Soviet Union at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Medalists

The USSR finished first in the final medal rankings, with 43 gold and 103 total medals.

Gold

Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's floor exercise

Boris Shakhlin — Artistic gymnastics, men's parallel bars

Larisa 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, Larisa 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 10000 m

Vladimir Golubnichy — Athletics, men's 20 km walk

Lyudmila Lisenko-Shevtsova — Athletics, women's 800 m

Irina Press — Athletics, women's 80 m 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 1000 m

Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, women's K-1 500 m

Mariya Shubina, Antonina Seredina — Canoeing, women's K-2 500 m

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

Aleksey Gushchin — Shooting, men's 50 m pistol

Viktor Shamburkin — Shooting, men's rifle 3 positions

Yury 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

Larisa 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

Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's uneven bars

Sofia Muratova — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault

Nikolai Sokolov — Athletics, men's 3000 m steeplechase

Gusman Kosanov, Leonid Bartenev, Yuriy Konovalov, Edvin Ozolin — Athletics, men's 4 × 100 m 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 1000 m

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, Yury 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 50 m pistol

Marat Niyazov — Shooting, men's 50 m rifle 3 positions

Vladimir Semyonov, Anatoly 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

Larisa Latynina — Artistic gymnastics, women's vault

Semen Rzhischin — Athletics, men's 3000 m 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 1 km time trial

Boris Vasilyev, Vladimir Leonov — Cycling track, men's 2000 m tandem

Stanislav Moskvin, Viktor Romanov, Leonid Kolumbet, Arnold Belgardt — Cycling track, men's team pursuit

Ninel Krutova — Diving, women's 10 m 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, Yuriy Bachurov, Valentin Morkovkin, Anatoli Tarabrin — Rowing, men's four without coxswain

Aleksandr Zabelin — Shooting, men's 25 m rapid fire pistol

Vasili Borisov — Shooting, men's 300 m 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

Boxing

Men's flyweight (– 51 kg)

Sergey Sivko → Silver Medal

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

Cycling

13 male cyclists represented the Soviet Union in 1960.

Individual road race

Viktor Kapitonov

Yury Melikhov

Yevgeny Klevtsov

Gaynan Saydkhuzhin

Team time trial

Viktor Kapitonov

Yevgeny Klevtsov

Yury Melikhov

Aleksei Petrov

Sprint

Boris Vasilyev

Imants Bodnieks

1000 m time trial

Rostislav Vargashkin

Tandem

Boris Vasilyev

Vladimir Leonov

Team pursuit

Stanislav Moskvin

Viktor Romanov

Leonid Kolumbet

Arnold Belgardt

Fencing

21 fencers, 15 men and 6 women, represented the Soviet Union in 1960.

Men's foil

Viktor Zhdanovich

Yury Sisikin

Mark Midler

Men's team foil

Viktor Zhdanovich, Yury Sisikin, Mark Midler, German Sveshnikov, Yury Rudov

Men's épée

Bruno Habārovs

Guram Kostava

Arnold Chernushevich

Men's team épée

Guram Kostava, Bruno Habārovs, Arnold Chernushevich, Valentin Chernikov, Aleksandr Pavlovsky

Men's sabre

David Tyshler

Yakov Rylsky

Nugzar Asatiani

Men's team sabre

Yevgeny Cherepovsky, Umyar Mavlikhanov, Nugzar Asatiani, David Tyshler, Yakov Rylsky

Women's foil

Valentina Rastvorova

Galina Gorokhova

Aleksandra Zabelina

Women's team foil

Valentina Rastvorova, Galina Gorokhova, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Lyudmila Shishova, Valentina Prudskova, Aleksandra Zabelina

Modern pentathlon

T hree male pentathletes represented the Soviet Union in 1960. In the team event, they won the silver medal.

Individual

Igor Novikov

Nikolay Tatarinov

Hanno Selg

Team

Igor Novikov

Nikolay Tatarinov

Hanno Selg

Rowing

The Soviet Union had 25 male rowers participate in seven rowing events in 1960.

Men's single sculls – 1st place ( Gold medal)

Vyacheslav Ivanov (Вячеслав Иванов)

Men's double sculls – 2nd place ( Silver medal)

Aleksandr Berkutov (Александр Беркутов)

Yury Tyukalov (Юрий Тюкалов)

Men's coxless pair – 1st place ( Gold medal)

Valentin Boreyko (Валентин Борейко)

Oleg Golovanov (Олег Голованов)

Men's coxed pair – 2nd place ( Silver medal)

Antanas Bagdonavičius (Antanas Bagdonavichyus, Антанас Багдонавичюс)

Zigmas Jukna (Zigmas Yukna, Зигмас Юкна)

Igor Rudakov (Игорь Рудаков)

Men's coxless four – 3rd place ( Bronze medal)

Igor Akhremchik (Игорь Ахремчик)

Yury Bachurov (Юрий Бачуров)

Valentin Morkovkin (Валентин Морковкин)

Anatoly Tarabrin (Анатолий Тарабрин)

Men's coxed four – 4th place

Oleg Aleksandrov (Олег Александров)

Igor Khokhlov (Игорь Хохлов)

Boris Fyodorov (Борис Фёдоров)

Valentin Zanin (Валентин Занин)

Igor Rudakov (Игорь Рудаков)

Men's eight

Mikhail Balenkov (Михаил Баленков)

Viktor Barinov (Виктор Баринов)

Viktor Bogachev (Виктор Богачев)

Voldemar Dundur (Вольдемар Дундур)

Nikolay Gomolko (Николай Гомолко)

Boris Gorokhov (Борис Горохов)

Leonid Ivanov (Леонид Иванов)

Vladimir Malik (Владимир Малик)

Yury Lorentsson (Юрий Лоренцсон)

Shooting

Ten shooters represented the Soviet Union in 1960. Between them, they won three bronze medals, two silvers and two golds.

25 m pistol

Aleksandr Zabelin

Yevgeny Cherkasov

50 m pistol

Aleksey Gushchin

Makhmud Umarov

300 m rifle, three positions

Vasily Borisov

Moisei Itkis

50 m rifle, three positions

Viktor Shamburkin

Marat Nyýazow

50 m rifle, prone

Vasily Borisov

Marat Nyýazow

Trap

Sergey Kalinin

Yury Nikandrov

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.