Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics - Men's 50 km

Men's 50km
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueMcKinney Creek Stadium
DateFebruary 27
Competitors39 from 15 nations
Winning time2:59:06.3
Medalists
   Finland
   Finland
   Sweden

The 50 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 fifth appearance of the event at its length of 30 km. The competition was held on Saturday, February 27, 1960 at the McKinney Creek Stadium.

Kalevi Hämäläinen of Finland won the gold medal ahead of fellow Finn Veikko Hakulinen. Defending Olympic champion Sixten Jernberg from Sweden finished 5th. Thirty nine competitors were due to start but eight did not make the starting line. Of the top 14, only 2 were not Nordic.

Results

Rank Name Country Time
1 Kalevi Hämäläinen Finland 2:59:06.3
2 Veikko Hakulinen Finland 2:59:26.7
3 Rolf Rämgård Sweden 3:02:46.7
4 Lennart Larsson Sweden 3:03:27.9
5 Sixten Jernberg Sweden 3:05:18.0
6 Pentti Pelkonen Finland 3:05:24.5
7 Gennady Vaganov Soviet Union 3:05:27.6
8 Veikko Räsänen Finland 3:06:04.4
9 Hallgeir Brenden Norway 3:08:23.0
10 Sverre Stensheim Norway 3:08:51.5
11 Oddmund Jensen Norway 3:09:16.2
12 Assar Rönnlund Sweden 3:09:46.6
13 Nikolay Anikin Soviet Union 3:10:13.9
14 Harald Grønningen Norway 3:11:17.1
15 Aleksey Kuznetsov Soviet Union 3:11:47.0
16 Federico De Florian Italy 3:16:23.6
17 Mack Miller United States 3:17:23.2
18 Livio Stuffer Italy 3:20:43.4
19 Ivan Lyubimov Soviet Union 3:25:06.4
20 Helmut Hagg United Team of Germany 3:25:14.6
21 Antonio Schenatti Italy 3:26:32.2
22 Stefan Mitkov Bulgaria 3:26:32.5
23 Rudolf Dannhauer United Team of Germany 3:27:54.6
24 Siegfried Weiß United Team of Germany 3:28:29.1
25 Alfredo Dibona Italy 3:33:31.6
26 Olavi Hirvonen United States 3:36:37.8
27 Eiji Kurita Japan 3:38:40.6
28 Egon Fleischmann United Team of Germany 3:38:53.6
29 Leo Massa United States 3:41:08.2
30 John Moore Great Britain 3:43:15.2
31 Theodore Farwell Jr. United States 3:49:56.6
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