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Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Boris Shakhlin competing on the vault
VenueBaths of Caracalla
Dates5–10 September
Competitors129 from 28 nations
Winning score19.350
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union
1st place, gold medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vladimir Portnoi  Soviet Union
← 1956
1964 →

The men's vault competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It was held on 5, 7, and 10 September at the Baths of Caracalla. There were 129 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 2 gymnasts.[1] For the second straight Games, there was a tie for first place in the vault. Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union and Takashi Ono of Japan each received a gold medal. It was the third consecutive Games with a gold medal for the Soviets. Ono, who had taken bronze in 1952, became the second man to win multiple vault medals. Third place and the bronze medal went to Soviet Vladimir Portnoi.

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the vault final.

Background

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This was the 10th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1956 returned: bronze medalist Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher (and 1952 silver medalist) Masao Takemoto of Japan, and seventh-place finisher Jack Beckner of the United States. Also returning was Takashi Ono of Japan, bronze medalist in 1952 and 16th place in 1956. The 1958 World Championship podium was (in order) Titov, Takemoto, and Ono.[1]

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's vault; the short-lived United Arab Republic made its only appearance. The United States made its ninth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to two individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score. The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004).

These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the new apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score; the top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals; others were ranked 7th through 130th. For the apparatus finals, the all-around score for that apparatus was multiplied by one-half then added to the final round exercise score to give a final total.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, with the final total apparatus score from 0 to 20.

