Cross-country_skiing_at_the_1960_Winter_Olympics

Cross-country skiing
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Cross-country skiing; at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	McKinney Creek Stadium
Dates	19–27 February
No. of events	6
Competitors	112 from 19 nations
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Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics

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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]

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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 entries)		6	6	6	18

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
15 km details	Håkon Brusveen Norway	51:55.5	Sixten Jernberg Sweden	51:58.6	Veikko Hakulinen Finland	52:03.00
30 km details	Sixten Jernberg Sweden	1:51:03.9	Rolf Rämgård Sweden	1:51:16.9	Nikolay Anikin Soviet Union	1:52:28.2
50 km details	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 details	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 details	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 details	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

Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics