Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics
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Cross-country skiing
at the 1984 Winter Paralympics
consisted of 35 events, 23 for men and 12 for women.
Each event had separate standing, sitting, 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 1984 Winter Paralympics
1984 Winter Paralympics
The 1984 Winter Paralympic Games, were the third Winter Paralympics. They were held from 14 to 20 January 1984 in Innsbruck, Austria. They were the first Winter Games organized by the International Co-ordinating Committee , which was formed on March 15, 1982 in Leysin, Switzerland. These Games were...
consisted of 35 events, 23 for men and 12 for women.
Medal table
| Rank | Nation |  |
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 |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Finland |
12 | 9 | 6 | 27 |
| 2 |  Austria |
8 | 8 | 5 | 21 |
| 3 |  Norway |
6 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 |  West Germany |
3 | 8 | 2 | 13 |
| 5 |  Poland |
3 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 6 |  France |
2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 |  Sweden |
1 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 8 |  Switzerland |
0 | 3 | 9 | 12 |
| 9 |  United States |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 |  United Kingdom |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 35 | 35 | 33 | 103 | |
Medal summary
The competition events were:- 2.5 km: - women
- 5 km: men - women
- 10 km: men - women
- 20 km: men
- 3x2.5 km relay: men
- 3x5 km relay: - women
- 4x5 km relay: men - women
- 4x10 km relay: men
Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:
- LW2 - standing: single leg amputationAmputationAmputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma, prolonged constriction, or surgery. As a surgical measure, it is used to control pain or a disease process in the affected limb, such as malignancy or gangrene. In some cases, it is carried out on individuals as a preventative surgery for...
above the knee - LW 3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsyCerebral palsyCerebral palsy is an umbrella term encompassing a group of non-progressive, non-contagious motor conditions that cause physical disability in human development, chiefly in the various areas of body movement....
, or equivalent impairment - LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
- LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
- LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
- LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
- Gr I - sitting: paraplegiaParaplegiaParaplegia is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek: παραπληγίη "half-striking". It is usually the result of spinal cord injury or a congenital condition such as spina bifida that affects the neural elements of the spinal canal...
with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance - Gr II - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
- B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
- B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision
Men's events
| 5 km - short distance | Gr I |
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| Gr II |
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| LW3 |
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| LW4 |
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| LW5/7 |
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| LW9 |
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| 10 km - short distance | B1 |
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| B2 |
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| LW6/8 |
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| 10 km - middle distance | B1 |
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| B2 |
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| Gr I |
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| Gr II |
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| LW2 |
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| LW3 |
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| LW4 |
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| LW5/7 |
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| LW9 |
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| 20 km - middle distance | LW6/8 |
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| 3×2.5 km relay | Gr I-II |
Hermann Gaun Josef Siebenhofer Reinhold Wessely |
Hermann Gaun Josef Siebenhofer Reinhold Wessely |
Josef Dietziker Heinz Frei Heinz Frei Heinz Frei is a Swiss wheelchair athlete. Frei has had a long career of racing, winning the London Marathon wheelchair race three times, and earning 5 medals at the 2003 European games at the age of 45... Peter Gilomen |
| 4×5 km relay | LW2-9 |
Samuli Kaemi Lauri Moilanen Pertti Sankilampi Erkki Seppaenen |
Samuli Kaemi Lauri Moilanen Pertti Sankilampi Erkki Seppaenen |
Allan Danielsson Kent Engstroem Rune Karlsson Bertil Lundmark |
| 4×10 km relay | B1-2 |
Hans Anton Aalien Hans Anton Aalien Hans Anton Aalien is a blind skier from Norway. He won a gold medal in the disabled skiing at the 1988 Winter Olympics event in Calgary, Alberta, Canada with a time of 18 minutes, 52.2 seconds. He participated in track and field athletics at four consecutive Summer Paralympics, from 1976 to 1988,... Gorm Borgersen Terje Loevaas Olai Myklebust |
Ismo Alanko Martti Juntunen Mauno Sulisalo Teuvo Talmia |
Yngve Eriksson Ove Karlsson Ake Pettersson George Witthof |
Women's events
| 2.5 km - short distance | Gr II |
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| 5 km - short distance | B1 |
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| B2 |
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| LW4 |
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| LW6/8 |
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| 5 km - middle distance | Gr II |
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| 10 km - middle distance | B1 |
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| B2 |
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| LW4 |
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| LW6/8 |
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| 3×5 km relay | LW2-9 |
Barbara Chmielecka Jolanta Kochanaowska Henryka Sadowska |
Heidi Aviolat Monika Waelti Yvonne Wyssen |
None |
| 4×5 km relay | B1-2 |
Doris Campbell Margret Heger Renata Hoenisch Marianne Kriegl |
Barbara Lewis Laura Oftedahl Jean Parker Billie Ruth Schlank |
None |