The men's vault was a
gymnastics event contested as part of the
Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the
Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.
The event was held on 18, 20, and 23 October. There were 130 competitors from 30 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.
[ For the first time in three Games, there was a clear winner with no tie. ]Haruhiro Yamashita
is a Japanese gymnast, who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He won two gold medals, in the vault and team combined exercises.
After marriage he changed his last name from Yamashita to Matsuda (松田), adopting his aunt's surname, who took ...
took the gold medal, the second consecutive gold for Japan. Victor Lisitsky
Viktor Nikitovich Lisitsky (russian: Ви́ктор Ники́тович Лиси́цкий; 18 October 1939 – 13 June 2023) was a Russian gymnast. He competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics and won five ...
finished second, taking silver but breaking the Soviet Union's three-Games gold medal streak. Hannu Rantakari's bronze was Finland's first medal in the event since 1948.
Background
This was the 11th 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). Seven of the top 11 (including three-way tie for 9th) gymnasts from 1960 returned: joint gold medalists Takashi Ono of Japan and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, fifth-place finisher Yukio Endo, sixth-place finisher Shuji Tsurumi
is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion. He was part of the first Japanese team that succeeded to win gold medals in the team event at the Summer Olympics (1960) and World Championships (1962). In 2008 he was inducted to the International Gym ...
, and eighth-place finisher Takashi Mitsukuri
is a Japanese gymnast and Olympic champion.
Mitsukuri competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he received a gold medal in ''team combined exercises''.[Franco Menichelli
Franco Menichelli (born 3 August 1941) is a retired Italian gymnast. He competed in all artistic gymnastics events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one gold, one silver, and three bronze
medals.
Biography
He was most successful in 1 ...]
and Giovanni Carminucci
Giovanni Carminucci (14 November 1939 – 16 February 2007) was an Italian gymnast. Together with his elder brother Pasquale
Pasquale is a masculine Italian given name and a surname mainly found in southern Italy. It is a cognate of the Frenc ...
of Italy. Ono had also taken bronze in 1952, Titov had taken bronze in 1956, and Shakhlin had finished fourth in 1956. The reigning (1962) world champion was Přemysl Krbec
Přemysl Krbec (28 January 1940 – 31 August 2021
) was a C ...
of Czechoslovakia, with Haruhiro Yamashita
is a Japanese gymnast, who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He won two gold medals, in the vault and team combined exercises.
After marriage he changed his last name from Yamashita to Matsuda (松田), adopting his aunt's surname, who took ...
of Japan second and Endo and Shakhlin tied for third.
Competition format
The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to two 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. The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004).
These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the 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 130th. For the apparatus finals, the all-around score for that apparatus was multiplied by one-half then added to the final round exercise score to give a final total.
Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, with the final total apparatus score from 0 to 20.[Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.]
Schedule
All times are Japan Standard Time ( UTC+9)
Results
Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises, with the median
In statistics and probability theory, the median is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as "the middle" value. The basic fe ...
scores from the four judges for the two sets of exercises were summed. This score was also used in calculating both individual all-around and team scores.
The top 6 advanced to the final for the apparatus, keeping half of their preliminary score to be added to their final score.
References
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Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics
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Men's events at the 1964 Summer Olympics