Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

The men's vault competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The event was held from 22 to 26 October at the Auditorio Nacional. There were 116 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 Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union, the nation's fourth gold medal in the vault. Yukio Endo of Japan took silver, while Soviet Sergei Diomidov earned bronze.

Men's vault
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Mikhail Voronin
VenueAuditorio Nacional
Dates22–26 October
Competitors116 from 28 nations
Winning score19.000
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yukio Endo  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sergei Diomidov  Soviet Union
← 1964
1972 →

Background

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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). Three of the six finalists from 1964 returned: silver medalist Victor Lisitsky of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Hannu Rantakari of Finland, and sixth-place finisher Yukio Endo of Japan. Reigning gold medalist and world champion Haruhiro Yamashita of Japan did not compete.[1]

Ecuador made its debut in the men's vault; 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

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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. (One gymnast who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the vault.)

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 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 116th. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.

Schedule

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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

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Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
  Mikhail Voronin   Soviet Union 9.45 9.55 19.00 9.500 9.500 19.000
  Yukio Endo   Japan 9.35 9.65 19.00 9.500 9.450 18.950
  Sergey Diomidov   Soviet Union 9.45 9.45 18.90 9.450 9.475 18.925
4 Takeshi Katō   Japan 9.45 9.60 19.05 9.525 9.250 18.775
5 Akinori Nakayama   Japan 9.45 9.40 18.85 9.425 9.300 18.725
6 Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan 9.40 9.55 18.95 9.475 9.175 18.650
7 Sawao Kato   Japan 9.35 9.55 18.90 did not compete
8 Valery Karasyov   Soviet Union 9.40 9.45 18.85 did not advance
Viktor Klimenko   Soviet Union 9.45 9.40 18.85 did not advance
10 Siegfried Fülle   East Germany 9.35 9.45 18.80 did not advance
Viktor Lisitsky   Soviet Union 9.40 9.40 18.80 did not advance
12 Valery Ilyinykh   Soviet Union 9.30 9.45 18.75 did not advance
13 Mikołaj Kubica   Poland 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
14 Matthias Brehme   East Germany 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
15 Günter Beier   East Germany 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
Janez Brodnik   Yugoslavia 9.25 9.35 18.60 did not advance
Miroslav Cerar   Yugoslavia 9.20 9.40 18.60 did not advance
18 Meinrad Berchtold   Switzerland 9.20 9.35 18.55 did not advance
František Bočko   Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica   Poland 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
Václav Kubíčka   Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.25 18.55 did not advance
Bohumil Mudřík   Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
23 Jiří Fejtek   Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.40 18.50 did not advance
Dave Thor   United States 9.10 9.40 18.50 did not advance
Miloš Vratič   Yugoslavia 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
Peter Weber   East Germany 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
27 Václav Skoumal   Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.25 18.45 did not advance
Helmut Tepasse   West Germany 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
30 Georgi Adamov   Bulgaria 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
Christian Guiffroy   France 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Christer Jönsson   Sweden 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Milenko Kersnić   Yugoslavia 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Klaus Köste   East Germany 9.15 9.25 18.40 did not advance
Fred Roethlisberger   United States 9.25 9.15 18.40 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa   Poland 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
37 Hans Ettlin   Switzerland 9.10 9.25 18.35 did not advance
Evert Lindgren   Sweden 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
Heiko Reinemer   West Germany 9.00 9.35 18.35 did not advance
Armando Valles   Mexico 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
41 Gilbert Larose   Canada 9.10 9.20 18.30 did not advance
Tine Šrot   Yugoslavia 9.05 9.25 18.30 did not advance
43 István Aranyos   Hungary 9.05 9.20 18.25 did not advance
Andrzej Gonera   Poland 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
Erich Hess   West Germany 9.00 9.25 18.25 did not advance
Ivan Kondev   Bulgaria 9.15 9.10 18.25 did not advance
Stan Wild   Great Britain 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
Stefan Zoev   Bulgaria 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
49 Sid Jensen   Canada 8.85 9.35 18.20 did not advance
Sándor Kiss   Hungary 9.05 9.15 18.20 did not advance
Vincenzo Mori   Italy 9.15 9.05 18.20 did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen   Finland 9.00 9.20 18.20 did not advance
Endre Tihanyi   Hungary 9.15 9.05 18.20 did not advance
54 Kanati Allen   United States 9.00 9.15 18.15 did not advance
Rumen Gabrovski   Bulgaria 9.10 9.05 18.15 did not advance
Finn Johannesson   Sweden 9.05 9.10 18.15 did not advance
Raycho Khristov   Bulgaria 8.95 9.20 18.15 did not advance
Jerzy Kruża   Poland 9.00 9.15 18.15 did not advance
Olli Laiho   Finland 9.15 9.00 18.15 did not advance
60 Luigi Cimnaghi   Italy 9.15 8.95 18.10 did not advance
Hermann Höpfner   West Germany 8.95 9.15 18.10 did not advance
Miloslav Netušil   Czechoslovakia 8.95 9.15 18.10 did not advance
63 Sid Freudenstein   United States 9.10 8.95 18.05 did not advance
Sylwester Kubica   Poland 8.75 9.30 18.05 did not advance
Jorge Rodríguez   Cuba 8.95 9.10 18.05 did not advance
Peter Rohner   Switzerland 8.75 9.30 18.05 did not advance
Heikki Sappinen   Finland 8.90 9.15 18.05 did not advance
68 Steve Cohen   United States 8.95 9.05 18.00 did not advance
Gerhard Dietrich   East Germany 9.00 9.00 18.00 did not advance
Fernando Valles   Mexico 8.85 9.15 18.00 did not advance
71 José Filipe Abreu   Portugal 9.25 8.70 17.95 did not advance
Michel Bouchonnet   France 8.80 9.15 17.95 did not advance
Hans Peter Nielsen   Denmark 8.95 9.00 17.95 did not advance
Mauno Nissinen   Finland 8.95 9.00 17.95 did not advance
75 Damir Anić   Yugoslavia 8.85 9.05 17.90 did not advance
Dezső Bordán   Hungary 9.05 8.85 17.90 did not advance
Roland Hürzeler   Switzerland 8.80 9.10 17.90 did not advance
78 Michael Booth   Great Britain 8.90 8.95 17.85 did not advance
Christian Deuza   France 8.75 9.10 17.85 did not advance
José González   Mexico 9.00 8.85 17.85 did not advance
Béla Herczeg   Hungary 8.80 9.05 17.85 did not advance
Hannu Rantakari   Finland 9.05 8.80 17.85 did not advance
83 Heinz Häussler   West Germany 8.85 8.95 17.80 did not advance
Steve Hug   United States 8.75 9.05 17.80 did not advance
85 Giovanni Carminucci   Italy 9.05 8.70 17.75 did not advance
Bruno Franceschetti   Italy 8.80 8.95 17.75 did not advance
87 Edwin Greutmann   Switzerland 8.65 9.05 17.70 did not advance
Reino Heino   Finland 8.90 8.80 17.70 did not advance
Bozhidar Ivanov   Bulgaria 8.80 8.90 17.70 did not advance
Roberto Pumpido   Cuba 8.70 9.00 17.70 did not advance
Héctor Ramírez   Cuba 8.85 8.85 17.70 did not advance
92 Barry Brooker   Canada 8.90 8.75 17.65 did not advance
Chung-tae Kim   South Korea 9.00 8.65 17.65 did not advance
94 Roger Dion   Canada 8.55 9.05 17.60 did not advance
Luis Navarrete   Cuba 8.40 9.20 17.60 did not advance
96 Paul Müller   Switzerland 8.45 9.10 17.55 did not advance
Octavio Suárez   Cuba 8.40 9.15 17.55 did not advance
98 Rogelio Mendoza   Mexico 8.20 9.30 17.50 did not advance
99 Larbi Lazhari   Algeria 8.55 8.90 17.45 did not advance
Steve Mitruk   Canada 8.95 8.50 17.45 did not advance
Luis Ramírez   Cuba 8.60 8.85 17.45 did not advance
102 José Vilchis   Mexico 8.60 8.80 17.40 did not advance
Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn   Mongolia 8.75 8.65 17.40 did not advance
104 Pasquale Carminucci   Italy 8.75 8.60 17.35 did not advance
105 Murray Chessell   Australia 8.40 8.75 17.15 did not advance
106 Sergio Luna   Ecuador 8.35 8.70 17.05 did not advance
Konrád Mentsik   Hungary 8.15 8.90 17.05 did not advance
108 Chu-Long Lai   Taiwan 8.60 8.40 17.00 did not advance
109 Enrique García   Mexico 8.10 8.65 16.75 did not advance
110 Fu Cheng   Taiwan 8.60 8.00 16.60 did not advance
111 Arne Thomsen   Denmark 9.00 7.00 16.00 did not advance
112 Pedro Rendón   Ecuador 6.75 7.15 13.90 did not advance
113 Franco Menichelli   Italy 9.30 9.30 did not advance
114 Willi Jaschek   West Germany 9.10 9.10 did not advance
115 Norman Henson   Philippines 8.40 8.40 did not advance
116 Eduardo Nájera   Ecuador 8.05 8.05 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 26 November 2020.