The 30 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 30 km. The competition was held on Saturday, February 19, 1960 at the McKinney Creek Stadium.
Sixten Jernberg of Sweden won the gold medal ahead of fellow Swede Rolf Rämgård. Defending Olympic champion Veikko Hakulinen from Finland finished 6th. Three of the 48 competitors did not finish
Results Rank Name Country Time 1 Sixten Jernberg 1:51:03.9 2 Rolf Rämgård 1:51:16.9 3 Nikolay Anikin 1:52:28.2 4 Gennady Vaganov 1:52:49.2 5 Lennart Larsson 1:53:53.2 6 Veikko Hakulinen 1:54:02.0 7 Toimi Alatalo 1:54:06.5 8 Aleksey Kuznetsov 1:54:23.9 9 Hallgeir Brenden 1:55:19.8 10 Oddmund Jensen 1:55:35.0 11 Giulio Deflorian 1:56:40.2 12 Kalevi Hämäläinen 1:56:54.4 13 Allan Andersson 1:57:09.9 14 Pompeo Fattor 1:57:40.5 15 Anatoly Shelyukhin 1:58:21.3 16 Magnar Lundemo 1:58:46.6 17 Ottavio Compagnoni 1:58:55.0 18 Arto Tiainen 1:58:56.6 19 Jean Mermet 1:58:57.9 20 Sverre Stensheim 1:59:52.8 21 Helmut Weidlich 2:01:25.8 22 Kazimierz Zelek 2:01:27.1 23 Andrzej Mateja 2:01:54.7 24 Alphonse Baume 2:02:04.2 25 René Mandrillon 2:02:05.3 26 Sepp Maier 2:02:10.6 27 Mack Miller 2:03:54.4 28 Marcel Huguenin 2:03:25.6 29 Rudolf Dannhauer 2:03:38.9 30 Rudolf Čillík 2:03:50.6 31 Stefan Mitkov 2:03:54.6 32 Lorenz Possa 2:05:41.2 33 Siegfried Huq 2:05:48.2 34 Józef Gąsienica-Sobczak 2:06:12.7 35 Takashi Matsuhashi 2:06:25.5 36 Clarence Servold 2:06:37.9 37 Kazuo Sato 2:07:07.2 38 John Moore 2:08:58.6 39 Eiji Kurita 2:11:25.8 40 Irvin Servold 2:11:50.4 41 Andrew Morgan 2:13:38.9 42 Leo Massa 2:16:47.0 43 Joe Pete Wilson 2:22:16.2 44 Francisco Jerman 2:33:27.4 45 Kim Ha-Yun 2:48:37.2 Giuseppe Steiner Sven Johanson Fritz Kocher
References
External links 1960 Squaw Valley Official Olympic Report