List of 1960 Winter Olympics medal winners

Canadian alpine skiing gold medalist Anne Heggtveit poses with her medal.

The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a multi-sport event held in Squaw Valley, California, United States from February 18 through February 28, 1960. A total of 665 athletes representing 30 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 27 events across 8 disciplines during the Games. ^[1]

The Olympic program was adjusted from that of the 1956 Winter Olympics omitting bobsleigh and adding a sport new to Olympic competition, biathlon. ^{[1] [2] [3]} The sport of military patrol, similar to biathlon, had previously been a medal sport in 1924 and a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948. ^[4] The removal of bobsleigh from the Olympic program was by necessity; the site for the 1960 Games lacked a bobsleigh track and the funds were not available to build one. Despite only five nations confirming their intention to take part, the removal of the event from the program garnered international criticism. ^[5] Both men and women competed at the 1960 Games, with women taking part in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating, and speed skating.

A total of 131 athletes won medals at the 1960 Games. ^[6] The Soviet Union was awarded the most medals, with its athletes winning seven gold medals, five silver, and nine bronze, for a total of 21 medals overall. The United States placed second in medal count, with a total of 10 medals, and Germany placed third, with eight medals overall. Of the 30 NOCs competing in the 1960 Games, 14 won at least one medal, with 10 of these winning at least one gold medal. ^[6] There was an unofficial bronze medal awarded to Theron Bailie, USA, for the development of the digital clock used for the first time in downhill skiing.

The Scandinavian countries attained considerable success in cross-country skiing, with the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish teams winning 12 of the available 18 medals and the remaining six medals being won by the Soviet Union. ^[7] Finnish cross-country skier Veikko Hakulinen won the most medals, with three – bronze from the men's 15 kilometres event, silver from the men's 50 kilometres event, and gold from the men's 4 × 10 kilometres relay. ^{[6] [8]}

Alpine skiing

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's downhill [9] details	Jean Vuarnet   France	Hans-Peter Lanig   United Team of Germany	Guy Périllat   France
Men's slalom [10] details	Ernst Hinterseer   Austria	Hias Leitner   Austria	Charles Bozon   France
Men's giant slalom [11] details	Roger Staub   Switzerland	Josef Stiegler   Austria	Ernst Hinterseer   Austria
Women's downhill [12] details	Heidi Biebl   United Team of Germany	Penelope Pitou   United States	Traudl Hecher   Austria
Women's slalom [13] details	Anne Heggtveit   Canada	Betsy Snite   United States	Barbara Henneberger   United Team of Germany
Women's giant slalom [14] details	Yvonne Rüegg   Switzerland	Penelope Pitou   United States	Giuliana Minuzzo   Italy

Biathlon

See also: Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 20 km [15] details	Klas Lestander   Sweden	Antti Tyrväinen   Finland	Aleksandr Privalov   Soviet Union

Cross-country skiing

Sixten Jernberg (left), who represented Sweden, won two medals including a gold in the 30 km race.

See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 15 km [16] details	Håkon Brusveen   Norway	Sixten Jernberg   Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen   Finland
Men's 30 km [17] details	Sixten Jernberg   Sweden	Rolf Rämgård   Sweden	Nikolay Anikin   Soviet Union
Men's 50 km [18] details	Kalevi Hämäläinen   Finland	Veikko Hakulinen   Finland	Rolf Rämgård   Sweden
Men's 4 × 10 km relay details	Finland  (FIN) [19] Toimi Alatalo Eero Mäntyranta Väinö Huhtala Veikko Hakulinen	Norway  (NOR) [20] Harald Grønningen Hallgeir Brenden Einar Østby Håkon Brusveen	Soviet Union  (URS) [21] Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin
Women's 10 km [22] details	Maria Gusakova   Soviet Union	Lyubov Kozyreva   Soviet Union	Radya Yeroshina   Soviet Union
Women's 3 × 5 km relay details	Sweden  (SWE) [23] Irma Johansson Britt Strandberg Sonja Edström	Soviet Union  (URS) [21] Radya Yeroshina Maria Gusakova Lyubov Kozyreva	Finland  (FIN) [19] Siiri Rantanen Eeva Ruoppa Toini Pöysti

Figure skating

See also: Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles [24] details	David Jenkins   United States	Karol Divín   Czechoslovakia	Donald Jackson   Canada
Ladies' singles [25] details	Carol Heiss   United States	Sjoukje Dijkstra   Netherlands	Barbara Roles   United States
Pairs details	Canada  (CAN) [26] Barbara Wagner Robert Paul	United Team of Germany  (EUA) [27] Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler	United States  (USA) [28] Nancy Ludington Ronald Ludington

