Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's 50 kilometre

The men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, was held on Saturday 14 February at Seefeld. Gerhard Grimmer of East Germany was the 1974 World champion and Pål Tyldum of Norway was the defending champion from the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo, Japan.

Men's 50 kilometre at the XII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Seefeld
Dates	14 February
Competitors	59 from 17 nations
Winning time	2:37:30.05
Medalists
Ivar Formo  Norway Gert-Dietmar Klause  East Germany Benny Södergren  Sweden

Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 50 kilometre course. Of the 59 athletes who started the race, 15 did not finish. Ivar Formo of Norway took his first and only Olympic gold medal.

Results

Sources:

Rank	Bib	Name	Country	Time	Deficit
	42	Ivar Formo	Norway	2:37:30.05	–
	37	Gert-Dietmar Klause	East Germany	2:38:13.21	+43.16
	34	Benny Södergren	Sweden	2:39:39.21	+2:09.16
4	50	Ivan Garanin	Soviet Union	2:40:38.94	+3:08.89
5	24	Gerhard Grimmer	East Germany	2:41:15.46	+3:45.41
6	46	Per Knut Aaland	Norway	2:41:18.06	+3:48.01
7	16	Pål Tyldum	Norway	2:42:21.86	+4:51.81
8	6	Tommy Limby	Sweden	2:42:43.58	+5:13.53
9	44	Juhani Repo	Finland	2:42:54.89	+5:24.84
10	21	Arto Koivisto	Finland	2:43:44.79	+6:14.74
11	26	Jean-Paul Pierrat	France	2:44:03.31	+6:33.26
12	22	Vasily Rochev	Soviet Union	2:44:31.23	+7:01.18
13	23	Bill Koch	United States	2:44:34.69	+7:04.64
14	15	Milan Jarý	Czechoslovakia	2:44:51.16	+7:21.11
15	41	Jiří Beran	Czechoslovakia	2:44:51.80	+7:21.75
16	49	Sven-Åke Lundbäck	Sweden	2:45:04.82	+7:34.77
17	55	Ján Fajstavr	Czechoslovakia	2:45:19.91	+7:49.86
18	18	Franz Renggli	Switzerland	2:45:25.24	+7:55.19
19	25	Matti Kuosko	Sweden	2:45:33.41	+8:03.36
20	5	Heinz Gähler	Switzerland	2:45:51.64	+8:21.59
21	45	Sergey Savelyev	Soviet Union	2:46:01.36	+8:31.31
22	20	Hans Skinstad	Canada	2:46:11.83	+8:41.78
23	33	Georg Zipfel	West Germany	2:46:20.30	+8:50.25
24	17	Herbert Wachter	Austria	2:46:40.25	+9:10.20
25	4	Walter Demel	West Germany	2:46:55.95	+9:25.90
26	38	Werner Vogel	Austria	2:47:05.63	+9:35.58
27	51	Pertti Teurajärvi	Finland	2:47:25.60	+9:55.55
28	57	Gerd Heßler	East Germany	2:47:34.90	+10:04.85
29	3	Jean-Paul Vandel	France	2:47:45.20	+10:15.15
30	27	Stanislav Henych	Czechoslovakia	2:48:00.27	+10:30.22
31	32	Venanz Egger	Switzerland	2:48:30.70	+11:00.65
32	58	Christian Pfeuti	Switzerland	2:49:50.90	+12:20.85
33	7	Dieter Meinel	East Germany	2:49:52.42	+12:22.37
34	8	Juha Mieto	Finland	2:50:03.61	+12:33.56
35	12	Reinhold Feichter	Austria	2:50:53.00	+13:22.95
36	54	Stan Dunklee	United States	2:51:26.28	+13:56.23
37	39	Edward Day	Canada	2:51:58.75	+14:28.70
38	10	Yevgeny Belyayev	Soviet Union	2:54:00.55	+16:30.50
39	29	Lyubomir Toskov	Bulgaria	2:55:11.11	+17:41.06
40	1	Petar Pankov	Bulgaria	2:57:07.93	+19:37.88
41	52	Ernie Lennie	Canada	3:01:01.57	+23:31.52
42	2	Halldór Matthíasson	Iceland	3:02:51.17	+25:21.12
43	48	Heinrich Wallner	Austria	3:03:58.19	+26:28.14
44	13	Maksi Jelenc	Yugoslavia	3:05:05.94	+27:35.89
	9	Tonio Biondini	Italy	DNF
	11	Tim Caldwell	United States	DNF
	14	Bert Bullock	Canada	DNF
	19	Jerzy Koryciak	Poland	DNF
	28	Georg Kandlinger	West Germany	DNF
	30	Ulrico Costner	Italy	DNF
	31	Oddvar Brå	Norway	DNF
	35	Jan Staszel	Poland	DNF
	36	Roland Jeannerod	France	DNF
	40	Chris Haines	United States	DNF
	43	Roberto Primus	Italy	DNF
	47	Pierre Salvi	France	DNF
	53	Wiesław Gębal	Poland	DNF
	56	Frank Betz	West Germany	DNF
	59	Carlo Favre	Italy	DNF

External links

• Final results (International Ski Federation)