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Men's 50 km at the VII Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing
Venue	Lo Stadio della neve
Date	2 February 1956
Competitors	33 from 13 nations
Winning time	2:50:27
Medalists
Sixten Jernberg  Sweden Veikko Hakulinen  Finland Fedor Terentyev  Soviet Union
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Cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
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15 km	men
30 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men	women
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The men's 50 kilometre cross-country race at the 1956 Winter Olympics took place on 2 February. It was held at the Snow Stadium (Lo Stadio della neve), which was about 2 km (1.2 mi) from Cotrina. Thirty skiers from thirteen countries participated in the event. The Nordic countries once again dominated the event. In a reversal of the top two results in the 30 km (19 mi) race, Swedish skier Sixten Jernberg won the gold, Fin Veikko Hakulinen took the silver and Russian Fedor Terentjev won the bronze. Jernberg would go on to win a bronze in the relay event giving him a full complement of gold, silver and bronze. Hakulinen would win a silver in the relay event giving him a gold and two silver medals for the Olympics.

Medalists

Gold	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden
Silver	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland
Bronze	Fedor Terentyev  Soviet Union

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Results

Place	No.	Competitor	Time	Difference*
1	38	Sixten Jernberg (SWE)	2:50.27
2	33	Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)	2:51.45	+1.18
3	2	Fedor Terentyev (URS)	2:53.32	+3.05
4	23	Eero Kolehmainen (FIN)	2:56.17	+5.50
5	20	Anatoly Shelyukhin (URS)	2:56.40	+6.13
6	8	Pavel Kolchin (URS)	2:58.00	+8.33
7	30	Viktor Baranov (URS)	3:03.55	+13.28
8	4	Antti Sivonen (FIN)	3:04.16	+13.49
9	12	Veini Kontinen (FIN)	3:06.15	+15.48
10	5	Sture Grahn (SWE)	3:06.32	+16.05
11	7	Arthur Ohlsson (SWE)	3:10.03	+19.36
12	18	Inge Limberg (SWE)	3:10.19	+19.52
13	25	Stanislav Bukowski (POL)	3:10.49	+20.22
14	9	Oddmund Jensen (NOR)	3:11.14	+20.47
15	21	Edvin Landsem (NOR)	3:11.43	+21.16
16	14	Vigilio Mich (ITA)	3:11.59	+21.32
17	36	Gianni Carrara (ITA)	3:14.39	+24.12
18	29	Christian Wenger (SUI)	3:17.49	+27.22
19	11	Fritz Zurbuchen (SUI)	3:19.42	+29.15
20	15	Werner Moring (EUA)	3:20.32	+30.05
21	10	Gioacchino Busin (ITA)	3:21.05	+30.38
22	31	Clarence Servold (CAN)	3:21.50	+31.23
23	1	Battista Mismetti (ITA)	3:23.15	+32.48
24	17	Alfred Kronig (SUI)	3:23.21	+32.54
25	28	Tatsuo Miyao (JPN)	3:25.47	+35.20
26	32	Christo Dontchev (BUL)	3:26.06	+35.39
27	3	Andre Huguenin (SUI)	3:31.04	+40.37
28	39	Thomas Cairney (GBR)	3:44.54	+54.17
29	24	Toby Graham (GBR)	3:48.17	+57.50
30	13	Richard Aylmer (GBR)	4:11.40	+1:21.13
AC		Birger Vestermo (NOR)		DQ
AC		Štefan Robač (YUG)		DQ
AC		Martin Stokken (NOR)		DQ

* - Difference is in hours:minutes.seconds.

Source:

See also

• List of IOC country codes
• 1956 Winter Olympics

Notes

1. Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), p. 612
2. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
3. ^ Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956), p. 612–613

References

• Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (1956). VII Olympic Winter Games: Official Report (PDF). Cortina d'Ampezzo. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 November 2010. Retrieved 2 March 2010.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

• Men's cross-country skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics
• Men's 50 kilometre cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics