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Anne Heggtveit wearing a plush coat, holds up a round medal.
Canadian alpine skiing gold medalist Anne Heggtveit poses with her medal.

The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known by the International Olympic Committee as the VIII Olympic Winter Games, were a multi-sport event held in Squaw Valley, California, United States from February 18 through February 28, 1960. A total of 665 athletes representing 30 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in 27 events across 8 disciplines during the Games. [1]

The Olympic program was adjusted from that of the 1956 Winter Olympics omitting bobsleigh and adding a sport new to Olympic competition, biathlon. [1] [2] [3] The sport of military patrol, similar to biathlon, had previously been a medal sport in 1924 and a demonstration sport in 1928, 1936 and 1948. [4] The removal of bobsleigh from the Olympic program was by necessity; the site for the 1960 Games lacked a bobsleigh track and the funds were not available to build one. Despite only five nations confirming their intention to take part, the removal of the event from the program garnered international criticism. [5] Both men and women competed at the 1960 Games, with women taking part in alpine skiing, cross-country skiing, figure skating, and speed skating.

A total of 131 athletes won medals at the 1960 Games. [6] The Soviet Union was awarded the most medals, with its athletes winning seven gold medals, five silver, and nine bronze, for a total of 21 medals overall. The United States placed second in medal count, with a total of 10 medals, and Germany placed third, with eight medals overall. Of the 30 NOCs competing in the 1960 Games, 14 won at least one medal, with 10 of these winning at least one gold medal. [6] There was an unofficial bronze medal awarded to Theron Bailie, USA, for the development of the digital clock used for the first time in downhill skiing.

The Scandinavian countries attained considerable success in cross-country skiing, with the Swedish, Norwegian and Finnish teams winning 12 of the available 18 medals and the remaining six medals being won by the Soviet Union. [7] Finnish cross-country skier Veikko Hakulinen won the most medals, with three – bronze from the men's 15 kilometres event, silver from the men's 50 kilometres event, and gold from the men's 4 × 10 kilometres relay. [6] [8]

Alpine skiing

See also: Alpine skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's downhill [9]
details 		Jean Vuarnet
  France 		Hans-Peter Lanig
  United Team of Germany 		Guy Périllat
  France
Men's slalom [10]
details 		Ernst Hinterseer
  Austria 		Hias Leitner
  Austria 		Charles Bozon
  France
Men's giant slalom [11]
details 		Roger Staub
  Switzerland 		Josef Stiegler
  Austria 		Ernst Hinterseer
  Austria
Women's downhill [12]
details 		Heidi Biebl
  United Team of Germany 		Penelope Pitou
  United States 		Traudl Hecher
  Austria
Women's slalom [13]
details 		Anne Heggtveit
  Canada 		Betsy Snite
  United States 		Barbara Henneberger
  United Team of Germany
Women's giant slalom [14]
details 		Yvonne Rüegg
  Switzerland 		Penelope Pitou
  United States 		Giuliana Minuzzo
  Italy

Biathlon

See also: Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 20 km [15]
details 		Klas Lestander
  Sweden 		Antti Tyrväinen
  Finland 		Aleksandr Privalov
  Soviet Union

Cross-country skiing

Sixten Jernberg, left, is being interviewed by another man, on the right, who is holding a microphone.
Sixten Jernberg (left), who represented Sweden, won two medals including a gold in the 30 km race.
See also: Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 15 km [16]
details 		Håkon Brusveen
  Norway 		Sixten Jernberg
  Sweden 		Veikko Hakulinen
  Finland
Men's 30 km [17]
details 		Sixten Jernberg
  Sweden 		Rolf Rämgård
  Sweden 		Nikolay Anikin
  Soviet Union
Men's 50 km [18]
details 		Kalevi Hämäläinen
  Finland 		Veikko Hakulinen
  Finland 		Rolf Rämgård
  Sweden
Men's 4 × 10 km relay
details 		  Finland (FIN) [19]
Toimi Alatalo
Eero Mäntyranta
Väinö Huhtala
Veikko Hakulinen 		  Norway (NOR) [20]
Harald Grønningen
Hallgeir Brenden
Einar Østby
Håkon Brusveen 		  Soviet Union (URS) [21]
Anatoly Shelyukhin
Gennady Vaganov
Aleksey Kuznetsov
Nikolay Anikin
Women's 10 km [22]
details 		Maria Gusakova
  Soviet Union 		Lyubov Kozyreva
  Soviet Union 		Radya Yeroshina
  Soviet Union
Women's 3 × 5 km relay
details 		  Sweden (SWE) [23]
Irma Johansson
Britt Strandberg
Sonja Edström 		  Soviet Union (URS) [21]
Radya Yeroshina
Maria Gusakova
Lyubov Kozyreva 		  Finland (FIN) [19]
Siiri Rantanen
Eeva Ruoppa
Toini Pöysti

