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=== Cross-country skiing === {{Main|Cross-country skiing at the 1960 Winter Olympics}} [[File:Sixten Jernberg, Innsbruck 1964.jpg|thumb|right|Sixten Jernberg in an Olympic cross-country race]] There were six [[cross-country skiing (sport)|cross-country skiing]] races at the 1960 Olympics, four for men and two for women, all held at the McKinney Creek Cross-Country Complex. Soviet women swept the 10 kilometer race, which was the first medal sweep for the Soviets in cross-country skiing at the Winter Olympics.<ref name=srcc>{{cite web|title=Cross Country Skiing at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/CCS/|access-date=August 11, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122219/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/CCS/| archive-date= July 16, 2011 | url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name=mariya>{{cite web|title=Mariya Gusakova|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/mariya-gusakova-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418033240/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/gu/mariya-gusakova-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|access-date=August 11, 2011}}</ref> They were however upset by [[Sweden at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Sweden]] in the 3Γ5 kilometer relay.<ref name=srcc/> Nordic countries dominated the men's competition. Swedish lumberjack [[Sixten Jernberg]] added a gold and silver to the four medals he won in 1956. He would add two golds and a bronze in [[1964 Winter Olympics|1964]] to finish his Olympic career with nine medals, which made him the most decorated Winter Olympian.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sixten Jernberg|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/sixten-jernberg-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417070624/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/je/sixten-jernberg-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 11, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sixten Jernberg|publisher=ESPN|url=https://www.espn.com/olympics/winter/2010/athletes/_/athlete/33164/sixten-jernberg|access-date=August 11, 2011}}</ref> The [[Finland at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Finnish]] skier [[Veikko Hakulinen]] added a gold, silver and bronze to the two golds and two silvers he had won in [[1952 Winter Olympics|1952]] and 1956.<ref name=judd/><ref>{{cite web|title=Veikko Hakulinen|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/veikko-hakulinen-1.html|access-date=August 11, 2011| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110716122226/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/veikko-hakulinen-1.html| archive-date= July 16, 2011 | url-status= dead}}</ref>
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