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Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

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Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Akinori Nakayama
VenueAuditorio Nacional
Date22–26 October
Competitors117 from 28 nations
Winning score19.475
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Viktor Klimenko
 Soviet Union
← 1964
1972 →

The men's parallel bars competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. There were 117 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Akinori Nakayama of Japan, the nation's second consecutive victory in the parallel bars event, tying Germany and the Soviet Union for second-most all-time behind Switzerland at three gold medals. It was the second of four straight Games that the parallel bars would be won by a Japanese gymnast. Mikhail Voronin took silver and Viktor Klimenko took bronze to put the Soviet Union back on the podium after a one-Games absence.

Background

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This was the 12th 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). Five of the six finalists from 1964 returned: gold medalist Yukio Endo of Japan, bronze medalist Franco Menichelli of Italy, fourth-place finisher Sergey Diomidov and fifth-place finisher Victor Lisitsky of the Soviet Union, and sixth-place finisher Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia. Diomidov had won the 1966 world championship, with fellow Soviet Mikhail Voronin second and Cerar third.[1]

Ecuador and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's parallel bars; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. The United States made its 11th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three 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 117th. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.[1][2]

Schedule

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All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 22 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Thursday, 24 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 26 October 1968 19:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Akinori Nakayama  Japan 9.70 9.85 19.55 9.775 9.700 19.475
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union 9.75 9.70 19.45 9.725 9.700 19.425
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union 9.60 9.65 19.25 9.625 9.600 19.225
4 Takeshi Katō  Japan 9.60 9.70 19.30 9.650 9.550 19.200
5 Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan 9.60 9.65 19.25 9.625 9.550 19.175
6 Václav Kubíčka  Czechoslovakia 9.60 9.60 19.20 9.600 9.350 18.950
7 Sawao Kato  Japan 9.65 9.70 19.35 did not compete
8 Christian Guiffroy  France 9.55 9.65 19.20 did not advance
9 Yukio Endo  Japan 9.65 9.50 19.15 did not advance
Valery Karasyov  Soviet Union 9.55 9.60 19.15 did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.50 9.65 19.15 did not advance
12 Matthias Brehme  East Germany 9.60 9.50 19.10 did not advance
Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.60 9.50 19.10 did not advance
Roland Hürzeler  Switzerland 9.50 9.60 19.10 did not advance
15 Hans Ettlin  Switzerland 9.55 9.50 19.05 did not advance
Mikołaj Kubica  Poland 9.45 9.60 19.05 did not advance
Olli Laiho  Finland 9.50 9.55 19.05 did not advance
Miloslav Netušil  Czechoslovakia 9.45 9.60 19.05 did not advance
19 Milenko Kersnić  Yugoslavia 9.50 9.50 19.00 did not advance
Mauno Nissinen  Finland 9.40 9.60 19.00 did not advance
21 Valery Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 9.50 9.45 18.95 did not advance
Peter Weber  East Germany 9.50 9.45 18.95 did not advance
23 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 9.45 9.45 18.90 did not advance
Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.45 9.45 18.90 did not advance
Helmut Tepasse  West Germany 9.45 9.45 18.90 did not advance
26 Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 9.45 9.40 18.85 did not advance
Siegfried Fülle  East Germany 9.40 9.45 18.85 did not advance
Willi Jaschek  West Germany 9.35 9.50 18.85 did not advance
Konrád Mentsik  Hungary 9.35 9.50 18.85 did not advance
Bohumil Mudřík  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.50 18.85 did not advance
31 Georgi Adamov  Bulgaria 9.35 9.45 18.80 did not advance
Dezső Bordán  Hungary 9.30 9.50 18.80 did not advance
33 Sándor Kiss  Hungary 9.40 9.35 18.75 did not advance
Klaus Köste  East Germany 9.45 9.30 18.75 did not advance
35 František Bočko  Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
Christian Deuza  France 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
Sylwester Kubica  Poland 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
Peter Rohner  Switzerland 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
39 Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 9.30 9.35 18.65 did not advance