Schedule

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All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Monday, 5 September 1960 8:00
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Wednesday, 7 September 1960 8:00
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 10 September 1960 15:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan 9.60 9.70 19.30 9.650 9.700 19.350
Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union 9.50 9.70 19.20 9.600 9.750 19.350
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vladimir Portnoy  Soviet Union 9.60 9.65 19.25 9.625 9.600 19.225
4 Yury Titov  Soviet Union 9.50 9.50 19.00 9.500 9.700 19.200
5 Yukio Endo  Japan 9.55 9.50 19.05 9.525 9.650 19.175
6 Shuji Tsurumi  Japan 9.45 9.55 19.00 9.500 9.650 19.150
7 Masao Takemoto  Japan 9.35 9.65 19.00 did not advance
8 Takashi Mitsukuri  Japan 9.40 9.55 18.95 did not advance
9 Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan 9.35 9.50 18.85 did not advance
Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.35 9.50 18.85 did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 9.20 9.65 18.85 did not advance
12 Nikolai Miligulo  Soviet Union 9.30 9.50 18.80 did not advance
13 Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.35 9.40 18.75 did not advance
14 Albert Azaryan  Soviet Union 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
15 Angelo Vicardi  Italy 9.30 9.35 18.65 did not advance
16 Valery Kerdemelidi  Soviet Union 9.25 9.35 18.60 did not advance
17 Fred Orlofsky  United States 9.20 9.35 18.55 did not advance
Nikola Prodanov  Bulgaria 9.15 9.40 18.55 did not advance
19 William Thoresson  Sweden 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
20 Jaroslav Šťastný  Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.25 9.20 18.45 did not advance
Ernst Fivian  Switzerland 9.10 9.35 18.45 did not advance
Don Tonry  United States 9.20 9.25 18.45 did not advance
Pavel Gajdoš  Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Bo Wirhed  Sweden 9.25 9.20 18.45 did not advance
26 Günter Lyhs  United Team of Germany 9.00 9.40 18.40 did not advance
Josef Trmal  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.40 18.40 did not advance
28 Ferdinand Daniš  Czechoslovakia 8.95 9.40 18.35 did not advance
Larry Banner  United States 9.05 9.30 18.35 did not advance
Max Benker  Switzerland 9.00 9.35 18.35 did not advance
Stoyan Stoyanov  Bulgaria 9.05 9.30 18.35 did not advance
Sándor Békési  Hungary 9.05 9.30 18.35 did not advance
33 Günter Nachtigall  United Team of Germany 8.95 9.35 18.30 did not advance
34 Siegfried Fülle  United Team of Germany 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
Lajos Varga  Hungary 9.25 9.00 18.25 did not advance
Rajmund Csányi  Hungary 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
Alojz Petrovič  Yugoslavia 9.00 9.25 18.25 did not advance
39 Jaroslav Bím  Czechoslovakia 8.85 9.35 18.20 did not advance
Gianfranco Marzolla  Italy 8.95 9.25 18.20 did not advance
Karlheinz Friedrich  United Team of Germany 9.10 9.10 18.20 did not advance
Philipp Fürst  United Team of Germany 8.95 9.25 18.20 did not advance
43 Olavi Leimuvirta  Finland 8.90 9.25 18.15 did not advance
Fritz Feuz  Switzerland 8.70 9.45 18.15 did not advance
Lyuben Khristov  Bulgaria 8.80 9.35 18.15 did not advance
46 Otto Kestola  Finland 8.90 9.20 18.10 did not advance
Jack Beckner  United States 8.90 9.20 18.10 did not advance
Hans Schwarzentruber  Switzerland 8.75 9.35 18.10 did not advance
Ivan Čaklec  Yugoslavia 8.80 9.30 18.10 did not advance
Hermenegildo Martínez  Spain 8.85 9.25 18.10 did not advance
51 Sakari Olkkonen  Finland 8.75 9.30 18.05 did not advance
52 Orlando Polmonari  Italy 8.75 9.25 18.00 did not advance
Rudolf Keszthelyi  Hungary 8.85 9.15 18.00 did not advance
Bernard Fauqueux  France 8.90 9.10 18.00 did not advance
Ernest Hawełek  Poland 8.85 9.15 18.00 did not advance
Jerzy Jokiel  Poland 8.95 9.05 18.00 did not advance
Georgi Khristov  Bulgaria 9.00 9.00 18.00 did not advance
58 Velik Kapsazov  Bulgaria 8.60 9.35 17.95 did not advance
Alfred Kucharczyk  Poland 8.55 9.40 17.95 did not advance
Ismail Abdallah  United Arab Republic 8.75 9.20 17.95 did not advance
