Venue Stadio Olimpico Competitors 1,016 from 73 nations | Dates August 31–September 8 | |
At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 34 events in athletics were contested, 24 by men and 10 by women. There were a total number of 1016 participating athletes from 73 countries.
Records broken
During the 1960 Summer Olympic Games, 28 new Olympic records and 4 new world records were set in the athletics events.
References
Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA