Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

The men's rings 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] The event was won by Albert Azaryan of the Soviet Union, the first man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the rings. Boris Shakhlin took silver, making it the third consecutive Games the Soviets finished in the top two. Takashi Ono tied with Velik Kapsazov for bronze, giving Japan its second consecutive Games with at least one bronze medal (there had been a tie for third in 1956 as well, between two Japanese gymnasts that time) and Bulgaria its first medal in the rings.

Men's rings
at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Noboyuki Aihara competing on the rings
VenueBaths of Caracalla
Dates5–10 September
Competitors129 from 28 nations
Winning score19.725
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Albert Azaryan
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Takashi Ono
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Velik Kapsazov
 Bulgaria
← 1956
1964 →

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the rings 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). Six of the top 11 (including ties for 10th) gymnasts from 1956 returned: gold medalist Albert Azaryan and tenth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Masao Takemoto and fifth-place finishers Takashi Ono and Nobuyuki Aihara of Japan, and ninth-place finisher Ferdinand Daniš of Czechoslovakia. Azaryan, Aihara, and Titov had comprised the podium in the 1958 world championships.[1]

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's rings; 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.

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 129th. 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
  Albert Azaryan   Soviet Union 9.85 9.90 19.75 9.875 9.850 19.725
  Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.750 19.500
  Velik Kapsazov   Bulgaria 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.750 19.425
Takashi Ono   Japan 9.75 9.70 19.45 9.725 9.700 19.425
5 Nobuyuki Aihara   Japan 9.65 9.75 19.40 9.700 9.700 19.400
6 Yury Titov   Soviet Union 9.70 9.75 19.45 9.725 9.550 19.275
7 Franco Menichelli   Italy 9.55 9.75 19.30 did not advance
8 Masao Takemoto   Japan 9.60 9.65 19.25 did not advance
9 Shuji Tsurumi   Japan 9.60 9.60 19.20 did not advance
Valery Kerdemelidi   Soviet Union 9.60 9.60 19.20 did not advance
11 Miroslav Cerar   Yugoslavia 9.45 9.60 19.05 did not advance
12 Takashi Mitsukuri   Japan 9.50 9.50 19.00 did not advance
Yukio Endo   Japan 9.60 9.40 19.00 did not advance
Nikolai Miligulo   Soviet Union 9.50 9.50 19.00 did not advance
Vladimir Portnoy   Soviet Union 9.45 9.55 19.00 did not advance
16 Josef Trmal   Czechoslovakia 9.55 9.40 18.95 did not advance
Philipp Fürst   United Team of Germany 9.50 9.45 18.95 did not advance
Erwin Koppe   United Team of Germany 9.45 9.50 18.95 did not advance
19 Otto Kestola   Finland 9.40 9.50 18.90 did not advance
20 Leif Koorn   Sweden 9.50 9.35 18.85 did not advance
21 Larry Banner   United States 9.50 9.30 18.80 did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci   Italy 9.35 9.45 18.80 did not advance
Ferdinand Daniš   Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.50 18.80 did not advance
Siegfried Fülle   United Team of Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80 did not advance
25 Nik Stuart   Great Britain 9.35 9.40 18.75 did not advance
Lajos Varga   Hungary 9.40 9.35 18.75 did not advance
Abie Grossfeld   United States 9.35 9.40 18.75 did not advance
Georgi Khristov   Bulgaria 9.40 9.35 18.75 did not advance
Stoyan Stoyanov   Bulgaria 9.25 9.50 18.75 did not advance
30 Gianfranco Marzolla   Italy 9.15 9.55 18.70 did not advance
Józef Rajnisz   Poland 9.35 9.35 18.70 did not advance
Rajmund Csányi   Hungary 9.25 9.45 18.70 did not advance
Abdel Vares Sharraf   United Arab Republic 9.40 9.30 18.70 did not advance
34 Sakari Olkkonen   Finland 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
Stig Lindewall   Sweden 9.35 9.30 18.65 did not advance
36 Jaroslav Bím   Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
Fred Orlofsky   United States 9.45 9.15 18.60 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa   Poland 9.45 9.15 18.60 did not advance
39 Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 9.15 9.40 18.55 did not advance
Günter Nachtigall   United Team of Germany 9.35 9.20 18.55 did not advance
Alojz Petrovič   Yugoslavia 9.20 9.35 18.55 did not advance
Günter Lyhs   United Team of Germany 9.40 9.15 18.55 did not advance
43 Hans Schwarzentruber   Switzerland 9.10 9.35 18.45 did not advance
Andrzej Konopka   Poland 9.25 9.20 18.45 did not advance
Rudolf Keszthelyi   Hungary 9.25 9.20 18.45 did not advance
46 Giovanni Carminucci   Italy 8.90 9.50 18.40 did not advance
Ladislav Pazdera   Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Kim Sang-guk   South Korea 9.15 9.25 18.40 did not advance
