Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar 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 128 competitors from 29 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[2] The event was won by Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, the nation's first victory in the horizontal bar after two Games with silver and bronze medals. The Soviets also took silver, with Yuri Titov finishing second. Shakhlin (bronze in 1960) and Titov (silver in 1956) were the fifth and sixth men to win multiple medals in the horizontal bar. Bronze went to Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia.

Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Takashi Ono competing on the horizontal bar
VenueTokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates18–23 October
Competitors128 from 29 nations
Winning score19.625
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Miroslav Cerar
 Yugoslavia
← 1960
1968 →

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). Five of the six finalists from 1960 returned: two-time gold medalist Takashi Ono of Japan, bronze medalist Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Yukio Endo of Japan, fifth-place finisher (and 1956 silver medalist) Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, and sixth-place finisher Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia. (All five would make the final again in 1964.) Ono was the reigning (1962) world champion as well, with Endo a silver medalist and Titov and Cerar finalists.[2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, and Mongolia each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. 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.

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 128th. 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
Saturday, 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 12 Prelim. Final Total
  Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union 9.75 9.80 19.55 9.775 9.850 19.625
  Yuri Titov   Soviet Union 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.800 19.550
  Miroslav Cerar   Yugoslavia 9.55 9.75 19.30 9.650 9.850 19.500
4 Victor Lisitsky   Soviet Union 9.65 9.60 19.25 9.625 9.700 19.325
5 Yukio Endo   Japan 9.70 9.70 19.40 9.700 9.350 19.050
6 Takashi Ono   Japan 9.70 9.70 19.40 9.700 9.300 19.000
7 Rajmund Csanyi   Hungary 9.70 9.55 19.25 Did not advance
Franco Menichelli   Italy 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Haruhiro Yamashita   Japan 9.65 9.60 19.25 Did not advance
10 Victor Leontyev   Soviet Union 9.50 9.70 19.20 Did not advance
11 Takashi Mitsukuri   Japan 9.55 9.60 19.15 Did not advance
12 Takuji Hayata   Japan 9.60 9.50 19.10 Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica   Poland 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
14 Wilhelm Kubica   Poland 9.55 9.50 19.05 Did not advance
Nicola Prodanov   Bulgaria 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
Lajos Varga   Hungary 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
17 Yury Tsapenko   Soviet Union 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
18 Siegfried Fulle   United Team of Germany 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Velik Kapsasov   Bulgaria 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
Frederic Orendi   Romania 9.60 9.35 18.95 Did not advance
21 Istvan Aranyos   Hungary 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Luigi Cimnaghi   Italy 9.30 9.60 18.90 Did not advance
Sergey Diomidov   Soviet Union 9.60 9.30 18.90 Did not advance
Klaus Köste   United Team of Germany 9.50 9.40 18.90 Did not advance
Shuji Tsurumi   Japan 9.65 9.25 18.90 Did not advance
26 Chung Yi Kwang   South Korea 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Karel Klecka   Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Makoto Sakamoto   United States 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
29 Liuben Christov   Bulgaria 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
Erwin Koppe   United Team of Germany 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
31 Ronald Barak   United States 9.45 9.30 18.75 Did not advance
Bernard Fauqueux   France 9.20 9.55 18.75 Did not advance
Jan Jankowicz   Poland 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
Olli Laiho   Finland 9.45 9.30 18.75 Did not advance
Georgi Mirtchev   Bulgaria 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa   Poland 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
37 Janez Brodnik   Yugoslavia 9.40 9.30 18.70 Did not advance
Christian Guiffroy   France 9.25 9.45 18.70 Did not advance
Vaclav Kubicka   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.35 18.70 Did not advance
40 Gyozo Cser   Hungary 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
Age Storhaug   Norway 9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
42 Philipp Fürst   United Team of Germany 9.20 9.40 18.60 Did not advance
Kim Kwang Duk   South Korea 9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
Alfred Kucharczyk   Poland 9.20 9.40 18.60 Did not advance
Ladislav Pazdera   Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
46 Gheorghe Tohaneanu   Romania 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
47 Larry Banner   United States 9.15 9.35 18.50 Did not advance
Lee Kwang Jae   South Korea 9.40 9.10 18.50 Did not advance
Peter Weber   United Team of Germany 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
50 Otto Kestola   Finland 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Premysl Krbec   Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Gunter Lyhs   United Team of Germany 9.05 9.40 18.45 Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik   Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance
Suh Jae Kyu   South Korea 9.10 9.35 18.45 Did not advance
55 Fritz Feuz   Switzerland 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
Raimo Heinonen   Finland 9.30 9.10 18.40 Did not advance
Todor Kondev   Bulgaria 9.25 9.15 18.40 Did not advance
Martin Srot   Yugoslavia 9.00 9.40 18.40 Did not advance
59 Todor Batchvarov   Bulgaria 9.10 9.25 18.35 Did not advance
60 Anton Kadar   Romania 9.20 9.10 18.30 Did not advance
Kim Choong Tai   South Korea 9.10 9.20 18.30 Did not advance
Harald Wigaard   Norway 8.95 9.35 18.30 Did not advance
63 Giovanni Carminucci   Italy 9.20 9.05 18.25 Did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci   Italy 9.20 9.05 18.25 Did not advance
Eugen Ekman   Finland 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance
Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance
Angelo Vicardi   Italy 8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance
68 Franz Fah   Switzerland 9.00 9.20 18.20 Did not advance
Andrzej Konopka   Poland 8.95 9.25 18.20 Did not advance
Stig Lindevall   Sweden 8.90 9.30 18.20 Did not advance
71 Meinrad Berchtold   Switzerland 8.90 9.25 18.15 Did not advance
Arthur Shurlock   United States 9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance
73 Russell Mitchell   United States 9.05 9.00 18.05 Did not advance
Hannu Rantakari   Finland 9.10 8.95 18.05 Did not advance
75 Andras Lelkes   Hungary 9.10 8.90 18.00 Did not advance
Alojz Petrovic   Yugoslavia 8.75 9.25 18.00 Did not advance
77 Michel Bouchonnet   France 8.75 9.20 17.95 Did not advance
78 Peter Sos   Hungary 8.75 9.05 17.80 Did not advance
79 Héctor Ramírez   Cuba 8.80 8.95 17.75 Did not advance
80 Fredy Egger   Switzerland 9.00 8.70 17.70 Did not advance
Nenad Vidovic   Yugoslavia 9.30 8.40 17.70 Did not advance
82 Gheorghe Condovici   Romania 8.40 9.25 17.65 Did not advance
Gottlieb Fassler   Switzerland 8.45 9.20 17.65 Did not advance
Gilbert Larose   Canada 8.65 9.00 17.65 Did not advance
85 Ivan Caklec   Yugoslavia 8.50 9.10 17.60 Did not advance
86 Liuh Reng Suhn   Taiwan 8.65 8.90 17.55 Did not advance
Walter Muller   Switzerland 8.60 8.95 17.55 Did not advance
Alexandru Szilagyi   Romania 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance
89 Kauko Heikkinen   Finland 9.00 8.45 17.45 Did not advance
Kang Soo Il   South Korea 8.20 9.25 17.45 Did not advance
91 Jan Thai San   Taiwan 8.70 8.70 17.40 Did not advance
Lai Chu Long   Taiwan 8.50 8.90 17.40 Did not advance
Felix Padron   Cuba 8.45 8.95 17.40 Did not advance
94 Graham Bond   Australia 8.95 8.40 17.35 Did not advance
Ady Stefanetti   Luxembourg 8.45 8.90 17.35 Did not advance
William Thoresson   Sweden 8.40 8.95 17.35 Did not advance
Niamdawaa Zagdbazar   Mongolia 8.60 8.75 17.35 Did not advance
98 Barry Cheales   Australia 8.50 8.80 17.30 Did not advance
99 Richard Kihn   Canada 8.55 8.70 17.25 Did not advance
Gregor Weiss   United States 8.85 8.40 17.25 Did not advance
101 Pablo Hernandez   Cuba 8.15 9.00 17.15 Did not advance
102 Bruno Franceschetti   Italy 8.90 8.20 17.10 Did not advance
Pavel Gajdos   Czechoslovakia 9.10 8.00 17.10 Did not advance
Wang Shian Ming   Taiwan 8.35 8.75 17.10 Did not advance
105 John Pancott   Great Britain 8.55 8.50 17.05 Did not advance
Frederick Trainer   Australia 8.35 8.70 17.05 Did not advance
Wilhelm Weiler   Canada 8.15 8.90 17.05 Did not advance
108 Marcus Faulks   Australia 8.45 8.55 17.00 Did not advance
109 Leif Koorn   Sweden 8.45 8.45 16.90 Did not advance
110 Lee Bu Ti   Taiwan 8.05 8.75 16.80 Did not advance
111 Andres Gonzalez   Cuba 8.40 8.30 16.70 Did not advance
Mohamed Lazhari   Algeria 7.45 9.25 16.70 Did not advance
113 Petre Miclaus   Romania 8.00 8.45 16.45 Did not advance
114 Carlos Garcia   Cuba 8.20 7.45 15.65 Did not advance
115 Douglas McLennon   Australia 6.90 8.40 15.30 Did not advance
116 Jalal Bazargan   Iran 7.80 7.45 15.25 Did not advance
117 John Mulhall   Great Britain 7.65 7.55 15.20 Did not advance
118 Benjamin de Roo   Australia 7.20 7.95 15.15 Did not advance
119 Octavio Suarez   Cuba 6.90 8.00 14.90 Did not advance
120 Uih Yah Torh   Taiwan 6.85 7.60 14.45 Did not advance
121 Vithal Karande   India 6.75 6.45 13.20 Did not advance
122 Carlos Pizzini   Argentina 4.90 8.20 13.10 Did not advance
123 B. Bhosle   India 5.25 6.90 12.15 Did not advance
124 Anant Ram   India 4.50 6.05 10.55 Did not advance
125 Mohamed Ibrahim   Egypt 7.30 7.30 Did not advance
126 D. Mondal   India 7.15 7.15 Did not advance
127 Y. More   India 4.50 1.75 6.25 Did not advance
128 Trilok Singh   India 6.00 6.00 Did not advance
Demetrio Pastrana   Philippines DNS Did not advance
Fortunato Payao   Philippines DNS Did not advance

References edit

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Horizontal Bar". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.

Sources edit

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