1960 Winter Olympics medal table

The 1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960, were an international winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Valley (now known as Olympic Valley), California, United States.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Canadian Encyclopedia">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> A total of 665 athletes representing 30 National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> including South Africa who took part in the Winter Games for the first time.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> It was the first time all five continents represented in the Olympic rings (Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania) were represented in the Winter Games.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="IOC relive the glories..." />

The games featured 27 events in 4 sports across 8 disciplines, including the Olympic debuts of biathlon and women's speed skating.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Canadian Encyclopedia" /> Due to a lack of entries, this was the first and only Winter Games which did not feature bobsledding as an event.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="IOC relive the glories...">Template:Cite web</ref>

Athletes representing 14 NOCs received at least one medal, with 10 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.<ref name="IOC medal table" /> Athletes from the Soviet Union won the most gold medals, with seven, and the most overall medals, with 21.<ref name="IOC medal table" /> Soviet speed skaters Lidiya Skoblikova and Yevgeny Grishin tied for the most gold medals at the games with two each, while Finnish skier Veikko Hakulinen had the most total medals with three (one gold, one silver, and one bronze).<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Medal table

The medal table is based on information provided by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses the Olympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by their IOC country code.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Two gold medals and no silver medals were awarded in the men's 1500 metres speed skating event due to a tie for first place.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

See also

• List of 1960 Winter Olympics medal winners
• All-time Olympic Games medal table
• 1960 Summer Olympics medal table