1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Belgium)

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Belgium took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 101 athletes (93 men and eight women) in 64 competitions in sixteen sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the sailor André Nelis .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Yvon Becaus
• Jo Horny
• Émile Saerens
• Willy Venneman

fencing

Men Roger Eighth Gustave Ballister Jacques Debeur François Dehez Franck Delhem Pierre Francisse François Heywaert Roger Petit José Van Baelen René Van Den Driessche Marcel Van Der Auwera André Verhalle

Women Jacqueline Appart Marie Melchers Claudine Wallet

Weightlifting

• Willy Claes
• Clement Haeyen

hockey

• 11th place

• Yves Bernaert
• André Carbonnelle
• Eddy Carbonnelle
• Guy Debbaudt
• Pierre Delbecque
• Jean Dubois
• Roger Goossens
• Guy Huyghens
• Franz Lorette
• Robert Lycke
• Jean-Pierre Marionex
• André Muschs
• Michel Muschs
• Jacques Rémy
• Freddy Rens
• Jean-Louis Roersch
• Jacques Vanderstappen

canoe

• Robert De Waele
• Yvan Decock
• Germain Van De Moere
• Rik Verbrugghe

athletics

• Eugène Allonsius
• Jean-Pierre Barra
• Lodewijk De Clerck
• Jos Lambrechts
• Marcel Lambrechts
• Hedwig Leenaert
• Léopold Marien
• Roger Moens

  Silver 800 m

• Romain Poté
• Gaston Roelants
• Raymond Van Dijck
• Aurèle Vandendriessche

Modern pentathlon

• Arsène Pint

Cycling

• Benoni Beheyt
• Yvan Covent
• Romain De Loof
• Gilbert De Rieck
• Joseph Geurts
• Barthelemy Gillard
• Jean Govaerts
• Robert Lelangue
• Frans Melckebeke
• Willy Monty
• Charles Rabaey
• Leo Sterckx

  Silver sprint

• Willy Vanden Berghen

  Bronze road race

horse riding

• Georges Hernalsteens
• Brigitte Schockaert

Wrestling

• Jef Mewis
• Maurice Mewis
• Albert Michiels
• Karel Oomen
• Aimé Verhoeven

rowing

• Roland Bollenberg
• Gérard Higny
• Jean-Marie Lemaire
• Edgard Luca
• Étienne Pollet

shoot

• François Lafortune junior
• François Lafortune senior
• Marcel Lafortune

swim

Men Gilbert Desmit Herman shoring

Women Anne Van Parijs

sailing

• Jacques De Brouwere
• André Maes
• André Nelis

  Bronze Finn Dinghy

do gymnastics

Men Léopold Desmet René Marteaux

Women Godelieve Brys Veronica Grymonprez Rita Van De Velde

Water polo

• Preliminary round

• Jacques Caufrier
• Bruno De Hesselle
• Karel De Vis
• Roger De Wilde
• Nicolas Dumont
• Léon Pickers
• Jozef Smits

Web links

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