Cross-country skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing at the IV Olympic Winter Games
Dates	6–16 February
No. of events	3
Competitors	109 from 22 nations
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Cross-country skiing at the 1936 Winter Olympics
18 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men
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The 1936 Winter Olympics were held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The games began on 6 February 1936, and ended on 16 February 1936. There were three cross-country skiing events held, in which only men competed. There were 109 male competitors from 22 different nations. The youngest participant was 17-year-old Resat Erces from Turkey, while the oldest participant was Nils Backstrom from the United States of America at 34 years old. The athletes whom collected the most medals were Oddbjørn Hagen of Norway, and Erik Larsson of Sweden – each received two medals. Sweden collected more medals than any other country in the cross-country skiing events at a total of five.^[1]

Events consisted of the 18 km and 50 km Classical, and the 4 × 10 km relay event was added. The relay event was held on Monday, 10 February 1936, the 18 km competition was held on Wednesday, 12 February 1936, and the 50 km event was held on Saturday, 15 February 1936.

Rule Changes Implemented: "International Olympic Committee ruled that ski instructors could not compete in the games because they were professionals. Austrian and Swiss skiers boycotted the Olympics, but some Austrians decided to compete under representation of Germany."

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden	2	1	2	5
2	Finland	1	0	1	2
3	Norway	0	2	0	2
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
18 km details	Erik August Larsson  Sweden	1:14:38	Oddbjørn Hagen  Norway	1:15:33	Pekka Niemi  Finland	1:16:59
50 km details	Elis Wiklund  Sweden	3:30:11	Axel Wikström  Sweden	3:33:20	Nils-Joel Englund  Sweden	3:34:10
4 × 10 km relay details	Finland (FIN) Sulo Nurmela Klaes Karppinen Matti Lähde Kalle Jalkanen	2:41:33	Norway (NOR) Oddbjørn Hagen Olaf Hoffsbakken Sverre Brodahl Bjarne Iversen	2:41:39	Sweden (SWE) John Berger Erik August Larsson Arthur Häggblad Martin Matsbo	2:43:03

Ten cross-country skiers competed in all three events.

A total of 109 cross-country skiers from 22 nations competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games:

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• International Olympic Committee results database