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.

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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

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

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
				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
	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]

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

• Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

• "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

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