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Gymnastics At The 1968 Summer Olympics
At the 1968 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City from October 21 through October 26. Format of competition The scoring in all the events was similar to that of the gymnastics events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. The 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 the men's competition. The highest and lowest marks were dropped and an average of two remaining marks constituted the score. Results Men's events Women's events Medal table Controversy Larisa Petrik’s gold medal on floor was very controversial because originally, Čáslavská won outright. After the competition was concluded, Petrik's prelims scores were changed to le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Auditorium
National Auditorium ( es, Auditorio Nacional) is an entertainment center at Paseo de la Reforma #50, Chapultepec in Mexico City. The National Auditorium is considered among the world's best venues by specialized media. It was designed by Mexican architects Pedro Ramírez Vázquez and Gonzalo Ramírez del Sordo, and remodeled by Abraham Zabludovsky and Teodoro González de León. Concerts, art, theatre, dance, and more are hosted at the venue. It also has a small venue available for smaller events, called Auditorio Lunario. The total seating capacity of 10,000. History Constructed in 1952, it was used for volleyball and basketball matches of the 1954 Central American and Caribbean Games and had seen performances of the San Francisco Ballet and New York Philharmonic in 1958. The auditorium was the venue for the gymnastics events at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Since the 1970s, it has been used primarily for international music, song, dance and film festivals, fairs and exhibit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Klimenko (gymnast)
Viktor Yakovlevich Klimenko (russian: Виктор Яковлевич Клименко, born 25 February 1949) is a retired Russian gymnast. He competed for the Soviet Union at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics and won a team silver medal on each occasion. Individually he earned a bronze medal in parallel bars in 1968, as well as a gold medal in pommel horse and a silver medal in vault in 1972. At the world championships Klimenko collected four medals in 1970–1974. His wife Larisa Petrik Larisa Leonidovna Petrik (russian: Лариса Леонидовна Петрик; born 28 August 1949) is a former Soviet gymnast and Olympic champion. Petrik competed at the 1966 World Championships where she shared in the team silver medal (go ... is also a former Olympic gymnast. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyubov Burda
Lyubov Viktorovna Burda (russian: Любовь Викторовна Бурда; born 11 April 1953) is a retired Soviet artistic gymnast. Career In 1967 Burda placed 3rd in the all-around at the USSR Championships (also the USSR Spartakiade that year) as well as placing 2nd on balance beam and floor exercise. At the end of the year, Burda won the junior all-around competition at the USSR Cup as well as winning gold medals in the balance beam and floor exercise finals, which combined junior and senior gymnasts. In 1968 Burda placed 5th in the all-around and 4th in the team competition at the USSR Championships. In July of that year, Burda placed 2nd in the all-around at the USSR Cup. In 1969 Burda won the gold medal in the all-around at the USSR Championships. At the USSR Cup, Burda placed 2nd in the all-around and 1st on uneven bars. In 1970 Burda won her second all-around title at the USSR Championships as well as a bronze medal with her team. That Summer, Burda won the gold ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalia Kuchinskaya
Natalia Alexandrovna Kuchinskaya (russian: Наталья Александровна Кучинская; alternative transliteration Natal'ja Alieksandrovna Kutchinskaja), also known as Natasha Kuchinskaya (Russian: Наташа Кучинская) (born 8 March 1949) is a retired Soviet Olympic gymnast. She won four medals at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Gymnastics career Kuchinskaya was born on 8 March 1949 in Leningrad and was selected for a gymnastics class while still in kindergarten. She originally aspired to become a ballet dancer, but was convinced to study gymnastics by her parents, who were both involved with the sport. She trained with Vladimir Reyson and later national team coach Larisa Latynina, who was said to consider Kuchinskaya one of her favorite gymnasts. By 1965, at age 16, Kuchinskaya was the USSR national champion. At the 1966 World Championships, after winning her second Nationals title, the USSR Cup and the World Trials, she established herself as one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zinaida Voronina
Zinaida Voronina, born Zinaida Borisovna Druzhinina (also Druginina), (russian: Зинаида Борисовна Дружинина Воронина; 10 December 1947 – 17 March 2001) was a Soviet gymnast who competed at the European, World, and Olympic level from the mid-1960s to early 1970s. Training under Vladimir Shelkovnikov, Voronina's major debut came at the 1966 World Championships in Dortmund, Germany. There she won a bronze medal on the floor exercise, receiving the highest individual score of any gymnast at those games (9.933), which might have been the first time that any woman gymnast broke the 9.900 score barrier in the post-1952 era, presaging the perfect 10s that Věra Čáslavská would score the next year at the 1967 European Championships and the perfect 10s that Nadia Comăneci would score so famously at the 1976 Montreal Summer Olympics. She went on to win several individual medals over the next four years, most notably at the 1968 Summer Olympics w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Věra Čáslavská
