1960 Rome Summer Olympics

The Sports Almanac

1960 Summer Olympics
Rome, Italy

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS
SOVIET UNION - 103 Medals	UNITED STATES - 71 Medals	UNITED TEAM OF GERMANY - 42 Medals

Athletics	Swimming	Diving	Water Polo
Basketball	Boxing	Canoeing	Cycling
Equestrian	Fencing	Field Hockey	Soccer
Gymnastics	Modern Pentathlon	Rowing	Sailing
Shooting	Weightlifting	Wrestling

1960 Rome Overall Medal Standings
RANK	COUNTRY	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1	Soviet Union	43	29	31	103
2	United States	34	21	16	71
3	United Team of Germany	12	19	11	42
4	Italy	13	10	13	36
5	Australia	8	8	6	22
6	Hungary	6	8	7	21
7	Poland	4	6	11	21
8	Great Britain	2	6	12	20
9	Japan	4	7	7	18
10	Romania	3	1	6	10
11	Turkey	7	2	0	9
12	Czechoslovakia	3	2	3	8
13	Bulgaria	1	3	3	7
14	Denmark	2	3	1	6
15	Sweden	1	2	3	6
16	Switzerland	0	3	3	6
17	Finland	1	1	3	5
18	France	0	2	3	5
19	Belgium	0	2	2	4
20	Iran	0	1	3	4
21	New Zealand	2	0	1	3
22	Netherlands	0	1	2	3
23	South Africa	0	1	2	3
24	Austria	1	1	0	2
25	Yugoslavia	1	1	0	2
26	Pakistan	1	0	1	2
27	Argentina	0	1	1	2
28	Egypt	0	1	1	2
29	Brazil	0	0	2	2
30	British West Indies	0	0	2	2
31	Ethiopia	1	0	0	1
32	Greece	1	0	0	1
33	Norway	1	0	0	1
34	Canada	0	1	0	1
35	Ghana	0	1	0	1
36	India	0	1	0	1
37	Morocco	0	1	0	1
38	Portugal	0	1	0	1
39	Republic of China	0	1	0	1
40	Singapore	0	1	0	1
41	Iraq	0	0	1	1
42	Mexico	0	0	1	1
43	Spain	0	0	1	1
44	Venezuela	0	0	1	1

