At the 1960 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome from September 5 through 10th. ^[1]

Format of competition

The scoring in the team competition and in the all-around was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics (there was no team, portable apparatus event, however). But apart from two performances:a compulsory and an optional, which counted for both the team competition and the all-around, a gymnast, who competed in an apparatus final should show one's skills once more on the respective apparatus. For the final score ("Total" column in tables below), the compulsory routine's mark was added to the optional routine's, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" column) and added to the third routine's mark ("Final" column).

Results

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union	Takashi Ono   Japan	Yuri Titov   Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Japan (JPN) Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shuji Tsurumi	Soviet Union (URS) Albert Azaryan Valery Kerdemilidi Nikolai Miligulo Vladimir Portnoi Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov	Italy (ITA) Giovanni Carminucci Pasquale Carminucci Gianfranco Marzolla Franco Menichelli Orlando Polmonari Angelo Vicardi
Floor exercise details	Nobuyuki Aihara   Japan	Yuri Titov   Soviet Union	Franco Menichelli   Italy
Horizontal bar details	Takashi Ono   Japan	Masao Takemoto   Japan	Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union
Parallel bars details	Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union	Giovanni Carminucci   Italy	Takashi Ono   Japan
Pommel horse details	Eugen Ekman   Finland	none awarded	Shuji Tsurumi   Japan
	Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union
Rings details	Albert Asaryan   Soviet Union	Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union	Takashi Ono   Japan
			Velik Kapsazov   Bulgaria
Vault details	Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union	none awarded	Vladimir Portnoi   Soviet Union
	Takashi Ono   Japan

Women's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around details	Larisa Latynina   Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova   Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova   Soviet Union
Team all-around details	Soviet Union (URS) Polina Astakhova Lidia Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Lyukhina Sofia Muratova Margarita Nikolaeva	Czechoslovakia (TCH) Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Matylda Matoušková Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfína Tkačíková	Romania (ROU) Atanasia Ionescu Sonia Iovan Elena Leușteanu Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță Elena Niculescu Uta Poreceanu
Balance beam details	Eva Bosáková   Czechoslovakia	Larisa Latynina   Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova   Soviet Union
Floor exercise details	Larisa Latynina   Soviet Union	Polina Astakhova   Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina   Soviet Union
Uneven bars details	Polina Astakhova   Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina   Soviet Union	Tamara Lyukhina   Soviet Union
Vault details	Margarita Nikolaeva   Soviet Union	Sofia Muratova   Soviet Union	Larisa Latynina   Soviet Union

Medal table

Total

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	10	8	8	26
2	Japan (JPN)	4	2	3	9
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
4	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
5	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		16	12	15	43

Men

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	3	3	11
2	Japan (JPN)	4	2	3	9
3	Finland (FIN)	1	0	0	1
4	Italy (ITA)	0	1	2	3
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		10	6	9	25

Women

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	5	5	15
2	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
3	Romania (ROU)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		6	6	6	18

References

External links

• The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960. Official Report of the Organizing Committee. Rome: Carlo Colombo Publisher. 1963. Archived from the original on 2007-06-12. Retrieved 2012-06-26.
• "1960 Olympic Games". Gymn-Forum.com. Retrieved May 17, 2006. ^{[ dead link]}