Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Hannu Rantakari competing on the vault
VenueTokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates18–23 October
Competitors130 from 30 nations
Winning score19.600
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Haruhiro Yamashita  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Victor Lisitsky  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hannu Rantakari  Finland
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Gymnastics at the
1964 Summer Olympics
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Uneven barswomen
Balance beamwomen

The men's vault was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.[1] The event was held on 18, 20, and 23 October. There were 130 competitors from 30 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[2] For the first time in three Games, there was a clear winner with no tie. Haruhiro Yamashita took the gold medal, the second consecutive gold for Japan. Victor Lisitsky finished second, taking silver but breaking the Soviet Union's three-Games gold medal streak. Hannu Rantakari's bronze was Finland's first medal in the event since 1948.

Background[edit]

This was the 11th 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). Seven of the top 11 (including three-way tie for 9th) gymnasts from 1960 returned: joint gold medalists Takashi Ono of Japan and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, fifth-place finisher Yukio Endo, sixth-place finisher Shuji Tsurumi, and eighth-place finisher Takashi Mitsukuri of Japan, and ninth-place finishers Franco Menichelli and Giovanni Carminucci of Italy. Ono had also taken bronze in 1952, Titov had taken bronze in 1956, and Shakhlin had finished fourth in 1956. The reigning (1962) world champion was Přemysl Krbec of Czechoslovakia, with Haruhiro Yamashita of Japan second and Endo and Shakhlin tied for third.[2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, Mongolia, and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's vault. The United States made its 10th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format[edit]

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 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.[2][3]

Schedule[edit]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 18 October 1964 8:30
17:00		 Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 October 1964 8:30
17:00		 Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 23 October 1964 19:30 Final

Results[edit]

Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises, with the median scores from the four judges for the two sets of exercises were summed. This score was also used in calculating both individual all-around and team scores.

