Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
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Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics |
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Artistic | ||||
Team all-around | men | women | ||
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Individual all-around | men | women | ||
Vault | men | women | ||
Floor | men | women | ||
Pommel horse | men | |||
Rings | men | |||
Parallel bars | men | |||
Horizontal bar | men | |||
Uneven bars | women | |||
Balance beam | women |
At the 1968 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City from October 21 through October 26.
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Format of competition
The scoring in all the events was basically the same, as for gymnastics events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores - for compulsory and optional routine) qualified for that apparatus finals. The new feature of the competition was in women's events: each of them was judged by four judges, like men's ones. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining marks constituted the score.
Results
Men's events
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team all-around |
![]() Yukio Endo Sawao Kato Takeshi Katō Eizo Kenmotsu Akinori Nakayama Mitsuo Tsukahara |
![]() Sergei Diomidov Valery Iljinykh Valery Karasev Viktor Klimenko Victor Lisitsky Mikhail Voronin |
![]() Gunter Beier Matthias Brehme Gerhard Dietrich Siegfried Fülle Klaus Köste Peter Weber |
Individual all-around |
Sawao Kato![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Floor exercise |
Sawao Kato![]() |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Takeshi Katō![]() |
Horizontal bar |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
none awarded | Eizo Kenmotsu![]() |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
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Parallel bars |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Viktor Klimenko![]() |
Pommel horse |
Miroslav Cerar![]() |
Olli Laiho![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Rings |
Akinori Nakayama![]() |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Sawao Kato![]() |
Vault |
Mikhail Voronin![]() |
Yukio Endo![]() |
Sergei Diomidov![]() |
Women's events
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Team all-around |
![]() Lyubov Burda Olga Karasyova Natalia Kuchinskaya Larisa Petrik Ludmilla Tourischeva Zinaida Voronina |
![]() Věra Čáslavská Marianna Krajčírová Jana Kubičková Hana Lišková Bohumila Řimnáčová Miroslava Skleničková |
![]() Maritta Bauerschmidt Karin Janz Marianne Noack Magdalena Schmidt Ute Starke Erika Zuchold |
Individual all-around |
Věra Čáslavská![]() |
Zinaida Voronina![]() |
Natalia Kuchinskaya![]() |
Balance beam |
Natalia Kuchinskaya![]() |
Věra Čáslavská![]() |
Larisa Petrik![]() |
Floor exercise |
Larisa Petrik![]() |
none awarded | Natalia Kuchinskaya![]() |
Věra Čáslavská![]() |
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Uneven bars |
Věra Čáslavská![]() |
Karin Janz![]() |
Zinaida Voronina![]() |
Vault |
Věra Čáslavská![]() |
Erika Zuchold![]() |
Zinaida Voronina![]() |
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | ![]() |
6 | 2 | 4 | 12 |
2 | ![]() |
5 | 5 | 8 | 18 |
3 | ![]() |
4 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
4 | ![]() |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | ![]() |
0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Total | 16 | 12 | 14 | 42 |