Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's floor

Men's floor exercise at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Venue	Auditorio Nacional
Date	22–26 October
Competitors	117 from 28 nations
Winning score	19.475
Medalists
Sawao Kato  Japan Akinori Nakayama  Japan Takeshi Katō  Japan

These are the results of the men's floor competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.

Competition format

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.

Results

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Sawao Kato	Japan	9.75	9.90	19.65	9.825	9.650	19.475
	Akinori Nakayama	Japan	9.60	9.80	19.40	9.700	9.700	19.400
	Takeshi Katō	Japan	9.60	9.75	19.35	9.675	9.600	19.275
4	Mitsuo Tsukahara	Japan	9.50	9.60	19.10	9.550	9.500	19.050
5	Valery Karasyov	Soviet Union	9.55	9.55	19.10	9.550	9.400	18.950
6	Eizo Kenmotsu	Japan	9.55	9.70	19.25	9.625	9.300	18.925
7	Mikhail Voronin	Soviet Union	9.55	9.70	19.25	did not compete
8	Viktor Lisitsky	Soviet Union	9.50	9.50	19.00	did not advance
9	Sergey Diomidov	Soviet Union	9.50	9.45	18.95	did not advance
	Raycho Khristov	Bulgaria	9.35	9.60	18.95	did not advance
11	Yukio Endo	Japan	9.15	9.65	18.80	did not advance
	Václav Kubíčka	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.40	18.80	did not advance
13	Viktor Klimenko	Soviet Union	9.25	9.50	18.75	did not advance
14	František Bočko	Czechoslovakia	9.20	9.45	18.65	did not advance
	Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	9.25	9.40	18.65	did not advance
	Sid Freudenstein	United States	9.15	9.50	18.65	did not advance
	Heiko Reinemer	West Germany	9.25	9.40	18.65	did not advance
18	Siegfried Fülle	East Germany	9.15	9.45	18.60	did not advance
	Ivan Kondev	Bulgaria	9.10	9.50	18.60	did not advance
	Miloslav Netušil	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.20	18.60	did not advance
21	Klaus Köste	East Germany	9.20	9.35	18.55	did not advance
	Wilhelm Kubica	Poland	9.25	9.30	18.55	did not advance
	Václav Skoumal	Czechoslovakia	9.25	9.30	18.55	did not advance
24	Matthias Brehme	East Germany	9.10	9.40	18.50	did not advance
	Mikołaj Kubica	Poland	9.20	9.30	18.50	did not advance
26	Sylwester Kubica	Poland	9.30	9.15	18.45	did not advance
	Dave Thor	United States	9.15	9.30	18.45	did not advance
28	Luigi Cimnaghi	Italy	9.10	9.30	18.40	did not advance
	Jiří Fejtek	Czechoslovakia	9.15	9.25	18.40	did not advance
	Bohumil Mudřík	Czechoslovakia	9.10	9.30	18.40	did not advance
	Jorge Rodríguez	Cuba	9.05	9.35	18.40	did not advance
32	Fred Roethlisberger	United States	8.95	9.40	18.35	did not advance
	Heikki Sappinen	Finland	9.15	9.20	18.35	did not advance
34	Kanati Allen	United States	9.10	9.20	18.30	did not advance
	Milenko Kersnić	Yugoslavia	9.20	9.10	18.30	did not advance
	Mauno Nissinen	Finland	9.20	9.10	18.30	did not advance
37	Günter Beier	East Germany	9.00	9.20	18.20	did not advance
	Michel Bouchonnet	France	9.15	9.05	18.20	did not advance
	Christian Guiffroy	France	9.00	9.20	18.20	did not advance
	Peter Rohner	Switzerland	9.05	9.15	18.20	did not advance
	Arne Thomsen	Denmark	9.10	9.10	18.20	did not advance
42	Heinz Häussler	West Germany	9.00	9.15	18.15	did not advance
	Steve Hug	United States	9.00	9.15	18.15	did not advance
44	Gerhard Dietrich	East Germany	8.80	9.30	18.10	did not advance
	Endre Tihanyi	Hungary	9.10	9.00	18.10	did not advance
46	Michael Booth	Great Britain	8.90	9.15	18.05	did not advance
	Janez Brodnik	Yugoslavia	9.05	9.00	18.05	did not advance
	Erich Hess	West Germany	9.00	9.05	18.05	did not advance
	Hermann Höpfner	West Germany	9.00	9.05	18.05	did not advance
	Christer Jönsson	Sweden	8.90	9.15	18.05	did not advance
51	José Filipe Abreu	Portugal	8.80	9.20	18.00	did not advance
	Rumen Gabrovski	Bulgaria	8.90	9.10	18.00	did not advance
	Aleksander Rokosa	Poland	8.80	9.20	18.00	did not advance
