Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

Men's parallel bars at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Noboyuki Aihara competing on the parallel bars
Venue	Baths of Caracalla
Dates	5–10 September
Competitors	129 from 27 nations
Winning score	19.400
Medalists
Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union Giovanni Carminucci  Italy Takashi Ono  Japan

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 (tying Germany for second-most all-time). 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.

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the parallel bars 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). Seven of the top 12 (including ties for 8th) gymnasts from 1956 returned: bronze medalists Takashi Ono and Masao Takemoto of Japan, fifth-place finisher Albert Azaryan of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Nobuyuki Aihara of Japan, and eighth-place finishers Yury Titov and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union and Olavi Leimuvirta of Finland. Shakhlin had won the 1958 world championship, with Ono the runner-up.

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's parallel bars; 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 129th. 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 Central European Time (UTC+1)

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
	Boris Shakhlin	Soviet Union	9.70	9.70	19.40	9.700	9.700	19.400
	Giovanni Carminucci	Italy	9.60	9.75	19.35	9.675	9.700	19.375
	Takashi Ono	Japan	9.80	9.60	19.40	9.700	9.650	19.350
4	Nobuyuki Aihara	Japan	9.60	9.65	19.25	9.625	9.650	19.275
5	Yury Titov	Soviet Union	9.65	9.55	19.20	9.600	9.600	19.200
6	Masao Takemoto	Japan	9.70	9.55	19.25	9.625	9.500	19.125
7	Yukio Endo	Japan	9.70	9.50	19.20	did not advance
8	Franco Menichelli	Italy	9.55	9.60	19.15	did not advance
	Shuji Tsurumi	Japan	9.55	9.60	19.15	did not advance
	Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	9.45	9.70	19.15	did not advance
	Philipp Fürst	United Team of Germany	9.60	9.55	19.15	did not advance
	Fritz Feuz	Switzerland	9.60	9.55	19.15	did not advance
13	Ernst Fivian	Switzerland	9.45	9.60	19.05	did not advance
14	Otto Kestola	Finland	9.55	9.45	19.00	did not advance
	Max Benker	Switzerland	9.50	9.50	19.00	did not advance
16	Olavi Leimuvirta	Finland	9.40	9.55	18.95	did not advance
17	André Brüllmann	Switzerland	9.45	9.45	18.90	did not advance
18	Günter Lyhs	United Team of Germany	9.35	9.50	18.85	did not advance
19	Takashi Mitsukuri	Japan	9.65	9.15	18.80	did not advance
	Ferdinand Daniš	Czechoslovakia	9.35	9.45	18.80	did not advance
	Stoyan Stoyanov	Bulgaria	9.40	9.40	18.80	did not advance
	Jaroslav Bím	Czechoslovakia	9.45	9.35	18.80	did not advance
23	Nikolai Miligulo	Soviet Union	9.45	9.30	18.75	did not advance
	Raimo Heinonen	Finland	9.25	9.50	18.75	did not advance
	Ahmed Issam Allam	United Arab Republic	9.40	9.35	18.75	did not advance
26	Lajos Varga	Hungary	9.35	9.35	18.70	did not advance
	Josy Stoffel	Luxembourg	9.40	9.30	18.70	did not advance
	Jack Beckner	United States	9.45	9.25	18.70	did not advance
29	Angelo Vicardi	Italy	9.10	9.55	18.65	did not advance
	Eugen Ekman	Finland	9.25	9.40	18.65	did not advance
31	Velik Kapsazov	Bulgaria	9.30	9.30	18.60	did not advance
	Hans Schwarzentruber	Switzerland	9.25	9.35	18.60	did not advance
	Ismail Abdallah	United Arab Republic	9.30	9.30	18.60	did not advance
	Edy Thomi	Switzerland	9.20	9.40	18.60	did not advance
35	Erwin Koppe	United Team of Germany	9.20	9.35	18.55	did not advance
	Aleksander Rokosa	Poland	9.20	9.35	18.55	did not advance
37	Abie Grossfeld	United States	9.25	9.20	18.45	did not advance
	Fred Orlofsky	United States	9.30	9.15	18.45	did not advance
	Åge Storhaug	Norway	9.05	9.40	18.45	did not advance
	Don Tonry	United States	9.30	9.15	18.45	did not advance
	Kauko Heikkinen	Finland	9.15	9.30	18.45	did not advance
42	Vladimir Portnoy	Soviet Union	9.40	9.00	18.40	did not advance
	Sakari Olkkonen	Finland	8.90	9.50	18.40	did not advance
	Todor Bachvarov	Bulgaria	9.05	9.35	18.40	did not advance
	Jaroslav Šťastný	Czechoslovakia	9.35	9.05	18.40	did not advance
46	Albert Azaryan	Soviet Union	9.25	9.10	18.35	did not advance
	Pasquale Carminucci	Italy	9.15	9.20	18.35	did not advance
	Alojz Petrovič	Yugoslavia	9.20	9.15	18.35	did not advance
	Andrzej Konopka	Poland	9.10	9.25	18.35	did not advance
50	Stig Lindewall	Sweden	9.05	9.25	18.30	did not advance
	Gar O'Quinn	United States	9.15	9.15	18.30	did not advance
52	Pavel Gajdoš	Czechoslovakia	9.25	9.00	18.25	did not advance
	Alfred Kucharczyk	Poland	8.95	9.30	18.25	did not advance
54	Rudolf Keszthelyi	Hungary	9.30	8.90	18.20	did not advance
	Orlando Polmonari	Italy	9.00	9.20	18.20	did not advance
56	Rajmund Csányi	Hungary	9.45	8.70	18.15	did not advance
	Bernard Fauqueux	France	9.15	9.00	18.15	did not advance
	Jaime Belenguer	Spain	9.30	8.85	18.15	did not advance
	Michel Mathiot	France	8.95	9.20	18.15	did not advance
60	Josef Trmal	Czechoslovakia	9.00	9.10	18.10	did not advance
	Larry Banner	United States	9.10	9.00	18.10	did not advance
	Lyuben Khristov	Bulgaria	9.20	8.90	18.10	did not advance
	Jerzy Jokiel	Poland	9.10	9.00	18.10	did not advance
	Mohamed Lazhari	France	9.40	8.70	18.10	did not advance
	Richard Montpetit	Canada	9.05	9.05	18.10	did not advance
66	Siegfried Fülle	United Team of Germany	9.00	9.05	18.05	did not advance
	Ladislav Pazdera	Czechoslovakia	9.25	8.80	18.05	did not advance
	Sándor Békési	Hungary	8.95	9.10	18.05	did not advance
69	Nik Stuart	Great Britain	9.10	8.90	18.00	did not advance
70	Kim Sang-guk	South Korea	8.95	9.00	17.95	did not advance
	Milenko Lekić	Yugoslavia	9.00	8.95	17.95	did not advance
72	Armand Huberty	Luxembourg	8.85	9.05	17.90	did not advance
	Daniel Touche	France	8.90	9.00	17.90	did not advance
74	Georgi Khristov	Bulgaria	8.85	9.00	17.85	did not advance
	Karlheinz Friedrich	United Team of Germany	8.85	9.00	17.85	did not advance
	Géza Bejek	Hungary	8.95	8.90	17.85	did not advance
	Hermann Klien	Austria	8.90	8.95	17.85	did not advance
78	Ernest Hawełek	Poland	8.80	9.00	17.80	did not advance
