Chronological summary of the 1960 Summer Olympics explained

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
Ceremonies	OC																	CC
Athletics<	-- 25 -->							2<	-- 1 -->	4<	-- 2 -->	7<	-- 3 -->	3<	-- 4 -->		3<	-- 6 -->	4<	-- 7 -->	4<	-- 8 -->	6<	-- 9 -->		1<	-- 11 -->		34
Basketball<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->			●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	●<	-- 4 -->				●<	-- 8 -->	●<	-- 9 -->	●<	-- 10 -->	1<	-- 11 -->		1
Boxing<	-- 25 -->	●<	-- 26 -->	●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	●<	-- 4 -->		10<	-- 6 -->							10
Canoeing<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		7<	-- 30 -->														7
Cycling<	-- 25 -->		2<	-- 27 -->	1<	-- 28 -->		2<	-- 30 -->	1<	-- 31 -->													6
Diving<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->	1<	-- 28 -->		1<	-- 30 -->	1<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	1<	-- 3 -->										4
Equestrian<	-- 25 -->												●<	-- 6 -->	1<	-- 7 -->	1<	-- 8 -->	●<	-- 9 -->	●<	-- 10 -->	2<	-- 11 -->	1	5
Fencing<	-- 25 -->					●<	-- 30 -->	1<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	1<	-- 2 -->	1<	-- 3 -->	1<	-- 4 -->		●<	-- 6 -->	1<	-- 7 -->	●<	-- 8 -->	1<	-- 9 -->	1<	-- 10 -->	1<	-- 11 -->		8
Field hockey<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	●<	-- 4 -->	●<	-- 5 -->	●<	-- 6 -->	●<	-- 7 -->	●<	-- 8 -->	●<	-- 9 -->	1<	-- 10 -->	●<	-- 11 -->	●	1
Football<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->			●<	-- 30 -->			●<	-- 2 -->				●<	-- 6 -->	●<	-- 7 -->			●<	-- 10 -->	1<	-- 11 -->		1
Gymnastics<	-- 25 -->												●<	-- 6 -->	●<	-- 7 -->	2<	-- 8 -->	2<	-- 9 -->	4<	-- 10 -->	6<	-- 11 -->		14
Modern pentathlon<	-- 25 -->	●<	-- 26 -->	●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	2<	-- 1 -->												2
Rowing<	-- 25 -->						●<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	7<	-- 4 -->									7
Sailing<	-- 25 -->					●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->				●<	-- 6 -->	●<	-- 7 -->	5<	-- 8 -->					5
Shooting<	-- 25 -->										●<	-- 4 -->		1<	-- 6 -->	1<	-- 7 -->	●<	-- 8 -->	1<	-- 9 -->	2<	-- 10 -->	1<	-- 11 -->		6
Swimming<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->	2<	-- 28 -->		1<	-- 30 -->	2<	-- 31 -->	2<	-- 1 -->	3<	-- 2 -->	2<	-- 3 -->	3<	-- 4 -->									15
Water polo<	-- 25 -->	●<	-- 26 -->	●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	●<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	1<	-- 4 -->									1
Weightlifting<	-- 25 -->														2<	-- 8 -->	2<	-- 9 -->	2<	-- 10 -->	1<	-- 11 -->		7
Wrestling<	-- 25 -->		●<	-- 27 -->	●<	-- 28 -->		●<	-- 30 -->	●<	-- 31 -->	8<	-- 1 -->	●<	-- 2 -->	●<	-- 3 -->	●<	-- 4 -->		●<	-- 6 -->	8<	-- 7 -->						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	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
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Cycling	100 km team time trial	Antonio Bailetti, Ottavio Cogliati, Giacomo Fornoni, Livio Trapè
Cycling	1 km track time trial	Sante Gaiardoni	WR

Day 3: Sat 27 August

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Cycling	Tandem	Giuseppe Beghetto, Sergio Bianchetto
Diving	Women's 3 metre springboard	Ingrid Krämer
Swimming	Men's 100 metre freestyle	John Devitt	OR
Swimming	Women's 200 metre breaststroke	Anita Lonsbrough	WR

Day 4: Sun 28 August

No events

Day 5: Mon 29 August

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Canoeing	Men's K-1 1000 metres	Erik Hansen
	Men's C-1 1000 metres	János Parti
	Men's K-2 1000 metres	Gert Fredriksson, Sven-Olov Sjödelius
	Men's C-2 1000 metres	Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko
	Women's K-1 500 metres	Antonina Seredina
	Women's K-2 500 metres	Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina
	Men's K-1 4 × 500 metres	Paul Lange, Günther Perleberg, Friedhelm Wentzke, Dieter Krause
Cycling	Team pursuit	Marino Vigna, Luigi Arienti, Franco Testa, Mario Vallotto
Cycling	Sprint	Sante Gaiardoni
Diving	Men's 3 metre springboard	Gary Tobian
Swimming	Women's 100 metre freestyle	Dawn Fraser	OR

