1960 Summer Olympics

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Template:Olympics infobox The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were held in 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had been awarded the organisation of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but, after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, had to decline and pass the honours to London. In 1955, the city beat out Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest, Brussels, Mexico City and Tokyo for the rights to the Games.

1 Highlights
2 Medals awarded
3 Medal count
4 See also
5 External links

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Highlights

Representatives of the USSR won 15 of 16 possible medals in women's gymnastics
Danish sailer Paul Elvstrøm won his fourth straight gold medal in the Finn class, the first athlete to achieve this feat in an individual event. The only other two to have emulated his performance are Al Oerter and Carl Lewis.
Finnish Vilho Ylönen, a field shooter, shot a bullseye to a wrong target and was dropped from the second place to fourth.
The future Constantine II, King of Greece, won his country a gold in sailing Dragon Class.
Fencer Aladar Gerevich of Hungary won his sixth consecutive gold medal in the team sabre event (1932-1936, 1948-1960).
Wilma Rudolph, a former polio patient, won three gold medals in sprint events on the track.
Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia won the marathon bare-footed to become the first black African Olympic champion.
Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, won boxing's light-heavyweight gold medal.
The Japanese men's gymnastics team won the first of five successive golds, the last of which was won in 1976, in Montreal.
South Africa appeared in the Olympic arena for the last time under the apartheid regime. They would not be allowed to return until 1992, after the abandonment of apartheid and during the transition to majority rule.
Swedish canoer Gert Fredriksson won his sixth Olympic title.
Danish cyclist Knut Jensen collapsed during his race under the influence of amphetamines and later died in the hospital. It was the second time an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of Portuguese marathon runner Francisco Lazaro at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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Medals awarded

See the medal winners, ordered by sport:

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Medal count

(Host nation in bold.)

1960 Summer Olympics medal count					Image:Olympische Ringe.svg
Pos	Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg USSR	43	29	31	103
2	Image:Flag of the United States.svg United States of America	34	21	16	71
3	Image:Flag of Italy.png Italy	13	10	13	36
4	Image:Flag of Germany-1960-Olympics.svg United Team of Germany	12	19	11	42
5	Image:Flag of Australia.svg Australia	8	8	6	22
6	Image:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey	7	2	0	9
7	Image:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary	6	8	7	21
8	Image:Flag of Japan.svg Japan	4	7	7	18
9	Image:Flag of Poland.svg Poland	4	6	11	21
10	Image:Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Czechoslovakia	3	2	3	8
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