ROME 1960
The Games of the XVII Summer Olympiad. August 25 - September 11, 1960. Rome, Italy.
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MEN
100 m
1.Armin Hary (Germany)
200 m
1.Livio Berruti (Italy)
800 m
1.Peter Snell (New Zealand)
1500 m
1.Herb Elliott (Australia)
2.Michel Jazy (France)
4 x 100 m
1.Germany (Armin Hary)
2.USSR (Gusman Kosanov, Yuriy Konovalov)
20 km walk
1.Vladimir Golubnichy (USSR)
Marathon
1.Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia)
Long jump
3.Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (USSR)
Triple jump
1.Jozef Szmidt (Poland)
High jump
1.Robert Shavlakadze (USSR)
2.Valery Brumel (USSR)
Shot put
2.Parry O’Brien (USA)
Discus throw
1.Al Oerter (USA)
Hammer throw
2.Gyula Zsivotsky (Hungary)
Javelin throw
3.Gergely Kulcsar (Hungary)
Decathlon
1.Rafer Johnson (USA)
WOMEN
100 m
1.Wilma Rudolph (USA)
2.Dorothy Hyman (Great Britain)
200 m
1.Wilma Rudolph (USA)
2.Jutta Heine (Germany)
3.Dorothy Hyman (Great Britain)
4.Maria Itkina (USSR)
5.Barbara Janiszewska (Poland)
4 x 100 m
1.USA (Wilma Rudolph)
2.Germany (Jutta Heine)
3.Poland (Teresa Cieply, Barbara Janiszewska)
Long jump
2.Elzbieta Krzesinska (Poland)
High jump
1.Iolanda Balas (Romania)
Shot put
1.Tamara Press (USSR)
Discus throw
1.Nina Ponomaryova (USSR)
2.Tamara Press (USSR)
3.Lia Manoliu (Romania)
Javelin throw
1.Elvira Ozolina (USSR)
2.Dana Zatopkova (Czechoslovakia)
1.USA
2.USSR (Janis Krumins)
3.Brazil (Algodao)
51 kg
1.Gyula Torok (Hungary)
67 kg
1.Nino Benvenuti (Italy)
75 kg
3-4.Yevgeny Feofanov (USSR)
81 kg
Quarterfinal
Cassius Clay (USA) - Gennadi Shatkov (USSR) 5:0
1.Cassius Clay (USA)
5-8.Gennadi Shatkov (USSR)
MEN
C-1 1000 m
1.Janos Parti (Hungary)
3.Leon Rotman (Romania)
C-2 1000 m
1.Leonid Geishtor / Sergei Makarenko (USSR)
K-1 1000 m: 3.Gert Fredriksson (Sweden)
K-2 1000 m: 1.Gert Fredriksson / Sven-Olov Sjodelius (Sweden)
WOMEN
K-1 500 m
1.Antonina Seredina (USSR)
K-2 500 m
1.Mariya Shubina / Antonina Seredina (USSR)
ROAD
Team time trial
2.Germany (Gustav-Adolf Schur)
TRACK
Sprint: 1.Sante Gaiardoni (Italy)
1000 m time trial: 1.Sante Gaiardoni (Italy)
MEN
3 m springboard: 1.Gary Tobian (USA)
10 m platform: 2.Gary Tobian (USA)
WOMEN
3 m springboard
1.Ingrid Kramer (Germany)
10 m platform
1.Ingrid Kramer (Germany)
Individual dressage
1.Sergei Filatov (USSR)
3.Josef Neckermann (Germany)
Individual eventing
1.Lawrence Morgan (Australia)
Team eventing
1.Australia (Lawrence Morgan)
Individual jumping
1.Raimondo D’Inzeo (Italy)
2.Piero D’Inzeo (Italy)
3.David Broome (Great Britain)
Team jumping
1.Germany (Hans Gunter Winkler, Alwin Schockemohle)
2.USA (William Steinkraus)
3.Italy (Raimondo D’Inzeo, Piero D’Inzeo)
MEN
Individual epee
1.Giuseppe Delfino (Italy)
Team epee
1.Italy (Giuseppe Delfino, Carlo Pavesi, Edoardo Mangiarotti)
Team foil
2.Italy (Edoardo Mangiarotti)
Individual sabre
1.Rudolf Karpati (Hungary)
2.Zoltan Horvath (Hungary)
Team sabre
1.Hungary (Tamas Mendelenyi, Rudolf Karpati, Pal Kovacs, Zoltan Horvath, Gabor Delneki, Aladar Gerevich)
