Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | |
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Venue | National Auditorium |
Dates | 21 October – 26 October 1968 |
Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of gymnasts | ||
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 1968 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City from October 21 through October 26.[1]
Format of competition
[edit]The scoring in all the events was similar to that of the gymnastics events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. The 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. The new feature of the competition was in women's events: each of them was judged by four judges, like the men's competition. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining marks constituted the score.
Results
[edit]Men's events
[edit]Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual all-around |
Sawao Kato![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Team all-around |
![]() Yukio Endo Sawao Kato Takeshi Katō Eizo Kenmotsu Akinori Nakayama Mitsuo Tsukahara |
![]() Sergei Diomidov Valery Iljinykh Valery Karasev Viktor Klimenko Victor Lisitsky Mikhail Voronin |
![]() Günter Beier Matthias Brehme Gerhard Dietrich Siegfried Fülle Klaus Köste Peter Weber |
Floor exercise |
Sawao Kato![]() |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Takeshi Katō![]() |
Horizontal bar |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
none awarded | Eizo Kenmotsu![]() |
Akinori Nakayama![]() | |||
Parallel bars |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Viktor Klimenko![]() |
Pommel horse |
Miroslav Cerar![]() |
Olli Laiho![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Rings |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Sawao Kato![]() |
Vault |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Yukio Endo![]() |
Sergei Diomidov![]() |
Women's events
[edit]Medal table
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
2 | ![]() | 5 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
3 | ![]() | 4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Totals (6 entries) | 16 | 12 | 14 | 42 |
Controversy
[edit]Larisa Petrik's gold medal on floor was very controversial because originally, Čáslavská won outright. After the competition was concluded, Petrik's prelims scores were changed to let her tie with Čáslavská, an action which caused Čáslavská to publicly defy the Soviets who had recently invaded her home country. A similar controversy occurred in the balance beam, where Čáskavská was denied gold altogether.[2]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Gymnastics at the 1968 Mexico City Summer Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
- ^ "'I will sweat blood to defeat invaders' representatives' - 1968's forgotten Olympic protest". BBC News. Archived from the original on 2023-02-21.