Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

Men's rings at the Games of the XVII Olympiad
Noboyuki Aihara competing on the rings
Venue	Baths of Caracalla
Dates	5–10 September
Competitors	129 from 28 nations
Winning score	19.725
Medalists
Albert Azaryan  Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union Takashi Ono  Japan Velik Kapsazov  Bulgaria

The men's rings 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 Albert Azaryan of the Soviet Union, the first man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the rings. Boris Shakhlin took silver, making it the third consecutive Games the Soviets finished in the top two. Takashi Ono tied with Velik Kapsazov for bronze, giving Japan its second consecutive Games with at least one bronze medal (there had been a tie for third in 1956 as well, between two Japanese gymnasts that time) and Bulgaria its first medal in the rings.

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the rings 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). Six of the top 11 (including ties for 10th) gymnasts from 1956 returned: gold medalist Albert Azaryan and tenth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Masao Takemoto and fifth-place finishers Takashi Ono and Nobuyuki Aihara of Japan, and ninth-place finisher Ferdinand Daniš of Czechoslovakia. Azaryan, Aihara, and Titov had comprised the podium in the 1958 world championships.

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's rings; 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
	Albert Azaryan	Soviet Union	9.85	9.90	19.75	9.875	9.850	19.725
	Boris Shakhlin	Soviet Union	9.70	9.80	19.50	9.750	9.750	19.500
	Velik Kapsazov	Bulgaria	9.65	9.70	19.35	9.675	9.750	19.425
	Takashi Ono	Japan	9.75	9.70	19.45	9.725	9.700	19.425
5	Nobuyuki Aihara	Japan	9.65	9.75	19.40	9.700	9.700	19.400
6	Yury Titov	Soviet Union	9.70	9.75	19.45	9.725	9.550	19.275
7	Franco Menichelli	Italy	9.55	9.75	19.30	did not advance
8	Masao Takemoto	Japan	9.60	9.65	19.25	did not advance
9	Shuji Tsurumi	Japan	9.60	9.60	19.20	did not advance
	Valery Kerdemelidi	Soviet Union	9.60	9.60	19.20	did not advance
11	Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	9.45	9.60	19.05	did not advance
12	Takashi Mitsukuri	Japan	9.50	9.50	19.00	did not advance
	Yukio Endo	Japan	9.60	9.40	19.00	did not advance
	Nikolai Miligulo	Soviet Union	9.50	9.50	19.00	did not advance
	Vladimir Portnoy	Soviet Union	9.45	9.55	19.00	did not advance
16	Josef Trmal	Czechoslovakia	9.55	9.40	18.95	did not advance
	Philipp Fürst	United Team of Germany	9.50	9.45	18.95	did not advance
	Erwin Koppe	United Team of Germany	9.45	9.50	18.95	did not advance
19	Otto Kestola	Finland	9.40	9.50	18.90	did not advance
20	Leif Koorn	Sweden	9.50	9.35	18.85	did not advance
21	Larry Banner	United States	9.50	9.30	18.80	did not advance
	Pasquale Carminucci	Italy	9.35	9.45	18.80	did not advance
	Ferdinand Daniš	Czechoslovakia	9.30	9.50	18.80	did not advance
	Siegfried Fülle	United Team of Germany	9.40	9.40	18.80	did not advance
25	Nik Stuart	Great Britain	9.35	9.40	18.75	did not advance
