Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics was represented by 14 events: 6 for women and 8 for men. The competition was held from October 21 to October 26 at the National Auditorium.

Format of competition

The scoring in all the events was basically the same, as for gymnastics events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. Six best gymnasts on the apparatus in the team competition (by sum of two scores - for compulsory and optional routine) qualified for that apparatus finals. The new feature of the competition was in women's events: each of them was judged by four judges, like men's ones. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining marks constituted the score.

Medal Table

Floor exercise

Vault

Women's events

"Prelim" value in tables below is the sum of two marks for compulsory and optional routine on the respective apparatus in the team competition, divided by two. "C" stands for "Compulsory exercises" and "O" stands for "Optional exercises".

Individual all-around

Uneven bars

Note:country names are given in the form they were used in the official documents of the IOC in 1968.

ee also

*Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
*Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)

References

*cite book
title = The Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XIX Olympiad Mexico 1968
publisher = Miguel Galas, S. A.
location = Mexico City
year = 1969
url = http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm
*cite web
title = 1968 Olympic Games
work = Gymn-Forum.com
url = http://www.gymn-forum.com/results/Olympics/1968_Mexico_City/1968_Games_main.html
accessdate = May 24
accessyear = 2006