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

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.[1]

Men's 50 km
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueMcKinney Creek Stadium
DateFebruary 27
Competitors39 from 15 nations
Winning time2:59:06.3
Medalists
Kalevi Hämäläinen  Finland
Veikko Hakulinen  Finland
Rolf Rämgård  Sweden
Cross-country skiing at the
1960 Winter Olympics
10 kmwomen
15 kmmen
30 kmmen
50 kmmen
Relaymenwomen

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
RankNameCountryTime
1Kalevi Hämäläinen Finland2:59:06.3
2Veikko Hakulinen Finland2:59:26.7
3Rolf Rämgård Sweden3:02:46.7
4Lennart Larsson Sweden3:03:27.9
5Sixten Jernberg Sweden3:05:18.0
6Pentti Pelkonen Finland3:05:24.5
7Gennady Vaganov Soviet Union3:05:27.6
8Veikko Räsänen Finland3:06:04.4
9Hallgeir Brenden Norway3:08:23.0
10Sverre Stensheim Norway3:08:51.5
11Oddmund Jensen Norway3:09:16.2
12Assar Rönnlund Sweden3:09:46.6
13Nikolay Anikin Soviet Union3:10:13.9
14Harald Grønningen Norway3:11:17.1
15Aleksey Kuznetsov Soviet Union3:11:47.0
16Federico De Florian Italy3:16:23.6
17Mack Miller United States3:17:23.2
18Livio Stuffer Italy3:20:43.4
19Ivan Lyubimov Soviet Union3:25:06.4
20Helmut Hagg United Team of Germany3:25:14.6
21Antonio Schenatti Italy3:26:32.2
22Stefan Mitkov Bulgaria3:26:32.5
23Rudolf Dannhauer United Team of Germany3:27:54.6
24Siegfried Weiß United Team of Germany3:28:29.1
25Alfredo Dibona Italy3:33:31.6
26Olavi Hirvonen United States3:36:37.8
27Eiji Kurita Japan3:38:40.6
28Egon Fleischmann United Team of Germany3:38:53.6
29Leo Massa United States3:41:08.2
30John Moore Great Britain3:43:15.2
31Theodore Farwell Jr. United States3:49:56.6
Clarence Servold CanadaDNS
Norman Shutt Great BritainDNS
Andrew Morgan Great BritainDNS
Pál Sajgó HungaryDNS
Kazuo Sato JapanDNS
Andrzej Mateja PolandDNS
Rudolf Čillík CzechoslovakiaDNS
Fritz Kocher SwitzerlandDNS

References
  1. "Cross Country Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games: Men's 50 kilometres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
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