	Lajos Varga	Hungary	9.40	9.35	18.75	did not advance
	Abie Grossfeld	United States	9.35	9.40	18.75	did not advance
	Georgi Khristov	Bulgaria	9.40	9.35	18.75	did not advance
	Stoyan Stoyanov	Bulgaria	9.25	9.50	18.75	did not advance
30	Gianfranco Marzolla	Italy	9.15	9.55	18.70	did not advance
	Józef Rajnisz	Poland	9.35	9.35	18.70	did not advance
	Rajmund Csányi	Hungary	9.25	9.45	18.70	did not advance
	Abdel Vares Sharraf	United Arab Republic	9.40	9.30	18.70	did not advance
34	Sakari Olkkonen	Finland	9.20	9.45	18.65	did not advance
	Stig Lindewall	Sweden	9.35	9.30	18.65	did not advance
36	Jaroslav Bím	Czechoslovakia	9.30	9.30	18.60	did not advance
	Fred Orlofsky	United States	9.45	9.15	18.60	did not advance
	Aleksander Rokosa	Poland	9.45	9.15	18.60	did not advance
39	Josy Stoffel	Luxembourg	9.15	9.40	18.55	did not advance
	Günter Nachtigall	United Team of Germany	9.35	9.20	18.55	did not advance
	Alojz Petrovič	Yugoslavia	9.20	9.35	18.55	did not advance
	Günter Lyhs	United Team of Germany	9.40	9.15	18.55	did not advance
43	Hans Schwarzentruber	Switzerland	9.10	9.35	18.45	did not advance
	Andrzej Konopka	Poland	9.25	9.20	18.45	did not advance
	Rudolf Keszthelyi	Hungary	9.25	9.20	18.45	did not advance
46	Giovanni Carminucci	Italy	8.90	9.50	18.40	did not advance
	Ladislav Pazdera	Czechoslovakia	9.10	9.30	18.40	did not advance
	Kim Sang-guk	South Korea	9.15	9.25	18.40	did not advance
49	Todor Bachvarov	Bulgaria	9.25	9.10	18.35	did not advance
	Bernard Fauqueux	France	9.15	9.20	18.35	did not advance
	Karlheinz Friedrich	United Team of Germany	9.05	9.30	18.35	did not advance
52	Orlando Polmonari	Italy	9.00	9.30	18.30	did not advance
	Pavel Gajdoš	Czechoslovakia	8.90	9.40	18.30	did not advance
	Olavi Leimuvirta	Finland	9.25	9.05	18.30	did not advance
55	Jack Beckner	United States	9.10	9.15	18.25	did not advance
	Ernest Hawełek	Poland	9.20	9.05	18.25	did not advance
	Emilio Lecuona	Spain	9.05	9.20	18.25	did not advance
	Ahmed Dakkeli	United Arab Republic	9.15	9.10	18.25	did not advance
59	Åge Storhaug	Norway	8.95	9.25	18.20	did not advance
	Angelo Vicardi	Italy	8.80	9.40	18.20	did not advance
	Don Tonry	United States	9.20	9.00	18.20	did not advance
	Fritz Feuz	Switzerland	9.00	9.20	18.20	did not advance
	Lyuben Khristov	Bulgaria	9.20	9.00	18.20	did not advance
	Marsel Markulin	Yugoslavia	9.10	9.10	18.20	did not advance
	Ismail Abdallah	United Arab Republic	9.10	9.10	18.20	did not advance
66	Eugen Ekman	Finland	8.90	9.25	18.15	did not advance
	Nikola Prodanov	Bulgaria	9.20	8.95	18.15	did not advance
	Michel Kiesgen	Luxembourg	8.90	9.25	18.15	did not advance
69	Raimo Heinonen	Finland	9.05	9.05	18.10	did not advance
	Armand Huberty	Luxembourg	8.95	9.15	18.10	did not advance
71	Max Benker	Switzerland	8.75	9.30	18.05	did not advance
	Milenko Lekić	Yugoslavia	9.10	8.95	18.05	did not advance
73	Ernst Fivian	Switzerland	8.65	9.35	18.00	did not advance
	André Brüllmann	Switzerland	9.20	8.80	18.00	did not advance
	Jerzy Jokiel	Poland	8.95	9.05	18.00	did not advance
	Luis Valbuena	Spain	8.70	9.30	18.00	did not advance
77	Jaroslav Šťastný	Czechoslovakia	8.80	9.15	17.95	did not advance
