Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo from October 18 through October 23.

The scoring in all the events was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics. Six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores - for compulsory and optional routine) qualified for that apparatus finals. Each of the women's events was judged by five judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of three remaining ones constituted the score. Each of the men's events were judged by four judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining ones constituted the score.

Results

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Japan (JPN) Yukio Endo Takuji Hayata Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita	Soviet Union (URS) Sergei Diomidov Viktor Leontev Viktor Lisitsky Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov Yuri Tsapenko	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Fülle Philipp Fürst Erwin Koppe Klaus Köste Günter Lyhs Peter Weber
Individual all-around	Yukio Endo  Japan	Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union	none awarded
		Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union
		Shuji Tsurumi  Japan
Floor exercise	Franco Menichelli  Italy	Yukio Endo  Japan	none awarded
		Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union
Horizontal bar	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union	Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia
Parallel bars	Yukio Endo  Japan	Shuji Tsurumi  Japan	Franco Menichelli  Italy
Pommel horse	Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia	Shuji Tsurumi  Japan	Yuri Tsapenko  Soviet Union
Rings	Takuji Hayata  Japan	Franco Menichelli  Italy	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union
Vault	Haruhiro Yamashita  Japan	Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union	Hannu Rantakari  Finland

Women's

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Soviet Union (URS) Polina Astakhova Ludmila Gromova Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Elena Volchetskaya Tamara Zamotaylova	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Věra Čáslavská Marianna Krajčírová Jana Posnerová Hana Růžičková Jaroslava Sedláčková Adolfína Tkačíková	Japan (JPN) Toshiko Aihara Ginko Chiba Keiko Ikeda Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Hiroko Tsuji
Individual all-around	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union
Balance beam	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Tamara Manina  Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
Floor exercise	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Anikó Ducza  Hungary
Uneven bars	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Katalin Makray  Hungary	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union
Vault	Věra Čáslavská  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union Birgit Radochla  United Team of Germany	None awarded

Medal table

Gymnastics at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan

1	Japan (JPN)	5	4	1	10
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	10	5	19
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	1	0	4
4	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
6	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	1	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
8	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1

References

• Gymnastics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games. sports-reference.com
• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net