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Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Mikhail Voronin
VenueAuditorio Nacional
Dates22–26 October
Competitors116 from 28 nations
Winning score19.000
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yukio Endo  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sergei Diomidov  Soviet Union
← 1964
1972 →

The men's vault competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The event was held from 22 to 26 October at the Auditorio Nacional. There were 116 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, the nation's fourth gold medal in the vault. Yukio Endo of Japan took silver, while Soviet Sergei Diomidov earned bronze.

Background

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This was the 12th 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). Three of the six finalists from 1964 returned: silver medalist Victor Lisitsky of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Hannu Rantakari of Finland, and sixth-place finisher Yukio Endo of Japan. Reigning gold medalist and world champion Haruhiro Yamashita of Japan did not compete.[1]

Ecuador made its debut in the men's vault; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. The United States made its 11th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three 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. (One gymnast who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the vault.)

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 116th. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.

Schedule

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All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 22 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Thursday, 24 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 26 October 1968 19:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union 9.45 9.55 19.00 9.500 9.500 19.000
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yukio Endo  Japan 9.35 9.65 19.00 9.500 9.450 18.950
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.45 9.45 18.90 9.450 9.475 18.925
4 Takeshi Katō  Japan 9.45 9.60 19.05 9.525 9.250 18.775
5 Akinori Nakayama  Japan 9.45 9.40 18.85 9.425 9.300 18.725
6 Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan 9.40 9.55 18.95 9.475 9.175 18.650
7 Sawao Kato  Japan 9.35 9.55 18.90 did not compete
8 Valery Karasyov  Soviet Union 9.40 9.45 18.85 did not advance
Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union 9.45 9.40 18.85 did not advance
10 Siegfried Fülle  East Germany 9.35 9.45 18.80 did not advance
Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.40 9.40 18.80 did not advance
12 Valery Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 9.30 9.45 18.75 did not advance
13 Mikołaj Kubica  Poland 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
14 Matthias Brehme  East Germany 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
15 Günter Beier  East Germany 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 9.25 9.35 18.60 did not advance
Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.40 18.60 did not advance
18 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 9.20 9.35 18.55 did not advance
František Bočko  Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
Václav Kubíčka  Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.25 18.55 did not advance
Bohumil Mudřík  Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
23 Jiří Fejtek  Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.40 18.50 did not advance
Dave Thor  United States 9.10 9.40 18.50 did not advance
Miloš Vratič  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
Peter Weber  East Germany 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
27 Václav Skoumal  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.25 18.45 did not advance
Helmut Tepasse  West Germany 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
30 Georgi Adamov  Bulgaria 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
Christian Guiffroy  France 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Christer Jönsson  Sweden 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Milenko Kersnić  Yugoslavia 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Klaus Köste  East Germany 9.15 9.25 18.40 did not advance
Fred Roethlisberger  United States 9.25 9.15 18.40 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
37 Hans Ettlin  Switzerland 9.10 9.25 18.35 did not advance
Evert Lindgren  Sweden 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
Heiko Reinemer  West Germany 9.00 9.35 18.35 did not advance
Armando Valles  Mexico 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
