Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Men's 4 x 10km relay

at the VIII Olympic Winter Games

Cross-country skiing

Venue

McKinney Creek Stadium

Date

February 25

Competitors

44 from 11 nations

Winning time

2:18:45.6

Medalists

	Toimi Alatalo Eero Mäntyranta Väinö Huhtala Veikko Hakulinen	Finland
	Harald Grønningen Hallgeir Brenden Einar Østby Håkon Brusveen	Norway
	Anatoly Shelyukhin Gennady Vaganov Aleksey Kuznetsov Nikolay Anikin	Soviet Union

The 4 x 10 kilometre relay 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. The competition was held on Saturday, February 27, 1960, at the McKinney Creek Stadium.

Finland won the gold medal with less than one second ahead of Nordic rivals Norway. It was the third time out of five that Finland had won gold in this event. Defending champions Soviet Union took the bronze medal. It was also Veikko Hakulinen's third Olympic gold and first at these games.

Results

Rank	Nation	Skiers	Time
1	Finland	Toimi Alatalo (35:03) Eero Mäntyranta (34:45) Väinö Huhtala (35:01) Veikko Hakulinen (33:56.6)	2:18:45.6
2	Norway	Harald Grønningen (35:07) Hallgeir Brenden (34:41) Einar Østby (34:41) Håkon Brusveen (34:17.4)	2:18:46.4
3	Soviet Union	Anatoly Shelyukhin (37:17) Gennady Vaganov (34:22) Aleksey Kuznetsov (35:11) Nikolay Anikin (34:31.6)	2:21:21.6
4	Sweden	Lars Olsson (34:56) Janne Stefansson (37:44) Lennart Larsson (34:44) Sixten Jernberg (34:07.8)	2:21:31.8
5	Italy	Giulio De Florian (35:37) Giuseppe Steiner (35:59) Pompeo Fattor (35:30) Marcello De Dorigo (35:26.5)	2:22:32.5
6	Poland	Andrzej Mateja (36:22) Józef Rysula (35:33) Józef Gut-Misiaga (37:19) Kazimierz Zelek (37:51.3)	2:26:25.3
7	France	Victor Arbez (36:50) René Mandrillon (36:46) Benoît Carrara (36:41) Jean Mermet (36:13.8)	2:26:30.8
8	Switzerland	Fritz Kocher (37:43) Marcel Huguenin (38:15) Lorenz Possa (36:37) Alphonse Baume (37:01.8)	2:29:36.8
9	United Team of Germany	Kuno Werner (37:27) Helmut Hagg (37:53) Werner Haase (37:58) Enno Röder (38:29.1)	2:31:47.1
10	Japan	Takashi Matsuhashi (39:02) Kazuo Sato (37:41) Eiji Kurita (39:17) Akemi Taniguchi (40:44.9)	2:36:44.9
11	United States	Mack Miller (37:04) Karl Bohlin (40:47) John Dendahl (39:11) Peter Lahdenpera (40:59.8)	2:38:01.8

References

Olympic champions in men's 4 × 10 km cross-country relay

1936: Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, Kalle Jalkanen (FIN)
1948: Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, Martin Lundström (SWE)
1952: Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, Tapio Mäkelä (FIN)
1956: Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin (URS)
1960: Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)
1964: Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, Assar Rönnlund (SWE)
1968: Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter (NOR)
1972: Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS)
1976: Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, Arto Koivisto (FIN)
1980: Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
1984: Thomas Wassberg, Benny Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan (SWE)
1988: Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan, Torgny Mogren (SWE)
1992: Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal, Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)
1994: Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner (ITA)
1998: Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
2002: Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
2006: Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio Di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Cristian Zorzi (ITA)
2010: Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Södergren, Marcus Hellner (SWE)
2014: Lars Nelson, Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Marcus Hellner (SWE)

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