	Bo Wirhed	Sweden	8.90	9.05	17.95	did not advance
79	Kauko Heikkinen	Finland	9.15	8.75	17.90	did not advance
	Dragan Gagić	Yugoslavia	8.65	9.25	17.90	did not advance
	Hans Sauter	Austria	8.95	8.95	17.90	did not advance
	Enrique Montserrat	Spain	8.80	9.10	17.90	did not advance
83	Daniel Touche	France	8.90	8.95	17.85	did not advance
	Dick Gradley	Great Britain	8.65	9.20	17.85	did not advance
85	Ahmed Goneim	United Arab Republic	8.60	9.20	17.80	did not advance
	Ramón García	Spain	8.75	9.05	17.80	did not advance
87	Jean Cronstedt	Sweden	8.85	8.80	17.65	did not advance
88	Gar O'Quinn	United States	9.40	8.20	17.60	did not advance
	Alfred Kucharczyk	Poland	9.10	8.50	17.60	did not advance
	Géza Bejek	Hungary	8.85	8.75	17.60	did not advance
91	Sándor Békési	Hungary	8.75	8.75	17.50	did not advance
92	Kurt Wigartz	Sweden	8.60	8.85	17.45	did not advance
	Mohamed Lazhari	France	8.55	8.90	17.45	did not advance
94	Ivan Čaklec	Yugoslavia	8.40	8.95	17.35	did not advance
95	Jaime Belenguer	Spain	9.10	8.20	17.30	did not advance
	Robert Caymaris	France	8.10	9.20	17.30	did not advance
	Jack Pancott	Great Britain	8.50	8.80	17.30	did not advance
98	Richard Montpetit	Canada	8.90	8.35	17.25	did not advance
	René Marteaux	Belgium	8.65	8.60	17.25	did not advance
100	Johann König	Austria	8.60	8.60	17.20	did not advance
101	Gerhard Huber	Austria	8.35	8.80	17.15	did not advance
102	János Mester	Hungary	8.15	8.95	17.10	did not advance
	Graham Bond	Australia	8.60	8.50	17.10	did not advance
104	Léopold Desmet	Belgium	8.30	8.65	16.95	did not advance
105	Edy Thomi	Switzerland	8.15	8.75	16.90	did not advance
106	Benjamin de Roo	Australia	8.40	8.45	16.85	did not advance
107	Hermann Klien	Austria	8.05	8.75	16.80	did not advance
	William Thoresson	Sweden	8.25	8.55	16.80	did not advance
	Armando Valles	Mexico	8.55	8.25	16.80	did not advance
110	Ahmed Issam Allam	United Arab Republic	8.75	8.00	16.75	did not advance
111	Willi Kafel	Austria	8.20	8.50	16.70	did not advance
	Marcel Coppin	Luxembourg	8.05	8.65	16.70	did not advance
113	Jean Jaillard	France	8.00	8.65	16.65	did not advance
	John Mulhall	Great Britain	8.15	8.50	16.65	did not advance
115	Michel Mathiot	France	7.85	8.70	16.55	did not advance
116	Hermenegildo Candeias	Portugal	7.95	8.25	16.20	did not advance
117	Selim El-Sayed	United Arab Republic	8.55	7.60	16.15	did not advance
118	Ken Buffin	Great Britain	7.75	8.00	15.75	did not advance
119	Juan Caviglia	Argentina	7.20	8.20	15.40	did not advance
120	François Eisenbarth	Luxembourg	7.45	7.80	15.25	did not advance
121	Hubert Erang	Luxembourg	6.75	8.00	14.75	did not advance
122	Mohamed Sekkat	Morocco	6.10	7.25	13.35	did not advance
123	Miloud M'Sellek	Morocco	5.80	6.40	12.20	did not advance
124	Hermenegildo Martínez	Spain	0.00	9.35	9.35	did not advance
125	Ahmed Fellat	Morocco	4.00	4.75	8.75	did not advance
126	Peter Starling	Great Britain	8.50	—	8.50	did not advance
127	Darif Tanjaoui	Morocco	4.20	4.00	8.20	did not advance
128	Abdesselem Regragui	Morocco	3.50	4.00	7.50	did not advance
	Anton Hertl	Austria	7.50	—	7.50	did not advance

References

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