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Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics

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Host country
  
USA

Teams
  
9

Third place
  
Dates
  
19–28 February

Runner-up
  
Champions
  
United States (1st title)

The men's ice hockey tournament (women's was added in 1998) at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, United States, was the 9th Olympic Championship, also serving as the 27th World Championships and the 38th European Championships. The United States won its first Olympic gold medal and second World Championship. Canada, represented for the second time by the Kitchener-Waterloo Dutchmen, won the silver and its ninth consecutive Olympic ice hockey medal (a feat not matched until the Soviet Union won its ninth consecutive medal in 1988). Highest finishing European team Soviet Union won the bronze medal and its sixth European Championship. The tournament was held at the Blyth Arena.

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Canada, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Sweden were the top four teams heading into the Games. All four were defeated by the American team, which won all seven games it played. On the 50th anniversary of these Games, a documentary entitled Forgotten Miracle was produced by Northland Films, making reference to the more famous 1980 gold medal known as the Miracle on Ice; these are the only two Olympic gold medals won by USA men's ice hockey.

Qualification

The two German nations play a qualification round to determine which team will participate at the Olympics.

First round

Top two teams (shaded ones) from each group advanced to the final round and played for 1st-6th places, other teams played in the consolation round.

Consolation round

Teams that didn't qualify for the final round played here. Sources differ on which Finland-Japan game took place on the 23rd, and which game took place on the 26th.

Medal round

First place team wins gold, second silver and third bronze.

Tournament awards

  • Best players selected by the directorate:
  • Best Goaltender: Jack McCartan
  • Best Defenceman: Nikolaï Sologubov
  • Best Forward: Nisse Nilsson
  • Final ranking

    1.  United States
    2.  Canada
    3.  Soviet Union
    4.  Czechoslovakia
    5.  Sweden
    6.  Germany
    7.  Finland
    8.  Japan
    9.  Australia

    European Championship final ranking

    1.  Soviet Union
    2.  Czechoslovakia
    3.  Sweden
    4.  Germany
    5.  Finland

    References

    Ice hockey at the 1960 Winter Olympics Wikipedia


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