Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. The competition was held from September 5 to September 10 in the left-hand palaestra (gymnasium) of the Baths of Caracalla, which are located some 6.8 km south-east of the main venue, Stadio Olimpico.

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).

Medal table

Floor exercise

Vault

Women's events

References

*cite book
title = The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960. Official Report of the Organizing Committee.
publisher = Carlo Colombo Publisher
location = Rome
year = 1963
url = http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm
*cite web
title = 1960 Olympic Games
work = Gymn-Forum.com
url = http://www.gymn-forum.com/results/Olympics/1960_Rome/1960_Games_main.html
accessdate = May 17
accessyear = 2006