Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Gymnastics at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates	18 October – 23 October 1964
← 1960 1968 →

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo from 18 October through 23 October.^[1]

The scoring in all the events was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics. The six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores - for compulsory and optional routine) qualified for that apparatus finals. Each of the women's events was judged by five judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of three remaining ones constituted the score. Each of the men's events were judged by four judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining ones constituted the score.

Results[]

Men's events[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Yukio Endo  Japan	Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union Shuji Tsurumi  Japan	none awarded
Team all-around details	Japan (JPN) Yukio Endo Takuji Hayata Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita	Soviet Union (URS) Sergey Diomidov Viktor Leontev Viktor Lisitsky Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov Yuri Tsapenko	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Fülle Philipp Fürst Erwin Koppe Klaus Köste Günter Lyhs Peter Weber
Floor exercise details	Franco Menichelli  Italy	Yukio Endo  Japan Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union	none awarded
Horizontal bar details	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union	Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia
Parallel bars details	Yukio Endo  Japan	Shuji Tsurumi  Japan	Franco Menichelli  Italy
Pommel horse details	Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia	Shuji Tsurumi  Japan	Yuri Tsapenko  Soviet Union
Rings details	Takuji Hayata  Japan	Franco Menichelli  Italy	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union
Vault details	Haruhiro Yamashita  Japan	Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union	Hannu Rantakari  Finland

Women's[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Soviet Union (URS) Polina Astakhova Lyudmila Gromova Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Elena Volchetskaya Tamara Zamotaylova	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Věra Čáslavská Marianna Krajčírová Jana Posnerová Hana Růžičková Jaroslava Sedláčková Adolfína Tkačíková	Japan (JPN) Toshiko Aihara Ginko Chiba Keiko Ikeda Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Hiroko Tsuji
Balance beam details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Tamara Manina  Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
Floor exercise details	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Anikó Ducza  Hungary
Uneven bars details	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Katalin Makray  Hungary	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
Vault details	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union Birgit Radochla  United Team of Germany	None awarded

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	4	1	10
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	10	5	19
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	1	0	4
4	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	1	2
8	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		14	18	11	43

References[]

External links[]

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Coordinates: 35°40′47″N 139°42′45″E / 35.6797°N 139.7125°E / 35.6797; 139.7125