1960 in sports

1960 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Alpine skiing

American football

Association football

Australian rules football

Baseball

Basketball

NBA Finals

Boxing

Canadian football

Cycling

Field hockey

Figure Skating

  • January 30 - US Figure Skating championship Civic Ice Arena in Seattle January 30
    • US female championship won by Carol Heiss
    • US male championship won by David Jenkins
    • The Pairs won Nancy Ludington / Ron Ludington
    • Ice dancing won Margie Ackles / Charles Phillips

Golf

Men's professional

Men's amateur

Women's professional

Harness racing

  • United States Pacing Triple Crown races –
    1. Cane Pace – Countess Adios
    2. Little Brown Jug – Bullet Hanover
    3. Yonkers Trot – Duke of Decatur
    4. Kentucky Futurity – Elaine Rodney
  • Australian Inter Dominion Harness Racing Championship –

Horse racing

Steeplechases

Flat races

Ice hockey

Olympic Games

Rugby league

  • 1960 New Zealand rugby league season
  • 1959–60 Northern Rugby Football League season / 1960–61 Northern Rugby Football League season
  • 1960 NSWRFL season
  • 1960 Rugby League World Cup

Rugby union

Swimming

  • June 12 – Marianne Heemskerk from the Netherlands breaks the world record in the women's 200m butterfly during a meet in Leipzig, East Germany2:34.4.
  • July 10 – US swimmer Michael Troy breaks his own world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) at a meet in Evansville, Indiana, clocking 2:15.0.
  • July 23 – Thirteen days after breaking his own world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course) Troy once again betters the world's best time in that event, this time at a meet in Toledo, Ohio clocking 2:13.4.
  • August 4 – Less than a month before the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, Troy again breaks the world record in the men's 200m butterfly (long course), when he clocks 2:13.2 at a meet in Detroit, Michigan.
  • September 2 – Michael Troy wins the men's 200m butterfly (long course) at the Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy by breaking his own world record – 2:12.8.

Tennis

Australia

England

France

USA

Davis Cup

Volleyball

  • 1960 FIVB Men's World Championship in Rio de Janeiro won by the USSR

Awards

References

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