| 1960 Summer Olympics medals | ||||
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 Soviet gymnastBoris Shakhlin won four gold medals and seven total medals at the 1960 Summer Olympics, both of which were the most of any competing athlete. | ||||
| Location | Rome, Italy | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Most gold medals |  Soviet Union (43) | |||
| Most total medals | Soviet Union (103) | |||
| Medalling NOCs | 44 | |||
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The1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were an internationalmulti-sport event held inRome, Italy, from August 25 to September 11, 1960.[1][2] A total of 5,338 athletes representing 83National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated,[3] which included five teams making their Olympic debut at the Summer Games: theBritish West Indies,[4]Morocco,[5]San Marino,[6]Sudan,[7] andTunisia.[8] The games featured 150 events in 17sports across 23 disciplines.[3][9][10]
Athletes representing 44 NOCs received at least one medal, with 23 NOCs winning at least one gold medal.[11] TheSoviet Union won the most overall medals, with 103, and the most gold medals, with 43.[11] TheBritish West Indies,[4]Republic of China (now competing as Chinese Taipei),[12]Ethiopia,[13]Ghana,[14]Iraq,[15] Morocco,[5] andSingapore won their first Summer Olympic medals of any kind,[16] with Ethiopia and Pakistan winning their first gold medals.[13][17]
Among individual participants, Soviet gymnastBoris Shakhlin won the most gold medals, with four, and the most total medals, with seven (four gold, two silver, and one bronze).[18] Italian fencerEdoardo Mangiarotti secured two medals at the 1960 games (one gold, one silver) and became the record holder for the most Olympic medals won, with 13 medals in total (six gold, five silver, two bronze).[19] Mangiarotti had won medals at the 1936 (one gold), 1948 (two silver, one bronze), 1952 (two gold, two silver), and 1956 games (two gold, one bronze) prior to 1960.[20]
The medal table is based on information provided by theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC) and is consistent with IOC conventional sorting in its published medal tables. The table uses theOlympic medal table sorting method. By default, the table is ordered by the number of gold medals the athletes from a nation have won, where a nation is an entity represented by a NOC. The number of silver medals is taken into consideration next and then the number of bronze medals.[21][22] If teams are still tied, equal ranking is given and they are listed alphabetically by theirIOC country code.[23]
Events inboxing resulted in bronze medals being awarded to each of the competitors who lost their semi-final matches, as opposed to them taking part in athird place tiebreaker.[24]
Inwomen's high jump, a two-way tie for second resulted in two silvers and no bronze medals being awarded.[25] In themen's pommel horse andmen's vault, two-way ties for first resulted in two gold and no silver medals being awarded in each event.[26][27] Lastly, in themen's ring event, there was a two-way tie for third which resulted in two bronze medals being awarded.[28]
* Host nation (Italy)
| Rank | NOC | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 43 | 29 | 31 | 103 |
| 2 |  United States (USA) | 34 | 21 | 16 | 71 |
| 3 | Italy (ITA)* | 13 | 10 | 13 | 36 |
| 4 |  United Team of Germany (EUA) | 12 | 19 | 11 | 42 |
| 5 |  Australia (AUS) | 8 | 8 | 6 | 22 |
| 6 |  Turkey (TUR) | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 7 |  Hungary (HUN) | 6 | 8 | 7 | 21 |
| 8 |  Japan (JPN) | 4 | 7 | 7 | 18 |
| 9 |  Poland (POL) | 4 | 6 | 11 | 21 |
| 10 |  Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| 11 |  Romania (ROU) | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
| 12 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 6 | 12 | 20 |
| 13 |  Denmark (DEN) | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 14 |  New Zealand (NZL) | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 15 |  Bulgaria (BUL) | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 16 |  Sweden (SWE) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 17 |  Finland (FIN) | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 18 |  Austria (AUT) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
 Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 20 |  Pakistan (PAK) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 21 |  Ethiopia (ETH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Greece (GRE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 Norway (NOR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| 24 |  Switzerland (SUI) | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 25 |  France (FRA) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 26 |  Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 27 |  Iran (IRI) | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 28 |  Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
 South Africa (RSA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 30 |  Argentina (ARG) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
 United Arab Republic (RAU) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 32 |  Canada (CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Formosa (ROC) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Ghana (GHA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 India (IND) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Morocco (MAR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Portugal (POR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
 Singapore (SIN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 39 |  Brazil (BRA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
 British West Indies (BWI) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | |
| 41 |  Iraq (IRQ) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
 Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (44 entries) | 152 | 149 | 160 | 461 | |
