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"Rome 1960". Olympics.com. International Olympic Committee. Giacomini, Romolo, ed. (1960). The Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960 – The Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Vol. II. Rome: Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad. OCLC 15098894
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Rome, Italy, from August 25 to September 11, 1960. [1] A total of 5,338 athletes from 83 countries represented by National Olympic Committees (NOCs) participated in these Games, competing in 150 events in 17 sports.
Ties were supposed to be broken by referring to the timing machine. The official results placed Devitt first and Larson second, both with the identical time of 55.2 seconds. [5] The United States team appealed, bolstered by videotaped footage of the finish that appeared to show Larson the winner. [6]
The 1960 Summer Olympics (Italian: Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad (Italian: Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 (Italian: Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries.
Gold medalists Sport Event Competitor(s) NOC Rec Ref; Cycling: Individual road race: Viktor Kapitonov Soviet Union Diving: Women's 10 metre platform: Ingrid Krämer United Team of Germany
Olympic gold medalist Rafer Johnson, the decathlon champion of the 1960 Rome Summer Games who later helped disarm friend Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin, died Wednesday at his Los Angeles home.
The United States competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. It was the first Summer Olympics in which the athletes marched under the present 50-star flag. 292 competitors, 241 men and 51 women, took part in 147 events in 17 sports. [1] The 1960 Summer Olympics was the first Olympics in history that was being covered by a television ...