1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Mexico)

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Mexico took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 69 athletes (63 men and 6 women) in 54 competitions in 14 sports.

The diver Juan Botella won the bronze medal of all participating Mexican athletes on the three-meter board. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the fencer Pilar Roldán .

Participants by sport

basketball

• 12th place

  Alberto Almanza

  Armando Herrera

  Carlos Quintanar

  César Herrera

  Eulalio Avila

  Guillermo Torres

  Guillermo Wagner

  Héctor Aizpuro

  Ignacio Chavira

  José María Lozano

  Juan Bluth

  Urbano Zea

Boxing

• Vicente Saldívar

  Featherweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Adalberto Hernández

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Rogelio Reyes

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

fencing

Men

• Raúl Cicero

  Foil: eliminated in the 2nd round

• William Fajardo

  Foil: eliminated in the 1st round

  Saber: eliminated in the 1st round

• Antonio Almada

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Epee team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Benito Ramos

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Saber: eliminated in the 1st round

  Epee team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Angel Roldan

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Epee team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Sergio Escobedo

  Epee team: eliminated in the 1st round

• José Perez

  Epee team: eliminated in the 1st round

Women

• Pilar Roldan

  Foil: 7th place

Weightlifting

• Mauro Alanís

  Featherweight: 15th place

athletics

Men

• Santiago Plaza

  100 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  200 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Jorge Teran

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Alfredo Tinoco

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Roberto Procel

  Long jump: 24th place

• Rodolfo Mijares

  Decathlon: 21st place

Modern pentathlon

• Antonio Almada

  Individual: 17th place

  Team: 8th place

• Sergio Escobedo

  Individual: 22nd place

  Team: 8th place

• José Perez

  Individual: 43rd place

  Team: 8th place

Cycling

• Luis Zárate

  Road race: 61st place

  Team time trial: 24th place

• Jacinto Brito

  Road race: 68th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Mauricio Mata

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Track 1000 m time trial: 15th place

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Filiberto Mercado

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 24th place

• Armando Martínez

  Team time trial: 24th place

• Cenobio Ruiz

  Track sprint: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Luis Muciño

  Track sprint: eliminated in the 3rd round

  Rail tandem: eliminated in the 2nd round

• José Luis Tellez

  Rail tandem: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Javier Taboada

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Miguel Perez

  Track 4000 m team pursuit: eliminated in the 2nd round

Wrestling

• Jorge Rosado

  Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Roberto Vallejo

  Featherweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Mario Tovar

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Juan Flores

  Welterweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

rowing

Men

• Arcadio Padilla

  Two without a helmsman: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Roberto Retolaza

  Two without a helmsman: eliminated in the semi-finals

shoot

• Luis Jiménez

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 19th place

• Hector Elizondo

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 28th place

• Raúl Ibarra

  Free pistol 50 m: 38th place

• Ignacio Mendoza

  Free pistol 50 m: 41st place

• Paulino Díaz

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 45th place

• Ernesto Montemayor junior

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 64th place

swim

Men

• Jorge Escalante

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the semi-finals

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Mauricio Ocampo

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Raúl Guzmán

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Alfredo Guzmán

  1500 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 200 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Alejandro Gaxiola

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Enrique Rabell

  100 m back: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter medley relay: eliminated in the run-up

• Eulalio Rios

  200 m butterfly: eliminated in the semi-finals

Women

• Blanca Barrón

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• María Luisa Souza

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  400 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Eulalia Martínez

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Silvia Belmar

  100 m butterfly: eliminated in the preliminary run

  4 x 100 meter freestyle relay: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Carlos Braniff

  Star: 16th place

• Mauricio de la Lama

  Star: 16th place

do gymnastics

Men

• Armando Valles

  Individual all-around: 118th place

  Floor: 120th place

  Horse jump: 121st place

  Bars: 119th place

  Horizontal bar: 121st place

  Rings: 107th place

  Pommel horse: 92nd place

Diving

Men

• Juan Botella

  3 m jumping: bronze

• Álvaro Gaxiola

  3 m jumping: 4th place

  10 m high diving: 20th place

• Roberto Madrigal

  10 m high diving: 4th place

Women

• Maria Teresa Adames

  3 m jumping: 13th place

Web links

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