List of 1960 Summer Olympics medal winners

The following is a complete list of medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics, held in Rome, Italy, from 25 August to 11 September 1960.

Contents
  1. Athletics
  2. Basketball
  3. Boxing
  4. Canoeing
  5. Cycling
  6. Diving
  7. Equestrian
  1. Fencing
  2. Field hockey
  3. Football
  4. Gymnastics
  5. Modern pentathlon
  6. Rowing
  7. Sailing
  1. Shooting
  2. Swimming
  3. Water polo
  4. Weightlifting
  5. Wrestling
Medal leaders       References


Athletics

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
details
Armin Hary
 United Team of Germany
Dave Sime
 United States
Peter Radford
 Great Britain
200 m
details
Livio Berruti
 Italy
Lester Carney
 United States
Abdoulaye Seye
 France
400 m
details
Otis Davis
 United States
Carl Kaufmann
 United Team of Germany
Malcolm Spence
 South Africa
800 m
details
Peter Snell
 New Zealand
Roger Moens
 Belgium
George Kerr
 British West Indies
1500 m
details
Herb Elliott
 Australia
Michel Jazy
 France
István Rózsavölgyi
 Hungary
5000 m
details
Murray Halberg
 New Zealand
Hans Grodotzki
 United Team of Germany
Kazimierz Zimny
 Poland
10,000 m
details
Pyotr Bolotnikov
 Soviet Union
Hans Grodotzki
 United Team of Germany
David Power
 Australia
110 m hurdles
details
Lee Calhoun
 United States
William May
 United States
Hayes Jones
 United States
400 m hurdles
details
Glenn Davis
 United States
Clifton Cushman
 United States
Dick Howard
 United States
3000 m steeplechase
details
Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak
 Poland
Nikolay Sokolov
 Soviet Union
Semyon Rzhishchin
 Soviet Union
4 × 100 m relay
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Bernd Cullmann
Armin Hary
Walter Mahlendorf
Martin Lauer
 Soviet Union (URS)
Gusman Kosanov
Leonid Bartenev
Yuriy Konovalov
Edvin Ozolin
 Great Britain (GBR)
Peter Radford
David Jones
David Segal
Nick Whitehead
4 × 400 m relay
details
 United States (USA)
Jack Yerman
Earl Young
Glenn Davis
Otis Davis
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Manfred Kinder
Joachim Reske
Johannes Kaiser
Carl Kaufmann
 British West Indies (BWI)
George Kerr
James Wedderburn
Keith Gardner
Malcolm Spence
marathon
details
Abebe Bikila
 Ethiopia
Rhadi Ben Abdesselam
 Morocco
Barry Magee
 New Zealand
20 km walk
details
Vladimir Golubnichy
 Soviet Union
Noel Freeman
 Australia
Stan Vickers
 Great Britain
50 km walk
details
Don Thompson
 Great Britain
John Ljunggren
 Sweden
Abdon Pamich
 Italy
high jump
details
Robert Shavlakadze
 Soviet Union
Valeriy Brumel
 Soviet Union
John Thomas
 United States
long jump
details
Ralph Boston
 United States
Irvin Roberson
 United States
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
 Soviet Union
triple jump
details
Józef Szmidt
 Poland
Vladimir Goryaev
 Soviet Union
Vitold Kreer
 Soviet Union
pole vault
details
Don Bragg
 United States
Ron Morris
 United States
Eeles Landström
 Finland
shot put
details
Bill Nieder
 United States
Parry O'Brien
 United States
Dallas Long
 United States
discus throw
details
Al Oerter
 United States
Rink Babka
 United States
Dick Cochran
 United States
javelin throw
details
Viktor Tsybulenko
 Soviet Union
Walter Krüger
 United Team of Germany
Gergely Kulcsár
 Hungary
hammer throw
details
Vasili Rudenkov
 Soviet Union
Gyula Zsivótzky
 Hungary
Tadeusz Rut
 Poland
decathlon
details
Rafer Johnson
 United States
Yang Chuan-Kwang
 Formosa
Vasili Kuznetsov
 Soviet Union

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m
details
Wilma Rudolph
 United States
Dorothy Hyman
 Great Britain
Giuseppina Leone
 Italy
200 m
details
Wilma Rudolph
 United States
Jutta Heine
 United Team of Germany
Dorothy Hyman
 Great Britain
800 m
details
Lyudmila Shevtsova
 Soviet Union
Brenda Jones
 Australia
Ursula Donath
 United Team of Germany
80 m hurdles
details
Irina Press
 Soviet Union
Carole Quinton
 Great Britain
Gisela Birkemeyer
 United Team of Germany
4 × 100 m relay
details
 United States (USA)
Martha Hudson
Lucinda Williams
Barbara Jones
Wilma Rudolph
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Martha Langbein
Anni Biechl
Brunhilde Hendrix
Jutta Heine
 Poland (POL)
Teresa Wieczorek
Barbara Janiszewska
Celina Jesionowska
Halina Richter
high jump
details
 Iolanda Balaş (ROU)  Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL) NONE AWARDED
 Dorothy Shirley (GBR)
long jump
details
 Vera Krepkina (URS)  Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL)  Hildrun Claus (EUA)
shot put
details
Tamara Press
 Soviet Union
Johanna Lüttge
 United Team of Germany
Earlene Brown
 United States
discus throw
details
Nina Ponomaryova
 Soviet Union
Tamara Press
 Soviet Union
Lia Manoliu
 Romania
javelin throw
details
Elvīra Ozoliņa
 Soviet Union
Dana Zátopková
 Czechoslovakia
Birutė Kalėdienė
 Soviet Union

Basketball

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details
 United States (USA)
Jay Arnette
Walt Bellamy
Bob Boozer
Terry Dischinger
Burdette Haldorson
Darrall Imhoff
Allen Kelley
Lester Lane
Jerry Lucas
Oscar Robertson
Adrian Smith
Jerry West
 Soviet Union (URS)
Yuri Korneev
Jānis Krūmiņš
Guram Minashvili
Valdis Muižnieks
Cesars Ozers
Aleksandr Petrov
Mikhail Semyonov
Vladimir Ugrekhelidze
Maigonis Valdmanis
Albert Valtin
Gennadi Volnov
Viktor Zubkov
 Brazil (BRA)
Edson Bispo dos Santos
Moyses Blas
Waldemar Blatskauskas
Algodão
Carmo de Souza
Carlos Domingos Massoni
Waldyr Geraldo Boccardo
Wlamir Marques
Amaury Antônio Pasos
Fernando Pereira De Freitas
Antonio Salvador Sucar
Eduardo Schall Jatyr

Boxing

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Flyweight
details
Gyula Török
 Hungary
Sergei Sivko
 Soviet Union
Abdel Moneim El-Guindi
 Egypt
Kiyoshi Tanabe
 Japan
Bantamweight
details
Oleg Grigoryev
 Soviet Union
Primo Zamparini
 Italy
Brunon Bendig
 Poland
Oliver Taylor
 Australia
Featherweight
details
Francesco Musso
 Italy
Jerzy Adamski
 Poland
William Meyers
 South Africa
Jorma Limmonen
 Finland
Lightweight
details
Kazimierz Paździor
 Poland
Sandro Lopopolo
 Italy
Richard McTaggart
 Great Britain
Abel Laudonio
 Argentina
Light welterweight
details
Bohumil Němeček
 Czechoslovakia
Clement Quartey
 Ghana
Quincey Daniels
 United States
Marian Kasprzyk
 Poland
Welterweight
details
Giovanni Benvenuti
 Italy
Yuri Radonyak
 Soviet Union
Leszek Drogosz
 Poland
Jimmy Lloyd
 Great Britain
Light middleweight
details
Wilbert McClure
 United States
Carmelo Bossi
 Italy
William Fisher
 Great Britain
Boris Lagutin
 Soviet Union
Middleweight
details
Eddie Crook, Jr.
 United States
Tadeusz Walasek
 Poland
Yevgeny Feofanov
 Soviet Union
Ion Monea
 Romania
Light heavyweight
details
Cassius Clay
 United States
Zbigniew Pietrzykowski
 Poland
Anthony Madigan
 Australia
Giulio Saraudi
 Italy
Heavyweight
details
Franco De Piccoli
 Italy
Daniel Bekker
 South Africa
Josef Němec
 Czechoslovakia
Günter Siegmund
 United Team of Germany

