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2 unusual facts about 1960 Summer Olympics


Adalbert Gurath

Adalbert Gurath, Jr. (born 1942), son of above, who fenced for Romania at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Eckart Wagner

Eckart Johannes Wagner (born 4 July 1938 in Kiel) is a German former sailor who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics, in the 1964 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.


Adolfína Tkačíková-Tačová

Adolfína Tkačíková-Tačová (born 19 April 1939 in Petřkovice) is a Czech former gymnast who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Ali: An American Hero

Cassius Clay (David Ramsey), winner of the gold medal for boxing in the light heavyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics, rises in the professional ranks and defeats heavyweight boxing champion Sonny Liston in a stunning upset to capture the title in 1964.

Arthur Cusack

Arthur Cusack was the coach of Olympic Gold medal winner David Theile, who won gold in the 100m backstroke in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics and the 1960 Rome Olympics.

Bernd Cullmann

Bernd Cullmann (born 11 October 1939) is a former West German athlete, winner of gold medal in 4×100 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Bo Roberson

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy he won the silver medal in the long jump, a centimeter short of the Olympic record 8.12 m gold medal jump by Ralph Boston.

Canoeing at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Women's K-2 500 metres

This event debutted at these Olympics though it is one of two events that has been at every ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships (The other is the men's K-4 1000 m event which debuted at the 1964 Games in Tokyo.).

Douglas Blubaugh

He competed at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, where he received a gold medal in freestyle welterweight, defeating the five-time world champion, the legendary Iranian Wrestler Emam-Ali Habibi.

Fran Welch

In 1960, Welch was selected to coach field event participants of the United States Women's Track and Field Team for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

Fu Mingxia

In doing so, she equalled the achievements of Germany's Ingrid Krämer in the 1960 Rome Olympics, becoming only the fourth female to capture both titles.

George Oywello

Born in Gulu, Uganda, Oywello competed for Uganda in both the 1960 Olympics in Rome and the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo.

Gordon Pearce

Gordon Charles Pearce (born 10 January 1934 in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India) is a field hockey player who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics for Australia.

Graham Sykes

Graham Sykes (20 July 1937 – 26 November 2008) was a British swimmer who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Karl-August Stolze

Karl-August Stolze (born 28 August 1920) is a German former sailor who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Minerva Bath Rowing Club

Minerva also counts among its active members Olympians Arnold Cooke who competed at Tokyo 1964 and Klaus Riekemann who competed at Rome 1960.

Olli Mäki

A year later Finnish Olympic Committee did not sent him to 1960 Summer Olympics since Mäki was a member of the leftist Finnish Workers' Sports Federation.

Paul Hait

Hait won a gold medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics, where he swam in the preliminaries (with Steve Clark, Bob Bennett and Dave Gillanders) and in the final (with Frank McKinney, Lance Larson and Jeff Farrell), breaking the 4×100 m world record in both cases.

Robert Mulka

In 1960, an attorney from the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor's office was reading the newspaper, which reported the success of a certain Rolf Mulka, a bronze-medal-winning yachtsman, at the Rome Olympics.

Simion Ismailciuc

Deserted by Alexe (who had decided to quit sports and return to his previous job), Ismailciuc tried his luck in the C-1 1000 m event for the 1960 Summer Olympics, he was already credited with better results than reigning Olympic champion Leon Rotman.

Sydney University Boat Club

Boat club members (and club alumni rowing at other Sydney clubs) represented at Olympic level at Helsinki 1952, Rome 1960, Mexico City 1968 and Montreal 1976 (see below).

Via Cristoforo Colombo

For the 1960 Summer Olympics, the road played host to both the cycling team time trial and the marathon events.

Via di Grottarossa

The road was part of the individual road race cycling event for the 1960 Summer Olympics.


see also

Poul Petersen

Poul Pedersen, Danish footballer who won a silver medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics