Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 30 kilometre

Men's 30km
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueMcKinney Creek Stadium
DateFebruary 19
Competitors48 from 17 nations
Winning time1:51:03.9
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sixten Jernberg  Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Rolf Rämgård  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Nikolay Anikin  Soviet Union
← 1956
1964 →

The 30 kilometre cross-country skiing event was part of the cross-country skiing programme at the 1960 Winter Olympics, in Squaw Valley, California, United States. It was the second appearance of the event at its length of 30 km. The competition was held on Saturday, February 19, 1960 at the McKinney Creek Stadium.[1]

Sixten Jernberg of Sweden won the gold medal ahead of fellow Swede Rolf Rämgård. Defending Olympic champion Veikko Hakulinen from Finland finished 6th. Three of the 48 competitors did not finish

Results

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Rank Name Country Time
1 Sixten Jernberg  Sweden 1:51:03.9
2 Rolf Rämgård  Sweden 1:51:16.9
3 Nikolay Anikin  Soviet Union 1:52:28.2
4 Gennady Vaganov  Soviet Union 1:52:49.2
5 Lennart Larsson  Sweden 1:53:53.2
6 Veikko Hakulinen  Finland 1:54:02.0
7 Toimi Alatalo  Finland 1:54:06.5
8 Aleksey Kuznetsov  Soviet Union 1:54:23.9
9 Hallgeir Brenden  Norway 1:55:19.8
10 Oddmund Jensen  Norway 1:55:35.0
11 Giulio Deflorian  Italy 1:56:40.2
12 Kalevi Hämäläinen  Finland 1:56:54.4
13 Allan Andersson  Sweden 1:57:09.9
14 Pompeo Fattor  Italy 1:57:40.5
15 Anatoly Shelyukhin  Soviet Union 1:58:21.3
16 Magnar Lundemo  Norway 1:58:46.6
17 Ottavio Compagnoni  Italy 1:58:55.0
18 Arto Tiainen  Finland 1:58:56.6
19 Jean Mermet  France 1:58:57.9
20 Sverre Stensheim  Norway 1:59:52.8
21 Helmut Weidlich  United Team of Germany 2:01:25.8
22 Kazimierz Zelek  Poland 2:01:27.1
23 Andrzej Mateja  Poland 2:01:54.7
24 Alphonse Baume  Switzerland 2:02:04.2
25 René Mandrillon  France 2:02:05.3
26 Sepp Maier  United Team of Germany 2:02:10.6
27 Mack Miller  United States 2:03:54.4
28 Marcel Huguenin  Switzerland 2:03:25.6
29 Rudolf Dannhauer  United Team of Germany 2:03:38.9
30 Rudolf Čillík  Czechoslovakia 2:03:50.6
31 Stefan Mitkov  Bulgaria 2:03:54.6
32 Lorenz Possa  Switzerland 2:05:41.2
33 Siegfried Huq  United Team of Germany 2:05:48.2
34 Józef Gąsienica Sobczak  Poland 2:06:12.7
35 Takashi Matsuhashi  Japan 2:06:25.5
36 Clarence Servold  Canada 2:06:37.9
37 Kazuo Sato  Japan 2:07:07.2
38 John Moore  Great Britain 2:08:58.6
39 Eiji Kurita  Japan 2:11:25.8
40 Irvin Servold  Canada 2:11:50.4
41 Andrew Morgan  Great Britain 2:13:38.9
42 Leo Massa  United States 2:16:47.0
43 Joe Pete Wilson  United States 2:22:16.2
44 Francisco Jerman  Argentina 2:33:27.4
45 Kim Ha-Yun  South Korea 2:48:37.2
Giuseppe Steiner  Italy DNF
Sven Johanson  United States DNF
Fritz Kocher  Switzerland DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games: Men's 30 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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