This page contains a chronological summary of major events from the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
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 |
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 | | | | | | | | | | | | ● | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Fencing | | | | | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 8 |
Field hockey | | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | 1 |
Football | | ● | | | ● | | | ● | | | | ● | ● | | | ● | 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
[edit] No medal events
Day 2: Fri 26 August
[edit] Day 3: Sat 27 August
[edit] Day 4: Sun 28 August
[edit] No events
Day 5: Mon 29 August
[edit] Day 6: Tue 30 August
[edit] Day 7: Wed 31 August
[edit] Day 8: Thu 1 September
[edit] Day 9: Fri 2 September
[edit] Day 10: Sat 3 September
[edit] Gold medalists |
Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | | | |
Athletics | Men's hammer throw | Vasily Rudenkov | Soviet Union | OR | |
Men's 3000 metres steeplechase | Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak | Poland | OR | |
Men's 200 metres | Livio Berruti | Italy | | |
Fencing | Women's team foil | Valentina Prudskova, Aleksandra Zabelina, Lyudmila Shishova, Tatyana Petrenko, Galina Gorokhova, Valentina Rastvorova | Soviet Union | | |
Rowing | Single sculls | Vyacheslav Ivanov | Soviet Union | | |
Double sculls | Václav Kozák, Pavel Schmidt | Czechoslovakia | | |
Coxless pair | Valentin Boreyko, Oleg Golovanov | Soviet Union | | |
Coxed pair | Bernhard Knubel, Heinz Renneberg, Klaus Zerta | United Team of Germany | | |
Coxless four | Dan Ayrault, Ted Nash, John Sayre, Rusty Wailes | United States | | |
Coxed four | Gerd Cintl, Horst Effertz, Klaus Riekemann, Jürgen Litz, Michael Obst | United Team of Germany | | |
Eight | Manfred Rulffs, Walter Schröder, Frank Schepke, Kraft Schepke, Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Karl-Heinz Hopp, Klaus Bittner, Hans Lenk, Willi Padge | United Team of Germany | | |
Swimming | Women's 100 metre backstroke | Lynn Burke | United States | | |
Men's 1500 metre freestyle | John Konrads | Australia | | |
Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay | Joan Spillane, Shirley Stobs, Carolyn Wood, Chris von Saltza, Donna de Varona*, Susan Doerr*, Sylvia Ruuska*, Molly Botkin* | United States | | |
Water polo | Men's tournament | 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 | Italy | | |
Day 11: Sun 4 September
[edit] No events
Day 12: Mon 5 September
[edit] Day 13: Tue 6 September
[edit] Day 14: Wed 7 September
[edit] Gold medalists |
Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | | | |
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 | Individual jumping | Raimondo D'Inzeo | Italy | | |
Gymnastics | Men's individual all-around | Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | | |
Men's team all-around | Takashi Ono, Nobuyuki Aihara, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Masao Takemoto, Shuji Tsurumi | Japan | | |
Sailing | 5.5 Metre | George O'Day, James Hunt, David Smith | United States | | |
Flying Dutchman | Peder Lunde Jr., Bjørn Bergvall | Norway | | |
Dragon | HRH Crown Prince Constantine, 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
[edit] Gold medalists |
Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | | | |
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 | Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, 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 | Polina Astakhova, Lidia Ivanova, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Lyukhina, Sofia Muratova, Margarita Nikolaeva | 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
[edit] Gold medalists |
Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | | | |
Fencing | Men's team épée | Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti, Fiorenzo Marini, Gianluigi Saccaro | Italy | | |
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 | 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
[edit] Gold medalists |
Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | | | |
Athletics | Men's marathon | Abebe Bikila | Ethiopia | WR | |
Basketball | Men's tournament | Jay Arnette, Walt Bellamy, Bob Boozer, Terry Dischinger, Burdette Haldorson, Darrall Imhoff, Allen Kelley, Lester Lane, Jerry Lucas, Oscar Robertson, Adrian Smith, Jerry West | United States | | |
Equestrian | Individual eventing | Lawrence Morgan | Australia | | |
Team eventing | Lawrence Morgan, Neale Lavis, Bill Roycroft | Australia | | |
Fencing | Men's team sabre | Aladár Gerevich, Rudolf Kárpáti, Pál Kovács, Zoltán Horváth, Gábor Delneky, Tamás Mendelényi | Hungary | |
Football | Men's tournament | Andrija Anković, Zvonko Bego, Vladimir Durković, Milan Galić, Fahrudin Jusufi, Tomislav Knez, Bora Kostić, Aleksandar Kozlina, Dušan Maravić, Željko Matuš, Žarko Nikolić, Željko Perušić, Novak Roganović, Velimir Sombolac, Milutin Šoškić, Silvester Takač, Blagoje Vidinić, Ante Žanetić | Yugoslavia | | |
Gymnastics | Men's floor | Nobuyuki Aihara | Japan | | |
Men's horizontal bar | Takashi Ono | Japan | | |
Men's parallel bars | Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | | |
Men's pommel horse | Eugen Ekman, Boris Shakhlin | Finland,
Soviet Union | | |
Men's rings | Albert Azaryan | Soviet Union | | |
Men's vault | Takashi Ono, Boris Shakhlin | Japan,
Soviet Union | | |
Shooting | 50 metre rifle prone | Peter Kohnke | United Team of Germany | | |
Weightlifting | Men's heavyweight | Yury Vlasov | Soviet Union | | |
Day 18: Sun 11 September
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