1960 Olympics: Leading Medal Winners

Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff

Number of individual medals won on the left; gold, silver and bronze breakdown to the right.

Men

No  Sport G-S-B
7 Boris Shakhlin, USSR Gymnastics 4-2-1
6 Takashi Ono, JPN Gymnastics 3-1-2
3 Murray Rose, AUS Swimming 1-1-1
3 John Konraads, AUS Swimming 1-0-2
3 Yuri Titov, USSR Gymnastics 0-2-1

Women

No  Sport G-S-B
6 Larissa Latynina, USSR Gymnastics 3-2-1
4 Chris von Saltza, USA Swimming 3-1-0
4 Polina Astakhova, USSR Gymnastics 2-1-1
4 Sofia Muratova, USSR Gymnastics 1-2-1
3 Wilma Rudolph, USA Track/Field 3-0-0
3 Dawn Fraser, AUS Swimming 1-2-0
3 Tamara Lyukhina, USSR Gymnastics 1-0-2
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