Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome from September 5 through 10th.

Format of competition

The scoring in the team competition and in the all-around was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics (there was no team, portable apparatus event, however). But apart from two performances:a compulsory and an optional, which counted for both the team competition and the all-around, a gymnast, who competed in an apparatus final should show one's skills once more on the respective apparatus. For the final score ("Total" column in tables below), the compulsory routine's mark was added to the optional routine's, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" column) and added to the third routine's mark ("Final" column).

Results

Men's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team all-around
 Japan (JPN)
Nobuyuki Aihara
Yukio Endo
Takashi Mitsukuri
Takashi Ono
Masao Takemoto
Shuji Tsurumi
 Soviet Union (URS)
Albert Azaryan
Valery Kerdemilidi
Nikolai Miligulo
Vladimir Portnoi
Boris Shakhlin
Yuri Titov
 Italy (ITA)
Giovanni Carminucci
Pasquale Carminucci
Gianfranco Marzolla
Franco Menichelli
Orlando Polmonari
Angelo Vicardi
Individual all-around
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
Floor exercise
Nobuyuki Aihara
 Japan
Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
Franco Menichelli
 Italy
Horizontal bar
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Masao Takemoto
 Japan
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Parallel bars
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Giovanni Carminucci
 Italy
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Pommel horse
Eugen Ekman
 Finland
none awarded Shuji Tsurumi
 Japan
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Rings
Albert Asaryan
 Soviet Union
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Velik Kapsazov
 Bulgaria
Vault
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
none awarded Vladimir Portnoi
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan

Women's events

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team all-around
 Soviet Union (URS)
Polina Astakhova
Lidia Ivanova
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Lyukhina
Sofia Muratova
Margarita Nikolaeva
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Eva Bosáková
Věra Čáslavská
Matylda Matoušková
Hana Růžičková
Ludmila Švédová
Adolfína Tkačíková
 Romania (ROU)
Atanasia Ionescu
Sonia Iovan
Elena Leuşteanu
Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă
Elena Niculescu
Uta Poreceanu
Individual all-around
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
Polina Astakhova
 Soviet Union
Balance beam
Eva Bosáková
 Czechoslovakia
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
Floor exercise
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Polina Astakhova
 Soviet Union
Tamara Lyukhina
 Soviet Union
Uneven bars
Polina Astakhova
 Soviet Union
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union
Tamara Lyukhina
 Soviet Union
Vault
Margarita Nikolaeva
 Soviet Union
Sofia Muratova
 Soviet Union
Larisa Latynina
 Soviet Union

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)108826
2 Japan (JPN)4239
3 Czechoslovakia (TCH)1102
4 Finland (FIN)1001
5 Italy (ITA)0123
6 Bulgaria (BUL)0011
 Romania (ROU)0011
Totals (7 nations)16121543


References

  • The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960. Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Rome: Carlo Colombo Publisher. 1963.
  • "1960 Olympic Games". Gymn-Forum.com. Retrieved May 17, 2006.
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