Canoeing

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
C-1 1000 m
details
 János Parti (HUN)  Aleksandr Silayev (URS)  Leon Rotman (ROU)
C-2 1000 m
details
 Leonid Geishtor
and Sergei Makarenko (URS)
 Aldo Dezi
and Francesco La Macchia (ITA)
 Imre Farkas
and András Törő (HUN)
K-1 1000 m
details
 Erik Hansen (DEN)  Imre Szöllősi (HUN)  Gert Fredriksson (SWE)
K-2 1000 m
details
 Gert Fredriksson
and Sven-Olov Sjödelius (SWE)
 György Mészáros
and András Szente (HUN)
 Stefan Kapłaniak
and Władysław Zieliński (POL)
K-1 4 x 500 m
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Dieter Krause
Günther Perleberg
Paul Lange
Friedhelm Wentzke
 Hungary (HUN)
Imre Szöllősi
Imre Kemecsey
András Szente
György Mészáros
 Denmark (DEN)
Erik Hansen
Helmuth Sørensen
Arne Høyer
Erling Jessen

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
K-1 500 m
details
 Antonina Seredina (URS)  Therese Zenz (EUA)  Daniela Walkowiak (POL)
K-2 500 m
details
 Mariya Shubina
and Antonina Seredina (URS)
 Therese Zenz
and Ingrid Hartmann (EUA)
 Klára Fried-Bánfalvi
and Vilma Egresi (HUN)

Cycling

Event Gold Silver Bronze
road race
details
 Viktor Kapitonov (URS)  Livio Trapè (ITA)  Willy van den Berghen (BEL)
team time trial
details
 Italy (ITA)
Antonio Bailetti
Ottavio Cogliati
Giacomo Fornoni
Livio Trapè
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Gustav-Adolf Schur
Egon Adler
Erich Hagen
Günter Lörke
 Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Kapitonov
Yevgeny Klevtsov
Yury Melikhov
Aleksei Petrov
sprint
details
 Sante Gaiardoni (ITA)  Leo Sterckx (BEL)  Valentino Gasparella (ITA)
time trial
details
 Sante Gaiardoni (ITA)  Dieter Gieseler (EUA)  Rostislav Vargashkin (URS)
tandem
details
 Giuseppe Beghetto
and Sergio Bianchetto (ITA)
 Jürgen Simon
and Lothar Stäber (EUA)
 Vladimir Leonov
and Boris Vasilyev (URS)
team pursuit
details
 Italy (ITA)
Luigi Arienti
Franco Testa
Mario Vallotto
Marino Vigna
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Peter Gröning
Manfred Klieme
Siegfried Köhler
Bernd Barleben
 Soviet Union (URS)
Stanislav Moskvin
Viktor Romanov
Leonid Kolumbet
Arnold Belgardt

Diving

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's 3 m springboard
details
 Gary Tobian (USA)  Samuel Hall (USA)  Juan Botella (MEX)
Men's 10 m platform
details
 Bob Webster (USA)  Gary Tobian (USA)  Brian Phelps (GBR)
Women's 3 m springboard
details
 Ingrid Krämer (EUA)  Paula Pope (USA)  Elizabeth Ferris (GBR)
Women's 10 m platform
details
 Ingrid Krämer (EUA)  Paula Pope (USA)  Ninel Krutova (URS)

Equestrian

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Individual dressage
details
Sergei Filatov
 Soviet Union
Gustav Fischer
 Switzerland
Josef Neckermann
 United Team of Germany
Individual eventing
details
Lawrence Morgan
 Australia
Neale Lavis
 Australia
Anton Bühler
 Switzerland
Team eventing
details
 Australia (AUS)
Lawrence Morgan
Neale Lavis
Bill Roycroft
 Switzerland (SUI)
Anton Bühler
Hans Schwarzenbach
Rudolf Günthardt
 France (FRA)
Jack Le Goff
Guy Lefrant
Jéhan Le Roy
Individual jumping
details
Raimondo D'Inzeo
 Italy
Piero D'Inzeo
 Italy
David Broome
 Great Britain
Team jumping
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Hans Günter Winkler
Fritz Thiedemann
Alwin Schockemöhle
 United States (USA)
Frank Chapot
William Steinkraus
George H. Morris
 Italy (ITA)
Raimondo D'Inzeo
Piero D'Inzeo
Antonio Oppes

