Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing
at the II Paralympic Winter Games
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Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Paralympics consisted of 28 events, 18 for men and 10 for women.

Medal table

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Rank	Nation				Total
1	Finland (FIN)	14	7	9	29
2	Norway (NOR)	9	7	4	20
3	Sweden (SWE)	5	3	5	13
4	West Germany (FRG)	0	4	2	5
5	Austria (AUT)	0	1	0	1
5	France (FRA)	0	1	0	1
7	Canada (CAN)	0	0	1	1
7	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Total		28	23	22	73

Medal summary

The competition events were:

5 km: men - women
10 km: men - women
20 km: men
4x5 km relay: men - women
4x10 km relay: men

Each event had separate standing, sitting, or visually impaired classifications:

1A - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
2A - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
2B - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
3A - standing: single arm amputation
3B - standing: double arm amputation
5 - sitting
5A - visually impaired: under 10% functional vision
5B - visually impaired: no functional vision

Men's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	1A details	Pertti Sankilampi Finland	Samuli Kaemi Finland	Otto Malkki Finland
	2A details	Veikko Jantunen Finland	Gerard Vandel France	Bertil Lundmark Sweden
	2B details	Ensio Kinnunen Finland	Franz Sliwinski West Germany	None
	3A details	Jouko Grip Finland	Erkki Seppaenen Finland	Rune Karlsson Sweden
	3A details	Jouko Grip Finland	Erkki Seppaenen Finland	Heikki Miettinen Finland
	3B details	Kari Laakkonen Finland	Reino Vesander Finland	Adolf Fritsche West Germany
	5 details	Erik Sandbraaten Norway	None	None
10 km - middle distance	1A details	Pertti Sankilampi Finland	Samuli Kaemi Finland	Tauno Seppaenen Finland
	2A details	Veikko Jantunen Finland	Erkki Kukkanen Finland	Bertil Lundmark Sweden
	2B details	Ensio Kinnunen Finland	Franz Sliwinski West Germany	None
	3A details	Jouko Grip Finland	Heikki Miettinen Finland	Erkki Seppaenen Finland
	3B details	Cato Zahl Pedersen Norway	Kari Laakkonen Finland	Reino Vesander Finland
	5A details	Morten Langeroed Norway	Terje Loevaas Norway	Torbjoern Foss Norway
	5B details	Geir Vegard Alien Norway	George Witthof Sweden	Hans Anton Aalien Norway
20 km - long distance	5A details	Terje Loevaas Norway	Morten Langeroed Norway	Torbjoern Foss Norway
20 km - long distance	5B details	Hans Anton Aalien Norway	George Witthof Sweden	Geir Vegard Alien Norway
4x5 km relay	1A+2A^[2] details	Finland (FIN) Veikko Jantunen Samuli Kaemi Erkki Kukkanen Pertti Sankilampi	West Germany (FRG) Hermann Heckel Helmut Kaidisch Alfred Kauffmann Siegfried Loose	Switzerland (SUI) Unknown
4x5 km relay	3A-3B details	Finland (FIN) Karin Laakkonen Jouko Grip Heikki Miettinen Erkki Seppänen^[3]	Austria (AUT) Bruno Geuze Franz Perner Horst Morokutti Josef Scheiber	West Germany (FRG) Otto Faller Adolf Fritsche Walter Klenk Ludwig Wagner
4x10 km relay	5A-5B details	Norway (NOR) Hans Anton Aalien Geir Vegard Alien Morten Langeroed Terje Loevaas^[4]	Sweden (SWE) Yngve Eriksson Ove Karlsson Sven-Ivar Martin George Witthof	Finland (FIN) Ismo Alanko Mauno Sulisalo Teuvo Talmia Matti Juntunen^[3]

Women's events

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	2A details	Liisa Maekelae Finland	None	None
	5 details	Brit Mjaasund Oejen Norway	None	None
	5A details	Desiree Johansson Sweden	Kari Heggum Norway	Matleena Talonen Finland
	5B details	Birgitta Sund Sweden	Aud Berntsen Norway	Marianne Edfeldt Sweden
10 km - middle distance	2A details	Liisa Maekelae Finland	None	None
	3A details	Alli Hatva Finland	Dorothea Neuweiler West Germany	Railli Rantala Finland
	5 details	Brit Mjaasund Oejen Norway	None	None
	5A details	Desiree Johansson Sweden	Kari Heggum Norway	Matleena Talonen Finland
	5B details	Birgitta Sund Sweden	Aud Berntsen Norway	Marianne Edfeldt Sweden
4x5 km relay	5A-5B details	Sweden (SWE) Marianne Edfeldt Desiree Johansson Astrid Nilsson Birgitta Sund	Norway (NOR) Aud Berntsen Aud Grundvik Kari Heggum Aud Jensen	Canada (CAN) Mary Brunner Dawn Coyle Janet Schuster Judy Shaw

References

^ Medal Standings - Geilo 1980 Paralympic Winter Games -Cross-Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
^ Medal Standings - Geilo 1980 Paralympic Winter Games -Cross-Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)
^ ^a ^b Geilo - Suomalaiset paralympiamitalistit Geilon kisoissa Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine (Finnish), Finnish Paralympic Committee
^ Norske medaljer Paralympics, Vinter Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine (Norwegian), Olympiatoppen

"IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-16.
- The information from the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) website is based on sources which does not present all information from earlier Paralympic Games (1960-1984), such as relay and team members.[1] (Per nov.16, 2010)
"Geilo 1980". paralympia.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-17.
Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics^{[permanent dead link‍]}, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee

External links

Picture of Norwegian skier Geir Vegard Ålien and Crown Prince Harald at Scanpix

[1] Medal Standings - Geilo 1980 Paralympic Winter Games -Cross-Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)

[2] Medal Standings - Geilo 1980 Paralympic Winter Games -Cross-Country Skiing, International Paralympic Committee (IPC)

[finnish-3] Geilo - Suomalaiset paralympiamitalistit Geilon kisoissa Archived 2011-07-18 at the Wayback Machine (Finnish), Finnish Paralympic Committee

[4] Norske medaljer Paralympics, Vinter Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine (Norwegian), Olympiatoppen

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