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

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]

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 →

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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