Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Women's 5 kilometre

Women's 5km at the X Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing
Venue	Cross Country Skiing Stadium
Date	13 February
Competitors	34 from 11 nations
Winning time	16:45.2
Medalists
Toini Gustafsson  Sweden Galina Kulakova  Soviet Union Alevtina Kolchina  Soviet Union

Cross-country skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics
5 km		women
10 km		women
15 km	men
30 km	men
50 km	men
Relay	men	women

The Women's 5 kilometre cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing programme at the 1968 Winter Olympics, in Grenoble, France. It was the second appearance of the event. The competition was held on 13 February 1968, at Autrans.

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Toini Gustafsson	Sweden	16:45.2
2	Galina Kulakova	Soviet Union	16:48.4
3	Alevtina Kolchina	Soviet Union	16:51.6
4	Barbro Martinsson	Sweden	16:52.9
5	Marjatta Kajosmaa	Finland	16:54.6
6	Rita Achkina	Soviet Union	16:55.1
7	Inger Aufles	Norway	16:58.1
8	Senja Pusula	Finland	17:00.3
9	Stefania Biegun	Poland	17:03.4
10	Berit Mørdre-Lammedal	Norway	17:11.9
11	Marjatta Muttilainen-Olkkonen	Finland	17:12.4
12	Christine Nestler	East Germany	17:23.5
13	Gudrun Schmidt	East Germany	17:24.3
14	Renate Fischer-Köhler	East Germany	17:25.5
15	Britt Strandberg	Sweden	17:25.8
16	Anni Unger	East Germany	17:30.7
17	Monika Mrklas	West Germany	17:32.5
18	Barbro Tano	Sweden	17:35.8
19	Weronika Budny	Poland	17:38.2
20	Alevtina Olyunina-Smirnova	Soviet Union	17:43.2
21	Babben Enger-Damon	Norway	17:43.3
22	Helena Kivioja-Takalo	Finland	17:46.2
23	Józefa Czerniawska-Pęksa	Poland	17:56.5
24	Nadezhda Vasileva	Bulgaria	17:58.7
25	Michaela Endler	West Germany	17:59.2
26	Anna Gębala-Duraj	Poland	18:02.7
27	Éva Balázs	Hungary	18:05.8
28	Tone Dahle	Norway	18:09.1
29	Barbara Barthel	West Germany	18:20.0
30	Velichka Pandeva	Bulgaria	18:23.7
31	Tsvetana Sotirova	Bulgaria	18:27.3
32	Fujiko Kato	Japan	18:28.2
33	Roza Dimova	Bulgaria	19:05.6
34	Kirsten Carlsen	Denmark	19:56.6