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Men's Greco-Roman heavyweight at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Basilica of Maxentius
Dates	26–31 August
Competitors	12 from 12 nations
Medalists
Ivan Bohdan  Soviet Union Wilfried Dietrich  United Team of Germany Bohumil Kubát  Czechoslovakia
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The men's Greco-Roman heavyweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from August 26 to 31 at the Basilica of Maxentius. Nations were limited to one competitor.^[1]

This Greco-Roman wrestling competition continued to use the "bad points" elimination system introduced at the 1928 Summer Olympics for Greco-Roman and at the 1932 Summer Olympics for freestyle wrestling, though adjusted the point values slightly. Wins by fall continued to be worth zero points and wins by decision continued to be worth one point. Losses by fall, however, were now worth four points (up from three). Losses by decision were worth three points (consistent with most prior years, though in some losses by split decision had been worth only two points). Ties were now allowed, worth two points for each wrestler. The elimination threshold was also increased from five points to six points. The medal round concept, used in 1952 and 1956 requiring a round-robin amongst the medalists even if one or more finished a round with enough points for elimination, was used only if exactly three wrestlers remained after a round—if two competitors remained, they faced off head-to-head; if only one, he was the gold medalist.^[2][1]