Mexico Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...

competed at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

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. 69 competitors, 63 men and 6 women, took part in 54 events in 14 sports.

Medalists

Athletics

;Men ;Track & road events ;Field events ;Combined events – Decathlon ;Women ;Track & road events

Basketball

Boxing

Cycling

Ten cyclists, all men, represented Mexico in 1960. ; Individual road race * Luis Zárate * Jacinto Brito * Mauricio Mata *

Filiberto Mercado Filiberto Mercado (born 28 June 1938) is a former Mexican cyclist. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially kn ...

; Team time trial * Armando Martínez *

* Luis Zárate ; Sprint * Cenobio Ruiz * Luis Muciño ; 1000m time trial * Mauricio Mata ;

Tandem Tandem, or in tandem, is an arrangement in which a team of machines, animals or people are lined up one behind another, all facing in the same direction. The original use of the term in English was in ''tandem harness'', which is used for two ...

* Luis Muciño * José Luis Tellez ;

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

* Mauricio Mata * Javier Taboada * Jacinto Brito * Miguel Pérez

Diving

Fencing

Eight fencers, seven men and one woman, represented Mexico in 1960. ; Men's foil * Raúl Cicero * William Fajardo ; Men's épée * Antonio Almada * Benito Ramos * Ángel Roldán ; Men's team épée * Benito Ramos, Ángel Roldán, Antonio Almada,

Sergio Escobedo Sergio Escobedo (10 January 1931 – 10 May 2009) was a Mexican modern pentathlete and fencer. He competed in the modern pentathlon and the team épée at the 1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del ...

, José Pérez ; Men's sabre * Benito Ramos * William Fajardo ; Women's foil * Pilar Roldán

Gymnastics

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Mexico in 1960. ;Individual * Antonio Almada *

* José Pérez ;Team * Antonio Almada * Sergio Escobedo * José Pérez

Rowing

Mexico had two male rowers participate in one out of seven

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events in 1960. ; Men's coxless pair *

Arcadio Padilla Arcadio Padilla (born 12 January 1941) is a Mexican rower. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics, the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and co ...

* Roberto Retolaza

Sailing

Shooting

Six shooters represented Mexico in 1960. ;

25 m pistol 25 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often known as sport pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It was devised as a women's event in the 1960s, based upon the rules of 25 meter center-fire pistol but shot with a .22-caliber sp ...

* Luis Jiménez *

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50 m pistol The 50 meter pistol, formerly and unofficially still often called Free Pistol, is one of the ISSF shooting events. It provides the purest precision shooting among the pistol events, and is one of the oldest shooting disciplines, dating back to t ...

* Raúl Ibarra * Ignacio Mendoza ; 50 m rifle, prone * Paulino Díaz * Ernesto Montemayor, Jr.

Swimming

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

External links

Official Olympic ReportsInternational Olympic Committee results database
Nations at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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