	Marsel Markulin	Yugoslavia	8.80	9.00	17.80	did not advance
	Nikola Prodanov	Bulgaria	8.65	9.15	17.80	did not advance
81	Selim El-Sayed	United Arab Republic	8.75	9.00	17.75	did not advance
82	Robert Caymaris	France	9.35	8.35	17.70	did not advance
83	Hans Sauter	Austria	8.85	8.80	17.65	did not advance
	René Marteaux	Belgium	8.75	8.90	17.65	did not advance
85	Ahmed Dakkeli	United Arab Republic	8.75	8.85	17.60	did not advance
86	Luis Valbuena	Spain	8.40	9.15	17.55	did not advance
87	Ahmed Goneim	United Arab Republic	8.05	9.45	17.50	did not advance
	Kurt Wigartz	Sweden	8.50	9.00	17.50	did not advance
	Ivan Čaklec	Yugoslavia	8.75	8.75	17.50	did not advance
	János Mester	Hungary	8.75	8.75	17.50	did not advance
	Jean Jaillard	France	9.00	8.50	17.50	did not advance
92	Gianfranco Marzolla	Italy	8.20	9.25	17.45	did not advance
	Enrique Montserrat	Spain	8.35	9.10	17.45	did not advance
	Dick Gradley	Great Britain	8.70	8.75	17.45	did not advance
	Jack Pancott	Great Britain	8.65	8.80	17.45	did not advance
96	Günter Nachtigall	United Team of Germany	8.05	9.35	17.40	did not advance
97	Valery Kerdemelidi	Soviet Union	9.45	7.90	17.35	did not advance
98	Marcel Coppin	Luxembourg	8.45	8.80	17.25	did not advance
99	Józef Rajnisz	Poland	8.00	9.05	17.05	did not advance
	Johann König	Austria	8.25	8.80	17.05	did not advance
101	Michel Kiesgen	Luxembourg	8.00	9.00	17.00	did not advance
102	Ramón García	Spain	8.20	8.75	16.95	did not advance
	John Mulhall	Great Britain	8.45	8.50	16.95	did not advance
104	William Thoresson	Sweden	7.50	9.20	16.70	did not advance
105	Benjamin de Roo	Australia	8.15	8.35	16.50	did not advance
106	Bo Wirhed	Sweden	7.50	8.95	16.45	did not advance
107	Emilio Lecuona	Spain	7.70	8.40	16.10	did not advance
	Jean Cronstedt	Sweden	7.00	9.10	16.10	did not advance
	Gerhard Huber	Austria	8.05	8.05	16.10	did not advance
110	Dragan Gagić	Yugoslavia	7.80	8.25	16.05	did not advance
111	Abdel Vares Sharraf	United Arab Republic	7.05	8.90	15.95	did not advance
112	Léopold Desmet	Belgium	8.15	7.70	15.85	did not advance
113	Leif Koorn	Sweden	6.65	8.85	15.50	did not advance
	Anton Hertl	Austria	6.90	8.60	15.50	did not advance
115	Graham Bond	Australia	7.95	7.50	15.45	did not advance
116	Hermenegildo Candeias	Portugal	6.65	8.65	15.30	did not advance
	Hubert Erang	Luxembourg	6.80	8.50	15.30	did not advance
118	Ken Buffin	Great Britain	7.85	7.30	15.15	did not advance
119	Armando Valles	Mexico	7.20	7.85	15.05	did not advance
120	Willi Kafel	Austria	7.65	6.80	14.45	did not advance
121	François Eisenbarth	Luxembourg	6.40	7.80	14.20	did not advance
122	Juan Caviglia	Argentina	7.10	7.00	14.10	did not advance
	Mohamed Sekkat	Morocco	6.00	8.10	14.10	did not advance
124	Ahmed Fellat	Morocco	3.50	6.90	10.40	did not advance
125	Abdesselem Regragui	Morocco	4.50	5.75	10.25	did not advance
126	Miloud M'Sellek	Morocco	4.00	5.50	9.50	did not advance
127	Darif Tanjaoui	Morocco	3.00	6.25	9.25	did not advance
128	Peter Starling	Great Britain	7.95	—	7.95	did not advance
129	Kacem Klifa	Morocco	—	2.50	2.50	did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net