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Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

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Men's rings
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Akinori Nakayama (at the 1966 world championships)
VenueAuditorio Nacional
Dates22–26 October
Competitors117 from 28 nations
Winning score19.450
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sawao Kato
 Japan
← 1964
1972 →

The men's rings 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 rings event. Mikhail Voronin took silver to extend the Soviet Union's podium streak in the event to five Games, while Sawao Kato of Japan finished with bronze.

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). Two of the six finalists from 1964 returned: silver medalist Franco Menichelli of Italy and sixth-place finisher Yukio Endō of Japan. Menichelli had finished third at the 1966 World Championships behind Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union and Akinori Nakayama of Japan.[1]

Ecuador and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's rings; 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 9.75 9.75 19.50 9.750 9.700 19.450
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union 9.75 9.70 19.45 9.725 9.600 19.325
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sawao Kato  Japan 9.70 9.85 19.55 9.775 9.450 19.225
4 Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan 9.65 9.60 19.25 9.625 9.500 19.125
5 Takeshi Katō  Japan 9.70 9.70 19.40 9.700 9.350 19.050
6 Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.60 9.45 19.05 9.525 9.450 18.975
7 Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan 9.55 9.45 19.00 did not advance
8 Yukio Endo  Japan 9.45 9.50 18.95 did not advance
9 Steve Cohen  United States 9.30 9.60 18.90 did not advance
Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union 9.40 9.50 18.90 did not advance
11 Klaus Köste  East Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80 did not advance
Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.40 9.40 18.80 did not advance
13 Jiří Fejtek  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.40 18.75 did not advance
Mikołaj Kubica  Poland 9.30 9.45 18.75 did not advance
15 Matthias Brehme  East Germany 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
17 Valery Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
Valery Karasyov  Soviet Union 9.45 9.15 18.60 did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
20 Hans Ettlin  Switzerland 9.20 9.35 18.55 did not advance
Mauno Nissinen  Finland 9.30 9.25 18.55 did not advance
22 Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
23 Siegfried Fülle  East Germany 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Heikki Sappinen  Finland 9.20 9.25 18.45 did not advance
25 Willi Jaschek  West Germany 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
Tine Šrot  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
27 Fred Roethlisberger  United States 9.15 9.20 18.35 did not advance
28 Andrzej Gonera  Poland 9.00 9.30 18.30 did not advance
Václav Kubíčka  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.30 18.30 did not advance
Gilbert Larose  Canada 9.00 9.30 18.30 did not advance
Peter Weber  East Germany 9.00 9.30 18.30 did not advance
32 Sid Jensen  Canada 9.05 9.20 18.25 did not advance
Finn Johannesson  Sweden 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
Hannu Rantakari  Finland 9.10 9.15 18.25 did not advance
Heiko Reinemer  West Germany 8.85 9.40 18.25 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 9.05 9.20 18.25 did not advance
Armando Valles  Mexico 9.05 9.20 18.25 did not advance
38 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 8.95 9.20 18.15 did not advance
František Bočko  Czechoslovakia 8.95 9.20 18.15 did not advance
Reino Heino  Finland 9.00 9.15 18.15 did not advance
Erich Hess  West Germany 8.90 9.25 18.15 did not advance
Milenko Kersnić  Yugoslavia 9.05 9.10 18.15 did not advance
43 Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.05 9.05 18.10 did not advance
44 Gerhard Dietrich  East Germany 8.85 9.20 18.05 did not advance
Sid Freudenstein  United States 8.90 9.15 18.05 did not advance
Miloslav Netušil  Czechoslovakia 9.10 8.95 18.05 did not advance
