Swimming at the 1960 Summer Paralympics

Swimming at the 1960 Summer Paralympics consisted of 62 events, 32 for men and 30 for women.

Swimming at the I Paralympic Games
Paralympic Swimming

Each race had no more than three competitors so every swimmer completing a race was guaranteed a medal. All the swimmers successfully completed their races, and every swimmer at the Games therefore earned a medal.

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Italy (ITA)	15	9	8	32
2	Great Britain (GBR)	15	8	5	28
3	Norway (NOR)	9	3	3	15
4	West Germany (FRG)	9	3	2	14
5	Austria (AUT)	8	5	5	18
6	United States (USA)	3	6	5	14
7	Netherlands (NED)	3	2	0	5
8	Argentina (ARG)	2	3	1	6
9	Australia (AUS)	2	0	0	2
10	Switzerland (SUI)	1	1	0	2
11	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	1	0	0	1
13	Rhodesia (RHO)	0	1	2	3
14	Israel (ISR)	0	1	1	2
Totals (14 entries)		69	42	32	143

Participating nations

•  Argentina (5)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (8)
•  Finland (1)
•  France (1)
•  Great Britain (14)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Israel (2)
•  Italy (16)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  Norway (10)
•  Rhodesia (1)
•  Switzerland (2)
•  West Germany (7)
•  United States (6)

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m crawl juniors incomplete class 2	Bernard Jarrige  France	None	None
25 m crawl juniors incomplete class 4	Ersud  Norway	None	None
25 m crawl complete class 1	Heinz Schneider  Austria	Stanley Miles  Great Britain	None
25 m crawl complete class 2	Carlo Jannucci  Italy	Fontana  Italy	Vincent Ward  United States
25 m crawl incomplete class 1	Leo Halford  Great Britain	Girardi  Italy	None
25 m crawl incomplete class 2	Renzo Rogo  Italy	Grimaldi  Italy	Ottavio Moscone  Italy
50 m crawl complete class 3	Harald Gunnerup  Norway	Eskild Hansen  Norway	Robert C. Hawkes  United States
50 m crawl complete class 4	Tauno Valkama  Finland	Richard Maduro  United States	Philip Hall  United States
50 m crawl complete class 5	Denis Favre  Switzerland	Juan Sznitowski  Argentina	Franco Rossi  Italy
50 m crawl incomplete class 3	Johann Igel  Austria	Godfrey Williams  Great Britain	Sodenkamp  West Germany
50 m crawl incomplete class 4	Enzo Santini  Italy	Paul Sones  United States	Friedrich Sintermann  West Germany
25 m backstroke juniors incomplete class 2	Kalberg  Norway	Bernard Jarrige  France	None
25 m backstroke juniors incomplete class 4	Ersud  Norway	None	None
25 m backstroke complete class 1	Stroebel  West Germany	Stanley Miles  Great Britain	Heinz Schneider  Austria
25 m backstroke complete class 2	Fred Crowder  Great Britain	Carlo Jannucci  Italy	Vincent Ward  United States
25 m backstroke incomplete class 1	Leo Halford  Great Britain	Wetzel  West Germany	Pasquarelli  Italy
25 m backstroke incomplete class 2	Ottavio Moscone  Italy	Leo Halford  Great Britain	Einar Nilsen  Norway
50 m backstroke complete class 3	W. Johnson  United States	Robert C. Hawkes  United States	Aroldo Ruschioni  Italy
50 m backstroke complete class 4	Richard Maduro  United States	Peter Stanton  Great Britain	Israel Globus  Israel
50 m backstroke complete class 5	Juan Sznitowski  Argentina	Pasquale Carfagna  Italy	None
50 m backstroke incomplete class 3	Sodenkamp  West Germany	Johann Igel  Austria	None
50 m backstroke incomplete class 4	Enzo Santini  Italy	Paul Sones  United States	Arthur Brindle  Great Britain
25 m breaststroke complete class 1	Stroebel  West Germany	Heinz Schneider  Austria	Stanley Miles  Great Britain
25 m breaststroke complete class 2	Carlo Jannucci  Italy	Vincent Ward  United States	Fontana  Italy
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 1 and 2	Wetzel  West Germany	Leo Halford  Great Britain	None
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2	Renzo Rogo  Italy	Grimaldi  Italy	Ottavio Moscone  Italy
50 m breaststroke complete class 3	Robert C. Hawkes  United States	W. Johnson  United States	Cipriano Gasperini  Italy
50 m breaststroke complete class 4	Eivind Brager  Norway	Elvio Di Pasquo  Italy	Walter Telsnig  Austria
50 m breaststroke complete class 5	Franco Rossi  Italy	None	None
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 3	Sodenkamp  West Germany	Kadau  West Germany	Johann Igel  Austria
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 4	Harald Gunnerup  Norway	Leira  Norway	Paul Sones  United States
3×50 m medley relay open	West Germany (FRG)	Netherlands (NED)	Norway (NOR)

