1960 Rome Olympic Games | |
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Official logo | |
City |
Rome, Italy |
Venue |
Baths of Caracalla |
Team Gold Medalist |
USSR |
All-Around Gold Medalist |
Larisa Latynina (USSR) |
Vault Gold Medalist |
Margarita Nikolaeva (USSR) |
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist |
Polina Astakhova (USSR) |
Balance Beam Gold Medalist |
Eva Bosáková (TCH) |
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist |
Larisa Latynina (USSR) |
Preceded by |
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Succeeded by |
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had been awarded the organization of the 1908 Summer Olympics, but after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, was forced to decline and pass the honors to London.
Rome had previously hosted the World Championships in 1954.
Format of Competition[]
The scoring in the team competition and in the all-around was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics (there was no team, portable apparatus event, however). But apart from two performances:a compulsory and an optional, which counted for both the team competition and the all-around, a gymnast, who competed in an apparatus final should show one's skills once more on the respective apparatus.
Each team member performed compulsory and optional routines on each of four apparatus. Gymnast's scores in these performances counted for all of the events, except the separate team exercise with portable apparatus event (also known as group exercise with hand apparatus event), which was a group rhythmic exercises similar to the group competition event in rhythmic gymnastics. Scores of gymnasts from incomplete teams counted only for individual events.
The scoring in the team competition was different from the one at the previous Olympics: five best scores constituted the team's score for the routine; these scores constituted the overall team's totals.
Results[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team | USSR
Polina Astakhova |
File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Czechoslovakia
Eva Bosáková |
Romania
Atanasia Ionescu |
All-Around | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Sofia Muratova Soviet Union (USSR) |
Polina Astakhova Soviet Union (USSR) |
Vault | Margarita Nikolaeva Soviet Union (USSR) |
Sofia Muratova Soviet Union (USSR) |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Uneven Bars | Polina Astakhova Soviet Union (USSR) |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Balance Beam | File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Eva Bosáková Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Sofia Muratova Soviet Union (USSR) |
Floor Exercise | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Polina Astakhova Soviet Union (USSR) |
Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union (USSR) |
Medal Count[]
Rank | Country | Total | |||
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1 | USSR | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
2 | File:800px-Flag of the Czech Republic.png Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
3 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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