The men's pommel horse was a gymnastics event contested as part of the Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics programme at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium. 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 Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia, the nation's first medal in the pommel horse. Silver went to Shuji Tsurumi of Japan, the third man to win multiple medals in the event (adding to his 1960 bronze). Yury Tsapenko of the Soviet Union took bronze, breaking a three-Games gold medal streak for the Soviets.

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). All six finalists from 1960 returned: joint gold medalists Eugen Ekman of Finland and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union (who had also won gold in 1956), bronze medalist Shuji Tsurumi of Japan, fourth-place finisher Takashi Mitsukuri of Japan, fifth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, and sixth-place finisher Takashi Ono of Japan. Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia was the reigning (1962) world champion; Shakhlin had finished second and Mitsukuri third.

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, and Mongolia each made their debut in the men's pommel horse. 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.Official Report, vol. 2, p. 362.

Schedule

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Date Time Round Sunday, 18 October 1964 8:3017:00 Preliminary: Compulsory Tuesday, 20 October 1964 8:3017:00 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 Compulsory Voluntary Total Prelim. Final Total Miroslav Cerar 9.70 9.75 19.45 9.725 9.800 19.525 Shuji Tsurumi 9.55 9.70 19.25 9.625 9.700 19.325 Yury Tsapenko 9.55 9.55 19.10 9.550 9.650 19.2004 Yamashita Haruhiro 9.50 9.65 19.15 9.575 9.500 19.0755 Harald Wigaard 9.50 9.55 19.05 9.525 9.400 18.9256 Mitsukuri Takashi 9.65 9.65 19.30 9.650 9.000 18.6507 Takuji Hayata 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance Takashi Ono 9.50 9.40 18.90 Did not advance Boris Shakhlin 9.45 9.45 18.90 Did not advance10 Arthur Shurlock 9.30 9.55 18.85 Did not advance11 Siegfried Fulle 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance Kim Choong Tai 9.45 9.35 18.80 Did not advance Franco Menichelli 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance14 Sergey Diomidov 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance Victor Lisitsky 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance Age Storhaug 9.45 9.30 18.75 Did not advance17 Luigi Cimnaghi 9.30 9.40 18.70 Did not advance Eugen Ekman 9.45 9.25 18.70 Did not advance Endo Yukio 9.60 9.10 18.70 Did not advance Mikolaj Kubica 9.50 9.20 18.70 Did not advance Victor Leontyev 9.40 9.20 18.70 Did not advance22 Philipp Furst 9.15 9.50 18.65 Did not advance Kauko Heikkinen 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance Walter Muller 9.35 9.30 18.65 Did not advance25 Erwin Koppe 9.20 9.40 18.60 Did not advance Bohumil Mudrik 9.20 9.40 18.60 Did not advance Yuri Titov 9.45 9.15 18.60 Did not advance28 Istvan Aranyos 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance Liuben Christov 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance Rajmund Csanyi 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance Fritz Feuz 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance Pavel Gajdos 9.10 9.45 18.55 Did not advance Christian Guiffroy 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance Klaus Köste 9.20 9.35 18.55 Did not advance Frederic Orendi 9.20 9.35 18.55 Did not advance36 Raimo Heinonen 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance Makoto Sakamoto 9.25 9.25 18.50 Did not advance Angelo Vicardi 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance39 Russell Mitchell 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance40 Wilhelm Kubica 9.35 9.05 18.40 Did not advance Ladislav Pazdera 9.05 9.35 18.40 Did not advance Nicola Prodanov 9.20 9.20 18.40 Did not advance Peter Weber 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance44 Suh Jae Kyu 9.15 9.20 18.35 Did not advance45 Larry Banner 9.35 8.95 18.30 Did not advance Bruno Franceschetti 9.05 9.25 18.30 Did not advance Olli Laiho 9.50 8.80 18.30 Did not advance Josy Stoffel 9.20 9.10 18.30 Did not advance Nenad Vidovic 9.20 9.10 18.30 Did not advance50 Pasquale Carminucci 9.05 9.20 18.25 Did not advance Fredy Egger 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance Richard Kihn 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance Hannu Rantakari 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance54 Michel Bouchonnet 9.00 9.20 18.20 Did not advance Giovanni Carminucci 8.90 9.30 18.20 Did not advance Bernard Fauqueux 9.15 9.05 18.20 Did not advance Leif Koorn 9.25 8.95 18.20 Did not advance Alfred Kucharczyk 9.05 9.15 18.20 Did not advance Alojz Petrovic 9.35 8.85 18.20 Did not advance60 Todor Batchvarov 9.00 9.15 18.15 Did not advance Ivan Caklec 9.00 9.15 18.15 Did not advance Gottlieb Fassler 9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance Velik Kapsasov 9.00 9.15 18.15 Did not advance Todor Kondev 9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance Georgi Mirtchev 9.20 8.95 18.15 Did not advance Lajos Varga 9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance67 Ronald Barak 9.10 9.00 18.10 Did not advance Aleksander Rokosa 9.35 8.75 18.10 Did not advance69 Janez Brodnik 9.00 9.05 18.05 Did not advance Petre Miclaus 9.10 8.95 18.05 Did not advance Gregor Weiss 9.25 8.80 18.05 Did not advance72 Otto Kestola 8.90 9.10 18.00 Did not advance Mohamed Lazhari 9.05 8.95 18.00 Did not advance Gunter Lyhs 8.80 9.20 18.00 Did not advance Gheorghe Tohaneanu 9.00 9.00 18.00 Did not advance76 Gheorghe Condovici 8.80 9.15 17.95 Did not advance Karel Klecka 8.75 9.20 17.95 Did not advance78 Kim Kwang Duk 9.00 8.85 17.85 Did not advance Andras Lelkes 9.05 8.80 17.85 Did not advance80 Franz Fah 8.90 8.90 17.80 Did not advance Octavio Suarez 9.00 8.80 17.80 Did not advance82 Lee Kwang Jae 9.35 8.40 17.75 Did not advance83 Anton Kadar 9.20 8.50 17.70 Did not advance Alexandru Szilagyi 8.95 8.75 17.70 Did not advance85 Jan Jankowicz 9.05 8.50 17.55 Did not advance Martin Srot 8.40 9.15 17.55 Did not advance87 Gyozo Cser 8.80 8.70 17.50 Did not advance William Thoresson 8.95 8.55 17.50 Did not advance89 Frederick Trainer 8.60 8.85 17.45 Did not advance90 Vaclav Kubicka 8.95 8.45 17.40 Did not advance91 Stig Lindevall 8.80 8.50 17.30 Did not advance92 Chung Yi Kwang 8.15 9.10 17.25 Did not advance Niamdawaa Zagdbazar 8.70 8.55 17.25 Did not advance94 Andrzej Konopka 9.20 8.00 17.20 Did not advance95 Wilhelm Weiler 8.45 8.65 17.10 Did not advance96 Graham Bond 8.50 8.55 17.05 Did not advance Peter Sos 8.90 8.15 17.05 Did not advance98 Premysl Krbec 7.80 9.15 16.95 Did not advance99 Meinrad Berchtold 7.70 9.20 16.90 Did not advance Andres Gonzalez 8.80 8.10 16.90 Did not advance101 Felix Padron 8.75 8.10 16.85 Did not advance Carlos Pizzini 8.70 8.15 16.85 Did not advance103 John Pancott 8.10 8.60 16.70 Did not advance104 Gilbert Larose 8.80 7.85 16.65 Did not advance105 Douglas McLennon 7.85 8.70 16.55 Did not advance106 Marcus Faulks 8.15 7.75 15.90 Did not advance107 Benjamin de Roo 8.15 7.70 15.85 Did not advance108 Jan Thai San 8.10 7.70 15.80 Did not advance109 Héctor Ramírez 8.10 7.50 15.60 Did not advance110 Kang Soo Il 7.75 7.65 15.40 Did not advance111 Pablo Hernandez 7.95 7.40 15.35 Did not advance John Mulhall 8.00 7.35 15.35 Did not advance113 Jalal Bazargan 7.55 7.60 15.15 Did not advance114 Ady Stefanetti 6.35 8.45 14.80 Did not advance115 Anant Ram 7.20 7.45 14.65 Did not advance116 Lai Chu Long 7.00 7.60 14.60 Did not advance117 Barry Cheales 6.95 7.35 14.30 Did not advance118 B. Bhosle 7.45 6.45 13.90 Did not advance119 Lee Bu Ti 6.50 6.90 13.40 Did not advance120 Carlos Garcia 7.75 5.40 13.15 Did not advance121 Y. More 6.90 5.90 12.80 Did not advance122 Vithal Karande 6.60 5.70 12.30 Did not advance123 Trilok Singh 6.85 5.00 11.85 Did not advance124 Wang Shian Ming 5.50 4.50 10.00 Did not advance125 Uih Yah Torh 5.05 3.75 8.80 Did not advance126 Mohamed Ibrahim 8.25 — 8.25 Did not advance127 D. Mondal 7.30 — 7.30 Did not advance128 Liuh Reng Suhn 3.50 3.00 6.50 Did not advance — Demetrio Pastrana Did not advance Fortunato Payao Did not advance

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