The men's rings competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. There were 117 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Akinori Nakayama of Japan, the nation's second consecutive victory in the rings event. Mikhail Voronin took silver to extend the Soviet Union's podium streak in the event to five Games, while Sawao Kato of Japan finished with bronze.
| Men's rings at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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 Akinori Nakayama (at the 1966 world championships) | ||||||||||
| Venue | Auditorio Nacional | |||||||||
| Dates | 22–26 October | |||||||||
| Competitors | 117 from 28 nations | |||||||||
| Winning score | 19.450 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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Background edit
This was the 12th 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). Two of the six finalists from 1964 returned: silver medalist Franco Menichelli of Italy and sixth-place finisher Yukio Endō of Japan. Menichelli had finished third at the 1966 World Championships behind Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union and Akinori Nakayama of Japan.[1]
Ecuador and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's rings; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. The United States made its 11th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.
Competition format edit
Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three 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 117th. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.[1][2]
Schedule edit
All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6)
| Date | Time | Round |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday, 22 October 1968 | 8:30 17:00 |
Preliminary: Compulsory |
| Thursday, 24 October 1968 | 8:30 17:00 |
Preliminary: Voluntary |
| Saturday, 26 October 1968 | 19:00 | Final |
Results edit
| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Compulsory | Voluntary | Total | 1⁄2 Prelim. | Final | Total | |||
 |
Akinori Nakayama |  Japan |
9.75 | 9.75 | 19.50 | 9.750 | 9.700 | 19.450 |
 |
Mikhail Voronin |  Soviet Union |
9.75 | 9.70 | 19.45 | 9.725 | 9.600 | 19.325 |
 |
Sawao Kato | Japan |
9.70 | 9.85 | 19.55 | 9.775 | 9.450 | 19.225 |
| 4 | Mitsuo Tsukahara | Japan |
9.65 | 9.60 | 19.25 | 9.625 | 9.500 | 19.125 |
| 5 | Takeshi Katō | Japan |
9.70 | 9.70 | 19.40 | 9.700 | 9.350 | 19.050 |
| 6 | Sergey Diomidov | Soviet Union |
9.60 | 9.45 | 19.05 | 9.525 | 9.450 | 18.975 |
| 7 | Eizo Kenmotsu | Japan |
9.55 | 9.45 | 19.00 | did not advance | ||
| 8 | Yukio Endo | Japan |
9.45 | 9.50 | 18.95 | did not advance | ||
| 9 | Steve Cohen |  United States |
9.30 | 9.60 | 18.90 | did not advance | ||
| Viktor Klimenko | Soviet Union |
9.40 | 9.50 | 18.90 | did not advance | |||
| 11 | Klaus Köste |  East Germany |
9.40 | 9.40 | 18.80 | did not advance | ||
| Viktor Lisitsky | Soviet Union |
9.40 | 9.40 | 18.80 | did not advance | |||
| 13 | Jiří Fejtek |  Czechoslovakia |
9.35 | 9.40 | 18.75 | did not advance | ||
| Mikołaj Kubica |  Poland |
9.30 | 9.45 | 18.75 | did not advance | |||
| 15 | Matthias Brehme | East Germany |
9.30 | 9.40 | 18.70 | did not advance | ||
| Miroslav Cerar |  Yugoslavia |
9.30 | 9.40 | 18.70 | did not advance | |||
| 17 | Valery Ilyinykh | Soviet Union |
9.30 | 9.30 | 18.60 | did not advance | ||
| Valery Karasyov | Soviet Union |
9.45 | 9.15 | 18.60 | did not advance | |||
| Wilhelm Kubica | Poland |
9.30 | 9.30 | 18.60 | did not advance | |||
| 20 | Hans Ettlin |  Switzerland |
9.20 | 9.35 | 18.55 | did not advance | ||
| Mauno Nissinen |  Finland |
9.30 | 9.25 | 18.55 | did not advance | |||
| 22 | Janez Brodnik | Yugoslavia |
