Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

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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	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland
30 km	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Rolf Rämgård  Sweden	Nikolay Anikin  Soviet Union
50 km	Kalevi Hämäläinen  Finland	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Rolf Rämgård  Sweden
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	Lyubov Kozyreva  Soviet Union	Radia Yeroshina  Soviet Union
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