The men's 15 kilometre cross-country skiing competition at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo, Japan, was held on Monday 7 February at the Makomanai Cross Country Events Site.
Each skier started at half a minute intervals, skiing the entire 15 kilometre course. Lars-Göran Åslund of Sweden was the 1970 World champion and Harald Grønningen of Norway was the defending Olympic champion from the 1968 Olympics in Grenoble, France.
Results Sources: Rank Bib Name Country Time Deficit 54 Sven-Åke Lundbäck 45:28.24 52 Fyodor Simashov 46:00.84 34 Ivar Formo 46:02.68 57 Juha Mieto 46:02.74 23 Yury Skobov 46:04.59 35 Axel Lesser 46:17.01 61 Walter Demel 46:17.36 37 Gunnar Larsson 46:23.29 9 Oddvar Brå 46:25.88 10 38 Osmo Karjalainen 46:27.51 11 59 Eduard Hauser 46:30.53 12 12 Vladimir Voronkov 46:33.43 13 63 Gert-Dietmar Klause 46:34.40 14 28 Albert Giger 46:38.36 15 46 Johs Harviken 46:46.36 16 42 Valery Tarakanov 46:48.32 17 41 Alois Kälin 46:50.31 18 29 Lars-Göran Åslund 46:56.23 19 58 Magne Myrmo 47:02.55 20 15 Tord Backman 47:22.97 21 56 Stanislav Henych 47:25.81 22 36 Gerhard Gehring 47:33.78 23 24 Juhani Repo 47:56.16 24 53 Carlo Favre 47:59.07 25 49 Gerd Heßler 48:04.15 26 3 Rainer Groß 48:05.86 27 47 Tonio Biondini 48:10.09 28 22 Franco Stella 48:17.14 29 39 Ján Fajstavr 48:18.22 30 21 Ján Michalko 48:31.64 31 55 Roland Jeannerod 48:32.42 32 14 Hartmut Döpp 48:46.08 33 50 Jan Staszel 48:46.72 34 16 Hansüli Kreuzer 48:55.37 35 8 Manne Liimatainen 48:59.90 36 27 Franz Betz 49:00.41 37 19 Hideo Tanifuji 49:06.97 38 30 Heinrich Wallner 49:17.97 39 44 Jean-Paul Vandel 49:22.89 40 17 Franco Nones 49:35.43 41 60 Kunio Shibata 49:38.95 42 51 Herbert Wachter 49:44.13 43 40 Akiyoshi Matsuoka 49:50.72 44 26 Everett Dunklee 49:52.20 45 43 Malcolm Hunter 49:54.08 46 33 Daniel Cerisey 50:05.88 47 25 Petar Pankov 50:06.74 48 4 Gérard Granclement 50:07.11 49 62 Fred Kelly 50:07.22 50 32 Roger Allen 50:41.31 51 6 Motoharu Matsumura 50:43.76 52 11 Jarl Omholt-Jensen 50:52.14 53 2 Ventseslav Stoyanov 50:54.98 54 45 Tim Caldwell 51:17.92 55 13 Ronny Yeager 51:36.54 56 20 Danzangiin Narantungalag 52:06.18 57 1 Namsrain Sandagdorj 52:48.54 58 64 Larry Martin 53:13.91 59 48 Terence Palliser 54:11.98 60 31 Peter Strong 54:41.99 61 5 Harry Tobin 56:05.05 +10:36.81 62 18 Liang Reng-guey +18:07.42 7 Josef Hauser 10 Ján Ilavský
References
External links Final results (International Ski Federation)