1960 Rome Athletics
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's 100 Meters	Armin Hary - United Team of Germany	Dave Sime - United States	Peter Radford - Great Britain
Women's 100 Meters	Wilma Rudolph - United States	Dorothy Hyman - Great Britain	Giuseppina Leone - Italy
Men's 200 Meters	Livio Berruti - Italy	Lester Carney - United States	Abdoulaye Seye - France
Women's 200 Meters	Wilma Rudolph - United States	Jutta Heine - United Team of Germany	Dorothy Hyman - Great Britain
Men's 400 Meters	Otis Davis - United States	Carl Kaufmann - United Team of Germany	Malcolm Spence - South Africa
Men's 800 Meters	Peter Snell - New Zealand	Roger Moens - Belgium	George Kerr - British West Indies
Women's 800 Meters	Lyudmila Shevtsova - Soviet Union	Brenda Jones - Australia	Ursula Donath - United Team of Germany
Men's 1500 Meters	Herb Elliott - Australia	Michel Jazy - France	István Rózsavölgyi - Hungary
Men's 5000 Meters	Murray Halberg - New Zealand	Hans Grodotzki - United Team of Germany	Kazimierz Zimny - Poland
Men's 10000 Meters	Pyotr Bolotnikov - Soviet Union	Hans Grodotzki - United Team of Germany	David Power - Australia
Men's 110 Meter Hurdles	Lee Calhoun - United States	William May - United States	Hayes Jones - United States
Women's 80 Meter Hurdles	Irina Press - Soviet Union	Carole Quinton - Great Britain	Gisela Birkemeyer - United Team of Germany
Men's 400 Meter Hurdles	Glenn Davis - United States	Clifton Cushman - United States	Dick Howard - United States
Men's 3000 Meter Steeplechase	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak - Poland	Nikolay Sokolov - Soviet Union	Semyon Rzhishchin - Soviet Union
Men's 4X100 Meter Relay	United Team of Germany	Soviet Union	Great Britain
Women's 4X100 Meter Relay	United States	United Team of Germany	Poland
Men's 4X400 Meter Relay	United States	United Team of Germany	British West Indies
Men's Marathon	Abebe Bikila - Ethiopia	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam - Morocco	Barry Magee - New Zealand
Men's 20KM Walk	Vladimir Golubnichy - Soviet Union	Noel Freeman - Australia	Stan Vickers - Great Britain
Men's 50KM Walk	Don Thompson - Great Britain	John Ljunggren - Sweden	Abdon Pamich - Italy
Men's Long Jump	Ralph Boston - United States	Irvin Roberson - United States	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan - Soviet Union
Women's Long Jump	Vera Krepkina - Soviet Union	Elżbieta Krzesińska - Poland	Hildrun Claus - United Team of Germany
Men's Triple Jump	Józef Szmidt - Poland	Vladimir Goryaev - Soviet Union	Vitold Kreer - Soviet Union
Men's High Jump	Robert Shavlakadze - Soviet Union	Valeriy Brumel - Soviet Union	John Thomas - United States
Women's High Jump	Iolanda Balaş - Romania	Jarosława Jóźwiakowska - Poland Dorothy Shirley - Great Britain	None Awarded
Men's Pole Vault	Don Bragg - United States	Ron Morris - United States	Eeles Landström - Finland
Men's Shot Put	Bill Nieder - United States	Parry O'Brien - United States	Dallas Long - United States
Women's Shot Put	Tamara Press - Soviet Union	Johanna Lüttge - United Team of Germany	Earlene Brown - United States
Men's Discus	Al Oerter - United States	Rink Babka - United States	Dick Cochran - United States
Women's Discus	Nina Ponomaryova - Soviet Union	Tamara Press - Soviet Union	Lia Manoliu - Romania
Men's Javelin	Viktor Tsybulenko - Soviet Union	Walter Krüger - United Team of Germany	Gergely Kulcsár - Hungary
Women's Javelin	Elvīra Ozoliņa - Soviet Union	Dana Zátopková - Czechoslovakia	Birutė Kalėdienė - Soviet Union
Men's Hammer Throw	Vasili Rudenkov - Soviet Union	Gyula Zsivótzky - Hungary	Tadeusz Rut - Poland
Decathlon	Rafer Johnson - United States	Yang Chuan-Kwang - Republic of China	Vasili Kuznetsov - Soviet Union

1960 Rome Swimming
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's 100 Meter Freestyle	John Devitt - Australia	Lance Larson - United States	Manuel dos Santos - Brazil
Women's 100 Meter Freestyle	Dawn Fraser - Australia	Chris von Saltza - United States	Natalie Steward - Great Britain
Men's 400 Meter Freestyle	Murray Rose - Australia	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka - Japan	John Konrads - Australia
Women's 400 Meter Freestyle	Chris von Saltza - United States	Jane Cederqvist - Sweden	Tineke Lagerberg - Netherlands
Men's 1500 Meter Freestyle	John Konrads - Australia	Murray Rose - Australia	George Breen - United States
Men's 100 Meter Backstroke	David Theile - Australia	Frank McKinney - United States	Bob Bennett - United States
Women's 100 Meter Backstroke	Lynn Burke - United States	Natalie Steward - Great Britain	Satoko Tanaka - Japan
Men's 200 Meter Breaststroke	Bill Mulliken - United States	Yoshihiko Osaki - Japan	Wieger Mensonides - Netherlands
Women's 200 Meter Breaststroke	Anita Lonsbrough - Great Britain	Wiltrud Urselmann - United Team of Germany	Barbara Göbel - United Team of Germany
Women's 100 Meter Butterfly	Carolyn Schuler - United States	Marianne Heemskerk - Netherlands	Jan Andrew - Australia
Men's 200 Meter Butterfly	Mike Troy - United States	Neville Hayes - Australia	Dave Gillanders - United States
Women's 4X100 Meter Freestyle Relay	United States	Australia	United Team of Germany
Men's 4X200 Meter Freestyle Relay	United States	Japan	Australia
Men's 4X100 Medley Relay	United States	Australia	Japan
Women's 4X100 Medley Relay	United States	Australia	United Team of Germany

