1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Great Britain)

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Great Britain took part in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome with a delegation of 253 athletes (206 men and 47 women) in 130 competitions in 17 sports. The nation was most successful in athletics, where eight medals were won, including gold for the walker Don Thompson . Three medals were won in swimming, Anita Lonsbrough was the winner in the 200 meter chest. Four athletes could each win two medals, but no gold. Three medals (all bronze) were also won in boxing, including Richard McTaggart , whowas allowed to wearthe Union Jack at the opening ceremony.

Participants by sport

Boxing

Men

• Roy Addison
• Willie Fisher

  Bronze light middleweight

• Bobby Kelsey
• Danny Lee
• Jim Lloyd

  Bronze welterweight

• Phil Lundgren
• Richard McTaggart

  Bronze lightweight

• Johnny Ould
• Frankie Taylor
• Dave Thomas

fencing

Men Michael Alexander Silver epee team Michael Amberg Ralph Cooperman Raymond Harrison Silver epee team Bill Hoskyns Silver epee team Michael Howard Silver epee team Allan Jay Silver sword single Silver epee team Sandy Leckie Angus McKenzie René Paul John Pelling Silver epee team Michael Strauss Donald Stringer

Women Jeannette Bailey Mary Glen-Haig Shirley Netherway Gillian Sheen Margaret Stafford

Soccer

Men

• Group stage

• Hugh Barr
• Laurence Brown
• Leslie Brown
• Bobby Brown
• Arnold Coates
• John Devine
• Hugh Forde
• Michael Greenwood
• Patrick Hasty
• David Holt
• Terry Howard
• Jim Lewis
• Hugh Lindsay
• Ronald McKinven
• William Neil
• Michael Pinner
• Roy Sleap
• Tommy Thompson
• John Wakefield

Weightlifting

Men

• Sylvanus Blackman
• Blair Blenman
• Phil Caira
• Ben Helfgott
• Dennis Hillman
• Louis Martin

  Medium heavyweight bronze

• Allan Robinson

hockey

Men

• 4th Place

• Patrick Austen
• John Bell
• Harry Cahill
• Denys Carnill
• Peter Croft
• Howard Davis
• John Hindle
• Charles Jones
• Neil Livingstone
• Stuart Mayes
• Derek Miller
• John Neill
• Chris Saunders-Griffiths
• Frederick Scott
• Ian Taylor

canoe

Men Raymond look Edward Cronk John Harris Robert Lowery Basil Pratt Ronald Rhodes

Women Marianne Tucker

athletics

Men Fred Alsop Bob Birrell Max Boyes Robbie Brightwell Dave Chapman Mike Ellis Crawford Fairbrother Tom Farrell Chris Goudge Eric Hall Brian Hewson Peter Hildreth John Howell Martin Hyman Barry Jackson Albert Johnson David Jones Bronze 4 x 100 m Arthur Keily Brian Kent-Smith Brian Kilby Mike Lindsay Martyn Lucking Ken Matthews Vic Matthews John Merriman John Metcalf Gordon Miller Tom Misson Denis O'Gorman Michael Palmer Gordon Pirie Peter Radford Bronze 100 m Bronze 4 x 100 m Laurie Reed Arthur Rowe Frank Salvat David Segal Bronze 4 x 100 m Eric Shirley Don Thompson Gold 50 km walk Bruce Tulloh Stan Vickers Bronze 20 km walk John Wenk Nick Whitehead Bronze 4 x 100 m Mike Wiggs John Wrighton Malcolm Yardley

Women Mary Bignal Edge Diane Charles Suzanne Allday Jean Hiscock Dorothy Hyman Silver 100 m Bronze 200 m Elizabeth Jenner Joy Jordan Phyllis Perkins Christina Persighetti Sue Platt Pat Pryce Carole Quinton Silver 80 m hurdles Dorothy Shirley Silver high jump Frances Slaap Jenny Smart Averil Williams

Modern pentathlon

Men

• Donald Cobley
• Patrick Harvey
• Peter Little

Cycling

Men

• Karl Barton
• Lloyd Binch
• Bill Bradley
• Mike Gambrill
• David Handley
• Jim Hinds
• Barry Hoban
• Bill Holmes
• Ken Laidlaw
• Joseph McClean
• Charlie McCoy
• Eric Thompson

horse riding

• Norman Arthur
• C. David Barker
• David Broome

  Bronze individual jumping

• Michael Bullen
• Johanna Hall
• Bertie Hill
• Pat Smythe
• Frank Weldon
• Lilian Williams
• Dawn Wofford

Wrestling

Men

• Peter Amey
• Bert Aspen
• Alan Butts
• Walter Pilling
• Ken Richmond
• Kenny Stephenson

rowing

Men

• Richard Bate
• Michael Beresford
• Nicholas Birkmyre
• John Chester
• Graham Cooper
• Simon Crosse
• Chris Davidge
• Michael Davis
• Ian Elliott
• Stewart Farquharson
• Richard Fishlock
• George Justicz
• Richard Knight
• Ken Lester
• Alexander Lindsay
• Clive Marshall
• Richard Nicholson
• Colin Porter
• Sidney Rand
• Jeffrey Reeves
• Peter Reynolds
• Terrence Rosslyn-Smith
• John M. Russell
• Donald Shaw
• John Tilbury
• John Vigurs

shoot

• Tony Clark
• Steffen Cranmer
• Frank Dobson
• William Godwin
• Robert Hassell
• Victor Huthart
• Derek Robinson
• Arthur Skinner
• John Tomlinson
• Joe Wheater

swim

Men Ian Black Ian Blyth Richard Campion Stanley Clarke John Martin-Dye Hamilton Milton William O'Donnell Haydn Rigby Gerard Rowlinson Bob Sreenan Graham Sykes Christopher Walkden

Women Christine Gosden Christine Harris Sylvia Lewis Anita Lonsbrough Gold 200 m chest Beryl Noakes Jean Oldroyd Nan Rae Judy Samuel Natalie Steward Bronze 100 m freestyle Silver 100 m back Sheila Watt Diana Wilkinson

sailing

• Robin Aisher
• Slotty Dawes
• Ian Hannay
• Jonathan Janson
• Graham Mann
• Jean Mitchell
• Roy Mitchell
• George Nicholson
• James Ramus
• John Ruggles
• Vernon Stratton

do gymnastics

Men Ken Buffin Dick Gradley John Mulhall Jack Pancott Peter Starling Nik Stuart

Women Gwynedd Lewis-Lingard Pat Perks Jill Pollard Marjorie Raistrick-Carter Dorothy Summers Margaret Thomas-Neale

Diving

Men John Candler Keith Collin Brian Phelps Bronze diving Peter Squires

Women Elizabeth Ferris Bronze jumping Ann Long Norma Thomas

Web links

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