Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

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