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Host City: Roma, Italy
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Roma
Date Started: August 31, 1960
Date Finished: September 1, 1960
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Going into the 1960 Olympics, the sprint favorite for both races was American [Ray Norton], who had won the 100 and 200 at the Olympic Trials, and had an outstanding series of marks throughout the year. The other top American was [Dave Sime], whose best year was 1956, but an injury kept him off the Olympic team. They were joined by Villanovaâs [Frank Budd] and it was expected that the 100 gold medal would remain in American hands. But there was a European threat. Germanyâs [Armin Hary] had won the 1958 European Championships, and was known for his outstanding starts. In June 1960 he became the first man to run 100 metres in 10 seconds flat. That mark was equaled in July by Canadaâs [Harry Jerome]. Jerome did not get thru the Olympic semi-finals, but Hary, Sime, Budd, and Norton did, joined in the final by Britainâs [Peter Radford] and Cubaâs [Enrique Figuerola]. In the final, Hary false started but despite this, he again got off to a superb start. He led throughout the race, but Sime closed quickly, after trailing badly at 50 metres. But he could not quite catch Hary, who won the gold medal with Sime in second, and Peter Radford winning the bronze medal. Ray Norton came in last in the final and the Roma Olympics were not kind to him. He also finished last in the 200 final, and in the 4x100 metre relay, he and Frank Budd passed the baton out of the zone, leading to a USA disqualification.
Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | Medal | |
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1 | Armin Hary | 23 | Germany | GER | Gold | OR |
2 | Dave Sime | 24 | United States | USA | Silver | |
3 | Peter Radford | 20 | Great Britain | GBR | Bronze | |
4 | Enrique Figuerola | 22 | Cuba | CUB | ||
5 | Frank Budd | 21 | United States | USA | ||
6 | Ray Norton | 22 | United States | USA | ||
4 h1 r3/4 | Marian Foik | 26 | Poland | POL | ||
4 h2 r3/4 | David Jones | 20 | Great Britain | GBR | ||
5 h1 r3/4 | Tom Robinson | 22 | Bahamas | BAH | ||
5 h2 r3/4 | Horacio Esteves | 19 | Venezuela | VEN | ||
6 h2 r3/4 | Seraphino Antao | 22 | Kenya | KEN | ||
AC h1 r3/4 | Harry Jerome | 19 | Canada | CAN | ||
4 h1 r2/4 | Jocelyn Delecour | 25 | France | FRA | ||
4 h2 r2/4 | Dennis Johnson | 21 | West Indies Federation | WIF | ||
4 h3 r2/4 | Sam Amukun | 19 | Uganda | UGA | ||
4 h4 r2/4 | Abdou Sèye | 26 | France | FRA | ||
5 h1 r2/4 | Edward Jefferys | 24 | South Africa | RSA | ||
5 h2 r2/4 | Carl Fredrik Bunæs | 20 | Norway | NOR | ||
5 h3 r2/4 | Claude Piquemal | 21 | France | FRA | ||
5 h4 r2/4 | Lloyd Murad | 27 | Venezuela | VEN | ||
6 h1 r2/4 | Edvin Ozolin | 21 | Soviet Union | URS | ||
6 h2 r2/4 | Yury Konovalov | 30 | Soviet Union | URS | ||
6 h3 r2/4 | Gusman Kosanov | 25 | Soviet Union | URS | ||
6 h4 r2/4 | Rafael Romero | 22 | Venezuela | VEN | ||
7 h1 r2/4 | Heinz Müller | 24 | Switzerland | SUI | ||
7 h2 r2/4 | Sitiveni Moceidreke | 23 | Fiji | FIJ | ||
7 h3 r2/4 | Santiago Plaza | 22 | Mexico | MEX | ||
4 h1 r1/4 | Suthi Manyakass | 22 | Thailand | THA | ||
4 h2 r1/4 | Gustav Ntiforo | 27 | Ghana | GHA | ||
4 h3 r1/4 | Lynn Eves | 18 | Canada | CAN | ||
4 h4 r1/4 | Affonso da Silva | 26 | Brazil | BRA | ||
4 h5 r1/4 | George Short | 19 | Canada | CAN | ||
4 h6 r1/4 | Walter Mahlendorf | 25 | Germany | GER | ||
4 h7 r1/4 | Elmar Kunauer | 20 | Austria | AUT | ||
4 h8 r1/4 | Jalal Gozal | 24 | Indonesia | INA | ||
4 h9 r1/4 | Hilmar Ãorbjörnsson | 25 | Iceland | ISL | ||
5 h1 r1/4 | Mikhail Bachvarov | 24 | Bulgaria | BUL | ||
5 h2 r1/4 | Isaac Gómez | 26 | Philippines | PHI | ||
5 h3 r1/4 | Aggrey Awori | 21 | Uganda | UGA | ||
5 h4 r1/4 | Bouchaib El-Maachi | Morocco | MAR | |||
5 h5 r1/4 | Emmanuel Putu | 21 | Liberia | LBR | ||
5 h6 r1/4 | Romain Poté | 24 | Belgium | BEL | ||
5 h7 r1/4 | Huang Suh-Chuang | 25 | Chinese Taipei | TPE | ||
5 h8 r1/4 | Manfred Germar | 25 | Germany | GER | ||
5 h9 r1/4 | Nikolaos Georgopoulos | 23 | Greece | GRE | ||
6 h1 r1/4 | Amos Grodzinowsky | 20 | Israel | ISR | ||
6 h2 r1/4 | Dennis Tipping | 20 | Australia | AUS | ||
6 h3 r1/4 | Paddy Lowry | 23 | Ireland | IRL | ||
6 h4 r1/4 | Shahrudin Mohamed Ali | 19 | Malaya | MAL | ||
6 h5 r1/4 | Kim Jong-Cheol | 24 | South Korea | KOR | ||
6 h6 r1/4 | Aydin Onur | 25 | Turkey | TUR | ||
6 h7 r1/4 | Khudhir Zalata | 21 | Iraq | IRQ | ||
6 h8 r1/4 | Hamdan El-Tayeb | 26 | Sudan | SUD | ||
6 h9 r1/4 | Moustafa Abdel Kader | United Arab Republic | UAR | |||
7 h1 r1/4 | Raj Joshi Tilak | 23 | India | IND | ||
7 h2 r1/4 | Abdul Khaliq | 27 | Pakistan | PAK | ||
7 h3 r1/4 | Roba Negousse | 23 | Ethiopia | ETH | ||
7 h6 r1/4 | Abdul Hadi Shekaib | 20 | Afghanistan | AFG | ||
7 h8 r1/4 | José Albarrán | 25 | Spain | ESP | ||
7 h9 r1/4 | James Roberts | 23 | Liberia | LBR | ||
AC h7 r1/4 | Iftikhar Shah | 20 | Pakistan | PAK |