1960 Summer Olympics

Games of the XVII Olympiad
Host city	Rome, Lazio, Italy
Nations	83
Athletes	5,338 (4,727 men, 611 women)
Events	150 in 17 sports (23 disciplines)
Opening	25 August
Closing	11 September
Opened by	President Giovanni Gronchi
Cauldron	Giancarlo Peris
Stadium	Stadio Olimpico
Summer
Winter

The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, were held at Rome in Italy.^[3] Rome had been awarded the 1908 Summer Olympics. However, after the 1906 eruption of Mount Vesuvius, London became the host.

CBS paid $394,000 for the right to broadcast the Games in the United States.^[4]

Host

Rome was chosen as the host of the 1960 Summer Olympics in 1955. Other cities that could have hosted the Olympics were:

Tokyo would later host the 1964 Summer Olympics, and Mexico City would later host the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Participating nations

A total of 67 nations sent athletes to compete at the Melbourne games.^[5]

Related pages

List of IOC country codes

Other websites

IOC page for the 1960 Summer Olympics

References

↑ Italy is a devolved state since 1948.
1 2 "Factsheet - Opening Ceremony of the Games of the Olympiad" (PDF) (Press release). International Olympic Committee. 9 October 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2018.
↑ Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics), "1960 Rome Summer Games"^{[permanent dead link]}; retrieved 2012-7-25.
↑ Museum of Broadcast Communication (MBC), "Olympics and Television" Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-7-25.
↑ Taking part in the games for the first time were Morocco, San Marino, Sudan, Suriname and Tunisia.
↑ Athletes from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had joined together as the new (British) West Indies Federation; and they competed as "Antilles". This was unique in the 1960 Olympiad.
↑ Athletes from East Germany and West Germany would compete as the United Team of Germany.

Other websites

Media related to 1960 Summer Olympics at Wikimedia Commons

Rome 1960 at Olympic.org

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[1] Italy is a devolved state since 1948.

[Opening_and_Cauldron-2] 1 2 "Factsheet - Opening Ceremony of the Games of the Olympiad" (PDF) (Press release). International Olympic Committee. 9 October 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2018.

[3] Sports Reference.com (SR/Olympics), "1960 Rome Summer Games"^{[permanent dead link]}; retrieved 2012-7-25.

[4] Museum of Broadcast Communication (MBC), "Olympics and Television" Archived 2009-07-27 at the Wayback Machine; retrieved 2012-7-25.

[5] Taking part in the games for the first time were Morocco, San Marino, Sudan, Suriname and Tunisia.

[6] Athletes from Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago had joined together as the new (British) West Indies Federation; and they competed as "Antilles". This was unique in the 1960 Olympiad.

[7] Athletes from East Germany and West Germany would compete as the United Team of Germany.

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Winter Games	1924 Chamonix 1928 St. Moritz 1932 Lake Placid 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1940^‡ 1944^‡ 1948 St. Moritz 1952 Oslo 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 1960 Squaw Valley 1964 Innsbruck 1968 Grenoble 1972 Sapporo 1976 Innsbruck 1980 Lake Placid 1984 Sarajevo 1988 Calgary 1992 Albertville 1994 Lillehammer 1998 Nagano 2002 Salt Lake City 2006 Turin 2010 Vancouver 2014 Sochi 2018 Pyeongchang 2022 Beijing 2026 Milan Cortina 2030 French Alps 2034 Salt Lake City-Utah
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