Ice Hockey at The 1960 Winter Olympics

Ice Hockey At The 1960 Winter Olympics

At the 1960 Winter Olympics held in Squaw Valley, California, United States, one ice hockey event was held: men's Ice Hockey. This tournament was also counted as IIHF World Championship and IIHF European Championship. Games were held at Blyth Arena.

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 en route to its first Olympic gold medal. In the United States the victory has come to be known as the "Forgotten Miracle," in comparison to the more famous 1980 gold medal known as the Miracle on Ice; both instances represent the only two Olympic gold medals won by USA men's ice hockey. A documentary entitled Forgotten Miracle was produced in 2010 on the 50th anniversary of the Games by Northland Films.

Herb Brooks, the coach of the 1980 US men's hockey team (the "Miracle on Ice"), was a player with the 1960 Olympic team, but was cut from the team a week before the Games began.