After Bill Koch became the first American to win an Olympic medal in cross country skiing at the 1976 Innsbruck Games, a reporter asked if he had lived in Vermont all of his life. “Not yet ...

U.S. cross-country skier and Olympic silver medalist, Bill Koch first used his skating style, now known as freestyle, in an Olympic distance event in 1976. Classical events had to be skied using ...

Outside of Diggins and Randall, Bill Koch is the only other American to medal in cross-country skiing. Koch took silver in the men’s 30-kilometer event at the 1976 Innsbruck Games. The Beijing ...

In fact before Diggins and Randal won gold, the last American to win any medal in cross country skiing was Bill Koch in 1976. That’s a 42-year drought between medals. In the team sprint event ...

His contemporaries in the cross-country and ski-jumping community were Bill Koch of Guilford, Tim Caldwell of Putney and Stan Dunklee of Brattleboro, among others. What is it about Southern Vermont — ...

As recently as 2018, the U.S. was looking for its first Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since Bill Koch won the silver in the 30-kilometer race in 1976. That was the lone American cross ...