| Event: | Men's modern pentathlon |
| Games: | 1960 Summer |
| Dates: | August 26–31, 1960 |
| Competitors: | 60 |
| Nations: | 23 |
| Gold: | Ferenc Németh |
| Goldnoc: | HUN |
| Silver: | Imre Nagy |
| Silvernoc: | HUN |
| Bronze: | Robert Beck |
| Bronzenoc: | USA |
| Prev: | 1956 |
| Next: | 1964 |
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.[1]
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| Team | Imre Nagy András Balczó Ferenc Németh | Nikolai Tatarinov Hanno Selg Igor Novikov | Robert Beck Jack Daniels George Lambert |
A total of 60 athletes from 23 nations competed at the Rome Games:
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The modern pentathletes from Tunisia were notable for their poor performances and attempts at cheating. In the swimming portion, one competitor, Ahmed Ennachi, nearly drowned. In the shooting portion, an athlete was ejected for firing too closely to the judges, and in the equestrian portion, all three athletes fell off their horses. In the fencing portion, the Tunisians attempted to pass off their strongest fencer as each of the three athletes, using his mask to conceal his identity. The ruse failed and the Tunisians were disqualified from the fencing portion. Altogether in the team competition, Tunisia received 5,126 points, which was around 5,000 points below the next team and almost 10,000 behind the winners.[2] [3]