Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around explained

Event:	Men's artistic individual all-around
Games:	1964 Summer
Venue:	Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium
Dates:	18–20 October
Competitors:	130
Nations:	30
Longnames:	yes
Win Label:	Winning score
Win Value:	115.95
Gold:	Yukio Endō
Goldnoc:	JPN
Silver:	Viktor Lisitsky
Silvernoc:	URS
Silver2:	Boris Shakhlin
Silvernoc2:	URS
Silver3:	Shuji Tsurumi
Silvernoc3:	JPN
Prev:	1960
Next:	1968

The men's individual all-around was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium.^[1] It was held on 18 and 20 October. There were 130 competitors from 30 nations. Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individuals. The event was won by Yukio Endō of Japan, the nation's first victory in the event after two consecutive Games with silver medals. Endō snapped the Soviet Union's three-Games gold medal streak and started a three-Games streak for Japan, as the two nations reached the height of their four-decade combined dominance of the event. Three silver medals were awarded after a tie between Viktor Lisitsky and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union and Shuji Tsurumi of Japan. Shakhlin, the defending gold medalist, thus became the seventh man to win multiple medals in the all-around. For the second consecutive Games, Japan and the Soviet Union took 11 of the top 13 places (and, for the second consecutive Games, Yugoslavia's Miroslav Cerar and Italy's Franco Menichelli were the two men in the top 10 not from those two nations).

Background

This was the 14th appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.^[2]

Eight of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1960 Games returned: gold medalist Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, two-time silver medalist Takashi Ono of Japan, two-time bronze medalist Yuri Titov of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Shuji Tsurumi of Japan, fifth-place finisher Yukio Endō of Japan, eighth-place finisher Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia, ninth-place finisher Takashi Mitsukuri of Japan, and tenth-place finisher Franco Menichelli of Italy. Titov was the reigning (1962) World Champion, with Endō and Shakhlin (the 1958 World Champion) finishing second and third.^[2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, Mongolia, and the Philippines each made their debut in the event. France and Italy both made their 12th appearance, tied for most among nations.

Competition format

The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. 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 130th. There was no all-around final.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, apparatus scores from 0 to 20, and individual totals from 0 to 120.

