Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics explained
| Noc: | URS |
| Nocname: | Soviet Olympic Committee |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 1960 |
| Flagcaption: | Flag of the Soviet Union |
| Location: | Rome, Italy |
| Competitors: | 283 (233 men, 50 women)[1] |
| Sports: | 17 |
| Flagbearer: | Yury Vlasov |
| Rank: | 1 |
| Gold: | 43 |
| Silver: | 29 |
| Bronze: | 31 |
| Appearances: | auto |
| App Begin Year: | 1952 |
| App End Year: | 1988 |
| See also: | (1900–1912)
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. 283 competitors, 233 men and 50 women, took part in 145 events in 17 sports.[2]
Medalists
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 43 gold and 103 total medals.
Gold
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's pommel horse
- Albert Azaryan — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
- Sofia Muratova, Larisa Latynina, Polina Astakhova, Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotailova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Margarita Nikolaeva — Artistic gymnastics, women's team competition
- Polina Astakhova — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's vault
- Margarita Nikolaeva — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
- Pyotr Bolotnikov — Athletics, men's 10000 m
- Vladimir Golubnichy — Athletics, men's 20 km walk
- Lyudmila Lisenko-Shevtsova — Athletics, women's 800 m
- Irina Press — Athletics, women's 80 m hurdles
- Nina Romashkova — Athletics, women's discus throw
- Vasili Rudenkov — Athletics, men's hammer throw
- Robert Shavlakadze — Athletics, men's high jump
- Viktor Tsybulenko — Athletics, men's javelin throw
- Elvīra Ozoliņa — Athletics, women's javelin throw
- Vera Krepkina — Athletics, women's long jump
- Tamara Press — Athletics, women's shot put
- Oleg Grigoryev — Boxing, men's bantamweight
- Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko — Canoeing, men's C-2 1000 m
- Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 m
- Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, women's K-2 500 m
- Viktor Kapitonov — Cycling road, men's individual road race
- Sergei Filatov and his horse Absent — Equestrian, individual mixed
- Viktor Zhdanovich — Fencing, men's foil individual
- Viktor Zhdanovich, Mark Midler, Yuri Rudov, Yuri Sisikin, German Sveshnikov — Fencing, men's foil team
- Valentina Prudskova, Aleksandra Zabelina, Lyudmila Shishova, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Galina Gorokhova, Valentina Rastvorova — Fencing, women's foil team
- Valentin Boreiko, Oleg Golovanov — Rowing, men's coxless pair
- Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, men's single sculls
- Timir Pinegin, Fyodor Shutkov — Sailing, Star class
- Aleksey Gushchin — Shooting, men's 50 m pistol
- Viktor Shamburkin — Shooting, men's rifle 3 positions
- Yury Vlasov — Weightlifting, men's heavyweight
- Yevgeni Minaev — Weightlifting, men's featherweight
- Viktor Georgiyevitch Bushuyev — Weightlifting, men's lightweight
- Aleksandr Kurynov — Weightlifting, men's middleweight
- Arkady Vorobyov — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweight
- Ivan Bogdan — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman superheavyweight
- Oleg Karavaev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman bantamweight
- Avtandil Koridze — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman lightweight
Silver
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
- Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's floor exercise
- Polina Astakhova — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
- Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's rings
- Boris Shakhlin, Yuri Titov, Albert Azaryan, Vladimir Portnoi, Valeri Kerdemilidi, Nikolai Miligulo — Artistic gymnastics, men's team competition
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
- Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
- Nikolay Sokolov — Athletics, men's 3000 m steeplechase
- Gusman Kosanov, Leonid Bartenev, Yuriy Konovalov, Edvin Ozolin — Athletics, men's 4 × 100 m relay
- Tamara Press — Athletics, women's discus throw
- Valery Brumel — Athletics, men's high jump
- Vladimir Goryaev — Athletics, men's triple jump
- Yuri Korneev, Yanis Krumins, Guram Minashvili, Valdis Muizhniek, Tsezar Ozer, Aleksandr Petrov, Mikhail Semyonov, Vladimir Ugrekhelidze, Maigonis Valdmanis, Albert Valtin, Gennadi Volnov, Viktor Zubkov — Basketball, men's team competition
- Sergei Sivko — Boxing, men's flyweight
- Yuri Radonyak — Boxing, men's welterweight
- Aleksandr Silaev — Canoeing, men's C-1 1000 m
- Yuri Sisikin — Fencing, men's foil individual
- Valentina Rastvorova — Fencing, women's foil individual
- Nikolai Tatarinov, Hanno Selg, Igor Novikov — Modern pentathlon, men's team competition
- Aleksandr Berkutov, Yuriy Tyukalov — Rowing, men's double sculls
- Antanas Bogdanavichus, Zigmas Yukna, Igor Rudakov — Rowing, men's pair-oared shell with coxswain
- Aleksandr Chuchelov — Sailing, men's Finn class
- Makhmud Umarov — Shooting, men's 50 m pistol
- Marat Niyazov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positions
- Vladimir Semyonov, Anatoly Kartashov, Vladimir Novikov, Petre Mshvenieradze, Yuri Grigorovsky, Viktor Ageev, Givi Chikvanaya, Leri Gogoladze, Vyacheslav Kurennoi, Boris Goikhmann and Yevgeni Saltsyn — Water polo, men's team competition
- Trofim Lomakin — Weightlifting, men's middle-heavyweight
- Vladimir Sinyavsky — Wrestling, men's freestyle lightweight
