The 15 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 second appearance of the event at its length of 15 km. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 23, 1960, at the McKinney Creek Stadium.
Håkon Brusveen of Norway won his only Olympic gold medal, 3 seconds ahead of the 30 km gold medallist, Sixten Jernberg. Defending Olympic champion and fellow Norwegian, Hallgeir Brenden finished 12th.
Results Rank Name Country Time 1 Håkon Brusveen 51:55.5 2 Sixten Jernberg 51:58.6 3 Veikko Hakulinen 52:03.04 Gennady Vaganov 52:18.0 Einar Østby 6 Eero Mäntyranta 52:40.6 7 Janne Stefansson 52:41.0 8 Rolf Rämgård 52:47.3 9 Marcello De Dorigo 52:53.5 10 Nikolay Anikin 52:55.0 11 Harald Grønningen 53:02.2 12 Hallgeir Brenden 53:10.3 13 Väinö Huhtala 53:11.5 14 Giulio Deflorian 53:24.1 15 Aleksandr Gubin 53:29.1 16 Pavel Morshchinin 53:36.6 17 Per-Erik Larsson 53:49.8 18 Józef Rysula 54:13.3 19 Pompeo Fattor 54:31.1 20 Giuseppe Steiner 54:42.3 21 Jean Mermet 54:44.5 22 Mack Miller 54:49.0 23 Toimi Alatalo 54:52.7 24 Kuno Werner 55:25.6 25 Benoît Carrara 55:38.5 26 Victor Arbez 55:44.1 27 Alphonse Baume 55:58.9 28 Kazimierz Zelek 55:59.4 29 René Mandrillon 56:01.5 30 Kazuo Sato 56:15.0 31 Lorenz Possa 56:30.1 32 Enno Röder 56:54.4 33 Stefan Mitkov 56:55.4 34 Pál Sajgó 57:02.9 35 Clarence Servold 57:04.7 36 Rudolf Čillík 57:23.7 37 Marcel Huguenin 57:36.7 38 Werner Haase 57:40.3 39 Konrad Hischier 57:43.9 40 Takashi Matsuhashi 57:49.1 41 Józef Gut Misiaga 58:03.6 42 Siegfried Weiß 58:04.6 43 Andrzej Mateja 58:09.1 44 John Moore 58:35.0 45 Eiji Kurita 58:57.0 46 Peter Lahdenpera 59:13.0 47 Irvin Servold 59:42.0 48 Olavi Hirvonen 1:00:38.6 49 Andrew Morgan 1:01:32.9 50 Charlie Akers 1:02:35.7 51 Richard Walpole 1:06:48.3 52 Norman Shutt 1:07:34.0 53 Francisco Jerman 1:09:59.3 54 Kim Ha-yun 1:15:26.5
References
External links 1960 Squaw Valley Official Olympic Report