41 Gilbert Larose  Canada 9.10 9.20 18.30 did not advance
Tine Šrot  Yugoslavia 9.05 9.25 18.30 did not advance
43 István Aranyos  Hungary 9.05 9.20 18.25 did not advance
Andrzej Gonera  Poland 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
Erich Hess  West Germany 9.00 9.25 18.25 did not advance
Ivan Kondev  Bulgaria 9.15 9.10 18.25 did not advance
Stan Wild  Great Britain 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
Stefan Zoev  Bulgaria 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
49 Sid Jensen  Canada 8.85 9.35 18.20 did not advance
Sándor Kiss  Hungary 9.05 9.15 18.20 did not advance
Vincenzo Mori  Italy 9.15 9.05 18.20 did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen  Finland 9.00 9.20 18.20 did not advance
Endre Tihanyi  Hungary 9.15 9.05 18.20 did not advance
54 Kanati Allen  United States 9.00 9.15 18.15 did not advance
Rumen Gabrovski  Bulgaria 9.10 9.05 18.15 did not advance
Finn Johannesson  Sweden 9.05 9.10 18.15 did not advance
Raycho Khristov  Bulgaria 8.95 9.20 18.15 did not advance
Jerzy Kruża  Poland 9.00 9.15 18.15 did not advance
Olli Laiho  Finland 9.15 9.00 18.15 did not advance
60 Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.15 8.95 18.10 did not advance
Hermann Höpfner  West Germany 8.95 9.15 18.10 did not advance
Miloslav Netušil  Czechoslovakia 8.95 9.15 18.10 did not advance
63 Sid Freudenstein  United States 9.10 8.95 18.05 did not advance
Sylwester Kubica  Poland 8.75 9.30 18.05 did not advance
Jorge Rodríguez  Cuba 8.95 9.10 18.05 did not advance
Peter Rohner  Switzerland 8.75 9.30 18.05 did not advance
Heikki Sappinen  Finland 8.90 9.15 18.05 did not advance
68 Steve Cohen  United States 8.95 9.05 18.00 did not advance
Gerhard Dietrich  East Germany 9.00 9.00 18.00 did not advance
Fernando Valles  Mexico 8.85 9.15 18.00 did not advance
71 José Filipe Abreu  Portugal 9.25 8.70 17.95 did not advance
Michel Bouchonnet  France 8.80 9.15 17.95 did not advance
Hans Peter Nielsen  Denmark 8.95 9.00 17.95 did not advance
Mauno Nissinen  Finland 8.95 9.00 17.95 did not advance
75 Damir Anić  Yugoslavia 8.85 9.05 17.90 did not advance
Dezső Bordán  Hungary 9.05 8.85 17.90 did not advance
Roland Hürzeler  Switzerland 8.80 9.10 17.90 did not advance
78 Michael Booth  Great Britain 8.90 8.95 17.85 did not advance
Christian Deuza  France 8.75 9.10 17.85 did not advance
José González  Mexico 9.00 8.85 17.85 did not advance
Béla Herczeg  Hungary 8.80 9.05 17.85 did not advance
Hannu Rantakari  Finland 9.05 8.80 17.85 did not advance
83 Heinz Häussler  West Germany 8.85 8.95 17.80 did not advance
Steve Hug  United States 8.75 9.05 17.80 did not advance
85 Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 9.05 8.70 17.75 did not advance
Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 8.80 8.95 17.75 did not advance
87 Edwin Greutmann  Switzerland 8.65 9.05 17.70 did not advance
Reino Heino  Finland 8.90 8.80 17.70 did not advance
Bozhidar Ivanov  Bulgaria 8.80 8.90 17.70 did not advance
Roberto Pumpido  Cuba 8.70 9.00 17.70 did not advance
Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 8.85 8.85 17.70 did not advance
92 Barry Brooker  Canada 8.90 8.75 17.65 did not advance
Chung-tae Kim  South Korea 9.00 8.65 17.65 did not advance
94 Roger Dion  Canada 8.55 9.05 17.60 did not advance
Luis Navarrete  Cuba 8.40 9.20 17.60 did not advance
96 Paul Müller  Switzerland 8.45 9.10 17.55 did not advance
Octavio Suárez  Cuba 8.40 9.15 17.55 did not advance
98 Rogelio Mendoza  Mexico 8.20 9.30 17.50 did not advance
99 Larbi Lazhari  Algeria 8.55 8.90 17.45 did not advance
Steve Mitruk  Canada 8.95 8.50 17.45 did not advance
Luis Ramírez  Cuba 8.60 8.85 17.45 did not advance
102 José Vilchis  Mexico 8.60 8.80 17.40 did not advance
Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn  Mongolia 8.75 8.65 17.40 did not advance
104 Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 8.75 8.60 17.35 did not advance
105 Murray Chessell  Australia 8.40 8.75 17.15 did not advance
106 Sergio Luna  Ecuador 8.35 8.70 17.05 did not advance
Konrád Mentsik  Hungary 8.15 8.90 17.05 did not advance
108 Chu-Long Lai  Taiwan 8.60 8.40 17.00 did not advance
109 Enrique García  Mexico 8.10 8.65 16.75 did not advance
110 Fu Cheng  Taiwan 8.60 8.00 16.60 did not advance
111 Arne Thomsen  Denmark 9.00 7.00 16.00 did not advance
112 Pedro Rendón  Ecuador 6.75 7.15 13.90 did not advance
113 Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.30 9.30 did not advance
114 Willi Jaschek  West Germany 9.10 9.10 did not advance
115 Norman Henson  Philippines 8.40 8.40 did not advance
116 Eduardo Nájera  Ecuador 8.05 8.05 did not advance

References

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