Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics

Cross-country skiing at the III Paralympic Winter Games
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Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Paralympics consisted of 35 events, 23 for men and 12 for women.

Medal table[]

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Rank	Nation				Total
1	Finland (FIN)	12	9	6	27
2	Austria (AUT)	8	8	5	21
3	Norway (NOR)	6	3	2	11
4	West Germany (FRG)	3	8	2	13
5	Poland (POL)	3	2	4	9
6	France (FRA)	2	0	0	2
7	Sweden (SWE)	1	1	4	6
8	Switzerland (SUI)	0	3	9	12
9	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
Total		35	35	33	103

Medal summary[]

The competition events were:

• 2.5 km: - women
• 5 km: men - women
• 10 km: men - women
• 20 km: men
• 3x2.5 km relay: men
• 3x5 km relay: - women
• 4x5 km relay: men - women
• 4x10 km relay: men

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

• LW2 - standing: single leg amputation above the knee
• LW 3 - standing: double leg amputation below the knee, mild cerebral palsy, or equivalent impairment
• LW4 - standing: single leg amputation below the knee
• LW5/7 - standing: double arm amputation
• LW6/8 - standing: single arm amputation
• LW9 - standing: amputation or equivalent impairment of one arm and one leg
• Gr I - sitting: paraplegia with no or some upper abdominal function and no functional sitting balance
• Gr II - sitting: paraplegia with fair functional sitting balance
• B1 - visually impaired: no functional vision
• B2 - visually impaired: up to ca 3-5% functional vision

Men's events[]

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
5 km - short distance	Gr I	Austria		Switzerland
	Gr II	Austria	Austria	Switzerland
	LW2	Finland	Finland	Ari Mustonen  Finland
	LW3	Poland	Poland	Poland
	LW4	Finland	Svein Lilleberg  Norway
	LW5/7	Pierre Delaval  France		Horst Morokutti  Austria
	LW9		Switzerland	Peter Kieweg  Austria
10 km - short distance	B1	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway	Finland	Peter Young  Great Britain
	B2	Norway	Norway	Norway
	LW6/8	Jouko Grip  Finland	Finland	Finland
10 km - middle distance	B1	Hans Anton Aalien  Norway	Finland	Finland
	B2	Norway	Norway	Norway
	Gr I	Austria		Heinz Frei  Switzerland
	Gr II	Austria	Austria	Switzerland
	LW2	Finland	Finland	Finland
	LW3	Poland	Poland	Poland
	LW4	Svein Lilleberg  Norway		Finland
	LW5/7	Pierre Delaval  France	Horst Morokutti  Austria
	LW9		Switzerland	Peter Kieweg  Austria
20 km - middle distance	LW6/8	Jouko Grip  Finland		Sweden
3×2.5 km relay	Gr I-II	Austria (AUT)	Austria (AUT)	Switzerland (SUI) Heinz Frei
4×5 km relay	LW2-9	Finland (FIN)	Finland (FIN)	Sweden (SWE)
4×10 km relay	B1-2	Norway (NOR) Hans Anton Aalien	Finland (FIN)	Sweden (SWE)

Women's events[]

Event	Class	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2.5 km - short distance	Gr II	Austria	Austria	Switzerland
5 km - short distance	B1	Finland	Austria	Sweden
	B2	Finland	Sweden	Finland
	LW4	Finland		Switzerland
	LW6/8	Finland		Poland
5 km - middle distance	Gr II	Austria	Austria	Switzerland
10 km - middle distance	B1	Finland	Austria	Doris Campbell  Austria
	B2	Sweden	Finland	Austria
	LW4		Finland	Switzerland
	LW6/8	Finland		Poland
3×5 km relay	LW2-9	Poland (POL) Jolanta Kochanaowska Henryka Sadowska	Switzerland (SUI)	None
4×5 km relay	B1-2 details	Austria (AUT) Doris Campbell Marianne Kriegl	United States (USA)	None

See also[]

• Cross-country skiing at the 1984 Winter Olympics

References[]

• "IPC Historical Results Database". International Paralympic Committee (IPC). 2010. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
  • 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.18, 2010)
• "Innsbruck 1984". paralympia.de. 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2010-11-18.
• Historical Medallists : Vancouver 2010 Winter Paralympics, Official website of the 2010 Winter Paralympics
• Winter Sport Classification, Canadian Paralympic Committee