Fencing

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
épée
details
Giuseppe Delfino
 Italy
Allan Jay
 Great Britain
Bruno Khabarov
 Soviet Union
team épée
details
 Italy (ITA)
Giuseppe Delfino
Alberto Pellegrino
Carlo Pavesi
Edoardo Mangiarotti
Fiorenzo Marini
Gianluigi Saccaro
 Great Britain (GBR)
Allan Jay
Michael Howard
John Pelling
Henry Hoskyns
Raymond Harrison
Michael Alexander
 Soviet Union (URS)
Valentin Chernikov
Guram Kostava
Arnold Chernushevich
Bruno Khabarov
Aleksandr Pavlovsky*
foil
details
Viktor Zhdanovich
 Soviet Union
Yuri Sisikin
 Soviet Union
Albert Axelrod
 United States
team foil
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Zhdanovich
Mark Midler
Yuri Rudov
Yuri Sisikin
German Sveshnikov
 Italy (ITA)
Alberto Pellegrino
Luigi Carpaneda
Mario Curletto
Aldo Aureggi
Edoardo Mangiarotti
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Jürgen Theuerkauff
Tim Gerresheim
Eberhard Mehl
Jürgen Brecht
sabre
details
Rudolf Kárpáti
 Hungary
Zoltán Horváth
 Hungary
Wladimiro Calarese
 Italy
team sabre
details
 Hungary (HUN)
Tamas Mendelenyi
Rudolf Kárpáti
Pál Kovács
Zoltán Horváth
Gabor Delneki
Aladár Gerevich
 Poland (POL)
Andrzej Piatkowski
Emil Ochyra
Wojciech Zabłocki
Jerzy Pawłowski
Ryszard Zub
Marian Kuszewski
 Italy (ITA)
Wladimiro Calarese
Giampaolo Calanchini
Pierluigi Chicca
Roberto Ferrari
Mario Ravagnan

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
foil
details
Adelheid Schmid
 United Team of Germany
Valentina Rastvorova
 Soviet Union
Maria Vicol
 Romania
team foil
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Valentina Prudskova
Aleksandra Zabelina
Lyudmila Shishova
Tatyana Petrenko
Galina Gorokhova
Valentina Rastvorova
 Hungary (HUN)
Györgyi Szekely-Marvalics
Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő
Magdolna Nyari-Kovacs
Katalin Juhasz-Nagy
Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics
 Italy (ITA)
Bruna Colombetti
Velleda Cesari
Claudia Pasini
Irene Camber
Antonella Ragno-Lonzi

Field hockey

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details
 Pakistan (PAK)
Abdul Rashid
Bashir Ahmad
Manzoor Hussain Atif
Ghulam Rasul
Anwar Khan
Habib Ali Kiddie
Noor Alam
Abdul Hamid
Abdul Waheed
Naseer Bunda
Motiullah
Mushtaq Ahmad
Khursheed Aslam
 India (IND)
Shankar Lakshman
Prithipal Singh
Jaman Lal Sharma
Leslie Claudius
Joseph Antic
Mohinder Lal
Joginder Singh
John Peter
Jaswant Singh
Udham Singh Kullar
Raghbir Singh Bhola
Charanjit Singh
Govind Sawant
 Spain (ESP)
Carlos Iglesias
José Colomer
Rafael Egusquiza
Juan Calzado
José Dinares
Narciso Ventalló
Ignacio Macaya
Eduardo Dualde
Pedro Murúa
Joaquín Dualde
Pedro Amat
Francisco Caballer
Luis Usoz
Pedro Roig

