At the 1960 Olympics in Rome, who won the men's 800 metres running race?

Peter George Snell (17 December 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a New Zealand middle-distance runner who won three Olympic gold medals. He won the 800 metres in Rome, 1960, and in Tokyo in 1964 he became the only man since 1920 to win both the 800 and 1500 metres at the same Olympics, something that has not been achieved by any male athlete at the Olympics since.

Snell had a relatively short career as a world-famous international sportsman, 1960–1965, yet achieved so much that he was voted New Zealand's "Sports Champion of the (20th) Century" and was one of 24 inaugural members of the International Association of Athletics Federations Hall Of Fame named in 2012. A protégé of the New Zealand athletics coach Arthur Lydiard, Snell is best known for winning three Olympic and two Commonwealth Games gold medals, and for several world records he set.