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Olli Laiho
Olli Eino Laiho (18 February 1943, in Savonlinna – 31 May 2010, in Helsinki) was a Finnish gymnast who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve .... References 1943 births 2010 deaths Finnish male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Finland Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Savonlinna 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-artistic-gymnastics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miroslav Cerar
Miroslav Cerar (; born 28 October 1939) is a Yugoslav former gymnast and lawyer of Slovene ethnicity who won the pommel horse event at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics. He also won three world and nine European championships. Domestically, Cerar won 13 national titles and was chosen eight times as Yugoslavia’s Athlete of the Year. He was awarded the Olympic Order in Silver by the International Olympic Committee. He was member of the Slovenian Olympic Academy, the Fair Play Commission of the Slovenian Olympic Committee, and the Executive Committee of the European Fair Play Movement. Family Cerar was married to Zdenka Cerar (née Prusnik), who was the first female State Prosecutor General of the Republic of Slovenia (1999–2004), Minister of Justice (2004) and Vice-President of the LDS. In her youth she was twice Youth Champion in gymnastics in Yugoslavia and a member of the Yugoslav team. After she ended her active career, she became a coach and referee. Cerar was a st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Weber (gymnast)
Peter Weber (born 22 December 1938) is a German former gymnast. He competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and won two bronze medals in the team classification. Individually his best achievement was 16th place in the rings in 1964. He also won a bronze medal with the East German team at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 16th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation .... Nationally, he won two titles in the rings, in 1964 and 1967, and one on the floor in 1965. References 1938 births Living people German male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for the United Team of Germany Olympic gymnasts for East Germany Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klaus Köste
Klaus Köste (27 February 1943 – 14 December 2012) was a German gymnast. He won a gold medal in the vault at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. He competed for East Germany and won bronze medals in the team all-around event in three Olympics, in 1964, 1968 and 1972. He was particularly strong on the horizontal bar, winning the 1971 and 1973 European championships and a bronze medal at the 1970 World championship in this event. Köste started training in gymnastics at the age of six in Frankfurt (Oder), but later moved to Leipzig where he lived for the rest of his life. During his career he won 34 national titles, becoming one of the most successful German gymnast, together with Eberhard Gienger. In 1972 he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit. He retired from competitions in 1974 due to an Achilles tendon injury and became a trainer and high school teacher. In 1974–1976 he was the head coach of the East German women’s team and between 1976 and 1985 worked as the chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siegfried Fülle
Siegfried Fülle (born 6 October 1939) is a German former gymnast. He competed at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won two bronze medals with the German team, in 1964 and 1968. Individually his best achievement was sharing seventh place on the vault in 1964. He won one more bronze medal in the team competition at the 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 16th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany, in 1966. During these championships, the first-ever double somersault was performed (on men's floor exercise?). Results Medals Men Team competition A .... References External links * 1939 births Living people Sportspeople from Thuringia German male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for the United Team of Germany Olympic gymnasts for East Germany Gymnasts at the 1960 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1964 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Dietrich
Gerhard Dietrich (born 12 May 1942) is a German former gymnast. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ... in all artistic gymnastics events and won a bronze medal with the East German team. Individually his best achievement was 20th place on the pommel horse. He won four more bronze medals at the world championships in 1966 and 1970 and European championships in 1967. References 1942 births Living people German male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for East Germany East German male artistic gymnasts Gymnasts at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for East Germany Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Sportspeople f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
