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Global Global championships · since 1896

1960 Olympic Games

Rome, Italy 25 Aug – 11 Sep 1960

events: 34
medals awarded: 102
nations on the podium: 20
world records: 9

Podiums

Sprints

100m

wind 0.0

Armin Hary Adjusted 10.32 OR= 10.2

Dave Sime Adjusted 10.35 10.2

Peter Radford Adjusted 10.42 10.3

Sprints

200m

wind 0.0

Livio Berruti Adjusted 20.62 WR= 20.5

Lester Carney Adjusted 20.69 20.6

Abdoulaye Seye Adjusted 20.83 NR 20.7

Sprints

400m

Otis Davis Adjusted 45.07 WR= 44.9

Carl Kaufmann Adjusted 45.08 WR= 44.9

Malcolm Spence Adjusted 45.60 - Competed as SAF (South Africa) AR 45.5

Middle & long

800m

Peter Snell Adjusted 1:46.48 OR 1:46.3

Roger Moens Adjusted 1:46.55 1:46.5

George Kerr Adjusted 1:47.25 1:47.1

Middle & long

1500m

Herb Elliott WR 3:35.6

Michel Jazy NR 3:38.4

Istvan Rozsavolgyi 3:39.2

Middle & long

5000m

Murray Halberg Adjusted 13:43.76 13:43.4

Hans Grodotzki Adjusted 13:45.01 13:44.6

Kazimierz Zimny Adjusted 13:45.09 13:44.8

Middle & long

10,000m

Pyotr Bolotnikov Adjusted 28:32.18 OR 28:32.2

Hans Grodotzki Adjusted 28:37.22 28:37.0

David Power Adjusted 28:37.65 28:38.2

Road

Marathon

Abebe Bikila WB 2:15:16

Rhadi Ben Abdesselam 2:15:42

Barry Magee 2:17:19

Middle & long

3000m steeplechase

Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak Adjusted 8:34.30 OR 8:34.2

Nikolay Sokolov Adjusted 8:36.55 8:36.4

Semyon Rzhishchin Adjusted 8:42.34 8:42.2

Hurdles

110m hurdles

wind 0.0

Lee Calhoun Adjusted 13.98 13.8

Willie May Adjusted 13.99 13.8

Hayes Jones Adjusted 14.17 14.0

Hurdles

400m hurdles

Glenn Davis Adjusted 49.51 OR 49.3

Clifton Cushman Adjusted 49.77 49.6

Dick Howard Adjusted 49.90 49.7

Jumps

High jump

Robert Shavlakadze Tie-breaker: 2.16 o OR= 2.16

Valeriy Brumel Tie-breaker: 2.16 xo OR= 2.16

John Thomas (1941) 2.14

Jumps

Pole vault

Don Bragg 4.70

Ron Morris 4.60

Eeles Landstrom 4.55

Jumps

Long jump

Ralph Boston OR 8.12

Irvin 'Bo' Roberson 8.11

Igor Ter-Ovanesyan 8.04

Jumps

Triple jump

Jozef Schmidt OR 16.81

Vladimir Goryayev 16.63

Vitold Kreyer 16.43

Throws

Shot put

Bill Nieder OR 19.68

Parry O'Brien 19.11

Dallas Long 19.01

Throws

Discus throw

Al Oerter OR 59.18

Rink Babka 58.02

Dick Cochran 57.16

Throws

Hammer throw

Vasiliy Rudenkov OR 67.10

Gyula Zsivotzky 65.79

Tadeusz Rut 65.64

Throws

Javelin throw

Viktor Tsybulenko 84.64

Walter Krüger 79.36

Gergely Kulcsar 78.57

Race walks

20 km race walk

Vladimir Golubnichiy 1:34:07.2

Noel Freeman 1:34:16.4

Stan Vickers 1:34:56.4

Race walks

50 km race walk

Donald Thompson OR 4:25:30

John Ljunggren 4:25:47

Abdon Pamich 4:27:56

Combined

Decathlon

Rafer Johnson Upd to 84 table: 7901 pts OR 8392

Chuan-Kwang Yang Upd to 84 table: 7820 pts 8334

Vasiliy Kuznetsov Upd to 84 table: 7527 pts 7809

Relays

4x100m

Germany

Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer

WR= 39.5

Soviet Union

Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin

40.1

Great Britain & NI

Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead

40.2

Relays

4x400m

United States of America

Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis

WR 3.02.2

Germany

Hans-Joachim Reske Manfred Kinder Johannes Kaiser Carl Kaufmann

3.02.7

British West Indies

Malcolm Spence James Wedderburn Keith Gardner George Kerr

3.04.0

Medal table

20 nations · 102 medals

#	Nation				Total
1	United States of America USA	12	8	6	26
2	Soviet Union URS	11	5	5	21
3	Germany GER	2	8	3	13
4	Poland POL	2	2	3	7
5	New Zealand NZL	2	0	1	3
6	Great Britain & NI GBR	1	3	4	8
7	Australia AUS	1	2	1	4
8	Italy ITA	1	0	2	3
9	Romania ROU	1	0	1	2
10	Ethiopia ETH	1	0	0	1
11	Hungary HUN	0	1	2	3
12	France FRA	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium BEL	0	1	0	1
14	Czech Republic CZE	0	1	0	1
15	Morocco MAR	0	1	0	1
16	Sweden SWE	0	1	0	1
17	Chinese Taipei TPE	0	1	0	1
18	British West Indies BWI	0	0	2	2
19	Finland FIN	0	0	1	1
20	Republic of South Africa RSA	0	0	1	1

Records set

8 WR · 1 WB · 16 OR · 1 AR

WR= Livio Berruti 200m · Men 20.5
WR= Otis Davis 400m · Men 44.9
WR= Carl Kaufmann 400m · Men 44.9
WR Herb Elliott 1500m · Men 3:35.6
WB Abebe Bikila Marathon · Men 2:15:16
WR= Germany 4x100m · Men 39.5
WR United States of America 4x400m · Men 3.02.2
WR Lyudmila Shevtsova 800m · Women 2:04.3
WR= United States of America 4x100m · Women 44.5
OR= Armin Hary 100m · Men 10.2
AR Malcolm Spence 400m · Men 45.5
OR Peter Snell 800m · Men 1:46.3
OR Pyotr Bolotnikov 10,000m · Men 28:32.2
OR Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak 3000m steeplechase · Men 8:34.2
OR Glenn Davis 400m hurdles · Men 49.3
OR= Robert Shavlakadze High jump · Men 2.16
OR= Valeriy Brumel High jump · Men 2.16
OR Ralph Boston Long jump · Men 8.12
OR Jozef Schmidt Triple jump · Men 16.81
OR Bill Nieder Shot put · Men 19.68
OR Al Oerter Discus throw · Men 59.18
OR Vasiliy Rudenkov Hammer throw · Men 67.10
OR Donald Thompson 50 km race walk · Men 4:25:30
OR Rafer Johnson Decathlon · Men 8392
OR Iolanda Balaş High jump · Women 1.85
OR Vera Krepkina Long jump · Women 6.37