1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

The 16th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany, in 1966. During these championships, new elements were performed including a full-twisting piked dismount from high bar, a layout with full turn (rings), and a double somersault.^[1]

1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Location	Dortmund, West Germany
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Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around details	Japan Shuji Tsurumi Akinori Nakayama Takeshi Katō Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Haruhiro Matsuda	Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin Sergei Diomidov Valery Kerdemelidi Yuri Titov Valery Karasev Boris Shakhlin	East Germany Matthias Brehme Gerhard Dietrich Werner Dolling Erwin Koppe Siegfried Fulle Peter Weber
Individual all-around details	Mikhail Voronin	Shuji Tsurumi	Akinori Nakayama
Floor details	Akinori Nakayama	Yukio Endo	Franco Menichelli
Pommel horse details	Miroslav Cerar	Mikhail Voronin	Takeshi Katō
Rings details	Mikhail Voronin	Akinori Nakayama	Franco Menichelli
Vault details	Haruhiro Matsuda	Takeshi Katō	Akinori Nakayama
Parallel bars details	Sergei Diomidov	Mikhail Voronin	Miroslav Cerar
Horizontal bar details	Akinori Nakayama	Yukio Endo	Takashi Mitsukuri
Women
Team all-around details	Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská Jaroslava Sedláčková Marianna Krajčírová Jana Kubičková Bohumila Řimnáčová Jindra Košťálová	Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya Larisa Petrik Zinaida Druzhinina Larisa Latynina Polina Astakhova Olga Kharlova	Japan Keiko Ikeda Taki Shibuya Hiroko Ikenada Taniko Mitsukuri Yasuko Furuyama Mitsuko Kandori
Individual all-around details	Věra Čáslavská	Natalia Kuchinskaya	Keiko Ikeda
Vault details	Věra Čáslavská	Erika Zuchold	Natalia Kuchinskaya
Uneven bars details	Natalia Kuchinskaya	Keiko Ikeda	Taniko Mitsukuri
Balance beam details	Natalia Kuchinskaya	Věra Čáslavská	Larisa Petrik
Floor details	Natalia Kuchinskaya	Věra Čáslavská	Zinaida Druzhinina

Medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	5	3	14
2	Japan (JPN)	4	6	7	17
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	2	0	5
4	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
5	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
6	Italy (ITA)	0	0	2	2
Totals (6 entries)		14	14	14	42

Men

Team competition

Rank	Team	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Japan	287.850	287.300	575.150
	Soviet Union	285.900	285.000	570.900
	East Germany	278.800	282.200	561.000
4	Czechoslovakia	275.800	275.400	551.200
5	Poland	274.200	276.400	550.600
6	United States	273.850	276.550	550.400
7	Yugoslavia	271.400	276.750	548.150
8	West Germany	273.200	274.800	548.000
9	Italy	273.450	272.550	546.000
10	France	272.350	272.900	545.250
11	Finland	267.750	273.750	541.700
12	Sweden	270.600	270.500	541.100
13	Hungary	262.150	268.100	530.250
14	Norway	258.100	266.850	524.950
15	Cuba	256.850	257.350	514.200
16	Spain	252.350	259.300	511.650
17	Great Britain	253.850	255.200	509.050
18	Canada	243.800	254.950	498.750
19	Austria	242.550	250.100	492.650
20	New Zealand	212.050	217.100	429.150

All-around

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional score	Total
	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	57.900	58.250	116.150
	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	57.750	57.500	115.250
	Akinori Nakayama (JPN)	57.000	57.960	114.950
4	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	57.150	57.600	114.750
5	Franco Menichelli (ITA)	57.200	57.450	114.650
6	Takashi Kato (JPN)	57.150	57.450	114.600
7	Yukio Endo (JPN)	57.550	56.800	114.350
8	Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)	57.100	57.000	114.100
9	Matthias Brehme (GDR)	56.750	57.300	114.050
10	Haruhiro Matsuda (JPN)	57.250	56.600	113.850
11	Sergei Diomidov (URS)	57.600	55.650	113.250
12	Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)	56.450	56.450	112.900

Floor Exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Akinori Nakayama (JPN)	9.750	9.650	19.400
	Yukio Endo (JPN)	9.700	9.675	19.375
	Franco Menichelli (ITA)	9.650	9.650	19.300
4	Takeshi Katō (JPN)	9.650	9.575	19.225
5	Valery Karasyov (URS)	9.450	9.550	19.000
6	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	9.300	9.575	18.875

Pommel Horse

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	9.800	9.725	19.525
	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	9.700	9.625	19.325
	Takeshi Katō (JPN)	9.600	9.525	19.125
4	Matthias Brehme (GDR)	9.500	9.525	19.025
5	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	9.500	9.500	19.000
6	Olli Laiho (FIN)	9.250	9.550	18.800

