Olympic Games 1960 Rome Athletics

ATHLETICS OLYMPIC GAMES ROME 1960

Discipline	Gold		Silver		Bronze
men 100	Armin Hary	GER	David Sime	USA	Peter Radford	GBR
men 200	Livio Berutti	ITA	Lester Carney	USA	Abdoulaye Seye	FRA
men 400	Otis Davis	USA	Carl Kaufmann	GER	Malcolm Spence	RSA
men 800	Peter Snell	NZL	Roger Moens	BEL	George Kerr	ANT
men 1500	Herb Elliott	AUS	Michel Jazy	FRA	Istavan Rosavolgyi	HUN
men 5000	Murray Halberg	NZL	Hans Grodotzki	GDR	Kazimierz Zimny	POL
men 10000	Pyotr Bolotnikov	URS	Hans Grodotzki	GDR	David Power	AUS
men marathon	Abebe Bikila	ETH	Rhadi Ben Abdesselem	MAR	Barry Magee	NZL
men 4x100	West Germany		Soviet Union		Great Britain
men 4x400	United States		West Germany		West Indies
men 110 hurdles	Lee Calhoun	USA	Willie May	USA	Hayes Jones	USA
men 400 hurdles	Glenn Davis	USA	Cifton Cushman	USA	Richard Howard	USA
men 3000 steeplechase	Zdzislav Krzyszkowiak	POL	Nikolay Sokolov	URS	Semyon Rzhishchin	URS
men high jump	Robert Shavlakadze	URS	Valeriy Brumel	URS	John Thomas	USA
men pole vault	Don Bragg	USA	Ron Morris	USA	Eelis Landstrom	FIN
men long jump	Ralph Boston	USA	Irvin Roberson	USA	Igor Ter-Ovanesyan	URS
men triple jump	Jozef Schmidt	POL	Vladimir Goryayev	URS	Vitold Kreyer	URS
men shot put	William Nieder	USA	Parry O'Brien	USA	Dallas Long	USA
men discus throw	Al Oerter	USA	Rink Babka	USA	Richard Cochran	USA
men hammer throw	Vasily Rudenkov	URS	Gyula Zsivotzky	HUN	Tadeusz Rut	POL
men javelin throw	Viktor Tsybulenko	URS	Walter Kruger	GDR	Gergely Kulcsar	HUN
men decathlon	Rafer Johnson	USA	Yang Chuan-Kwang	TPE	Vasily Kuznetsov	URS
men 20km walk	V. Golubnichiy	URS	N. Freeman	AUS	S. Vickers	GBR
men 50km walk	D. Thompson	GBR	J. Ljiunggren	SWE	A. Pamich	ITA

Discipline	Gold		Silver		Bronze
women 100	Wilma Rudolph	USA	Dorothy Hyman	GBR	Giuseppina Leone	ITA
women 200	Wilma Rudolph	USA	Jutta Heine	FRG	Dorothy Hyman	GBR
women 800	Lyudmila Shevtsova	URS	Brenda Jones	AUS	Ursula Donath	GDR
women 4x100	United States		West Germany		Poland
women 80 hurdles	Irina Press	URS	Carole Quinton	GBR	Gisela Birkemeyer	GDR
women high jump	Iolanda Balas	ROM	Dorothy Shirley GBR Jaroslawa Jozwiakowska POL
women long jump	Vera Krepkina	URS	Elzbieta Krzesinska	POL	Hildrun Claus	GDR
women shot put	Tamara Press	URS	Johanna Luttge	GDR	Earlene Brown	USA
women discus throw	Nina Ponomaryeva	URS	Tamara Press	URS	Lia Manoliu	ROM
women javelin throw	Elvira Ozolina	URS	Dana Zatopkova	TCH	Birute Kalediene	URS

Medals	G	S	B	All
1. United States	12	8	6	26
2. Soviet Union	11	5	5	21
3. Germany	2	8	3	13
4. Poland	2	2	3	7
5. New Zealand	2	0	1	3
6. Great Britain	1	3	4	8
7. Australia	1	2	1	4
8. Italy	1	0	2	3
9. Romania	1	0	1	2
10.Ethiopia	1	0	0	1
11.Hungary	0	1	2	3
12.France	0	1	1	2
13.Sweden	0	1	0	1
14.Chechoslovakia	0	1	0	1
14.Belgium	0	1	0	1
16.Taipe	0	1	0	1
16.Marroco	0	1	0	1
18.West Indies	0	0	2	2
19.Finland	0	0	1	1
20.South Africa	0	0	1	1

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Last updated: 8 Feb 2005