Nordic combined at the 1960 Winter Olympics

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At the 1960 Winter Olympics, the Individual Nordic combined event was contested.

[edit] Individual

February 22, 1960

Medal Athlete Points
Gold Germany Georg Thoma (EUA) 457.952
Silver Norway Tormod Knutsen (NOR) 453.000
Bronze Soviet Union Nikolay Gusakov (URS) 452.000
4 Finland Pekka Ristola (FIN) 449.871
5 Soviet Union Dmitry Kochkin (URS) 447.694
6 Norway Arne Larsen (NOR) 444.613
7 Norway Sverre Stenersen (NOR) 438.081
8 Sweden Lars Dahlqvist (SWE) 436.532

This event marked the first time the Daescher technique was used in the ski jumping part of the competition. Thoma competed for the unified German team of East Germany and West Germany that competed from 1956 to 1964.