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Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

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Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Miroslav Cerar (1964)
VenueAuditorio Nacional
Dates22–26 October
Competitors115 from 27 nations
Winning score19.325
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Olli Laiho  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union
← 1964
1972 →

The men's pommel horse competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The event was held from 22 to 26 October at the Auditorio Nacional. There were 115 competitors from 27 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic pommel horse title. Olli Laiho of Finland took silver, while Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union finished with bronze. Japan's three-Games podium streak in the event ended, while the Soviet streak stretched to five Games.

Background

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This was the 12th 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). Only one of the six finalists from 1964 returned: gold medalist Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia. Cerar had added another world championship to his pommel horse resume in 1966 and was the favorite to repeat as Olympic champion. Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union had been the runner-up at the world championships.[1]

Ecuador made its debut in the men's pommel horse; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. The United States made its 11th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three 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. (Three gymnasts who entered the all-around did not compete on the pommel horse.)

These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the new 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 114th. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.[1][2]

Schedule

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All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 22 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Thursday, 24 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 26 October 1968 19:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.650 19.325
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Olli Laiho  Finland 9.45 9.70 19.15 9.575 9.650 19.225
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union 9.70 9.50 19.20 9.600 9.600 19.200
4 Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.60 9.50 19.10 9.550 9.600 19.150
5 Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan 9.45 9.65 19.10 9.550 9.500 19.050
6 Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union 9.50 9.60 19.10 9.550 9.400 18.950
7 Dave Thor  United States 9.50 9.60 19.10 did not advance
8 Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.50 9.50 19.00 did not advance
Jiří Fejtek  Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.60 19.00 did not advance
Sawao Kato  Japan 9.45 9.55 19.00 did not advance
Mikołaj Kubica  Poland 9.45 9.55 19.00 did not advance
12 Valery Karasyov  Soviet Union 9.35 9.50 18.85 did not advance
Akinori Nakayama  Japan 9.40 9.45 18.85 did not advance
Miloslav Netušil  Czechoslovakia 9.30 9.55 18.85 did not advance
Mauno Nissinen  Finland 9.40 9.45 18.85 did not advance
16 Heinz Häussler  West Germany 9.30 9.50 18.80 did not advance
Willi Jaschek  West Germany 9.25 9.55 18.80 did not advance
18 Matthias Brehme  East Germany 9.50 9.25 18.75 did not advance
19 Steve Hug  United States 9.30 9.40 18.70 did not advance
20 Gerhard Dietrich  East Germany 9.15 9.50 18.65 did not advance
Takeshi Katō  Japan 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
22 Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.30 9.30 18.60 did not advance
Paul Müller  Switzerland 9.25 9.35 18.60 did not advance
24 Chung-tae Kim  South Korea 9.15 9.35 18.50 did not advance
25 Valery Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
26 Yukio Endo  Japan 9.20 9.20 18.40 did not advance
Sylwester Kubica  Poland 9.00 9.40 18.40 did not advance
Peter Rohner  Switzerland 9.10 9.30 18.40 did not advance
29 Michel Bouchonnet  France 9.10 9.25 18.35 did not advance
Roland Hürzeler  Switzerland 9.30 9.05 18.35 did not advance
Bohumil Mudřík  Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.25 18.35 did not advance
Miloš Vratič  Yugoslavia 8.95 9.40 18.35 did not advance
33 František Bočko  Czechoslovakia 8.90 9.40 18.30 did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 8.95 9.35 18.30 did not advance
Hans Peter Nielsen  Denmark 9.00 9.30 18.30 did not advance
36 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
37 Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 9.00 9.25 18.25 did not advance