1960 Rome Diving
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's 3 Meter Springboard	Gary Tobian - United States	Samuel Hall - United States	Juan Botella - Mexico
Women's 3 Meter Springboard	Ingrid Krämer - United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope - United States	Elizabeth Ferris - Great Britain
Men's 10 Meter Platform	Bob Webster - United States	Gary Tobian - United States	Brian Phelps - Great Britain
Women's 10 Meter Platform	Ingrid Krämer - United Team of Germany	Paula Jean Myers-Pope - United States	Ninel Krutova - Soviet Union

1960 Rome Water Polo
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's	Italy	Soviet Union	Hungary

1960 Rome Basketball
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's	United States	Soviet Union	Brazil

1960 Rome Boxing
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Flyweight	Gyula Török - Hungary	Sergey Sivko - Soviet Union	Abdel Moneim El-Guindi - Egypt Kiyoshi Tanabe - Japan
Bantanweight	Oleg Grigoryev - Soviet Union	Primo Zamparini - Italy	Oliver Taylor - Australia Brunon Bendig - Poland
Featherweight	Francesco Musso - Italy	Jerzy Adamski - Poland	Jorma Limmonen - Finland William Meyers - South Africa
Lightweight	Kazimierz Paździor - Poland	Sandro Lopopolo - Italy	Richard McTaggart - Great Britain Abel Laudonio - Argentina
Light Welterweight	Bohumil Nĕmeček - Czechoslovakia	Clement Quartey - Ghana	Marian Kasprzyk - Poland Quincey Daniels - United States
Welterweight	Nino Benvenuti - Italy	Yuri Radonyak - Soviet Union	Jimmy Lloyd - Great Britain Leszek Drogosz - Poland
Light Middleweight	Wilbert McClure - United States	Carmelo Bossi - Italy	William Fisher - Great Britain Boris Lagutin - Soviet Union
Middleweight	Eddie Cook, Jr. - United States	Tadeusz Walasek - Poland	Ion Monea - Romania Yevgeny Feofanov - Soviet Union
Light Heavyweight	Cassius Clay - United States	Zbigniew Pietrzykowski - Poland	Giulio Saraudi - Italy Anthony Madigan - Australia
Heavyweight	Francesco de Piccoli - Italy	Daniel Bekker - South Africa	Günter Siegmund - United Team of Germany Josef Nĕmec - Czechoslovakia

1960 Rome Canoeing
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's C-1 1000 Meters	János Parti - Hungary	Aleksandr Silayev - Soviet Union	Leon Rotman - Romania
Men's C-2 1000 Meters	Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko - Soviet Union	Aldo Dezi, Francesco La Macchia - Italy	Imre Farkas, András Törő - Hungary
Men's K-1 1000 Meters	Erik Hansen - Denmark	Imre Szöllősi - Hungary	Gert Fredricksson - Sweden
Men's K-2 1000 Meters	Gert Fredricksson, Sven-Olav Sjödelius - Sweden	György Mészáros, András Szente - Hungary	Stefan Kapłaniak, Władysław Zieliński - Poland
Men's K-1 4X500 Meters Relay	United Team of Germany	Hungary	Denmark
Women's K-1 500 Meters	Antonina Seredina - Soviet Union	Therese Zenz - United Team of Germany	Daniela Walkowiak - Poland
Women's K-2 500 Meters	Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina - Soviet Union	Therese Zenz, Ingrid Hartmann - United Team of Germany	Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, Vilma Egresi - Hungary

1960 Rome Cycling
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
ROAD CYCLING
Individual	Viktor Kapitonov - Soviet Union	Livio Trapè - Italy	Willy van den Berghen - Belgium
Team Trial	Italy	United Team of Germany	Soviet Union
TRACK CYCLING
Team Pursuit	Italy	United Team of Germany	Soviet Union
Sprint	Sante Gaiardoni - Italy	Leo Sterckx - Belgium	Valentino Gasparella - Italy
Tandem	Guiseppe Beghetto, Sergio Bianchetto - Italy	Jürgen Simon, Lothar Stäber - United Team of Germany	Vladimir Leonov, Boris Vasilyev - Soviet Union
Time Trial	Italy	United Team of Germany	Soviet Union

1960 Rome Equestrian
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Individual Dressage	Sergei Filatov - Soviet Union	Gustav Fischer - Switzerland	Josef Neckermann - United Team of Germany
Individual Eventing	Lawrence Morgan - Australia	Neale Lavis - Australia	Anton Bühler - Switzerland
Team Eventing	Australia	Switzerland	France
Individual Jumping	Raimondo D'Inzeo - Italy	Piero D'Inzeo - Italy	David Broome - Great Britain
Team Jumping	United Team of Germany	United States	Italy

