Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's rings explained

Event:	Men's rings
Games:	1964 Summer
Venue:	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates:	18–22 October
Competitors:	128
Nations:	29
Longnames:	yes
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	19.475
Gold:	Takuji Hayata
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Franco Menichelli
Silvernoc:	ITA
Bronze:	Boris Shakhlin
Bronzenoc:	URS
Prev:	1960
Next:	1968

The men's rings was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.^[1] The event was held on 18, 20, and 22 October. There were 128 competitors from 29 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Takuji Hayata of Japan, the nation's first victory in the rings after two Games with bronze medals. Silver went to Franco Menichelli of Italy, the nation's first rings medal since 1932. Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union took bronze, breaking a three-Games gold medal streak for the Soviets. Shakhlin was the fourth man to win multiple medals in the rings, adding to his 1960 silver.

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). Four of the six finalists from 1960 returned: silver medalist Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, joint bronze medalists Velik Kapsazov of Bulgaria and Takashi Ono of Japan, and sixth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union. Two-time gold medalist Albert Azaryan had retired. Titov had won the 1962 world championship, with Shakhlin and Yukio Endo of Japan tying for second place.^[2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, and Mongolia each made their debut in the men's rings. The United States made its 10th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

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.

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 128th. 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.^[2] ^[3]

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 18 October 1964	8:30 17:00	Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 October 1964	8:30 17:00	Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 22 October 1964	18:00	Final

