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

Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
Yukio Endo (on the horizontal bar)
VenueTokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates18–23 October
Competitors128 from 29 nations
Winning score19.675
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yukio Endo
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Shuji Tsurumi
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Franco Menichelli
 Italy
← 1960
1968 →
Gymnastics at the
1964 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts
Artistic
Team all-aroundmenwomen
Individual all-aroundmenwomen
Vaultmenwomen
Floormenwomen
Pommel horsemen
Ringsmen
Parallel barsmen
Horizontal barmen
Uneven barswomen
Balance beamwomen

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.

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)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 18 October 1964 8:30
17:00		 Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 October 1964 8:30
17:00		 Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 23 October 1964 19:30 Final

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.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 1⁄2 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yukio Endo  Japan 9.80 9.75 19.55 9.775 9.900 19.675
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Shuji Tsurumi  Japan 9.75 9.75 19.50 9.750 9.700 19.450
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.70 9.60 19.30 9.650 9.700 19.350
4 Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.550 19.225
5 Victor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.80 9.70 19.50 9.750 9.450 19.200
6 Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 8.700 18.450
7 Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 9.65 9.65 19.30 Did not advance
Yamashita Haruhiro  Japan 9.65 9.65 19.30 Did not advance
9 Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
10 Christian Guiffroy  France 9.60 9.55 19.15 Did not advance
Takuji Hayata  Japan 9.45 9.70 19.15 Did not advance
Victor Leontyev  Soviet Union 9.60 9.55 19.15 Did not advance
13 Mitsukuri Takashi  Japan 9.60 9.50 19.10 Did not advance
14 Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
Erwin Koppe  United Team of Germany 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
Yury Titov  Soviet Union 9.60 9.45 19.05 Did not advance
Yury Tsapenko  Soviet Union 9.60 9.45 19.05 Did not advance
18 Rajmund Csanyi  Hungary 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Siegfried Fulle  United Team of Germany 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Klaus Koste  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.60 19.00 Did not advance
Stig Lindevall  Sweden 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
22 Pavel Gajdos  Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Kim Choong Tai  South Korea 9.40 9.55 18.95 Did not advance
Walter Muller  Switzerland 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
25 Philipp Furst  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Takashi Ono  Japan 9.60 9.30 18.90 Did not advance
Makoto Sakamoto  United States 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
28 Olli Laiho  Finland 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
30 Eugen Ekman  Finland 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Jan Jankowicz  Poland 9.45 9.35 18.80 Did not advance
Anton Kadar  Romania 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Kim Kwang Duk  South Korea 9.45 9.35 18.80 Did not advance
Gunter Lyhs  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
Bohumil Mudrik  Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
Frederic Orendi  Romania 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
Ladislav Pazdera  Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Gregor Weiss  United States 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
40 Peter Weber  United Team of Germany 9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
41 Chung Yi Kwang  South Korea 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Premysl Krbec  Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance
Mikolaj Kubica  Poland 9.60 9.10 18.70 Did not advance
Harald Wigaard  Norway 9.20 9.50 18.70 Did not advance
45 Ronald Barak  United States 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
Todor Batchvarov  Bulgaria 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 9.45 9.20 18.65 Did not advance
Fredy Egger  Switzerland 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
Gheorghe Tohaneanu  Romania 9.40 9.25 18.65 Did not advance
Lajos Varga  Hungary 9.40 9.25 18.65 Did not advance
Angelo Vicardi  Italy 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
52 Istvan Aranyos  Hungary 9.40 9.20 18.60 Did not advance
Raimo Heinonen  Finland 9.15 9.45 18.60 Did not advance
