Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around		men		women
Individual all-around		men		women
Vault		men		women
Floor		men		women
Pommel horse		men
Rings		men
Parallel bars		men
Horizontal bar		men
Uneven bars				women
Balance beam				women

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	10	8	8	26
2	Japan (JPN)	4	2	3	9
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1

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.