At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, two events in modern pentathlon were contested.
Medal summary IndividualTeamImre NagyAndrás BalczóFerenc NémethNikolai TatarinovHanno SelgIgor NovikovRobert BeckJack DanielsGeorge Lambert
Medal table
Participating nations
A total of 60 athletes from 23 nations competed at the Rome Games:
Results
Individual 1 Ferenc Németh 2 Imre Nagy 3 Bob Beck 4 András Balczó 5 Igor Novikov 6 Nikolay Tatarinov 7 Stanisław Przybylski 8 Jack Daniels 9 Kurt Lindeman 10 Hanno Selg 11 Patrick Harvey 12 Berndt Katter 13 Luis Ribera 14 Kazimierz Paszkiewicz 15 Per-Erik Ritzén 16 Eero Lohi 17 Antonio Almada 18 George Lambert 19 Erhard Minder 20 Kazimierz Mazur 21 Sture Ericson 22 Sergio Escobedo 23 Adriano Facchini 24 Donald Cobley 25 Peter Lichtner-Hoyer 26 Peter Little 27 Justo Botelho 28 Wolfgang Gödicke 29 Gaetano Scala 30 Björn Thofelt 31 Neville Sayers 32 Wenceslau Malta 33 Werner Vetterli 34 Hugh Doherty 35 Kazuhiro Tanaka 36 Carlos Stricker 37 Udo Birnbaum 38 Shigeaki Uchino 39 Frank Battig 40 Raúl Bauza 41 Giulio Giunta 42 André Bernard 43 José Pérez 44 Joaquín Villalba 45 Christian Beauvalet 46 Peter Macken 47 Benny Schmidt 48 Dieter Krickow 49 Rolf Weber 50 José Wilson 51 Fernando Irayzoz 53 Étienne Jalenques 54 Arsène Pint 55 Ralf Berckhan 56 Lakdar Bouzid 57 Habib Ben Azzabi 58 Ahmed Ennachi AC Mohamed Ben Checkroun AC Naji El-Mekki
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
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.
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