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Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Cross-country skiing
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueMcKinney Creek Stadium
Dates19–27 February
No. of events6
Competitors112 from 19 nations
← 1956
1964 →

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

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Sweden (SWE)2215
2 Finland (FIN)2125
3 Soviet Union (URS)1236
4 Norway (NOR)1102
Totals (4 entries)66618

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

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.

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