Figure skating

See also: Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's singles [24]
details 		David Jenkins
  United States 		Karol Divín
  Czechoslovakia 		Donald Jackson
  Canada
Ladies' singles [25]
details 		Carol Heiss
  United States 		Sjoukje Dijkstra
  Netherlands 		Barbara Roles
  United States
Pairs
details 		  Canada (CAN) [26]
Barbara Wagner
Robert Paul 		  United Team of Germany (EUA) [27]
Marika Kilius
Hans-Jürgen Bäumler 		  United States (USA) [28]
Nancy Ludington
Ronald Ludington

Ice hockey

See also: Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's team
details 		  United States (USA) [29]
Bill Christian
Roger Christian
Bill Cleary
Bob Cleary
Eugene Grazia
Paul Johnson
Jack Kirrane
John Mayasich
Jack McCartan
Robert McVey
Richard Meredith
Weldon Olson
Edwyn Owen
Rodney Paavola
Lawrence Palmer
Richard Rodenheiser
Tommy Williams 		  Canada (CAN) [30]
Bob Attersley
Maurice Benoît
James Connelly
Jack Douglas
Fred Etcher
Robert Forhan
Don Head
Harold Hurley
Ken Laufman
Floyd Martin
Robert McKnight
Cliff Pennington
Donald Rope
Bobby Rousseau
George Samolenko
Harry Sinden
Darryl Sly 		  Soviet Union (URS) [31]
Veniamin Alexandrov
Aleksandr Almetov
Yury Baulin
Mikhail Bychkov
Vladimir Grebennikov
Yevgeny Groshev
Nikolay Karpov
Alfred Kuchevsky
Konstantin Loktev
Stanislav Petukhov
Viktor Pryazhnikov
Nikolai Puchkov
Genrikh Sidorenkov
Nikolai Sologubov
Yury Tsitsinov
Viktor Yakushev
Yevgeni Yorkin

Nordic combined

A man in a suit stands in the middle of two formally dressed women, each holding a flower bouquet.
Georg Thoma alongside two German Olympic gold medalists from the 1960 Summer Games, Heidi Schmid (fencing) and Ingrid Krämer (diving).
See also: Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual [32]
details 		Georg Thoma
  United Team of Germany 		Tormod Knutsen
  Norway 		Nikolay Gusakov
  Soviet Union

Ski jumping

See also: Ski jumping at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual [33]
details 		Helmut Recknagel
  United Team of Germany 		Niilo Halonen
  Finland 		Otto Leodolter
  Austria

Speed skating

See also: Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
Helga Hasse skating in an ice rink
German skater Helga Haase won two medals in Squaw Valley.
Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 500 metres [34]
details 		Yevgeny Grishin
  Soviet Union 		Bill Disney
  United States 		Rafayel Grach
  Soviet Union
Men's 1,500 metres [35]
details 		Roald Aas
  Norway
Yevgeny Grishin
  Soviet Union 		None awarded [a] Boris Stenin
  Soviet Union
Men's 5,000 metres [36]
details 		Viktor Kosichkin
  Soviet Union 		Knut Johannesen
  Norway 		Jan Pesman
  Netherlands
Men's 10,000 metres [37]
details 		Knut Johannesen
  Norway 		Viktor Kosichkin
  Soviet Union 		Kjell Bäckman
  Sweden
Women's 500 metres [38]
details 		Helga Haase
  United Team of Germany 		Natalya Donchenko
  Soviet Union 		Jeanne Ashworth
  United States
Women's 1,000 metres [39]
details 		Klara Guseva
  Soviet Union 		Helga Haase
  United Team of Germany 		Tamara Rylova
  Soviet Union
Women's 1,500 metres [40]
details 		Lidiya Skoblikova
  Soviet Union 		Elwira Seroczyńska
  Poland 		Helena Pilejczyk
  Poland
Women's 3,000 metres [41]
details 		Lidiya Skoblikova
  Soviet Union 		Valentina Stenina
  Soviet Union 		Eevi Huttunen
  Finland

Multiple medalists

Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1960 Winter Olympics are listed below. [6]

Athlete Nation Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Veikko Hakulinen   Finland (FIN) Cross-country skiing 1 1 1 3
Lidiya Skoblikova   Soviet Union (URS) Speed skating 2 0 0 2
Yevgeny Grishin   Soviet Union (URS) Speed skating 2 0 0 2
Maria Gusakova   Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 1 1 0 2
Helga Haase   United Team of Germany (EUA) Speed skating 1 1 0 2
Håkon Brusveen   Norway (NOR) Cross-country skiing 1 1 0 2
Sixten Jernberg   Sweden (SWE) Cross-country skiing 1 1 0 2
Knut Johannesen   Norway (NOR) Speed skating 1 1 0 2
Viktor Kosichkin   Soviet Union (URS) Speed skating 1 1 0 2
Ernst Hinterseer   Austria (AUT) Alpine skiing 1 0 1 2
Lyubov Kozyreva   Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 0 2 0 2
Penny Pitou   United States (USA) Alpine skiing 0 2 0 2
Radya Yeroshina   Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 0 1 1 2
Rolf Rämgård   Sweden (SWE) Cross-country skiing 0 1 1 2
Nikolay Anikin   Soviet Union (URS) Cross-country skiing 0 0 2 2

Note

  • a No silver medal was awarded in this event because Grishin and Aas tied for first place with a time of 2:10.4. [42]

See also

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