Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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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.[1]
| Gymnastics at the Games of the XVII Olympiad | |
|---|---|
| Venue | Baths of Caracalla |
| Dates | 5 September – 10 September 1960 |
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
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around |
Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union |
Takashi Ono Japan |
Yuri Titov Soviet Union |
| Team all-around |
Japan Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endō Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shuji Tsurumi |
Soviet Union Albert Azaryan Valery Kerdemilidi Nikolai Miligulo Vladimir Portnoi Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov |
 ItalyGiovanni Carminucci Pasquale Carminucci Gianfranco Marzolla Franco Menichelli Orlando Polmonari Angelo Vicardi |
| 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
Medal table
Total
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 10 | 8 | 8 | 26 |
| 2 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 |  Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (7 entries) | 16 | 12 | 15 | 43 | |
Men
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Japan | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | 10 | 6 | 9 | 25 | |
Women
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Romania | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 | |
Participating nations
Argentina (1)
Australia (4)
Austria (12)
Belgium (5)
Bulgaria (12)
Canada (3)
Cuba (2)
Czechoslovakia (12)
Finland (12)
France (12)
United Team of Germany (12)
Great Britain (12)
Hungary (12)
Israel (3)
Italy (12)
Japan (12)
South Korea (2)
Luxembourg (8)
Mexico (1)
Morocco (6)
Netherlands (6)
Norway (1)
Poland (12)
Portugal (4)
Romania (6)
South Africa (1)
Soviet Union (12)
Spain (12)
Sweden (12)
Switzerland (6)
United Arab Republic (6)
United States (12)
Yugoslavia (9)
