| Men's modern pentathlon at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Dates | August 26–31, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 60 from 23 nations | ||||||||||||
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At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, two events in modern pentathlon were contested. [1]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual | Ferenc Németh  Hungary | Imre Nagy Hungary | Robert Beck  United States |
| Team |  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 |
| 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) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
A total of 60 athletes from 23 nations competed at the Rome Games: [1]
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)| 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 |
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. [2] [3]
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