Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Template:Short description At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
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Team Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCteam Imre Nagy András Balczó Ferenc Németh	Template:FlagIOCteam Nikolai Tatarinov Hanno Selg Igor Novikov	Template:FlagIOCteam Robert Beck Jack Daniels George Lambert

Participating nations

A total of 60 athletes from 23 nations competed at the Rome Games:

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Results

Individual

1	Ferenc Németh	Template:FlagIOC
2	Imre Nagy	Template:FlagIOC
3	Bob Beck	Template:FlagIOC
4	András Balczó	Template:FlagIOC
5	Igor Novikov	Template:FlagIOC
6	Nikolay Tatarinov	Template:FlagIOC
7	Stanisław Przybylski	Template:FlagIOC
8	Jack Daniels	Template:FlagIOC
9	Kurt Lindeman	Template:FlagIOC
10	Hanno Selg	Template:FlagIOC
11	Patrick Harvey	Template:FlagIOC
12	Berndt Katter	Template:FlagIOC
13	Luis Ribera	Template:FlagIOC
14	Kazimierz Paszkiewicz	Template:FlagIOC
15	Per-Erik Ritzén	Template:FlagIOC
16	Eero Lohi	Template:FlagIOC
17	Antonio Almada	Template:FlagIOC
18	George Lambert	Template:FlagIOC
19	Erhard Minder	Template:FlagIOC
20	Kazimierz Mazur	Template:FlagIOC
21	Sture Ericson	Template:FlagIOC
22	Sergio Escobedo	Template:FlagIOC
23	Adriano Facchini	Template:FlagIOC
24	Donald Cobley	Template:FlagIOC
25	Peter Lichtner-Hoyer	Template:FlagIOC
26	Peter Little	Template:FlagIOC
27	Justo Botelho	Template:FlagIOC
28	Wolfgang Gödicke	Template:FlagIOC
29	Gaetano Scala	Template:FlagIOC
30	Björn Thofelt	Template:FlagIOC
31	Neville Sayers	Template:FlagIOC
32	Wenceslau Malta	Template:FlagIOC
33	Werner Vetterli	Template:FlagIOC
34	Hugh Doherty	Template:FlagIOC
35	Kazuhiro Tanaka	Template:FlagIOC
36	Carlos Stricker	Template:FlagIOC
37	Udo Birnbaum	Template:FlagIOC
38	Shigeaki Uchino	Template:FlagIOC
39	Frank Battig	Template:FlagIOC
40	Raúl Bauza	Template:FlagIOC
41	Giulio Giunta	Template:FlagIOC
42	André Bernard	Template:FlagIOC
43	José Pérez	Template:FlagIOC
44	Joaquín Villalba	Template:FlagIOC
45	Christian Beauvalet	Template:FlagIOC
46	Peter Macken	Template:FlagIOC
47	Benny Schmidt	Template:FlagIOC
48	Dieter Krickow	Template:FlagIOC
49	Rolf Weber	Template:FlagIOC
50	José Wilson	Template:FlagIOC
51	Fernando Irayzoz	Template:FlagIOC
53	Étienne Jalenques	Template:FlagIOC
54	Arsène Pint	Template:FlagIOC
55	Ralf Berckhan	Template:FlagIOC
56	Lakdar Bouzid	Template:FlagIOC
57	Habib Ben Azzabi	Template:FlagIOC
58	Ahmed Ennachi	Template:FlagIOC
AC	Mohamed Ben Checkroun	Template:FlagIOC
AC	Naji El-Mekki	Template:FlagIOC

Team

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Tunisian athletes

The modern pentathletes from Tunisia were notable for their poor performances and attempts at cheating. In the swimming portion, one competitor, Ahmed Ennachi, nearly drowned. In the shooting portion, an athlete was ejected for firing too closely to the judges, and in the equestrian portion, all three athletes fell off their horses. In the fencing portion, the Tunisians attempted to pass off their strongest fencer as each of the three athletes, using his mask to conceal his identity. The ruse failed and the Tunisians were disqualified from the fencing portion. Altogether in the team competition, Tunisia received 5,126 points, which was around 5,000 points below the next team and almost 10,000 behind the winners.