49 Todor Bachvarov   Bulgaria 9.25 9.10 18.35 did not advance
Bernard Fauqueux   France 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
Karlheinz Friedrich   United Team of Germany 9.05 9.30 18.35 did not advance
52 Orlando Polmonari   Italy 9.00 9.30 18.30 did not advance
Pavel Gajdoš   Czechoslovakia 8.90 9.40 18.30 did not advance
Olavi Leimuvirta   Finland 9.25 9.05 18.30 did not advance
55 Jack Beckner   United States 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
Ernest Hawełek   Poland 9.20 9.05 18.25 did not advance
Emilio Lecuona   Spain 9.05 9.20 18.25 did not advance
Ahmed Dakkeli   United Arab Republic 9.15 9.10 18.25 did not advance
59 Åge Storhaug   Norway 8.95 9.25 18.20 did not advance
Angelo Vicardi   Italy 8.80 9.40 18.20 did not advance
Don Tonry   United States 9.20 9.00 18.20 did not advance
Fritz Feuz   Switzerland 9.00 9.20 18.20 did not advance
Lyuben Khristov   Bulgaria 9.20 9.00 18.20 did not advance
Marsel Markulin   Yugoslavia 9.10 9.10 18.20 did not advance
Ismail Abdallah   United Arab Republic 9.10 9.10 18.20 did not advance
66 Eugen Ekman   Finland 8.90 9.25 18.15 did not advance
Nikola Prodanov   Bulgaria 9.20 8.95 18.15 did not advance
Michel Kiesgen   Luxembourg 8.90 9.25 18.15 did not advance
69 Raimo Heinonen   Finland 9.05 9.05 18.10 did not advance
Armand Huberty   Luxembourg 8.95 9.15 18.10 did not advance
71 Max Benker   Switzerland 8.75 9.30 18.05 did not advance
Milenko Lekić   Yugoslavia 9.10 8.95 18.05 did not advance
73 Ernst Fivian   Switzerland 8.65 9.35 18.00 did not advance
André Brüllmann   Switzerland 9.20 8.80 18.00 did not advance
Jerzy Jokiel   Poland 8.95 9.05 18.00 did not advance
Luis Valbuena   Spain 8.70 9.30 18.00 did not advance
77 Jaroslav Šťastný   Czechoslovakia 8.80 9.15 17.95 did not advance
Bo Wirhed   Sweden 8.90 9.05 17.95 did not advance
79 Kauko Heikkinen   Finland 9.15 8.75 17.90 did not advance
Dragan Gagić   Yugoslavia 8.65 9.25 17.90 did not advance
Hans Sauter   Austria 8.95 8.95 17.90 did not advance
Enrique Montserrat   Spain 8.80 9.10 17.90 did not advance
83 Daniel Touche   France 8.90 8.95 17.85 did not advance
Dick Gradley   Great Britain 8.65 9.20 17.85 did not advance
85 Ahmed Goneim   United Arab Republic 8.60 9.20 17.80 did not advance
Ramón García   Spain 8.75 9.05 17.80 did not advance
87 Jean Cronstedt   Sweden 8.85 8.80 17.65 did not advance
88 Gar O'Quinn   United States 9.40 8.20 17.60 did not advance
Alfred Kucharczyk   Poland 9.10 8.50 17.60 did not advance
Géza Bejek   Hungary 8.85 8.75 17.60 did not advance
91 Sándor Békési   Hungary 8.75 8.75 17.50 did not advance
92 Kurt Wigartz   Sweden 8.60 8.85 17.45 did not advance
Mohamed Lazhari   France 8.55 8.90 17.45 did not advance
94 Ivan Čaklec   Yugoslavia 8.40 8.95 17.35 did not advance
95 Jaime Belenguer   Spain 9.10 8.20 17.30 did not advance
Robert Caymaris   France 8.10 9.20 17.30 did not advance
Jack Pancott   Great Britain 8.50 8.80 17.30 did not advance
98 Richard Montpetit   Canada 8.90 8.35 17.25 did not advance
René Marteaux   Belgium 8.65 8.60 17.25 did not advance
100 Johann König   Austria 8.60 8.60 17.20 did not advance
101 Gerhard Huber   Austria 8.35 8.80 17.15 did not advance
102 János Mester   Hungary 8.15 8.95 17.10 did not advance
Graham Bond   Australia 8.60 8.50 17.10 did not advance
104 Léopold Desmet   Belgium 8.30 8.65 16.95 did not advance
105 Edy Thomi   Switzerland 8.15 8.75 16.90 did not advance
106 Benjamin de Roo   Australia 8.40 8.45 16.85 did not advance
107 Hermann Klien   Austria 8.05 8.75 16.80 did not advance
William Thoresson   Sweden 8.25 8.55 16.80 did not advance
Armando Valles   Mexico 8.55 8.25 16.80 did not advance
110 Ahmed Issam Allam   United Arab Republic 8.75 8.00 16.75 did not advance
111 Willi Kafel   Austria 8.20 8.50 16.70 did not advance
Marcel Coppin   Luxembourg 8.05 8.65 16.70 did not advance
113 Jean Jaillard   France 8.00 8.65 16.65 did not advance
John Mulhall   Great Britain 8.15 8.50 16.65 did not advance
115 Michel Mathiot   France 7.85 8.70 16.55 did not advance
116 Hermenegildo Candeias   Portugal 7.95 8.25 16.20 did not advance
117 Selim El-Sayed   United Arab Republic 8.55 7.60 16.15 did not advance
118 Ken Buffin   Great Britain 7.75 8.00 15.75 did not advance
119 Juan Caviglia   Argentina 7.20 8.20 15.40 did not advance
120 François Eisenbarth   Luxembourg 7.45 7.80 15.25 did not advance
121 Hubert Erang   Luxembourg 6.75 8.00 14.75 did not advance
122 Mohamed Sekkat   Morocco 6.10 7.25 13.35 did not advance
123 Miloud M'Sellek   Morocco 5.80 6.40 12.20 did not advance
124 Hermenegildo Martínez   Spain 0.00 9.35 9.35 did not advance
125 Ahmed Fellat   Morocco 4.00 4.75 8.75 did not advance
126 Peter Starling   Great Britain 8.50 8.50 did not advance
127 Darif Tanjaoui   Morocco 4.20 4.00 8.20 did not advance
128 Abdesselem Regragui   Morocco 3.50 4.00 7.50 did not advance
Anton Hertl   Austria 7.50 7.50 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.