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.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
15 km	Håkon Brusveen Norway (NOR)	Sixten Jernberg Sweden (SWE)	Veikko Hakulinen Finland (FIN)
30 km	Sixten Jernberg Sweden (SWE)	Rolf Rämgård Sweden (SWE)	Nikolay Anikin Soviet Union (URS)
50 km	Kalevi Hämäläinen Finland (FIN)	Veikko Hakulinen Finland (FIN)	Rolf Rämgård Sweden (SWE)
4×10 km	Finland (FIN) Toimi Alatalo Eero Mäntyranta Väinö Huhtala Veikko Hakulinen	Norway (NOR) Harald Grønningen Hallgeir Brenden Einar Østby Håkon Brusveen	Soviet Union (URS) Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
10 km	Maria Gusakova Soviet Union (URS)	Lyubov Kozyreva Soviet Union (URS)	Radia Yeroshina Soviet Union (URS)
3×5 km	Sweden (SWE) Irma Johansson Britt Strandberg Sonja Ruthström-Edström	Soviet Union (URS) Radia Yeroshina Maria Gusakova Lyubov Kozyreva	Finland (FIN) Siiri Rantanen Eeva Ruoppa Toini Pöysti

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
Total		6	6	6	18

External links

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