# Chronological summary of the 1960 Summer Olympics

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 | | | | | | | 2 | 4 | 7 | 3 | | 3 | 4 | 4 | 6 | | 1 | | 34 |
| Basketball | | ● | ● | | ● | | | ● | ● | ● | | | | ● | ● | ● | 1 | | 1 |
| Boxing | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | | 10 | | | | | | | 10 |
| Canoeing | | ● | ● | | 7 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 |
| Cycling | | 2 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 |
| Diving | | ● | 1 | | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 1 | | | | | | | | | | 4 |
| Equestrian | | | | | | | | | | | | ● | 1 | 1 | ● | ● | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Fencing | | | | | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | | ● | 1 | ● | 1 | 1 | 1 | | 8 |
| Field hockey | | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | ● | ● | 1 |
| Football | | ● | | | ● | | | ● | | | | ● | ● | | | ● | 1 | | 1 |
| Gymnastics | | | | | | | | | | | | ● | ● | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | | 14 |
| Modern pentathlon | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | 2 | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 |
| Rowing | | | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | 7 | | | | | | | | | 7 |
| Sailing | | | | | ● | ● | ● | ● | | | | ● | ● | 5 | | | | | 5 |
| Shooting | | | | | | | | | | ● | | 1 | 1 | ● | 1 | 2 | 1 | | 6 |
| Swimming | | ● | 2 | | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | | | | | | | | | 15 |
| Water polo | ● | ● | ● | | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | 1 | | | | | | | | | 1 |
| Weightlifting | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | | 7 |
| Wrestling | | ● | ● | | ● | ● | 8 | ● | ● | ● | | ● | 8 | | | | | | 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) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Cycling | 100 km team time trial | Antonio Bailetti, Ottavio Cogliati, Giacomo Fornoni, Livio Trapè | Italy | | |
| Cycling | 1 km track time trial | Sante Gaiardoni | Italy | WR | |

### Day 3: Sat 27 August

Gold medalists :
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec |
| Cycling | Tandem | Giuseppe Beghetto, Sergio Bianchetto | Italy | |
| Diving | Women's 3 metre springboard | Ingrid Krämer | United Team of Germany | |
| Swimming | Men's 100 metre freestyle | John Devitt | Australia | OR |
| Swimming | Women's 200 metre breaststroke | Anita Lonsbrough | Great Britain | WR |

### Day 4: Sun 28 August

No events

### Day 5: Mon 29 August

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

### Day 6: Tue 30 August

Gold medalists :
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec |
| Cycling | Individual road race | Viktor Kapitonov | Soviet Union | |
| Diving | Women's 10 metre platform | Ingrid Krämer | United Team of Germany | |
| Fencing | Men's foil | Viktor Zhdanovich | Soviet Union | |
| Swimming | Women's 100 metre butterfly | Carolyn Schuler | United States | OR |
| Swimming | Men's 200 metre breaststroke | William Mulliken | United States | |

### Day 7: Wed 31 August

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

### Day 8: Thu 1 September

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

### Day 9: Fri 2 September

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

### Day 10: Sat 3 September

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

### Day 11: Sun 4 September

No events

### Day 12: Mon 5 September

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

### Day 13: Tue 6 September

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

### Day 14: Wed 7 September

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

### Day 15: Thu 8 September

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

### Day 16: Fri 9 September

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

### Day 17: Sat 10 September

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

### Day 18: Sun 11 September

Gold medalists :
| Sport | Event | Competitor(s) | NOC | Rec | Ref |
| Equestrian | Team jumping | Hans Günter Winkler, Fritz Thiedemann, Alwin Schockemöhle | United Team of Germany | | |