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Swimming at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, 15 swimming events were contested, eight for men and seven for women.

Medal summary

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	John Devitt Australia (AUS)	55.2	Lance Larson United States (USA)	55.2	Manuel dos Santos Brazil (BRA)	55.4
400 m freestyle	Murray Rose Australia (AUS)	4:18.3	Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Japan (JPN)	4:21.4	John Konrads Australia (AUS)	4:21.8
1500 m freestyle	John Konrads Australia (AUS)	17:19.2	Murray Rose Australia (AUS)	17:21.7	George Breen United States (USA)	17:30.6
100 m backstroke	David Theile Australia (AUS)	1:01.9	Frank McKinney United States (USA)	1:02.1	Robert Bennett United States (USA)	1:02.3
200 m breaststroke	William Mulliken United States (USA)	2:37.4	Yoshihiko Osaki Japan (JPN)	2:38.0	Wieger Mensonides Netherlands (NED)	2:39.7
200 m butterfly	Michael Troy United States (USA)	2:12.8	Neville Hayes Australia (AUS)	2:14.6	David Gillanders United States (USA)	2:15.3
4�200 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) George Harrison Richard Blick Michael Troy Jeff Farrell	8:10.2	Japan (JPN) Makoto Fukui Hiroshi Ishii Tsuyoshi Yamanaka Tatsuo Fujimoto	8:13.3	Australia (AUS) David Dickson John Devitt Murray Rose John Konrads	8:13.8
4�100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Frank McKinney Paul Hait Lance Larson Jeff Farrell	4:05.4	Australia (AUS) David Theile Terry Gathercole Neville Hayes Geoff Shipton	4:12.0	Japan (JPN) Kazuo Tomita Koichi Hirakida Yoshihiko Osaki Keigo Shimuzu	4:12.2

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
100 m freestyle	Dawn Fraser Australia (AUS)	1:01.2	Chris von Saltza United States (USA)	1:02.8	Natalie Steward Great Britain (GBR)	1:03.1
400 m freestyle	Chris von Saltza United States (USA)	4:50.6	Jane Cederqvist Sweden (SWE)	4:53.9	Tineke Lagerberg Netherlands (NED)	4:56.9
100 m backstroke	Lynn Burke United States (USA)	1:09.3	Natalie Steward Great Britain (GBR)	1:10.8	Satoko Tanaka Japan (JPN)	1:11.4
200 m breaststroke	Anita Lonsbrough Great Britain (GBR)	2:49.5	Witrud Urselmann Germany (EUA)	2:50.0	Barbara G�bem Germany (EUA)	2:53.6
100 m butterfly	Carolyn Schuler United States (USA)	1:09.5	Marianne Heemskerk Netherlands (NED)	1:10.4	Jan Andrew Australia (AUS)	1:12.2
4�100 m freestyle relay	United States (USA) Joan Spillane Shirley Stobs Carolyn Wood Chris von Saltza	4:08.9	Australia (AUS) Dawn Fraser Ilsa Konrads Lorraine Crapp Alva Colquhuon	4:11.3	Germany (EUA) Christel Steffin Heidi Pechstein Gisela Weiss Ursula Brunner	4:19.7
4�100 m medley relay	United States (USA) Lynn Burke Patty Kempner Carolyn Schuler Chris von Saltza	4:41.1	Australia (AUS) Marilyn Wilson Rosemary Lassig Jan Andrew Dawn Fraser	4:45.9	Germany (EUA) Ingrid Schmidt Ursula K�per B�rbel Fuhrmann Ursel Brunner	4:47.6

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States (USA)	9	3	3	15
2	Australia (AUS)	5	5	3	13
3	Great Britain (GBR)	1	1	1	3
4	Japan (JPN)	0	3	2	5
5	Germany (EUA)	0	1	3	4
6	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	2	3
7	Sweden (SWE)	0	1	0	1
8	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1

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