1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Canada)

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Canada took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 85 athletes (74 men and 11 women) in 77 competitions in 14 sports. The only medal success was achieved by the rowing eight, he won the silver medal, as he did four years earlier in Melbourne , this time behind the all-German team . The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Carl Schwende .

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Jeffrey Alleyne
• Marcel Bellefeuille
• Gaby Mancini
• Raoul Sarrazin

fencing

Men

• Carl Schwende

Weightlifting

Men

• Dave Baillie
• Mike Lipari
• William Swaluk

canoe

Men

• John Beedell
• Michael Brown
• Joseph Derochie
• Lou Lukanovich
• Alan McCleery
• Donald Stringer

athletics

Men Gordon Dickson Lynn Eves Harry Jerome Doug Kyle Ergas Leps Joe Mullins Alex Oakley Sig Ohlemann George Shepherd George Short George Stulac Terry Tobacco

Women Eleanor Haslam Valerie Jerome Nancy Lewington Sally McCallum

Cycling

Men

• Luigi Bartesaghi
• Alessandro Messina

horse riding

• Jim Elder
• Norman Elder
• Tom Gayford
• Brian Herbinson

Wrestling

Men

• Kurt Boese
• Ray Lougheed
• Robert Steckle

rowing

Men

• • Two without a helmsman

  Reunion

• Keith Donald
• Lorne Loomer

• • Foursome without a helmsman

  Reunion

• Robert Adams
• Clayton Brown
• Chris Leach
• Franklin Zielski

• • Eighth

  silver

• David Anderson
• Don Arnold
• Sohen Biln
• Walter D'Hondt
• Nelson Kuhn
• John Lecky
• Archibald MacKinnon
• William McKerlich
• Glen Mervyn

shoot

• Gilmour Boa
• Godfrey Brunner
• Evald Low
• Gilbert Henderson
• Bill Jones
• Garfield McMahon
• Edson Warner

swim

Men Cam Grout Dick Pound Steve Rabinovitch Bob Wheaton

Women Sara Barber Margaret Iwasaki Judith McHale Mary Beth Stewart

sailing

• Ian Bruce
• William Burgess
• Jerome Conway
• Pierre Desjardins
• Melville Gould
• Barclay Livingstone
• Sandy MacDonald
• Gordon Norton
• Lynn Watters
• William West
• Keith Wilson

do gymnastics

Men Richard Montpetit

Women Louise Parker Ernestine Russell-Carter

Diving

Men Ernie Meissner

Women Irene MacDonald

Web links

• 1960 Canadian Olympic team in Sports-Reference database (archived from original )