Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

The men's pommel horse competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It was held on 5, 7, and 10 September at the Baths of Caracalla. There were 128 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 2 gymnasts.[1] There was a tie for first place in the pommel horse. Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union and Eugen Ekman of Finland each received a gold medal. It was the third consecutive Games with a gold medal for the Soviets, as Shakhlin became the first man to successfully repeat as Olympic champion in the event (and second to win multiple medals of any color). Ekman's medal was the only medal in men's artistic gymnastics in 1960 that did not go to the Soviet Union or Japan. Third place and the bronze medal went to Japan's Shuji Tsurumi.

Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Boris Shakhlin on the pommel horse
Venue	Baths of Caracalla
Dates	5–10 September
Competitors	128 from 28 nations
Winning score	19.375
Medalists
Eugen Ekman  Finland Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union Shuji Tsurumi  Japan

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the pommel horse final.

Background

This was the 10th 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). Five of the top 11 (including ties for 9th) gymnasts from 1956 returned: gold medalist Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, silver medalist Takashi Ono of Japan, fifth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Jaroslav Bím of Czechoslovakia, and seventh-place finisher Masao Takemoto of Japan. Shakhlin was also the reigning (1958) world champion.[1]

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's pommel horse; the short-lived United Arab Republic made its only appearance. The United States made its ninth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to two 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 130th. For the apparatus finals, the all-around score for that apparatus was multiplied by one-half then added to the final round exercise score to give a final total.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, with the final total apparatus score from 0 to 20.

Schedule

All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date	Time	Round
Monday, 5 September 1960	8:00 17:00	Preliminary: Compulsory
Wednesday, 7 September 1960	8:00 17:00	Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 10 September 1960	15:00	Final

Results

Eugen Ekman on the pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	​^1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Eugen Ekman	Finland	9.55	9.70	19.25	9.625	9.750	19.375
	Boris Shakhlin	Soviet Union	9.60	9.75	19.35	9.675	9.700	19.375
	Shuji Tsurumi	Japan	9.50	9.60	19.10	9.550	9.600	19.150
4	Takashi Mitsukuri	Japan	9.60	9.55	19.15	9.575	9.550	19.125
5	Yury Titov	Soviet Union	9.55	9.65	19.20	9.600	9.350	18.950
6	Takashi Ono	Japan	9.60	9.55	19.15	9.575	8.950	18.525
7	Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	9.60	9.45	19.05	Did not advance
8	Kauko Heikkinen	Finland	9.40	9.60	19.00	Did not advance
	Larry Banner	United States	9.50	9.50	19.00	Did not advance
10	Yukio Endo	Japan	9.45	9.40	18.85	Did not advance
	Nikolai Miligulo	Soviet Union	9.50	9.35	18.85	Did not advance
12	Jaroslav Šťastný	Czechoslovakia	9.30	9.50	18.80	Did not advance
	Valery Kerdemelidi	Soviet Union	9.40	9.40	18.80	Did not advance
	Orlando Polmonari	Italy	9.30	9.50	18.80	Did not advance
15	Åge Storhaug	Norway	9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
	Gar O'Quinn	United States	9.30	9.45	18.75	Did not advance
	Gianfranco Marzolla	Italy	9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
18	Vladimir Portnoy	Soviet Union	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Pavel Gajdoš	Czechoslovakia	9.20	9.50	18.70	Did not advance
	Jack Beckner	United States	9.40	9.30	18.70	Did not advance
	Josy Stoffel	Luxembourg	9.25	9.45	18.70	Did not advance
	Dragan Gagić	Yugoslavia	9.35	9.35	18.70	Did not advance
23	Franco Menichelli	Italy	9.35	9.30	18.65	Did not advance
	Ivan Čaklec	Yugoslavia	9.25	9.40	18.65	Did not advance
	Angelo Vicardi	Italy	9.20	9.45	18.65	Did not advance
26	Nobuyuki Aihara	Japan	9.40	9.20	18.60	Did not advance
	Masao Takemoto	Japan	9.30	9.30	18.60	Did not advance
	Don Tonry	United States	9.25	9.35	18.60	Did not advance
	Fritz Feuz	Switzerland	9.25	9.35	18.60	Did not advance
30	Albert Azaryan	Soviet Union	9.45	9.10	18.55	Did not advance
	Giovanni Carminucci	Italy	9.25	9.30	18.55	Did not advance
	Edy Thomi	Switzerland	9.25	9.30	18.55	Did not advance
33	Jaroslav Bím	Czechoslovakia	9.10	9.40	18.50	Did not advance
	Fred Orlofsky	United States	9.10	9.40	18.50	Did not advance
	Józef Rajnisz	Poland	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
36	Kurt Wigartz	Sweden	8.90	7.25	18.45	Did not advance
	Sakari Olkkonen	Finland	9.20	9.25	18.45	Did not advance
38	János Mester	Hungary	8.80	9.10	18.40	Did not advance
	Jean Jaillard	France	8.75	8.80	18.40	Did not advance
40	Günter Nachtigall	United Team of Germany	9.10	9.25	18.35	Did not advance
	Pasquale Carminucci	Italy	9.10	9.25	18.35	Did not advance
42	Ferdinand Daniš	Czechoslovakia	9.25	9.05	18.30	Did not advance
	Josef Trmal	Czechoslovakia	9.00	9.30	18.30	Did not advance
	Velik Kapsazov	Bulgaria	9.05	8.90	18.30	Did not advance
	Alojz Petrovič	Yugoslavia	9.10	9.20	18.30	Did not advance
46	Siegfried Fülle	United Team of Germany	8.95	9.30	18.25	Did not advance
	Raimo Heinonen	Finland	9.15	9.10	18.25	Did not advance
48	Ladislav Pazdera	Czechoslovakia	8.80	9.40	18.20	Did not advance
	Olavi Leimuvirta	Finland	9.15	9.05	18.20	Did not advance
	Max Benker	Switzerland	8.85	9.35	18.20	Did not advance
51	Ernst Fivian	Switzerland	8.95	9.20	18.15	Did not advance
	Otto Kestola	Finland	9.20	8.95	18.15	Did not advance
	Nik Stuart	Great Britain	9.35	8.80	18.15	Did not advance
54	Mohamed Lazhari	France	8.70	8.90	18.10	Did not advance
	André Brüllmann	Switzerland	9.00	9.10	18.10	Did not advance
	Bo Wirhed	Sweden	9.30	5.50	18.10	Did not advance
57	Lajos Varga	Hungary	9.25	8.70	18.05	Did not advance
	Leif Koorn	Sweden	9.20	8.25	18.05	Did not advance
59	Hans Schwarzentruber	Switzerland	9.15	8.85	18.00	Did not advance
	Rajmund Csányi	Hungary	8.85	7.35	18.00	Did not advance
	Todor Bachvarov	Bulgaria	8.80	9.30	18.00	Did not advance
62	Alfred Kucharczyk	Poland	8.95	9.00	17.95	Did not advance
	Andrzej Konopka	Poland	8.75	9.20	17.95	Did not advance
	Ernest Hawełek	Poland	9.00	8.95	17.95	Did not advance
