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


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

RankNationSkiersTime
1Toimi Alatalo
Eero Mäntyranta
Väinö Huhtala
Veikko Hakulinen
2:18:45.6
2Harald Grønningen
Hallgeir Brenden
Einar Østby
Håkon Brusveen
2:18:46.4
3Anatoly Shelyukhin
Gennady Vaganov
Aleksey Kuznetsov
Nikolay Anikin
2:21:21.6
4Lars Olsson
Janne Stefansson
Lennart Larsson
Sixten Jernberg
2:21:31.8
5Giulio De Florian
Giuseppe Steiner
Pompeo Fattor
Marcello De Dorigo
2:22:32.5
6Andrzej Mateja
Józef Rysula
Józef Gut-Misiaga
Kazimierz Zelek
2:26:25.3
7Victor Arbez
René Mandrillon
Benoît Carrara
Jean Mermet
2:26:30.8
8Fritz Kocher
Marcel Huguenin
Lorenz Possa
Alphonse Baume
2:29:36.8
9Kuno Werner
Helmut Hagg
Werner Haase
Enno Röder
2:31:47.1
10Takashi Matsuhashi
Kazuo Sato
Eiji Kurita
Akemi Taniguchi
2:36:44.9
11Mack Miller
Karl Bohlin
John Dendahl
Peter Lahdenpera
2:38:01.8