Cross Country Skiing — 5 kilometres, Women (discontinued)

Times held	10
Total participants	341
Total countries	42

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1964	5 kilometres, Women	Olympic	32	11
1968	5 kilometres, Women	Olympic	34	11
1972	5 kilometres, Women	Olympic	43	12
1976	5 kilometres, Women	Olympic	44	14
1980	5 kilometres, Women	Olympic	38	12
1984	5 kilometres, Women	Olympic	52	14
1988	5 kilometres (Classical), Women	Olympic	55	17
1992	5 kilometres (Classical), Women	Olympic	62	21
1994	5 kilometres (Classical), Women	Olympic	62	19
1998	5 kilometres (Classical), Women	Olympic	79	26

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1964	Klavdiya Boyarskikh	URS	Mirja Lehtonen	FIN	Alevtina Kolchina	URS
1968	Toini Gustafsson	SWE	Galina Kulakova	URS	Alevtina Kolchina	URS
1972	Galina Kulakova	URS	Marjatta Kajosmaa	FIN	Helena Šikolová	TCH
1976	Helena Takalo	FIN	Raisa Smetanina	URS	Nina Baldycheva	URS
1980	Raisa Smetanina	URS	Hilkka Riihivuori	FIN	Květa Jeriová	TCH
1984	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	FIN	Berit Aunli	NOR	Květa Jeriová	TCH
1988	Marjo Matikainen	FIN	Tamara Tikhonova	URS	Vida Vencienė	URS
1992	Marjut Lukkarinen	FIN	Lyubov Yegorova	EUN	Yelena Välbe	EUN
1994	Lyubov Yegorova	RUS	Manuela Di Centa	ITA	Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi	FIN
1998	Larisa Lazutina	RUS	Kateřina Neumannová	CZE	Bente Martinsen	NOR

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Finland	FIN	4	3	1	8
Soviet Union	URS	3	3	4	10
Russian Federation	RUS	2	0	0	2
Sweden	SWE	1	0	0	1
Norway	NOR	0	1	1	2
Unified Team	EUN	0	1	1	2
Czechia	CZE	0	1	0	1
Italy	ITA	0	1	0	1
Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	0	3	3

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Galina Kulakova	RUS URS	1	1	0	2
Raisa Smetanina	RUS URS EUN	1	1	0	2
Lyubov Yegorova	RUS EUN	1	1	0	2
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen-Kirvesniemi	FIN	1	0	1	2
Klavdiya Boyarskikh	RUS URS	1	0	0	1
Toini Gustafsson	SWE	1	0	0	1
Helena Kivioja-Takalo	FIN	1	0	0	1
Larisa Lazutina	RUS EUN	1	0	0	1
Marjut Rolig-Lukkarinen	FIN	1	0	0	1
Marjo Matikainen	FIN	1	0	0	1