Football

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details
 Yugoslavia (YUG)
Andrija Anković
Vladimir Durković
Milan Galić
Fahrudin Jusufi
Tomislav Knez
Borivoje Kostić
Aleksandar Kozlina
Dušan Maravić
Željko Matuš
Željko Perušić
Novak Roganović
Velimir Sombolac
Milutin Šoškić
Silvester Takač
Blagoje Vidinić
Ante Žanetić
 Denmark (DEN)
Poul Andersen
John Danielsen
Henning Enoksen
Henry From
Bent Hansen
Poul Jensen
Hans Nielsen
Harald Nielsen
Flemming Nielsen
Poul Pedersen
Jørn Sørensen
Tommy Troelsen
 Hungary (HUN)
Flórián Albert
Jenő Dalnoki
Zoltán Dudás
János Dunai
Lajos Faragó
János Göröcs
Ferenc Kovács
Dezső Novák
Pál Orosz
Laszlo Pál
Tibor Pál
Gyula Rákosi
Imre Sátori
Ernő Solymosi
Gábor Török
Pál Várhidi
Oszkár Vilezsál

Gymnastics

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
individual all-around
details
 Boris Shakhlin (URS)  Takashi Ono (JPN)  Yuri Titov (URS)
team all-around
details
 Japan (JPN)
Nobuyuki Aihara
Yukio Endo
Takashi Mitsukuri
Takashi Ono
Masao Takemoto
Shuji Tsurumi
 Soviet Union (URS)
Albert Azaryan
Valery Kerdemilidi
Nikolai Miligulo
Vladimir Portnoi
Boris Shakhlin
Yuri Titov
 Italy (ITA)
Giovanni Carminucci
Pasquale Carminucci
Gianfranco Marzolla
Franco Menichelli
Orlando Polmonari
Angelo Vicardi
floor exercise
details
Nobuyuki Aihara
 Japan
Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
Franco Menichelli
 Italy
horizontal bar
details
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Masao Takemoto
 Japan
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
parallel bars
details
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Giovanni Carminucci
 Italy
Takashi Ono
 Japan
pommel horse
details
Eugen Ekman
 Finland
NONE AWARDED Shuji Tsurumi
 Japan
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
rings
details
Albert Asaryan
 Soviet Union
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Velik Kapsazov
 Bulgaria
vault
details
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
NONE AWARDED Vladimir Portnoi
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
individual all-around
details
 Larisa Latynina (URS)  Sofia Muratova (URS)  Polina Astakhova (URS)
team all-around
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Polina Astakhova
Lidia Ivanova
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Lyukhina
Sofia Muratova
Margarita Nikolaeva
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Eva Bosáková
Věra Čáslavská
Matylda Matoušková
Hana Růžičková
Ludmila Švédová
Adolfína Tkačíková
 Romania (ROU)
Atanasia Ionescu
Sonia Iovan
Elena Leuşteanu
Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă
Elena Niculescu
Uta Poreceanu
balance beam
details
Eva Bosáková
 Czechoslovakia
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
floor exercise
details
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Polina Astakhova
 Soviet Union
Tamara Lyukhina
 Soviet Union
uneven bars
details
Polina Astakhova
 Soviet Union
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Tamara Lyukhina
 Soviet Union
vault
details
Margarita Nikolaeva
 Soviet Union
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union

Modern pentathlon

Event Gold Silver Bronze
individual
details
 Ferenc Németh (HUN)  Imre Nagy (HUN)  Robert Beck (USA)
team
details
 Hungary (HUN)
Imre Nagy
András Balczó
Ferenc Németh
 Soviet Union (URS)
Nikolai Tatarinov
Hanno Selg
Igor Novikov
 United States (USA)
Robert Beck
Jack Daniels
George Lambert