	Helmut Tepasse	West Germany	9.00	9.00	18.00	did not advance
55	Valery Ilyinykh	Soviet Union	9.10	8.85	17.95	did not advance
	Roberto Pumpido	Cuba	8.85	9.10	17.95	did not advance
57	Meinrad Berchtold	Switzerland	8.95	8.95	17.90	did not advance
	Gilbert Larose	Canada	8.60	9.30	17.90	did not advance
	Peter Weber	East Germany	8.85	9.05	17.90	did not advance
60	Jerzy Kruża	Poland	8.90	8.95	17.85	did not advance
61	Andrzej Gonera	Poland	8.75	9.05	17.80	did not advance
	Sándor Kiss	Hungary	8.65	9.15	17.80	did not advance
	Juhani Rahikainen	Finland	8.80	9.00	17.80	did not advance
	Stefan Zoev	Bulgaria	8.65	9.15	17.80	did not advance
65	Giovanni Carminucci	Italy	8.75	9.00	17.75	did not advance
	Chung-tae Kim	South Korea	8.85	8.90	17.75	did not advance
	Hans Peter Nielsen	Denmark	8.50	9.25	17.75	did not advance
	Stan Wild	Great Britain	8.60	9.15	17.75	did not advance
69	Edwin Greutmann	Switzerland	8.75	8.95	17.70	did not advance
	Roland Hürzeler	Switzerland	8.80	8.90	17.70	did not advance
71	Hans Ettlin	Switzerland	8.60	9.05	17.65	did not advance
	José González	Mexico	8.85	8.80	17.65	did not advance
	Reino Heino	Finland	8.85	8.80	17.65	did not advance
	Miloš Vratič	Yugoslavia	8.75	8.90	17.65	did not advance
75	Damir Anić	Yugoslavia	8.50	9.10	17.60	did not advance
	Steve Cohen	United States	8.85	8.75	17.60	did not advance
77	Finn Johannesson	Sweden	8.75	8.80	17.55	did not advance
78	Luis Ramírez	Cuba	8.30	9.20	17.50	did not advance
79	Paul Müller	Switzerland	8.65	8.80	17.45	did not advance
80	Rogelio Mendoza	Mexico	8.30	9.10	17.40	did not advance
	Hannu Rantakari	Finland	8.60	8.80	17.40	did not advance
82	Olli Laiho	Finland	8.60	8.75	17.35	did not advance
83	Bozhidar Ivanov	Bulgaria	8.25	9.05	17.30	did not advance
	Larbi Lazhari	Algeria	8.45	8.85	17.30	did not advance
85	Christian Deuza	France	8.30	8.95	17.25	did not advance
86	Béla Herczeg	Hungary	8.45	8.75	17.20	did not advance
87	Georgi Adamov	Bulgaria	8.20	8.90	17.10	did not advance
88	István Aranyos	Hungary	8.35	8.70	17.05	did not advance
	Sid Jensen	Canada	8.10	8.95	17.05	did not advance
90	Vincenzo Mori	Italy	8.20	8.70	16.90	did not advance
91	Octavio Suárez	Cuba	8.05	8.80	16.85	did not advance
92	Konrád Mentsik	Hungary	8.05	8.75	16.80	did not advance
	Armando Valles	Mexico	8.00	8.80	16.80	did not advance
94	Enrique García	Mexico	8.10	8.65	16.75	did not advance
95	Dezső Bordán	Hungary	7.90	8.80	16.70	did not advance
96	Murray Chessell	Australia	7.95	8.65	16.60	did not advance
97	Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn	Mongolia	8.30	8.20	16.50	did not advance
98	Bruno Franceschetti	Italy	7.75	8.65	16.40	did not advance
	José Vilchis	Mexico	8.00	8.40	16.40	did not advance
100	Pasquale Carminucci	Italy	7.65	8.65	16.30	did not advance
	Evert Lindgren	Sweden	7.55	8.75	16.30	did not advance
102	Chu-Long Lai	Chinese Taipei	8.30	7.90	16.20	did not advance
103	Tine Šrot	Yugoslavia	7.40	8.60	16.00	did not advance
104	Barry Brooker	Canada	7.60	8.30	15.90	did not advance
105	Roger Dion	Canada	7.60	8.25	15.85	did not advance
106	Luis Navarrete	Cuba	7.00	8.80	15.80	did not advance
	Fernando Valles	Mexico	7.35	8.45	15.80	did not advance
108	Fu Cheng	Chinese Taipei	7.70	8.05	15.75	did not advance
109	Steve Mitruk	Canada	7.00	8.35	15.35	did not advance
110	Eduardo Nájera	Ecuador	7.35	7.85	15.20	did not advance
111	Sergio Luna	Ecuador	6.60	8.45	15.05	did not advance
112	Pedro Rendón	Ecuador	6.25	7.50	13.75	did not advance
113	Willi Jaschek	West Germany	9.15	2.00	11.15	did not advance
114	Franco Menichelli	Italy	9.30	—	9.30	did not advance
115	Héctor Ramírez	Cuba	9.05	—	9.05	did not advance
116	Norman Henson	Philippines	7.70	—	7.70	did not advance
117	Ernesto Beren	Philippines	6.10	—	6.10	did not advance

References

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