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XVII Olympic Game, Rome 1960
Men, Field
High Jump
1
Robert Shavlakadze
URS
2.16
OR
2
Valeriy Brumel
URS
2.16
OR
3
John Thomas
USA
2.14
4
Viktor Bolshov
URS
2.14
5
Stig Pettersson
SWE
2.09
6
Charles Dumas
USA
2.03
7
Kjell-Ĺke Nilsson
SWE
2.03
8
Theo Püll
FRG
2.03
Pole Vault
1
Donald Bragg
USA
4.70
OR
2
Ron Morris
USA
4.60
3
Eeles Landström
FIN
4.55
4
Rolando Cruz
PUR
4.55
5
Günther Malcher
GDR
4.50
6
Igor Petrenko
URS
4.50
6
Matti Sutinen
FIN
4.50
8
Rudolf Tomasek
TCH
4.50
Long Jump
1
Ralph Boston
USA
8.12
OR
2
Irvin Roberson
USA
8.11
3
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan
URS
8.04
4
Manfred Steinbach
FRG
8.00
5
Jorma Valkama
FIN
7.69
6
Christian Collardot
FRA
7.68
7
Henk Visser
NED
7.66
8
Dmitriy Bondarenko
URS
7.58
Triple Jump
1
Jozef Schmidt
POL
16.81
OR
2
Vladimir Goryayev
URS
16.63
3
Vitold Kreyer
URS
16.43
4
Ira Davis
USA
16.41
5
Vilhjalmur Einarsson
ISL
16.37
6
Ryszard Malcherczyk
POL
16.01
7
Manfred Hinze
GDR
15.93
8
Kari Rahkamo
FIN
15.84
Shot Put
1
William Nieder
USA
19.68
OR
2
Parry O'Brien
USA
19.11
3
Dallas Long
USA
19.01
4
Viktor Lipsnis
URS
17.90
5
Michael Lindsay
GBR
17.80
6
Alfred Sosgornik
POL
17.57
7
Dieter Urbach
FRG
17.47
8
Martin Lucking
GBR
17.43
Discus Throw
1
Alfred Oerter
USA
59.18
OR
2
Rink Babka
USA
58.02
3
Richard Cochran
USA
57.16
4
József Szécsényi
HUN
55.79
5
Edmund Piatkowski
POL
55.12
6
Viktor Kompaneyets
URS
55.06
7
Kim Bukhantsev
URS
54.78
8
Carmelo Rado
ITA
54.00
Hammer Throw
1
Vasiliy Rudenkov
URS
67.10
OR
2
Gyula Zsivótzky
HUN
65.79
3
Tadeusz Rut
POL
65.64
4
John Lawlor
IRL
64.95
5
Olgierd Cieply
POL
64.57
6
Zvonko Bezjak
YUG
64.21
7
Anatoliy Samotsvetov
URS
63.60
8
Harold Connolly
USA
63.58
Javelin Throw
1
Viktor Tsybulenko
URS
84.64
2
Walter Krüger
GDR
79.36
3
Gergely Kulcsár
HUN
78.57
4
Väinö Kuisma
FIN
78.40
5
Willy Rasmussen
NOR
78.36
6
Knut Fredriksson
SWE
78.33
7
Zbigniew Radziwonowicz
POL
77.30
8
Janusz Sidlo
POL
76.46
Decathlon
1
Rafer Johnson
USA
8392
OR
2
Chuan-Kwang Yang
TWN
8334
3
Vasiliy Kuznetsov
URS
7809
4
Yuriy Kutenko
URS
7567
5
Eef Kamerbeek
NED
7236
6
Franco Sar
ITA
7195
7
Markus Kahma
GDR
7112
8
Klaus Grogorenz
GDR
7032