Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Men's events

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Section Title: Men's events
Table Section Text: None

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze

100 m freestyle details	John Devitt Australia	55.2 (OR)	Lance Larson United States	55.2 (OR)	Manuel dos Santos Brazil	55.4

400 m freestyle details	Murray Rose Australia	4:18.3 (OR)	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan	4:21.4	John Konrads Australia	4:21.8

1500 m freestyle details	John Konrads Australia	17:19.2 (OR)	Murray Rose Australia	17:21.7	George Breen United States	17:30.6

100 m backstroke details	David Theile Australia	1:01.9 (OR)	Frank McKinney United States	1:02.1	Bob Bennett United States	1:02.3

200 m breaststroke details	Bill Mulliken United States	2:37.4	Yoshihiko Osaki Japan	2:38.0	Wieger Mensonides Netherlands	2:39.7

200 m butterfly details	Mike Troy United States	2:12.8 (WR)	Neville Hayes Australia	2:14.6	Dave Gillanders United States	2:15.3

4 × 200 m freestyle relay details	United States (USA) George Harrison Dick Blick Mike Troy Jeff Farrell	8:10.2 (WR)	Japan (JPN) Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto	8:13.3	Australia (AUS) David Dickson John Devitt Murray Rose John Konrads	8:13.8

4 × 100 m medley relay details	United States (USA) Frank McKinney Paul Hait Lance Larson Jeff Farrell	4:05.4 (WR)	Australia (AUS) David Theile Terry Gathercole Neville Hayes Geoff Shipton	4:12.0	Japan (JPN) Kazuo Tomita Koichi Hirakida Yoshihiko Osaki Keigo Shimuzu	4:12.2

Sentence(s)

The official results placed Devitt first and Larson second, both with the identical time of 55.2 seconds.

final_sentence: The official results placed Devitt first and Larson second, both with the identical time of 55.2 seconds.