Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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.

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 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
  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
  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.