9.20 | 9.30 | 18.50 | did not advance | ||
| 23 | Siegfried Fülle | East Germany |
9.05 | 9.40 | 18.45 | did not advance | ||
| Heikki Sappinen | Finland |
9.20 | 9.25 | 18.45 | did not advance | |||
| 25 | Willi Jaschek | West Germany |
9.10 | 9.30 | 18.40 | did not advance | ||
| Tine Šrot | Yugoslavia |
9.20 | 9.20 | 18.40 | did not advance | |||
| 27 | Fred Roethlisberger | United States |
9.15 | 9.20 | 18.35 | did not advance | ||
| 28 | Andrzej Gonera | Poland |
9.00 | 9.30 | 18.30 | did not advance | ||
| Václav Kubíčka | Czechoslovakia |
9.00 | 9.30 | 18.30 | did not advance | |||
| Gilbert Larose |  Canada |
9.00 | 9.30 | 18.30 | did not advance | |||
| Peter Weber | East Germany |
9.00 | 9.30 | 18.30 | did not advance | |||
| 32 | Sid Jensen | Canada |
9.05 | 9.20 | 18.25 | did not advance | ||
| Finn Johannesson |  Sweden |
9.10 | 9.15 | 18.25 | did not advance | |||
| Hannu Rantakari | Finland |
9.10 | 9.15 | 18.25 | did not advance | |||
| Heiko Reinemer | West Germany |
8.85 | 9.40 | 18.25 | did not advance | |||
| Aleksander Rokosa | Poland |
9.05 | 9.20 | 18.25 | did not advance | |||
| Armando Valles |  Mexico |
9.05 | 9.20 | 18.25 | did not advance | |||
| 38 | Meinrad Berchtold | Switzerland |
8.95 | 9.20 | 18.15 | did not advance | ||
| František Bočko | Czechoslovakia |
8.95 | 9.20 | 18.15 | did not advance | |||
| Reino Heino | Finland |
9.00 | 9.15 | 18.15 | did not advance | |||
| Erich Hess | West Germany |
8.90 | 9.25 | 18.15 | did not advance | |||
| Milenko Kersnić | Yugoslavia |
9.05 | 9.10 | 18.15 | did not advance | |||
| 43 | Luigi Cimnaghi |  Italy |
9.05 | 9.05 | 18.10 | did not advance | ||
| 44 | Gerhard Dietrich | East Germany |
8.85 | 9.20 | 18.05 | did not advance | ||
| Sid Freudenstein | United States |
8.90 | 9.15 | 18.05 | did not advance | |||
| Miloslav Netušil | Czechoslovakia |
9.10 | 8.95 | 18.05 | did not advance | |||
| 47 | José Filipe Abreu |  Portugal |
8.95 | 9.05 | 18.00 | did not advance | ||
| Juhani Rahikainen | Finland |
8.95 | 9.05 | 18.00 | did not advance | |||
| Dave Thor | United States |
9.00 | 9.00 | 18.00 | did not advance | |||
| Endre Tihanyi |  Hungary |
8.80 | 9.20 | 18.00 | did not advance | |||
| 51 | Christer Jönsson | Sweden |
8.90 | 9.05 | 17.95 | did not advance | ||
| 52 | Steve Hug | United States |
8.80 | 9.10 | 17.90 | did not advance | ||
| Václav Skoumal | Czechoslovakia |
8.95 | 8.95 | 17.90 | did not advance | |||
| 54 | Chung-tae Kim |  South Korea |
8.85 | 9.00 | 17.85 | did not advance | ||
| Paul Müller | Switzerland |
8.85 | 9.00 | 17.85 | did not advance | |||
| Hans Peter Nielsen |  Denmark |
8.80 | 9.05 | 17.85 | did not advance | |||
| Peter Rohner | Switzerland |
8.90 | 8.95 | 17.85 | did not advance | |||
| 58 | Bruno Franceschetti | Italy |
8.80 | 9.00 | 17.80 | did not advance | ||
| Sylwester Kubica | Poland |
8.75 | 9.05 | 17.80 | did not advance | |||
| 60 | István Aranyos | Hungary |
8.70 | 9.00 | 17.70 | did not advance | ||
| Jerzy Kruża | Poland |
8.90 | 8.80 | 17.70 | did not advance | |||
| Helmut Tepasse | West Germany |
8.45 | 9.30 | 17.75 | did not advance | |||
| 63 | Georgi Adamov |  Bulgaria |
8.80 | 8.85 | 17.65 | did not advance | ||
| Giovanni Carminucci | Italy |
8.75 | 8.90 | 17.65 | did not advance | |||
| Octavio Suárez |  Cuba |
8.80 | 8.85 | 17.65 | did not advance | |||
| Miloš Vratič | Yugoslavia |
8.75 | 8.90 | 17.65 | did not advance | |||
| 67 | Edwin Greutmann | Switzerland |
8.70 | 8.90 | 17.60 | did not advance | ||
| 68 | Günter Beier | East Germany |
8.45 | 9.10 | 17.55 | did not advance | ||
| Rumen Gabrovski | Bulgaria |
8.60 | 8.95 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| Christian Guiffroy |  France |
8.60 | 8.95 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| Heinz Häussler | West Germany |
