Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Sixten Jernberg

At the 1960 Winter Olympics six cross-country skiing events – four for men and two for women – 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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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 1:13:27.00	Rolf Rämgård Sweden 1:13:49.00	Nikolay Anikin Soviet Union 1:14:14.00
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	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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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	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


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 nations)		6	6	6	18

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