1960 Summer Olympics / Modern Pentathlon

Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Rome
Competition venue	see schedule
Nations	23
Athletes	60 (60 )
date	26.-31. August 1960
decisions	2
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At the XVII. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome , two modern pentathlon competitions were held.

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Hungary	2	1	-	3
2	Soviet Union	-	1	-	1
3	United States	-	-	2	2

Time schedule

date	sport	Competition venue
26th of August	Cross-country ride	Passo Corese, Fara in Sabina
August 27	Epee fencing	Palazzo dei Congressi
29th August	Pistol shooting	Poligono di Tiro Umberto I
August 30th	300 m freestyle swimming	Stadio Olimpico del Nuoto
August 31	4000 m cross-country run	Circolo del Golf di Roma Acquasanta

Results

singles

space	country	athlete	Points
1	HUN	Ferenc Németh	5024
2	HUN	Imre Nagy	4988
3	United States	Robert Beck	4981
4th	HUN	András Balczó	4973
5	URS	Igor Novikov	4962
6th	URS	Nikolai Tatarinov	4758
7th	POLE	Stanislaw Przybylski	4731
8th	United States	Jack Daniels	4717
9	FIN	Kurt Lindeman	4713
10	URS	Hanno Selg	4688
19th	SUI	Erhard Minder	4527
25th	AUT	Peter Lichtner-Hoyer	4343
28	EUA	Wolfgang Gödicke	4262
33	SUI	Werner Vetterli	4108
37	AUT	Udo Birnbaum	4005
39	AUT	Frank Battig	3905
48	EUA	Dietrich Krickow	3780
49	SUI	Rolf Weber	3747
55	EUA	Ralf Berckhan	3061

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
60 participants from 23 countries, 58 of them in the ranking

team

space	country	athlete	Points
1	HUN	András Balczó , Imre Nagy , Ferenc Németh	14,863
2	URS	Igor Novikov , Hanno Selg , Nikolai Tatarinow	14.309
3	United States	Robert Beck , Jack Daniels , George Lambert	14,192
4th	FIN	Berndt Katter , Kurt Lindeman , Eero Lohi	13,865
5	POLE	Kazimierz Mazur , Kazimierz Paszkiewicz , Stanisław Przybylski	13,746
6th	SWE	Sture Ericson , Per-Erik Ritzén , Björn Thofelt	13,216
7th	GBR	Donald Cobley , Patrick Harvey , Peter Little	13,103
8th	MEX	Antonio Almada , Sergio Escobedo , José Pérez	12,845
9	ITA	Adriano Facchini , Giulio Giunta , Gaetano Scala	12,401
10	ARG	Raúl Bauza , Luis Ribera , Carlos Stricker	12,394
11	SUI	Erhard Minder , Werner Vetterli , Rolf Weber	12,201
12	AUT	Frank Battig , Udo Birnbaum , Peter Lichtner-Hoyer	12,106
13	BRA	Justo Botelho , Wenceslau Malta , José Wilson	11,937
14th	OUT	Hugh Doherty , Peter Macken , Neville Sayers	11,912
15th	FRA	Christian Beauvalet , André Bernard , Étienne Jalenques	10,963
16	EUA	Ralf Berckhan , Wolfgang Gödicke , Dieter Krickow	10,940
17th	TO DO	Habib Ben Azzabi , Lakdar Bouzid , Ahmed Ennachi	05.126

Date: August 26th to 31st, 1960
51 participants from 17 countries, all teams in the ranking

Points and placements in the team ranking were determined by adding up the individual results.

Web links

• Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1960 Summer Games (PDF, 11.9 MB)