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Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

The men's vault 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 130 competitors from 30 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[2] For the first time in three Games, there was a clear winner with no tie. Haruhiro Yamashita took the gold medal, the second consecutive gold for Japan. Victor Lisitsky finished second, taking silver but breaking the Soviet Union's three-Games gold medal streak. Hannu Rantakari's bronze was Finland's first medal in the event since 1948.

Men's vault
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Hannu Rantakari competing on the vault
VenueTokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates18–23 October
Competitors130 from 30 nations
Winning score19.600
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Haruhiro Yamashita  Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Victor Lisitsky  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Hannu Rantakari  Finland
← 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). Seven of the top 11 (including three-way tie for 9th) gymnasts from 1960 returned: joint gold medalists Takashi Ono of Japan and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, fifth-place finisher Yukio Endo, sixth-place finisher Shuji Tsurumi, and eighth-place finisher Takashi Mitsukuri of Japan, and ninth-place finishers Franco Menichelli and Giovanni Carminucci of Italy. Ono had also taken bronze in 1952, Titov had taken bronze in 1956, and Shakhlin had finished fourth in 1956. The reigning (1962) world champion was Přemysl Krbec of Czechoslovakia, with Haruhiro Yamashita of Japan second and Endo and Shakhlin tied for third.[2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, Mongolia, and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's vault. 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. 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 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.[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
Friday, 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 1⁄2 Prelim. Final Total
  Haruhiro Yamashita   Japan 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.850 19.600
  Victor Lisitsky   Soviet Union 9.75 9.75 19.50 9.750 9.575 19.325
  Hannu Rantakari   Finland 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.625 19.300
4 Shuji Tsurumi   Japan 9.65 9.65 19.30 9.650 9.575 19.225
5 Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.525 19.200
6 Yukio Endo   Japan 9.75 9.65 19.40 9.700 9.375 19.075
7 Siegfried Fulle   United Team of Germany 9.65 9.65 19.30 Did not advance
Alfred Kucharczyk   Poland 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
9 Sergey Diomidov   Soviet Union 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Yury Titov   Soviet Union 9.65 9.60 19.25 Did not advance
Premysl Krbec   Czechoslovakia 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Walter Muller   Switzerland 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Nicola Prodanov   Bulgaria 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
14 Takashi Ono   Japan 9.65 9.55 19.20 Did not advance
Wilhelm Weiler   Canada 9.50 9.70 19.20 Did not advance
16 Fritz Feuz   Switzerland 9.50 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
Takuji Hayata   Japan 9.45 9.70 19.15 Did not advance
Gunter Lyhs   United Team of Germany 9.55 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
19 Miroslav Cerar   Yugoslavia 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Rajmund Csanyi   Hungary 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
Raimo Heinonen   Finland 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
Klaus Koste   United Team of Germany 9.40 9.75 19.10 Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica   Poland 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
24 Fredy Egger   Switzerland 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
Franco Menichelli   Italy 9.35 9.70 19.05 Did not advance
Mitsukuri Takashi   Japan 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
Yury Tsapenko   Soviet Union 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
28 Age Storhaug   Norway 9.45 9.55 19.00 Did not advance
Peter Weber   United Team of Germany 9.45 9.55 19.00 Did not advance
30 Istvan Aranyos   Hungary 9.50 9.45 18.95 Did not advance
Philipp Furst   United Team of Germany 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Victor Leontyev   Soviet Union 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.60 18.95 Did not advance
Makoto Sakamoto   United States 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
Peter Sos   Hungary 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
36 Meinrad Berchtold   Switzerland 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Vaclav Kubicka   Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Andras Lelkes   Hungary 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Georgi Mirtchev   Bulgaria 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Russell Mitchell   United States 9.25 9.65 18.90 Did not advance
Frederic Orendi   Romania 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
42 Eugen Ekman   Finland 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
Gottlieb Fassler   Switzerland 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Olli Laiho   Finland 9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
John Mulhall   Great Britain 9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa   Poland 9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
Gheorghe Tohaneanu   Romania 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