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
25 m crawl juniors incomplete class 4	Vagrum  Norway	None	None
25 m crawl complete class 1	Delphine Ariens Kappers  Netherlands	None	None
25 m crawl complete class 2	Joan Horan  Ireland	Rosa Kuhnel  Austria	None
25 m crawl incomplete class 1	Barbara Anderson  Great Britain	None	None
25 m crawl incomplete class 2	Anna Maria Toso  Italy	None	None
50 m crawl complete class 3	Manette Berger-Waldenegg  Austria	Ilse Driessler  Austria	None
50 m crawl complete class 4	Pauline Foulds  Great Britain	None	None
50 m crawl complete class 5	Daphne Ceeney  Australia	Amelia Mier  Argentina	None
50 m crawl incomplete class 3	Beatriz Perazzo  Argentina	None	None
50 m crawl incomplete class 4	Christa Zander  West Germany	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia	Beatriz Galán  Argentina
25 m backstroke juniors incomplete class 4	Birgith Reklev  Norway	Myrheim  Norway	Vagrum  Norway
25 m backstroke complete class 1	Barbara Anderson  Great Britain	None	None
25 m backstroke complete class 2	Rosa Kuhnel  Austria	Susan Masham  Great Britain	None
25 m backstroke incomplete class 1	Delphine Ariens Kappers  Netherlands	None	None
25 m backstroke incomplete class 2	Masson  Great Britain	Anna Maria Toso  Italy	Mazzoni  Italy
50 m backstroke complete class 3	Manette Berger-Waldenegg  Austria	Ilse Driessler  Austria	Janet Laughton  Great Britain
50 m backstroke complete class 4	Pauline Foulds  Great Britain	Maria Scutti  Italy	Frieda Dorfel  Austria
50 m backstroke complete class 5	Margaret Maughan  Great Britain	None	None
50 m backstroke incomplete class 3	Ilse Scharf  Austria	Marlene Muhlendyck  West Germany	Phyllis Waller  Great Britain
50 m backstroke incomplete class 4	Christa Zander  West Germany	María Djukich  Argentina	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia
25 m breaststroke juniors incomplete class 4	Birgith Reklev  Norway	None	None
25 m breaststroke complete class 1	Delphine Ariens Kappers  Netherlands	Mati Angel  Israel	None
25 m breaststroke complete class 2	Susan Masham  Great Britain	Simone Knusli  Switzerland	Rosa Kuhnel  Austria
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 1	Barbara Anderson  Great Britain	None	None
25 m breaststroke incomplete class 2	Anna Maria Toso  Italy	None	None
50 m breaststroke complete class 3	Manette Berger-Waldenegg  Austria	Elka Gaarlandt  Netherlands	Janet Laughton  Great Britain
50 m breaststroke complete class 4	Maria Scutti  Italy	None	None
50 m breaststroke complete class 5	Daphne Ceeney  Australia	None	None
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 3	Ilse Scharf  Austria	None	None
50 m breaststroke incomplete class 4	Christa Zander  West Germany	Edwards  Great Britain	Margaret Harriman  Rhodesia

References

• Swimming at the 1960 Summer Paralympics (Rome) from the International Paralympic Committee (archived)