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

Results

The score for the individual all-around was a simple sum of each gymnast's preliminary scores from the six apparatus events.^[1]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation							Total
	Yukio Endō		19.40	18.70	19.50	19.40	19.55	19.40	115.95
			19.30	18.75	19.10	19.50	19.50	19.25	115.40
			18.95	18.90	19.40	19.35	19.25	19.55	115.40
			19.10	19.25	19.35	19.30	19.50	18.90	115.40
5			19.30	18.80	19.45	19.05	19.30	19.25	115.15
6			19.15	19.15	18.75	19.50	19.30	19.25	115.10
7			18.65	19.45	19.05	19.10	19.50	19.30	115.05
8			19.15	18.90	19.45	19.15	19.15	19.10	114.90
9			19.20	19.30	19.00	19.05	19.10	19.15	114.80
10	Viktor Leontyev		19.20	18.70	19.35	18.95	19.15	19.20	114.55
11			18.90	18.90	19.10	19.20	18.90	19.40	114.40
11			19.20	19.10	19.00	19.05	19.05	19.00	114.40
13			18.70	18.60	19.25	19.25	19.05	19.50	114.35
14			19.10	18.75	18.85	19.25	19.35	18.90	114.20
15			19.00	18.80	19.05	19.30	19.00	18.95	114.10
16			18.80	18.70	18.80	19.10	18.70	19.10	113.20
17			18.50	18.55	18.60	19.10	19.00	19.25	113.00
18			18.95	18.55	18.25	19.10	19.00	18.90	112.75
19			18.45	18.60	18.80	18.75	19.05	18.80	112.45
20			18.40	18.50	18.80	18.95	18.90	18.85	112.40
21			18.45	18.70	18.50	18.75	19.05	18.90	112.35
21			18.85	18.40	18.85	19.00	18.75	18.50	112.35
23			18.60	18.40	18.45	19.25	18.55	19.05	112.30
24			18.65	18.65	18.50	18.95	18.90	18.60	112.25
25			18.85	18.10	18.60	18.85	18.80	18.75	111.95
26			18.75	18.30	18.35	18.85	18.85	18.75	111.85
27			18.65	18.20	18.65	18.75	19.30	18.25	111.80
28			18.50	18.55	18.25	18.95	18.60	18.90	111.75
29			18.75	18.00	18.55	19.15	18.80	18.45	111.70
30			18.45	18.60	18.25	18.95	18.80	18.45	111.50
31			18.30	18.55	17.90	18.90	18.80	18.95	111.40
32			19.00	18.45	18.70	18.90	18.10	18.05	111.20
32	Åge Storhaug		18.55	18.75	17.90	19.00	18.35	18.65	111.20
34			18.70	18.70	17.85	18.85	18.80	18.25	111.15
35			18.55	18.40	18.35	18.75	18.00	19.05	111.10
35			18.55	18.15	18.30	18.40	18.65	19.05	111.10
37	Velik Kapsazov		17.85	18.15	19.15	18.80	18.15	18.95	111.05
37			18.85	18.20	18.50	19.30	17.60	18.60	111.05
39			18.35	18.10	18.70	18.45	18.65	18.75	111.00
40			18.50	18.50	17.85	19.10	18.60	18.40	110.95
41			18.45	18.15	18.00	18.90	18.50	18.75	110.75
42			18.25	18.25	18.60	18.70	18.65	18.25	110.70
42			18.10	18.40	18.40	18.40	18.80	18.60	110.70
44			18.80	17.40	18.70	18.90	18.15	18.70	110.65
45			18.60	17.55	18.30	18.60	18.80	18.75	110.60
			18.50	16.95	18.75	19.25	18.70	18.45	110.60
	Gheorghe Tohăneanu		18.45	18.00	18.10	18.85	18.65	18.55	110.60
48			18.65	18.55	17.20	19.15	18.55	18.40	110.50
			18.05	18.55	17.50	18.55	19.15	18.70	110.50
			18.70	18.25	17.60	19.35	18.55	18.05	110.50
51			18.35	17.70	18.55	18.75	18.80	18.30	110.45
52			18.60	17.95	17.95	18.75	18.25	18.85	110.35
53			18.10	18.80	17.55	18.50	18.95	18.30	110.20
54	Stig Lindewall		18.40	17.30	18.55	18.70	19.00	18.20	110.15
55			18.10	18.30	18.05	18.75	18.35	18.50	110.05
55			18.70	18.15	17.90	18.50	18.40	18.40	110.05
57			18.25	18.05	18.05	18.45	18.50	18.70	110.00
58			19.05	18.00	17.50	18.70	18.25	18.45	109.95
59			18.45	18.05	18.55	18.80	18.80	17.25	109.90
60			18.25	17.85	18.05	18.25	18.80	18.60	109.80
61			17.75	18.20	18.35	18.80	18.60	18.00	109.70
62			18.00	18.15	17.80	18.70	18.65	18.35	109.65
63			17.85	18.50	17.50	18.65	18.65	18.25	109.40
64			18.65	18.65	17.80	18.45	18.35	17.45	109.35
65			17.35	18.65	17.50	19.25	18.95	17.55	109.25
65			17.35	17.55	18.65	18.75	18.55	18.40	109.25
