Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

The men's vault 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 129 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 2 gymnasts.[1] For the second straight Games, there was a tie for first place in the vault. Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union and Takashi Ono of Japan each received a gold medal. It was the third consecutive Games with a gold medal for the Soviets. Ono, who had taken bronze in 1952, became the second man to win multiple vault medals. Third place and the bronze medal went to Soviet Vladimir Portnoi.

Men's vault at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Boris Shakhlin competing on the vault
Venue	Baths of Caracalla
Dates	5–10 September
Competitors	129 from 28 nations
Winning score	19.350
Medalists
Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union Takashi Ono  Japan Vladimir Portnoi  Soviet Union

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the vault 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). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1956 returned: bronze medalist Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher (and 1952 silver medalist) Masao Takemoto of Japan, and seventh-place finisher Jack Beckner of the United States. Also returning was Takashi Ono of Japan, bronze medalist in 1952 and 16th place in 1956. The 1958 World Championship podium was (in order) Titov, Takemoto, and Ono.[1]

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's vault; 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. 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 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

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	​^1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Takashi Ono	Japan	9.60	9.70	19.30	9.650	9.700	19.350
	Boris Shakhlin	Soviet Union	9.50	9.70	19.20	9.600	9.750	19.350
	Vladimir Portnoy	Soviet Union	9.60	9.65	19.25	9.625	9.600	19.225
4	Yury Titov	Soviet Union	9.50	9.50	19.00	9.500	9.700	19.200
5	Yukio Endo	Japan	9.55	9.50	19.05	9.525	9.650	19.175
6	Shuji Tsurumi	Japan	9.45	9.55	19.00	9.500	9.650	19.150
7	Masao Takemoto	Japan	9.35	9.65	19.00	Did not advance
8	Takashi Mitsukuri	Japan	9.40	9.55	18.95	Did not advance
9	Nobuyuki Aihara	Japan	9.35	9.50	18.85	Did not advance
	Franco Menichelli	Italy	9.35	9.50	18.85	Did not advance
	Giovanni Carminucci	Italy	9.20	9.65	18.85	Did not advance
12	Nikolai Miligulo	Soviet Union	9.30	9.50	18.80	Did not advance
13	Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
14	Albert Azaryan	Soviet Union	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
15	Angelo Vicardi	Italy	9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
16	Valery Kerdemelidi	Soviet Union	9.25	9.35	18.60	Did not advance
17	Fred Orlofsky	United States	9.20	9.35	18.55	Did not advance
	Nikola Prodanov	Bulgaria	9.15	9.40	18.55	Did not advance
19	William Thoresson	Sweden	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
20	Jaroslav Šťastný	Czechoslovakia	9.05	9.40	18.45	Did not advance
	Josy Stoffel	Luxembourg	9.25	9.20	18.45	Did not advance
	Ernst Fivian	Switzerland	9.10	9.35	18.45	Did not advance
	Don Tonry	United States	9.20	9.25	18.45	Did not advance
