1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Australia)

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Australia took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital, Rome, with a delegation of 189 athletes, 160 men and 29 women.

Since 1896 , it was Australia's fourteenth participation in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

Alex Sturrock carried the flag of Australia during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

See also → List of flag bearers of the Australian teams at the Olympic Games

Medals

With eight won gold, eight silver and six bronze medals, the Australian team finished 5th in the medal count .

gold

Surname	sport	competition
Herb Elliott	athletics	1500 meters
Lawrence Morgan	horse riding	Versatility, single
Lawrence Morgan, Neale Lavis and Bill Roycroft	horse riding	Versatility, team
John Devitt	swim	100 meters freestyle
Murray Rose	swim	400 meters freestyle
John Konrads	swim	1500 meters freestyle
David Theile	swim	100 meters back
Dawn Fraser	swim	Women, 100 meters freestyle

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Noel Freeman	athletics	20 kilometers of walking
Brenda Jones	athletics	Women, 800 meters
Neale Lavis	horse riding	Versatility, single
Neville Hayes	swim	200 meter butterfly
Murray Rose	swim	1500 meters freestyle
Terry Gathercole , Geoffrey Shipton , Neville Hayes and David Theile	swim	4 × 100 meter layers
Janice Andrew , Dawn Fraser, Rosemary Lassig and Marilyn Wilson	swim	Women, 4 × 100 meter medley
Alva Colquhoun , Dawn Fraser, Lorraine Crapp and Ilsa Konrads	swim	Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Oliver Taylor	Boxing	Bantamweight
Anthony Madigan	Boxing	Light heavyweight
Dave Power	athletics	10,000 meters
John Konrads	swim	400 meters freestyle
Janice Andrew	swim	Women, 100 meter butterfly
John Devitt, David Dickson , John Konrads and Murray Rose	swim	4 × 200 meter freestyle

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Rocco Gattellari

  Flyweight: 9th place

• Oliver Taylor

  Bantamweight: bronze

• Daniel Males

  Featherweight: 17th place

• Sidney Prior

  Lightweight: 33rd place

• Gerald Freeman

  Light welterweight: 17th place

• John Duguid

  Welterweight: 9th place

• John Bukowski

  Light middleweight: 5th place

• Teifion Davies

  Middleweight: 9th place

• Anthony Madigan

  Light Heavyweight: Bronze

• Ronald Taylor

  Heavyweight: 9th place

fencing

• Brian McCowage

  Foil, singles: Round of 16

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Ivan Lund

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Michael Sichel

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Foil, team: preliminary round

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

• Zoltan Okalyi

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• David McKenzie

  Foil, team: preliminary round

• Richard Stone

  Epee, singles: preliminary round

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Keith Hackshall

  Epee, singles: preliminary round

  Epee, team: preliminary round

  Saber, singles: preliminary round

• John Simpson

  Epee, singles: preliminary round

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• John Douglas Humphreys

  Epee, team: preliminary round

• Kathleen Baxter

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

• Johanna Winter

  Women, foil, singles: preliminary round

Weightlifting

• Alan Oshyer

  Featherweight: ??

• Neville Pery

  Lightweight: ??

• Daryl Cohen

  Middleweight: 17th place

• Donald Bayley

  Medium weight: ??

• Manoel Santos

  Light heavyweight: ??

• Arthur Shannos

  Heavyweight: 9th place

• Cornel Wilczek

  Heavyweight: 11th place

hockey

• Men's team

  6th place

• Squad

  Barry Malcolm

  Desmond Spackman

  Donald Currie

  Eric Pearce

  Errol Bill

  Gordon Pearce

  Graham Wood

  John McBryde

  Julian Pearce

  Kevin Carton

  Louis Hailey

  Mervyn Crossman

  Michael Craig

  Philip Pritchard

  Raymond Evans

Canoeing

• Phillip Coles

  Single kayak, 1000 meters: semi-finals

  Single kayak, 4 × 500 meters: semi-finals

• Dennis Green

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: semi-finals

  Single kayak, 4 × 500 meters: semi-finals

• Barry Stuart

  Two-person kayak, 1000 meters: semi-finals

  Single kayak, 4 × 500 meters: semi-finals

• Allan Livingstone

  Single kayak, 4 × 500 meters: semi-finals

• Adrian Powell

  Canadians, 1000 meters: semi-finals

• Heidi Sager

  Single kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals

  Two-person kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals

• Cynthia Nicholas

  Two-person kayak, 500 meters: semi-finals

athletics

• Dennis Tipping

  100 meters: heats

  200 meters: heats

• Kevan Gosper

  400 meters: semi-finals

• Tony Blue

  800 meters: semi-finals

• Herb Elliott

  1500 meters: gold

• Albie Thomas

  1500 meters: advance

  5000 meters: 11th place

• Merv Lincoln

  1500 meters: advance

• Dave Power

  5000 meters: 5th place

  10,000 meters: bronze

• Allan Lawrence

  5000 meters: advance

  10,000 meters: ??

  Marathon: 54th place

• Ian Sinfield

  Marathon: 43rd place

• John Chittick

  110 meter hurdles: prelims

• Noel Freeman

  20 kilometers of walking: silver

  50 kilometers of walking: ??

• Ronald Crawford

  20 kilometers of walking: 11th place

  50 kilometers of walking: ??

• Chilla Porter

  High jump: 27th place in qualification

• Ian Tomlinson

  Long jump: 33rd place in qualification

  Triple jump: 13th place

• John Baguley

  Long jump: 36th place

  Triple jump: 9th place

• Bevyn Baker

  Long jump: 45th place

• Warwick Selvey

  Shot put: 15th place

  Discus throw: 21st place

• Marlene Mathews-Willard

  Women, 100 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 200 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Patricia Duggan

  Women, 100 meters: quarter-finals

  Women, 100 meters: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Betty Cuthbert

  Women, 100 meters: quarter-finals

• Norma Croker-Fleming

  Women, 200 meters: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

  Women, long jump: 15th place

• Brenda Jones

  Women, 800 meters: silver

• Dixie Willis

  Women, 800 meters: ??

• Norma Thrower

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: semi-finals

  Women, 4 × 100 meters: heats

• Gloria Cooke-Wigney

  Women, 80 meter hurdles: prelims

• Helen Frith

  Women, high jump: 6th place

  Women, long jump: 17th place

• Sylvia Mitchell

  Women, long jump: 23rd place in qualification

• Anna Pazera

  Women, javelin: 6th place

Modern pentathlon

• Neville Sayers

  Singles: 31st place

  Team: 14th place

• Hugh Doherty

  Single 34th place

  Team: 14th place

• Peter Macken

  Singles: 46th place

  Team: 14th place

Cycling

• Frank Brazier

  Road race: 43rd place

  Team time trial, road: 21st place

  4000 meters team pursuit: prelims

• Alan Grindal

  Road race: 67th place

  Team time trial, road: 21st place

• Garry Jones

  Road race: ??

  Team time trial, road: 21st place

  4000 meters team pursuit: prelims

• Robert Whetters

  Road race: ??

  4000 meters team pursuit: prelims

• Warren Scarfe

  Team time trial, road: 21st place

  4000 meters team pursuit: prelims

• Ronald Baensch

  Sprint: 4th place

• Ian Chapman

  1000 meter time trial: 5th place

• Ian Browne

  Tandem: 9th place

• Geoff Smith

  Tandem: 9th place

horse riding

• Lawrence Morgan

  Versatility, Singles: Gold

  Versatility, team: gold

• Neale Lavis

  Versatility, Singles: Silver

  Versatility, team: gold

• Bill Roycroft

  Versatility, singles: 11th place

  Versatility, team: gold

• Brian Crago

  Versatility, single: ??

