Maria Gusakova
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1960 Squaw Valley | 10 km | |
| Silver | 1960 Squaw Valley | 3 x 5 km | |
| Bronze | 1964 Innsbruck | 3 x 5 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1962 Zakopane | 3 x 5 km | |
| Silver | 1962 Zakopane | 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1962 Zakopane | 5 km | |
Maria Ivanovna Gusakova (Russian: Мари́я Ива́новна Гусако́ва) (born February 2, 1931 in the village of Timoshkino, Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast) was a former Soviet cross country skier who competed from the late 1950s to the early 1960s for VSS Spartak. She won a complete set Winter Olympic medals with a gold in the 10 km (1960), a silver in the 3x5 km (1960) and a bronze in the 10 km (1964).
Gusakova also earned a complete set of medals at the 1962 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 3x5 km, a silver in the 10 km, and a bronze in the 5 km.
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1952: Lydia Wideman * 1956: Lyubov Kozyreva * 1960: Maria Gusakova * 1964: Klavdiya Boyarskikh * 1968: Toini Gustafsson * 1972: Galina Kulakova * 1976: Raisa Smetanina * 1980: Barbara Petzold * 1984: Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen * 1988: Vida Vencienė * 2002: Bente Skari * 2006: Kristina Šmigun
(As 3 x 5 km) 1954 Soviet Union Lyubov Kozyreva, Margarita Maslennikova & Valentina Tsaryova
1958 Soviet Union Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina & Lyubov Kozyreva
1962 Soviet Union Lyubov Baranova, Maria Gusakova & Alevtina Kolchina
1966 Soviet Union Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Rita Achkina & Alevtina Kolchina
1970 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova & Alevtina Olyunina
(As 4 x 5 km) 1974 Soviet Union Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova
1978 Finland Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori & Helena Takalo
1982 Norway Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli & Britt Pettersen
1985 Soviet Union Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko & Anfisa Romanova
1987 Soviet Union Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Larisa Ptistyna, & Anfisa Reztsova
1989 Finland Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen & Marjo Matikainen
1991 Soviet Union Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova & Yelena Välbe
1993 Russia Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova
1995 Russia Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina & Nina Gavrilyuk
1997 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Yelena Välbe
1999 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova & Nina Gavrilyuk
2001 Russia Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova & Nina Gavrilyuk
2003 Germany Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher
2005 Norway Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen
2007 Finland Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Pirjo Manninen
Categories: 1931 births | Living people | Soviet cross-country skiers | Olympic cross-country skiers of the Soviet Union | Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union | Olympic silver medalists for the Soviet Union | Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union | Competitors at the 1960 Winter Olympics | Competitors at the 1964 Winter Olympics | Spartak athletes | Russian cross country skiing biography stubs
