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 2:59:06.3 2 Veikko Hakulinen 2:59:26.7 3 Rolf Rämgård 3:02:46.7 4 Lennart Larsson 3:03:27.9 5 Sixten Jernberg 3:05:18.0 6 Pentti Pelkonen 3:05:24.5 7 Gennady Vaganov 3:05:27.6 8 Veikko Räsänen 3:06:04.4 9 Hallgeir Brenden 3:08:23.0 10 Sverre Stensheim 3:08:51.5 11 Oddmund Jensen 3:09:16.2 12 Assar Rönnlund 3:09:46.6 13 Nikolay Anikin 3:10:13.9 14 Harald Grønningen 3:11:17.1 15 Aleksey Kuznetsov 3:11:47.0 16 Federico Deflorian 3:16:23.6 17 Mack Miller 3:17:23.2 18 Livio Stuffer 3:20:43.4 19 Ivan Lyubimov 3:25:06.4 20 Helmut Hagg 3:25:14.6 21 Antonio Schenatti 3:26:32.2 22 Stefan Mitkov 3:26:32.5 23 Rudolf Dannhauer 3:27:54.6 24 Siegfried Weiß 3:28:29.1 25 Alfredo Dibona 3:33:31.6 26 Olavi Hirvonen 3:36:37.8 27 Eiji Kurita 3:38:40.6 28 Egon Fleischmann 3:38:53.6 29 Leo Massa 3:41:08.2 30 John Moore 3:43:15.2 31 Theodore Farwell Jr. 3:49:56.6 Clarence Servold Norman Shutt Andrew Morgan Pál Sajgó Kazuo Sato Andrzej Mateja Rudolf Čillík Fritz Kocher
References
External links 1960 Squaw Valley Official Olympic Report