Date | 7 February 1968 |
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Status | Olympic |
Location | Autrans |
Participants | 66 from 22 countries |
Venue details | Course Length: ? Height Differential: 275 m Intermediate 1: 10.0 km Intermediate 2: 20.0 km Maximum Climb: 90 m Total Climbing: 990 m |
The defending Olympic champion Eero Mäntyranta had dominated the 30 km event in major championships for several years, winning gold at the World Championships in 1962 and 1966. He was highly favored before the first cross country event in the 1968 Games, the 30 km race. But the first intermediate times at 10 km produced some surprises. Franco Nones, a 27-year old Italian skier who had placed 6th at the distance at the 1966 World Championships, had built up a substantial lead, 22 seconds ahead of another surprise, Soviet Union’s Vladimir Voronkov, aged only 23 and originating from the Chuvash Republic in the Volga region. Mäntyranta was in third position another 7 seconds behind Voronkov, closely followed by Norwegian Odd Martinsen and Kalevi Laurila, who was second behind Mäntyranta at the 1966 Worlds.
Over the next 10 km of the race, Mäntyranta made a gallant try to catch the leading Italian, and moved up to second position at 20 km, only 4 seconds behind Nones. Martinsen had advanced to third, but was still over a half minute behind the leader. But Mäntyranta had apparently made his move too early. He faded badly over the last 10 km and lost over a minute to Nones, who secured the first cross country Olympic gold medal for a skier coming from outside the Nordic countries or Soviet Union. Martinsen passed Mäntyranta in the fight for silver, and the defending champion had to settle for the bronze medal. Another fast finishing Italian, Giulio De Florian, bronze medalist at the distance in the World Championships 1962, advanced from 8th to 5th position during the last stages of the race, finishing only two seconds behind Voronkov in 4th place. Norwegian Gjermund Eggen, the king of the 1966 World Championships in Oslo with three gold medals, was a great disappointment, placing a modest 34th in what would be his only Olympic appearance. Three weeks after the 1968 Olympics he outclassed his rivals in Falun, Sweden, winning the 30 km race 1:18 ahead of his closest rival.
Pos | Nr | Skier | NOC | Time | Int 1 (Pos) | Int 2 (Pos) | |||
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1 | 26 | Franco Nones | ![]() | 1-35:39.2 | 31:43.7 (1) | 1-07:40.4 (1) | Gold | ||
2 | 52 | Odd Martinsen | ![]() | 1-36:28.9 | 32:14.9 (4) | 1-08:12.7 (3) | Silver | ||