1960 Rome Fencing
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's Individual Épée	Giuseppe Delfino - Italy	Allan Jay - Great Britain	Bruno Khabarov - Soviet Union
Men's Team Épée	Italy	Great Britain	Soviet Union
Men's Individual Foil	Viktor Zhdanovich - Soviet Union	Yury Sisikin - Soviet Union	Albert Axelrod - United States
Men's Team Foil	Soviet Union	Italy	United Team of Germany
Men's Individual Sabre	Rudolf Kárpáti - Hungary	Zoltán Horváth - Hungary	Wladimiro Calarese - Italy
Men's Team Sabre	Hungary	Poland	Italy
Women's Individual Foil	Adelheid Schmid - United Team of Germany	Valentina Rastvorova - Soviet Union	Maria Vicol - Romania
Women'sTeam Foil	Soviet Union	Hungary	Italy

1960 Rome Field Hockey
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's	Pakistan	India	Spain

1960 Rome Soccer
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's	Yugoslavia	Denmark	Hungary

1960 Rome Gymnastics
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's Individual All-Around	Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union	Takashi Ono - Japan	Yuri Titov - Soviet Union
Women's Individual All-Around	Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova - Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova - Soviet Union
Men's Team All-Around	Japan	Soviet Union	Italy
Women's Team All-Around	Soviet Union	Czechoslovakia	Romania
Men's Vault	Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union Takashi Ono - Japan	None Awarded	Vladimir Portnoi - Soviet Union
Women's Vault	Margarita Nikolaeva - Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova - Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union
Men's Floor	Nobuyuki Aihara - Japan	Yuri Titov - Soviet Union	Franco Menichelli - Italy
Women's Floor	Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova - Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina - Soviet Union
Men's Pommel Horse	Eugen Ekman - Finland Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union	None Awarded	Shuji Tsurumi - Japan
Women's Balance Beam	Eva Bosáková - Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova - Soviet Union
Men's Rings	Albert Asaryan - Soviet Union	Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union	Takashi Ono - Japan Velik Kapsazov - Bulgaria
Men's Horizontal Bar	Takashi Ono - Japan	Masao Takemoto - Japan	Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union
Men's Parallel Bars	Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union	Giovanni Carminucci - Italy	Takashi Ono - Japan
Women's Uneven Bars	Polina Astakhova - Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina - Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina - Soviet Union

1960 Rome Modern Pentathlon
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Individual	Ferenc Németh - Hungary	Imre Nagy - Hungary	Robert Beck - United States
Team	Hungary	Soviet Union	United States

1960 Rome Rowing
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Men's Single Sculls	Vyacheslav Ivanov - Soviet Union	Achim Hill - United Team of Germany	Teodor Kocerka - Poland
Men's Double Sculls	Václav Kozák, Pavel Schmidt - Czechoslovakia	Aleksandr Berkutov, Yuriy Tyukalov - Soviet Union	Ernst Hürlimann - Switzerland
Men's Coxless Pairs	Valentin Boreyko, Oleg Golovanov - Soviet Union	Josef Kloimstein, Alfred Sageder - Austria	Veli Lehtelä, Toimi Pitkänen - Finland
Men's Coxed Pairs	United Team of Germany	Soviet Union	United States
Men's Coxless Fours	United States	Italy	Soviet Union
Men's Coxed Fours	United Team of Germany	France	Italy
Men's Eights	United Team of Germany	Canada	Czechoslovakia

1960 Rome Sailing
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Finn	Paul Elvstrøm - Denmark	Aleksander Tšutšelov - Soviet Union	André Nelis - Belgium
Flying Dutchmen	Peder Lunde, Jr., Bjørn Bergvall - Norway	Hans Fogh, Ole Erik Petersen - Denmark	Rolf Mulka, Ingo Von Bredow - United Team of Germany
Star	Timir Pinegin, Fyodor Shutkov - Soviet Union	Mário Quina, José Manuel Quina - Portugal	William Parks, Robert Halperin - United States
Dragon	Crown Prince Constantine, Odysseus Eskidioglou, Georgios Zaimis - Greece	Jorge Salas Chávez, Héctor Calegaris, Jorge del Río Salas - Argentina	Antonio Cosentino, Antonio Ciciliano, Giulio De Stefano - Italy
5.5 Meter Keelboat	United States	Denmark	Switzerland