48 Pavel Gajdos   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Velik Kapsasov   Bulgaria 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Alojz Petrovic   Yugoslavia 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Arthur Shurlock   United States 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Alexandru Szilagyi   Romania 9.20 9.60 18.80 Did not advance
Gregor Weiss   United States 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
54 Larry Banner   United States 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Michel Bouchonnet   France 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Ivan Caklec   Yugoslavia 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci   Italy 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Liuben Christov   Bulgaria 9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
Luigi Cimnaghi   Italy 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Anton Kadar   Romania 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Karel Klecka   Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.55 18.75 Did not advance
Erwin Koppe   United Team of Germany 9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica   Poland 9.50 9.25 18.75 Did not advance
Gilbert Larose   Canada 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Martin Srot   Yugoslavia 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
William Thoresson   Sweden 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Harald Wigaard   Norway 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
69 Todor Batchvarov   Bulgaria 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci   Italy 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Bernard Fauqueux   France 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Otto Kestola   Finland 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Lee Kwang Jae   South Korea 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Stig Lindevall   Sweden 9.25 9.45 18.70 Did not advance
Petre Miclaus   Romania 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Niamdawaa Zagdbazar   Mongolia 9.25 9.45 18.70 Did not advance
77 Franz Fah   Switzerland 9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
Andres Gonzalez   Cuba 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Kang Soo Il   South Korea 9.10 9.55 18.65 Did not advance
Richard Kihn   Canada 9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
Leif Koorn   Sweden 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Mohamed Lazhari   Algeria 9.30 9.35 18.65 Did not advance
Angelo Vicardi   Italy 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
84 Jan Jankowicz   Poland 9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
Octavio Suarez   Cuba 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
86 Bruno Franceschetti   Italy 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
Christian Guiffroy   France 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Héctor Ramírez   Cuba 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Benjamin de Roo   Australia 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance
90 Gheorghe Condovici   Romania 9.15 9.35 18.50 Did not advance
Kim Choong Tai   South Korea 9.25 9.25 18.50 Did not advance
Todor Kondev   Bulgaria 9.30 9.20 18.50 Did not advance
John Pancott   Great Britain 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
Carlos Pizzini   Argentina 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
95 Ronald Barak   United States 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Janez Brodnik   Yugoslavia 9.15 9.30 18.45 Did not advance
Kauko Heikkinen   Finland 9.10 9.35 18.45 Did not advance
Andrzej Konopka   Poland 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance
Suh Jae Kyu   South Korea 9.00 9.45 18.45 Did not advance
100 Ladislav Pazdera   Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
Frederick Trainer   Australia 9.05 9.35 18.40 Did not advance
Lajos Varga   Hungary 9.15 9.25 18.40 Did not advance
103 Jalal Bazargan   Iran 9.05 9.30 18.35 Did not advance
Graham Bond   Australia 9.30 9.05 18.35 Did not advance
105 Gyozo Cser   Hungary 9.00 9.30 18.30 Did not advance
106 Barry Cheales   Australia 9.15 9.10 18.25 Did not advance
Chung Yi Kwang   South Korea 9.30 8.95 18.25 Did not advance
Kim Kwang Duk   South Korea 8.90 9.35 18.25 Did not advance
109 Jan Thai San   Taiwan 9.25 8.90 18.15 Did not advance
Felix Padron   Cuba 9.05 9.10 18.15 Did not advance
Nenad Vidovic   Yugoslavia 8.85 9.30 18.15 Did not advance
112 Lai Chu Long   Taiwan 9.00 9.10 18.10 Did not advance
113 Ady Stefanetti   Luxembourg 8.85 9.20 18.05 Did not advance
114 D. Mondal   India 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance
Wang Shian Ming   Taiwan 9.00 8.90 17.90 Did not advance
116 Carlos Garcia   Cuba 8.65 9.20 17.85 Did not advance
Pablo Hernandez   Cuba 9.10 8.75 17.85 Did not advance
Douglas McLennon   Australia 8.95 8.90 17.85 Did not advance
119 Trilok Singh   India 8.70 9.10 17.80 Did not advance
120 Marcus Faulks   Australia 9.25 8.45 17.70 Did not advance
121 Liuh Reng Suhn   Taiwan 8.95 8.70 17.65 Did not advance
122 Uih Yah Torh   Taiwan 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance
123 Lee Bu Ti   Taiwan 9.20 8.10 17.30 Did not advance
124 Vithal Karande   India 8.80 8.40 17.20 Did not advance
125 Y. More   India 8.65 8.50 17.15 Did not advance
126 B. Bhosle   India 7.90 8.75 16.65 Did not advance
127 Mohamed Ibrahim   Egypt 9.20 — 9.20 Did not advance
128 Fortunato Payao   Philippines 7.50 — 7.50 Did not advance
129 Demetrio Pastrana   Philippines 5.00 — 5.00 Did not advance
130 Anand Ram   India — — 0.00 Did not advance

References edit

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.

Sources edit

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