1960 Summer Olympics / Participants (Ceylon)

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Ceylon took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital, Rome, with a delegation of five male athletes in five competitions in four sports.

The youngest athlete was the cyclist Maurice Coomarawel (20 years and 137 days), the oldest athlete was the track and field athlete Linus Diaz (26 years and 353 days). It was the fourth Summer Olympics for the country.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Weerakoon Dharmasiri
  • Welterweight

  Rank 17

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: loss to John Desmond Duguid from Australia on points (278: 299 - 56:60, 55:60, 57:59, 55:60, 55:60)

• Mohandas Liyanage Sumith
  • Featherweight

  Rank 17

  Round one: loss to Jerzy Adamski from Poland on points (281: 300 - 56:60, 55:60, 56:60, 57:60, 57:60)

athletics

• Linus Diaz
  • marathon

  Final: 2:32: 12.0 hours, 39th place

Cycling

Street

• Maurice Coomarawel
  • Road race (175.3 km)

  Final: competition not finished (DNF)

swim

• Tony Williams
  • 200 meters chest

  Round one: eliminated in run three (sixth place), 2: 59.8 minutes

Web links

• Ceylon Olympic team 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )