Athletics - Olympic Games - 1960

Olympic Games - Results Men 1960

Italy - Roma - 31 August 1960 - 10 September 1960

Men's Shot put - 31 August 1960

1	Bill Nieder (USA)	19.68
2	Parry O'brien (USA)	19.11
3	Dallas Long (USA)	19.01
4	Viktor Lipsnis (URS)	17.90
5	Mike Lindsay (GBR)	17.80
6	Alfred Sosgórnik (POL)	17.57
7	Dieter Urbach (FDR)	17.47
8	Martyn Lucking (GBR)	17.43
9	Jirí Skobla (CZE)	17.39
10	Jaroslav Plíhal (CZE)	17.36
11	Les Mills (NZL)	17.06
12	Hermann Lingnau (FDR)	16.98
13	Silvano Meconi (ITA)	16.73
14	Zsigmond Nagy (HUN)	16.67
15	Warwick Selvey (AUS)	16.18

Men's 100 m - 1 September 1960

1	Armin Hary (FDR)	10.2
2	Dave Sime (USA)	10.2
3	Peter Radford (GBR)	10.3
4	Enrique Figuerola (CUB)	10.3
5	Frank Budd (USA)	10.3
6	Ray Norton (USA)	10.4

Men's High jump - 1 September 1960

1	Robert' Shavlaq'Adze (URS)	2.16
2	Valerij Brumel (URS)	2.16
3	John Thomas (USA)	2.14
4	Viktor Bolshov (URS)	2.14
5	Stig Pettersson (SWE)	2.09
6	Charlie Dumas (USA)	2.03
7	Jirí Lanský (CZE)	2.03
7	Theo Püll (FDR)	2.03
7	Kjell-åke Nilsson (SWE)	2.03
10	Robert Kotei (GHA)	2.03
11	Cornel Porumb (ROM)	2.03
12	Mahamat Idriss (FRA)	2.03
13	Sándor Noszály (HUN)	2.03
14	Maurice Fournier (FRA)	2.00
15	Piotr Sobotta (POL)	2.00
16	Gordon Miller (GBR)	2.00
17	Joe Faust (USA)	1.95

Men's 800 m - 2 September 1960

1	Peter Snell (NZL)	1:46.3
2	Roger Moens (BEL)	1:46.5
3	George Kerr (IDO)	1:47.1
4	Paul Schmidt (FDR)	1:47.6
5	Christian Wägli (SWI)	1:48.1
6	Manfred Matuschewski (DDR)	1:52.0

Men's 5000 m - 2 September 1960

1	Murray Halberg (NZL)	13:43.4
2	Hans Grodotzki (GER)	13:44.6
3	Kazimierz Zimny (POL)	13:44.8
4	Friedrich Janke (DDR)	13:46.8
5	David Power (AUS)	13:51.8
6	Nyandika Maiyoro (KEN)	13:52.8
7	Michel Bernard (FRA)	14:04.2
8	Horst Flosbach (GER)	14:06.6
9	Aleksandr Artynyuk (URS)	14:08.0
10	Sándor Iharos (HUN)	14:11.4
11	Albie Thomas (AUS)	14:20.4
12	Luigi Conti (ITA)	14:34.0

Men's 400 m Hurdles - 2 September 1960

1	Glenn Davis (USA)	49.3
2	Clif Cushman (USA)	49.6
3	Dick Howard (USA)	49.7
4	Helmut Janz (FDR)	49.9
5	Jussi Rintamäki (FIN)	50.8
6	Bruno Galliker (SWI)	51.0

Men's Long jump - 2 September 1960

1	Ralph Boston (USA)	8.12
2	Bo Roberson (USA)	8.11
3	Igor Ter-ovanesyan (URS)	8.04
4	Manfred Steinbach (GER)	8.00
5	Jorma Valkama (FIN)	7.69
6	Christian Collardot (FRA)	7.68
7	Henk Visser (NED)	7.66
8	Dmytro Bondarenko (URS)	7.58
9	Manfred Molzberger (FDR)	7.49
10	Attilio Bravi (ITA)	7.47
11	Dimitrios Manglaras (GRE)	7.45
12	Paul Foreman (IDO)	7.26
13	Fred Alsop (GBR)	7.25

