title: Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics
text: # Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics
  
  At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.
  
  ## Medal summary
  
  | Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Individual details | Ferenc Németh Hungary | Imre Nagy Hungary | Robert Beck United States |
  | Team details | Hungary (HUN) Imre Nagy András Balczó Ferenc Németh | Soviet Union (URS) Nikolai Tatarinov Hanno Selg Igor Novikov | United States (USA) Robert Beck Jack Daniels George Lambert |
  
  ## Medal table
  
  | Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | Hungary (HUN) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
  | 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
  | 3 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
  | Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
  
  ## Participating nations
  
  A total of 60 athletes from 23 nations competed at the Rome Games:
  
  * Argentina (3)
  * Australia (3)
  * Austria (3)
  * Belgium (1)
  * Brazil (3)
  * Denmark (1)
  * Finland (3)
  * France (3)
  * United Team of Germany (3)
  * Great Britain (3)
  * Hungary (3)
  * Italy (3)
  * Japan (2)
  * Mexico (3)
  * Morocco (2)
  * Poland (3)
  * South Africa (1)
  * Soviet Union (3)
  * Spain (2)
  * Sweden (3)
  * Switzerland (3)
  * Tunisia (3)
  * United States (3)
  
  ## Results
  
  ### Individual
  
  | 1 | Ferenc Németh | Hungary |
  | - | - | - |
  | 2 | Imre Nagy | Hungary |
  | 3 | Bob Beck | United States |
  | 4 | András Balczó | Hungary |
  | 5 | Igor Novikov | Soviet Union |
  | 6 | Nikolay Tatarinov | Soviet Union |
  | 7 | Stanisław Przybylski | Poland |
  | 8 | Jack Daniels | United States |
  | 9 | Kurt Lindeman | Finland |
  | 10 | Hanno Selg | Soviet Union |
  | 11 | Patrick Harvey | Great Britain |
  | 12 | Berndt Katter | Finland |
  | 13 | Luis Ribera | Argentina |
  | 14 | Kazimierz Paszkiewicz | Poland |
  | 15 | Per-Erik Ritzén | Sweden |
  | 16 | Eero Lohi | Finland |
  | 17 | Antonio Almada | Mexico |
  | 18 | George Lambert | United States |
  | 19 | Erhard Minder | Switzerland |
  | 20 | Kazimierz Mazur | Poland |
  | 21 | Sture Ericson | Sweden |
  | 22 | Sergio Escobedo | Mexico |
  | 23 | Adriano Facchini | Italy |
  | 24 | Donald Cobley | Great Britain |
  | 25 | Peter Lichtner-Hoyer | Austria |
  | 26 | Peter Little | Great Britain |
  | 27 | Justo Botelho | Brazil |
  | 28 | Wolfgang Gödicke | United Team of Germany |
  | 29 | Gaetano Scala | Italy |
  | 30 | Björn Thofelt | Sweden |
  | 31 | Neville Sayers | Australia |
  | 32 | Wenceslau Malta | Brazil |
  | 33 | Werner Vetterli | Switzerland |
  | 34 | Hugh Doherty | Australia |
  | 35 | Kazuhiro Tanaka | Japan |
  | 36 | Carlos Stricker | Argentina |
  | 37 | Udo Birnbaum | Austria |
  | 38 | Shigeaki Uchino | Japan |
  | 39 | Frank Battig | Austria |
  | 40 | Raúl Bauza | Argentina |
  | 41 | Giulio Giunta | Italy |
  | 42 | André Bernard | France |
  | 43 | José Pérez | Mexico |
  | 44 | Joaquín Villalba | Spain |
  | 45 | Christian Beauvalet | France |
  | 46 | Peter Macken | Australia |
  | 47 | Benny Schmidt | Denmark |
  | 48 | Dieter Krickow | United Team of Germany |
  | 49 | Rolf Weber | Switzerland |
  | 50 | José Wilson | Brazil |
  | 51 | Fernando Irayzoz | Spain |
  | 53 | Étienne Jalenques | France |
  | 54 | Arsène Pint | Belgium |
  | 55 | Ralf Berckhan | United Team of Germany |
  | 56 | Lakdar Bouzid | Tunisia |
  | 57 | Habib Ben Azzabi | Tunisia |
  | 58 | Ahmed Ennachi | Tunisia |
  | AC | Mohamed Ben Checkroun | Morocco |
  | AC | Naji El-Mekki | Morocco |
  
  ### Team
  
  | 1 | Hungary |
  | - | - |
  | 2 | Soviet Union |
  | 3 | United States |
  | 4 | Finland |
  | 5 | Poland |
  | 6 | Sweden |
  | 7 | Great Britain |
  | 8 | Mexico |
  | 9 | Italy |
  | 10 | Argentina |
  | 11 | Switzerland |
  | 12 | Austria |
  | 13 | Brazil |
  | 14 | Australia |
  | 15 | France |
  | 16 | United Team of Germany |
  | 17 | Tunisia |
  