Chronological summary of the 1960 Summer Olympics
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This page contains a chronological summary of major events from the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
Calendar
OC | Opening ceremony | ● | Event competitions | 1 | Gold medal events | CC | Closing ceremony |
August / September | 25 Thu |
26 Fri |
27 Sat |
28 Sun |
29 Mon |
30 Tue |
31 Wed |
1 Thu |
2 Fri |
3 Sat |
4 Sun |
5 Mon |
6 Tue |
7 Wed |
8 Thu |
9 Fri |
10 Sat |
11 Sun |
Events |
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Ceremonies | OC | CC | — | ||||||||||||||||
Athletics | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 34 | |||||||||
Basketball | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
Boxing | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 10 | 10 | ||||||||
Canoeing | ● | ● | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||||
Cycling | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||||||||
Diving | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 1 | 4 | |||||||||||
Equestrian
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● | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 2 | 1 | 5 | |||||||||||
Fencing | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
Field hockey | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | 1 | ||
Football
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● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Gymnastics | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 14 | ||||||||||||
Modern pentathlon | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||||
Rowing | ● | ● | ● | ● | 7 | 7 | |||||||||||||
Sailing | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 5 | 5 | |||||||||||
Shooting | ● | 1 | 1 | ● | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |||||||||||
Swimming | ● | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 15 | ||||||||||
Water polo | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
Weightlifting | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
Wrestling | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 | 16 | ||||||||
Daily medal events | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 0 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 1 | 150 | |
Cumulative total | 2 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 36 | 44 | 55 | 70 | 70 | 84 | 99 | 113 | 125 | 135 | 149 | 150 | ||
August / September | 25 Thu |
26 Fri |
27 Sat |
28 Sun |
29 Mon |
30 Tue |
31 Wed |
1 Thu |
2 Fri |
3 Sat |
4 Sun |
5 Mon |
6 Tue |
7 Wed |
8 Thu |
9 Fri |
10 Sat |
11 Sun |
Total events |
Day 1: Thu 25 August
No medal events
Day 2: Fri 26 August
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Cycling | 100 km team time trial | Antonio Bailetti, Ottavio Cogliati, Giacomo Fornoni, Livio Trapè |
Italy | ||
1 km track time trial | Sante Gaiardoni | Italy | WR |
Day 3: Sat 27 August
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Cycling | Tandem | Giuseppe Beghetto, Sergio Bianchetto | Italy | ||
Diving | Women's 3 metre springboard | Ingrid Krämer
|
United Team of Germany | ||
Swimming | Men's 100 metre freestyle | John Devitt | Australia | OR | |
Women's 200 metre breaststroke | Anita Lonsbrough | Great Britain | WR |
Day 4: Sun 28 August
No events
Day 5: Mon 29 August
Day 6: Tue 30 August
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Cycling | Individual road race | Viktor Kapitonov | Soviet Union | ||
Diving | Women's 10 metre platform | Ingrid Krämer
|
United Team of Germany | ||
Fencing | Men's foil | Viktor Zhdanovich | Soviet Union | ||
Swimming | Women's 100 metre butterfly | Carolyn Schuler | United States | OR | |
Men's 200 metre breaststroke | William Mulliken
|
United States |
Day 7: Wed 31 August
Day 8: Thu 1 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Women's javelin throw | Elvīra Ozoliņa | Soviet Union | OR | |
Men's high jump | Robert Shavlakadze | Soviet Union | OR | ||
Women's 80 metres hurdles | Irina Press | Soviet Union | |||
Men's 100 metres | Armin Hary | United Team of Germany | OR | ||
Fencing | Women's foil | Adelheid Schmid
|
United Team of Germany | ||
Swimming | Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay
|
Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson, Jeff Farrell |
United States | ||
Women's 400 metre freestyle | Chris von Saltza | United States | |||
Men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay
|
Michael Troy, Jeff Farrell
|
United States |
Day 9: Fri 2 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Men's 20 kilometres walk | Vladimir Golubnichy
|
Soviet Union | ||
Men's 400 metres hurdles | Glenn Davis | United States | OR | ||
Men's long jump | Ralph Boston | United States | OR | ||
Women's 100 metres | Wilma Rudolph | United States | |||
Women's shot put | Tamara Press | Soviet Union | OR | ||
Men's 800 metres | Peter Snell | New Zealand | OR | ||
Men's 5000 metres | Murray Halberg | New Zealand | |||
Diving | Men's 10 metre platform | Bob Webster | United States | ||
Fencing | Men's team foil | Yuri Sisikin, German Sveshnikov
|
Soviet Union | ||
Swimming | Men's 200 metre butterfly | Mike Troy | United States | WR | |
Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay | Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler, Chris von Saltza |
United States |
Day 10: Sat 3 September
Day 11: Sun 4 September
No events
Day 12: Mon 5 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Women's discus throw | Nina Romashkova
|
Soviet Union | OR | |
Men's 110 metres hurdles | Lee Calhoun | United States | |||
Women's 200 metres | Wilma Rudolph | United States | |||
Boxing | Flyweight | Gyula Török | Hungary | ||
Bantamweight | Oleg Grigoryev | Soviet Union | |||
Featherweight | Francesco Musso | Italy | |||
Lightweight | Kazimierz Paździor | Poland | |||
Light welterweight | Bohumil Němeček | Czechoslovakia | |||
Welterweight | Giovanni Benvenuti
|
Italy | |||
Light middleweight | Wilbert McClure | United States | |||
Middleweight | Eddie Crook, Jr.
|
United States | |||
Light heavyweight | Cassius Clay
|
United States | |||
Heavyweight | Franco De Piccoli | Italy | |||
Shooting | 300 metre rifle, three positions | Hubert Hammerer | Austria |
Day 13: Tue 6 September
Day 14: Wed 7 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Men's pole vault | Don Bragg | United States | OR | |
Men's 50 kilometres walk | Don Thompson | Great Britain | OR | ||
Men's discus throw | Al Oerter | United States | OR | ||
Women's 800 metres | Lyudmila Lysenko
|
Soviet Union | WR | ||
Equestrian
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Individual jumping | Raimondo D'Inzeo | Italy | ||
Gymnastics | Men's individual all-around | Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | ||
Men's team all-around | Japan | ||||
Sailing | 5.5 Metre | George O'Day, James Hunt, David Smith | United States | ||
Flying Dutchman | Peder Lunde Jr., Bjørn Bergvall | Norway | |||
Dragon | Odysseus Eskidioglou, Georgios Zaimis
|
Greece | |||
Star | Timir Pinegin, Fyodor Shutkov | Soviet Union | |||
Finn | Paul Elvstrøm | Denmark | |||
Weightlifting | Men's bantamweight | Charles Vinci | United States | ||
Men's featherweight | Yevgeni Minaev
|
Soviet Union |
Day 15: Thu 8 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Women's high jump | Iolanda Balaş
|
Romania | OR | |
Men's javelin throw | Viktor Tsybulenko | Soviet Union | |||
Men's 4 x 400 metres relay | Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis |
United States | WR | ||
Men's 10,000 metres | Pyotr Bolotnikov | Soviet Union | OR | ||
Women's 4 x 100 metres relay | Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph
|
United States | |||
Men's 4 x 100 metres relay | Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, Martin Lauer |
United Team of Germany | |||
Fencing | Men's sabre | Rudolf Kárpáti | Hungary | ||
Gymnastics | Women's individual all-around | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | ||
Women's team all-around | Soviet Union | ||||
Shooting | 50 metre rifle three positions
|
Viktor Shamburkin | Soviet Union | =WR | |
Weightlifting | Men's lightweight | Viktor Bushuev | Soviet Union | ||
Men's middleweight | Aleksandr Kurynov | Soviet Union |
Day 16: Fri 9 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Fencing | Men's team épée | Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti, Fiorenzo Marini, Gianluigi Saccaro |
Italy | ||
Field hockey | Men's tournament | Motiullah, Naseer Bunda, Noor Alam
|
Pakistan | ||
Gymnastics | Women's uneven bars | Polina Astakhova | Soviet Union | ||
Women's balance beam | Eva Bosáková | Czechoslovakia | |||
Women's floor | Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union | |||
Women's vault | Margarita Nikolaeva | Soviet Union | |||
Shooting | 25 metre rapid fire pistol | William McMillan | United States | =OR | |
Trap | Ion Dumitrescu | Romania | |||
Weightlifting | Men's light heavyweight | Ireneusz Paliński | Poland | ||
Men's middle heavyweight | Arkadi Vorobyev
|
Soviet Union |
Day 17: Sat 10 September
Day 18: Sun 11 September
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Equestrian
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Team jumping | Hans Günter Winkler, Fritz Thiedemann, Alwin Schockemöhle | United Team of Germany |