Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Cross-country skiing at the VIII Olympic Winter Games | |
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Venue | McKinney Creek Stadium |
Dates | 19–27 February |
No. of events | 6 |
Competitors | 112 from 19 nations |
Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics | ||
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10 km | women | |
15 km | men | |
30 km | men | |
50 km | men | |
Relay | men | women |
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 |
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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
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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15 km |
Håkon Brusveen Norway |
51:55.5 | Sixten Jernberg Sweden |
51:58.6 | Veikko Hakulinen Finland |
52:03.00 |
30 km |
Sixten Jernberg Sweden |
1:51:03.9 | Rolf Rämgård Sweden |
1:51:16.9 | Nikolay Anikin Soviet Union |
1:52:28.2 |
50 km |
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 |
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 | |||
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10 km |
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 |
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
- ^ "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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