61 Gar O'Quinn  United States 8.75 9.15 17.90 did not advance
Milenko Lekić  Yugoslavia 8.65 9.25 17.90 did not advance
63 Robert Caymaris  France 8.85 9.00 17.85 did not advance
Abie Grossfeld  United States 8.90 8.95 17.85 did not advance
Armand Huberty  Luxembourg 8.75 9.10 17.85 did not advance
Marsel Markulin  Yugoslavia 8.70 9.15 17.85 did not advance
Ahmed Goneim  United Arab Republic 8.85 9.00 17.85 did not advance
68 Raimo Heinonen  Finland 8.60 9.20 17.80 did not advance
69 André Brüllmann  Switzerland 8.60 9.15 17.75 did not advance
Géza Bejek  Hungary 8.70 9.05 17.75 did not advance
Leif Koorn  Sweden 8.45 9.30 17.75 did not advance
Willi Kafel  Austria 8.80 8.95 17.75 did not advance
73 Nik Stuart  Great Britain 8.70 9.00 17.70 did not advance
Józef Rajnisz  Poland 8.75 8.95 17.70 did not advance
Kurt Wigartz  Sweden 8.45 9.25 17.70 did not advance
Hans Sauter  Austria 8.60 9.10 17.70 did not advance
Jean Jaillard  France 8.70 9.00 17.70 did not advance
Richard Montpetit  Canada 8.95 8.75 17.70 did not advance
Enrique Montserrat  Spain 8.75 8.95 17.70 did not advance
Luis Valbuena  Spain 8.85 8.85 17.70 did not advance
81 Kauko Heikkinen  Finland 8.70 8.95 17.65 did not advance
Erwin Koppe  United Team of Germany 8.45 9.20 17.65 did not advance
Stig Lindewall  Sweden 8.70 8.95 17.65 did not advance
Edy Thomi  Switzerland 8.50 9.15 17.65 did not advance
János Mester  Hungary 8.60 9.05 17.65 did not advance
Kim Sang-guk  South Korea 8.65 9.00 17.65 did not advance
87 Marcel Coppin  Luxembourg 8.75 8.85 17.60 did not advance
René Marteaux  Belgium 8.50 9.10 17.60 did not advance
89 Eugen Ekman  Finland 8.55 9.00 17.55 did not advance
Åge Storhaug  Norway 8.40 9.15 17.55 did not advance
Ladislav Pazdera  Czechoslovakia 8.35 9.20 17.55 did not advance
Selim El-Sayed  United Arab Republic 8.70 8.85 17.55 did not advance
93 Andrzej Konopka  Poland 8.80 8.65 17.45 did not advance
Johann König  Austria 8.55 8.90 17.45 did not advance
95 Emilio Lecuona  Spain 8.35 9.05 17.40 did not advance
Abdel Vares Sharraf  United Arab Republic 8.40 9.00 17.40 did not advance
Léopold Desmet  Belgium 8.50 8.90 17.40 did not advance
98 Jack Pancott  Great Britain 8.20 9.15 17.35 did not advance
Ken Buffin  Great Britain 8.30 9.05 17.35 did not advance
100 Dragan Gagić  Yugoslavia 7.95 9.25 17.20 did not advance
101 Mohamed Lazhari  France 8.10 9.05 17.15 did not advance
102 Gerhard Huber  Austria 8.40 8.70 17.10 did not advance
Hubert Erang  Luxembourg 8.40 8.70 17.10 did not advance
104 John Mulhall  Great Britain 8.45 8.60 17.05 did not advance
105 Peter Starling  Great Britain 7.85 9.15 17.00 did not advance
106 Todor Bachvarov  Bulgaria 7.85 9.05 16.90 did not advance
Hermann Klien  Austria 8.40 8.50 16.90 did not advance
108 Ahmed Dakkeli  United Arab Republic 7.75 9.10 16.85 did not advance
109 Miloud M'Sellek  Morocco 8.30 8.50 16.80 did not advance
110 Michel Mathiot  France 7.65 9.10 16.75 did not advance
111 Michel Kiesgen  Luxembourg 7.80 8.85 16.65 did not advance
112 Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 7.65 8.90 16.55 did not advance
113 Anton Hertl  Austria 7.55 8.95 16.50 did not advance
114 Jaime Belenguer  Spain 7.65 8.80 16.45 did not advance
115 Ramón García  Spain 7.50 8.90 16.40 did not advance
116 Benjamin de Roo  Australia 7.40 8.95 16.35 did not advance
117 Ahmed Issam Allam  United Arab Republic 7.00 9.30 16.30 did not advance
Juan Caviglia  Argentina 7.40 8.90 16.30 did not advance
119 François Eisenbarth  Luxembourg 7.75 8.45 16.20 did not advance
120 Ahmed Fellat  Morocco 8.30 7.35 15.65 did not advance
121 Armando Valles  Mexico 7.15 8.40 15.55 did not advance
122 Daniel Touche  France 6.00 9.10 15.10 did not advance
123 Dick Gradley  Great Britain 8.30 6.75 15.05 did not advance
Jean Cronstedt  Sweden 6.10 8.95 15.05 did not advance
125 Graham Bond  Australia 6.00 8.65 14.65 did not advance
126 Mohamed Sekkat  Morocco 6.50 7.95 14.45 did not advance
127 Abdesselem Regragui  Morocco 6.00 6.75 12.75 did not advance
128 Darif Tanjaoui  Morocco 6.00 5.50 11.50 did not advance
129 Hermenegildo Candeias  Portugal 0.00 8.75 8.75 did not advance
Kacem Klifa  Morocco DNS did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 November 2020.