1960 Olympics: Track & Field
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Men
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Armin Hary, GER | 10.2 | OR |
| David Sime, USA | 10.2 | ||
| Peter Radford, GBR | 10.3 | ||
| 200m | Livio Berruti, ITA | 20.5 | =WR |
| Lester Carney, USA | 20.6 | ||
| Abdoulaye Seye, FRA | 20.7 | ||
| 400m | Otis Davis, USA | 44.9 | WR |
| Carl Kaufmann, GER | 44.9 | ||
| Malcolm Spence, S. Afr. | 45.5 | ||
| 800m | Peter Snell, NZE | 1:46.3 | OR |
| Roger Moens, BEL | 1:46.5 | ||
| George Kerr, ANT | 1:47.1 | ||
| 1500m | Herb Elliott, AUS | 3:35.6 | WR |
| Michel Jazy, FRA | 3:38.4 | ||
| Istvan Rozsavölgyi, HUN | 3:39.2 | ||
| 5000m | Murray Halberg, NZE | 13:43.4 | |
| Hans Grodotzki, GER | 13:44.6 | ||
| Kasimierz Zimny, POL | 13:44.8 | ||
| 10,000m | Pyotr Bolotnikov, USSR | 28:32.2 | OR |
| Hans Grodotzki, GER | 28:37.0 | ||
| David Power, AUS | 28:38.2 | ||
| Marathon | Abebe Bikila, ETH | 2:15:16.2 | WB |
| Rhadi Ben Abdesselam, MOR | 2:15:41.6 | ||
| Barry Magee, NZL | 2:17:18.2 | ||
| 110m H | Lee Calhoun, USA | 13.8 | |
| Willie May, USA | 13.8 | ||
| Hayes Jones, USA | 14.0 | ||
| 400m H | Glenn Davis, USA | 49.3 | =OR |
| Clifton Cushman, USA | 49.6 | ||
| Richard Howard, USA | 49.7 | ||
| 3000m Steeple | Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak, POL | 8:34.2 | OR |
| Nikolai Sokolov, USSR | 8:36.4 | ||
| Semyon Rischtschin, USSR | 8:42.2 | ||
| 20k Walk | Vladimir Golubnichiy, USSR | 1:34:07.2 | |
| Noel Freeman, AUS | 1:34:16.4 | ||
| Stanley Vickers, GBR | 1:34:56.4 | ||
| 50k Walk | Don Thompson, GBR | 4:25:30.0 | OR |
| John Ljunggren, SWE | 4:25:47.0 | ||
| Abdon Panich, ITA | 4:27:55.4 | ||
| 4x100m | GER (Bernd Cullmann, Armin Hary, Walter Mahlendorf, Martin Lauer) | 39.5 | =WR |
| Soviet Union | 40.1 | ||
| Great Britain | 40.2 | ||
| 4x400m | USA (Jack Yerman, Earl Young, Glenn Davis, Otis Davis) | 3:02.2 | WR |
| Germany | 3:02.7 | ||
| Antilles | 3:04.0 |
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Robert Shavlakadze, USSR | 7- 1 | OR |
| Valeriy Brumel, USSR | 7-1 | ||
| John Thomas, USA | 7-01/4 | ||
| Pole Vault | Don Bragg, USA | 15- 5 | OR |
| Ron Morris, USA | 15-1 | ||
| Eeles Landström, FIN | 14-11 | ||
| Long Jump | Ralph Boston, USA | 26- 73/4 | OR |
| Irvin Roberson, USA | 26-71/4 | ||
| Igor Ter-Ovanesian, USSR | 26-41/2 | ||
| Triple Jump | Józef Schmidt, POL | 55- 2 | |
| Vladimir Goryayev, USSR | 54-61/4 | ||
| Vitold Kreyer, USSR | 53-103/4 | ||
| Shot Put | Bill Nieder, USA | 64- 63/4 | OR |
| Parry O'Brien, USA | 62-81/4 | ||
| Dallas Long, USA | 62-41/4 | ||
| Discus | Al Oerter, USA | 194- 2 | OR |
| Richard Babka, USA | 190-4 | ||
| Dick Cochran, USA | 187-6 | ||
| Hammer | Vasily Rudenkov, USSR | 220- 2 | OR |
| Gyula Zsivotzky, HUN | 215-10 | ||
| Tadeusz Rut, POL | 215-4 | ||
| Javelin | Viktor Tsibulenko, USSR | 277- 8 | |
| Walter Krüger, GER | 260-4 | ||
| Gergely Kulcsar, HUN | 257-9 | ||
| Decathlon | Rafer Johnson, USA | 8392 pts | OR |
| Chuan-Kwang Yang, TPE | 8334 | ||
| Vassily Kusnetsov, USSR | 7809 |
Women
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Wilma Rudolph, USA | 11.0w | |
| Dorothy Hyman, GBR | 11.3 | ||
| Giuseppina Leone, ITA | 11.3 | ||
| 200m | Wilma Rudolph, USA | 24.0 | |
| Jutta Heine, GER | 24.4 | ||
| Dorothy Hyman, GBR | 24.7 | ||
| 800m | Lyudmila Shevtsova, USSR | 2:04.3 | =WR |
| Brenda Jones, AUS | 2:04.4 | ||
| Ursula Donath, GER | 2:05.6 | ||
| 80m H | Irina Press, USSR | 10.8 | |
| Carol Quinton, GBR | 10.9 | ||
| Gisela Birkemeyer-Köhler, GER | 11.0 | ||
| 4x100m | USA (Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph) | 44.5 | |
| Germany | 44.8 | ||
| Poland | 45.0 |
w indicates wind-aided.
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Iolanda Balas, ROM | 6- 03/4 | OR |
| Jaroslawa Jozwiakowska, POL / Dorothy Shirley, GBR | 5-71/4 | ||
| Long Jump | Vyera Krepkina, USSR | 20-103/4 | OR |
| Elzbieta Krzesinska, POL | 20-63/4 | ||
| Hildrun Claus, GER | 20-41/4 | ||
| Shot Put | Tamara Press, USSR | 56-10 | OR |
| Johanna Lüttge, GER | 54-53/4 | ||
| Earlene Brown, USA | 53-103/4 | ||
| Discus | Nina R. Ponomaryeva, USSR | 180- 9 | OR |
| Tamara Press, USSR | 172-6 | ||
| Lia Manoliu, ROM | 171-9 | ||
| Javelin | Elvira Ozolina, USSR | 183- 8 | OR |
| Dana Zátopková, CZE | 176-5 | ||
| Birute Kalediena, USSR | 175-4 |
