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 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.

Karol Divín of Czechoslovakia took silver after leading after the compulsory section.