# Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.

## Medal summary

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual details | Ferenc Németh Hungary | Imre Nagy Hungary | Robert Beck United States |
| 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 |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Participating nations

A total of 60 athletes from 23 nations competed at the Rome Games:
* Argentina (3)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (3)
* Belgium (1)
* Brazil (3)
* Denmark (1)
* Finland (3)
* France (3)
* United Team of Germany (3)
* Great Britain (3)
* Hungary (3)
* Italy (3)
* Japan (2)
* Mexico (3)
* Morocco (2)
* Poland (3)
* South Africa (1)
* Soviet Union (3)
* Spain (2)
* Sweden (3)
* Switzerland (3)
* Tunisia (3)
* United States (3)

## Results
### Individual

| 1 | Ferenc Németh | Hungary |
| 2 | Imre Nagy | Hungary |
| 3 | Bob Beck | United States |
| 4 | András Balczó | Hungary |
| 5 | Igor Novikov | Soviet Union |
| 6 | Nikolay Tatarinov | Soviet Union |
| 7 | Stanisław Przybylski | Poland |
| 8 | Jack Daniels | United States |
| 9 | Kurt Lindeman | Finland |
| 10 | Hanno Selg | Soviet Union |
| 11 | Patrick Harvey | Great Britain |
| 12 | Berndt Katter | Finland |
| 13 | Luis Ribera | Argentina |
| 14 | Kazimierz Paszkiewicz | Poland |
| 15 | Per-Erik Ritzén | Sweden |
| 16 | Eero Lohi | Finland |
| 17 | Antonio Almada | Mexico |
| 18 | George Lambert | United States |
| 19 | Erhard Minder | Switzerland |
| 20 | Kazimierz Mazur | Poland |
| 21 | Sture Ericson | Sweden |
| 22 | Sergio Escobedo | Mexico |
| 23 | Adriano Facchini | Italy |
| 24 | Donald Cobley | Great Britain |
| 25 | Peter Lichtner-Hoyer | Austria |
| 26 | Peter Little | Great Britain |
| 27 | Justo Botelho | Brazil |
| 28 | Wolfgang Gödicke | United Team of Germany |
| 29 | Gaetano Scala | Italy |
| 30 | Björn Thofelt | Sweden |
| 31 | Neville Sayers | Australia |
| 32 | Wenceslau Malta | Brazil |
| 33 | Werner Vetterli | Switzerland |
| 34 | Hugh Doherty | Australia |
| 35 | Kazuhiro Tanaka | Japan |
| 36 | Carlos Stricker | Argentina |
| 37 | Udo Birnbaum | Austria |
| 38 | Shigeaki Uchino | Japan |
| 39 | Frank Battig | Austria |
| 40 | Raúl Bauza | Argentina |
| 41 | Giulio Giunta | Italy |
| 42 | André Bernard | France |
| 43 | José Pérez | Mexico |
| 44 | Joaquín Villalba | Spain |
| 45 | Christian Beauvalet | France |
| 46 | Peter Macken | Australia |
| 47 | Benny Schmidt | Denmark |
| 48 | Dieter Krickow | United Team of Germany |
| 49 | Rolf Weber | Switzerland |
| 50 | José Wilson | Brazil |
| 51 | Fernando Irayzoz | Spain |
| 53 | Étienne Jalenques | France |
| 54 | Arsène Pint | Belgium |
| 55 | Ralf Berckhan | United Team of Germany |
| 56 | Lakdar Bouzid | Tunisia |
| 57 | Habib Ben Azzabi | Tunisia |
| 58 | Ahmed Ennachi | Tunisia |
| AC | Mohamed Ben Checkroun | Morocco |
| AC | Naji El-Mekki | Morocco |

### Team

| 1 | Hungary |
| 2 | Soviet Union |
| 3 | United States |
| 4 | Finland |
| 5 | Poland |
| 6 | Sweden |
| 7 | Great Britain |
| 8 | Mexico |
| 9 | Italy |
| 10 | Argentina |
| 11 | Switzerland |
| 12 | Austria |
| 13 | Brazil |
| 14 | Australia |
| 15 | France |
| 16 | United Team of Germany |
| 17 | Tunisia |

## Tunisian athletes

The modern pentathletes from Tunisia were notable for their poor performances and attempts at cheating. In the swimming portion, one competitor, Ahmed Ennachi, nearly drowned. In the shooting portion, an athlete was ejected for firing too closely to the judges, and in the equestrian portion, all three athletes fell off their horses. In the fencing portion, the Tunisians attempted to pass off their strongest fencer as each of the three athletes, using his mask to conceal his identity. The ruse failed and the Tunisians were disqualified from the fencing portion. Altogether in the team competition, Tunisia received 5,126 points, which was around 5,000 points below the next team and almost 10,000 behind the winners.