1960 Summer Olympics / Participants (Ethiopia)

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Ethiopia took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital, Rome, with a delegation of ten male athletes in eight competitions in two sports.

After 1956 it was Ethiopia's second participation in the Summer Olympics .

The youngest athlete was the athlete Moussa Said at 21 years and 334 days , the oldest athlete was the marathon runner Abebe Wakgira (38 years and 325 days).

Medals

With a gold medal won, the Ethiopian team finished 21st in the medal table .

gold

Abebe Bikila

athletics

marathon

Participants by sport

athletics

• Abebe Bikila
  • marathon

  Final: 2:15: 16.2 hours, world annual best, first place

• Gebru Merawi
  • 5,000 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (eighth place), 14: 40.8 minutes (hand-stopped), 14: 41.22 minutes (stopped automatically)

  • 10,000 meter run

  Final: competition not finished (DNF)

• Roba Negousse
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run three (seventh place), 11.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.47 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Moussa Said
  • 400 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run nine (fifth place), 48.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 48.30 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 800 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run two (sixth place), 1: 50.3 minutes (hand-stopped), 1: 50.49 minutes (automatically stopped)

• Abebe Wakgira
  • marathon

  Final: 2: 21: 09.4 hours, seventh place

Cycling

Road
team time trial (100 km)

• Results

  Final: 2: 38: 34.08 hours, 28th place

• team

  Megra Admassou

  Kouflu Alazar

  Guremu Demboba

  Amousse Tessema

singles

• Megra Admassou
  • Road race (175.3 km)

  Final: race not finished (DNF)

• Kouflu Alazar
  • Road race (175.3 km)

  Final: race not finished (DNF)

• Guremu Demboba
  • Road race (175.3 km)

  Final: race not finished (DNF)

• Amousse Tessema
  • Road race (175.3 km)

  Final: race not finished (DNF)

Web links

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