The Sports Almanac

Winter Olympics
Cross Country Skiing - Women's 5KM

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 10 Medals

FINLAND - 8 Medals

CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 3 Medals
Discontinued After 1998 Nagano Games
Women's 5KM
Pursuit
Sprint
Team Sprint
Relay
Men's 18/15KM
Men's 50KM
Men's 30KM
Men's and Women's 10KM
Women's 20/30KM
Women's 15KM
Skiathlon

Women's 5KM  Medal Total
Through 1998 Nagano Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1964
Klavdiya Boyarskikh - Soviet Union
Mirja Lehtonen - Finland
Alevtina Kolchina - Soviet Union
1968
Toini Gustafsson - Sweden
Galina Kulakova - Soviet Union
Alevtina Kolchina - Soviet Union
1972
Galina Kulakova - Soviet Union
Marjatta Kajosmaa - Finland
Helena Sikolova - Czechoslovakia
1976
Helena Takalo - Finland
Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union
Nina Baldycheva - Soviet Union
1980
Raisa Smetanina - Soviet Union
Hikka Riihivuori - Finland
Kveta Jeriova - Czechoslovakia
1984
Marja-Liisa Hamalainen - Finland
Berit Aunli - Norway
Kveta Jeriova - Czechoslovakia
1988
Marjo Matikainen - Finland
Tamara Tikhonova - Soviet Union
Vida Venciene - Soviet Union
1992
Marjut Lukkarinen - Finland
Lyubov Yegorova - Unified Team
Yelena Valbe - Unified Team
1994
Lyubov Yegorova - Russia
Manuela Di Centa - Italy
Marja-Lissa Hamalainen - Finland
1998
Larisa Lazutina - Russia
Katerina Neumannova - Czech Republic
Bente Martinsen - Norway

Medal Total  Women's 5KM
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
Soviet Union
3
3
4
10
2
Finland
4
3
1
8
3
Czechoslovakia
0
0
3
3
4
Sweden
1
0
0
1
5
Russia
2
0
0
2
6
Norway
0
1
1
2
7
Unified Team
0
1
1
2
8
Italy
0
1
0
1
9
Czech Republic
0
1
0
1