Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women.

Contents

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres United Team of Germany Armin Hary
United Team of Germany (EUA)
United States David Sime
United States (USA)
Great Britain Peter Radford
Great Britain (GBR)
200 metres Italy Livio Berruti
Italy (ITA)
United States Lester Carney
United States (USA)
France Abdoulaye Seye
France (FRA)
400 metres United States Otis Davis
United States (USA)
United Team of Germany Carl Kaufmann
United Team of Germany (EUA)
South Africa Malcolm Spence
South Africa (RSA)
800 metres New Zealand Peter Snell
New Zealand (NZL)
Belgium Roger Moens
Belgium (BEL)
British West Indies George Ezekiel Kerr
British West Indies (BWI)
1500 metres Australia Herb Elliott
Australia (AUS)
France Michel Jazy
France (FRA)
Hungary István Rózsavölgyi
Hungary (HUN)
5000 metres New Zealand Murray Halberg
New Zealand (NZL)
United Team of Germany Hans Grodotzki
United Team of Germany (EUA)
Poland Kazimierz Zimny
Poland (POL)
10000 metres Soviet Union Pyotr Bolotnikov
Soviet Union (URS)
United Team of Germany Hans Grodotzki
United Team of Germany (EUA)
Australia David Power
Australia (AUS)
110 metre hurdles United States Lee Calhoun
United States (USA)
United States William Lee May
United States (USA)
United States Hayes Jones
United States (USA)
400 metre hurdles United States Glenn Davis
United States (USA)
United States Clifton Cushman
United States (USA)
United States Richard Howard
United States (USA)
3000 metre steeplechase Poland Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak
Poland (POL)
Soviet Union Nikolai Sokolov
Soviet Union (URS)
Soviet Union Semen Rzhischin
Soviet Union (URS)
4×100 metre relay United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA)
Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS)
Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuri Konovalov
Edvins Ozolin
Great Britain Great Britain (GBR)
Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Joseph Whitehead
4×400 metre relay United States United States (USA)
Jack Yerman
Earl Young
Glenn Ashby Davis
Otis Davis
United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA)
Manfred Kinder
Hans-Joachim Reske
Johannes Kaiser
Carl Kaufmann
British West Indies British West Indies (BWI)
George Ezekiel Kerr
James Wedderburn
Keith Gardner
Malcolm Spence
20 km walk Soviet Union Vladimir Golubnichy
Soviet Union (URS)
Australia Noel Freeman
Australia (AUS)
Great Britain Stanley Vickers
Great Britain (GBR)
50 km walk Great Britain Don Thompson
Great Britain (GBR)
Sweden John Ljunggren
Sweden (SWE)
Italy Abdon Pamich
Italy (ITA)
Marathon Ethiopia Abebe Bikila
Ethiopia (ETH)
Morocco Abdesiem Rhadi Ben Abdesselem
Morocco (MAR)
New Zealand Arthur Magee
New Zealand (NZL)
High jump Soviet Union Robert Shavlakadze
Soviet Union (URS)
Soviet Union Valeriy Brumel
Soviet Union (URS)
United States John Thomas
United States (USA)
Long jump United States Ralph Boston
United States (USA)
United States Irvin Roberson
United States (USA)
Soviet Union Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
Soviet Union (URS)
Triple jump Poland Jozef Schmidt
Poland (POL)
Soviet Union Vladimir Goryaev
Soviet Union (URS)
Soviet Union Vitold Kreer
Soviet Union (URS)
Pole vault United States Donald Bragg
United States (USA)
United States Ronald Morris
United States (USA)
Finland Eeles Landström
Finland (FIN)
Shot put United States William Nieder
United States (USA)
United States William O'Brien Jr.
United States (USA)
United States Dallas Long
United States (USA)
Discus throw United States Al Oerter
United States (USA)
United States Richard Babka
United States (USA)
United States Richard Cochran
United States (USA)
Hammer throw Soviet Union Vasili Rudenkov
Soviet Union (URS)
Hungary Gyula Zsivotzky
Hungary (HUN)
Poland Tadeusz Rut
Poland (POL)
Javelin throw Soviet Union Viktor Tsybulenko
Soviet Union (URS)
United Team of Germany Walter Krüger
United Team of Germany (EUA)
Hungary Gergely Kulcsar
Hungary (HUN)
Decathlon United States Rafer Johnson
United States (USA)
Republic of China Yang Chuan-Kwang
Republic of China (ROC)
Soviet Union Vasili Kuznetsov
Soviet Union (URS)