Day 6: Tue 30 August

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Cycling	Individual road race	Viktor Kapitonov
Diving	Women's 10 metre platform	Ingrid Krämer
Fencing	Men's foil	Viktor Zhdanovich
Swimming	Women's 100 metre butterfly	Carolyn Schuler	OR
Swimming	Men's 200 metre breaststroke	William Mulliken

Day 7: Wed 31 August

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Men's shot put	Bill Nieder	OR
Athletics	Women's long jump	Vera Kolashnikova	OR
Modern pentathlon	Men's individual	Ferenc Németh
Modern pentathlon	Men's team	Imre Nagy, András Balczó, Ferenc Németh
Swimming	Men's 400 metre freestyle	Murray Rose
Swimming	Men's 100 metre backstroke	David Theile
Wrestling	Greco-Roman flyweight	Dumitru Pârvulescu
	Greco-Roman bantamweight	Oleg Karavayev
	Greco-Roman featherweight	Müzahir Sille
	Greco-Roman lightweight	Avtandil Koridze
	Greco-Roman welterweight	Mithat Bayrak
	Greco-Roman middleweight	Dimitar Dobrev
	Greco-Roman light heavyweight	Tevfik Kis
	Greco-Roman heavyweight	Ivan Bogdan

Day 8: Thu 1 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Women's javelin throw	Elvīra Ozoliņa	OR
	Men's high jump	Robert Shavlakadze	OR
	Women's 80 metres hurdles	Irina Press
	Men's 100 metres	Armin Hary	OR
Fencing	Women's foil	Adelheid Schmid
Swimming	Men's 4 x 100 metre medley relay	Frank McKinney, Paul Hait, Lance Larson, Jeff Farrell
	Women's 400 metre freestyle	Chris von Saltza
	Men's 4 x 200 metre freestyle relay	George Harrison, Richard Blick, Michael Troy, Jeff Farrell

Day 9: Fri 2 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Men's 20 kilometres walk	Vladimir Golubnichy
	Men's 400 metres hurdles	Glenn Davis	OR
	Men's long jump	Ralph Boston	OR
	Women's 100 metres	Wilma Rudolph
	Women's shot put	Tamara Press	OR
	Men's 800 metres	Peter Snell	OR
	Men's 5000 metres	Murray Halberg
Diving	Men's 10 metre platform	Bob Webster
Fencing	Men's team foil	Viktor Zhdanovich, Mark Midler, Yuri Rudov, Yuri Sisikin, German Sveshnikov
Swimming	Men's 200 metre butterfly	Mike Troy	WR
Swimming	Women's 4 x 100 metre medley relay	Lynn Burke, Patty Kempner, Carolyn Schuler, Chris von Saltza

Day 10: Sat 3 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Men's hammer throw	Vasily Rudenkov	OR
	Men's 3000 metres steeplechase	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	OR
	Men's 200 metres	Livio Berruti
Fencing	Women's team foil	Valentina Prudskova, Aleksandra Zabelina, Lyudmila Shishova, Tatyana Petrenko, Galina Gorokhova, Valentina Rastvorova
Rowing	Single sculls	Vyacheslav Ivanov
	Double sculls	Václav Kozák, Pavel Schmidt
	Coxless pair	Valentin Boreyko, Oleg Golovanov
	Coxed pair	Bernhard Knubel, Heinz Renneberg, Klaus Zerta
	Coxless four	Dan Ayrault, Ted Nash, John Sayre, Rusty Wailes
	Coxed four	Gerd Cintl, Horst Effertz, Klaus Riekemann, Jürgen Litz, Michael Obst
	Eight	Manfred Rulffs, Walter Schröder, Frank Schepke, Kraft Schepke, Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, Karl-Heinz Hopp, Klaus Bittner, Hans Lenk, Willi Padge
Swimming	Women's 100 metre backstroke	Lynn Burke
	Men's 1500 metre freestyle	John Konrads
	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
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

Day 11: Sun 4 September

No events

Day 12: Mon 5 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Women's discus throw	Nina Romashkova	OR
	Men's 110 metres hurdles	Lee Calhoun
	Women's 200 metres	Wilma Rudolph
Boxing	Flyweight	Gyula Török
	Bantamweight	Oleg Grigoryev
	Featherweight	Francesco Musso
	Lightweight	Kazimierz Paździor
	Light welterweight	Bohumil Němeček
	Welterweight	Giovanni Benvenuti
	Light middleweight	Wilbert McClure
	Middleweight	Eddie Crook, Jr.
	Light heavyweight	Cassius Clay
	Heavyweight	Franco De Piccoli
Shooting	300 metre rifle, three positions	Hubert Hammerer