Men's 20 km walk - 2 September 1960

1	Volodymyr Holubnychiy (UKR)	1:34:07.2
2	Noel Freeman (AUS)	1:34:16.4
3	Stan Vickers (GBR)	1:34:56.4
4	Dieter Lindner (DDR)	1:35:33.8
5	Norman Read (NZL)	1:36:59.0
6	Lennart Back (SWE)	1:37:17.0
7	John Ljunggren (SWE)	1:37:59.0
8	Ladislav Moc (CZE)	1:38:32.4
9	Alex Oakley (CAN)	1:38:46.0
10	Eric Hall (GBR)	1:38:54.0
11	Ronald Crawford (AUS)	1:39:16.2
12	Henri Delerue (FRA)	1:39:37.6
13	George Hazle (RSA)	1:40:16.2
14	Lennart Carlsson (SWE)	1:41:07.6
15	Tommy Kristensen (DEN)	1:41:53.4
16	Hannes Koch (DDR)	1:41:59.6
17	Louis Marquis (SWI)	1:42:43.8
18	Charel Sowa (LUX)	1:42:47.0
19	Ron Zinn (USA)	1:43:19.8
20	Zora Singh (IND)	1:43:58.6
21	Stefano Serchinich (ITA)	1:45:04.2
22	Luigi De Rosso (ITA)	1:45:09.0
23	Bob Mimm (USA)	1:45:11.0
24	Rudy Haluza (USA)	1:46:35.8
25	Leo Rosschou (DEN)	1:46:47.2
26	Gianni Corsaro (ITA)	1:47:09.6
27	Khalifa Bahrouni (TUN)	1:55:21.0
28	Naoui Zlassi (TUN)

Men's 200 m - 3 September 1960

1	Livio Berruti (ITA)	20.6
2	Lester Carney (USA)	20.7
3	Abdoulaye Seye (FRA)	20.8
4	Marian Foik (POL)	20.8
5	Stone Johnson (USA)	20.9
6	Ray Norton (USA)

Men's 3000 m Steeplechase - 3 September 1960

1	Zdzislaw Kryszkowiak (POL)	8:34.30
2	Nikolay Sokolov (URS)	8:36.55
3	Semyon Rzhishchin (URS)	8:42.34
4	Gaston Roelants (BEL)	8:47.85
5	Gunnar Tjörnebo (SWE)	8:58.87
6	Ludwig Müller (FDR)	9:01.57
7	Charles Jones (USA)	9:18.22
8	Aleksey Konov (URS)	9:18.23

Men's Hammer throw - 3 September 1960

1	Vasily Rudenkov (URS)	67.10
2	Gyula Zsivótzky (HUN)	65.79
3	Tadeusz Rut (POL)	65.64
4	John Lawlor (IRL)	64.95
5	Olgierd Cieply (POL)	64.57
6	Antun Bezjak (YUG)	64.21
7	Anatoliy Samotsvetov (URS)	63.60
8	Harold Connolly (USA)	63.59
9	Heinrich Thun (AUT)	63.53
10	Yury Nikulin (URS)	63.10
11	Sverre Strandli (NOR)	63.05
12	Muhammad Iqbal (PAK)	61.79
13	Noboru Okamoto (JPN)	60.08
14	Al Hall (USA)	59.76
15	Mike Ellis (GBR)	54.22

Men's 110 m Hurdles - 5 September 1960

1	Lee Calhoun (USA)	13.8
2	Willie May (USA)	13.8
3	Hayes Jones (USA)	14.0
4	Martin Lauer (FDR)	14.0
5	Keith Gardner (IDO)	14.4
6	Valentin Chistyakov (URS)	14.6

Men's 400 m - 6 September 1960

1	Otis Davis (USA)	44.9
2	Carl Kaufmann (FDR)	44.9
3	Mal Spence (RSA)	45.5
4	Milkha Singh (IND)	45.6
5	Manfred Kinder (FDR)	45.9
6	Earl Young (USA)	45.9

Men's 1500 m - 6 September 1960

1	Herb Elliott (AUS)	3:35.6
2	Michel Jazy (FRA)	3:38.4
3	István Rózsavölgyi (HUN)	3:39.2
4	Dan Waern (SWE)	3:40.0
5	Zoltán Vamos (ROM)	3:40.8
6	Dyrol Burleson (USA)	3:40.9
7	Michel Bernard (FRA)	3:41.5
8	Jim Grelle (USA)	3:45.0
9	Arne Hamarsland (NOR)	3:45.0

