Editing 1960 Summer Olympics (section)

==Highlights==
[[File:Torcia Olimpica Roma 1960.jpg|alt=|thumb|The Olympic Torch of Rome 1960]]
* [[Sweden at the Olympics|Swedish]] [[canoe racing|sprint canoeist]] [[Gert Fredriksson]] won his sixth Olympic title.
* [[Fencing (sport)|Fencer]] [[Aladár Gerevich]] of [[Hungary at the Olympics|Hungary]] won his sixth consecutive gold medal in the team [[sabre]] event.
* The [[Japan at the Olympics|Japanese]] men's gymnastics team won the first of five successive golds (see [[1976 Summer Olympics]]).
* The [[United States men's national basketball team]]—led by promising college players [[Walt Bellamy]], [[Jerry Lucas]], [[Oscar Robertson]] and [[Jerry West]]—captured its fifth straight Olympic gold medal.
* [[Denmark at the Olympics|Danish]] sailor [[Paul Elvstrøm]] won his fourth straight gold medal in the Finn class. Others to emulate his performance in an individual event are [[Al Oerter]], [[Carl Lewis]], [[Michael Phelps]], [[Kaori Icho]], [[Mijaín López]] and, if the [[1906 Summer Olympics|Intercalated (Interspaced) Games of 1906]] are included, [[Ray Ewry]].
* [[United Team of Germany at the Olympics|German]] [[Armin Hary]] won the [[Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metres|100 metres]] in an Olympic record time of 10.2 seconds. American [[Dave Sime]] also ran 10.2 s in the final, but was credited with silver after a controversial video review.
* [[Wilma Rudolph]], a former [[polio]] patient, won three gold medals in sprint events on the track. She was acclaimed as "the fastest woman in the world".
* [[Jeff Farrell]] won two gold medals in swimming.  He underwent an emergency [[appendectomy]] six days before the Olympic Trials.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usms.org/hist/sto/index.php?ID=11&srt= |title=Profiling Jeff Farrell, 1968 ISHOF Honor Swimmer |first=Joseph |last=Coplan |publisher=[[U.S. Masters Swimming|USMS]] |date=July 19, 2000 |access-date=March 23, 2011}}</ref>
[[File:Abebe Bikila sprints away from Rhadi Ben Abdesselam.jpg|thumb|right|[[Abebe Bikila]] of Ethiopia wins the [[Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's marathon|marathon]] barefooted]]
* [[Abebe Bikila]] of [[Ethiopia at the Olympics|Ethiopia]] won the [[marathon (sport)|marathon]] barefooted to become the first [[Africa]]n and Ethiopian Olympic champion.
* 18-year-old Cassius Clay, later known as [[Muhammad Ali]], won boxing's light-heavyweight gold medal. Ramon "Buddy" Carr was his coach.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2016/03/11/Ramon-Buddy-Carr-TPD-officer-coached-gold-medalist-boxer.html |title=Ramon 'Buddy' Carr (1926-2016): TPD officer coached gold-medalist boxer |date=March 11, 2016 |first=Mark |last=Zaborney |newspaper=[[The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)|Toledo Blade]]}}</ref>
* [[Herb Elliott]] of [[Australia at the Olympics|Australia]] won the men's [[1500 meters]] in one of the most dominating performances in Olympic history.
* [[Rafer Johnson]] defeated his rival, fellow [[U.C.L.A.]] Bruin and friend [[C.K. Yang]] in one of the greatest Decathlon events in Olympic history.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympicsvideo/great-olympic-moments/9346841/Rafer-Johnson-beats-Yang-Chuan-kwang-Olympic-decathlon-1960.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120726182940/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/olympicsvideo/great-olympic-moments/9346841/Rafer-Johnson-beats-Yang-Chuan-kwang-Olympic-decathlon-1960.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 26, 2012 |title=Great Olympic Moments: UCLA friends Rafer Johnson and Yang Chuan-kwang make decathlon history in 1960 |first=Jon |last=Henderson |date=June 26, 2012 |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |access-date=June 21, 2018}}</ref>
* [[Lance Larson]] of the United States was [[Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 100 metre freestyle|controversially]] denied a 100 metres freestyle swimming gold, despite showing the best time.
* 16-years-old phenom [[Chris von Saltza]] won four medals in women's swimming, three of them gold.
* [[Constantine II of Greece|The future Constantine II]], last King of [[Greece]] (abdicated and ended hybrid monarchy, 1973) won his country a gold in sailing: dragon class.
* The [[Pakistan]]i Men's [[Field hockey at the Summer Olympics|Field Hockey]] team broke a run of [[India at the Olympics|Indian]] team victories since 1928, defeating India in the final and winning Pakistan's first Olympic gold medal.
* Wrestlers [[Shelby Wilson]], and [[Doug Blubaugh]], who wrestled together growing up, won gold medals in their respective weight classes.

===Lowlights===
* [[Denmark at the Olympics|Danish]] [[cycling|cyclist]] [[Knud Enemark Jensen|Knud Jensen]] collapsed during the 100km team race because of [[heat stroke]] and later died in the hospital. It was suspected that he had been under the influence of [[Roniacol]], a blood circulation stimulant.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wallechinsky |first=David |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/870338894 |title=The complete book of the Winter Olympics : 2014 edition |isbn=978-1-937530-70-9 |oclc=870338894}}</ref> The International Olympic Committee stated on its website that "drugs were implicated, although that was never proven."<ref>[https://olympics.com/ioc/1967-creation-of-the-ioc-medical-commission 1967: Creation of the IOC Medical Commission]</ref> It was the second time (and as of 2024, the most recent) an athlete died in competition at the Olympics, after the death of [[Portugal|Portuguese]] marathon runner [[Francisco Lázaro]] at the [[1912 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Maraniss |first=David |author-link=David Maraniss |title=[[Rome 1960 (book)|Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World]] |publisher=[[Simon & Schuster]] |year=2008 |location=New York City, NY |edition=1st |page=[https://archive.org/details/rome1960olympics00mara/page/138 138] |isbn=978-1-4165-3407-5}}</ref>

===Historical landmarks===
* [[South Africa at the Olympics|South Africa]] appeared in the Olympic arena for the last time under its [[apartheid]] regime. It would not be allowed to return until 1992, by when [[apartheid in sport]] was being abolished.
* [[Singapore at the Olympics|Singapore]] competed for the first time under its own flag, which was to become its national flag after independence, as the British had granted it self-government a year earlier. [[Tan Howe Liang]] won silver in the Weightlifting lightweight category, which was the first time (and the only time until 2008) that an athlete from Singapore won an Olympic medal.

===Non-medal winners===
* [[Finland at the Olympics|Finnish]] [[Vilho Ylönen]], a [[Field shooting|field shooter]], shot a bullseye to a wrong target; in doing so, he dropped from second place to fourth.
* [[Peter Camejo]], a 2004 [[United States|American]] vice-presidential candidate for the [[Green Party (United States)|Green Party]], competed in yachting for [[Venezuela]].
* The future [[Queen Sofía of Spain]] represented her native Greece in sailing events.