CBC.ca - Torino 2006
Cross-Country Skiing
- Detailed Results
- Related Information
Italian fans cheer for di Centa
Italian cross-country skier Giorgio di Centa delighted the home crowd by winning the men's 50-kilometre mass start race of the Torino Olympics on Sunday.
- Czech wins cross-country gold
- Doping investigation continues
- Canada's Crawford wins sprint gold
- Scott, Koivu elected to IOC athletes' board
- Austrians admit to 'illegal methods'
- Nordic skiers throw it into high gear
- Cross-country skiers cleared to compete
- Austrian coach in psychiatric hospital
- Italians celebrate cross-country win
- Police raid finds doping materials
- More Headlines
Crib Sheet
Winter Olympic sport with the most events: Cross-country skiing, 12
Year the 1.5-kilometre sprint was added to the Olympics: 2002Salt Lake City
First Olympic women's cross-country ski event: 1952Oslo
First Canadian Olympic medallist: Beckie Scott, gold, 2002 Salt Lake City
First Canadian world championship medallist: Sara Renner, sprint bronze, 2005
In both these Olympics Scandinavians claimed the top 11 places in the 15-kilometre classical race: 1924 Chamonix, 1932 Lake Placid
The first two non-Scandinavians to place in the top eight in the 15km classical race: Pavel Kochin and Nikolai Anikin of Soviet Union, 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo
Year the Olympic 18km race switched to a 15km distance: 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo
One oxygen efficient champion: Sven-Ake Lundback, winner of the 15km classical race in the 1972 Sapporo Games, had an oxygen consumption rate of 94.6 milliliters per kilogram per minute. Olympic-calibre marathoners range in the 80s
Electronic timing introduced: 1980Lake Placid
Young champion: Sweden’s Gunde Svan, 22, became the youngest cross-country skier to win Olympic gold, 1984 Sarajevo
Most decorated Winter Olympian: Norwegian cross-country ski legend Bjorn Daehlie, 12 Olympic medals
First Bulgarian to win a Winter Olympic medal: Cross-country skier Ivan Lebanov, 1980 Lake Placid
First American to win a cross-country skiing Olympic medal: Bill Koch of Guilford, Vermont, silver, 1976 Innsbruck
Norway’s Vegard Ulvang wins first of three Olympic gold medals, 1992Albertville
Italian medal sweep: Manuela Di Centa of Italy won medals in every cross-country event, 1994 Lillehammer
Most mothers on podium: All three medallists of the 15 km race, 1998 Nagano