Christer Jönsson  Sweden 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
41 Steve Cohen  United States 9.10 9.50 18.60 did not advance
Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.60 9.00 18.60 did not advance
Fred Roethlisberger  United States 9.10 9.50 18.60 did not advance
Václav Skoumal  Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
45 Andrzej Gonera  Poland 9.05 9.50 18.55 did not advance
Béla Herczeg  Hungary 9.25 9.30 18.55 did not advance
Paul Müller  Switzerland 9.30 9.25 18.55 did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen  Finland 9.30 9.25 18.55 did not advance
49 Chung-tae Kim  South Korea 9.05 9.45 18.50 did not advance
Heiko Reinemer  West Germany 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
51 István Aranyos  Hungary 9.25 9.20 18.45 did not advance
Günter Beier  East Germany 9.10 9.35 18.45 did not advance
Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.30 9.15 18.45 did not advance
Steve Hug  United States 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
55 Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 9.15 9.25 18.40 did not advance
57 Edwin Greutmann  Switzerland 9.10 9.25 18.35 did not advance
Bozhidar Ivanov  Bulgaria 9.10 9.25 18.35 did not advance
Hannu Rantakari  Finland 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
60 Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 9.15 9.15 18.30 did not advance
Heinz Häussler  West Germany 9.20 9.10 18.30 did not advance
Hermann Höpfner  West Germany 9.10 9.20 18.30 did not advance
63 Sid Freudenstein  United States 8.85 9.40 18.25 did not advance
Miloš Vratič  Yugoslavia 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
65 Evert Lindgren  Sweden 8.75 9.45 18.20 did not advance
Hans Peter Nielsen  Denmark 9.00 9.20 18.20 did not advance
67 Heikki Sappinen  Finland 9.05 9.10 18.15 did not advance
Endre Tihanyi  Hungary 9.10 9.05 18.15 did not advance
69 Jiří Fejtek  Czechoslovakia 8.60 9.50 18.10 did not advance
Reino Heino  Finland 9.00 9.10 18.10 did not advance
Jerzy Kruża  Poland 8.95 9.15 18.10 did not advance
72 Gerhard Dietrich  East Germany 8.70 9.35 18.05 did not advance
73 Dave Thor  United States 8.70 9.30 18.00 did not advance
74 Rumen Gabrovski  Bulgaria 8.95 9.00 17.95 did not advance
Finn Johannesson  Sweden 8.95 9.00 17.95 did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan 8.35 9.60 17.95 did not advance
Stefan Zoev  Bulgaria 9.10 8.85 17.95 did not advance
78 Arne Thomsen  Denmark 9.15 8.75 17.90 did not advance
79 Damir Anić  Yugoslavia 8.85 9.00 17.85 did not advance
Ivan Kondev  Bulgaria 8.85 9.00 17.85 did not advance
81 Michel Bouchonnet  France 8.55 9.25 17.80 did not advance
Stan Wild  Great Britain 9.10 8.70 17.80 did not advance
83 José González  Mexico 9.00 8.70 17.70 did not advance
Roberto Pumpido  Cuba 8.70 9.00 17.70 did not advance
85 Michael Booth  Great Britain 8.70 8.95 17.65 did not advance
Raycho Khristov  Bulgaria 8.50 9.15 17.65 did not advance
Rogelio Mendoza  Mexico 8.90 8.75 17.65 did not advance
88 José Filipe Abreu  Portugal 8.65 8.95 17.60 did not advance
89 Armando Valles  Mexico 8.70 8.85 17.55 did not advance
90 Sid Jensen  Canada 9.05 8.35 17.40 did not advance
Gilbert Larose  Canada 8.20 9.20 17.40 did not advance
Tine Šrot  Yugoslavia 8.20 9.20 17.40 did not advance
93 Vincenzo Mori  Italy 8.95 8.40 17.35 did not advance
94 Erich Hess  West Germany 8.85 8.45 17.30 did not advance
95 Luis Ramírez  Cuba 8.55 8.65 17.20 did not advance
Octavio Suárez  Cuba 8.00 9.20 17.20 did not advance
97 Steve Mitruk  Canada 8.35 8.80 17.15 did not advance
98 Jorge Rodríguez  Cuba 8.95 8.15 17.10 did not advance
99 Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn  Mongolia 8.50 8.50 17.00 did not advance
100 Enrique García  Mexico 8.00 8.90 16.90 did not advance
101 Roger Dion  Canada 7.70 9.10 16.80 did not advance
102 Kanati Allen  United States 7.70 9.05 16.75 did not advance
Larbi Lazhari  Algeria 9.00 7.75 16.75 did not advance
104 José Vilchis  Mexico 8.00 8.70 16.70 did not advance
105 Sergio Luna  Ecuador 7.70 8.95 16.65 did not advance
106 Fu Cheng  Taiwan 8.55 8.05 16.60 did not advance
107 Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 8.00 8.55 16.55 did not advance
108 Murray Chessell  Australia 7.55 8.90 16.45 did not advance
109 Chu-Long Lai  Taiwan 8.70 7.70 16.40 did not advance
110 Luis Navarrete  Cuba 7.40 8.60 16.00 did not advance
111 Fernando Valles  Mexico 7.20 8.45 15.65 did not advance
112 Barry Brooker  Canada 7.20 8.05 15.25 did not advance
113 Pedro Rendón  Ecuador 5.70 7.55 13.25 did not advance
114 Eduardo Nájera  Ecuador 5.50 7.20 12.70 did not advance
115 Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.60 9.60 did not advance
116 Ernesto Beren  Philippines 6.65 6.65 did not advance
117 Norman Henson  Philippines 4.95 4.95 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 676.