Date | 9 February 1972 — 9:00 |
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Status | Olympic |
Location | Makomanai Cross Country Events Site, Sapporo |
Participants | 43 from 12 countries |
Details | Course Length: ? Height Differential: 90 m Maximum Climb: 56 m Total Climbing: 133 m |
Galina Kulakova had won the World Championships 1970 at this distance and was favored for her second Olympic gold after her impressive victory over 10km. The 5 km race developed into a very close fight for the medals, with only 6.9 seconds between the first four finishers. Marjatta Kajosmaa, starting last of the 43 participants, was able to control her opponents, but could not prevent Kulakova from winning her second Olympic gold medal with a margin of 5 seconds. The International Ski Federation FIS had decided before the 1970 World Championship to register the times in hundredths of a second, and in a close battle Helena Šikolová, a 22-year old Czechoslovak skier, would secure the bronze medal only 0.08 seconds better than Alevtina Olyunina. Šikolová was however no big surprise, aged only 20, she placed fourth at the 10 km in the 1970 World Championships, and she had placed seventh at the 10 km race three days earlier. Now she secured her country the first ever cross-country skiing Olympic medal.
Pos | Nr | Skier | NOC | Time | ||||
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1 | 39 | Galina Kulakova | ![]() | 17:00.50 | – (–) | Gold | ||
2 | 43 | Marjatta Kajosmaa | ![]() | 17:05.50 | – (–) | Silver | ||
3 | 41 | Helena Šikolová | ![]() | 17:07.32 | – (–) | Bronze | ||
4 | 31 | Alevtina Olyunina | ![]() | 17:07.40 | – (–) | |||
5 | 14 | Hilkka Kuntola | ![]() | 17:11.67 | – (–) | |||
6 | 18 | Lyubov Mukhachova | ![]() | 17:12.08 | – (–) | |||
7 | 20 | Berit Mørdre-Lammedal | ![]() | 17:16.79 | – (–) | |||
8 | 28 | Aslaug Dahl | ![]() | 17:17.49 | – (–) | |||
9 | 29 | Helena Takalo | ![]() | 17:21.39 | – (–) | |||
10 | 5 | Nina Fyodorova | ![]() | 17:25.62 | – (–) | |||
11 | 44 | Michaela Endler | ![]() | 17:32.56 | – (–) | |||
12 | 35 | Inger Aufles | ![]() | 17:33.14 | – (–) | |||
13 | 34 | Weronika Budny | ![]() | 17:38.74 | – (–) | |||
14 | 27 | Renate Fischer | ![]() | 17:41.07 | – (–) | |||
15 | 17 | Eva Olsson | ![]() | 17:46.66 | – (–) | |||
16 | 9 | Alena Bartošová | ![]() | 17:47.25 | – (–) | |||
17 | 2 | Katharina Mo-Berge | ![]() | 17:49.06 | – (–) | |||
18 | 25 | Martha Rockwell | ![]() | 17:50.34 | – (–) | |||
19 | 37 | Barbro Tano | ![]() | 17:54.53 | – (–) | |||
20 | 40 | Gabi Haupt | ![]() | 17:55.04 | – (–) | |||
21 | 12 | Józefa Chromik | ![]() | 17:55.41 | – (–) | |||
22 | 19 | Milena Cillerová | ![]() | 17:56.22 | – (–) | |||
23 | 4 | Władysława Majerczyk | ![]() | 17:56.55 | – (–) | |||
24 | 23 | Monika Mrklas | ![]() | 17:57.40 | – (–) | |||
25 | 6 | Senja Pusula | ![]() | 17:59.93 | – (–) | |||
26 | 36 | Sharon Firth | ![]() | 18:06.28 | – (–) | |||
27 | 32 | Milena Chlumová | ![]() | 18:12.22 | – (–) | |||
28 | 22 | Anni Unger | ![]() | 18:13.19 | – (–) | |||
29 | 33 | Anna Duraj | ![]() | 18:13.43 | – (–) | |||
30 | 3 | Christine Phillip | ![]() | 18:17.02 | – (–) | |||
31 | 16 | Barbara Britch | ![]() | 18:18.37 | – (–) | |||
32 | 7 | Birgitta Lindqvist | ![]() | 18:25.88 | – (–) | |||
33 | 30 | Meeri Bodelid | ![]() | 18:29.07 | – (–) | |||
34 | 42 | Hiroko Takahashi | ![]() | 18:32.75 | – (–) | |||
35 | 26 | Shirley Firth | ![]() | 18:36.07 | – (–) | |||
36 | 1 | Alison Owen | ![]() | 18:54.76 | – (–) | |||
37 | 24 | Tokiko Ozeki | ![]() | 19:00.82 | – (–) | |||
38 | 21 | Harumi Imai | ![]() | 19:05.73 | – (–) | |||
39 | 38 | Margie Mahoney | ![]() | 19:15.13 | – (–) | |||
40 | 13 | Roseanne Allen | ![]() | 19:22.70 | – (–) | |||
41 | 10 | Hellen Sander | ![]() | 19:30.01 | – (–) | |||
42 | 15 | Frances Lütken | ![]() | 19:40.17 | – (–) | |||
43 | 8 | Akiko Akasaka | ![]() | 19:49.74 | – (–) | |||
11 | Ingrid Rothfuß | ![]() | – | – (–) |