Rome 1960 Summer Olympics Results – Medal Stats & Table

Rome 1960 Summer Olympic Games

From 25th August to 11th September, the 1960 Summer Olympics tournament was scheduled in Rome, Italy. That was the second time Italy had organized that season. Out of 6 nations (Italy, Switzerland, United States, Hungary, Belgium, Mexico, and Japan) – Italy had been awarded this tournament. Before that, Italy hosted its very first Olympics in 1908.

The Rome 1960 Summer Olympic Games was opened by Giovanni Gronchi, was Italian President at that time. Stadio Olimpico was the main stadium of that. Apart from the main venue, there have other thirty-four venues were used in the whole tournament. From the 83 nations, 5,338 athletes participated that season in 150 events in 17 sports.

CBC, American broadcast television has been telecasted the whole season. Additionally, they had provided their live broadcasting service in Canada and Mexico.

Rome 1960 Summer Olympics Results – Medal Stats & Table

The IOC (International Olympic Committee) has been ranking after every tournament ended up. That ranking system is based on their medals stats.

If you want to see the Rome 1960 Summer Olympics, then you can notice the Soviet Union ranked on 1st with 43 gold medals, 29 silver medals and 31 bronze medals.

The USA ranked in 2nd position with 34 gold medals, 21 silver medals and 16 bronze medals from that season. With getting 13 gold medals, 10 silver medals, and 13 bronze medals – Italy ranked in 3rd position.

Here I created a medal stats table of the Rome 1960 Summer Olympics Results.

RankNationsGold MedalsSilver MedalsBronze MedalsTotal
1Soviet Union432931103
2United States34211671
3Italy13101336
4United Team of Germany12191142
5Australia88622
6Turkey7209
7Hungary68721
8Japan47718
9Poland461121
10Czechoslovakia3238
11Romania31610
12Great Britain261220
13Denmark2316
14New Zealand2013
15Bulgaria1337
16Sweden1236
17Finland1135
18Austria1102
19Yugoslavia1102
20Pakistan1012
21Ethiopia1001
22Greece1001
23Norway1001
24Switzerland0336
25France0235
26Belgium0224
27Iran0134
28Netherlands0123
29South Africa0123
30Argentina0112
31Egypt0112
32Canada0101
33Ghana0101
34India0101
35Morocco0101
36Portugal0101
37Republic of China0101
38Singapore0101
39Brazil0022
40British West Indies0022
41Iraq0011
42Mexico0011
43Spain0011
44Venezuela0011

Team Sports Result at the Rome 1960 Summer Olympic Games

From the football sport event of Rome 1960 Summer Olympic Games, Yugoslavia was the champions. On the other side, Denmark titled runners-up and Hungary titled third place on that.

If you look at the basketball sport event, you can see the United States titled champions, Soviet Union titled runners-up and Brazil took third place from that.

Here you see the the team sports results of the Rome 1960 Summer Olympic Games.

SportsChampions
(Gold Medalist)
Runners-up
(Silver Medalist)
Third-place
(Bronze Medalist)
FootballYugoslaviaDenmarkHungary
BasketballUnited StatesSoviet UnionBrazil
Field hockeyPakistanIndiaSpain
Water PoloItalySoviet UnionHungary

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