8.65 | 8.90 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| Hermann Höpfner | West Germany |
8.45 | 9.10 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| Roland Hürzeler | Switzerland |
8.50 | 9.05 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| José Vilchis | Mexico |
8.55 | 9.00 | 17.55 | did not advance | |||
| 75 | Christian Deuza | France |
8.90 | 8.60 | 17.50 | did not advance | ||
| Luis Ramírez | Cuba |
8.55 | 8.95 | 17.50 | did not advance | |||
| 77 | Bohumil Mudřík | Czechoslovakia |
8.25 | 9.10 | 17.35 | did not advance | ||
| Stefan Zoev | Bulgaria |
8.65 | 8.70 | 17.35 | did not advance | |||
| 79 | Michel Bouchonnet | France |
8.65 | 8.60 | 17.25 | did not advance | ||
| 79 | Pasquale Carminucci | Italy |
8.70 | 8.55 | 17.25 | did not advance | ||
| 81 | Olli Laiho | Finland |
8.00 | 9.20 | 17.20 | did not advance | ||
| 82 | Damir Anić | Yugoslavia |
8.25 | 8.90 | 17.15 | did not advance | ||
| Jorge Rodríguez | Cuba |
8.25 | 8.90 | 17.15 | did not advance | |||
| 84 | Bozhidar Ivanov | Bulgaria |
8.65 | 8.45 | 17.10 | did not advance | ||
| Konrád Mentsik | Hungary |
8.35 | 8.75 | 17.10 | did not advance | |||
| 86 | Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn |  Mongolia |
8.90 | 8.15 | 17.05 | did not advance | ||
| 87 | Arne Thomsen | Denmark |
8.10 | 8.90 | 17.00 | did not advance | ||
| 88 | Rogelio Mendoza | Mexico |
8.15 | 8.70 | 16.85 | did not advance | ||
| 89 | Murray Chessell |  Australia |
8.20 | 8.55 | 16.75 | did not advance | ||
| Ivan Kondev | Bulgaria |
8.60 | 8.15 | 16.75 | did not advance | |||
| 91 | Raycho Khristov | Bulgaria |
8.10 | 8.60 | 16.70 | did not advance | ||
| Sergio Luna |  Ecuador |
8.10 | 8.60 | 16.70 | did not advance | |||
| 93 | Evert Lindgren | Sweden |
7.85 | 8.80 | 16.65 | did not advance | ||
| Stan Wild |  Great Britain |
8.45 | 8.20 | 16.65 | did not advance | |||
| 95 | Steve Mitruk | Canada |
8.10 | 8.40 | 16.50 | did not advance | ||
| Vincenzo Mori | Italy |
8.50 | 8.00 | 16.50 | did not advance | |||
| 97 | Barry Brooker | Canada |
7.90 | 8.55 | 16.45 | did not advance | ||
| Héctor Ramírez | Cuba |
7.85 | 8.60 | 16.45 | did not advance | |||
| 99 | Kanati Allen | United States |
7.80 | 8.50 | 16.30 | did not advance | ||
| 100 | Roberto Pumpido | Cuba |
7.85 | 8.40 | 16.25 | did not advance | ||
| 101 | Béla Herczeg | Hungary |
7.20 | 8.85 | 16.05 | did not advance | ||
| 102 | Enrique García | Mexico |
7.60 | 8.35 | 15.95 | did not advance | ||
| 103 | Sándor Kiss | Hungary |
6.90 | 8.95 | 15.85 | did not advance | ||
| 104 | Dezső Bordán | Hungary |
7.95 | 7.80 | 15.75 | did not advance | ||
| 105 | Fernando Valles | Mexico |
7.75 | 7.85 | 15.60 | did not advance | ||
| 106 | Michael Booth | Great Britain |
7.85 | 7.70 | 15.55 | did not advance | ||
| José González | Mexico |
7.45 | 8.10 | 15.55 | did not advance | |||
| 108 | Chu-Long Lai |  Taiwan |
7.65 | 7.65 | 15.30 | did not advance | ||
| 109 | Roger Dion | Canada |
6.15 | 8.25 | 14.40 | did not advance | ||
| 110 | Larbi Lazhari |  Algeria |
6.15 | 8.10 | 14.25 | did not advance | ||
| 111 | Eduardo Nájera | Ecuador |
6.70 | 7.15 | 13.85 | did not advance | ||
| 112 | Fu Cheng | Taiwan |
6.65 | 7.10 | 13.75 | did not advance | ||
| 113 | Luis Navarrete | Cuba |
6.50 | 7.15 | 13.65 | did not advance | ||
| 114 | Pedro Rendón | Ecuador |
5.50 | 6.95 | 12.45 | did not advance | ||
| 115 | Franco Menichelli | Italy |
9.60 | — | 9.60 | did not advance | ||
| 116 | Norman Henson |  Philippines |
6.60 | — | 6.60 | did not advance | ||
| 117 | Ernesto Beren | Philippines |
6.25 | — | 6.25 | did not advance | ||
References edit
- ^ a b c "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
- ^ Official Report, p. 676.