The Sports Almanac

Winter Olympics
Cross Country Skiing - Freestyle

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 12 Medals

NORWAY - 12 Medals

FINLAND - 5 Medals
Discontinued After 2002 Salt Lake City Games
Men's 30KM
Pursuit
Sprint
Team Pursuit
Relay
Men's 18/15KM
Men's 50KM
Men's and Women's 10KM
Women's 5KM
Women's 20/30KM
Women's 15KM
Skiathlon

Men's 30KM  Medal Total
Through 2002 Salt Lake City Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1956
Veikko Hakulinen - Finland
Sixten Jernberg - Sweden
Pavel Kolchin - Soviet Union
1960
Sixten Jernberg - Sweden
Rolf Ramgard - Sweden
Nikolay Anikin - Soviet Union
1964
Eero Mantyranta - Finland
Harald Gronningen - Norway
Igor VoronChikhin - Soviet Union
1968
Franco Nones - Italy
Odd Martinsen - Norway
Eero Mantyranta - Finland
1972
Vyacheslav Vedenin - Soviet Union
Pal Tyldum - Norway
Johs Harviken - Norway
1976
Sergey Savelyev - Soviet Union
Bill Koch - United States
Ivan Garanin - Soviet Union
1980
Nikolay Zimyatov - Soviet Union
Vasily Rochev - Soviet Union
Ivan Lebanov - Bulgaria
1984
Nikolay Zimyatov - Soviet Union
Alexander Zavyalov - Soviet Union
Gunde Svan - Sweden
1988
Alexy Prokurorov - Soviet Union
Vladimir Smirnov - Soviet Union
Vegard Ulvang - Norway
1992
Vegard Ulvang - Norway
Bjorn Daehlie - Norway
Terje Langli - Norway
1994
Thomas Alsgaard - Norway
Bjorn Daehlie - Norway
Mika Myllyla - Finland
1998
Mika Myllyla - Finland
Erling Jevne - Norway
Silvio Fauner - Italy
2002
Christian Hoffmann - Austria
Mikhail Botvinov - Austria
Kristen Skjeldal - Norway

Medal Total  Men's 30KM
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Soviet Union
5
3
4
12
2
Norway
2
6
4
12
3
Finland
3
0
2
5
4
Sweden
1
2
1
4
5
Austria
1
1
0
2
6
Italy
1
0
1
2
7
United States
0
1
0
1
8
Bulgaria
0
0
1
1