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.
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 2:37:30.05 37 Gert-Dietmar Klause 2:38:13.21 34 Benny Södergren 2:39:39.21 50 Ivan Garanin 2:40:38.94 24 Gerhard Grimmer 2:41:15.46 46 Per Knut Aaland 2:41:18.06 16 Pål Tyldum 2:42:21.86 6 Tommy Limby 2:42:43.58 44 Juhani Repo 2:42:54.89 10 21 Arto Koivisto 2:43:44.79 11 26 Jean-Paul Pierrat 2:44:03.31 12 22 Vasily Rochev 2:44:31.23 13 23 Bill Koch 2:44:34.69 14 15 Milan Jarý 2:44:51.16 15 41 Jiří Beran 2:44:51.80 16 49 Sven-Åke Lundbäck 2:45:04.82 17 55 Ján Fajstavr 2:45:19.91 18 18 Franz Renggli 2:45:25.24 19 25 Matti Kuosko 2:45:33.41 20 5 Heinz Gähler 2:45:51.64 21 45 Sergey Savelyev 2:46:01.36 22 20 Hans Skinstad 2:46:11.83 23 33 Georg Zipfel 2:46:20.30 24 17 Herbert Wachter 2:46:40.25 25 4 Walter Demel 2:46:55.95 26 38 Werner Vogel 2:47:05.63 27 51 Pertti Teurajärvi 2:47:25.60 28 57 Gerd Heßler 2:47:34.90 29 3 Jean-Paul Vandel 2:47:45.20 30 27 Stanislav Henych 2:48:00.27 31 32 Venanz Egger 2:48:30.70 32 58 Christian Pfeuti 2:49:50.90 33 7 Dieter Meinel 2:49:52.42 34 8 Juha Mieto 2:50:03.61 35 12 Reinhold Feichter 2:50:53.00 36 54 Stan Dunklee 2:51:26.28 37 39 Edward Day 2:51:58.75 38 10 Yevgeny Belyayev 2:54:00.55 39 29 Lyubomir Toskov 2:55:11.11 40 1 Petar Pankov 2:57:07.93 41 52 Ernie Lennie 3:01:01.57 42 2 Halldór Matthíasson 3:02:51.17 43 48 Heinrich Wallner 3:03:58.19 44 13 Maksi Jelenc 3:05:05.94 9 Tonio Biondini 11 Tim Caldwell 14 Bert Bullock 19 Jerzy Koryciak 28 Georg Kandlinger 30 Ulrico Costner 31 Oddvar Brå 35 Jan Staszel 36 Roland Jeannerod 40 Chris Haines 43 Roberto Primus 47 Pierre Salvi 53 Wiesław Gębal 56 Frank Betz 59 Carlo Favre
References
External links Final results (International Ski Federation)