| Soviet Union at the Olympic Games | ||||||||
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| At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome | ||||||||
| Competitors | 284 (234 men, 50 women)[1] in 15 sports | |||||||
| Flag bearer | Yury Vlasov | |||||||
| Medals Rank: 1 |
Gold 43 |
Silver 29 |
Bronze 31 |
Total 103 |
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| Olympic history (summary) | ||||||||
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| 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 | ||||||||
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| 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 • 1980 • 1984 • 1988 | ||||||||
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 Unified Team (1992) |
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The Soviet Union (USSR) competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.
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Medalists
The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 43 gold and 103 total medals.
Gold
- Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Parallel Bars
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Pommel Horse
- Albert Azaryan — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
- Sofia Muratova, Larissa Latynina, Polina Astakhova, Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotailova, Lidiya Kalinina-Ivanova, Margarita Nikolaeva — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Team Competition
- Polina Astakhova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
- Margarita Nikolaeva — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
- Pyotr Bolotnikov — Athletics, Men's 10000m
- Vladimir Golubnichy — Athletics, Men's 20km Walk
- Lyudmila Lisenko-Shevtsova — Athletics, Women's 800m
- Irina Press — Athletics, Women's 80m Hurdles
- Nina Romashkova — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
- Vasili Rudenkov — Athletics, Men's Hammer Throw
- Robert Shavlakadze — Athletics, Men's High Jump
- Viktor Tsybulenko — Athletics, Men's Javelin Throw
- Elvīra Ozoliņa — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
- Vera Krepkina — Athletics, Women's Long Jump
- Tamara Press — Athletics, Women's Shot Put
- Oleg Grigoryev — Boxing, Men's Bantamweight
- Leonid Geishtor, Sergei Makarenko — Canoeing, Men's C-2 1000m
- Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, Women's K-1 500m
- Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, Women's K-2 500m
- Viktor Kapitonov — Cycling Road, Men's Individual Road Race
- Sergei Filatov and his horse Absent — Equestrian, Individual Mixed
- Viktor Zhdanovich — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
- Viktor Zhdanovich, Mark Midler, Yuri Rudov, Yuri Sisikin, German Sveshnikov — Fencing, Men's Foil Team
- Valentina Prudskova, Aleksandra Zabelina, Lyudmila Shishova, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Galina Gorokhova, Valentina Rastvorova — Fencing, Women's Foil Team
- Valentin Boreiko, Oleg Golovanov — Rowing, Men's Coxless Pair
- Vyacheslav Ivanov — Rowing, Men's Single Sculls
- Timir Pinegin, Fyodor Shutkov — Sailing, Star Class
- Aleksei Gushchin — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
- Viktor Shamburkin — Shooting, Men's Rifle 3 Positions
- Yuri Vlasov — Weightlifting, Men's Heavyweight
- Yevgeni Minaev — Weightlifting, Men's Featherweight
- Viktor Georgiyevitch Bushuyev — Weightlifting, Men's Lightweight
- Aleksandr Kurynov — Weightlifting, Men's Middleweight
- Arkady Vorobyov — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-Heavyweight
- Ivan Bogdan — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Superheavyweight
- Oleg Karavaev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight
- Avtandil Koridze — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Lightweight
Silver
- Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
- Yuri Titov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Floor Exercise
- Polina Astakhova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
- Sofia Muratova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Rings
- Boris Shakhlin, Yuri Titov, Albert Azaryan, Vladimir Portnoi, Valeri Kerdemilidi, Nikolai Miligulo — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Team Competition
- Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
- Sofia Muratova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
- Nikolai Sokolov — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
- Gusman Kosanov, Leonid Bartenev, Yuri Konovalov, Edvins Ozolin — Athletics, Men's 4x100m relay
- Tamara Press — Athletics, Women's Discus Throw
- Valery Brumel — Athletics, Men's High Jump
- Vladimir Goryaev — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
- Yuri Korneev, Yanis Krumins, Guram Minashvili, Valdis Muizhniek, Tsezar Ozer, Aleksandr Petrov, Mikhail Semyonov, Vladimir Ugrekhelidze, Maigonis Valdmanis, Albert Valtin, Gennadi Volnov, Viktor Zubkov — Basketball, Men's Team Competition
- Sergei Sivko — Boxing, Men's Flyweight
- Yuri Radonyak — Boxing, Men's Welterweight
- Aleksandr Silaev — Canoeing, Men's C-1 1000m
- Yuri Sisikin — Fencing, Men's Foil Individual
- Valentina Rastvorova — Fencing, Women's Foil Individual
