| 1960 Winter Olympics medals | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Yevgeny Grishin (pictured) won two gold medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics, tied for the most of any competing athlete. | ||||
| Location | Squaw Valley, United States | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals |  Soviet Union (7) | |||
| Most total medals | Soviet Union (21) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 14 | |||
| ||||
The1960 Winter Olympics, officially known as the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960, were an international wintermulti-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known asPalisades Tahoe) in Squaw Valley (now known asOlympic Valley),California, United States.[1][2][3][4] A total of 665 athletes representing 30National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated,[5] includingSouth Africa who took part in the Winter Games for the first time.[6] It was the first time all five continents represented in theOlympic rings (Africa, theAmericas,Asia,Europe, andOceania) were represented in the Winter Games.[7][8]
The games featured 27 events in 4sports across 8 disciplines, including the Olympic debuts ofbiathlon and women'sspeed skating.[9][3] Due to a lack of entries, this was the first and only Winter Games which did not featurebobsledding as an event.[10][8]
Athletes representing 14 NOCs received at least one medal, with 10 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.[11] Athletes from the Soviet Union won the most gold medals, with seven, and the most overall medals, with 21.[11] Soviet speed skatersLidiya Skoblikova andYevgeny Grishin tied for the most gold medals at the games with two each, while Finnish skierVeikko Hakulinen had the most total medals with three (one gold, one silver, and one bronze).[12]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic 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.[13][14] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[15]
Two gold medals and no silver medals were awarded in themen's 1500 metres speed skating event due to a tie for first place.[16]
* Host nation (United States)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 7 | 5 | 9 | 21 |
| 2 |  United Team of Germany | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 3 | United States* | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| 4 |  Norway | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 5 |  Sweden | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 |  Finland | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 7 |  Canada | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 |  Switzerland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 9 |  Austria | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 10 |  France | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 11 |  Netherlands | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 Poland | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 13 |  Czechoslovakia | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 14 |  Italy | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | 28 | 26 | 27 | 81 | |
