1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Burma)

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Burma took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital Rome with a delegation of ten male athletes in nine competitions in five sports.

The youngest athlete was the boxer Than Tun (19 years and 109 days), the oldest athlete was the sailor Gyi Khin Pe (44 years and 52 days). It was the fourth Summer Olympics for the country.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Hla Nyunt
  • Flyweight

  Ninth place

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: points victory against Börje Karvonen from Finland (298: 288 - 58:59, 60:57, 60:57, 60:58, 60:57)

  Round three: loss to Humberto Barrera from the United States of America on points (293: 296 - 58:59, 60:58, 57:60, 60:59, 58:60)

• Than Do
  • Featherweight

  Rank 17

  Round one: loss to William Meyers from South Africa on points (281: 299 - 54:60, 57:60, 57:60, 57:59, 56:60)

• Thein Myint
  • Bantamweight

  Fifth place

  Round one: BYE

  Round two: points victory against Charles Reiff from Luxembourg (300: 278 - 60:55, 60:56, 60:55, 60:56, 60:56)

  Round three: Victory against Muhammad Nasir from Pakistan on points (297: 288 - 60:58, 60:55, 58:58, 60:59, 59:58)

Weightlifting

• Nile Tun Maung
  • lightweight

  Final: competition not finished (DNF)

  Military press: 117.5 kg, second place

  Tear: not a valid attempt

  Push: not started

• Do Maung Kywe
  • Featherweight

  Final: 327.5 kg, seventh place

  Military press: 100.0 kg, seventh place

  Tear: 100.0 kg, seventh place

  Push: 127.5 kg, tenth place

athletics

• Myitung Naw
  • marathon

  Final: 2: 28: 17.0 hours, rank 27

swim

• Tin Maung Ni
  • 1,500 meters freestyle

  Round one: eliminated in round two (fifth place), 19: 09.8 minutes

sailing

Flying Dutchman

• Results

  Final: 985 points, rank 29

  Race one: 161 points, 2:45:53 hours, 27th place

  Race two: 161 points, 2:46:05 hours, 27th place

  Race three: 145 points, 2:25:23 hours, 28th place

  Race four: 161 points, 2:59:11 hours, 27th place

  Race five: 212 points, 2:24:02 hours, 24th place

  Race six: Race not started

  Race seven: 145 points, 2:27:04 hours, 28th place

• team

  Chow Park Wing

  Gyi Khin Pe

singles

• Lwin U Maung Maung
  • Finn dinghy

  Final: 1,456 points, rank 30

  Race one: 214 points, 1:54:34 hours, 27th place

  Race two: 283 points, 2:09:43 hours, 23rd place

  Race three: 168 points, 1:53:49 hours, 30th place

  Race four: 114 points, 2:23:42 hours, 34th place

  Race five: 154 points, 1:59:54 hours, 31st place

  Race six: 168 points, 2:05:10 hours, 30th place

  Race seven: 469 points, 1:54:17 hours, 15th place

Web links

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