65	Philipp Fürst	United Team of Germany	8.40	9.50	17.90	Did not advance
	Günter Lyhs	United Team of Germany	8.90	9.00	17.90	Did not advance
	Bernard Fauqueux	France	8.85	9.35	17.90	Did not advance
	Hans Sauter	Austria	9.05	8.85	17.90	Did not advance
69	Rudolf Keszthelyi	Hungary	9.20	9.00	17.85	Did not advance
	Milenko Lekić	Yugoslavia	9.00	8.85	17.85	Did not advance
	Géza Bejek	Hungary	8.70	9.20	17.85	Did not advance
	Lyuben Khristov	Bulgaria	9.15	9.15	17.85	Did not advance
73	Jerzy Jokiel	Poland	9.00	8.80	17.80	Did not advance
	Stig Lindewall	Sweden	9.10	7.80	17.80	Did not advance
	Jaime Belenguer	Spain	8.50	9.30	17.80	Did not advance
76	Abie Grossfeld	United States	8.95	8.80	17.75	Did not advance
77	Michel Mathiot	France	8.95	9.25	17.70	Did not advance
78	Sándor Békési	Hungary	9.30	8.20	17.60	Did not advance
	Hermann Klien	Austria	8.70	8.90	17.60	Did not advance
80	Nikola Prodanov	Bulgaria	8.20	9.40	17.50	Did not advance
	Aleksander Rokosa	Poland	8.50	9.00	17.50	Did not advance
82	Robert Caymaris	France	9.00	9.15	17.35	Did not advance
83	Armand Huberty	Luxembourg	8.60	8.70	17.30	Did not advance
	Johann König	Austria	8.60	8.70	17.30	Did not advance
85	Marsel Markulin	Yugoslavia	8.35	8.90	17.25	Did not advance
86	Erwin Koppe	United Team of Germany	8.85	8.30	17.15	Did not advance
	Richard Montpetit	Canada	8.30	8.85	17.15	Did not advance
	Luis Valbuena	Spain	8.25	8.90	17.15	Did not advance
89	William Thoresson	Sweden	8.90	6.75	17.10	Did not advance
	Ahmed Goneim	United Arab Republic	9.00	8.85	17.10	Did not advance
91	Karlheinz Friedrich	United Team of Germany	7.80	9.20	17.00	Did not advance
92	Daniel Touche	France	9.10	9.00	16.75	Did not advance
	Willi Kafel	Austria	8.30	8.45	16.75	Did not advance
	Armando Valles	Mexico	7.90	8.85	16.75	Did not advance
95	Abdel Vares Sharraf	United Arab Republic	9.10	8.85	16.65	Did not advance
96	Emilio Lecuona	Spain	8.25	8.30	16.55	Did not advance
97	Jean Cronstedt	Sweden	9.00	7.70	16.50	Did not advance
	Michel Kiesgen	Luxembourg	7.70	8.80	16.50	Did not advance
99	Jack Pancott	Great Britain	7.80	8.60	16.40	Did not advance
100	Dick Gradley	Great Britain	7.65	8.70	16.35	Did not advance
	Gerhard Huber	Austria	8.70	7.65	16.35	Did not advance
102	Ramón García	Spain	7.55	8.55	16.10	Did not advance
103	Georgi Khristov	Bulgaria	7.20	8.65	16.00	Did not advance
104	Stoyan Stoyanov	Bulgaria	7.00	9.20	15.85	Did not advance
105	Enrique Montserrat	Spain	7.20	8.60	15.80	Did not advance
106	Hermenegildo Candeias	Portugal	7.65	8.00	15.65	Did not advance
107	Marcel Coppin	Luxembourg	7.25	8.25	15.50	Did not advance
108	Ismail Abdallah	United Arab Republic	8.15	7.70	15.40	Did not advance
109	Kim Sang-guk	South Korea	6.95	8.25	15.20	Did not advance
110	Ahmed Dakkeli	United Arab Republic	8.55	7.80	15.05	Did not advance
	René Marteaux	Belgium	6.60	8.45	15.05	Did not advance
112	Hubert Erang	Luxembourg	6.85	8.00	14.85	Did not advance
113	John Mulhall	Great Britain	6.50	8.20	14.70	Did not advance
114	Juan Caviglia	Argentina	7.60	6.90	14.50	Did not advance
115	Ken Buffin	Great Britain	7.80	6.60	14.40	Did not advance
116	Selim El-Sayed	United Arab Republic	8.70	7.60	14.35	Did not advance
117	Benjamin de Roo	Australia	6.50	7.65	14.15	Did not advance
118	Graham Bond	Australia	6.50	7.50	14.00	Did not advance
119	François Eisenbarth	Luxembourg	5.00	7.75	12.75	Did not advance
120	Ahmed Issam Allam	United Arab Republic	8.10	7.20	12.70	Did not advance
121	Léopold Desmet	Belgium	5.25	7.15	12.40	Did not advance
122	Mohamed Sekkat	Morocco	4.35	6.00	10.35	Did not advance
123	Ahmed Fellat	Morocco	4.00	5.50	9.50	Did not advance
124	Darif Tanjaoui	Morocco	3.80	5.25	9.05	Did not advance
125	Abdesselem Regragui	Morocco	4.00	4.75	8.75	Did not advance
126	Peter Starling	Great Britain	8.65	—	8.65	Did not advance
127	Miloud M'Sellek	Morocco	3.00	4.00	7.00	Did not advance
128	Anton Hertl	Austria	6.70	—	6.70	Did not advance

References

1. "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

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