Athletics at the 1960 Olympics |  |
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Events |
Olympic Champions |
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| 100 m W |  | USA | Wilma Rudolph | ||
| 100 m M |  | GER | Armin Hary | ||
| 200 m W | | USA | Wilma Rudolph | ||
| 200 m M |  | ITA | Livio Berruti | ||
| 400 m M | | USA | Otis Davis | ||
| 800 m W |  | URS | Lyudmila Shevtsova | ||
| 800 m M |  | NZL | Peter Snell | ||
| 1500 m M |  | AUS | Herbert Elliott | ||
| 5000 m M | | NZL | Murray Halberg | ||
| 10000 m M | | URS | Pyotr Bolotnikov | ||
| Marathon M |  | ETH | Abebe Bikila | ||
| 80 m hurdles W | | URS | Irina Press | ||
| 110 m hurdles M | | USA | Lee Calhoun | ||
| 400 m hurdles M | | USA | Glenn Davis | ||
| 3000 m steeplechase M |  | POL | Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak | ||
| 20 km walk M | | URS | Vladimir Holubnychy | ||
| 50 km walk M |  | GBR | Donald Thompson | ||
| High jump W |  | ROU | Iolanda Balas | ||
| High jump M | | URS | Robert Shavlakadze | ||
| Long jump W | | URS | Vera Krepkina | ||
| Long jump M | | USA | Ralph Boston | ||
| Triple jump M | | POL | Jozef Schmidt | ||
| Pole vault M | | USA | Don Bragg | ||
| Javelin throw W | | URS | Elvira Ozolina | ||
| Javelin throw M | | URS | Viktor Tsybulenko | ||
| Discus throw W | | URS | Nina Ponomaryeva | ||
| Discus throw M | | USA | Al Oerter | ||
| Hammer throw M | | URS | Vasily Rudenkov | ||
| Shot put W | | URS | Tamara Press | ||
| Shot put M | | USA | Bill Nieder | ||
| Decathlon M | | USA | Rafer Johnson | ||
| 4x100 m W | | USA | Lucinda Williams | ||
| Barbara Jones | |||||
| Martha Hudson | |||||
| Wilma Rudolph | |||||
| 4x100 m M | | GER | Bernd Cullmann | ||
| Armin Hary | |||||
| Walter Mahlendorf | |||||
| Martin Lauer | |||||
| 4x400 m M | | USA | Earl Young | ||
| Glenn Davis | |||||
| Otis Davis | |||||
| Jack Yermann | |||||
| These facts about olympic Athletics and the Rome 1960 Athletics events are based on the official olympic reports and the Olympian Database | |||||
