Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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Soviet Union at the Olympic Games

Flag of the Soviet Union
IOC code   URS
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome
Competitors 284 (234 men, 50 women)[1] in 15 sports
Flag bearer Yury Vlasov
Medals
Rank: 1		 Gold
43		 Silver
29		 Bronze
31		 Total
103
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.

Contents

[edit] Medals

The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 43 gold and 103 total medals.

[edit] Image:Med_1.png Gold

[edit] Image:Med_2.png Silver

  • Larissa 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
  • Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
  • Sofia Muratova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
  • Nikolai Sokolov — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
  • Gusman Kosanov, Leonid Bartenev, Yuri Konovalov, Edvins Ozolin — Athletics, Men's 4x100m 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 1000m
  • 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, Yuri 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 50m Pistol
  • Marat Niyazov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
  • Vladimir Semenov, Anatoli Kartashov, Vladimir Novikov, Pyotr Mshventeradze, 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

[edit] Image:Med_3.png 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
  • Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
  • Semen Rzhischin — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
  • Vasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
  • Birute Kalediene — 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 1km Time Trial
  • Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Leonov — Cycling Track, Men's 2000m Tandem
  • Stanislav Moskvin, Viktor Romanov, Leonid Kolumbet, Arnold Belgardt — Cycling Track, Men's Team Pursuit
  • Ninel Krutova — Diving, Women's 10m 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, Yuri Bachurov, Valentin Morkovkin, Anatoli Tarabrin — Rowing, Men's Four Without Coxswain
  • Aleksandr Zabelin — Shooting, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
  • Vasili Borisov — Shooting, Men's 300m 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

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Boxing

Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)

  • Sergey Sivko → Image:Med_2.png 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

[edit] 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 Flag of the Russian SFSR Russian SFSR 39 31 30 100
2 Flag of the Ukrainian SSR Ukrainian SSR 16 11 6 33
3 Flag of the Byelorussian SSR Byelorussian SSR 4 2 2 8
4 Flag of the Georgian SSR Georgian SSR 2 5 3 10
5 Flag of the Armenian SSR Armenian SSR 1 2 1 4
6 Flag of the Latvian SSR Latvian SSR 0 4 2 6
7 Flag of the Lithuanian SSR Lithuanian SSR 0 2 1 3
8 Flag of the Azerbaijan SSR Azerbaijan SSR 0 2 0 2
Flag of the Estonian SSR Estonian SSR 0 2 0 2
10 Flag of the Moldavian SSR Moldavian SSR 0 1 0 1
Flag of the Turkmen SSR Turkmen SSR 0 1 0 1

[edit] References

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


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