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 | Event finals | 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 |
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● | ● | ● | ● | 8 | ● | ● | ● | ● | 8 | 16 | ||||||||
Total event finals | 2 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 14 | 8 | 11 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 15 | 1 | 150 | |||
Cumulative total | 2 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 36 | 44 | 55 | 70 | 84 | 99 | 111 | 123 | 134 | 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 |
Events |
Day 2: Fri 26 August
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Cycling | Men's 100 kilometres team time trial | Antonio Bailetti, Ottavio Cogliati, Giacomo Fornoni, Livio Trapè |
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Men's 1000 metres time trial | Sante Gaiardoni | ![]() |
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Day 3: Sat 27 August
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Cycling | Men's tandem | Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto | ![]() |
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Diving | Women's 3 metre springboard | Ingrid Krämer | ![]() |
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Swimming | Men's 100 metre freestyle | John Devitt | ![]() |
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Women's 200 metre breaststroke | Anita Lonsbrough | ![]() |
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Day 5: Mon 29 August
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Canoeing | Women's K-1 500 metres | Antonina Seredina | ![]() |
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Men's K-1 1000 metres | Erik Hansen | ![]() |
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Men's C-1 1000 metres | János Parti | ![]() |
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Men's K-2 1000 metres | Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius | ![]() |
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Men's C-2 1000 metres | Leonid Geishtor and Sergei Makarenko | ![]() |
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Women's K-2 500 metres | Mariya Shubina and Antonina Seredina | ![]() |
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Men's K-1 4 × 500 metres | Paul Lange, Günther Perleberg, Friedhelm Wentzke, and Dieter Krause |
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Cycling | Men's team pursuit | Marino Vigna, Luigi Arienti, Franco Testa, and Mario Vallotto |
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Men's sprint | Sante Gaiardoni | ![]() |
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Diving | Men's 3 metre springboard | Gary Tobian | ![]() |
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Swimming | Women's 100 metre freestyle | Dawn Fraser | ![]() |
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Day 6: Tue 30 August
Gold medalists | |||||
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Cycling | Men's individual road race | Viktor Kapitonov | ![]() |
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Diving | Women's 10 metre platform | Ingrid Krämer | ![]() |
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Fencing | Men's foil | Viktor Zhdanovich | ![]() |
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Swimming | Women's 100 metre butterfly | Carolyn Schuler | ![]() |
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Men's 200 metre breaststroke | William Mulliken | ![]() |
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Day 7: Wed 31 August
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Men's shot put | Bill Nieder | ![]() |
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Women's long jump | Vera Kolashnikova | ![]() |
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Modern pentathlon | Men's individual | Ferenc Németh | ![]() |
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Men's team | Imre Nagy, András Balczó, and Ferenc Németh |
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Swimming | Men's 400 metre freestyle | Murray Rose | ![]() |
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Men's 100 metre backstroke | David Theile | ![]() |
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Wrestling | Men's Greco-Roman flyweight | Dumitru Pârvulescu | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman bantamweight | Oleg Karavayev | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman featherweight | Müzahir Sille | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman lightweight | Avtandil Koridze | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman welterweight | Mithat Bayrak | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman middleweight | Dimitar Dobrev | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight | Tevfik Kis | ![]() |
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Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight | Ivan Bogdan | ![]() |
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Day 8: Thu 1 September
Day 9: Fri 2 September
Day 10: Sat 3 September
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 | ![]() |
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Men's 110 metres hurdles | Lee Calhoun | ![]() |
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Women's 200 metres | Wilma Rudolph | ![]() |
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Boxing | Men's flyweight | Gyula Török | ![]() |
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Men's bantamweight | Oleg Grigoryev | ![]() |
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Men's featherweight | Francesco Musso | ![]() |
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Men's lightweight | Kazimierz Paździor | ![]() |
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Men's light welterweight | Bohumil Němeček | ![]() |
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Men's welterweight | Giovanni Benvenuti | ![]() |
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Men's light middleweight | Wilbert McClure | ![]() |
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Men's middleweight | Eddie Crook, Jr. | ![]() |
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Men's light heavyweight | Cassius Clay | ![]() |
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Men's heavyweight | Franco De Piccoli | ![]() |
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Shooting | 300 metre rifle, three positions | Hubert Hammerer | ![]() |
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Day 13: Tue 6 September
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Men's triple jump | Józef Szmidt | ![]() |
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Men's 400 metres | Otis Davis | ![]() |
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Men's 1500 metres | Herb Elliott | ![]() |
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Men's decathlon | Rafer Johnson | ![]() |
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Fencing | Men's épée | Giuseppe Delfino | ![]() |
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Shooting | 50 metre pistol | Alexey Gushchin | ![]() |
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Wrestling | Men's freestyle flyweight | Ahmet Bilek | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle bantamweight | Terrence McCann | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle featherweight | Mustafa Dağıstanlı | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle lightweight | Shelby Wilson | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle welterweight | Douglas Blubaugh | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle middleweight | Hasan Güngör | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle light heavyweight | Ismet Atli | ![]() |
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Men's freestyle heavyweight | Wilfried Dietrich | ![]() |
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Day 14: Wed 7 September
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Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
Athletics | Men's pole vault | Don Bragg | ![]() |
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Men's 50 kilometres walk | Don Thompson | ![]() |
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Men's discus throw | Al Oerter | ![]() |
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Women's 800 metres | Lyudmila Lysenko | ![]() |
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Sailing | 5.5 Metre | George O'Day, James Hunt, David Smith | ![]() |
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Flying Dutchman | Peder Lunde, Jr., Bjørn Bergvall | ![]() |
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Dragon | HRH Crown Prince Constantine, Odysseus Eskidioglou, Georgios Zaimis |
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Star | Timir Pinegin, Fyodor Shutkov | ![]() |
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Finn | Paul Elvstrøm | ![]() |
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Weightlifting | Men's bantamweight | Charles Vinci | ![]() |
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Men's featherweight | Yevgeni Minaev | ![]() |
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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 | ![]() |
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Men's javelin throw | Viktor Tsybulenko | ![]() |
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Men's 4 x 400 metres relay | Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis |
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Men's 10,000 metres | Pyotr Bolotnikov | ![]() |
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Women's 4 x 100 metres relay | Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph |
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Men's 4 x 100 metres relay | Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, Martin Lauer |
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Fencing | Men's sabre | Rudolf Kárpáti | ![]() |
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Shooting | 50 metre rifle three positions | Viktor Shamburkin | ![]() |
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Weightlifting | Men's lightweight | Viktor Bushuev | ![]() |
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Men's middleweight | Aleksandr Kurynov | ![]() |
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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 |
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Field hockey | Men's tournament | Abdul Hamid, Abdul Rashid, Abdul Waheed, Bashir Ahmad, Ghulam Rasul, Anwar Khan Khursheed Aslam, Habib Ali Kiddie, Manzoor Hussain Atif, Munir Dar, Mushtaq Ahmad, Motiullah, Naseer Bunda, Noor Alam |
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Gymnastics | Women's individual all-round | Larisa Latynina | ![]() |
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Women's uneven bars | Polina Astakhova | ![]() |
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Women's balance beam | Eva Bosáková | ![]() |
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Women's floor | Larisa Latynina | ![]() |
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Women's vault | Margarita Nikolaeva | ![]() |
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Shooting | 50 metre rifle three positions | Viktor Shamburkin | ![]() |
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Weightlifting | Men's light heavyweight | Ireneusz Paliński | ![]() |
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Men's middle heavyweight | Arkadi Vorobyev | ![]() |
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References
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