Swimming at the 1960 Roma Summer Games:

At Melbourne in 1956 Australians [David Thiele] and John Monckton had gone 1-2. They had also set the last two world records coming into Rome, with Monckton holding the current mark of 1:01.5. Thiele had taken off 1957-58 while he was in medical school, but he recovered well from that lack of training. In the Rome final he won somewhat comfortably, with two Americans, Frank McKinney and [Robert Bennett], placing second and third respectively. Monckton was even with Thiele on the outward lap, but misjudged the wall and hit his head, eventually placing seventh.