Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	5	3	13
2	Sweden (SWE)	2	0	0	2
3	Finland (FIN)	1	0	2	3
4	Norway (NOR)	0	2	1	3
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	0	1
6	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

Participating NOCs

Thirty-four nations sent cross-country skiers to compete in the events in Calgary.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 kilometre classical	Mikhail Devyatyarov  Soviet Union	41:18.9	Pål Gunnar Mikkelsplass  Norway	41:33.4	Vladimir Smirnov  Soviet Union	41:48.5
30 kilometre classical	Alexey Prokurorov  Soviet Union	1:24:26.3	Vladimir Smirnov  Soviet Union	1:24:35.1	Vegard Ulvang  Norway	1:25:11.6
50 kilometre freestyle	Gunde Svan  Sweden	2:04:30.9	Maurilio De Zolt  Italy	2:05:36.4	Andi Grünenfelder  Switzerland	2:06:01.9
4 × 10 km relay	Sweden (SWE) Jan Ottosson Thomas Wassberg Gunde Svan Torgny Mogren	1:43:58.6	Soviet Union (URS) Vladimir Smirnov Vladimir Sakhnov Mikhail Devyatyarov Alexey Prokurorov	1:44:11.3	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Radim Nyč Václav Korunka Pavel Benc Ladislav Švanda	1:45:22.7

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
5 kilometre classical	Marjo Matikainen  Finland	15:04.0	Tamara Tikhonova  Soviet Union	15:05.3	Vida Vencienė  Soviet Union	15:11.1
10 kilometre classical	Vida Vencienė  Soviet Union	30:08.3	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	30:17.0	Marjo Matikainen  Finland	30:20.5
20 kilometre freestyle	Tamara Tikhonova  Soviet Union	55:53.6	Anfisa Reztsova  Soviet Union	56:12.8	Raisa Smetanina  Soviet Union	57:22.1
4 × 5 km relay	Soviet Union (URS) Svetlana Nageykina Nina Gavrylyuk Tamara Tikhonova Anfisa Reztsova	59:51.1	Norway (NOR) Trude Dybendahl Marit Wold Anne Jahren Marianne Dahlmo	1:01:33.0	Finland (FIN) Pirkko Määttä Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi Marjo Matikainen Jaana Savolainen	1:01:53.8