Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

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Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Yukio Endo 1964.jpg
Yukio Endo (on the horizontal bar)
Venue Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates18–23 October
Competitors128 from 29 nations
Winning score19.675
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Yukio Endo
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan
Silver medal icon.svg Shuji Tsurumi
Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan
Bronze medal icon.svg Franco Menichelli
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
  1960
1968  

The men's parallel bars was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. [1] The event was held on 18, 20, and 23 October. There were 128 competitors from 29 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts. [2] The event was won by Yukio Endo of Japan, the nation's first victory in the parallel bars after two Games with silver and bronze medals. It was the first of a four-Games gold medal streak for Japanese gymnasts in the event. Japan also took silver, with Shuji Tsurumi finishing second. Bronze went to Franco Menichelli of Italy.

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Background

This was the 11th 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 six finalists from 1960 returned: gold medalist Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, silver medalist Giovanni Carminucci of Italy, two-time bronze medalist Takashi Ono of Japan, and fifth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union. Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia, who had placed eighth at the 1960 Games, was the reigning (1962) world champion; Shakhlin had come second and Yukio Endo (seventh at Rome 1960) third. [2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, and Mongolia each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its 10th 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 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 128th. 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. [2] [3]

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 18 October 19648:30
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 October 19648:30
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 23 October 196419:30Final

Results

Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises, with the median scores from the four judges for the two sets of exercises were summed. This score was also used in calculating both individual all-around and team scores.

The top 6 advanced to the final for the apparatus, keeping half of their preliminary score to be added to their final score.

RankGymnastNationPreliminaryFinal
CompulsoryVoluntaryTotal12 Prelim.FinalTotal
Gold medal icon.svg Yukio Endo Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.809.7519.559.7759.90019.675
Silver medal icon.svg Shuji Tsurumi Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.759.7519.509.7509.70019.450
Bronze medal icon.svg Franco Menichelli Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.709.6019.309.6509.70019.350
4 Sergey Diomidov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.659.7019.359.6759.55019.225
5 Victor Lisitsky Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.809.7019.509.7509.45019.200
6 Miroslav Cerar Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Yugoslavia 9.709.8019.509.7508.70018.450
7 Giovanni Carminucci Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.659.6519.30Did not advance
Yamashita Haruhiro Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.659.6519.30Did not advance
9 Boris Shakhlin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.609.6519.25Did not advance
10 Christian Guiffroy Flag of France.svg  France 9.609.5519.15Did not advance
Takuji Hayata Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.459.7019.15Did not advance
Victor Leontyev Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.609.5519.15Did not advance
13 Mitsukuri Takashi Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.609.5019.10Did not advance
14 Luigi Cimnaghi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.459.6019.05Did not advance
Erwin Koppe Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 9.509.5519.05Did not advance
Yury Titov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.609.4519.05Did not advance
Yury Tsapenko Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.609.4519.05Did not advance
18 Rajmund Csanyi Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Siegfried Fulle Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Klaus Koste Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 9.409.6019.00Did not advance
Stig Lindevall Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
22 Pavel Gajdos Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 9.409.5518.95Did not advance
Kim Choong Tai Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).png  South Korea 9.409.5518.95Did not advance
Walter Muller Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 9.459.5018.95Did not advance
25 Philipp Furst Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 9.409.5018.90Did not advance
Takashi Ono Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.609.3018.90Did not advance
Makoto Sakamoto Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.409.5018.90Did not advance
28 Olli Laiho Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 9.359.5018.85Did not advance
Josy Stoffel Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg 9.359.5018.85Did not advance
30 Eugen Ekman Flag of Finland.svg  Finland 9.309.5018.80Did not advance
Jan Jankowicz Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 9.459.3518.80Did not advance
Anton Kadar Flag of Romania (1952-1965).svg  Romania 9.309.5018.80Did not advance
Kim Kwang Duk Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).png  South Korea 9.459.3518.80Did not advance
Gunter Lyhs Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 9.409.4018.80Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 9.409.4018.80Did not advance
Frederic Orendi Flag of Romania (1952-1965).svg  Romania 9.409.4018.80Did not advance
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Aleksander Rokosa Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 9.359.4518.80Did not advance
Gregor Weiss Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.309.5018.80Did not advance
40 Peter Weber Flag of the German Olympic Team (1960-1968).svg  United Team of Germany 9.409.3518.75Did not advance
41 Chung Yi Kwang Flag of South Korea (1949-1984).png  South Korea 9.309.4018.70Did not advance
Premysl Krbec Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 9.309.4018.70Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica Flag of Poland (1928-1980).svg  Poland 9.609.1018.70Did not advance
Harald Wigaard Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 9.209.5018.70Did not advance
45 Ronald Barak Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.259.4018.65Did not advance
Todor Batchvarov Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg  Bulgaria 9.259.4018.65Did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.459.2018.65Did not advance
Fredy Egger Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 9.259.4018.65Did not advance
Gheorghe Tohaneanu Flag of Romania (1952-1965).svg  Romania 9.409.2518.65Did not advance
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Nicola Prodanov Flag of Bulgaria (1948-1967).svg  Bulgaria 9.259.3018.55Did not advance
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Martin Srot Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Yugoslavia 9.409.1518.55Did not advance
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The men's parallel bars 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. The event was won by Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, the nation's second consecutive victory in the men's parallel bars. Giovanni Carminucci earned Italy's first medal in the event since 1932 with his silver. Takashi Ono of Japan took bronze for a second consecutive Games, making him the fourth man to win multiple medals in the event.

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  1. "Gymnastics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Parallel Bars". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.

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