Rings

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	9.900	9.850	19.750
	Akinori Nakayama (JPN)	9.750	9.750	19.500
	Franco Menichelli (ITA)	9.800	9.675	19.475
4	Takeshi Katō (JPN)	9.650	9.650	19.300
5	Sergei Diomidov (URS)	9.550	9.650	19.200
6	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	3.000	9.650	12.650

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Haruhiro Matsuda (JPN)	9.675	9.750	19.425
	Takeshi Katō (JPN)	9.650	9.675	19.325
	Akinori Nakayama (JPN)	9.500	9.550	19.050
4	Yukio Endo (JPN)	9.125	9.575	18.700
5	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	9.100	9.550	18.650
6	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	0.000	9.600	9.600

Parallel Bars

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Sergei Diamidov (URS)	9.750	9.800	19.550
	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	9.700	9.700	19.400
	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	9.700	9.650	19.350
4	Franco Menichelli (ITA)	9.600	9.625	19.225
5	Matthias Brehme (GDR)	9.600	9.600	19.200
6	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	0.000	9.625	9.625

Horizontal Bar

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Akinori Nakayama (JPN)	9.900	9.775	19.675
	Yukio Endo (JPN)	9.800	9.800	19.600
	Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)	9.700	9.725	19.425
4	Miroslav Cerar (YUG)	9.700	9.700	19.400
4	Mikhail Voronin (URS)	9.700	9.700	19.400
6	Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)	0.000	9.675	9.675

Women

Team competition

Rank	Team	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Czechoslovakia	190.995	192.630	383.625
	Soviet Union	191.358	192.229	383.587
	Japan	190.894	190.029	380.923
4	East Germany	187.494	190.324	377.818
5	Hungary	186.527	187.362	373.889
6	United States	182.360	185.260	367.620
7	France	183.193	183.225	366.418
8	Bulgaria	182.694	183.661	366.355
9	Sweden	181.429	181.662	363.091
10	West Germany	181.093	181.859	362.952
11	Poland	180.526	182.394	362.920
12	Norway	173.127	179.962	252.089
13	Yugoslavia	174.125	175.528	349.653
14	Netherlands	172.660	176.328	348.988
15	Canada	173.461	172.693	346.154
16	Israel	168.662	174.660	343.322
17	Great Britain	165.293	173.360	338.653
18	New Zealand	168.459	169.893	338.352
19	South Africa	168.693	166.761	335.454
20	Cuba	168.894	165.026	333.920
21	Finland	166.061	166.295	332.356
22	Austria	161.228	168.825	330.053

All-around

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional score	Total
	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	39.032	39.266	78.298
	Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)	38.865	39.232	78.097
	Keiko Ikeda (JPN)	38.599	38.398	76.997
4	Erika Zuchold (GDR)	38.265	38.331	76.596
5	Jaroslava Sedláčková (TCH)	38.099	38.366	76.465
6	Larisa Petrik (URS)	37.966	38.400	76.366
7	Marianna Némethová-Krajčírová (TCH)	37.999	38.222	76.332
8	Jana Kubičková (TCH)	37.933	38.299	76.232
9	Taki Shibuya (JPN)	38.232	37.933	76.165
10	Zinaida Druzhinina (URS)	37.831	38.333	76.164
11	Larisa Latynina (URS)	38.099	37.999	76.098
12	Hiroko Ikenada (JPN)	38.266	37.733	75.999

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	9.783	9.750	19.583
	Erika Zuchold (GDR)	9.733	9.666	19.399
	Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)	9.666	9.650	19.316
4	Ute Starke (GDR)	9.666	9.550	19.216
5	Jana Kubičková (TCH)	9.633	9.566	19.199
6	Hiroko Ikenada (JPN)	9.600	9.550	19.150

Uneven Bars

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)	9.800	9.816	19.616
	Keiko Ikeda (JPN)	9.766	9.800	19.566
	Taniko Mitsukuri (JPN)	9.800	9.716	19.516
4	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	9.666	9.816	19.482
5	Polina Astakhova (URS)	9.700	9.716	19.146
6	Taki Shibuya (JPN)	9.600	9.733	19.333

Balance Beam

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)	9.900	9.750	19.650
	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	9.600	9.733	19.333
	Larisa Petrik (URS)	9.600	9.650	19.250
4	Keiko Ikeda (JPN)	9.700	9.533	19.233
5	Anikó Ducza-Jánosi (HUN)	9.633	9.600	19.233
6	Jaroslava Sedláčková (TCH)	9.600	9.583	19.183

Floor Exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS)	9.900	9.833	19.733
	Věra Čáslavská (TCH)	9.833	9.850	19.683
	Zinaida Druzhinina (URS)	9.933	9.733	19.666
4	Larisa Petrik (URS)	9.766	9.650	19.416
5	Jana Kubičková (TCH)	9.700	9.663	19.363
6	Yasuko Furuyama (JPN)	9.666	9.650	19.316