The top 6 advanced to the final for the apparatus, keeping half of their preliminary score to be added to their final score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 1⁄2 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Haruhiro Yamashita  Japan 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.850 19.600
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Victor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.75 9.75 19.50 9.750 9.575 19.325
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hannu Rantakari  Finland 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.625 19.300
4 Shuji Tsurumi  Japan 9.65 9.65 19.30 9.650 9.575 19.225
5 Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.525 19.200
6 Yukio Endo  Japan 9.75 9.65 19.40 9.700 9.375 19.075
7 Siegfried Fulle  United Team of Germany 9.65 9.65 19.30 Did not advance
Alfred Kucharczyk  Poland 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
9 Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Yury Titov  Soviet Union 9.65 9.60 19.25 Did not advance
Premysl Krbec  Czechoslovakia 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Walter Muller  Switzerland 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Nicola Prodanov  Bulgaria 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
14 Takashi Ono  Japan 9.65 9.55 19.20 Did not advance
Wilhelm Weiler  Canada 9.50 9.70 19.20 Did not advance
16 Fritz Feuz  Switzerland 9.50 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
Takuji Hayata  Japan 9.45 9.70 19.15 Did not advance
Gunter Lyhs  United Team of Germany 9.55 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
19 Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Rajmund Csanyi  Hungary 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
Raimo Heinonen  Finland 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
Klaus Koste  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.75 19.10 Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica  Poland 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
24 Fredy Egger  Switzerland 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.35 9.70 19.05 Did not advance
Mitsukuri Takashi  Japan 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
Yury Tsapenko  Soviet Union 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
28 Age Storhaug  Norway 9.45 9.55 19.00 Did not advance
Peter Weber  United Team of Germany 9.45 9.55 19.00 Did not advance
30 Istvan Aranyos  Hungary 9.50 9.45 18.95 Did not advance
Philipp Furst  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Victor Leontyev  Soviet Union 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.60 18.95 Did not advance
Makoto Sakamoto  United States 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
Peter Sos  Hungary 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
36 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Vaclav Kubicka  Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Andras Lelkes  Hungary 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Georgi Mirtchev  Bulgaria 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Russell Mitchell  United States 9.25 9.65 18.90 Did not advance
Frederic Orendi  Romania 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
42 Eugen Ekman  Finland 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
Gottlieb Fassler  Switzerland 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Olli Laiho  Finland 9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
John Mulhall  Great Britain 9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
Gheorghe Tohaneanu  Romania 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
48 Pavel Gajdos  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Velik Kapsasov  Bulgaria 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Alojz Petrovic  Yugoslavia 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Arthur Shurlock  United States 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Alexandru Szilagyi  Romania 9.20 9.60 18.80 Did not advance
Gregor Weiss  United States 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
54 Larry Banner  United States 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Michel Bouchonnet  France 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Ivan Caklec  Yugoslavia 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Liuben Christov  Bulgaria 9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Anton Kadar  Romania 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Karel Klecka  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.55 18.75 Did not advance
Erwin Koppe  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.50 9.25 18.75 Did not advance
Gilbert Larose  Canada 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Martin Srot  Yugoslavia 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
William Thoresson  Sweden 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Harald Wigaard  Norway 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
69 Todor Batchvarov  Bulgaria 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Bernard Fauqueux  France 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Otto Kestola  Finland 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Lee Kwang Jae  South Korea 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Stig Lindevall  Sweden 9.25 9.45 18.70 Did not advance
Petre Miclaus  Romania 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Niamdawaa Zagdbazar  Mongolia 9.25 9.45 18.70 Did not advance
77 Franz Fah  Switzerland 9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
Andres Gonzalez  Cuba 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Kang Soo Il  South Korea 9.10 9.55 18.65 Did not advance
Richard Kihn  Canada 9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
Leif Koorn  Sweden 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Mohamed Lazhari  Algeria 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Angelo Vicardi  Italy 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
84 Jan Jankowicz  Poland 9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
Octavio Suarez  Cuba 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
86 Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
Christian Guiffroy  France 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Benjamin de Roo  Australia 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance
90 Gheorghe Condovici  Romania 9.15 9.35 18.50 Did not advance
Kim Choong Tai  South Korea 9.25 9.25 18.50 Did not advance
Todor Kondev  Bulgaria 9.30 9.20 18.50 Did not advance
John Pancott  Great Britain 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
Carlos Pizzini  Argentina 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
95 Ronald Barak  United States 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Kauko Heikkinen  Finland 9.10 9.35 18.45 Did not advance
Andrzej Konopka  Poland 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance
Suh Jae Kyu  South Korea 9.00 9.45 18.45 Did not advance
100 Ladislav Pazdera  Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
Frederick Trainer  Australia 9.05 9.35 18.40 Did not advance
Lajos Varga  Hungary 9.15 9.25 18.40 Did not advance
103 Jalal Bazargan  Iran 9.05 9.30 18.35 Did not advance
Graham Bond  Australia 9.30 9.05 18.35 Did not advance
105 Gyozo Cser  Hungary 9.00 9.30 18.30 Did not advance
106 Barry Cheales  Australia 9.15 9.10 18.25 Did not advance
Chung Yi Kwang  South Korea 9.30 8.95 18.25 Did not advance
Kim Kwang Duk  South Korea 8.90 9.35 18.25 Did not advance
109 Jan Thai San  Taiwan 9.25 8.90 18.15 Did not advance
Felix Padron  Cuba 9.05 9.10 18.15 Did not advance
Nenad Vidovic  Yugoslavia 8.85 9.30 18.15 Did not advance
112 Lai Chu Long  Taiwan 9.00 9.10 18.10 Did not advance
113 Ady Stefanetti  Luxembourg 8.85 9.20 18.05 Did not advance
114 D. Mondal  India 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance
Wang Shian Ming  Taiwan 9.00 8.90 17.90 Did not advance
116 Carlos Garcia  Cuba 8.65 9.20 17.85 Did not advance
Pablo Hernandez  Cuba 9.10 8.75 17.85 Did not advance
Douglas McLennon  Australia 8.95 8.90 17.85 Did not advance
119 Trilok Singh  India 8.70 9.10 17.80 Did not advance
120 Marcus Faulks  Australia 9.25 8.45 17.70 Did not advance
121 Liuh Reng Suhn  Taiwan 8.95 8.70 17.65 Did not advance
122 Uih Yah Torh  Taiwan 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance
123 Lee Bu Ti  Taiwan 9.20 8.10 17.30 Did not advance
124 Vithal Karande  India 8.80 8.40 17.20 Did not advance
125 Y. More  India 8.65 8.50 17.15 Did not advance
126 B. Bhosle  India 7.90 8.75 16.65 Did not advance
127 Mohamed Ibrahim  Egypt 9.20 — 9.20 Did not advance
128 Fortunato Payao  Philippines 7.50 — 7.50 Did not advance
129 Demetrio Pastrana  Philippines 5.00 — 5.00 Did not advance
130 Anand Ram  India — — 0.00 Did not advance

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.

Sources[edit]

  • Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.
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