[1] Australia won 3 gold, 6 silver and 1 bronze medals in four sports and finished 7th overall behind Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, USA and Norway[4] The Australian contingent were going into the games with no prior information on the other competing countries and were written to be apprehensive in relation to commencing the games as they had no indication of the abilities of their competitors.

The Games for Australia specifically were used to better their knowledge over the information regarding the specialized equipment improvements they could make after comparing their own to those of the other countries.

The Australian team succeeded well beyond their original expectations by attaining the level of success in medal numbers they achieved.

The morning before the closing ceremony saw that Pope John XXIII was in attendance and gave an address to the entire Paralympic competitive assembly.

The Italian Instituto per l’Assicurazione contro gli Infortuni sul Lavoro (INAIL) assisted with accommodating the Australian team during the time of the games.

Acqua Acetosa was the requested sporting facility that Dr Ludwig Guttmann, Joan Scruton and Charlie Atkinson had personally reviewed to utilize after traveling to Rome to inspect the stadium.

This was not to be however as several of the required facilities within the stadium including the lifts and access areas were nonoperational so the grounds were unsuitable.

In addition the original accommodation was not built for para athletes which made accessibility incredibly difficult.

Proceedings took place in the presence of the Patron of the Games, Donna Carla Gronchi, the wife of the Italian Prime Minister.

Donna Carla presented some trophies to athletes before Dr Guttmann gave a speech thanking the Italian organizers of the games.

Classification was based on a medical examination to determine if the athlete was a complete or incomplete paraplegic or tetraplegic.

Specific instances and primary accounts have stated that the actions the athletes made were disciplined differently than that compared to when the European country participants did the same things.

Australia had 12 athletes competing at the 1960 Summer Paralympics[citation needed] - Daphne Ceeney - Gary Hooper - Robin Tourrier - Kevin Coombs - Frank Ponta - Ross Sutton - Bruno Moretti - Christopher O'Brien[8]- Kevin Cunningham - Bill Mather-Brown - Roger Cockerill - John Turich The team officials were; [9] Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Rhodesia, Sweden, Switzerland, United States and Yugoslavia.