38 Armando Valles  Mexico 9.05 9.10 18.15 did not advance
39 Jerzy Kruża  Poland 9.00 9.10 18.10 did not advance
Evert Lindgren  Sweden 8.75 9.35 18.10 did not advance
41 Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 8.85 9.15 18.00 did not advance
42 Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.10 8.85 17.95 did not advance
Andrzej Gonera  Poland 8.85 9.10 17.95 did not advance
Gilbert Larose  Canada 8.90 9.05 17.95 did not advance
45 Klaus Köste  East Germany 9.25 8.65 17.90 did not advance
Václav Kubíčka  Czechoslovakia 8.90 9.00 17.90 did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen  Finland 9.00 8.90 17.90 did not advance
48 Hermann Höpfner  West Germany 8.80 9.00 17.80 did not advance
Heikki Sappinen  Finland 8.60 9.20 17.80 did not advance
Stan Wild  Great Britain 8.70 9.10 17.80 did not advance
51 Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 8.70 9.05 17.75 did not advance
52 Peter Weber  East Germany 8.75 8.95 17.70 did not advance
53 Christian Guiffroy  France 9.05 8.60 17.65 did not advance
Milenko Kersnić  Yugoslavia 8.85 8.80 17.65 did not advance
Ivan Kondev  Bulgaria 8.80 8.85 17.65 did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan 9.40 8.25 17.65 did not advance
57 Reino Heino  Finland 8.80 8.80 17.60 did not advance
58 Kanati Allen  United States 9.00 8.55 17.55 did not advance
Vincenzo Mori  Italy 8.70 8.85 17.55 did not advance
Fred Roethlisberger  United States 8.85 8.70 17.55 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 8.55 9.00 17.55 did not advance
Octavio Suárez  Cuba 8.65 7.90 17.55 did not advance
63 Damir Anić  Yugoslavia 8.35 9.15 17.50 did not advance
Steve Mitruk  Canada 8.75 8.75 17.50 did not advance
65 Dezső Bordán  Hungary 8.80 8.65 17.45 did not advance
Hans Ettlin  Switzerland 8.95 8.50 17.45 did not advance
67 István Aranyos  Hungary 8.65 8.70 17.35 did not advance
Steve Cohen  United States 9.00 8.35 17.35 did not advance
Christian Deuza  France 9.00 8.35 17.35 did not advance
Stefan Zoev  Bulgaria 9.35 8.00 17.35 did not advance
71 Siegfried Fülle  East Germany 9.05 8.25 17.30 did not advance
Sándor Kiss  Hungary 8.75 8.55 17.30 did not advance
73 Georgi Adamov  Bulgaria 9.05 8.20 17.25 did not advance
Tine Šrot  Yugoslavia 8.60 8.65 17.25 did not advance
Fernando Valles  Mexico 8.90 8.35 17.25 did not advance
76 Edwin Greutmann  Switzerland 8.60 8.60 17.20 did not advance
Raycho Khristov  Bulgaria 8.40 8.80 17.20 did not advance
Rogelio Mendoza  Mexico 8.15 9.05 17.20 did not advance
Endre Tihanyi  Hungary 8.65 8.55 17.20 did not advance
80 Finn Johannesson  Sweden 8.55 8.60 17.15 did not advance
81 Erich Hess  West Germany 8.85 8.25 17.10 did not advance
82 Roger Dion  Canada 8.55 8.45 17.00 did not advance
83 Michael Booth  Great Britain 8.40 8.40 16.80 did not advance
Helmut Tepasse  West Germany 7.70 9.10 16.80 did not advance
85 Günter Beier  East Germany 8.75 8.00 16.75 did not advance
Christer Jönsson  Sweden 8.85 7.90 16.75 did not advance
Václav Skoumal  Czechoslovakia 7.90 8.85 16.75 did not advance
Arne Thomsen  Denmark 7.70 9.05 16.75 did not advance
89 Sid Jensen  Canada 8.70 8.00 16.70 did not advance
Hannu Rantakari  Finland 8.35 8.35 16.70 did not advance
Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn  Mongolia 8.45 8.25 16.70 did not advance
92 Murray Chessell  Australia 8.40 8.25 16.25 did not advance
93 Sid Freudenstein  United States 8.75 7.85 16.60 did not advance
94 José Filipe Abreu  Portugal 8.40 8.10 16.50 did not advance
95 Rumen Gabrovski  Bulgaria 8.40 8.00 16.40 did not advance
Bozhidar Ivanov  Bulgaria 7.70 8.70 16.40 did not advance
97 Béla Herczeg  Hungary 8.75 7.60 16.35 did not advance
98 Luis Navarrete  Cuba 7.90 8.25 16.15 did not advance
99 Konrád Mentsik  Hungary 7.50 8.60 16.10 did not advance
Jorge Rodríguez  Cuba 7.70 8.40 16.10 did not advance
101 Enrique García  Mexico 7.55 8.40 15.95 did not advance
102 Heiko Reinemer  West Germany 7.00 8.80 15.80 did not advance
103 José Vilchis  Mexico 7.80 7.70 15.50 did not advance
104 Barry Brooker  Canada 7.30 7.70 15.00 did not advance
105 José González  Mexico 8.20 6.45 14.65 did not advance
Roberto Pumpido  Cuba 6.85 7.80 14.65 did not advance
107 Luis Ramírez  Cuba 6.75 7.80 14.55 did not advance
108 Larbi Lazhari  Algeria 6.65 7.00 13.65 did not advance
109 Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 8.30 4.50 12.80 did not advance
110 Chu-Long Lai  Chinese Taipei 4.50 7.80 12.30 did not advance
111 Sergio Luna  Ecuador 5.50 5.75 11.25 did not advance
112 Fu Cheng  Chinese Taipei 3.50 6.95 10.45 did not advance
113 Pedro Rendón  Ecuador 3.50 5.80 9.30 did not advance
114 Eduardo Nájera  Ecuador 4.00 3.50 7.50 did not advance
115 Franco Menichelli  Italy 0.00 0.00 did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 676.