- Georgi Skhirtladze — Wrestling, men's freestyle middleweight
Bronze
- Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's balance beam
- Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotailova — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's horizontal bar
- Yuri Titov — Artistic gymnastics, men's individual all-round
- Polina Astakhova — Artistic gymnastics, women's individual all-round
- Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotailova — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars
- Vladimir Portnoi — Artistic gymnastics, men's vault
- Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault
- Semen Rzhischin — Athletics, men's 3000 m steeplechase
- Vasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, men's decathlon
- Birutė Kalėdienė — Athletics, women's javelin throw
- Igor Ter-Ovanesyan — Athletics, men's long jump
- Vitold Kreer — Athletics, men's triple jump
- Boris Lagutin — Boxing, men's light-middleweight
- Yevgeni Feofanov — Boxing, men's 71–75 kg
- Viktor Kapitonov, Yevgeni Klevtsov, Yuri Melikhov, Aleksei Petrov — Cycling road, men's team time trial
- Rostislav Vargashkin — Cycling track, men's 1 km time trial
- Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Leonov — Cycling track, men's 2000 m tandem
- Stanislav Moskvin, Viktor Romanov, Leonid Kolumbet, Arnold Belgardt — Cycling track, men's team pursuit
- Ninel Krutova — Diving, women's 10 m platform
- Bruno Khabarov — Fencing, men's épée individual
- Valentin Chernikov, Guram Kostava, Arnold Chernushevich, Bruno Khabarov, Aleksandr Pavlovsky — Fencing, men's épée team
- Igor Akhremchik, Yuriy Bachurov, Valentin Morkovkin, Anatoli Tarabrin — Rowing, men's four without coxswain
- Aleksandr Zabelin — Shooting, men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
- Vasily Borisov — Shooting, men's 300 m free rifle 3 positions
- Sergei Kalinin — Shooting, men's trap
- Savkus Dzarasov — Wrestling, men's freestyle heavyweight
- Vladimir Rubashvili — Wrestling, men's freestyle featherweight
- Anatoli Albul — Wrestling, men's freestyle light-heavyweight
- Konstantin Vyrupaev — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman featherweight
- Givi Kartoziya — Wrestling, men's Greco-Roman light-heavyweight
Athletics
See main article: Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Basketball
See main article: Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Boxing
See main article: Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)
Canoeing
See main article: Canoeing at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Cycling
See main article: Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
13 male cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1960.
- Individual road race
- Team time trial
- Sprint
- 1000 m time trial
- Tandem
- Team pursuit
Diving
See main article: Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Equestrian
See main article: Equestrian at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Fencing
See main article: Fencing at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
21 fencers, 15 men and 6 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1960.
- Men's foil
- Men's team foil
- Men's épée
- Men's team épée
- Men's sabre
- Men's team sabre
- Women's foil
- Women's team foil
Gymnastics
See main article: Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Modern pentathlon
See main article: Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Three male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1960. In the team event, they won the silver medal.
- Individual
- Team
- Igor Novikov
- Nikolay Tatarinov
- Hanno Selg
Rowing
See main article: Rowing at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
The Soviet Union had 25 male rowers participate in seven rowing events in 1960.[3]
- Men's single sculls – 1st place (Gold medal)
- Men's double sculls – 2nd place (Silver medal)
- Men's coxless pair – 1st place (Gold medal)
- Men's coxed pair – 2nd place (Silver medal)
- Men's coxless four – 3rd place (Bronze medal)
- Men's coxed four – 4th place
- Men's eight
Sailing
See main article: Sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Shooting
See main article: Shooting at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Ten shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1960. Between them, they won three bronze medals, two silvers and two golds.
- 25 m pistol
- 50 m pistol
- 300 m rifle, three positions
- 50 m rifle, three positions
- 50 m rifle, prone
- Trap
Swimming
See main article: Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Water polo
See main article: Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Weightlifting
See main article: Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Wrestling
See main article: Wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
Medals by republic
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
External links
Notes and References
- The USSR and Olympism . . . 84 . 530–557 . October 1974 . PDF . 28 March 2008.
- Soviet Union at the 1960 Rome Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417043515/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1960/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 1 August 2014.
- Soviet Union Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417112319/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/URS/summer/1960/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 27 June 2015.
