1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
LocationWest Germany Dortmund, West Germany
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The 16th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany, in 1966. During these championships, new elements were performed including a full-twisting piked dismount from high bar, a layout with full turn (rings), and a double somersault.[1]

Results

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
Team all-around
details 		 Japan
Shuji Tsurumi
Akinori Nakayama
Takeshi Katō
Yukio Endo
Takashi Mitsukuri
Haruhiro Matsuda 		 Soviet Union
Mikhail Voronin
Sergei Diomidov
Valery Kerdemelidi
Yuri Titov
Valery Karasev
Boris Shakhlin 		 East Germany
Matthias Brehme
Gerhard Dietrich
Werner Dolling
Erwin Koppe
Siegfried Fulle
Peter Weber
Individual all-around
details 		Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin Japan Shuji Tsurumi Japan Akinori Nakayama
Floor
details 		Japan Akinori Nakayama Japan Yukio Endo Italy Franco Menichelli
Pommel horse
details 		Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miroslav Cerar Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin Japan Takeshi Katō
Rings
details 		Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin Japan Akinori Nakayama Italy Franco Menichelli
Vault
details 		Japan Haruhiro Matsuda Japan Takeshi Katō Japan Akinori Nakayama
Parallel bars
details 		Soviet Union Sergei Diomidov Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miroslav Cerar
Horizontal bar
details 		Japan Akinori Nakayama Japan Yukio Endo Japan Takashi Mitsukuri
Women
Team all-around
details 		 Czechoslovakia
Věra Čáslavská
Jaroslava Sedláčková
Marianna Krajčírová
Jana Kubičková
Bohumila Řimnáčová
Jindra Košťálová 		 Soviet Union
Natalia Kuchinskaya
Larisa Petrik
Zinaida Druzhinina
Larisa Latynina
Polina Astakhova
Olga Kharlova 		 Japan
Keiko Ikeda
Taki Shibuya
Hiroko Ikenada
Taniko Mitsukuri
Yasuko Furuyama
Mitsuko Kandori
Individual all-around
details 		Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya Japan Keiko Ikeda
Vault
details 		Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská East Germany Erika Zuchold Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya
Uneven bars
details 		Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya Japan Keiko Ikeda Japan Taniko Mitsukuri
Balance beam
details 		Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská Soviet Union Larisa Petrik
Floor
details 		Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská Soviet Union Zinaida Druzhinina

Medals

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)65314
2 Japan (JPN)46717
3 Czechoslovakia (TCH)3205
4 Yugoslavia (YUG)1012
5 East Germany (GDR)0112
6 Italy (ITA)0022
Totals (6 entries)14141442

Men

Team competition

Rank Team Compulsory Optional Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan 287.850 287.300 575.150
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union 285.900 285.000 570.900
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  East Germany 278.800 282.200 561.000
4  Czechoslovakia 275.800 275.400 551.200
5  Poland 274.200 276.400 550.600
6  United States 273.850 276.550 550.400
7  Yugoslavia 271.400 276.750 548.150
8  West Germany 273.200 274.800 548.000
9  Italy 273.450 272.550 546.000
10  France 272.350 272.900 545.250
11  Finland 267.750 273.750 541.700
12  Sweden 270.600 270.500 541.100
13  Hungary 262.150 268.100 530.250
14  Norway 258.100 266.850 524.950
15  Cuba 256.850 257.350 514.200
16  Spain 252.350 259.300 511.650
17  Great Britain 253.850 255.200 509.050
18  Canada 243.800 254.950 498.750
19  Austria 242.550 250.100 492.650
20  New Zealand 212.050 217.100 429.150

All-around

Rank Gymnast Compulsory Optional score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mikhail Voronin (URS) 57.900 58.250 116.150
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 57.750 57.500 115.250
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Akinori Nakayama (JPN) 57.000 57.960 114.950
4  Miroslav Cerar (YUG) 57.150 57.600 114.750
5  Franco Menichelli (ITA) 57.200 57.450 114.650
6  Takashi Kato (JPN) 57.150 57.450 114.600
7  Yukio Endo (JPN) 57.550 56.800 114.350
8  Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN) 57.100 57.000 114.100
9  Matthias Brehme (GDR) 56.750 57.300 114.050
10  Haruhiro Matsuda (JPN) 57.250 56.600 113.850
11  Sergei Diomidov (URS) 57.600 55.650 113.250
12  Valery Kerdemelidi (URS) 56.450 56.450 112.900

Floor Exercise

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Akinori Nakayama (JPN) 9.750 9.650 19.400
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN) 9.700 9.675 19.375
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Franco Menichelli (ITA) 9.650 9.650 19.300
4  Takeshi Katō (JPN) 9.650 9.575 19.225
5  Valery Karasyov (URS) 9.450 9.550 19.000
6  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 9.300 9.575 18.875

Pommel Horse

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Miroslav Cerar (YUG) 9.800 9.725 19.525
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mikhail Voronin (URS) 9.700 9.625 19.325
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Takeshi Katō (JPN) 9.600 9.525 19.125
4  Matthias Brehme (GDR) 9.500 9.525 19.025
5  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 9.500 9.500 19.000
6  Olli Laiho (FIN) 9.250 9.550 18.800