1960 Rome Shooting
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Rapid Fire Pistol	William McMillan - United States	Pentti Linnosvuo - Finland	Aleksandr Zabelin - Soviet Union
Pistol	Aleksey Gushchin - Soviet Union	Makhmud Umarov - Soviet Union	Yoshihisa Yoshikawa - Japan
300 Meter Rifle, Three Positions	Hubert Hammerer - Austria	Hans Rudolf Spillmann - Switzerland	Vasily Borisov - Soviet Union
Rifle, Three Positions	Viktor Shamburkin - Soviet Union	Marat Niyazov - Soviet Union	Klaus Zähringer - United Team of Germany
Rifle, Prone	Peter Kohnke - United Team of Germany	James Enoch Hill - United States	Enrico Forcella - Venezuela
Trap	Ion Dumitrescu - Romania	Galliano Rossini - Italy	Sergei Kalinin - Soviet Union

1960 Rome Weightlifting
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
56 kg	Charles Vinci - United States	Yoshinobu Miyake - Japan	Esmaeil Elmkhah - Iran
60 kg	Yevgeny Minayev - Soviet Union	Isaac Berger - United States	Sebastiano Mannironi - Italy
67.5 kg	Viktor Bushuev - Soviet Union	Tan Howe Liang - Singapore	Adbul-Wahid Aziz - Iraq
75 kg	Aleksandr Kurynov - Soviet Union	Tommy Kono - United States	Győző Veres - Hungary
82.5 kg	Ireneusz Paliński - Poland	Jim George - United States	Jan Bochenek - Poland
90 kg	Arkadi Vorobyev - Soviet Union	Trofim Lomakin - Soviet Union	Louis Martin - Great Britain
+90 kg	Yury Vlasov - Soviet Union	James Bradford - United States	Norbert Schemansky - United States

1960 Rome Wrestling
EVENT	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE
Freestyle Flyweight	Ahmet Bilek - Turkey	Masayuki Matsubara - Japan	Ebrahim Seifpor - Iran
Freestyle Bantamweight	Terrence McCann - United States	Nezhdet Zalev - Bulgaria	Tadeusz Trojanowski - Poland
Freestyle Featherweight	Mustafa Dağıstanlı - Turkey	Stancho Kolev - Bulgaria	Vladimir Rubashvili - Soviet Union
Freestyle Lightweight	Shelby Wilson - United States	Vladimir Synyavsky - Soviet Union	Enyu Valchev - Bulgaria
Freestyle Welterweight	Douglas Blubaugh - United States	İsmail Ogan - Turkey	Muhammad Bashir - Pakistan
Freestyle Middleweight	Hasan Güngör - Turkey	Georgy Skhirtladze - Soviet Union	Hans Antonsson - Sweden
Freestyle Light Heavyweight	Ismet Atli - Turkey	Gholamreza Takhti - Iran	Anatoli Albul - Soviet Union
Freestyle Heavyweight	Wilfried Dietrich - United Team of Germany	Hamit Kaplan - Turkey	Savkuds Dzarasov - Soviet Union
Greco-Roman Flyweight	Dumitru Pârvulescu - Romania	Osman El-Sayed - Egypt	Mohammad Paziraei - Iran
Greco-Roman Bantamweight	Oleg Karavayev - Soviet Union	Ion Cernea - Romania	Dinko Petrov - Bulgaria
Greco-Roman Featherweight	Müzahir Sille - Turkey	Imre Polyák - Hungary	Konstantin Vyrupayev - Soviet Union
Greco-Roman Lightweight	Avtandil Koridze - Soviet Union	Branislav Martinović - Yugoslavia	Gustav Freij - Sweden
Greco-Roman Welterweight	Mithat Bayrak - Turkey	Günther Maritschnigg - United Team of Germany	René Schiermeyer - France
Greco-Roman Middleweight	Dimitar Dobrev - Bulgaria	Lothar Metz - United Team of Germany	Ion Ţăranu - Romania
Greco-Roman Light Heavyweight	Tevfik Kis - Turkey	Krali Bimbalov - Bulgaria	Givi Kartoziya - Soviet Union
Greco-Roman Heavyweight	Ivan Bogdan - Soviet Union	Wilfried Dietrich - United Team of Germany	Bohumil Kubát - Czechoslovakia