Men's Triple jump - 6 September 1960

1	Józef Szmidt (POL)	16.81
2	Vladimir Goryayev (URS)	16.63
3	Vitold Kreyer (URS)	16.43
4	Ira Davis (USA)	16.41
5	Vilhjálmur Einarsson (ISL)	16.37
6	Ryszard Malcherczyk (POL)	16.01
7	Manfred Hinze (DDR)	15.93
8	Kari Rahkamo (FIN)	15.84
9	Ian Tomlinson (AUS)	15.71
10	Yevgeny Mikhaylov (URS)	15.67
11	Sten Erickson (SWE)	15.49
12	Fred Alsop (GBR)	15.49
13	John Baguley (AUS)	15.22
14	Adhemar Ferreira Da Silva (BRA)	15.07

Men's Decathlon - 6 September 1960

1	Rafer Johnson (USA)	8392
2	Yang C. K. (TPE)	8334
3	Vasily Kuznetsov (URS)	7809
4	Yuri Kutenko (UKR)	7567
5	Eef Kamerbeek (NED)	7236
6	Franco Sar (ITA)	7195
7	Markus Kahma (FIN)	7112
8	Klaus Grogorenz (DDR)	7032
9	Joze Brodnik (YUG)	6918
10	Manfred Bock (FDR)	6894
11	Fritz Vogelsang (SWI)	6767
12	Seppo Suutari (FIN)	6751
13	Luciano Paccagnella (ITA)	6279
14	Björgvin Hólm (ISL)	6261
15	Herman Timme (NED)	6206
16	Walter Meier (DDR)	6000
17	Hans Muchitsch (AUT)	5950
18	Léopold Marien (BEL)	5919
19	Juris Laipenieks (CHI)	5865
20	Héctor Thomas (VEN)	5753
21	Rodolfo Mijares (MEX)	5413
22	George Stulac (CAN)	5198
23	Panagiotis Epitropopoulos (GRE)	4737

Men's Pole vault - 7 September 1960

1	Don Bragg (USA)	4.70
2	Ron Morris (USA)	4.60
3	Eeles Landström (FIN)	4.55
4	Rolando Cruz (PUR)	4.55
5	Günter Malcher (DDR)	4.50
6	Igor Petrenko (URS)	4.50
6	Matti Sutinen (FIN)	4.50
8	Rudolf Tomásek (CZE)	4.50
9	Leon Lukman (YUG)	4.40
10	Khristo Khristov (BUL)	4.40
11	Dimitar Khlebarov (BUL)	4.30
12	Andrzej Krzesinski (POL)	4.30
13	Janis Krasovskis (URS)	4.30

Men's Discus throw - 7 September 1960

1	Al Oerter (USA)	59.18
2	Rink Babka (USA)	58.02
3	Dick Cochran (USA)	57.16
4	József Szécsényi (HUN)	55.79
5	Edmund Piatkowski (POL)	55.12
6	Viktor Kompaniyets (URS)	55.06
7	Carmelo Rado (ITA)	54.00
8	Kim Bukhantsov (URS)	53.61
9	Pentti Repo (FIN)	53.44
10	Ferenc Klics (HUN)	53.37
11	Stein Haugen (NOR)	53.36
12	Lothar Milde (DDR)	53.33
13	Zdenek Cihák (CZE)	53.29
14	Zenon Begier (POL)	53.18
15	Vladimir Trusenyov (URS)	52.93
16	Manfred Grieser (GER)	52.69
17	Adolfo Consolini (ITA)	52.44
18	Antonios Kounadis (GRE)	52.42
19	Zdenek Nemec (CZE)	52.14
20	Todor Artarski (BUL)	52.12
21	Warwick Selvey (AUS)	49.34
22	Cees Koch (NED)	49.21