3 | 33 | Eero Mäntyranta | ![]() | 1-36:55.3 | 32:12.1 (3) | 1-07:44.6 (2) | Bronze | ||
4 | 45 | Vladimir Voronkov | ![]() | 1-37:10.8 | 32:05.4 (2) | 1-08:35.4 (5) | |||
5 | 64 | Giulio De Florian | ![]() | 1-37:12.9 | 32:24.8 (6) | 1-08:48.7 (8) | |||
6 | 55 | Kalevi Laurila | ![]() | 1-37:29.8 | 32:15.4 (5) | 1-08:18.1 (4) | |||
7 | 46 | Kalevi Oikarainen | ![]() | 1-37:34.4 | 32:28.4 (7) | 1-08:37.1 (6) | |||
8 | 25 | Gunnar Larsson | ![]() | 1-37:48.1 | 32:49.3 (16) | 1-09:19.7 (11) | |||
9 | 62 | Walter Demel | ![]() | 1-37:49.2 | 32:38.2 (10) | 1-08:55.0 (9) | |||
10 | 12 | Anatoly Akentyev | ![]() | 1-37:52.4 | 32:43.1 (11) | 1-09:43.3 (15) | |||
11 | 2 | Lorns Skjemstad | ![]() | 1-37:53.4 | 32:34.3 (8) | 1-08:40.8 (7) | |||
12 | 41 | Jan Halvarsson | ![]() | 1-38:23.2 | 32:50.7 (18) | 1-09:31.1 (12) | |||
13 | 50 | Harald Grønningen | ![]() | 1-38:26.7 | 32:43.5 (12) | 1-09:09.4 (10) | |||
14 | 30 | Vyacheslav Vedenin | ![]() | 1-38:36.1 | 32:56.2 (21) | 1-09:41.1 (14) | |||
15 | 47 | Gerhard Grimmer | ![]() | 1-38:46.0 | 32:57.3 (22) | 1-10:12.1 (19) | |||
16 | 4 | Arto Tiainen | ![]() | 1-38:51.1 | 32:34.7 (9) | 1-09:34.1 (13) | |||
17 | 54 | Valery Tarakanov | ![]() | 1-39:25.0 | 32:47.2 (14) | 1-09:50.2 (16) | |||
18 | 60 | Karel Štefl | ![]() | 1-39:25.7 | 32:52.3 (20) | 1-10:18.5 (21) | |||
19 | 32 | Gert-Dietmar Klause | ![]() | 1-39:30.5 | 32:44.3 (13) | 1-10:08.8 (18) | |||
20 | 8 | Bruno Åvik | ![]() | 1-39:38.1 | 32:50.2 (17) | 1-09:57.7 (17) | |||
21 | 66 | Ingvar Sandström | ![]() | 1-39:47.5 | 32:57.5 (23) | 1-10:17.7 (20) | |||
22 | 35 | Ján Fajstavr | ![]() | 1-40:05.1 | 32:51.3 (19) | 1-10:52.3 (23) | |||
23 | 51 | Franco Stella | ![]() | 1-40:42.0 | 32:47.7 (15) | 1-10:36.0 (22) | |||
24 | 17 | Václav Peřina | ![]() | 1-40:58.0 | 33:35.7 (26) | 1-11:15.9 (24) | |||
25 | 3 | Franco Manfroi | ![]() | 1-41:11.8 | 33:10.7 (24) | 1-11:37.1 (26) | |||
26 | 21 | Petar Pankov | ![]() | 1-41:42.9 | 33:47.7 (31) | 1-12:48.5 (31) | |||
27 | 28 | Mike Gallagher | ![]() | 1-41:58.2 | 33:36.7 (27) | 1-11:31.3 (25) | |||
28 | 6 | Denis Mast | ![]() | 1-41:58.8 | 33:51.8 (32) | 1-12:15.8 (30) | |||
29 | 5 | Mike Elliott | ![]() | 1-42:22.6 | 34:06.5 (33) | 1-12:13.1 (29) | |||
30 | 22 | Konrad Hischier | ![]() | 1-42:26.1 | 33:35.0 (25) | 1-12:08.0 (28) | |||
31 | 15 | Karl Buhl | ![]() | 1-42:52.2 | 33:42.5 (29) | 1-12:50.4 (32) | |||
32 | 65 | Flury Koch | ![]() | 1-43:06.9 | 33:37.4 (28) | 1-12:05.7 (27) | |||
33 | 40 | Tokio Sato | ![]() | 1-43:13.8 | 34:36.9 (36) | 1-13:39.7 (35) | |||
34 | 24 | Gjermund Eggen | ![]() | 1-43:29.6 | 33:43.9 (30) | 1-12:53.8 (33) | |||
