1960 Women's Olympic Track & Field Medalists
Updated August 28, 2020 |
Infoplease Staff
| Event | Time | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 100m | Wilma Rudolph, USA | 11.0w | |
| Dorothy Hyman, GBR | 11.3 | ||
| Giuseppina Leone, ITA | 11.3 | ||
| 200m | Wilma Rudolph, USA | 24.0 | |
| Jutta Heine, GER | 24.4 | ||
| Dorothy Hyman, GBR | 24.7 | ||
| 800m | Lyudmila Shevtsova, USSR | 2:04.3 | =WR |
| Brenda Jones, AUS | 2:04.4 | ||
| Ursula Donath, GER | 2:05.6 | ||
| 80m H | Irina Press, USSR | 10.8 | |
| Carol Quinton, GBR | 10.9 | ||
| Gisela Birkemeyer-Köhler, GER | 11.0 | ||
| 4x100m | USA (Martha Hudson, Lucinda Williams, Barbara Jones, Wilma Rudolph) |
44.5 | |
| Germany | 44.8 | ||
| Poland | 45.0 |
w indicates wind-aided.
| Event | Mark | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High Jump | Iolanda Balas, ROM | 6- 03/4 | OR |
| Jaroslawa Jozwiakowska, POL / Dorothy Shirley, GBR | 5-71/4 | ||
| Long Jump | Vyera Krepkina, USSR | 20-103/4 | OR |
| Elzbieta Krzesinska, POL | 20-63/4 | ||
| Hildrun Claus, GER | 20-41/4 | ||
| Shot Put | Tamara Press, USSR | 56-10 | OR |
| Johanna Lüttge, GER | 54-53/4 | ||
| Earlene Brown, USA | 53-103/4 | ||
| Discus | Nina R. Ponomaryeva, USSR | 180- 9 | OR |
| Tamara Press, USSR | 172-6 | ||
| Lia Manoliu, ROM | 171-9 | ||
| Javelin | Elvira Ozolina, USSR | 183- 8 | OR |
| Dana Zátopková, CZE | 176-5 | ||
| Birute Kalediena, USSR | 175-4 |
| Men | Track & Field |
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