Men's 50km Walk - 7 September 1960

1	Donald Thompson (GBR)	4:25:30.0
2	John Ljunggren (SWE)	4:25:47.0
3	Abdon Pamich (ITA)	4:27:55.4
4	Aleksandr Shcherbina (URS)	4:31:44.0
5	Thomas Misson (GBR)	4:33:03.0
6	Alex Oakley (CAN)	4:33:08.6
7	Pino Dordoni (ITA)	4:33:27.2
8	Zora Singh (IND)	4:37:44.6
9	Anatoly Vedyakov (URS)	4:39:57.6
10	Antonio De Gaetano (ITA)	4:41:01.6
11	Ladislav Moc (CZE)	4:42:33.6
12	George Hazle (RSA)	4:43:18.8
13	Max Weber (DDR)	4:44:47.4
14	Svatopluk Sýkora (CZE)	4:46:14.6
15	Ajit Singh (IND)	4:47:28.4
16	Horst Astroth (DDR)	4:50:57.0
17	Josef Dolezal (CZE)	4:51:18.6
18	José Ribas (SPA)	4:51:20.0
19	Ron Laird (USA)	4:53:21.6
20	Frank O'reilly (IRL)	4:54:40.0
21	Charel Sowa (LUX)	4:57:00.4
22	Louis Marquis (SWI)	5:00:13.0
23	Bruce Macdonald (USA)	5:00:47.6
24	John Allen (USA)	5:03:15.2
25	Alfred Leiser (SWI)	5:06:55.0
26	Mohamed Ben Lazhar (TUN)	5:07:57.4
27	René Charrière (SWI)	5:09:00.8
28	Jacques Arnoux (FRA)	5:10:22.0

Men's 10000 m - 8 September 1960

1	Pyotr Bolotnikov (URS)	28:32.2
2	Hans Grodotzki (GER)	28:37.0
3	David Power (AUS)	28:38.2
4	Aleksey Desyatchikov (URS)	28:39.6
5	Murray Halberg (NZL)	28:48.5
6	Max Truex (USA)	28:50.2
7	Zdzislaw Kryszkowiak (POL)	28:52.4
8	John Merriman (GBR)	28:52.6
9	Martin Hyman (GBR)	29:04.8
10	Gordon Pirie (GBR)	29:15.2
11	Sándor Iharos (HUN)	29:15.8
12	Gerhard Hönicke (DDR)	29:20.4
13	Robert Bogey (FRA)	29:22.4
14	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam (MAR)	29:34.4
15	József Kovács (HUN)	29:42.2
16	Yevgeny Zhukov (URS)	29:50.2
17	Xaver Höger (FDR)	29:58.0
18	Stanislaw Ozóg (POL)	30:01.0
19	Arere Anentia (KEN)	30:03.0
20	Constantin Grecescu (ROM)	30:04.8
21	Simo Saloranta (FIN)	30:12.4
22	Hamoud Ameur (FRA)	30:25.4
23	Hamida Addèche (FRA)	30:27.2
24	Doug Kyle (CAN)	30:31.6
25	Carlos Pérez Alonso (SPA)	30:35.8
26	Barry Magee (NZL)	30:39.4
27	Franco Antonelli (ITA)	30:47.4
28	Cyprian Tseriwa (ZIM)	30:47.8
29	Fevzi Pakel (TÜR)	32:06.2

Men's Javelin throw - 8 September 1960

1	Viktor Tsybulenko (URS)	84.64
2	Walter Krüger (GER)	79.36
3	Gergely Kulcsár (HUN)	78.57
4	Vainö Kuisma (FIN)	78.40
5	Willy Rasmussen (NOR)	78.36
6	Knut Fredriksson (SWE)	78.33
7	Zbigniew Radziwonowicz (POL)	77,31
8	Janusz Sidlo (POL)	76.46
9	Carlo Lievore (ITA)	75.21
10	Al Cantello (USA)	74.70
11	Mart Paama (URS)	74.56
12	Hermann Salomon (FDR)	74.11

Men's 4x100 m relay - 8 September 1960

1	Germany (Martin Lauer, Walter Mahlendorf, Armin Hary, Bend Cullmann)	39.5
2	Soviet Union (Edvins Ozolins, Yuriy Konovalov, Leonid Bartenyev, Gusman Kosanov)	40.1
3	Great Britain (Neville Whitehead, David Segal, David Jones, Peter Radford)	40.2
4	Italy (Livio Berruti, Salvatore Giannone, Pier Giorgio Cazzola, Armando Sardi)	40.2
5	Venezuela (Rafael Romero, Emilio Romero, Lloyd Murad, Clive Bonas)	40.7