Rowing

Event Gold Silver Bronze
single sculls
details
 Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS)  Achim Hill (EUA)  Teodor Kocerka (POL)
double sculls
details
 Václav Kozák
and Pavel Schmidt (TCH)
 Aleksandr Berkutov
and Yuriy Tyukalov (URS)
 Ernst Hürlimann
and Rolf Larcher (SUI)
Coxless pair
details
 Valentin Boreyko
and Oleg Golovanov (URS)
 Josef Kloimstein
and Alfred Sageder (AUT)
 Veli Lehtelä
and Toimi Pitkänen (FIN)
Coxed pair
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Bernhard Knubel
Heinz Renneberg
Klaus Zerta
 Soviet Union (URS)
Antanas Bagdonavičius
Zigmas Jukna
Igor Rudakov
 United States (USA)
Richard Draeger
Conn Findlay
Kent Mitchell
Coxless four
details
 United States (USA)
Arthur Ayrault
Ted Nash
John Sayre
Rusty Wailes
 Italy (ITA)
Tullio Baraglia
Renato Bosatta
Giancarlo Crosta
Giuseppe Galante
 Soviet Union (URS)
Igor Akhremchik
Yuriy Bachurov
Valentin Morkovkin
Anatoly Tarabrin
coxed four
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Gerd Cintl
Horst Effertz
Klaus Riekemann
Jürgen Litz
Michael Obst
 France (FRA)
Robert Dumontois
Claude Martin
Jacques Morel
Guy Nosbaum
Jean Klein
 Italy (ITA)
Fulvio Balatti
Romano Sgheiz
Franco Trincavelli
Giovanni Zucchi
Ivo Stefanoni
eight
details
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Manfred Rulffs
Walter Schröder
Frank Schepke
Kraft Schepke
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck
Karl-Heinz Hopp
Klaus Bittner
Hans Lenk
Willi Padge
 Canada (CAN)
Donald Arnold
Walter D'Hondt
Nelson Kuhn
John Lecky
Lorne Loomer
Archibald MacKinnon
Bill McKerlich
Glen Mervyn
Sohen Biln
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Bohumil Janoušek
Jan Jindra
Jiří Lundák
Stanislav Lusk
Václav Pavkovič
Luděk Pojezný
Jan Švéda
Josef Věntus
Miroslav Koníček

Sailing

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Finn
details
 Paul Elvstrøm (DEN)  Aleksander Tšutšelov (URS)  André Nelis (BEL)
Flying Dutchman
details
 Norway (NOR)
Peder Lunde Jr.
Bjørn Bergvall
 Denmark (DEN)
Hans Fogh
Ole Erik Petersen
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Rolf Mulka
Ingo Von Bredow
Star
details
 Soviet Union (URS)
Timir Pinegin
Fyodor Shutkov
 Portugal (POR)
Mario Gentil
Jose Gentil
 United States (USA)
William Parks
Robert Halperin
Dragon
details
 Greece (GRE)
HRH Crown Prince Constantine
Odysseus Eskidioglou
Georgios Zaimis
 Argentina (ARG)
Jorge Salas Chávez
Héctor Calegaris
Jorge del Río Sálas
 Italy (ITA)
Antonio Cosentino
Antonio Ciciliano
Giulio De Stefano
5.5 Metre
details
 United States (USA)
George O'Day
James Hunt
David Smith
 Denmark (DEN)
William Berntsen
Sören Hancke
Steen Christensen
 Switzerland (SUI)
Henri Copponex
Manfred Metzger
Pierre Girard

Shooting

Event Gold Silver Bronze
25 m rapid fire pistol
details
William McMillan
 United States
Pentti Linnosvuo
 Finland
Alexander Zabelin
 Soviet Union
50 m pistol
details
Alexey Gushchin
 Soviet Union
Makhmud Umarov
 Soviet Union
Yoshihisa Yoshikawa
 Japan
50 m rifle three positions
details
Viktor Shamburkin
 Soviet Union
Marat Niyazov
 Soviet Union
Klaus Zähringer
 United Team of Germany
50 m rifle prone
details
Peter Kohnke
 United Team of Germany
James Enoch Hill
 United States
Enrico Forcella Pelliccioni
 Venezuela
300 m rifle three positions
details
Hubert Hammerer
 Austria
Hans Rudolf Spillmann
 Switzerland
Vasily Borisov
 Soviet Union
Trap
details
Ion Dumitrescu
 Romania
Galliano Rossini
 Italy
Sergei Kalinin
 Soviet Union

Swimming

Men’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
John Devitt
 Australia
Lance Larson
 United States
Manuel dos Santos
 Brazil
400 m freestyle
details
Murray Rose
 Australia
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
 Japan
John Konrads
 Australia
1500 m freestyle
details
John Konrads
 Australia
Murray Rose
 Australia
George Breen
 United States
100 m backstroke
details
David Theile
 Australia
Frank McKinney
 United States
Bob Bennett
 United States
200 m breaststroke
details
Bill Mulliken
 United States
Yoshihiko Osaki
 Japan
Wieger Mensonides
 Netherlands
200 m butterfly
details
Mike Troy
 United States
Neville Hayes
 Australia
Dave Gillanders
 United States
4 × 200 m freestyle relay
details
 United States (USA)
George Harrison
Dick Blick
Mike Troy
Jeff Farrell
 Japan (JPN)
Makoto Fukui
Hiroshi Ishii
Tsuyoshi Yamanaka
Tatsuo Fujimoto
 Australia (AUS)
David Dickson
John Devitt
Murray Rose
John Konrads
4 × 100 m medley relay
details
 United States (USA)
Frank McKinney
Paul Hait
Lance Larson
Jeff Farrell
 Australia (AUS)
David Theile
Terry Gathercole
Neville Hayes
Geoff Shipton
 Japan (JPN)
Kazuo Tomita
Koichi Hirakida
Yoshihiko Osaki
Keigo Shimuzu

Women’s events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
100 m freestyle
details
Dawn Fraser
 Australia
Chris von Saltza
 United States
Natalie Steward
 Great Britain
400 m freestyle
details
Chris von Saltza
 United States
Jane Cederqvist
 Sweden
Tineke Lagerberg
 Netherlands
100 m backstroke
details
Lynn Burke
 United States
Natalie Steward
 Great Britain
Satoko Tanaka
 Japan
200 m breaststroke
details
Anita Lonsbrough
 Great Britain
Wiltrud Urselmann
 United Team of Germany
Barbara Göbel
 United Team of Germany
100 m butterfly
details
Carolyn Schuler
 United States
Marianne Heemskerk
 Netherlands
Jan Andrew
 Australia
4 × 100 m freestyle relay
details
 United States (USA)
Joan Spillane
Shirley Stobs
Carolyn Wood
Chris von Saltza
 Australia (AUS)
Dawn Fraser
Ilsa Konrads
Lorraine Crapp
Alva Colquhoun
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Christel Steffin
Heidi Pechstein
Gisela Weiss
Ursel Brunner
4 × 100 m medley relay
details
 United States (USA)
Lynn Burke
Patty Kempner
Carolyn Schuler
Chris von Saltza
 Australia (AUS)
Marilyn Wilson
Rosemary Lassig
Jan Andrew
Dawn Fraser
 United Team of Germany (EUA)
Ingrid Schmidt
Ursula Küper
Bärbel Fuhrmann
Ursel Brunner

Water polo

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's
details
 Italy (ITA)
Amedeo Ambron
Danio Bardi
Giuseppe D'Altrui
Salvatore Gionta
Giancarlo Guerrini
Franco Lavoratori
Gianni Lonzi
Luigi Mannelli
Rosario Parmegiani
Eraldo Pizzo
Dante Rossi
Brunello Spinelli
 Soviet Union (URS)
Viktor Ageev
Givi Chikvanaia
Leri Gogoladze
Boris Goykhman
Yury Grigorovsky
Anatoly Kartashov
Vyacheslav Kurennoy
P'et're Mshveniyeradze
Vladimir Novikov
Yevgeny Saltsyn
Vladimir Semyonov
 Hungary (HUN)
András Bodnár
Ottó Boros
Zoltán Dömötör
László Felkai
Dezső Gyarmati
István Hevesi
László Jeney
Tivadar Kanizsa
György Kárpáti
András Katona
János Konrád
Kálmán Markovits
Mihály Mayer
Péter Rusorán

