Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	McKinney Creek Stadium
Dates	19–27 February
No. of events	6
Competitors	112 from 19 nations
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At the 1960 Winter Olympics six cross-country skiing events were contested. The competitions were held from Friday, 19 February, to Saturday, 27 February 1960. All the races took place at McKinney Creek Stadium, Tahoma, California, United States. ^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Sweden  (SWE)	2	2	1	5
2	Finland  (FIN)	2	1	2	5
3	Soviet Union  (URS)	1	2	3	6
4	Norway  (NOR)	1	1	0	2
Totals (4 entries)		6	6	6	18

Men's events

Sixten Jernberg

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Håkon Brusveen   Norway	51:55.5	Sixten Jernberg   Sweden	51:58.6	Veikko Hakulinen   Finland	52:03.00
30 km details	Sixten Jernberg   Sweden	1:51:03.9	Rolf Rämgård   Sweden	1:51:16.9	Nikolay Anikin   Soviet Union	1:52:28.2
50 km details	Kalevi Hämäläinen   Finland	2:59:06.3	Veikko Hakulinen   Finland	2:59:26.7	Rolf Rämgård   Sweden	3:02:46.7
4 × 10 km relay details	Finland  (FIN) Toimi Alatalo Eero Mäntyranta Väinö Huhtala Veikko Hakulinen	2:18:45.6	Norway  (NOR) Harald Grønningen Hallgeir Brenden Einar Østby Håkon Brusveen	2:18:46.4	Soviet Union  (URS) Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin	2:21:21.6

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
10 km details	Marija Gusakova   Soviet Union	39:46.6	Liubov Baranova   Soviet Union	40:04.2	Radia Eroshina   Soviet Union	40:06.0
3 × 5 km relay details	Sweden  (SWE) Irma Johansson Britt Strandberg Sonja Ruthström-Edström	1:04:21.4	Soviet Union  (URS) Radia Eroshina Marija Gusakova Liubov Baranova	1:05:02.6	Finland  (FIN) Siiri Rantanen Eeva Ruoppa Toini Pöysti	1:06:27.5

Participating nations

•   Argentina  (1)
•   Australia  (1)
•   Bulgaria  (4)
•   Canada  (2)
•   Czechoslovakia  (1)
•   Finland  (12)
•   France  (4)
•   United Team of Germany  (14)
•   Great Britain  (3)
•   Hungary  (2)
•   Italy  (9)
•   Japan  (4)
•   South Korea  (1)
•   Norway  (7)
•   Poland  (9)
•   Soviet Union  (11)
•   Sweden  (12)
•   Switzerland  (5)
•   United States  (10)

References

1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 14 June 2019.

External links

• 1960 Squaw Valley Official Olympic Report
• 1960 Olympic Nordic Events