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Three Person Keelboat (Dragon), Open

Date29 August – 7 September 1960
StatusOlympic
LocationGolfo di Napoli (Campo Giallo)
Participants81 from 27 countries
FormatPoints awarded for placement in each race. Best six of seven scores to count for final placement.

The Dragon boats raced on the Rosso course, as did the 5.5 metres. Greece Crown Prince Konstantinos finished only 10th in the first race, but then finished no worse than fourth in any of the last six races to win the gold medal by over 1,000 points over the Argentine crew aboard Tango. The Crown Prince received the traditional dunking in honor of his victory, as he was pushed into the water by his mother, Queen Frederika.

The 24th-place yacht, Patricia of the Philippines, never challenged for any honors but one of its crew members later achieved notoriety. Francisco Gonzales settled in the United States in San Francisco and had financial difficulties, and his wife threatened to leave him. Gonzales took out a large insurance policy with his beneficiary and told friends he would die on either 6 or 7 May 1964. He then boarded Pacific Airlines 773 in Reno, Nevada, which was headed for San Francisco. It never made it. Gonzales broke into the cockpit, shot both pilots and then shot and killed himself. The pilot-less aircraft crashed and killed all 44 people on board.

PosCompetitor(s)NOCPoints
1NirefsGRE6,733Gold
Crown Prince KonstantinosOdyssevs EskitzoglouGeorgios Zaimis
2TangoARG5,715Silver
Jorge Alberto SalasHéctor CalegarisJorge Alberto del Río
3VeniliaITA5,704Bronze
Antonio CosentinoAntonio CicilianoGiulio De Stefano
4LettNOR5,403
Øivind ChristensenArild AmundsenCarl Otto Svae
5Argo IICAN5,177
Sandy MacDonaldGordon NortonLynn Watters
6ChokDEN4,715
Aage BirchPaul Lindemark JørgensenNiels Markussen
7SalamanderGBR4,604
Graham MannIan HannayJonathan Janson
8Dinah VGER4,329
Hans RavenborgGünther BeneckePeter Rebien
9Grifo IIIPOR4,051
Carlos Ribeiro FerreiraJoaquim Pinto BastoGonçalo Mello
10Spirit VIUSA3,742
Gene Walet, IIIClaude KohlerAllen McClure
11GabbianoAUS3,733
Harold BrookeAlan CainJohn Coon
12AlettaIRL3,636
Jimmy MooneyRobin BensonDavid Ryder
13Trintel IINED3,562
Wim van DuylBiem Dudok van HeelJacq van den Berg
14Astrid IIIFRA3,438
Jean PeytelPhilippe ReinhartFrançois Thierry-Mieg
15Oleander IIBER2,948
Brownlow EveJimmy KempeDick Masters
16PerseyURS2,904
Eduard StaysonNikolay YepifanovVyacheslav Mozhayev
17RififiFIN2,667
René NymanLasse DahlmanHeinrich Schaarschmidt
18BimBAH2,159
Godfrey KellyMaurice KellyPercy Knowles
19BajazzoURU2,112
Horacio GarcíaGonzalo GarcíaVíctor Trinchín
20GalejanSWE2,103
Bengt PalmquistGöran CrafoordSten Elliot
21BaccaraSUI1,669
Robert ThorensPierre CamolettiGilbert Casalecchi
22BoreasJPN1,645
Masayuki IshiiSetsuo KawadaYutaka Okamoto
23Damoiselle IVMON1,279
Jules SoccalGérard BattagliaJean-Pierre Crovetto
24PatriciaPHI1,215
Fausto PreyslerFrancisco GonzalesJesús Villareal
25June ClimeneSGP1,059
Ned HolidayJames CookeThomas Durcan
26PartenopeINA795
Ashari DanudirdjoJosef MuskitaEri Sudewo
27CanopusESP703
Santiago PiJuan MirangelsJosé Pi