Weightlifting

Event Gold Silver Bronze
bantamweight
details
Charles Vinci
 United States
Yoshinobu Miyake
 Japan
Esmaeil Elmkhah
 Iran
featherweight
details
Yevgeni Minaev
 Soviet Union
Isaac Berger
 United States
Sebastiano Mannironi
 Italy
lightweight
details
Viktor Bushuev
 Soviet Union
Tan Howe Liang
 Singapore
Abdul Wahid Aziz
 Iraq
middleweight
details
Aleksandr Kurynov
 Soviet Union
Tommy Kono
 United States
Győző Veres
 Hungary
light heavyweight
details
Ireneusz Paliński
 Poland
Jim George
 United States
Jan Bochenek
 Poland
middle heavyweight
details
Arkadi Vorobyev
 Soviet Union
Trofim Lomakin
 Soviet Union
Louis Martin
 Great Britain
heavyweight
details
Yury Vlasov
 Soviet Union
James Bradford
 United States
Norbert Schemansky
 United States

Wrestling

Freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
flyweight
details
Ahmet Bilek
 Turkey
Masayuki Matsubara
 Japan
Ebrahim Seifpour
 Iran
bantamweight
details
Terrence McCann
 United States
Nezhdet Zalev
 Bulgaria
Tadeusz Trojanowski
 Poland
featherweight
details
Mustafa Dağıstanlı
 Turkey
Stancho Kolev
 Bulgaria
Vladimir Rubashvili
 Soviet Union
lightweight
details
Shelby Wilson
 United States
Vladimir Synyavsky
 Soviet Union
Enyu Valchev
 Bulgaria
welterweight
details
Douglas Blubaugh
 United States
İsmail Ogan
 Turkey
Muhammad Bashir
 Pakistan
middleweight
details
Hasan Güngör
 Turkey
Georgy Skhirtladze
 Soviet Union
Hans Antonsson
 Sweden
light heavyweight
details
Ismet Atli
 Turkey
Gholamreza Takhti
 Iran
Anatoli Albul
 Soviet Union
heavyweight
details
Wilfried Dietrich
 United Team of Germany
Hamit Kaplan
 Turkey
Savkuds Dzarasov
 Soviet Union

Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
flyweight
details
Dumitru Pârvulescu
 Romania
Osman El-Sayed
 Egypt
Mohammad Paziraei
 Iran
bantamweight
details
Oleg Karavayev
 Soviet Union
Ion Cernea
 Romania
Dinko Petrov
 Bulgaria
featherweight
details
Müzahir Sille
 Turkey
Imre Polyák
 Hungary
Konstantin Vyrupayev
 Soviet Union
lightweight
details
Avtandil Koridze
 Soviet Union
Branislav Martinović
 Yugoslavia
Gustav Freij
 Sweden
welterweight
details
Mithat Bayrak
 Turkey
Günther Maritschnigg
 United Team of Germany
René Schiermeyer
 France
middleweight
details
Dimitar Dobrev
 Bulgaria
Lothar Metz
 United Team of Germany
Ion Țăranu
 Romania
light heavyweight
details
Tevfik Kis
 Turkey
Krali Bimbalov
 Bulgaria
Givi Kartoziya
 Soviet Union
heavyweight
details
Ivan Bogdan
 Soviet Union
Wilfried Dietrich
 United Team of Germany
Bohumil Kubát
 Czechoslovakia

Medal leaders

Athletes that won at least three total medals are listed below.

Athlete Nation Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union (URS) Gymnastics 4 2 1 7
Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union (URS) Gymnastics 3 2 1 6
Takashi Ono  Japan (JPN) Gymnastics 3 1 2 6
Chris von Saltza  United States (USA) Swimming 3 1 0 4
Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union (URS) Gymnastics 2 1 1 4
Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union (URS) Swimming 1 2 1 4
Wilma Rudolph  United States (USA) Athletics 3 0 0 3
Dawn Fraser  Australia (AUS) Swimming 1 2 0 3
Murray Rose  Australia (AUS) Swimming 1 1 1 3
Tamara Lyukhina  Soviet Union (URS) Gymnastics 1 0 2 3
John Konrads  Australia (AUS) Swimming 1 0 2 3
Yuri Titov  Soviet Union (URS) Gymnastics 0 2 1 3

See also

  • "Rome 1960". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee.
  • Giacomini, Romolo, ed. (1960). The Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960 – The Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Vol. II. Rome: Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. OCLC 15098894.