Figure skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's singles

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{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Men's singles

| games = 1960 Winter

| image = Figure skating pictogram.svg

| image_size = 100px

| venue = Blyth Arena
Squaw Valley, California, United States

| dates = 24 February 1960
26 February 1960

| competitors = 19

| nations = 10

| gold = David Jenkins

| goldNOC = USA

| silver = Karol Divín

| silverNOC = TCH

| bronze = Donald Jackson

| bronzeNOC = CAN

| prev = 1956

| next = 1964

}}

The men's single skating competition of the 1960 Winter Olympics was held at the Blyth Arena in Squaw Valley, California, United States. The compulsory figures section took place on Wednesday 24 February 1960 with the free skating section concluding the event two days later. Each judge ranked each skater by Ordinal Placement from first to last place. If a skater was ranked first by a majority of the judges, that skater was placed first overall, this process was repeated for each place. If more than one skater had a majority ranking for the same position then a series of tiebreaks were in place, indicated in order in the result section.

David Jenkins won gold for the United States succeeding his older brother Hayes Alan Jenkins. Karol Divín of Czechoslovakia took silver after leading after the compulsory section.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/13044 |title=Figure Skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics: Singles, Men |work=Olympedia |accessdate=3 July 2020}}

Results

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Pl.

! Name

! Nation

! {{tooltip|MP|Majority Placements}}

! {{tooltip|TOOM|Total Ordinals Of Majority}}

! {{tooltip|TO|Total Ordinals}}

! {{tooltip|TP|Total Points}}

! {{tooltip|CFP|Compulsory Figure Points}}

bgcolor="gold"

| align="center" | 1

| David Jenkins

{{flagIOC|USA|1960 Winter}}{{sort|01|8x1+}}8.010.01440.2775.2
bgcolor="silver"

| align="center" | 2

| Karol Divín

{{flagIOC|TCH|1960 Winter}}{{sort|02|5x2+}}9.022.01414.3797.7
bgcolor="cc9966"

| align="center" | 3

| Donald Jackson

{{flagIOC|CAN|1960 Winter}}{{sort|03|5x3+}}14.031.01401.0751.4
4

| Alain Giletti || {{flagIOC|FRA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|04|7x4+}} ||21.0||31.0||1399.2||762.7

5

| Tim Brown || {{flagIOC|USA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|05|7x5+}} ||31.0||43.0||1374.1||748.9

6

| Alain Calmat || {{flagIOC|FRA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|06|7x6+}} ||40.0||54.0||1340.3||725.2

7

| Robert Brewer || {{flagIOC|USA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|07|5x7+}} ||33.0||66.0||1320.3||724.6

8

| Manfred Schnelldorfer || {{flagIOC|EUA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|08|5x8+}} ||37.0||75.0||1303.3||718.4

9

| Tilo Gutzeit || {{flagIOC|EUA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|09|7x9+}} ||61.0||86.0||1274.0||706.7

10

| Donald McPherson || {{flagIOC|CAN|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|10|8x10+}} ||72.0||83.0||1279.7||676.0

11

| Hubert Köpfler || {{flagIOC|SUI|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|11|6x12+}} ||71.0||114.0||1217.0||668.1

12

| Robin Jones || {{flagIOC|GBR|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|12|6x13+}} ||69.0||113.0||1220.4||653.1

13

| Peter Jonas || {{flagIOC|AUT|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|13|6x13+}} ||70.0||115.0||1213.2||665.4

14

| Nobuo Sato || {{flagIOC|JPN|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|14|8x14+}} ||105.0||120.0||1206.8||678.0

15

| David Clements || {{flagIOC|GBR|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|15|6x16+}} ||84.0||135.0||1174.7||625.6

16

| Bodo Bockenauer || {{flagIOC|EUA|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|16|6x16+}} ||86.0||137.0||1162.2||612.9

17

| Tim Spencer || {{flagIOC|AUS|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|17|6x16+}} ||91.0||142.0||1171.2||612.3

18

| Bill Cherrell || {{flagIOC|AUS|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|18|9x18+}} ||162.0||162.0||1042.2||553.8

{{sort|200|WD}}

| Norbert Felsinger || {{flagIOC|AUT|1960 Winter}} || {{sort|19|DNF}} || {{sort|200

} || {{sort|200|}} || {{sort|200|}} || {{sort|200|}}

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