Day 13: Tue 6 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Men's triple jump	Józef Szmidt	OR
	Men's 400 metres	Otis Davis
	Men's 1500 metres	Herb Elliott	WR
	Men's decathlon	Rafer Johnson	OR
Equestrian	Individual dressage	Sergei Filatov
Fencing	Men's épée	Giuseppe Delfino
Shooting	50 metre pistol	Alexey Gushchin
Wrestling	Freestyle flyweight	Ahmet Bilek
	Freestyle bantamweight	Terrence McCann
	Freestyle featherweight	Mustafa Dağıstanlı
	Freestyle lightweight	Shelby Wilson
	Freestyle welterweight	Douglas Blubaugh
	Freestyle middleweight	Hasan Güngör
	Freestyle light heavyweight	Ismet Atli
	Freestyle heavyweight	Wilfried Dietrich

Day 14: Wed 7 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Men's pole vault	Don Bragg	OR
	Men's 50 kilometres walk	Don Thompson	OR
	Men's discus throw	Al Oerter	OR
	Women's 800 metres	Lyudmila Lysenko	WR
Equestrian	Individual jumping	Raimondo D'Inzeo
Gymnastics	Men's individual all-around	Boris Shakhlin
Gymnastics	Men's team all-around	Takashi Ono, Nobuyuki Aihara, Yukio Endo, Takashi Mitsukuri, Masao Takemoto, Shuji Tsurumi
Sailing	5.5 Metre	George O'Day, James Hunt, David Smith
	Flying Dutchman	Peder Lunde Jr., Bjørn Bergvall
	Dragon	HRH Crown Prince Constantine, Odysseus Eskidioglou, Georgios Zaimis
	Star	Timir Pinegin, Fyodor Shutkov
	Finn	Paul Elvstrøm
Weightlifting	Men's bantamweight	Charles Vinci
Weightlifting	Men's featherweight	Yevgeni Minaev

Day 15: Thu 8 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Women's high jump	Iolanda Balaş	OR
	Men's javelin throw	Viktor Tsybulenko
	Men's 4 x 400 metres relay	Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis	WR
	Men's 10,000 metres	Pyotr Bolotnikov	OR
	Women's 4 x 100 metres relay	Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph
	Men's 4 x 100 metres relay	Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, Martin Lauer
Fencing	Men's sabre	Rudolf Kárpáti
Gymnastics	Women's individual all-around	Larisa Latynina
Gymnastics	Women's team all-around	Polina Astakhova, Lidia Ivanova, Larisa Latynina, Tamara Lyukhina, Sofia Muratova, Margarita Nikolaeva
Shooting	50 metre rifle three positions	Viktor Shamburkin	=WR
Weightlifting	Men's lightweight	Viktor Bushuev
Weightlifting	Men's middleweight	Aleksandr Kurynov

Day 16: Fri 9 September

Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Fencing	Men's team épée	Giuseppe Delfino, Alberto Pellegrino, Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti, Fiorenzo Marini, Gianluigi Saccaro
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
Gymnastics	Women's uneven bars	Polina Astakhova
	Women's balance beam	Eva Bosáková
	Women's floor	Larisa Latynina
	Women's vault	Margarita Nikolaeva
Shooting	25 metre rapid fire pistol	William McMillan	=OR
Shooting	Trap	Ion Dumitrescu
Weightlifting	Men's light heavyweight	Ireneusz Paliński
Weightlifting	Men's middle heavyweight	Arkadi Vorobyev

Day 17: Sat 10 September

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Gold medalists
Sport	Event	Competitor(s)
Athletics	Men's marathon	Abebe Bikila		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
Equestrian	Individual eventing	Lawrence Morgan
Equestrian	Team eventing	Lawrence Morgan, Neale Lavis, Bill Roycroft
Fencing	Men's team sabre	Aladár Gerevich, Rudolf Kárpáti, Pál Kovács, Zoltán Horváth, Gábor Delneky, Tamás Mendelényi
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
Gymnastics	Men's floor	Nobuyuki Aihara
	Men's horizontal bar	Takashi Ono
	Men's parallel bars	Boris Shakhlin
	Men's pommel horse	Eugen Ekman, Boris Shakhlin	,
	Men's rings	Albert Azaryan
	Men's vault	Takashi Ono, Boris Shakhlin	,
Shooting	50 metre rifle prone	Peter Kohnke
Weightlifting	Men's heavyweight	Yury Vlasov