	Pavel Gajdoš	Czechoslovakia	9.05	9.40	18.45	Did not advance
	Bo Wirhed	Sweden	9.25	9.20	18.45	Did not advance
26	Günter Lyhs	United Team of Germany	9.00	9.40	18.40	Did not advance
	Josef Trmal	Czechoslovakia	9.00	9.40	18.40	Did not advance
28	Ferdinand Daniš	Czechoslovakia	8.95	9.40	18.35	Did not advance
	Larry Banner	United States	9.05	9.30	18.35	Did not advance
	Max Benker	Switzerland	9.00	9.35	18.35	Did not advance
	Stoyan Stoyanov	Bulgaria	9.05	9.30	18.35	Did not advance
	Sándor Békési	Hungary	9.05	9.30	18.35	Did not advance
33	Günter Nachtigall	United Team of Germany	8.95	9.35	18.30	Did not advance
34	Siegfried Fülle	United Team of Germany	8.90	9.35	18.25	Did not advance
	Pasquale Carminucci	Italy	8.90	9.35	18.25	Did not advance
	Lajos Varga	Hungary	9.25	9.00	18.25	Did not advance
	Rajmund Csányi	Hungary	9.10	9.15	18.25	Did not advance
	Alojz Petrovič	Yugoslavia	9.00	9.25	18.25	Did not advance
39	Jaroslav Bím	Czechoslovakia	8.85	9.35	18.20	Did not advance
	Gianfranco Marzolla	Italy	8.95	9.25	18.20	Did not advance
	Karlheinz Friedrich	United Team of Germany	9.10	9.10	18.20	Did not advance
	Philipp Fürst	United Team of Germany	8.95	9.25	18.20	Did not advance
43	Olavi Leimuvirta	Finland	8.90	9.25	18.15	Did not advance
	Fritz Feuz	Switzerland	8.70	9.45	18.15	Did not advance
	Lyuben Khristov	Bulgaria	8.80	9.35	18.15	Did not advance
46	Otto Kestola	Finland	8.90	9.20	18.10	Did not advance
	Jack Beckner	United States	8.90	9.20	18.10	Did not advance
	Hans Schwarzentruber	Switzerland	8.75	9.35	18.10	Did not advance
	Ivan Čaklec	Yugoslavia	8.80	9.30	18.10	Did not advance
	Hermenegildo Martínez	Spain	8.85	9.25	18.10	Did not advance
51	Sakari Olkkonen	Finland	8.75	9.30	18.05	Did not advance
52	Orlando Polmonari	Italy	8.75	9.25	18.00	Did not advance
	Rudolf Keszthelyi	Hungary	8.85	9.15	18.00	Did not advance
	Bernard Fauqueux	France	8.90	9.10	18.00	Did not advance
	Ernest Hawełek	Poland	8.85	9.15	18.00	Did not advance
	Jerzy Jokiel	Poland	8.95	9.05	18.00	Did not advance
	Georgi Khristov	Bulgaria	9.00	9.00	18.00	Did not advance
58	Velik Kapsazov	Bulgaria	8.60	9.35	17.95	Did not advance
	Alfred Kucharczyk	Poland	8.55	9.40	17.95	Did not advance
	Ismail Abdallah	United Arab Republic	8.75	9.20	17.95	Did not advance
61	Gar O'Quinn	United States	8.75	9.15	17.90	Did not advance
	Milenko Lekić	Yugoslavia	8.65	9.25	17.90	Did not advance
63	Robert Caymaris	France	8.85	9.00	17.85	Did not advance
	Abie Grossfeld	United States	8.90	8.95	17.85	Did not advance
	Armand Huberty	Luxembourg	8.75	9.10	17.85	Did not advance
	Marsel Markulin	Yugoslavia	8.70	9.15	17.85	Did not advance
	Ahmed Goneim	United Arab Republic	8.85	9.00	17.85	Did not advance
68	Raimo Heinonen	Finland	8.60	9.20	17.80	Did not advance
69	André Brüllmann	Switzerland	8.60	9.15	17.75	Did not advance
	Géza Bejek	Hungary	8.70	9.05	17.75	Did not advance
	Leif Koorn	Sweden	8.45	9.30	17.75	Did not advance
	Willi Kafel	Austria	8.80	8.95	17.75	Did not advance
73	Nik Stuart	Great Britain	8.70	9.00	17.70	Did not advance
	Józef Rajnisz	Poland	8.75	8.95	17.70	Did not advance
	Kurt Wigartz	Sweden	8.45	9.25	17.70	Did not advance
	Hans Sauter	Austria	8.60	9.10	17.70	Did not advance
	Jean Jaillard	France	8.70	9.00	17.70	Did not advance
	Richard Montpetit	Canada	8.95	8.75	17.70	Did not advance
	Enrique Montserrat	Spain	8.75	8.95	17.70	Did not advance
	Luis Valbuena	Spain	8.85	8.85	17.70	Did not advance
81	Kauko Heikkinen	Finland	8.70	8.95	17.65	Did not advance
	Erwin Koppe	United Team of Germany	8.45	9.20	17.65	Did not advance
	Stig Lindewall	Sweden	8.70	8.95	17.65	Did not advance
	Edy Thomi	Switzerland	8.50	9.15	17.65	Did not advance
	János Mester	Hungary	8.60	9.05	17.65	Did not advance
	Kim Sang-guk	South Korea	8.65	9.00	17.65	Did not advance
87	Marcel Coppin	Luxembourg	8.75	8.85	17.60	Did not advance
	René Marteaux	Belgium	8.50	9.10	17.60	Did not advance
89	Eugen Ekman	Finland	8.55	9.00	17.55	Did not advance
	Åge Storhaug	Norway	8.40	9.15	17.55	Did not advance
	Ladislav Pazdera	Czechoslovakia	8.35	9.20	17.55	Did not advance
	Selim El-Sayed	United Arab Republic	8.70	8.85	17.55	Did not advance
93	Andrzej Konopka	Poland	8.80	8.65	17.45	Did not advance
	Johann König	Austria	8.55	8.90	17.45	Did not advance
95	Emilio Lecuona	Spain	8.35	9.05	17.40	Did not advance
	Abdel Vares Sharraf	United Arab Republic	8.40	9.00	17.40	Did not advance
	Léopold Desmet	Belgium	8.50	8.90	17.40	Did not advance
98	Jack Pancott	Great Britain	8.20	9.15	17.35	Did not advance
	Ken Buffin	Great Britain	8.30	9.05	17.35	Did not advance
100	Dragan Gagić	Yugoslavia	7.95	9.25	17.20	Did not advance
101	Mohamed Lazhari	France	8.10	9.05	17.15	Did not advance
102	Gerhard Huber	Austria	8.40	8.70	17.10	Did not advance
	Hubert Erang	Luxembourg	8.40	8.70	17.10	Did not advance
104	John Mulhall	Great Britain	8.45	8.60	17.05	Did not advance
105	Peter Starling	Great Britain	7.85	9.15	17.00	Did not advance
106	Todor Bachvarov	Bulgaria	7.85	9.05	16.90	Did not advance
	Hermann Klien	Austria	8.40	8.50	16.90	Did not advance
108	Ahmed Dakkeli	United Arab Republic	7.75	9.10	16.85	Did not advance
109	Miloud M'Sellek	Morocco	8.30	8.50	16.80	Did not advance
110	Michel Mathiot	France	7.65	9.10	16.75	Did not advance
111	Michel Kiesgen	Luxembourg	7.80	8.85	16.65	Did not advance
112	Aleksander Rokosa	Poland	7.65	8.90	16.55	Did not advance
113	Anton Hertl	Austria	7.55	8.95	16.50	Did not advance
114	Jaime Belenguer	Spain	7.65	8.80	16.45	Did not advance
115	Ramón García	Spain	7.50	8.90	16.40	Did not advance
116	Benjamin de Roo	Australia	7.40	8.95	16.35	Did not advance
117	Ahmed Issam Allam	United Arab Republic	7.00	9.30	16.30	Did not advance
	Juan Caviglia	Argentina	7.40	8.90	16.30	Did not advance
119	François Eisenbarth	Luxembourg	7.75	8.45	16.20	Did not advance
120	Ahmed Fellat	Morocco	8.30	7.35	15.65	Did not advance
121	Armando Valles	Mexico	7.15	8.40	15.55	Did not advance
122	Daniel Touche	France	6.00	9.10	15.10	Did not advance
123	Dick Gradley	Great Britain	8.30	6.75	15.05	Did not advance
	Jean Cronstedt	Sweden	6.10	8.95	15.05	Did not advance
125	Graham Bond	Australia	6.00	8.65	14.65	Did not advance
126	Mohamed Sekkat	Morocco	6.50	7.95	14.45	Did not advance
127	Abdesselem Regragui	Morocco	6.00	6.75	12.75	Did not advance
128	Darif Tanjaoui	Morocco	6.00	5.50	11.50	Did not advance
129	Hermenegildo Candeias	Portugal	0.00	8.75	8.75	Did not advance
—	Kacem Klifa	Morocco	DNS			Did not advance

References

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

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