List of 1960 Winter Olympics medal winners

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, men's 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 a 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

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

Biathlon

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 20 km[15]	Klas Lestander  Sweden	Antti Tyrväinen  Finland	Aleksandr Privalov  Soviet Union

Cross-country skiing

Sixten Jernberg (left), who represented Sweden, won two medals including a gold in the 30 km race.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 15 km[16]	Håkon Brusveen  Norway	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland
Men's 30 km[17]	Sixten Jernberg  Sweden	Rolf Rämgård  Sweden	Nikolay Anikin  Soviet Union
Men's 50 km[18]	Kalevi Hämäläinen  Finland	Veikko Hakulinen  Finland	Rolf Rämgård  Sweden
Men's 4 × 10 km relay	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]	Maria Gusakova  Soviet Union	Lyubov Kozyreva  Soviet Union	Radya Yeroshina  Soviet Union
Women's 3 × 5 km relay	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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles[24]	David Jenkins  United States	Karol Divín  Czechoslovakia	Donald Jackson  Canada
Ladies' singles[25]	Carol Heiss  United States	Sjoukje Dijkstra  Netherlands	Barbara Roles  United States
Pairs	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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's team	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 Benoit 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 Evgeni Yerkin

Nordic combined

Georg Thoma alongside two German Olympic gold medalists from the 1960 Summer Games, Heidi Schmid (fencing) and Ingrid Krämer (diving).

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[32]	Georg Thoma  United Team of Germany	Tormod Knutsen  Norway	Nikolay Gusakov  Soviet Union

Ski jumping

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual[33]	Helmut Recknagel  United Team of Germany	Niilo Halonen  Finland	Otto Leodolter  Austria

Speed skating

German skater Helga Haase won two medals in Squaw Valley.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500 metres[34]	Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union	Bill Disney  United States	Rafayel Grach  Soviet Union
Men's 1,500 metres[35]	Roald Aas  Norway Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union	None awarded[a]	Boris Stenin  Soviet Union
Men's 5,000 metres[36]	Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union	Knut Johannesen  Norway	Jan Pesman  Netherlands
Men's 10,000 metres[37]	Knut Johannesen  Norway	Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union	Kjell Bäckman  Sweden
Women's 500 metres[38]	Helga Haase  United Team of Germany	Natalya Donchenko  Soviet Union	Jeanne Ashworth  United States
Women's 1,000 metres[39]	Klara Guseva  Soviet Union	Helga Haase  United Team of Germany	Tamara Rylova  Soviet Union
Women's 1,500 metres[40]	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	Elwira Seroczyńska  Poland	Helena Pilejczyk  Poland
Women's 3,000 metres[41]	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
Hakulinen, VeikkoVeikko Hakulinen	Finland (FIN)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	1	3
Skoblikova, LidiyaLidiya Skoblikova	Soviet Union (URS)	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Grishin, YevgenyYevgeny Grishin	Soviet Union (URS)	Speed skating	2	0	0	2
Gusakova, MariaMaria Gusakova	Soviet Union (URS)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Haase, HelgaHelga Haase	United Team of Germany (EUA)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Brusveen, HåkonHåkon Brusveen	Norway (NOR)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Jernberg, SixtenSixten Jernberg	Sweden (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	1	1	0	2
Johannesen, KnutKnut Johannesen	Norway (NOR)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Kosichkin, ViktorViktor Kosichkin	Soviet Union (URS)	Speed skating	1	1	0	2
Hinterseer, ErnstErnst Hinterseer	Austria (AUT)	Alpine skiing	1	0	1	2
Kozyreva, LyubovLyubov Kozyreva	Soviet Union (URS)	Cross-country skiing	0	2	0	2
Pitou, PennyPenny Pitou	United States (USA)	Alpine skiing	0	2	0	2
Yeroshina, RadyaRadya Yeroshina	Soviet Union (URS)	Cross-country skiing	0	1	1	2
Rämgård, RolfRolf Rämgård	Sweden (SWE)	Cross-country skiing	0	1	1	2
Anikin, NikolayNikolay Anikin	Soviet Union (URS)	Cross-country skiing	0	0	2	2

See also

• 1960 Winter Olympics medal table

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]

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