# Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics

At the 1960 Summer Olympics, fourteen different artistic gymnastics events were contested, eight for men and six for women. All events were held in the Baths of Caracalla in Rome from September 5 through 10th.

## Format of competition

The scoring in the team competition and in the all-around was the same, as for gymnastics events at the previous Olympics (there was no team, portable apparatus event, however). But apart from two performances:a compulsory and an optional, which counted for both the team competition and the all-around, a gymnast, who competed in an apparatus final should show one's skills once more on the respective apparatus. For the final score ("Total" column in tables below), the compulsory routine's mark was added to the optional routine's, the result was divided by two ("Prelim" column) and added to the third routine's mark ("Final" column).

## Results
### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual all-around details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Takashi Ono Japan | Yuri Titov Soviet Union |
| Team all-around details | Japan (JPN) Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endō Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Masao Takemoto Shuji Tsurumi | Soviet Union (URS) Albert Azaryan Valery Kerdemilidi Nikolai Miligulo Vladimir Portnoi Boris Shakhlin Yuri Titov | Italy (ITA) Giovanni Carminucci Pasquale Carminucci Gianfranco Marzolla Franco Menichelli Orlando Polmonari Angelo Vicardi |
| Floor exercise details | Nobuyuki Aihara Japan | Yuri Titov Soviet Union | Franco Menichelli Italy |
| Horizontal bar details | Takashi Ono Japan | Masao Takemoto Japan | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union |
| Parallel bars details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Giovanni Carminucci Italy | Takashi Ono Japan |
| Pommel horse details | Eugen Ekman Finland | none awarded | Shuji Tsurumi Japan |
| Pommel horse details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | none awarded | Shuji Tsurumi Japan |
| Rings details | Albert Asaryan Soviet Union | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Takashi Ono Japan |
| Rings details | Albert Asaryan Soviet Union | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | Velik Kapsazov Bulgaria |
| Vault details | Boris Shakhlin Soviet Union | none awarded | Vladimir Portnoi Soviet Union |
| Vault details | Takashi Ono Japan | none awarded | Vladimir Portnoi Soviet Union |

### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Individual all-around details | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Sofia Muratova Soviet Union | Polina Astakhova Soviet Union |
| Team all-around details | Soviet Union (URS) Polina Astakhova Lidia Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Lyukhina Sofia Muratova Margarita Nikolaeva | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Matylda Matoušková Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfína Tkačíková | Romania (ROU) Atanasia Ionescu Sonia Iovan Elena Leușteanu Emilia Vătășoiu-Liță Elena Niculescu Uta Poreceanu |
| Balance beam details | Eva Bosáková Czechoslovakia | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Sofia Muratova Soviet Union |
| Floor exercise details | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Polina Astakhova Soviet Union | Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union |
| Uneven bars details | Polina Astakhova Soviet Union | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union | Tamara Lyukhina Soviet Union |
| Vault details | Margarita Nikolaeva Soviet Union | Sofia Muratova Soviet Union | Larisa Latynina Soviet Union |

## Medal table
### Total

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 10 | 8 | 8 | 26 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 4 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 6 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | Totals (7 entries) | 16 | 12 | 15 | 43 |

### Men

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 3 | 3 | 11 |
| 2 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| 3 | Finland (FIN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 10 | 6 | 9 | 25 |

### Women

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 5 | 5 | 5 | 15 |
| 2 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Romania (ROU) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (3 entries) | Totals (3 entries) | 6 | 6 | 6 | 18 |

## Participating nations

* Argentina (1)
* Australia (4)
* Austria (12)
* Belgium (5)
* Bulgaria (12)
* Canada (3)
* Cuba (2)
* Czechoslovakia (12)
* Finland (12)
* France (12)
* United Team of Germany (12)
* Great Britain (12)
* Hungary (12)
* Israel (3)
* Italy (12)
* Japan (12)
* South Korea (2)
* Luxembourg (8)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (6)
* Netherlands (6)
* Norway (1)
* Poland (12)
* Portugal (4)
* Romania (6)
* South Africa (1)
* Soviet Union (12)
* Spain (12)
* Sweden (12)
* Switzerland (6)
* United Arab Republic (6)
* United States (12)
* Yugoslavia (9)