  Versatility, team: gold

Wrestling

• Donald Cacas

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 22nd place

• Nicholas stamulus

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 17th place

  Lightweight, freestyle: 20th place

• Robert Clark

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: 19th place

  Welterweight, freestyle: 21st place

• Ronald Hunt

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: 15th place

  Middleweight, freestyle: 17th place

• Dieter Groening

  Flyweight, freestyle: 13th place

• Geoffrey Jameson

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 16th place

• Samuel Parker

  Featherweight, freestyle: 24th place

• Patrick Parsons

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 15th place

• Raymond Mitchell

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 13th place

rowing

• Ian Tutty

  Double scull: semifinals

• Kevyn Webb

  Double scull: semifinals

• Terry Davies

  Two without a helmsman: semi-finals

• John Hunt

  Two without a helmsman: semi-finals

• Paul Guest

  Two with a helmsman: semi-finals

• Walter Howell

  Two with a helmsman: semi-finals

• Ian Johnston

  Two with a helmsman: semi-finals

• Peter Gillon

  Four without a helmsman: semi-finals

• Peter Guest

  Four without a helmsman: semi-finals

• James Jelbart

  Four without a helmsman: semi-finals

• Brian Vear

  Four without a helmsman: semi-finals

• Ian Allen

  Four with helmsman: 5th place

• Maxwell Annett

  Four with helmsman: 5th place

• John Hudson

  Four with helmsman: 5th place

• Peter Waddington

  Four with helmsman: 5th place

• Lionel Robberds

  Four with helmsman: 5th place

• Alexander Cunningham

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Berry Durston

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Albert Francis

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Maxwell Gamble

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Geoffrey Hale

  Eighth: semi-finals

• John Ledder

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Roger Ninham

  Eighth: semi-finals

• John Rosser

  Eighth: semi-finals

• Terrence Scook

  Eighth: semi-finals

shoot

• Michael Papps

  Rapid fire pistol: 31st place

• Neville Sayers

  Rapid Fire Pistol: 43rd place

• John Tremelling

  Free target pistol: 21st place

• Rodney Johnson

  Free target pistol: 32nd place

• Donald Cecil Tolhurst

  Free rifle three-position fight: 31st place

  Small caliber three-position fight: 27th place

  Small caliber lying: 38th place

• John Holt

  Free rifle three-position fight: 34th place

• Norman Rule

  Small caliber three-position fight: 45th place

  Small caliber lying: 47th place

swim

• John Devitt

  100 meters freestyle: gold

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• John Henricks

  100 meters freestyle: semi-finals

• Murray Rose

  400 meters freestyle: gold

  1500 meters freestyle: silver

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• John Konrads

  400 meters freestyle: bronze

  1500 meters freestyle: gold

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• David Dickson

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• John Rigby

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• Allan Wood

  4 × 200 meters freestyle: bronze

• David Theile

  100 meters back: gold

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• John Monckton

  100 meters back: 7th place

• Terry Gathercole

  200 meters chest: 6th place

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• William Burton

  200 meters chest: heats

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• Neville Hayes

  200 meter butterfly: silver

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• Kevin Berry

  200 meter butterfly: 6th place

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• Geoff Shipton

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• Julian Carroll

  4 × 100 meter layers: silver

• Dawn Fraser

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: gold

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: 5th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: silver

• Ilsa Konrads

  Women, 100 meters freestyle: semi-finals

  Women, 400 meters freestyle: 4th place

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Lorraine Crapp

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Alva Colquhoun

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Sandra Morgan

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Ruth Everuss

  Women, 4 × 100 meters freestyle: silver

• Marilyn Wilson

  Women, 100 meters back: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: silver

• Gerganiya Beckitt

  Women, 100 meters back: heats

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: silver

• Rosemary Lassig

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: silver

• Janet Hogan

  Women, 200 meters chest: prelims

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: silver

• Janice Andrew

  Women, 100 meters butterfly: bronze

  Women, 4 × 100 meter medley: silver

sailing

• Ronald Jenyns

  Finn-Dinghi: 4th place

• Robert French

  Star: 18th place

• Jack Downey

  Star: 18th place

• Harold Brooke

  Dragons: 11th place

• Alan Cain

  Dragons: 11th place

• John Malcolm Coon

  Dragons: 11th place

• Rolly Tasker

  Flying Dutchman: 18th place

• Ian Palmer

  Flying Dutchman: 18th place

• Jock sturdy skirt

  5.5 mR class: 10th place

• David Bingham

  5.5 mR class: 10th place

• Ernest Wagstaff

  5.5 mR class: 10th place

do gymnastics

• Benjamin de Roo

  Individual all-around: 113th place

  Floor: 104th place

  Horse jump: 116th place

  Bars: 105th place

  Horizontal bar: 110th place

  Rings: 106th place

  Pommel horse: 117th place

• Graham Bond

  Individual all-around: 115th place

  Floor: 118th place

  Horse jump: 125th place

  Bars: 115th place

  Horizontal bar: 65th place

  Rings: 102nd place

  Pommel horse: 118th place

• Kaye breadsell

  Individual all-around: 100th place

  Floor: 89th place

  Horse jump: 117th place

  Uneven bars: 82nd place

  Balance beam: 102nd place

• Val Roberts

  Individual all-around: 111th place

  Floor: 120th place

  Horse jump: 120th place

  Uneven bars: 118th place

  Balance beam: 99th place

Water polo

• Men's team

  13th place

• Squad

  Michael Withers

  Graeme Sherman

  Keith Whitehead

  John O'Brien

  Edward Pierce

  Richard Thornett

  Thomas Hoad

  Allan Charleston

  Keith Wiegard

  Desmond Clark

Diving

• Graham Deuble

  Art jumping, 3-meter board: 16th place

• Kenneth Crotty

  Artistic jumping, 3-meter board: 27th place

• Barry Holmes

  Diving: 27th place

• Susan Knight

  Women, jumping, 3-meter board: 12th place

  Women, diving: 18th place

Web links

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