- Nikolai Tatarinov, Hanno Selg, Igor Novikov — Modern Pentathlon, Men's Team Competition
- Aleksandr Berkutov, Yuri Tyukalov — Rowing, Men's Double Sculls
- Antanas Bogdanavichus, Zigmas Yukna, Igor Rudakov — Rowing, Men's Pair-Oared Shell with Coxswain
- Aleksandr Chuchelov — Sailing, Men's Finn Class
- Makhmud Umarov — Shooting, Men's 50m Pistol
- Marat Niyazov — Shooting, Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions
- Vladimir Semyonov, Anatoli Kartashov, Vladimir Novikov, Petre Mshvenieradze, Yuri Grigorovsky, Viktor Ageev, Givi Chikvanaya, Leri Gogoladze, Vyacheslav Kurennoi, Boris Goikhmann and Yevgeni Saltsyn — Water Polo, Men's Team Competition
- Trofim Lomakin — Weightlifting, Men's Middle-Heavyweight
- Vladimir Sinyavsky — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Lightweight
- Georgi Skhirtladze — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Middleweight
Bronze
- Sofia Muratova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Balance Beam
- Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotailova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Floor Exercise
- Boris Shakhlin — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Horizontal Bar
- Yuri Titov — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Individual All-Round
- Polina Astakhova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Individual All-Round
- Tamara Lyukhina-Zamotailova — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Uneven Bars
- Vladimir Portnoi — Artistic Gymnastics, Men's Vault
- Larissa Latynina — Artistic Gymnastics, Women's Vault
- Semen Rzhischin — Athletics, Men's 3000m Steeplechase
- Vasili Kuznetsov — Athletics, Men's Decathlon
- Birutė Kalėdienė — Athletics, Women's Javelin Throw
- Igor Ter-Ovanesyan — Athletics, Men's Long Jump
- Vitold Kreer — Athletics, Men's Triple Jump
- Boris Lagutin — Boxing, Men's Light-Middleweight
- Yevgeni Feofanov — Boxing, Men's 71-75 kg
- Viktor Kapitonov, Yevgeni Klevtsov, Yuri Melikhov, Aleksei Petrov — Cycling Road, Men's Team Time Trial
- Rostislav Vargashkin — Cycling Track, Men's 1km Time Trial
- Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Leonov — Cycling Track, Men's 2000m Tandem
- Stanislav Moskvin, Viktor Romanov, Leonid Kolumbet, Arnold Belgardt — Cycling Track, Men's Team Pursuit
- Ninel Krutova — Diving, Women's 10m Platform
- Bruno Khabarov — Fencing, Men's Épée Individual
- Valentin Chernikov, Guram Kostava, Arnold Chernushevich, Bruno Khabarov, Aleksandr Pavlovsky — Fencing, Men's Épée Team
- Igor Akhremchik, Yuri Bachurov, Valentin Morkovkin, Anatoli Tarabrin — Rowing, Men's Four Without Coxswain
- Aleksandr Zabelin — Shooting, Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol
- Vasili Borisov — Shooting, Men's 300m Free Rifle 3 Positions
- Sergei Kalinin — Shooting, Men's Trap
- Savkus Dzarasov — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Heavyweight
- Vladimir Rubashvili — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Featherweight
- Anatoli Albul — Wrestling, Men's Freestyle Light-Heavyweight
- Konstantin Vyrupaev — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Featherweight
- Givi Kartoziya — Wrestling, Men's Greco-Roman Light-Heavyweight
Results by event
Boxing
Men's Flyweight (– 51 kg)
- Sergey Sivko → Silver Medal
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- First Round — Bye
- Second Round — Defeated Chung Shin-Cho (KOR), KO-1
- Third Round — Defeated Antoine Porcel (FRA), DSQ-3
- Quarterfinals — Defeated Manfred Homberg (FRG), 5:0
- Semifinals — Defeated Kiyoshi Tanabe (JPN), 4:1
- Final — Lost to Gyula Török (HUN), 2:3
Medals by republic
In the following table for team events number of team representatives, who received medals are counted, not "one medal for all the team", as usual. Because there were people from different republics in one team.
| Rank | Republic | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 |  Russian SFSR |
39 | 31 | 30 | 100 |
| 2 |  Ukrainian SSR |
16 | 11 | 6 | 33 |
| 3 |  Byelorussian SSR |
4 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 4 |  Georgian SSR |
2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 5 |  Armenian SSR |
1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 6 |  Latvian SSR |
0 | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| 7 |  Lithuanian SSR |
0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 |  Azerbaijan SSR |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
 Estonian SSR |
0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | |
| 10 |  Moldavian SSR |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
 Turkmen SSR |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
References
- ^ "The USSR and Olympism" (PDF). Olympic Review (International Olympic Committee) (84): 530–557. October 1974. http://www.la84foundation.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicReview/1974/ore84/ore84k.pdf. Retrieved 2008-03-28.
- Official Olympic Reports
- International Olympic Committee results database
- Boris Khavin (1979) (in Russian). All about Olympic Games. (2nd ed.). Moscow: Fizkultura i sport. - for medal stats by republic
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