Modern pentathlon at the 1960 Summer Olympics
# 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 |
