Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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At the 1960 Summer Olympics
1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event held from August 25 to September 11, 1960 in Rome, Italy...

, fourteen different artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics
Artistic gymnastics is a discipline of gymnastics where gymnasts perform short routines on different apparatus, with less time for vaulting . The sport is governed by the Federation Internationale de Gymnastique , which designs the Code of Points and regulates all aspects of international elite...

 events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held in the Baths of Caracalla
Baths of Caracalla
The Baths of Caracalla in Rome, Italy were Roman public baths, or thermae, built in Rome between AD 212 and 216, during the reign of the Emperor Caracalla.- History :...

 in Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...

 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
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics was represented by 15 events: 7 for women and 8 for men. All events were held at the West Melbourne Stadium between December 3 and December 7...

 (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).

Men's events

Team all-around

Nobuyuki Aihara
Nobuyuki Aihara
is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Aihara competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he received a silver medal in floor exercise, and a silver medal in the team competition. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he received a gold medal in floor...


Yukio Endo
Yukio Endo (gymnast)
was a Japanese artistic gymnast, Olympic champion and world champion.-Olympics:He was born in Akita City, Akita-ken.He won gold medals with the Japanese team in three Olympics, in 1960, 1964 and 1968...


Takashi Mitsukuri
Takashi Mitsukuri
is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Mitsukuri competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises...


Takashi Ono
Takashi Ono
is a Japanese gymnast who won five gold medals at the Olympic Games.Competing in four Summer Olympics, he took the Olympic Oath at Tokyo in 1964.Ono was inducted into the International Gymnastics Hall of Fame in 1998....

 
Masao Takemoto
Masao Takemoto
was a Japanese artistic gymnast who won two world titles and seven Olympic medals.His first of seven Olympic medals he achieved in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he won the silver medal at the vault with a score of 19.150, which was 0.050 short of gold medalist Viktor Chukarin...


Shuji Tsurumi
Shuji Tsurumi
is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion.-Olympics:Tsurumi competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises, and a bronze medal in pommel horse...


Albert Azaryan
Albert Azaryan
Albert Vagharshakovich Azaryan is a Soviet Armenian artistic gymnast who competed internationally representing the Soviet Union. He is the 1956 and 1960 Olympic champion on the still rings...


Valery Kerdemilidi
Nikolai Miligulo
Vladimir Portnoi
Vladimir Portnoi
Vladimir Portnoi is a former Soviet gymnast. He is Jewish, and was born in Odessa.-Olympics:Portnoi won a silver medal for the Soviet Union at the 1960 Olympics in Rome in team combined gymnastics. He won a bronze medal in the long horse at the same Olympics, behind Takashi Ono and Boris...


Boris Shakhlin
Boris Shakhlin
Boris Anfiyanovich Shakhlin was a Soviet gymnast who was the 1960 Olympic all-around champion and the 1958 all-around World Champion. He won total of 13 medals including seven gold medals at the Summer Olympics, and was the most successful athlete at the 1960 Summer Olympics...


Yuri Titov
Yuri Titov
Yuri Yevlampiyevich Titov is a former Russian gymnast, Olympic champion and four times world champion, who competed for the Soviet Union. He received a total of nine Olympic medals from three Olympic games .-Olympics:...


Giovanni Carminucci
Pasquale Carminucci
Gianfranco Marzolla
Franco Menichelli
Franco Menichelli
Franco Menichelli is an Italian former gymnast and Olympic champion. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he received bronze medals in floor exercise and team combined exercises, and at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he received a gold medal in floor exercises, a silver...


Orlando Polmonari
Angelo Vicardi
Individual all-around
Floor
Pommel horse
none awarded
Rings
Vault
none awarded
Parallel bars
Horizontal bar

Women's events

Team all-around

Polina Astakhova
Polina Astakhova
Polina Astakhova was a Soviet/Ukrainian gymnast who won ten medals at the Summer Olympics, where she participated as a member of the USSR team in 1956, 1960 and 1964.-Biography:Astakhova became interested in artistic gymnastics at age 13,...


Lidia Ivanova
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Lyukhina
Sofia Muratova
Sofia Muratova
Sofia Ivanovna Muratova was a Soviet gymnast, who competed in the 1950s and 1960s, training at Dynamo in Moscow, and won eight Olympic medals.-Early life:...


Margarita Nikolaeva
Margarita Nikolaeva
Margarita Nikolaeva was a Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion.She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where she received a gold medal in vault, and also a gold medal with the Soviet team.-References:...


Eva Bosáková
Eva Bosáková
Eva Bosáková-Hlaváčková, née Věchtová was a Czech gymnast whose career spanned at least from the 1954 World Championships to the 1962 World Championships...


Věra Čáslavská
Vera Cáslavská
Věra Čáslavská is a Czech gymnast. Blonde, cheerful and possessing impressive stage presence, she was generally popular with the public and won a total of 22 international titles...


Miroslava Matoušková
Hana Růžičková
Ludmila Švédová
Adolfína Tkačíková

Atanasia Ionescu
Atanasia Ionescu
Atanasia Ionescu was a Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1960 Olympic Games and at the 1964 Olympic Games. She is an Olympic bronze medalist and a world bronze medalist with the team.-References:...


Sonia Iovan
Sonia Iovan
Sonia Iovan-Inovan is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at three Olympic Games: the 1956 Olympic Games, the 1960 Olympic Games and the 1964 Olympic Games. She is a double Olympic bronze medalist, a bronze world medalist and a multiple European medalist.-References:...


Elena Leuşteanu
Elena Leusteanu
Elena Leuşteanu-Popescu , was a female Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at three Olympic games. During her career she won three Olympic bronze medals, one world bronze medal and five continental silver medals...


Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă
Elena Niculescu
Elena Margarit
Elena Mărgărit-Niculescu is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast who represented Romania at the 1956 Olympic Games and at the 1960 Olympic Games. She is a double Olympic bronze medalist and a world bronze medalist with the team.-References:...


Uta Poreceanu
Uta Poreceanu
Uta Poreceanu is a retired Romanian artistic gymnast. She is an Olympic bronze medalist with the team.-References:...

Individual all-around
Vault
Uneven bars
Balance beam
Floor

Medal table

1 10 8 8 26
2 4 2 3 9
3 1 1 0 2
4 1 0 0 1
5 0 1 2 3
6 0 0 1 1
0 0 1 1
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