35 | 49 | Fritz Stuessi | ![]() | 1-43:57.8 | 34:30.1 (35) | 1-13:26.7 (34) | |||
36 | 58 | Axel Lesser | ![]() | 1-44:16.2 | 35:06.3 (42) | 1-14:05.2 (38) | |||
37 | 14 | Helmut Unger | ![]() | 1-44:47.9 | 34:21.1 (34) | 1-14:03.9 (37) | |||
38 | 63 | Ernst Pühringer | ![]() | 1-44:51.0 | 34:44.0 (39) | 1-14:29.7 (39) | |||
39 | 9 | Jean Jobez | ![]() | 1-45:08.8 | 34:41.6 (37) | 1-13:49.9 (36) | |||
40 | 20 | Franz Vetter | ![]() | 1-45:11.2 | 35:20.9 (45) | 1-15:03.1 (42) | |||
41 | 37 | Philippe Baradel | ![]() | 1-45:33.3 | 34:42.2 (38) | 1-14:34.8 (40) | |||
42 | 16 | Luc Colin | ![]() | 1-45:40.7 | 34:45.0 (40) | 1-14:49.9 (41) | |||
43 | 56 | Roger Pires | ![]() | 1-45:54.6 | 35:46.5 (49) | 1-15:22.8 (=47) | |||
44 | 10 | Alojz Kerštajn | ![]() | 1-46:09.5 | 35:15.9 (43) | 1-15:16.0 (45) | |||
45 | 53 | Kazuo Sato | ![]() | 1-46:12.4 | 35:29.3 (48) | 1-15:12.1 (43) | |||
46 | 34 | Herbert Steinbeißer | ![]() | 1-46:31.2 | 35:19.8 (44) | 1-15:22.8 (=47) | |||
47 | 38 | Janez Mlinar | ![]() | 1-46:43.2 | 35:23.2 (46) | 1-15:17.5 (46) | |||
48 | 1 | Karl-Heinz Scherzinger | ![]() | 1-47:08.7 | 34:50.5 (41) | 1-15:13.2 (44) | |||
49 | 18 | Mirko Bavče | ![]() | 1-47:48.9 | 35:25.9 (47) | 1-16:39.0 (49) | |||
50 | 42 | Hansjörg Farbmacher | ![]() | 1-49:43.3 | 36:31.1 (52) | 1-18:05.6 (56) | |||
51 | 57 | Charlie Kellogg | ![]() | 1-50:03.7 | 36:39.8 (54) | 1-17:54.2 (52) | |||
52 | 59 | Nils Skulbru | ![]() | 1-50:06.1 | 36:46.6 (56) | 1-17:59.4 (55) | |||
53 | 29 | Svend Carlsen | ![]() | 1-50:51.8 | 36:45.8 (55) | 1-17:57.3 (54) | |||
54 | 48 | Luvsan-Ayuushiin Dashdemberel | ![]() | 1-50:52.7 | 36:08.7 (51) | 1-17:30.4 (51) | |||
55 | 36 | Jon Lufkin | ![]() | 1-51:21.2 | 37:05.0 (57) | 1-18:45.0 (57) | |||
56 | 61 | Gendgeegiin Batmönkh | ![]() | 1-51:39.1 | 36:35.4 (53) | 1-17:15.7 (50) | |||
57 | 23 | Tibor Holéczy | ![]() | 1-51:42.0 | 35:50.2 (50) | 1-17:55.1 (53) | |||
58 | 39 | David Rees | ![]() | 1-52:46.6 | 37:17.2 (58) | 1-20:36.3 (58) | |||
59 | 44 | Miklós Holló | ![]() | 1-53:41.1 | 37:43.5 (59) | 1-21:20.1 (59) | |||
60 | 19 | Ross Martin | ![]() | 1-55:17.3 | 37:53.2 (60) | 1-21:20.7 (60) | |||
61 | 27 | Rolf Pettersen | ![]() | 1-55:37.2 | 38:10.5 (61) | 1-22:00.2 (62) | |||
62 | 7 | Apollo Lynge | ![]() | 1-55:40.0 | 38:37.6 (62) | 1-21:57.7 (61) | |||
63 | 31 | Kim Chun-Gi | ![]() | 2-11:51.3 | 42:58.1 (63) | 1-33:07.9 (63) | |||
AC | 11 | Dimitrios Andreadis | ![]() | – | – (–) | – (–) | |||
AC | 13 | Vít Fousek, Jr. | ![]() | – | – (–) | – (–) | |||
AC | 43 | Yun Jong-Im | ![]() | – | – (–) | – (–) |