List Of 1960 Winter Olympics Medal Winners
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Alpine skiing
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Men's downhill |
Jean Vuarnet![]() |
Hans-Peter Lanig![]() |
Guy Périllat![]() |
Men's slalom |
Ernst Hinterseer![]() |
Hias Leitner![]() |
Charles Bozon![]() |
Men's giant slalom |
Roger Staub![]() |
Josef Stiegler![]() |
Ernst Hinterseer![]() |
Women's downhill |
Heidi Biebl![]() |
Penelope Pitou![]() |
Traudl Hecher![]() |
Women's slalom |
Anne Heggtveit![]() |
Betsy Snite![]() |
Barbara Henneberger![]() |
Women's giant slalom |
Yvonne Rüegg![]() |
Penelope Pitou![]() |
Giuliana Minuzzo![]() |
Biathlon
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 20 km |
Klas Lestander![]() |
Antti Tyrväinen![]() |
Aleksandr Privalov![]() |
Cross-country skiing
![Sixten Jernberg, left, is being interviewed by another man, on the right, who is holding a microphone.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sixten_Jernberg_and_Sven_Plex_Petersson_1958.jpg/220px-Sixten_Jernberg_and_Sven_Plex_Petersson_1958.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 15 km |
Håkon Brusveen![]() |
Sixten Jernberg![]() |
Veikko Hakulinen![]() |
Men's 30 km |
Sixten Jernberg![]() |
Rolf Rämgård![]() |
Nikolay Anikin![]() |
Men's 50 km |
Kalevi Hämäläinen![]() |
Veikko Hakulinen![]() |
Rolf Rämgård![]() |
Men's 4 × 10 km relay |
![]() Toimi Alatalo Eero Mäntyranta Väinö Huhtala Veikko Hakulinen |
![]() Harald Grønningen Hallgeir Brenden Einar Østby Håkon Brusveen |
![]() Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin |
Women's 10 km |
Maria Gusakova![]() |
Lyubov Kozyreva![]() |
Radya Yeroshina![]() |
Women's 3 × 5 km relay |
![]() Irma Johansson Britt Strandberg Sonja Edström |
![]() Radya Yeroshina Maria Gusakova Lyubov Kozyreva |
![]() Siiri Rantanen Eeva Ruoppa Toini Pöysti |
Figure skating
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's singles |
David Jenkins![]() |
Karol Divín![]() |
Donald Jackson![]() |
Ladies' singles |
Carol Heiss![]() |
Sjoukje Dijkstra![]() |
Barbara Roles![]() |
Pairs |
![]() Barbara Wagner Robert Paul |
![]() Marika Kilius Hans-Jürgen Bäumler |
![]() Nancy Ludington Ronald Ludington |
Ice hockey
Nordic combined
![A man in a suit stands in the middle of two formally dressed women, each holding a flower bouquet.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-78885-0001%2C_Ehrung_f%C3%BCr_Ingrid_Kr%C3%A4mer.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-78885-0001%2C_Ehrung_f%C3%BCr_Ingrid_Kr%C3%A4mer.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's individual |
Georg Thoma![]() |
Tormod Knutsen![]() |
Nikolay Gusakov![]() |
Ski jumping
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's individual |
Helmut Recknagel![]() |
Niilo Halonen![]() |
Otto Leodolter![]() |
Speed skating
![Helga Hasse skating in an ice rink](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/21/Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-49812-0004%2C_Helga_Haase.jpg/220px-Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-49812-0004%2C_Helga_Haase.jpg)
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
Men's 500 metres |
Yevgeny Grishin![]() |
Bill Disney![]() |
Rafayel Grach![]() |
Men's 1,500 metres |
Roald Aas![]() Yevgeny Grishin ![]() |
None awarded | Boris Stenin![]() |
Men's 5,000 metres |
Viktor Kosichkin![]() |
Knut Johannesen![]() |
Jan Pesman![]() |
Men's 10,000 metres |
Knut Johannesen![]() |
Viktor Kosichkin![]() |
Kjell Bäckman![]() |
Women's 500 metres |
Helga Haase![]() |
Natalya Donchenko![]() |
Jeanne Ashworth![]() |
Women's 1,000 metres |
Klara Guseva![]() |
Helga Haase![]() |
Tamara Rylova![]() |
Women's 1,500 metres |
Lidiya Skoblikova![]() |
Elwira Seroczyńska![]() |
Helena Pilejczyk![]() |
Women's 3,000 metres |
Lidiya Skoblikova![]() |
Valentina Stenina![]() |
Eevi Huttunen![]() |
Multiple medalists
Athletes who won multiple medals during the 1960 Winter Olympics are listed below.
Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Veikko Hakulinen | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Lidiya Skoblikova | ![]() |
Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Yevgeny Grishin | ![]() |
Speed skating | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Maria Gusakova | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Helga Haase | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Håkon Brusveen | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Sixten Jernberg | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Knut Johannesen | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Viktor Kosichkin | ![]() |
Speed skating | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Ernst Hinterseer | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Lyubov Kozyreva | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Penny Pitou | ![]() |
Alpine skiing | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Radya Yeroshina | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Rolf Rämgård | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Nikolay Anikin | ![]() |
Cross-country skiing | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Note
- No silver medal was awarded in this event because Grishin and Aas tied for first place with a time of 2:10.4.