67			18.20	18.20	19.10	18.65	18.15	16.90	109.20
68			17.35	18.85	18.30	18.80	17.65	18.15	109.10
69			18.75	17.70	17.95	18.80	18.30	17.55	109.05
70			18.20	17.25	17.75	18.25	18.70	18.85	109.00
71			18.25	18.25	17.00	19.05	18.65	17.70	108.90
71			17.95	17.85	17.65	18.90	18.55	18.00	108.90
73			17.85	18.20	17.05	18.70	18.30	18.75	108.85
74			17.90	17.50	18.20	18.30	18.25	18.65	108.80
75			18.10	18.30	18.45	18.55	18.20	17.10	108.70
75			18.35	17.20	18.20	18.45	18.30	18.20	108.70
77			18.90	17.50	17.95	18.75	18.20	17.35	108.65
78			18.05	17.05	18.25	18.95	18.50	17.80	108.60
79	Lyuben Khristov		17.45	18.55	17.75	18.75	17.10	18.80	108.40
80			18.15	18.15	17.50	18.75	18.15	17.60	108.30
81			18.35	17.75	17.10	18.70	17.70	18.50	108.10
82			18.20	18.25	17.10	18.65	18.50	17.25	107.95
83			17.85	18.20	16.75	18.75	18.40	17.95	107.90
84			18.35	18.35	17.70	18.45	16.55	18.45	107.85
85			17.50	18.15	17.20	18.85	18.35	17.65	107.70
86			17.60	17.95	17.35	18.50	18.10	17.65	107.15
86			17.90	17.10	17.40	19.20	18.50	17.05	107.15
88	Petre Miclăuș		17.95	18.05	17.75	18.70	18.20	16.45	107.10
88			17.95	18.30	16.90	18.15	18.10	17.70	107.10
90			18.10	16.90	16.70	18.90	18.25	18.15	107.00
91			17.40	18.00	18.00	18.65	18.20	16.70	106.95
92			18.00	16.65	17.80	18.75	18.05	17.65	106.90
93			16.75	17.80	16.25	18.65	18.50	18.20	106.15
94			17.75	17.25	17.00	18.70	17.60	17.35	105.65
95			18.35	15.40	18.25	18.65	16.85	17.45	104.95
96			17.85	16.90	16.80	18.65	17.45	16.70	104.35
97			18.50	15.60	15.90	18.55	18.00	17.75	104.30
			17.70	14.80	18.45	18.05	17.95	17.35	104.30
			17.60	17.80	17.50	18.60	17.90	14.90	104.30
100			17.15	17.05	16.05	18.35	18.10	17.35	104.05
100			17.90	16.85	16.35	18.15	17.40	17.40	104.05
102			17.20	16.70	17.20	18.50	17.35	17.05	104.00
103			17.50	15.80	16.75	18.15	17.50	17.40	103.10
104			10.10	18.30	17.90	18.75	18.85	18.25	102.15
105			17.30	17.45	14.60	18.40	17.05	17.05	101.85
106			10.00	18.55	18.35	18.80	18.95	17.10	101.75
107			9.10	19.05	17.45	18.75	18.70	18.30	101.35
108			17.25	15.90	15.25	17.70	17.60	17.00	100.70
109			15.65	15.35	16.55	17.85	17.05	17.15	99.60
110			16.80	15.85	16.20	18.55	16.95	15.15	99.50
111	Douglas MacLennan		17.20	16.55	16.35	17.85	16.20	15.30	99.45
112			16.85	16.85	16.20	18.50	17.45	13.10	98.95
113			17.05	14.30	14.50	18.25	17.50	17.30	98.90
114			17.20	13.15	17.35	17.85	17.65	15.65	98.85
115			15.45	15.35	16.40	18.85	17.20	15.20	98.45
116			15.80	14.60	14.55	18.10	17.40	17.40	97.85
117			16.00	13.40	16.80	17.30	16.80	16.80	97.10
118			14.95	15.15	15.80	18.35	16.85	15.25	96.35
119			17.10	10.00	16.20	17.90	16.70	17.10	95.00
120			16.80	8.80	17.10	17.55	17.80	14.45	92.50
121			17.50	6.50	14.90	17.65	17.90	17.55	92.00
122			17.15	13.90	13.00	16.65	14.90	12.15	87.75
123			16.45	12.30	13.95	17.20	13.10	13.20	86.20
124			16.30	11.85	13.50	17.80	14.15	6.00	79.60
125			14.85	12.80	13.70	17.15	13.05	6.25	77.80
126			15.75	14.65	12.15	0.00	13.40	10.55	66.50
127			17.50	8.25	8.70	9.20	8.20	7.30	59.15
128			7.90	7.30	6.65	17.90	7.80	7.15	54.70
129			11.50	0.00	0.00	7.50	0.00	0.00	19.00
130			6.50	0.00	0.00	5.00	0.00	0.00	11.50

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 Individual All-Around . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417100843/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/GYM/mens-individual-all-around.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 1 August 2019.
Web site: Individual All-Around, Men . Olympedia . 6 April 2021.