1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 15th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held on July 3–8, 1962 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia.

Medallists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around	Japan Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita	Soviet Union Valery Kerdemelidi Viktor Leontyev Viktor Lisitsky Boris Shakhlin Pavel Stolbov Yuri Titov	Czechoslovakia Pavel Gajdoš Karel Klečka Přemysl Krbec Václav Kubíčka Ladislav Pazdera Jaroslav Šťastný
Individual all-around	Yuri Titov	Yukio Endo	Boris Shakhlin
Floor	Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endo	none awarded	Franco Menichelli
Pommel horse	Miroslav Cerar	Boris Shakhlin	Takashi Mitsukuri Yu Lifeng
Rings	Yuri Titov	Yukio Endo Boris Shakhlin	none awarded
Vault	Přemysl Krbec	Haruhiro Yamashita	Boris Shakhlin Yukio Endo
Parallel bars	Miroslav Cerar	Boris Shakhlin	Yukio Endo
Horizontal bar	Takashi Ono	Yukio Endo Pavel Stolbov	none awarded
Women
Team all-around	Soviet Union Polina Astakhova Lidiya Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova Irina Pervuschina	Czechoslovakia Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Libuse Cmiralova Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfina Tkačíková	Japan Ginko Abukawa Keiko Ikeda Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Toshiko Shirasu Hiroko Tsuji
Individual all-around	Larisa Latynina	Věra Čáslavská	Irina Pervuschina
Vault	Věra Čáslavská	Larisa Latynina	Tamara Manina
Uneven bars	Irina Pervuschina	Eva Bosáková	Larisa Latynina
Balance beam	Eva Bosáková	Larisa Latynina	Keiko Ikeda Anikó Ducza
Floor	Larisa Latynina	Irina Pervuschina	Věra Čáslavská

Men's Results

Team competition

Rank	Team	Compulsory	Optional	Total
01 !	Japan	285.650	289.000	574.650
02 !	Soviet Union	285.700	287.450	573.150
03 !	Czechoslovakia	280.450	281.050	561.500
4	China	278.450	280.550	559.000
5	Italy	278.200	279.000	557.200
6	United States	273.650	281.600	555.250
7	Finland	274.250	280.650	554.900
8	East Germany	275.450	279.050	554.500
9	Switzerland	274.050	278.900	552.950
10	Yugoslavia	274.800	277.900	552.700
11	Bulgaria	275.450	276.300	551.750
12	Hungary	273.800	276.850	550.650
13	Poland	276.050	274.300	550.350
14	France	272.400	270.750	543.150
15	Sweden	269.200	272.550	541.750
16	West Germany	267.550	270.650	538.200
17	United Arab Republic	257.950	259.300	517.250
18	Canada	248.900	255.950	504.850
19	Cuba	231.500	230.250	461.750
20	Turkey	171.350	202.800	374.150

Individual all-around

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Yuri Titov (URS)	115.650
02 !	Yukio Endo (JPN)	115.500
03 !	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	115.200
4	Takashi Ono (JPN)	115.150
5	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	114.950
6	Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)	114.300
7	Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)	114.100
8	Pavel Stolbov (URS)	114.000
9	Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)	113.850
9	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	113.850
11	Franco Menichelli (ITA)	113.600
12	Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN)	113.450

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN)	19.500
01 !	Yukio Endo (JPN)	19.500
03 !	Franco Menichelli (ITA)	19.450
4	Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)	19.300
5	Takashi Ono (JPN)	19.275
6	Jaroslav Stastny (TCH)	19.000

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	19.750
02 !	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	19.375
03 !	Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)	19.300
03 !	Yu Lifeng (CHN)	19.300
5	Yuri Titov (URS)	19.275
6	Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)	18.400

Rings

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Yuri Titov (URS)	19.550
02 !	Yukio Endo (JPN)	19.425
02 !	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	19.425
4	Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN)	19.250
5	Viktor Leontyev (URS)	19.225
6	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	19.200

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Přemysl Krbec (TCH)	19.550
02 !	Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)	19.350
03 !	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	19.225
03 !	Yukio Endo (JPN)	19.225
5	Takashi Ono (JPN)	19.175
6	Siegfried Fülle (GDR)	19.075

Parallel Bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	19.625
02 !	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	19.600
03 !	Yukio Endo (JPN)	19.500
4	Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)	19.375
5	Takashi Ono (JPN)	19.250
6	Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)	19.125

Horizontal Bar

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Takashi Ono (JPN)	19.675
02 !	Yukio Endo (JPN)	19.625
02 !	Pavel Stolbov (URS)	19.625
4	Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)	19.500
4	Yuri Titov (URS)	19.500
6	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	19.425

Women's Results

Team competition

Rank	Team	Compulsory	Optional	Total
01 !	Soviet Union	190.461	194.527	384.988
02 !	Czechoslovakia	188.562	194.028	382.590
03 !	Japan	186.861	192.662	379.523
4	Hungary	185.562	192.228	377.790
5	East Germany	184.626	190.660	375.286
6	China	183.795	189.193	372.988
7	Poland	181.726	190.161	371.887
8	United States	179.926	188.426	368.352
9	Romania	180.859	186.061	366.920
10	Sweden	181.194	185.661	366.855
11	Yugoslavia	179.228	183.526	362.754
12	France	179.262	182.661	361.923
13	West Germany	175.226	179.692	354.918
14	Finland	171.262	180.860	352.122
15	Israel	170.495	175.494	345.989
16	Canada	160.693	170.292	330.985
17	Cuba	137.095	154.727	291.822

Individual all-around

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Larisa Latynina (URS)	78.030
02 !	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	77.732
03 !	Irina Pervuschina (URS)	77.465
4	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	76.898
5	Tamara Manina (URS)	76.865
6	Keiko Ikeda (JPN)	76.832
7	Ingrid Föst (GDR)	76.631
8	Polina Astakhova (URS)	76.330
9	Judith Hamori (HUN)	76.264
10	Toshido Shirasu (JPN)	76.064
11	Kiyoko Ono (JPN)	75.965
12	Natalia Kot (POL)	75.931

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	19.649
02 !	Larisa Latynina (URS)	19.632
03 !	Tamara Manina (URS)	19.549
4	Birgit Radochla (GDR)	19.483
5	Ingrid Föst (GDR)	19.466
6	Irina Pervuschina (URS)	19.433

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Irina Pervuschina (URS)	19.566
02 !	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	19.466
03 !	Larisa Latynina (URS)	19.449
4	Polina Astakhova (URS)	19.399
5	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	19.366
6	Katalin Makray (HUN)	19.316

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	19.499
02 !	Larisa Latynina (URS)	19.416
03 !	Keiko Ikeda (JPN)	19.366
03 !	Anikó Ducza (HUN)	19.366
5	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	19.333
6	Irina Pervischina (URS)	19.250

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Total
01 !	Larisa Latynina (URS)	19.716
02 !	Irina Pervuschina (URS)	19.616
03 !	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	19.550
4	Polina Astakhova (URS)	19.466
4	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	19.466
6	Toshiro Shirasu (JPN)	19.416

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	USSR	6	8	5	19
2	Japan	4	4	5	13
3	Czechoslovakia	3	3	2	8
4	Yugoslavia	2	0	0	2
5=	People's Republic of China	0	0	1	1
5=	Hungary	0	0	1	1
5=	Italy	0	0	1	1

References

www.gymn-forum.net (Archived 2009-09-03)

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