Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics
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1960 Winter Olympics The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley 1960) were a winter multi-sport event held from February 18 to 28, 1960, at the Squaw Valley Resort (now known as Palisades Tahoe) in Squaw Vall ...
consisted of one
biathlon The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not tim ...
event, held at
McKinney Creek Stadium McKinney Creek Stadium was a temporary ski stadium located at Tahoma, California, in the United States. Built in 1959, it was used for cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing, Nordic combined, and biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics in ...
,
Tahoma, California Tahoma (formerly Chambers Lodge) is a census-designated place in Placer and El Dorado counties, California, United States. Tahoma is located along Lake Tahoe 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Homewood. Tahoma has a population of 1,191 (780 in E ...
. The event occurred on 21 February 1960. This was the first appearance of modern biathlon in the Olympic Games. In 1924, a
military patrol Military patrol was a team winter sport in which athletes competed in cross-country skiing, ski mountaineering and rifle shooting. It was usually contested between countries or military units. The military patrol competition encompassed 25 kil ...
event was held. Some sources do not include this military patrol race as an Olympic event, but the IOC considers it an event within biathlon.


Medal summary

Klas Lestander Klas Ivar Vilhelm Lestander (18 April 1931 – 13 January 2023) was a Swedish biathlon, biathlete who won a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, Placer County, California, Squaw Valley.1960 Squaw Valley Official Olympic Report1960 Olympic Nordic Events
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1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
1960 Winter Olympics events 1960 in biathlon Sports in Tahoma, California Biathlon competitions in the United States