Ice hockey

See also: Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team details	United States  (USA) [29] Bill Christian Roger Christian Bill Cleary Bob Cleary Eugene Grazia Paul Johnson Jack Kirrane John Mayasich Jack McCartan Robert McVey Richard Meredith Weldon Olson Edwyn Owen Rodney Paavola Lawrence Palmer Richard Rodenheiser Tommy Williams	Canada  (CAN) [30] Bob Attersley Maurice Benoît James Connelly Jack Douglas Fred Etcher Robert Forhan Don Head Harold Hurley Ken Laufman Floyd Martin Robert McKnight Cliff Pennington Donald Rope Bobby Rousseau George Samolenko Harry Sinden Darryl Sly	Soviet Union  (URS) [31] Veniamin Alexandrov Aleksandr Almetov Yury Baulin Mikhail Bychkov Vladimir Grebennikov Yevgeny Groshev Nikolay Karpov Alfred Kuchevsky Konstantin Loktev Stanislav Petukhov Viktor Pryazhnikov Nikolai Puchkov Genrikh Sidorenkov Nikolai Sologubov Yury Tsitsinov Viktor Yakushev Yevgeni Yorkin

Nordic combined

Georg Thoma alongside two German Olympic gold medalists from the 1960 Summer Games, Heidi Schmid (fencing) and Ingrid Krämer (diving).

See also: Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual [32] details	Georg Thoma   United Team of Germany	Tormod Knutsen   Norway	Nikolay Gusakov   Soviet Union

Ski jumping

See also: Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual [33] details	Helmut Recknagel   United Team of Germany	Niilo Halonen   Finland	Otto Leodolter   Austria

Speed skating

See also: Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

German skater Helga Haase won two medals in Squaw Valley.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500 metres [34] details	Yevgeny Grishin   Soviet Union	Bill Disney   United States	Rafayel Grach   Soviet Union
Men's 1,500 metres [35] details	Roald Aas   Norway Yevgeny Grishin   Soviet Union	None awarded [a]	Boris Stenin   Soviet Union
Men's 5,000 metres [36] details	Viktor Kosichkin   Soviet Union	Knut Johannesen   Norway	Jan Pesman   Netherlands
Men's 10,000 metres [37] details	Knut Johannesen   Norway	Viktor Kosichkin   Soviet Union	Kjell Bäckman   Sweden
Women's 500 metres [38] details	Helga Haase   United Team of Germany	Natalya Donchenko   Soviet Union	Jeanne Ashworth   United States
Women's 1,000 metres [39] details	Klara Guseva   Soviet Union	Helga Haase   United Team of Germany	Tamara Rylova   Soviet Union
Women's 1,500 metres [40] details	Lidiya Skoblikova   Soviet Union	Elwira Seroczyńska   Poland	Helena Pilejczyk   Poland
Women's 3,000 metres [41] details	Lidiya Skoblikova   Soviet Union	Valentina Stenina   Soviet Union	Eevi Huttunen   Finland

Multiple medalists

Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1960 Winter Olympics are listed below. ^[6]

Athlete	Nation	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Veikko Hakulinen	Finland  (FIN)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	1	3
Lidiya Skoblikova	Soviet Union  (URS)	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Yevgeny Grishin	Soviet Union  (URS)	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Maria Gusakova	Soviet Union  (URS)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Helga Haase	United Team of Germany  (EUA)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Håkon Brusveen	Norway  (NOR)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Sixten Jernberg	Sweden  (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Knut Johannesen	Norway  (NOR)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Viktor Kosichkin	Soviet Union  (URS)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Ernst Hinterseer	Austria  (AUT)	Alpine skiing	1	0	1	2
Lyubov Kozyreva	Soviet Union  (URS)	Cross-country skiing	0	2	0	2
Penny Pitou	United States  (USA)	Alpine skiing	0	2	0	2
Radya Yeroshina	Soviet Union  (URS)	Cross-country skiing	0	1	1	2
Rolf Rämgård	Sweden  (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	0	1	1	2
Nikolay Anikin	Soviet Union  (URS)	Cross-country skiing	0	0	2	2

Note

• ^a No silver medal was awarded in this event because Grishin and Aas tied for first place with a time of 2:10.4. ^[42]

See also

• 1960 Winter Olympics medal table

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External links

• "Squaw Valley 1960". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.