Venue McKinney Creek Stadium Competitors 30 from 9 nations | Dates February 21 | |
Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics consisted of one biathlon event, held at McKinney Creek Stadium, Tahoma, California. The event occurred on 21 February 1960. This was the first appearance of modern biathlon in the Olympic Games. In 1924, a military patrol 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.
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Medal summary
Klas Lestander of Sweden won the first modern biathon Olympic gold medal.
Participating nations
Nine nations sent biathletes to compete in Grenoble. Below is a list of the competing nations; in parentheses are the number of national competitors.
References
Biathlon at the 1960 Winter Olympics Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA