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Games of the XVII Olympiad - Rome 1960
Date: 25 August - 11 September.
Nations: 83.
Athletes: 5,348 (4,738 men, 610 women).
Sports: 17.
Events: 150.
Official opening of the Games by: President Giancarlo Gronchi.
Olympic flame: - Giancarlo Peris (athletics).
Olympic oath: - Adolfo Consolini (athletics).
Official oath: - (first time in Munich in 1972).
Number of medal-winning nations: 44.
National medal total:
1. USSR 103 (43, 29, 31).
   
                   
      For the first time there was TV coverage of the Games on another continent – North America, more precisely the USA, as CBS paid $394,000 for the TV rights.
For the first time an Olympic athlete triumphed for the fourth consecutive time at the Games. Denmark’s Paul Elvström, following his triumphs in London in 1948, Helsinki in 1952 and Melbourne in 1956, won his fourth straight gold in the Finn class in Rome.
Boxer Ike Quartey (Ghana), a vice-champion in the light welterweight division, became the first black African athlete to win an Olympic medal, and Abebe Bikila (Ethiopia), who triumphed in the marathon, became the first black African Olympic champion.
Yugoslavia participated in the Games with 120 athletes in 14 sports, and the only two medals were won by the football squad (gold) and wrestler Branko Martinović (silver).

Candidate cities: Lausanne, Detroit, Budapest, Bruxelles, Mexico City and Tokyo.

 

  
The most successful athlete:
Wilma Rudolph (USA) won gold medals in the 100m, 200m and 4 x 100m relay		  
     

SPORTS (17)

    
 		  
     
  • Aquatics1
  • Athletics
  • Cycling
  • Boxing
  • Rowing
  • Gymnastics
  • Weightlifting
  • Sailing
  • Canoe/kayak
  • Equestrian
  • Basketball
  • Fencing
  • Modern Pentathlon
  • Wrestling
  • Shooting
  • Football
  • Hockey
  1 - swimming, diving, water polo and starting with 1984, synchronized swimming  
             
     

NATIONAL MEDAL TOTAL

      
     
  Country Gold Silver Bronze
1. USSR 43 29 31
2. USA 34 21 16
3. ITALY 13 10 13
4. GERMANY 12 19 11
5. AUSTRALIA 8 8 6
6. TURKEY 7 2 0
7. HUNGARY 6 8 7
8. JAPAN 4 7 7
9. POLAND 4 6 11
10. CZECHOSLOVAKIA 2 3 2
11. ROMANIA 3 1 6
12. GREAT BRITAIN 2 6 12
13. DENMARK 2 3 1
14. NEW ZEALAND 2 0 1
15. BULGARIA 1 3 3
16. SWEDEN 1 2 3
17. FINLAND 1 1 3
18. AUSTRIA 1 1 0
19. YUGOSLAVIA 1 1 0
20. PAKISTAN 1 0 1
21. ETHIOPIA 1 0 0
22. GREECE 1 0 0
23. NORWAY 1 0 0
24. SWITZERLAND 0 3 3
25. FRANCE 0 2 3
26. BELGIUM 0 2 2
27. IRAN 0 1 3
28. NETHERLANDS 0 1 2
29. SOUTH AFRICA 0 1 2
30. ARGENTINA 0 1 1
31. EGYPT 0 1 1
32. CANADA 0 1 0
33. GHANA 0 1 0
34. INDIA 0 1 0
35. MOROCCO 0 1 0
36. PORTUGAL 0 1 0
37. SINGAPORE 0 1 0
38. TAIWAN 0 1 0
39. BRAZIL 0 0 2
40. BWI* 0 0 2
41. IRAQ 0 0 1
42. MEXICO 0 0 1
43. SAPIN 0 0 1
44. VENEZUELA 0 0 1
  For the first time Olympic medals were won by Ethiopia, Ghana, Morocco, Singapore, Taiwan, Iraq and the British West Indies* whose team was made up of the athletes from Jamaica and Trinidad.  
             
           
                   
             
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