Alojz Petrovic  Yugoslavia 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
55 Fritz Feuz  Switzerland 9.45 9.10 18.55 Did not advance
Andras Lelkes  Hungary 9.20 9.35 18.55 Did not advance
Nicola Prodanov  Bulgaria 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Hannu Rantakari  Finland 9.20 9.35 18.55 Did not advance
Martin Srot  Yugoslavia 9.40 9.15 18.55 Did not advance
60 Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
Franz Fah  Switzerland 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
Richard Kihn  Canada 9.25 9.25 18.50 Did not advance
Georgi Mirtchev  Bulgaria 9.00 9.50 18.50 Did not advance
Peter Sos  Hungary 9.30 9.20 18.50 Did not advance
Wilhelm Weiler  Canada 9.10 9.40 18.50 Did not advance
66 Michel Bouchonnet  France 9.25 9.15 18.40 Did not advance
Todor Kondev  Bulgaria 9.25 9.15 18.40 Did not advance
68 Larry Banner  United States 9.45 8.90 18.35 Did not advance
Gottlieb Fassler  Switzerland 9.15 9.20 18.35 Did not advance
Kauko Heikkinen  Finland 9.30 9.05 18.35 Did not advance
Age Storhaug  Norway 9.30 9.05 18.35 Did not advance
72 Bernard Fauqueux  France 9.40 8.90 18.30 Did not advance
Andrzej Konopka  Poland 9.20 9.10 18.30 Did not advance
Alexandru Szilagyi  Romania 9.05 9.25 18.30 Did not advance
75 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 9.30 8.95 18.25 Did not advance
Gyozo Cser  Hungary 8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance
Otto Kestola  Finland 9.05 9.20 18.25 Did not advance
Karel Klecka  Czechoslovakia 9.40 8.85 18.25 Did not advance
79 Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 9.20 9.00 18.20 Did not advance
Mohamed Lazhari  Algeria 9.15 9.05 18.20 Did not advance
Petre Miclaus  Romania 9.10 9.10 18.20 Did not advance
William Thoresson  Sweden 9.15 9.05 18.20 Did not advance
83 Ivan Caklec  Yugoslavia 9.25 8.90 18.15 Did not advance
Velik Kapsasov  Bulgaria 9.20 8.95 18.15 Did not advance
Leif Koorn  Sweden 8.80 9.35 18.15 Did not advance
Vaclav Kubicka  Czechoslovakia 8.85 9.30 18.15 Did not advance
87 Graham Bond  Australia 9.00 9.10 18.10 Did not advance
Gheorghe Condovici  Romania 8.95 9.15 18.10 Did not advance
Russell Mitchell  United States 9.30 8.80 18.10 Did not advance
Nenad Vidovic  Yugoslavia 9.20 8.90 18.10 Did not advance
91 Gilbert Larose  Canada 9.05 9.00 18.05 Did not advance
92 Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.45 8.55 18.00 Did not advance
Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 9.10 8.90 18.00 Did not advance
94 Ady Stefanetti  Luxembourg 9.00 8.95 17.95 Did not advance
95 Liuh Reng Suhn  Taiwan 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance
Octavio Suarez  Cuba 8.85 9.05 17.90 Did not advance
97 Uih Yah Torh  Taiwan 9.00 8.80 17.80 Did not advance
98 Lee Kwang Jae  South Korea 9.45 8.25 17.70 Did not advance
99 Carlos Garcia  Cuba 8.70 8.95 17.65 Did not advance
Arthur Shurlock  United States 9.25 8.40 17.65 Did not advance
101 Marcus Faulks  Australia 8.65 8.95 17.60 Did not advance
Alfred Kucharczyk  Poland 8.30 9.30 17.60 Did not advance
Niamdawaa Zagdbazar  Mongolia 8.95 8.65 17.60 Did not advance
104 Barry Cheales  Australia 8.50 9.00 17.50 Did not advance
Jan Thai San  Taiwan 8.20 9.30 17.50 Did not advance
106 Andres Gonzalez  Cuba 8.65 8.80 17.45 Did not advance
Carlos Pizzini  Argentina 8.50 8.95 17.45 Did not advance
108 Lai Chu Long  Taiwan 8.35 9.05 17.40 Did not advance
Felix Padron  Cuba 8.55 8.85 17.40 Did not advance
110 John Pancott  Great Britain 8.75 8.60 17.35 Did not advance
111 John Mulhall  Great Britain 8.60 8.60 17.20 Did not advance
112 Liuben Christov  Bulgaria 9.30 7.80 17.10 Did not advance
113 Pablo Hernandez  Cuba 8.50 8.55 17.05 Did not advance
Frederick Trainer  Australia 8.60 8.45 17.05 Did not advance
115 Benjamin de Roo  Australia 8.25 8.70 16.95 Did not advance
116 Jalal Bazargan  Iran 8.15 8.70 16.85 Did not advance
Kang Soo Il  South Korea 8.85 8.00 16.85 Did not advance
118 Lee Bu Ti  Taiwan 8.30 8.50 16.80 Did not advance
119 Wang Shian Ming  Taiwan 8.15 8.55 16.70 Did not advance
120 Suh Jae Kyu  South Korea 7.10 9.45 16.55 Did not advance
121 Douglas McLennon  Australia 7.40 8.80 16.20 Did not advance
122 B. Bhosle  India 6.80 8.10 14.90 Did not advance
123 Trilok Singh  India 6.10 8.05 14.15 Did not advance
124 Anant Ram  India 6.80 6.60 13.40 Did not advance
125 Vithal Karande  India 6.35 6.75 13.10 Did not advance
126 Y. More  India 5.30 7.75 13.05 Did not advance
127 Mohamed Ibrahim  Egypt 8.20 — 8.20 Did not advance
128 D. Mondal  India 7.80 — 7.80 Did not advance
— Demetrio Pastrana  Philippines DNS Did not advance
Fortunato Payao  Philippines DNS Did not advance

References

  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. ^ a b c "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.

Sources

  • Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.