Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg
Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC codeURS
NOCSoviet Olympic Committee
in Rome
Competitors283 (233 men, 50 women)[1] in 17 sports
Flag bearerYury Vlasov
Medals
Ranked 1st
Gold
43
Silver
29
Bronze
31
Total
103
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
Other related appearances
 Russian Empire (1900–1912)
 Estonia (1920–1936, 1992–)
 Latvia (1924–1936, 1992–)
 Lithuania (1924–1928, 1992–)
 Unified Team (1992)
 Armenia (1994–)
 Belarus (1994–)
 Georgia (1994–)
 Kazakhstan (1994–)
 Kyrgyzstan (1994–)
 Moldova (1994–)
 Russia (1994–2016)
 Ukraine (1994–)
 Uzbekistan (1994–)
 Azerbaijan (1996–)
 Tajikistan (1996–)
 Turkmenistan (1996–)
 ROC (2020-2022)

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, , 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[]

Main article: Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Basketball[]

Main article: Basketball at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Boxing[]

Main article: Boxing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • Sergey Sivko → Med 2.png Silver Medal
  • First Round — Bye
  • Second Round — Defeated Chung Shin-Cho (KOR), KO-1
  • Third Round — Defeated Antoine Porcel (FRA), DSQ-3
  • Quarterfinals — Defeated Manfred Homberg (FRG), 5:0
  • Semifinals — Defeated Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN), 4:1
  • Final — Lost to Gyula Török (HUN), 2:3

Canoeing[]

Main article: Canoeing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Cycling[]

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[]

Main article: Diving at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Equestrian[]

Main article: Equestrian at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Fencing[]

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[]

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Modern pentathlon[]

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[]

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 (Med 1.png Gold medal)
  • Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванов)
Men's double sculls – 2nd place (Med 2.png Silver medal)
  • Aleksandr Berkutov (Александр Беркутов)
  • Yuriy Tyukalov (Юрий Тюкалов)
Men's coxless pair – 1st place (Med 1.png Gold medal)
Men's coxed pair – 2nd place (Med 2.png Silver medal)
  • Antanas Bagdonavičius (Antanas Bagdonavichyus, Антанас Багдонавичюс)
  • Zigmas Jukna (Zigmas Yukna, Зигмас Юкна)
  • Igor Rudakov (Игорь Рудаков)
Men's coxless four – 3rd place (Med 3.png Bronze medal)
Men's coxed four – 4th place
Men's eight

Sailing[]

Main article: Sailing at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Shooting[]

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[]

Main article: Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Water polo[]

Main article: Water polo at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Weightlifting[]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Wrestling[]

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.

RankRepublicGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Russian SFSR393130100
2 Ukrainian SSR1611633
3 Byelorussia4228
4 Georgia25310
5 Armenia1214
6 Latvia0426
7 Lithuania0213
8 Azerbaijan0202
 Estonia0202
10 Moldavia0101
 Turkmenia0101
Totals (11 republics)626345170

References[]

  1. ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review. International Olympic Committee (84): 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union at the 1960 Rome Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2014.
  3. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Soviet Union Rowing at the 1960 Roma Summer Games". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

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