# List of 1960 Summer Olympics medal winners

The following is a complete list of medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics, held in Rome, Italy, from 25 August to 11 September 1960.

## Athletics
### Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Armin Hary United Team of Germany | Dave Sime United States | Peter Radford Great Britain |
| 200 m details | Livio Berruti Italy | Lester Carney United States | Abdoulaye Seye France |
| 400 m details | Otis Davis United States | Carl Kaufmann United Team of Germany | Malcolm Spence South Africa |
| 800 m details | Peter Snell New Zealand | Roger Moens Belgium | George Kerr British West Indies |
| 1500 m details | Herb Elliott Australia | Michel Jazy France | István Rózsavölgyi Hungary |
| 5000 m details | Murray Halberg New Zealand | Hans Grodotzki United Team of Germany | Kazimierz Zimny Poland |
| 10,000 m details | Pyotr Bolotnikov Soviet Union | Hans Grodotzki United Team of Germany | David Power Australia |
| 110 m hurdles details | Lee Calhoun United States | William May United States | Hayes Jones United States |
| 400 m hurdles details | Glenn Davis United States | Clifton Cushman United States | Dick Howard United States |
| 3000 m steeplechase details | Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Poland | Nikolay Sokolov Soviet Union | Semyon Rzhishchin Soviet Union |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | United Team of Germany (EUA) Bernd Cullmann Armin Hary Walter Mahlendorf Martin Lauer | Soviet Union (URS) Gusman Kosanov Leonid Bartenev Yuriy Konovalov Edvin Ozolin | Great Britain (GBR) Peter Radford David Jones David Segal Nick Whitehead |
| 4 × 400 m relay details | United States (USA) Jack Yerman Earl Young Glenn Davis Otis Davis | United Team of Germany (EUA) Manfred Kinder Joachim Reske Johannes Kaiser Carl Kaufmann | British West Indies (BWI) George Kerr James Wedderburn Keith Gardner Malcolm Spence |
| marathon details | Abebe Bikila Ethiopia | Rhadi Ben Abdesselam Morocco | Barry Magee New Zealand |
| 20 km walk details | Vladimir Golubnichy Soviet Union | Noel Freeman Australia | Stan Vickers Great Britain |
| 50 km walk details | Don Thompson Great Britain | John Ljunggren Sweden | Abdon Pamich Italy |
| high jump details | Robert Shavlakadze Soviet Union | Valeriy Brumel Soviet Union | John Thomas United States |
| long jump details | Ralph Boston United States | Irvin Roberson United States | Igor Ter-Ovanesyan Soviet Union |
| triple jump details | Józef Szmidt Poland | Vladimir Goryaev Soviet Union | Vitold Kreer Soviet Union |
| pole vault details | Don Bragg United States | Ron Morris United States | Eeles Landström Finland |
| shot put details | Bill Nieder United States | Parry O'Brien United States | Dallas Long United States |
| discus throw details | Al Oerter United States | Rink Babka United States | Dick Cochran United States |
| javelin throw details | Viktor Tsybulenko Soviet Union | Walter Krüger United Team of Germany | Gergely Kulcsár Hungary |
| hammer throw details | Vasili Rudenkov Soviet Union | Gyula Zsivótzky Hungary | Tadeusz Rut Poland |
| decathlon details | Rafer Johnson United States | Yang Chuan-Kwang Formosa | Vasili Kuznetsov Soviet Union |

### Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 100 m details | Wilma Rudolph United States | Dorothy Hyman Great Britain | Giuseppina Leone Italy |
| 200 m details | Wilma Rudolph United States | Jutta Heine United Team of Germany | Dorothy Hyman Great Britain |
| 800 m details | Lyudmila Shevtsova Soviet Union | Brenda Jones Australia | Ursula Donath United Team of Germany |
| 80 m hurdles details | Irina Press Soviet Union | Carole Quinton Great Britain | Gisela Birkemeyer United Team of Germany |
| 4 × 100 m relay details | United States (USA) Martha Hudson Lucinda Williams Barbara Jones Wilma Rudolph | United Team of Germany (EUA) Martha Langbein Anni Biechl Brunhilde Hendrix Jutta Heine | Poland (POL) Teresa Wieczorek Barbara Janiszewska Celina Jesionowska Halina Richter |
| high jump details | Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | Jarosława Jóźwiakowska (POL) | NONE AWARDED |
| high jump details | Iolanda Balaş (ROU) | Dorothy Shirley (GBR) | NONE AWARDED |
| long jump details | Vera Krepkina (URS) | Elżbieta Krzesińska (POL) | Hildrun Claus (EUA) |
| shot put details | Tamara Press Soviet Union | Johanna Lüttge United Team of Germany | Earlene Brown United States |
| discus throw details | Nina Ponomaryova Soviet Union | Tamara Press Soviet Union | Lia Manoliu Romania |
| javelin throw details | Elvīra Ozoliņa Soviet Union | Dana Zátopková Czechoslovakia | Birutė Kalėdienė Soviet Union |

## Basketball

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's details | United States (USA) Jay Arnette Walt Bellamy Bob Boozer Terry Dischinger Burdette Haldorson Darrall Imhoff Allen Kelley Lester Lane Jerry Lucas Oscar Robertson Adrian Smith Jerry West | Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Korneev Jānis Krūmiņš Guram Minashvili Valdis Muižnieks Cesars Ozers Aleksandr Petrov Mikhail Semyonov Vladimir Ugrekhelidze Maigonis Valdmanis Albert Valtin Gennadi Volnov Viktor Zubkov | Brazil (BRA) Edson Bispo dos Santos Moyses Blas Waldemar Blatskauskas Algodão Carmo de Souza Carlos Domingos Massoni Waldyr Geraldo Boccardo Wlamir Marques Amaury Antônio Pasos Fernando Pereira De Freitas Antonio Salvador Sucar Eduardo Schall Jatyr |

## Boxing

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Flyweight details | Gyula Török Hungary | Sergei Sivko Soviet Union | Abdel Moneim El-Guindi Egypt |
| Flyweight details | Gyula Török Hungary | Sergei Sivko Soviet Union | Kiyoshi Tanabe Japan |
| Bantamweight details | Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union | Primo Zamparini Italy | Brunon Bendig Poland |
| Bantamweight details | Oleg Grigoryev Soviet Union | Primo Zamparini Italy | Oliver Taylor Australia |
| Featherweight details | Francesco Musso Italy | Jerzy Adamski Poland | William Meyers South Africa |
| Featherweight details | Francesco Musso Italy | Jerzy Adamski Poland | Jorma Limmonen Finland |
| Lightweight details | Kazimierz Paździor Poland | Sandro Lopopolo Italy | Richard McTaggart Great Britain |
| Lightweight details | Kazimierz Paździor Poland | Sandro Lopopolo Italy | Abel Laudonio Argentina |
| Light welterweight details | Bohumil Němeček Czechoslovakia | Clement Quartey Ghana | Quincey Daniels United States |
| Light welterweight details | Bohumil Němeček Czechoslovakia | Clement Quartey Ghana | Marian Kasprzyk Poland |
| Welterweight details | Giovanni Benvenuti Italy | Yuri Radonyak Soviet Union | Leszek Drogosz Poland |
| Welterweight details | Giovanni Benvenuti Italy | Yuri Radonyak Soviet Union | Jimmy Lloyd Great Britain |
| Light middleweight details | Wilbert McClure United States | Carmelo Bossi Italy | William Fisher Great Britain |
| Light middleweight details | Wilbert McClure United States | Carmelo Bossi Italy | Boris Lagutin Soviet Union |
| Middleweight details | Eddie Crook, Jr. United States | Tadeusz Walasek Poland | Yevgeny Feofanov Soviet Union |
| Middleweight details | Eddie Crook, Jr. United States | Tadeusz Walasek Poland | Ion Monea Romania |
| Light heavyweight details | Cassius Clay United States | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland | Anthony Madigan Australia |
| Light heavyweight details | Cassius Clay United States | Zbigniew Pietrzykowski Poland | Giulio Saraudi Italy |
| Heavyweight details | Franco De Piccoli Italy | Daniel Bekker South Africa | Josef Němec Czechoslovakia |
| Heavyweight details | Franco De Piccoli Italy | Daniel Bekker South Africa | Günter Siegmund United Team of Germany |

## Canoeing
### Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| C-1 1000 m details | János Parti (HUN) | Aleksandr Silayev (URS) | Leon Rotman (ROU) |
| C-2 1000 m details | Leonid Geishtor and Sergei Makarenko (URS) | Aldo Dezi and Francesco La Macchia (ITA) | Imre Farkas and András Törő (HUN) |
| K-1 1000 m details | Erik Hansen (DEN) | Imre Szöllősi (HUN) | Gert Fredriksson (SWE) |
| K-2 1000 m details | Gert Fredriksson and Sven-Olov Sjödelius (SWE) | György Mészáros and András Szente (HUN) | Stefan Kapłaniak and Władysław Zieliński (POL) |
| K-1 4 x 500 m details | United Team of Germany (EUA) Dieter Krause Günther Perleberg Paul Lange Friedhelm Wentzke | Hungary (HUN) Imre Szöllősi Imre Kemecsey András Szente György Mészáros | Denmark (DEN) Erik Hansen Helmuth Sørensen Arne Høyer Erling Jessen |

### Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| K-1 500 m details | Antonina Seredina (URS) | Therese Zenz (EUA) | Daniela Walkowiak (POL) |
| K-2 500 m details | Mariya Shubina and Antonina Seredina (URS) | Therese Zenz and Ingrid Hartmann (EUA) | Klára Fried-Bánfalvi and Vilma Egresi (HUN) |

## Cycling

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| road race details | Viktor Kapitonov (URS) | Livio Trapè (ITA) | Willy van den Berghen (BEL) |
| team time trial details | Italy (ITA) Antonio Bailetti Ottavio Cogliati Giacomo Fornoni Livio Trapè | United Team of Germany (EUA) Gustav-Adolf Schur Egon Adler Erich Hagen Günter Lörke | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Kapitonov Yevgeny Klevtsov Yury Melikhov Aleksei Petrov |
| sprint details | Sante Gaiardoni (ITA) | Leo Sterckx (BEL) | Valentino Gasparella (ITA) |
| time trial details | Sante Gaiardoni (ITA) | Dieter Gieseler (EUA) | Rostislav Vargashkin (URS) |
| tandem details | Giuseppe Beghetto and Sergio Bianchetto (ITA) | Jürgen Simon and Lothar Stäber (EUA) | Vladimir Leonov and Boris Vasilyev (URS) |
| team pursuit details | Italy (ITA) Luigi Arienti Franco Testa Mario Vallotto Marino Vigna | United Team of Germany (EUA) Peter Gröning Manfred Klieme Siegfried Köhler Bernd Barleben | Soviet Union (URS) Stanislav Moskvin Viktor Romanov Leonid Kolumbet Arnold Belgardt |

## Diving

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's 3 m springboard details | Gary Tobian (USA) | Samuel Hall (USA) | Juan Botella (MEX) |
| Men's 10 m platform details | Bob Webster (USA) | Gary Tobian (USA) | Brian Phelps (GBR) |
| Women's 3 m springboard details | Ingrid Krämer (EUA) | Paula Pope (USA) | Elizabeth Ferris (GBR) |
| Women's 10 m platform details | Ingrid Krämer (EUA) | Paula Pope (USA) | Ninel Krutova (URS) |

## Equestrian

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual dressage details | Sergei Filatov Soviet Union | Gustav Fischer Switzerland | Josef Neckermann United Team of Germany |
| Individual eventing details | Lawrence Morgan Australia | Neale Lavis Australia | Anton Bühler Switzerland |
| Team eventing details | Australia (AUS) Lawrence Morgan Neale Lavis Bill Roycroft | Switzerland (SUI) Anton Bühler Hans Schwarzenbach Rudolf Günthardt | France (FRA) Jack Le Goff Guy Lefrant Jéhan Le Roy |
| Individual jumping details | Raimondo D'Inzeo Italy | Piero D'Inzeo Italy | David Broome Great Britain |
| Team jumping details | United Team of Germany (EUA) Hans Günter Winkler Fritz Thiedemann Alwin Schockemöhle | United States (USA) Frank Chapot William Steinkraus George H. Morris | Italy (ITA) Raimondo D'Inzeo Piero D'Inzeo Antonio Oppes |

## Fencing
### Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| épée details | Giuseppe Delfino Italy | Allan Jay Great Britain | Bruno Khabarov Soviet Union |
| team épée details | Italy (ITA) Giuseppe Delfino Alberto Pellegrino Carlo Pavesi Edoardo Mangiarotti Fiorenzo Marini Gianluigi Saccaro | Great Britain (GBR) Allan Jay Michael Howard John Pelling Henry Hoskyns Raymond Harrison Michael Alexander | Soviet Union (URS) Valentin Chernikov Guram Kostava Arnold Chernushevich Bruno Khabarov Aleksandr Pavlovsky* |
| foil details | Viktor Zhdanovich Soviet Union | Yuri Sisikin Soviet Union | Albert Axelrod United States |
| team foil details | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Zhdanovich Mark Midler Yuri Rudov Yuri Sisikin German Sveshnikov | Italy (ITA) Alberto Pellegrino Luigi Carpaneda Mario Curletto Aldo Aureggi Edoardo Mangiarotti | United Team of Germany (EUA) Jürgen Theuerkauff Tim Gerresheim Eberhard Mehl Jürgen Brecht |
| sabre details | Rudolf Kárpáti Hungary | Zoltán Horváth Hungary | Wladimiro Calarese Italy |
| team sabre details | Hungary (HUN) Tamas Mendelenyi Rudolf Kárpáti Pál Kovács Zoltán Horváth Gabor Delneki Aladár Gerevich | Poland (POL) Andrzej Piatkowski Emil Ochyra Wojciech Zabłocki Jerzy Pawłowski Ryszard Zub Marian Kuszewski | Italy (ITA) Wladimiro Calarese Giampaolo Calanchini Pierluigi Chicca Roberto Ferrari Mario Ravagnan |

### Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| foil details | Adelheid Schmid United Team of Germany | Valentina Rastvorova Soviet Union | Maria Vicol Romania |
| team foil details | Soviet Union (URS) Valentina Prudskova Aleksandra Zabelina Lyudmila Shishova Tatyana Petrenko Galina Gorokhova Valentina Rastvorova | Hungary (HUN) Györgyi Szekely-Marvalics Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő Magdolna Nyari-Kovacs Katalin Juhasz-Nagy Lidia Dömölki-Sakovics | Italy (ITA) Bruna Colombetti Velleda Cesari Claudia Pasini Irene Camber Antonella Ragno-Lonzi |

## Field hockey

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's details | Pakistan (PAK) Abdul Rashid Bashir Ahmad Manzoor Hussain Atif Ghulam Rasul Anwar Khan Habib Ali Kiddie Noor Alam Abdul Hamid Abdul Waheed Naseer Bunda Motiullah Mushtaq Ahmad Khursheed Aslam | India (IND) Shankar Lakshman Prithipal Singh Jaman Lal Sharma Leslie Claudius Joseph Antic Mohinder Lal Joginder Singh John Peter Jaswant Singh Udham Singh Kullar Raghbir Singh Bhola Charanjit Singh Govind Sawant | Spain (ESP) Carlos Iglesias José Colomer Rafael Egusquiza Juan Calzado José Dinares Narciso Ventalló Ignacio Macaya Eduardo Dualde Pedro Murúa Joaquín Dualde Pedro Amat Francisco Caballer Luis Usoz Pedro Roig |

## Football

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's details | Yugoslavia (YUG) Andrija Anković Vladimir Durković Milan Galić Fahrudin Jusufi Tomislav Knez Borivoje Kostić Aleksandar Kozlina Dušan Maravić Željko Matuš Željko Perušić Novak Roganović Velimir Sombolac Milutin Šoškić Silvester Takač Blagoje Vidinić Ante Žanetić | Denmark (DEN) Poul Andersen John Danielsen Henning Enoksen Henry From Bent Hansen Poul Jensen Hans Nielsen Harald Nielsen Flemming Nielsen Poul Pedersen Jørn Sørensen Tommy Troelsen | Hungary (HUN) Flórián Albert Jenő Dalnoki Zoltán Dudás János Dunai Lajos Faragó János Göröcs Ferenc Kovács Dezső Novák Pál Orosz Laszlo Pál Tibor Pál Gyula Rákosi Imre Sátori Ernő Solymosi Gábor Török Pál Várhidi Oszkár Vilezsál |

## Gymnastics
### Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| individual all-around details | Boris Shakhlin (URS) | Takashi Ono (JPN) | Yuri Titov (URS) |
| team all-around details | Japan (JPN) Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shuji Tsurumi | Soviet Union (URS) Albert Azaryan Valery Kerdemilidi Nikolai Miligulo Vladimir Portnoi Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov | Italy (ITA) Giovanni Carminucci Pasquale Carminucci Gianfranco Marzolla Franco Menichelli Orlando Polmonari Angelo Vicardi |
| floor exercise details | Nobuyuki Aihara Japan | Yuri Titov Soviet Union | Franco Menichelli Italy |
| horizontal bar details | Takashi Ono Japan | Masao Takemoto Japan | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union |
| parallel bars details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Giovanni Carminucci Italy | Takashi Ono Japan |
| pommel horse details | Eugen Ekman Finland | NONE AWARDED | Shuji Tsurumi Japan |
| pommel horse details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | NONE AWARDED | Shuji Tsurumi Japan |
| rings details | Albert Asaryan Soviet Union | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Takashi Ono Japan |
| rings details | Albert Asaryan Soviet Union | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Velik Kapsazov Bulgaria |
| vault details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | NONE AWARDED | Vladimir Portnoi Soviet Union |
| vault details | Takashi Ono Japan | NONE AWARDED | Vladimir Portnoi Soviet Union |

### Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| individual all-around details | Larisa Latynina (URS) | Sofia Muratova (URS) | Polina Astakhova (URS) |
| team all-around details | Soviet Union (URS) Polina Astakhova Lidia Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Lyukhina Sofia Muratova Margarita Nikolaeva | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Matylda Matoušková Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfína Tkačíková | Romania (ROU) Atanasia Ionescu Sonia Iovan Elena Leuşteanu Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă Elena Niculescu Uta Poreceanu |
| balance beam details | Eva Bosáková Czechoslovakia | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Sofia Muratova Soviet Union |
| floor exercise details | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Polina Astakhova Soviet Union | Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union |
| uneven bars details | Polina Astakhova Soviet Union | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union |
| vault details | Margarita Nikolaeva Soviet Union | Sofia Muratova Soviet Union | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union |

## Modern pentathlon

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| individual details | Ferenc Németh (HUN) | Imre Nagy (HUN) | Robert Beck (USA) |
| team details | Hungary (HUN) Imre Nagy András Balczó Ferenc Németh | Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Tatarinov Hanno Selg Igor Novikov | United States (USA) Robert Beck Jack Daniels George Lambert |

## Rowing

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| single sculls details | Vyacheslav Ivanov (URS) | Achim Hill (EUA) | Teodor Kocerka (POL) |
| double sculls details | Václav Kozák and Pavel Schmidt (TCH) | Aleksandr Berkutov and Yuriy Tyukalov (URS) | Ernst Hürlimann and Rolf Larcher (SUI) |
| Coxless pair details | Valentin Boreyko and Oleg Golovanov (URS) | Josef Kloimstein and Alfred Sageder (AUT) | Veli Lehtelä and Toimi Pitkänen (FIN) |
| Coxed pair details | United Team of Germany (EUA) Bernhard Knubel Heinz Renneberg Klaus Zerta | Soviet Union (URS) Antanas Bagdonavičius Zigmas Jukna Igor Rudakov | United States (USA) Richard Draeger Conn Findlay Kent Mitchell |
| Coxless four details | United States (USA) Arthur Ayrault Ted Nash John Sayre Rusty Wailes | Italy (ITA) Tullio Baraglia Renato Bosatta Giancarlo Crosta Giuseppe Galante | Soviet Union (URS) Igor Akhremchik Yuriy Bachurov Valentin Morkovkin Anatoly Tarabrin |
| coxed four details | United Team of Germany (EUA) Gerd Cintl Horst Effertz Klaus Riekemann Jürgen Litz Michael Obst | France (FRA) Robert Dumontois Claude Martin Jacques Morel Guy Nosbaum Jean Klein | Italy (ITA) Fulvio Balatti Romano Sgheiz Franco Trincavelli Giovanni Zucchi Ivo Stefanoni |
| eight details | United Team of Germany (EUA) Manfred Rulffs Walter Schröder Frank Schepke Kraft Schepke Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck Karl-Heinz Hopp Klaus Bittner Hans Lenk Willi Padge | Canada (CAN) Donald Arnold Walter D'Hondt Nelson Kuhn John Lecky Lorne Loomer Archibald MacKinnon Bill McKerlich Glen Mervyn Sohen Biln | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Bohumil Janoušek Jan Jindra Jiří Lundák Stanislav Lusk Václav Pavkovič Luděk Pojezný Jan Švéda Josef Věntus Miroslav Koníček |

## Sailing

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Finn details | Paul Elvstrøm (DEN) | Aleksander Tšutšelov (URS) | André Nelis (BEL) |
| Flying Dutchman details | Norway (NOR) Peder Lunde Jr. Bjørn Bergvall | Denmark (DEN) Hans Fogh Ole Erik Petersen | United Team of Germany (EUA) Rolf Mulka Ingo Von Bredow |
| Star details | Soviet Union (URS) Timir Pinegin Fyodor Shutkov | Portugal (POR) Mario Gentil Jose Gentil | United States (USA) William Parks Robert Halperin |
| Dragon details | Greece (GRE) HRH Crown Prince Constantine Odysseus Eskidioglou Georgios Zaimis | Argentina (ARG) Jorge Salas Chávez Héctor Calegaris Jorge del Río Sálas | Italy (ITA) Antonio Cosentino Antonio Ciciliano Giulio De Stefano |
| 5.5 Metre details | United States (USA) George O'Day James Hunt David Smith | Denmark (DEN) William Berntsen Sören Hancke Steen Christensen | Switzerland (SUI) Henri Copponex Manfred Metzger Pierre Girard |

## Shooting

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 25 m rapid fire pistol details | William McMillan United States | Pentti Linnosvuo Finland | Alexander Zabelin Soviet Union |
| 50 m pistol details | Alexey Gushchin Soviet Union | Makhmud Umarov Soviet Union | Yoshihisa Yoshikawa Japan |
| 50 m rifle three positions details | Viktor Shamburkin Soviet Union | Marat Niyazov Soviet Union | Klaus Zähringer United Team of Germany |
| 50 m rifle prone details | Peter Kohnke United Team of Germany | James Enoch Hill United States | Enrico Forcella Pelliccioni Venezuela |
| 300 m rifle three positions details | Hubert Hammerer Austria | Hans Rudolf Spillmann Switzerland | Vasily Borisov Soviet Union |
| Trap details | Ion Dumitrescu Romania | Galliano Rossini Italy | Sergei Kalinin Soviet Union |

## Swimming
### Men’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 100 m freestyle details | John Devitt Australia | Lance Larson United States | Manuel dos Santos Brazil |
| 400 m freestyle details | Murray Rose Australia | Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan | John Konrads Australia |
| 1500 m freestyle details | John Konrads Australia | Murray Rose Australia | George Breen United States |
| 100 m backstroke details | David Theile Australia | Frank McKinney United States | Bob Bennett United States |
| 200 m breaststroke details | Bill Mulliken United States | Yoshihiko Osaki Japan | Wieger Mensonides Netherlands |
| 200 m butterfly details | Mike Troy United States | Neville Hayes Australia | Dave Gillanders United States |
| 4 × 200 m freestyle relay details | United States (USA) George Harrison Dick Blick Mike Troy Jeff Farrell | Japan (JPN) Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto | Australia (AUS) David Dickson John Devitt Murray Rose John Konrads |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | United States (USA) Frank McKinney Paul Hait Lance Larson Jeff Farrell | Australia (AUS) David Theile Terry Gathercole Neville Hayes Geoff Shipton | Japan (JPN) Kazuo Tomita Koichi Hirakida Yoshihiko Osaki Keigo Shimuzu |

### Women’s events

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 100 m freestyle details | Dawn Fraser Australia | Chris von Saltza United States | Natalie Steward Great Britain |
| 400 m freestyle details | Chris von Saltza United States | Jane Cederqvist Sweden | Tineke Lagerberg Netherlands |
| 100 m backstroke details | Lynn Burke United States | Natalie Steward Great Britain | Satoko Tanaka Japan |
| 200 m breaststroke details | Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain | Wiltrud Urselmann United Team of Germany | Barbara Göbel United Team of Germany |
| 100 m butterfly details | Carolyn Schuler United States | Marianne Heemskerk Netherlands | Jan Andrew Australia |
| 4 × 100 m freestyle relay details | United States (USA) Joan Spillane Shirley Stobs Carolyn Wood Chris von Saltza | Australia (AUS) Dawn Fraser Ilsa Konrads Lorraine Crapp Alva Colquhoun | United Team of Germany (EUA) Christel Steffin Heidi Pechstein Gisela Weiss Ursel Brunner |
| 4 × 100 m medley relay details | United States (USA) Lynn Burke Patty Kempner Carolyn Schuler Chris von Saltza | Australia (AUS) Marilyn Wilson Rosemary Lassig Jan Andrew Dawn Fraser | United Team of Germany (EUA) Ingrid Schmidt Ursula Küper Bärbel Fuhrmann Ursel Brunner |

## Water polo

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's details | Italy (ITA) 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 | Soviet Union (URS) Viktor Ageev Givi Chikvanaia Leri Gogoladze Boris Goykhman Yury Grigorovsky Anatoly Kartashov Vyacheslav Kurennoy P'et're Mshveniyeradze Vladimir Novikov Yevgeny Saltsyn Vladimir Semyonov | Hungary (HUN) András Bodnár Ottó Boros Zoltán Dömötör László Felkai Dezső Gyarmati István Hevesi László Jeney Tivadar Kanizsa György Kárpáti András Katona János Konrád Kálmán Markovits Mihály Mayer Péter Rusorán |

## Weightlifting

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| bantamweight details | Charles Vinci United States | Yoshinobu Miyake Japan | Esmaeil Elmkhah Iran |
| featherweight details | Yevgeni Minaev Soviet Union | Isaac Berger United States | Sebastiano Mannironi Italy |
| lightweight details | Viktor Bushuev Soviet Union | Tan Howe Liang Singapore | Abdul Wahid Aziz Iraq |
| middleweight details | Aleksandr Kurynov Soviet Union | Tommy Kono United States | Győző Veres Hungary |
| light heavyweight details | Ireneusz Paliński Poland | Jim George United States | Jan Bochenek Poland |
| middle heavyweight details | Arkadi Vorobyev Soviet Union | Trofim Lomakin Soviet Union | Louis Martin Great Britain |
| heavyweight details | Yury Vlasov Soviet Union | James Bradford United States | Norbert Schemansky United States |

## Wrestling
### Freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| flyweight details | Ahmet Bilek Turkey | Masayuki Matsubara Japan | Ebrahim Seifpour Iran |
| bantamweight details | Terrence McCann United States | Nezhdet Zalev Bulgaria | Tadeusz Trojanowski Poland |
| featherweight details | Mustafa Dağıstanlı Turkey | Stancho Kolev Bulgaria | Vladimir Rubashvili Soviet Union |
| lightweight details | Shelby Wilson United States | Vladimir Synyavsky Soviet Union | Enyu Valchev Bulgaria |
| welterweight details | Douglas Blubaugh United States | İsmail Ogan Turkey | Muhammad Bashir Pakistan |
| middleweight details | Hasan Güngör Turkey | Georgy Skhirtladze Soviet Union | Hans Antonsson Sweden |
| light heavyweight details | Ismet Atli Turkey | Gholamreza Takhti Iran | Anatoli Albul Soviet Union |
| heavyweight details | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany | Hamit Kaplan Turkey | Savkuds Dzarasov Soviet Union |

### Greco-Roman

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| flyweight details | Dumitru Pârvulescu Romania | Osman El-Sayed Egypt | Mohammad Paziraei Iran |
| bantamweight details | Oleg Karavayev Soviet Union | Ion Cernea Romania | Dinko Petrov Bulgaria |
| featherweight details | Müzahir Sille Turkey | Imre Polyák Hungary | Konstantin Vyrupayev Soviet Union |
| lightweight details | Avtandil Koridze Soviet Union | Branislav Martinović Yugoslavia | Gustav Freij Sweden |
| welterweight details | Mithat Bayrak Turkey | Günther Maritschnigg United Team of Germany | René Schiermeyer France |
| middleweight details | Dimitar Dobrev Bulgaria | Lothar Metz United Team of Germany | Ion Țăranu Romania |
| light heavyweight details | Tevfik Kis Turkey | Krali Bimbalov Bulgaria | Givi Kartoziya Soviet Union |
| heavyweight details | Ivan Bogdan Soviet Union | Wilfried Dietrich United Team of Germany | Bohumil Kubát Czechoslovakia |

## Medal leaders

Athletes that won at least three total medals are listed below.
| Athlete | Nation | Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union (URS) | Gymnastics | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| Larisa Latynina | Soviet Union (URS) | Gymnastics | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| Takashi Ono | Japan (JPN) | Gymnastics | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Chris von Saltza | United States (USA) | Swimming | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Polina Astakhova | Soviet Union (URS) | Gymnastics | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Sofia Muratova | Soviet Union (URS) | Swimming | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Wilma Rudolph | United States (USA) | Athletics | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Dawn Fraser | Australia (AUS) | Swimming | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Murray Rose | Australia (AUS) | Swimming | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Tamara Lyukhina | Soviet Union (URS) | Gymnastics | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| John Konrads | Australia (AUS) | Swimming | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| Yuri Titov | Soviet Union (URS) | Gymnastics | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |