1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
LocationCzechoslovakia Prague, Czechoslovakia

The 15th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held on July 3–8, 1962 in Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia, this being the 3rd time that Prague hosted these championships.[1]

These were the last championships China competed in until 1979. Following a 1964 vote to accept Taiwan as a member nation, China withdrew from the International Gymnastics Federation in protest.[2] They would not rejoin until 1978.

Medallists

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men
Team all-around
  Japan
Nobuyuki Aihara
Yukio Endo
Takashi Mitsukuri
Takashi Ono
Shuji Tsurumi
Haruhiro Yamashita		  Soviet Union
Valery Kerdemelidi
Viktor Leontyev
Viktor Lisitsky
Boris Shakhlin
Pavel Stolbov
Yuri Titov		  Czechoslovakia
Pavel Gajdoš
Karel Klečka
Přemysl Krbec
Václav Kubíčka
Ladislav Pazdera
Jaroslav Šťastný
Individual all-around
 Soviet Union Yuri Titov Japan Yukio Endo Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin
Floor
 Japan Nobuyuki Aihara
Japan Yukio Endo		 none awarded Italy Franco Menichelli
Pommel horse
 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miroslav Cerar Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin Japan Takashi Mitsukuri
China Yu Lifeng
Rings
 Soviet Union Yuri Titov Japan Yukio Endo
Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin		 none awarded
Vault
 Czechoslovakia Přemysl Krbec Japan Haruhiro Yamashita Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin
Japan Yukio Endo
Parallel bars
 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Miroslav Cerar Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin Japan Yukio Endo
Horizontal bar
 Japan Takashi Ono Japan Yukio Endo
Soviet Union Pavel Stolbov		 none awarded
Women
Team all-around
  Soviet Union
Polina Astakhova
Lidiya Ivanova
Larisa Latynina
Tamara Manina
Sofia Muratova
Irina Pervuschina		  Czechoslovakia
Eva Bosáková
Věra Čáslavská
Libuse Cmiralova
Hana Růžičková
Ludmila Švédová
Adolfína Tkačíková		  Japan
Ginko Abukawa
Keiko Ikeda
Taniko Nakamura
Kiyoko Ono
Toshiko Shirasu
Hiroko Tsuji
Individual all-around
 Soviet Union Larisa Latynina Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská Soviet Union Irina Pervuschina
Vault
 Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská Soviet Union Larisa Latynina Soviet Union Tamara Manina
Uneven bars
 Soviet Union Irina Pervuschina Czechoslovakia Eva Bosáková Soviet Union Larisa Latynina
Balance beam
 Czechoslovakia Eva Bosáková Soviet Union Larisa Latynina Japan Keiko Ikeda
Hungary Anikó Ducza
Floor
 Soviet Union Larisa Latynina Soviet Union Irina Pervuschina Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská

Men's results

Team competition

RankTeamCompulsoryOptionalTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Japan285.650289.000574.650
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Soviet Union285.700287.450573.150
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Czechoslovakia280.450281.050561.500
4  China278.450280.550559.000
5  Italy278.200279.000557.200
6  United States273.650281.600555.250
7  Finland274.250280.650554.900
8  East Germany275.450279.050554.500
9   Switzerland274.050278.900552.950
10  Yugoslavia274.800277.900552.700
11  Bulgaria275.450276.300551.750
12  Hungary273.800276.850550.650
13  Poland276.050274.300550.350
14  France272.400270.750543.150
15  Sweden269.200272.550541.750
16  West Germany267.550270.650538.200
17  United Arab Republic257.950259.300517.250
18  Canada248.900255.950504.850
19  Cuba231.500230.250461.750
20  Turkey171.350202.800374.150

Individual all-around

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Yuri Titov (URS)115.650
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN)115.500
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Boris Shakhlin (URS)115.200
4  Takashi Ono (JPN)115.150
5  Miroslav Cerar (YUG)114.950
6  Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)114.300
7  Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)114.100
8  Pavel Stolbov (URS)114.000
9  Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)113.850
9  Shuji Tsurumi (JPN)113.850
11  Franco Menichelli (ITA)113.600
12  Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN)113.450

Floor exercise

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN)19.500
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN)19.500
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Franco Menichelli (ITA)19.450
4  Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)19.300
5  Takashi Ono (JPN)19.275
6  Jaroslav Stastny (TCH)19.000

Pommel horse

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Miroslav Cerar (YUG)19.750
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Boris Shakhlin (URS)19.375
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)19.300
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Yu Lifeng (CHN)19.300
5  Yuri Titov (URS)19.275
6  Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)18.400

Rings

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Yuri Titov (URS)19.550
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN)19.425
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Boris Shakhlin (URS)19.425
4  Nobuyuki Aihara (JPN)19.250
5  Viktor Leontyev (URS)19.225
6  Miroslav Cerar (YUG)19.200

Vault

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Přemysl Krbec (TCH)19.550
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)19.350
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Boris Shakhlin (URS)19.225
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN)19.225
5  Takashi Ono (JPN)19.175
6  Siegfried Fülle (GDR)19.075

Parallel Bars

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Miroslav Cerar (YUG)19.625
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Boris Shakhlin (URS)19.600
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN)19.500
4  Haruhiro Yamashita (JPN)19.375
5  Takashi Ono (JPN)19.250
6  Valery Kerdemelidi (URS)19.125

Horizontal Bar

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Takashi Ono (JPN)19.675
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Yukio Endo (JPN)19.625
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Pavel Stolbov (URS)19.625
4  Takashi Mitsukuri (JPN)19.500
4  Yuri Titov (URS)19.500
6  Miroslav Cerar (YUG)19.425

Women's results

Team competition

RankTeamCompulsoryOptionalTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Soviet Union190.461194.527384.988
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Czechoslovakia188.562194.028382.590
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Japan186.861192.662379.523
4  Hungary185.562192.228377.790
5  East Germany184.626190.660375.286
6  China183.795189.193372.988
7  Poland181.726190.161371.887
8  United States179.926188.426368.352
9  Romania180.859186.061366.920
10  Sweden181.194185.661366.855
11  Yugoslavia179.228183.526362.754
12  France179.262182.661361.923
13  West Germany175.226179.692354.918
14  Finland171.262180.860352.122
15  Israel170.495175.494345.989
16  Canada160.693170.292330.985
17  Cuba137.095154.727291.822

Individual all-around

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Larisa Latynina (URS)78.030
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH)77.732
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Irina Pervuschina (URS)77.465
4  Eva Bosáková (TCH)76.898
5  Tamara Manina (URS)76.865
6  Keiko Ikeda (JPN)76.832
7  Ingrid Föst (GDR)76.631
8  Polina Astakhova (URS)76.330
9  Judith Hamori (HUN)76.264
10  Toshiko Shirasu (JPN)76.064
11  Kiyoko Ono (JPN)75.965
12  Natalia Kot (POL)75.931

Vault

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH)19.649
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Larisa Latynina (URS)19.632
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Tamara Manina (URS)19.549
4  Birgit Radochla (GDR)19.483
5  Ingrid Föst (GDR)19.466
6  Irina Pervuschina (URS)19.433

Uneven bars

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Irina Pervuschina (URS)19.566
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Eva Bosáková (TCH)19.466
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Larisa Latynina (URS)19.449
4  Polina Astakhova (URS)19.399
5  Věra Čáslavská (TCH)19.366
6  Katalin Makray (HUN)19.316

Balance beam

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Eva Bosáková (TCH)19.499
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Larisa Latynina (URS)19.416
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Keiko Ikeda (JPN)19.366
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Anikó Ducza (HUN)19.366
5  Věra Čáslavská (TCH)19.333
6  Irina Pervuschina (URS)19.250

Floor exercise

RankGymnastTotal
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Larisa Latynina (URS)19.716
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Irina Pervuschina (URS)19.616
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  Věra Čáslavská (TCH)19.550
4  Polina Astakhova (URS)19.466
4  Eva Bosáková (TCH)19.466
6  Toshiko Shirasu (JPN)19.416

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Soviet Union (URS)68519
2 Japan (JPN)44513
3 Czechoslovakia (TCH)3328
4 Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)2002
5 China (People's Republic of China)0011
 Hungary (HUN)0011
 Italy (ITA)0011
Totals (7 entries)15151545

References

  1. ↑ Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 88.
  2. ↑ "China willing to rejoin federation". The Times. 15 September 1973. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
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