Cross-country skiing at the 1976 Winter Paralympics
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Cross-country skiing
at the 1976 Winter Paralympics
consisted of 25 events, 15 for men and 10 for women.
Each event had separate standing, or visually impaired classifications:
Cross-country skiing
Cross-country skiing is a winter sport in which participants propel themselves across snow-covered terrain using skis and poles...
at the 1976 Winter Paralympics
1976 Winter Paralympics
The 1976 Winter Paralympic Games were the first Winter Paralympics. They were held in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden from 21 to 28 February 1976. The disabilities included in this paralympics were blindness and amputees. Sixteen countries took part with 198 athletes...
consisted of 25 events, 15 for men and 10 for women.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation |  |
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Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Finland |
8 | 7 | 7 | 22 |
| 2 |  Norway |
7 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 3 |  Sweden |
6 | 7 | 7 | 20 |
| 4 |  West Germany |
2 | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 |  Switzerland |
1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 |  Canada |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 |  Austria |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 25 | 22 | 22 | 69 | |
Medal summary
The competition events were:- 5 km: men - women
- 10 km: men - women
- 15 km: men
- 3x5 km relay: men - women
- 3x10 km relay: men
Each event had separate standing, or visually impaired classifications:
- I - standing, single leg amputation above the knee
- II - standing, single leg amputation below the knee
- III - standing, single arm amputation
- IV B - standing, double arm amputation
- A - visually impaired, no functional vision
- B - visually impaired, under 10% functional vision
Men's events
| 5 km - short distance | I |
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| II |
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| III |
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| IV B |
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| 10 km - short distance | A |
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| B |
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| 10 km - middle distance | I |
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| II |
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| III |
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| IV B |
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| 15 km - middle distance | A |
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| B |
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| 3×5 km relay | I-II |
Otto Malkki Pertti Sankilampi Kalle Tiusanen |
Bertil Lundmark Kalevi Mattila Sven-Olof Tornvall |
Hermann Heckel Helmut Kaidisch Siegfried Loose |
| 3×10 km relay | A-B |
Terje Hansen Jarle Johnsen Morten Langeroed |
Martti Juntunen Manu Laakso Matti Ojanen |
Yngve Eriksson Ingemar Lundquist Sven-Ivar Martin |
| III-IV B |
Raimo Hiiri Teuvo Sahi Arvo Stahl |
Walter Klenk Ludwig Wagner Edmund Zahner |
Wolfgang Pickl Josef Scheiber Eugen Wilhelm |
Women's events
| 5 km - short distance | A |
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| B |
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| I |
None | None | ||
| II |
None | None | ||
| III |
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| 10 km - middle distance | A |
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| B |
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| I |
None | None | ||
| III |
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| 3×5 km relay | A-B |
Karin Gustavsson Astrid Nilsson Birgitta Sund |
Aud Berntsen Aud Grundvik Reidun Laengen |
Ella Kinnunen Sirkka Sulisalo Matleena Talonen |