| Alpine skiing | Men's downhill | Toni Sailer Austria | Raymond Fellay Switzerland | Anderl Molterer Austria |
| Alpine skiing | Men's giant slalom | Toni Sailer Austria | Anderl Molterer Austria | Walter Schuster Austria |
| Alpine skiing | Men's slalom | Toni Sailer Austria | Chiharu Igaya Japan | Stig Sollander Sweden |
| Alpine skiing | Women's downhill | Madeleine Berthod Switzerland | Frieda Dänzer Switzerland | Lucille Wheeler Canada |
| Alpine skiing | Women's giant slalom | Ossi Reichert United Team of Germany | Putzi Frandl Austria | Thea Hochleitner Austria |
| Alpine skiing | Women's slalom | Renée Colliard Switzerland | Regina Schöpf Austria | Yevgeniya Sidorova Soviet Union |
| Bobsleigh | Men's four-man | Franz Kapus, Gottfried Diener, Robert Alt, Heinrich Angst Switzerland | Eugenio Monti, Ulrico Girardi, Renzo Alverà, Renato Mocellini Italy | Arthur Tyler, William Dodge, Charles Butler, James Lamy United States |
| Bobsleigh | Men's two-man | Lamberto Dalla Costa, Giacomo Conti Italy | Eugenio Monti, Renzo Alverà Italy | Max Angst, Harry Warburton Switzerland |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 15 km | Hallgeir Brenden Norway | Sixten Jernberg Sweden | Pavel Kolchin Soviet Union |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 30 km | Veikko Hakulinen Finland | Sixten Jernberg Sweden | Pavel Kolchin Soviet Union |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 4×10 km | Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin Soviet Union | August Kiuru, Jorma Kortelainen, Arvo Viitanen, Veikko Hakulinen Finland | Lennart Larsson, Gunnar Samuelsson, Per-Erik Larsson, Sixten Jernberg Sweden |
| Cross-country skiing | Men's 50 km | Sixten Jernberg Sweden | Veikko Hakulinen Finland | Fyodor Terentyev Soviet Union |
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 10 km | Lyubov Kozyreva Soviet Union | Radya Yeroshina Soviet Union | Sonja Edström Sweden |
| Cross-country skiing | Women's 3×5 km | Sirkka Polkunen, Mirja Hietamies, Siiri Rantanen Finland | Lyubov Kozyreva, Alevtina Kolchina, Radya Yeroshina Soviet Union | Irma Johansson, Anna-Lisa Eriksson, Sonja Edström Sweden |
| Figure skating | Men's | Hayes Alan Jenkins United States | Ronnie Robertson United States | David Jenkins United States |
| Figure skating | Mixed Pairs | Sissy Schwarz, Kurt Oppelt Austria | Frances Dafoe, Norris Bowden Canada | Marianna Nagy, László Nagy Hungary |
| Figure skating | Women’s Ladies' | Tenley Albright United States | Carol Heiss United States | Ingrid Wendl Austria |
| Ice hockey | Men's team | Yevgeny Babich, Vsevolod Bobrov, Alexei Guryshev, Nikolay Khlystov, Valentin Kuzin, Yuri Krylov, Alfred Kuchevsky, Grigory Mkrtychan, Viktor Nikiforov, Yuri Pantyukhov, Nikolai Puchkov, Viktor Shuvalov, Genrikh Sidorenkov, Nikolai Sologubov, Ivan Tregubov, Dmitry Ukolov, Aleksandr Uvarov Soviet Union | Wendell Anderson, Wellington Burtnett, Eugene Campbell, Gordon Christian, Bill Cleary, Richard Dougherty, Willard Ikola, John Matchefts, John Mayasich, Daniel McKinnon, Richard Meredith, Weldon Olson, John Petroske, Kenneth Purpur, Don Rigazio, Richard Rodenheiser, Ed Sampson United States | Denis Brodeur, Charles Brooker, William Colvin, Alfred Horne, Art Hurst, Byrle Klinck, Paul Knox, Ken Laufman, Howard Lee, James Logan, Floyd Martin, Jack McKenzie, Donald Rope, George Scholes, Gerry Theberge, Robert White, Keith Woodall Canada |
| Nordic combined | Men's individual | Sverre Stenersen Norway | Bengt Eriksson Sweden | Franciszek Gąsienica Groń Poland |
| Ski jumping | Men's individual | Antti Hyvärinen Finland | Aulis Kallakorpi Finland | Harry Glaß United Team of Germany |
| Speed skating | Men's 10000 metres | Sigvard Ericsson Sweden | Knut Johannesen Norway | Oleg Goncharenko Soviet Union |
| Speed skating | Men's 1500 metres | Yevgeny Grishin Soviet Union / Yuri Mikhaylov Soviet Union | — | Toivo Salonen Finland |
| Speed skating | Men's 500 metres | Yevgeny Grishin Soviet Union | Rafayel Grach Soviet Union | Alv Gjestvang Norway |
| Speed skating | Men's 5000 metres | Boris Shilkov Soviet Union | Sigvard Ericsson Sweden | Oleg Goncharenko Soviet Union |