List of 1960 Winter Olympics medal winners

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) 30 Nations were a part of the winter olympics. ~ Timmy totter 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. Additionally, women's speed skating events were held for the first time in history.[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 was by necessity; organizers felt the lack of possible entrants (a pre-Olympic poll indicated that only nine countries were planning to participate) and the high cost of building the run were sufficient deterrents to leave the bobsled events off the 1960 Olympic program.[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 the overall medal count, with a total of 10 medals, and third in the gold medal count (3), while Germany placed third in the overall medal count, with eight medals in total, and second by golds, with four. 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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  • 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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References

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