Rings

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Mikhail Voronin (URS) 9.900 9.850 19.750
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Akinori Nakayama (JPN) 9.750 9.750 19.500
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Franco Menichelli (ITA) 9.800 9.675 19.475
4  Takeshi Katō (JPN) 9.650 9.650 19.300
5  Sergei Diomidov (URS) 9.550 9.650 19.200
6  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 3.000 9.650 12.650

Vault

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Haruhiro Matsuda (JPN) 9.675 9.750 19.425
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Takeshi Katō (JPN) 9.650 9.675 19.325
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Akinori Nakayama (JPN) 9.500 9.550 19.050
4  Yukio Endo (JPN) 9.125 9.575 18.700
5  Mikhail Voronin (URS) 9.100 9.550 18.650
6  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 0.000 9.600 9.600

Parallel Bars

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Sergei Diamidov (URS) 9.750 9.800 19.550
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Mikhail Voronin (URS) 9.700 9.700 19.400
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Miroslav Cerar (YUG) 9.700 9.650 19.350
4  Franco Menichelli (ITA) 9.600 9.625 19.225
5  Matthias Brehme (GDR) 9.600 9.600 19.200
6  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 0.000 9.625 9.625

Horizontal Bar

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Akinori Nakayama (JPN) 9.900 9.775 19.675
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN) 9.800 9.800 19.600
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN) 9.700 9.725 19.425
4  Miroslav Cerar (YUG) 9.700 9.700 19.400
4  Mikhail Voronin (URS) 9.700 9.700 19.400
6  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN) 0.000 9.675 9.675

Women

Team competition

Rank Team Compulsory Optional Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Czechoslovakia 190.995 192.630 383.625
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union 191.358 192.229 383.587
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan 190.894 190.029 380.923
4  East Germany 187.494 190.324 377.818
5  Hungary 186.527 187.362 373.889
6  United States 182.360 185.260 367.620
7  France 183.193 183.225 366.418
8  Bulgaria 182.694 183.661 366.355
9  Sweden 181.429 181.662 363.091
10  West Germany 181.093 181.859 362.952
11  Poland 180.526 182.394 362.920
12  Norway 173.127 179.962 252.089
13  Yugoslavia 174.125 175.528 349.653
14  Netherlands 172.660 176.328 348.988
15  Canada 173.461 172.693 346.154
16  Israel 168.662 174.660 343.322
17  Great Britain 165.293 173.360 338.653
18  New Zealand 168.459 169.893 338.352
19  South Africa 168.693 166.761 335.454
20  Cuba 168.894 165.026 333.920
21  Finland 166.061 166.295 332.356
22  Austria 161.228 168.825 330.053

All-around

Rank Gymnast Compulsory Optional score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH) 39.032 39.266 78.298
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) 38.865 39.232 78.097
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Keiko Ikeda (JPN) 38.599 38.398 76.997
4  Erika Zuchold (GDR) 38.265 38.331 76.596
5  Jaroslava Sedláčková (TCH) 38.099 38.366 76.465
6  Larisa Petrik (URS) 37.966 38.400 76.366
7  Marianna Némethová-Krajčírová (TCH) 37.999 38.222 76.332
8  Jana Kubičková (TCH) 37.933 38.299 76.232
9  Taki Shibuya (JPN) 38.232 37.933 76.165
10  Zinaida Druzhinina (URS) 37.831 38.333 76.164
11  Larisa Latynina (URS) 38.099 37.999 76.098
12  Hiroko Ikenada (JPN) 38.266 37.733 75.999

Vault

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH) 9.783 9.750 19.583
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Erika Zuchold (GDR) 9.733 9.666 19.399
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) 9.666 9.650 19.316
4  Ute Starke (GDR) 9.666 9.550 19.216
5  Jana Kubičková (TCH) 9.633 9.566 19.199
6  Hiroko Ikenada (JPN) 9.600 9.550 19.150

Uneven Bars

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) 9.800 9.816 19.616
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Keiko Ikeda (JPN) 9.766 9.800 19.566
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Taniko Mitsukuri (JPN) 9.800 9.716 19.516
4  Věra Čáslavská (TCH) 9.666 9.816 19.482
5  Polina Astakhova (URS) 9.700 9.716 19.146
6  Taki Shibuya (JPN) 9.600 9.733 19.333

Balance Beam

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) 9.900 9.750 19.650
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH) 9.600 9.733 19.333
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Larisa Petrik (URS) 9.600 9.650 19.250
4  Keiko Ikeda (JPN) 9.700 9.533 19.233
5  Anikó Ducza-Jánosi (HUN) 9.633 9.600 19.233
6  Jaroslava Sedláčková (TCH) 9.600 9.583 19.183

Floor Exercise

Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Natalia Kuchinskaya (URS) 9.900 9.833 19.733
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH) 9.833 9.850 19.683
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Zinaida Druzhinina (URS) 9.933 9.733 19.666
4  Larisa Petrik (URS) 9.766 9.650 19.416
5  Jana Kubičková (TCH) 9.700 9.663 19.363
6  Yasuko Furuyama (JPN) 9.666 9.650 19.316

References

  1. ^ Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 88.
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