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competed at the

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. 101 competitors, 93 men and 8 women, took part in 64 events in 16 sports.

Medalists

Silver

* Roger Moens —

Athletics Athletics may refer to: Sports * Sport of athletics, a collection of sporting events that involve competitive running, jumping, throwing, and walking ** Track and field, a sub-category of the above sport * Athletics (physical culture), competi ...

, Men's 800 metres * Leo Sterckx —

Cycling Cycling, also, when on a two-wheeled bicycle, called bicycling or biking, is the use of cycles for transport, recreation, exercise or sport. People engaged in cycling are referred to as "cyclists", "bicyclists", or "bikers". Apart from ...

, Men's sprint

Bronze

* Willy van den Berghen —

, Men's individual road race * André Nelis —

Sailing Sailing employs the wind—acting on sails, wingsails or kites—to propel a craft on the surface of the ''water'' (sailing ship, sailboat, raft, windsurfer, or kitesurfer), on ''ice'' (iceboat) or on ''land'' ( land yacht) over a chose ...

, Men's Finn class

Athletics

Boxing

Canoeing

Cycling

13 cyclists, all men, represented Belgium in 1960. ; Individual road race *

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* Benoni Beheyt * Robert Lelangue * Joseph Geurts ;

Team time trial A team time trial (TTT) is a road bicycle race in which teams of cyclists race against the clock (see individual time trial for a more detailed description of ITT events). The winning team in a TTT is determined by the comparing the times of ...

* Benoni Beheyt * Willy Monty *

* Yvan Covent ; Sprint * Leo Sterckx * Gilbert De Rieck ; 1000m time trial * Jean Govaerts ;

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 ...

* Romain De Loof * Barthélemy Gillard * Frans Melckenbeeck * Charles Rabaey

Equestrian

Fencing

15 fencers, 12 men and 3 women, represented Belgium in 1960. ; Men's foil * André Verhalle * Franck Delhem * Jacques Debeur ; Men's team foil * Jacques Debeur, André Verhalle, François Dehez, Franck Delhem ; Men's épée * Roger Achten * François Dehez * René Van Den Driessche ; Men's team épée * Pierre Francisse, René Van Den Driessche, Jacques Debeur, Roger Achten, François Dehez ; Men's sabre * Marcel Van Der Auwera * José Van Baelen * Gustave Ballister ; Men's team sabre * José Van Baelen, Gustave Ballister, Marcel Van Der Auwera, François Heywaert, Roger Petit ; Women's foil * Jacqueline Appart * Marie Melchers * Claudine Wallet

Gymnastics

Hockey

Modern pentathlon

One male pentathlete represented Belgium in 1960. ;Individual *

Arsène Pint Arsène Pint (born 7 May 1933) is a Belgian modern pentathlete. He 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 XV ...

Rowing

Belgium had 5 male rowers participate in two out of seven

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events in 1960. ; Men's double sculls * Gérard Higny * Jean-Marie Lemaire ; Men's coxed pair * Roland Bollenberg * Edgard Luca * Étienne Pollet

Sailing

Shooting

Three shooters represented Belgium in 1960. ;

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 ...

* Marcel Lafortune ; 50 m rifle, three positions * Jacques Lafortune * Frans Lafortune ; 50 m rifle, prone * Frans Lafortune * Jacques Lafortune

Swimming

Water polo

Weightlifting

Wrestling

References

External links

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

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