Results

Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises, with the median 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.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	Prelim.	Final	Total
			9.70	9.75	19.45	9.725	9.750	19.475
			9.65	9.80	19.45	9.725	9.700	19.425
			9.70	9.70	19.40	9.700	9.700	19.400
4			9.70	9.60	19.35	9.650	9.700	19.350
5			9.70	9.65	19.35	9.675	9.600	19.275
6			9.80	9.70	19.50	9.750	9.500	19.250
7			9.60	9.65	19.25	Did not advance
8			9.55	9.60	19.15	Did not advance
9			9.50	9.60	19.10	Did not advance
			9.50	9.60	19.10	Did not advance
			9.55	9.55	19.10	Did not advance
12			9.45	9.60	19.05	Did not advance
12			9.50	9.55	19.05	Did not advance
14			9.50	9.50	19.00	Did not advance
14			9.40	9.60	19.00	Did not advance
16			9.40	9.45	18.85	Did not advance
16			9.35	9.50	18.85	Did not advance
18			9.25	9.55	18.80	Did not advance
			9.35	9.45	18.80	Did not advance
			9.40	9.40	18.80	Did not advance
21			9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
21			9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
23			9.25	9.45	18.70	Did not advance
			9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
			9.20	9.50	18.70	Did not advance
26			9.25	9.40	18.65	Did not advance
26			9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
28			9.30	9.30	18.60	Did not advance
			9.35	9.25	18.60	Did not advance
			9.30	9.30	18.60	Did not advance
31			9.25	9.30	18.55	Did not advance
			9.30	9.25	18.55	Did not advance
			9.20	9.35	18.55	Did not advance
			9.25	9.30	18.55	Did not advance
35			9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
			9.15	9.35	18.50	Did not advance
			9.25	9.25	18.50	Did not advance
38			9.20	9.25	18.45	Did not advance
			9.15	9.30	18.45	Did not advance
			9.05	9.40	18.45	Did not advance
41			9.10	9.30	18.40	Did not advance
42			9.00	9.35	18.35	Did not advance
			9.10	9.25	18.35	Did not advance
			9.05	9.30	18.35	Did not advance
			9.10	9.25	18.35	Did not advance
46			9.20	9.10	18.30	Did not advance
			9.20	9.10	18.30	Did not advance
			9.05	9.25	18.30	Did not advance
49			9.10	9.15	18.25	Did not advance
			9.20	9.05	18.25	Did not advance
			8.85	9.40	18.25	Did not advance
			9.10	9.15	18.25	Did not advance
			9.10	9.15	18.25	Did not advance
54			9.10	9.10	18.20	Did not advance
54			9.10	9.10	18.20	Did not advance
56			8.95	9.15	18.10	Did not advance
57			8.95	9.10	18.05	Did not advance
			8.90	9.15	18.05	Did not advance
			9.00	9.05	18.05	Did not advance
60			8.95	9.05	18.00	Did not advance
60			8.90	9.10	18.00	Did not advance
62			8.95	9.00	17.95	Did not advance
			8.85	9.10	17.95	Did not advance
			9.00	8.95	17.95	Did not advance
65			8.95	8.95	17.90	Did not advance
			8.85	9.05	17.90	Did not advance
			8.85	9.05	17.90	Did not advance
			8.80	9.10	17.90	Did not advance
69			8.65	9.20	17.85	Did not advance
69			9.00	8.85	17.85	Did not advance
71			8.70	9.10	17.80	Did not advance
			8.85	8.95	17.80	Did not advance
			8.75	9.05	17.80	Did not advance
74			8.85	8.90	17.75	Did not advance
			8.60	9.15	17.75	Did not advance
			8.55	9.20	17.75	Did not advance
77			9.00	8.70	17.70	Did not advance
78			8.80	8.85	17.65	Did not advance
79			8.80	8.80	17.60	Did not advance
80			8.95	8.60	17.55	Did not advance
81			8.70	8.80	17.50	Did not advance
			8.55	8.95	17.50	Did not advance
			8.55	8.95	17.50	Did not advance
			8.60	8.90	17.50	Did not advance
			8.75	8.75	17.50	Did not advance
			8.55	8.95	17.50	Did not advance
87			8.35	9.10	17.45	Did not advance
88			8.40	9.00	17.40	Did not advance
89			8.60	8.75	17.35	Did not advance
89			8.45	8.90	17.35	Did not advance
91			8.50	8.70	17.20	Did not advance
			8.55	8.65	17.20	Did not advance
			9.00	8.20	17.20	Did not advance
94			8.46	8.65	17.10	Did not advance
			8.90	8.20	17.10	Did not advance
			8.75	8.35	17.10	Did not advance
97			8.90	8.15	17.05	Did not advance
98			8.40	8.60	17.00	Did not advance
98			8.25	8.75	17.00	Did not advance
100			8.00	8.90	16.90	Did not advance
101			8.40	8.40	16.80	Did not advance
101			8.35	8.45	16.80	Did not advance
103			8.30	8.45	16.75	Did not advance
103			8.70	8.05	16.75	Did not advance
105			8.10	8.60	16.70	Did not advance
106			8.00	8.55	16.55	Did not advance
107			8.10	8.30	16.40	Did not advance
108			8.00	8.35	16.35	Did not advance
108			7.85	8.50	16.35	Did not advance
110			7.50	8.25	16.25	Did not advance
111			7.85	8.35	16.20	Did not advance
			8.25	7.95	16.20	Did not advance
			7.80	8.40	16.20	Did not advance
114			7.60	8.45	16.05	Did not advance
115			7.40	8.50	15.90	Did not advance
116			7.30	8.50	15.80	Did not advance
117			7.35	7.90	15.25	Did not advance
118			7.00	7.90	14.90	Did not advance
119			6.50	8.10	14.60	Did not advance
120			7.00	7.55	14.55	Did not advance
121			7.50	7.00	14.50	Did not advance
122			6.65	7.30	13.95	Did not advance
123			6.00	7.70	13.70	Did not advance
124			6.00	7.50	13.50	Did not advance
125			6.50	6.50	13.00	Did not advance
126			4.70	7.45	12.15	Did not advance
127			8.70	—	8.70	Did not advance
128			6.65	—	6.65	Did not advance
—				Did not advance
			Did not advance

Sources

Book: Tokyo Organizing Committee . The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2 . 1964 .

Notes and References

Web site: Gymnastics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Rings . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417100943/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/GYM/mens-rings.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 2 August 2019.
Web site: Rings, Men . Olympedia . 4 December 2020.
Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.