WOMEN
Team foil
3.Italy (Antonella Ragno-Lonzi)
1.Pakistan
2.India (John Peter)
3.Spain
1.Yugoslavia (Milan Galic)
3.Hungary (Florian Albert)
MEN
Team all-around
1.Japan (Yukio Endo, Takashi Ono)
2.USSR (Albert Azaryan, Valery Kerdemilidi, Boris Shakhlin, Yuri Titov)
3.Italy (Franco Menichelli)
Pommel horse: 1-2.Boris Shakhlin (USSR)
Individual all-around: 1.Boris Shakhlin (USSR)
2.Takashi Ono (Japan)
3.Yuri Titov (USSR)
Parallel bars: 1.Boris Shakhlin (USSR)
3.Takashi Ono (Japan)
Vault: 1-2.Boris Shakhlin (USSR), Takashi Ono (Japan)
Floor exercise
2.Yuri Titov (USSR)
3.Franco Menichelli (Italy)
Horizontal bar
1.Takashi Ono (Japan)
3.Boris Shakhlin (USSR)
Rings
1.Albert Azaryan (USSR)
2.Boris Shakhlin (USSR)
3-4.Takashi Ono (Japan)
WOMEN
Team all-around
1.USSR (Polina Astakhova, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Lyukhina, Sofia Muratova)
2.Czechoslovakia (Vera Caslavska)
Individual all-around
1.Larisa Latynina (USSR)
2.Sofia Muratova (USSR)
3.Polina Astakhova (USSR)
Balance beam
2.Larisa Latynina (USSR)
3.Sofia Muratova (USSR)
Floor exercise
1.Larisa Latynina (USSR)
2.Polina Astakhova (USSR)
3.Tamara Lyukhina (USSR)
Uneven bars
1.Polina Astakhova (USSR)
2.Larisa Latynina (USSR)
3.Tamara Lyukhina (USSR)
Vault
2.Sofia Muratova (USSR)
3.Larisa Latynina (USSR)
Individual: 1.Ferenc Nemeth (Hungary)
2.Imre Nagy (Hungary)
Team: 1.Hungary (Imre Nagy, Andras Balczo, Ferenc Nemeth)
2.USSR (Igor Novikov)
Single sculls
1.Vyacheslav Ivanov (USSR)
Double sculls
1.Vaclav Kozak / Pavel Schmidt (Czechoslovakia)
Coxless fours
1.USA (Rusty Wailes)
Coxed fours
3.Italy (Romano Sgheiz, Ivo Stefanoni)
Finn
1.Paul Elvstrom (Denmark)
Dragon
1.Nirefs (Greece) (HRH Crown Prince Constantine, Crown Princess Sophia (reserve))
Trap
1.Ion Dumitrescu (Romania)
2.Galliano Rossini (Italy)
MEN
400 m freestyle
1.Murray Rose (Australia)
1500 m freestyle: 2.Murray Rose (Australia)
4 x 200 m freestyle: 3.Australia (Murray Rose)
WOMEN
100 m freestyle
1.Dawn Fraser (Australia)
2.Chris von Saltza (USA)
400 m freestyle
1.Chris von Saltza (USA)
200 m breaststroke
1.Anita Lonsbrough (Great Britain)
4 x 100 m freestyle
1.USA (Chris von Saltza)
2.Australia (Dawn Fraser)
4 x 100 m medley
1.USA (Chris von Saltza)
2.Australia (Dawn Fraser)
1.Italy
3.Hungary (Otto Boros, Laszlo Jeney, Dezso Gyarmati, Istvan Hevesi, Tivadar Kanisza, Gyorgy Karpati, Kalman Markovits, Mihaly Mayer)
56 kg
2.Yoshinobu Miyake (Japan)
75 kg
2.Tommy Kono (USA)
82.5 kg
1.Ireneusz Palinski (Poland)
90 kg
1.Arkady Vorobyev (USSR)
90+ kg
1.Yuri Vlasov (USSR)
GRECO-ROMAN
52 kg
1.Dumitru Parvulescu (Romania)
67 kg
1.Avtandil Koridze (USSR)
73 kg
1.Mithat Bayrak (Turkey)
87+ kg
1.Ivan Bogdan (USSR)
2.Wilfried Dietrich (Germany)
FREESTYLE
87 kg
2.Gholamreza Takhti (Iran)
87+ kg
1.Wilfried Dietrich (Germany)
2.Hamit Kaplan (Turkey)
1.USSR (43-29-31)
2.USA (34-21-16)
3.ITALY (13-10-13)
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