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	France Victor Arbez René Mandrillon 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	Czechoslovakia Emil Okuliár Vlastimil Melich Josef Prokes Ilja Matous	2:24.54 37:02 36:11 36:13 35:28	+9.24
9	12	Poland Jozef Rubis Josef Sobczak-Gasienica Tadeusz Kwapien Andrzej Mateja	2:25.55 37:03 36:40 35:49 36:23	+10.25
10	11	United Team of Germany Kuno Werner Siegried Weiss Rudi Kropp Hermann Mochel	2:26.37 36:19 37:21 36:35 36:22	+11.07
11	13	Austria Sepp Schneeberger Oskar Schulz Hermann Mayer Karl Refreider	2:30.50 35:26 38:37 39:09 37:38	+15.20
12	10	United States Ted Farwell Mack Miller Lawrence Damon Marvin Crawford	2:32.04 37:42 37:22 37:27 39:33	+16.34
13	5	Yugoslavia Zravko Hlebanja Cveto Pavcic Matevz Kordez 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

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See also

• List of IOC country codes
• 1956 Winter Olympics

References

• Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956). VII Olympic Winter Games: Official Report (PDF). Cortina d'Ampezzo. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)