Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics
| Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artistic | ||||
| Team all-around | men | women | ||
| Individual all-around | men | women | ||
| Vault | men | women | ||
| Floor | men | women | ||
| Pommel horse | men | |||
| Rings | men | |||
| Parallel bars | men | |||
| Horizontal bar | men | |||
| Uneven bars | women | |||
| Balance beam | women | |||
At the 1960 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome from September 5 through 10th.
Format of competition
The scoring in the team competition and in the all-around was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics (there was no team, portable apparatus event, however). But apart from two performances:a compulsory and an optional, which counted for both the team competition and the all-around, a gymnast, who competed in an apparatus final should show one's skills once more on the respective apparatus. For the final score ("Total" column in tables below), the compulsory routine's mark was added to the optional routine's, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" column) and added to the third routine's mark ("Final" column).
Results
Men's events
Women's events
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team all-around |
.svg.png){kind=small} Soviet Union (URS)Polina Astakhova Lidia Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Lyukhina Sofia Muratova Margarita Nikolaeva |
 Czechoslovakia (TCH)Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Matylda Matoušková Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfína Tkačíková |
.svg.png){kind=small} Romania (ROU)Atanasia Ionescu Sonia Iovan Elena Leuşteanu Emilia Vătăşoiu-Liţă Elena Niculescu Uta Poreceanu |
| Individual all-around |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (URS) |
Sofia Muratova Soviet Union (URS) |
Polina Astakhova Soviet Union (URS) |
| Vault |
Margarita Nikolaeva Soviet Union (URS) |
Sofia Muratova Soviet Union (URS) |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (URS) |
| Uneven bars |
Polina Astakhova Soviet Union (URS) |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (URS) |
Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union (URS) |
| Balance beam |
Eva Bosáková Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (URS) |
Sofia Muratova Soviet Union (URS) |
| Floor |
Larisa Latynina Soviet Union (URS) |
Polina Astakhova Soviet Union (URS) |
Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union (URS) |
Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 10 | 8 | 8 | 26 |
| 2 |  Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 |  Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 |  Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | .svg.png){kind=small} Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
References
- The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960. Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Rome: Carlo Colombo Publisher. 1963.
- "1960 Olympic Games". Gymn-Forum.com. Retrieved May 17, 2006.
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