Men's 4x400 m relay - 8 September 1960

1	United States (Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis)	3:02.2
2	Germany (Hans-joachim Reske, Manfred Kinder, Johannes Kaiser, Carl Kaufmann)	3:02.7
3	West Indies (Mal Spence, James Wedderburn, Keith Gardner, George Kerr)	3:04.0
4	South Africa (Edward Jefferys, Edgar Davis, Gordon Day, Mal Spence)	3:05.0
5	Great Britain (Malcolm Yardley, Barry Jackson, John Wrighton, Robbie Brightwell)	3:08.3
6	Switzerland (René Weber, Ernst Zaugg, Hansrüdi Bruder, Christian Wägli)	3:09.4

Men's Marathon - 10 September 1960

1	Abebe Bikila (ETH)	2:15:16.2
2	Rhadi Ben Abdesselam (MAR)	2:15:41.6
3	Barry Magee (NZL)	2:17:18.2
4	Konstantin Vorobyev (URS)	2:19:09.6
5	Sergey Popov (URS)	2:19:18.8
6	Thyge Thøgersen (DEN)	2:21:03.4
7	Abebe Wakgira (ETH)	2:21:09.4
8	Bakir Ben AISsa (MAR)	2:21:21.4
9	Osvaldo Suárez (ARG)	2:21:26.6
10	Luka Skrinjar (YUG)	2:21:40.2
11	Nikolay Rumyantsev (URS)	2:21:49.4
12	Franjo Mihalic (YUG)	2:21:52.6
13	Keith James (RSA)	2:22:58.6
14	Pavel Kantorek (CZE)	2:22:59.8
15	Gumersindo Gómez (ARG)	2:23:00.0
16	Sonny O'gorman (GBR)	2:24:16.2
17	Miguel Navarro (SPA)	2:24:17.4
18	Jeff Julian (NZL)	2:24:50.6
19	Johnny Kelley (USA)	2:24:58.0
20	Lee Chang-Hun (KOR)	2:25:02.2
21	Arnold Vaide (SWE)	2:25:40.2
22	Gerry Mcintyre (IRL)	2:26:03.0
23	Olavi Manninen (FIN)	2:26:33.0
24	Eino Oksanen (FIN)	2:26:38.0
25	Arthur Keily (GBR)	2:27:00.0
26	Tor Torgersen (NOR)	2:27:30.0
27	Myitung Naw (MYA)	2:28:17.0
28	Bruno Bartholome (DDR)	2:28:39.0
29	Brian Kilby (GBR)	2:28:55.0
30	Alex Breckenridge (USA)	2:29:38.0
31	Kurao Hiroshima (JPN)	2:29:40.0
32	Kazumi Watanabe (JPN)	2:29:45.0
33	Juan Silva (CHI)	2:31:18.0
34	Alain Mimoun (FRA)	2:31:20.0
35	Paul Genève (FRA)	2:31:20.0
36	Frans Künen (NED)	2:31:25.0
37	Francesco Perrone (ITA)	2:31:32.0
38	Silvio De Florentis (ITA)	2:31:54.0
39	Linus Diaz (SRI)	2:32:12.0
40	Lal Chand (IND)	2:32:13.0
41	Johannes Lauridsen (DEN)	2:32:32.0
42	Willie Dunne (IRL)	2:33:08.0
43	Ian Sinfield (AUS)	2:34:16.0
44	Arthur Wittwer (SWI)	2:34:42.2
45	Jagmal Singh (IND)	2:35:01.0
46	Nobuyoshi Sadanaga (JPN)	2:35:11.0
47	Lee Sang-Cheol (KOR)	2:35:14.0
48	Gordon McKenzie (USA)	2:35:16.0
49	Ahmed Labidi (TUN)	2:35:43.0
50	Walter Lemos (ARG)	2:36:55.0
51	Ray Puckett (NZL)	2:37:36.0
52	Dolfi Gruber (AUT)	2:37:40.0
53	Antti Viskari (FIN)	2:38:06.0
54	Allan Lawrence (AUS)	2:38:46.0
55	Gord Dickson (CAN)	2:38:46.0
56	Lothar Beckert (DDR)	2:40:10.0
57	Günter Havenstein (GER)	2:41:14.0
58	Evert Nyberg (SWE)	2:42:59.0
59	Kanuti Sum (KEN)	2:46:55.2
60	Ranjit Bhatia (IND)	2:57:06.0
61	Allah Saoudi (MAR)	2:59:41.0
62	Alifu Massaquoi (LIR)	3:43:18.0

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