Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Soviet Union at the
1960 Summer Olympics
Soviet Union at the; 1960 Summer Olympics
	Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code	URS
NOC	Soviet Olympic Committee
in Rome, Italy; 25 August 1960 – 11 September 1960
Competitors	283 (233 men, 50 women) in 17 sports
Flag bearer	Yury Vlasov
Medals; Ranked 1st	Gold 43 Silver 29 Bronze 31 Total 103
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
	1952; 1956; 1960; 1964; 1968; 1972; 1976; 1980; 1984; 1988;
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); Individual Neutral Athletes (2024)

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

Basketball

Boxing

Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)

Sergey Sivko → 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

Cycling

13 male cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1960.

Individual road race

Team time trial

Sprint

1000 m time trial

Rostislav Vargashkin

Tandem

Team pursuit

Diving

Equestrian

Fencing

Gymnastics

Modern pentathlon

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

The Soviet Union had 25 male rowers participate in seven rowing events in 1960.^[3]

Men's single sculls – 1st place ( Gold medal)

Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванов)

Men's double sculls – 2nd place ( Silver medal)

Aleksandr Berkutov (Александр Беркутов)
Yuriy Tyukalov (Юрий Тюкалов)

Men's coxless pair – 1st place ( Gold medal)

Valentin Boreyko (Валентин Борейко)
Oleg Golovanov (Олег Голованов)

Men's coxed pair – 2nd place ( Silver medal)

Antanas Bagdonavičius (Antanas Bagdonavichyus, Антанас Багдонавичюс)
Zigmas Jukna (Zigmas Yukna, Зигмас Юкна)
Igor Rudakov (Игорь Рудаков)

Men's coxless four – 3rd place ( Bronze medal)

Igor Akhremchik (Игорь Ахремчик)
Yury Bachurov (Юрий Бачуров)
Valentin Morkovkin (Валентин Морковкин)
Anatoly Tarabrin (Анатолий Тарабрин)

Men's coxed four – 4th place

Oleg Aleksandrov (Олег Александров)
Igor Khokhlov (Игорь Хохлов)
Boris Fyodorov (Борис Фёдоров)
Valentin Zanin (Валентин Занин)
Igor Rudakov (Игорь Рудаков)

Men's eight

Mikhail Balenkov (Михаил Баленков)
Viktor Barinov (Виктор Баринов)
Viktor Bogachev (Виктор Богачев)
Voldemar Dundur (Вольдемар Дундур)
Nikolay Gomolko (Николай Гомолко)
Boris Gorokhov (Борис Горохов)
Leonid Ivanov (Леонид Иванов)
Vladimir Malik (Владимир Малик)
Yury Lorentsson (Юрий Лоренцсон)

Sailing

Shooting

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

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

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.


Rank	Republic	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russian SFSR	39	31	30	100
2	Ukrainian SSR	16	11	6	33
3	Byelorussian SSR	4	2	2	8
4	Georgian SSR	2	5	3	10
5	Armenian SSR	1	2	1	4
6	Latvian SSR	0	4	2	6
7	Lithuanian SSR	0	2	1	3
8	Azerbaijan SSR	0	2	0	2
8	Estonian SSR	0	2	0	2
10	Moldavian SSR	0	1	0	1
10	Turkmen SSR	0	1	0	1
Totals (11 entries)		62	63	45	170

References

^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2008.
^ 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.
^ 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.

External links

Official Olympic Reports
International Olympic Committee results database
Boris Khavin (1979). All about Olympic Games (in Russian) (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. – for medal stats by republic

[1] "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (84). International Olympic Committee: 530–557. October 1974. Retrieved 28 March 2008.

[sports-reference-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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