Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 15 kilometre

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Men's 15km
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Cross country skiing pictogram.svg
VenueMcKinney Creek Stadium
DateFebruary 23
Competitors54 from 19 nations
Winning time51:55.5
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Håkon Brusveen  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sixten Jernberg  Sweden
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Veikko Hakulinen  Finland
← 1956
1964 →

The 15 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 15 km. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 23, 1960, at the McKinney Creek Stadium.[1]

Håkon Brusveen of Norway won his only Olympic gold medal, 3 seconds ahead of the 30 km gold medallist, Sixten Jernberg. Defending Olympic champion and fellow Norwegian, Hallgeir Brenden finished 12th.

Results[]

Rank Name Country Time
1 Håkon Brusveen  Norway 51:55.5
2 Sixten Jernberg  Sweden 51:58.6
3 Veikko Hakulinen  Finland 52:03.0
4 Gennady Vaganov  Soviet Union 52:18.0
Einar Østby  Norway
6 Eero Mäntyranta  Finland 52:40.6
7 Janne Stefansson  Sweden 52:41.0
8 Rolf Rämgård  Sweden 52:47.3
9 Marcello De Dorigo  Italy 52:53.5
10 Nikolay Anikin  Soviet Union 52:55.0
11 Harald Grønningen  Norway 53:02.2
12 Hallgeir Brenden  Norway 53:10.3
13 Väinö Huhtala  Finland 53:11.5
14 Giulio Deflorian  Italy 53:24.1
15 Aleksandr Gubin  Soviet Union 53:29.1
16 Pavel Morshchinin  Soviet Union 53:36.6
17 Per-Erik Larsson  Sweden 53:49.8
18 Józef Rysula  Poland 54:13.3
19 Pompeo Fattor  Italy 54:31.1
20 Giuseppe Steiner  Italy 54:42.3
21 Jean Mermet  France 54:44.5
22 Mack Miller  United States 54:49.0
23 Toimi Alatalo  Finland 54:52.7
24 Kuno Werner  United Team of Germany 55:25.6
25 Benoît Carrara  France 55:38.5
26 Victor Arbez  France 55:44.1
27 Alphonse Baume  Switzerland 55:58.9
28 Kazimierz Zelek  Poland 55:59.4
29 René Mandrillon  France 56:01.5
30 Kazuo Sato  Japan 56:15.0
31 Lorenz Possa  Switzerland 56:30.1
32 Enno Röder  United Team of Germany 56:54.4
33 Stefan Mitkov  Bulgaria 56:55.4
34 Pál Sajgó  Hungary 57:02.9
35 Clarence Servold  Canada 57:04.7
36 Rudolf Čillík  Czechoslovakia 57:23.7
37 Marcel Huguenin  Switzerland 57:36.7
38 Werner Haase  United Team of Germany 57:40.3
39 Konrad Hischier  Switzerland 57:43.9
40 Takashi Matsuhashi  Japan 57:49.1
41 Józef Gut Misiaga  Poland 58:03.6
42 Siegfried Weiß  United Team of Germany 58:04.6
43 Andrzej Mateja  Poland 58:09.1
44 John Moore  Great Britain 58:35.0
45 Eiji Kurita  Japan 58:57.0
46 Peter Lahdenpera  United States 59:13.0
47 Irvin Servold  Canada 59:42.0
48 Olavi Hirvonen  United States 1:00:38.6
49 Andrew Morgan  Great Britain 1:01:32.9
50 Charlie Akers  United States 1:02:35.7
51 Richard Walpole  Australia 1:06:48.3
52 Norman Shutt  Great Britain 1:07:34.0
53 Francisco Jerman  Argentina 1:09:59.3
54 Kim Ha-yun  South Korea 1:15:26.5

References[]

  1. ^ "Cross Country Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games: Men's 15 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2019.

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