Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Gymnastics; at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
	Gymnastics at the 1964 Olympics on a stamp of Japan
Venue	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates	18 October – 23 October 1964
	← 1960 1968 →

At the 1964 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Tokyo from 18 October through 23 October.^[1]

The scoring in all the events was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics. The six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores—for compulsory and optional routines) qualified for that apparatus finals. Each of the women's events was judged by five judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of three remaining ones constituted the score. Each of the men's events were judged by four judges. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining ones constituted the score.

Results

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Yukio Endo Japan	Viktor Lisitsky Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union Shuji Tsurumi Japan	none awarded
Team all-around details	Yukio Endo Takuji Hayata Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita	Yuri Tsapenko	United Team of Germany (EUA) Siegfried Fülle Philipp Fürst Erwin Koppe Klaus Köste Günter Lyhs Peter Weber
Floor exercise details	Franco Menichelli Italy	Yukio Endo Japan Viktor Lisitsky Soviet Union	none awarded
Horizontal bar details	Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union	Yuri Titov Soviet Union	Miroslav Cerar Yugoslavia
Parallel bars details	Yukio Endo Japan	Shuji Tsurumi Japan	Franco Menichelli Italy
Pommel horse details	Miroslav Cerar Yugoslavia	Shuji Tsurumi Japan	Yuri Tsapenko Soviet Union
Rings details	Takuji Hayata Japan	Franco Menichelli Italy	Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union
Vault details	Haruhiro Yamashita Japan	Viktor Lisitsky Soviet Union	Hannu Rantakari Finland

Women's

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Elena Volchetskaya Tamara Zamotaylova	Adolfína Tkačíková	Japan (JPN) Toshiko Aihara Ginko Chiba Keiko Ikeda Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Hiroko Tsuji
Balance beam details	Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia	Tamara Manina Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union
Floor exercise details	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova Soviet Union	Anikó Ducza Hungary
Uneven bars details	Polina Astakhova Soviet Union	Katalin Makray Hungary	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union
Vault details	Věra Čáslavská Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina Soviet Union Birgit Radochla United Team of Germany	None awarded

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	5	4	1	10
2	Soviet Union (URS)	4	10	5	19
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	3	1	0	4
4	Italy (ITA)	1	1	1	3
5	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	1	2
6	Hungary (HUN)	0	1	1	2
6	United Team of Germany (EUA)	0	1	1	2
8	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		14	18	11	43