Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome from September 5 through 10th.^[1]

Gymnastics at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Venue	Baths of Caracalla
Dates	5 September – 10 September 1960
← 1956 1964 →

Format of competition

The scoring in the team competition and in the all-around was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics (there was no team, portable apparatus event, however). But apart from two performances:a compulsory and an optional, which counted for both the team competition and the all-around, a gymnast, who competed in an apparatus final should show one's skills once more on the respective apparatus. For the final score ("Total" column in tables below), the compulsory routine's mark was added to the optional routine's, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" column) and added to the third routine's mark ("Final" column).

Results

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	Takashi Ono  Japan	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Japan (JPN) Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endō Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shuji Tsurumi	Soviet Union (URS) Albert Azaryan Valery Kerdemilidi Nikolai Miligulo Vladimir Portnoi Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov	Italy (ITA) Giovanni Carminucci Pasquale Carminucci Gianfranco Marzolla Franco Menichelli Orlando Polmonari Angelo Vicardi
Floor exercise details	Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan	Yuri Titov  Soviet Union	Franco Menichelli  Italy
Horizontal bar details	Takashi Ono  Japan	Masao Takemoto  Japan	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union
Parallel bars details	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	Giovanni Carminucci  Italy	Takashi Ono  Japan
Pommel horse details	Eugen Ekman  Finland	none awarded	Shuji Tsurumi  Japan
	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union
Rings details	Albert Asaryan  Soviet Union	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	Takashi Ono  Japan
			Velik Kapsazov  Bulgaria
Vault details	Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union	none awarded	Vladimir Portnoi  Soviet Union
	Takashi Ono  Japan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Soviet Union (URS) Polina Astakhova Lidia Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Lyukhina Sofia Muratova Margarita Nikolaeva	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Matylda Matoušková Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfína Tkačíková	Romania (ROU) Atanasia Ionescu Sonia Iovan Elena Leușteanu Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță Elena Niculescu Uta Poreceanu
Balance beam details	Eva Bosáková  Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union
Floor exercise details	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina  Soviet Union
Uneven bars details	Polina Astakhova  Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina  Soviet Union
Vault details	Margarita Nikolaeva  Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova  Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina  Soviet Union

Medal table

Total

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	10	8	8	26
2	Japan (JPN)	4	2	3	9
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		16	12	15	43

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	3	3	11
2	Japan (JPN)	4	2	3	9
3	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
4	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		10	6	9	25

Women

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	5	5	15
2	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
3	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		6	6	6	18

Participating nations

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (12)
•  Belgium (5)
•  Bulgaria (12)
•  Canada (3)
•  Cuba (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (12)
•  Finland (12)
•  France (12)
•  United Team of Germany (12)
•  Great Britain (12)
•  Hungary (12)
•  Israel (3)
•  Italy (12)
•  Japan (12)
•  South Korea (2)
•  Luxembourg (8)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Morocco (6)
•  Netherlands (6)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (12)
•  Portugal (4)
•  Romania (6)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Soviet Union (12)
•  Spain (12)
•  Sweden (12)
•  Switzerland (6)
•  United Arab Republic (6)
•  United States (12)
•  Yugoslavia (9)