[edit] Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 metres United States Wilma Rudolph
United States (USA)
Great Britain Dorothy Hyman
Great Britain (GBR)
Italy Giuseppina Leone
Italy (ITA)
200 metres United States Wilma Rudolph
United States (USA)
United Team of Germany Jutta Heine
United Team of Germany (EUA)
Great Britain Dorothy Hyman
Great Britain (GBR)
800 metres Soviet Union Lyudmila Lisenko
Soviet Union (URS)
Australia Brenda Jones
Australia (AUS)
United Team of Germany Ursula Donath
United Team of Germany (EUA)
80 metre hurdles Soviet Union Irina Press
Soviet Union (URS)
Great Britain Carole Quinton
Great Britain (GBR)
United Team of Germany Gisela Köhler
United Team of Germany (EUA)
4×100 metre relay United States United States (USA)
Martha Hudson
Lucinda Williams
Barbara Jones
Wilma Rudolph
United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA)
Martha Pensberger
Anni Biechl
Brunhilde Hendrix
Jutta Heine
Poland Poland (POL)
Teresa Wieczorek
Barbara Janiszewska
Celina Jesionowska
Halina Richter
High jump Romania Iolanda Balaş
Romania (ROM)
Poland Jarosława Jóźwiakowska
Poland (POL)
none
Great Britain Dorothy Shirley
Great Britain (GBR)
Long jump Soviet Union Vera Kolashnikova
Soviet Union (URS)
Poland Elżbieta Krzesińska
Poland (POL)
United Team of Germany Hildrun Claus
United Team of Germany (EUA)
Shot put Soviet Union Tamara Press
Soviet Union (URS)
United Team of Germany Johanna Lüttge
United Team of Germany (EUA)
United States Earlene Brown
United States (USA)
Discus throw Soviet Union Nina Romashkova
Soviet Union (URS)
Soviet Union Tamara Press
Soviet Union (URS)
Romania Lia Manoliu
Romania (ROM)
Javelin throw Soviet Union Elvīra Ozoliņa
Soviet Union (URS)
Czechoslovakia Dana Ingrová
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Soviet Union Birutė Zalogaitytė
Soviet Union (URS)

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 United States United States (USA) 12 8 6 36
2 Soviet Union Soviet Union (URS) 11 5 5 21
3 United Team of Germany United Team of Germany (EUA) 2 8 3 13
4 Poland Poland (POL) 2 2 3 7
5 New Zealand New Zealand (NZL) 2 0 1 3
6 Great Britain Great Britain (GBR) 1 3 4 8
7 Australia Australia (AUS) 1 2 1 4
8 Italy Italy (ITA) 1 0 2 3
9 Romania Romania (ROM) 1 0 1 2
10 Ethiopia Ethiopia (ETH) 1 0 0 1
11 Hungary Hungary (HUN) 0 1 2 3
12 France France (FRA) 0 1 1 2
13 Belgium Belgium (BEL) 0 1 0 1
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (TCH) 0 1 0 1
Morocco Morocco (MAR) 0 1 0 1
Republic of China Republic of China (ROC) 0 1 0 1
Sweden Sweden (SWE) 0 1 0 1
18 British West Indies British West Indies (BWI) 0 0 2 2
19 Finland Finland (FIN) 0 0 1 1
South Africa South Africa (RSA) 0 0 1 1

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