Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics - Men's 50 km
| Men's 50km at the VIII Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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| Venue | McKinney Creek Stadium | |||||||||
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| Date | February 27 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 39 from 15 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 2:59:06.3 | |||||||||
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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 |
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| 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 | .svg.png){kind=small} United Team of Germany | 3:25:14.6 |
| 21 | Antonio Schenatti | Italy | 3:26:32.2 |
| 22 | Stefan Mitkov | .svg.png){kind=small} 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 |
| Clarence Servold | .svg.png){kind=small} Canada | DNS | |
| Norman Shutt | Great Britain | DNS | |
| Andrew Morgan | Great Britain | DNS | |
| Pál Sajgó |  Hungary | DNS | |
| Kazuo Sato | Japan | DNS | |
| Andrzej Mateja | .svg.png){kind=small} Poland | DNS | |
| Rudolf Čillík |  Czechoslovakia | DNS | |
| Fritz Kocher |  Switzerland | DNS |
References
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