47 José Filipe Abreu  Portugal 8.95 9.05 18.00 did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen  Finland 8.95 9.05 18.00 did not advance
Dave Thor  United States 9.00 9.00 18.00 did not advance
Endre Tihanyi  Hungary 8.80 9.20 18.00 did not advance
51 Christer Jönsson  Sweden 8.90 9.05 17.95 did not advance
52 Steve Hug  United States 8.80 9.10 17.90 did not advance
Václav Skoumal  Czechoslovakia 8.95 8.95 17.90 did not advance
54 Chung-tae Kim  South Korea 8.85 9.00 17.85 did not advance
Paul Müller  Switzerland 8.85 9.00 17.85 did not advance
Hans Peter Nielsen  Denmark 8.80 9.05 17.85 did not advance
Peter Rohner  Switzerland 8.90 8.95 17.85 did not advance
58 Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 8.80 9.00 17.80 did not advance
Sylwester Kubica  Poland 8.75 9.05 17.80 did not advance
60 István Aranyos  Hungary 8.70 9.00 17.70 did not advance
Jerzy Kruża  Poland 8.90 8.80 17.70 did not advance
Helmut Tepasse  West Germany 8.45 9.30 17.75 did not advance
63 Georgi Adamov  Bulgaria 8.80 8.85 17.65 did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 8.75 8.90 17.65 did not advance
Octavio Suárez  Cuba 8.80 8.85 17.65 did not advance
Miloš Vratič  Yugoslavia 8.75 8.90 17.65 did not advance
67 Edwin Greutmann  Switzerland 8.70 8.90 17.60 did not advance
68 Günter Beier  East Germany 8.45 9.10 17.55 did not advance
Rumen Gabrovski  Bulgaria 8.60 8.95 17.55 did not advance
Christian Guiffroy  France 8.60 8.95 17.55 did not advance
Heinz Häussler  West Germany 8.65 8.90 17.55 did not advance
Hermann Höpfner  West Germany 8.45 9.10 17.55 did not advance
Roland Hürzeler  Switzerland 8.50 9.05 17.55 did not advance
José Vilchis  Mexico 8.55 9.00 17.55 did not advance
75 Christian Deuza  France 8.90 8.60 17.50 did not advance
Luis Ramírez  Cuba 8.55 8.95 17.50 did not advance
77 Bohumil Mudřík  Czechoslovakia 8.25 9.10 17.35 did not advance
Stefan Zoev  Bulgaria 8.65 8.70 17.35 did not advance
79 Michel Bouchonnet  France 8.65 8.60 17.25 did not advance
79 Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 8.70 8.55 17.25 did not advance
81 Olli Laiho  Finland 8.00 9.20 17.20 did not advance
82 Damir Anić  Yugoslavia 8.25 8.90 17.15 did not advance
Jorge Rodríguez  Cuba 8.25 8.90 17.15 did not advance
84 Bozhidar Ivanov  Bulgaria 8.65 8.45 17.10 did not advance
Konrád Mentsik  Hungary 8.35 8.75 17.10 did not advance
86 Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn  Mongolia 8.90 8.15 17.05 did not advance
87 Arne Thomsen  Denmark 8.10 8.90 17.00 did not advance
88 Rogelio Mendoza  Mexico 8.15 8.70 16.85 did not advance
89 Murray Chessell  Australia 8.20 8.55 16.75 did not advance
Ivan Kondev  Bulgaria 8.60 8.15 16.75 did not advance
91 Raycho Khristov  Bulgaria 8.10 8.60 16.70 did not advance
Sergio Luna  Ecuador 8.10 8.60 16.70 did not advance
93 Evert Lindgren  Sweden 7.85 8.80 16.65 did not advance
Stan Wild  Great Britain 8.45 8.20 16.65 did not advance
95 Steve Mitruk  Canada 8.10 8.40 16.50 did not advance
Vincenzo Mori  Italy 8.50 8.00 16.50 did not advance
97 Barry Brooker  Canada 7.90 8.55 16.45 did not advance
Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 7.85 8.60 16.45 did not advance
99 Kanati Allen  United States 7.80 8.50 16.30 did not advance
100 Roberto Pumpido  Cuba 7.85 8.40 16.25 did not advance
101 Béla Herczeg  Hungary 7.20 8.85 16.05 did not advance
102 Enrique García  Mexico 7.60 8.35 15.95 did not advance
103 Sándor Kiss  Hungary 6.90 8.95 15.85 did not advance
104 Dezső Bordán  Hungary 7.95 7.80 15.75 did not advance
105 Fernando Valles  Mexico 7.75 7.85 15.60 did not advance
106 Michael Booth  Great Britain 7.85 7.70 15.55 did not advance
José González  Mexico 7.45 8.10 15.55 did not advance
108 Chu-Long Lai  Taiwan 7.65 7.65 15.30 did not advance
109 Roger Dion  Canada 6.15 8.25 14.40 did not advance
110 Larbi Lazhari  Algeria 6.15 8.10 14.25 did not advance
111 Eduardo Nájera  Ecuador 6.70 7.15 13.85 did not advance
112 Fu Cheng  Taiwan 6.65 7.10 13.75 did not advance
113 Luis Navarrete  Cuba 6.50 7.15 13.65 did not advance
114 Pedro Rendón  Ecuador 5.50 6.95 12.45 did not advance
115 Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.60 9.60 did not advance
116 Norman Henson  Philippines 6.60 6.60 did not advance
117 Ernesto Beren  Philippines 6.25 6.25 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 676.