Shortly after the Games, Heiss married Jenkins' older brother Hayes, the men's gold medalist in '56. This was also the first year women could compete in speed skating and the Soviets' Lydia Skoblikova won twice, at 1,500 and 3,000 meters. She would go on to win four gold medals at Innsbruck in 1964. Sweden's Klas Lestander won the first Olympic biathlon competition. She was later married for a few years to 1964 men's downhill champion Egon Zimmermann of Austria.
Total medals are in parentheses.