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1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Gymnastics competition
Field Value name 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships location TCH Prague, Czechoslovakia prev 1958 next 1966
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.
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. They would not rejoin until 1978.
Medallists
Team all-around Individual all-around Floor Pommel horse Rings Vault Parallel bars Horizontal bar Team all-around Individual all-around Vault Uneven bars Balance beam Floor Nobuyuki Aihara Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Takashi Ono Shuji Tsurumi Haruhiro Yamashita Valery Kerdemelidi Viktor Leontyev Viktor Lisitsky Boris Shakhlin Pavel Stolbov Yuri Titov Pavel Gajdoš Karel Klečka Přemysl Krbec Václav Kubíčka Ladislav Pazdera Jaroslav Šťastný URS Yuri Titov JPN Yukio Endo URS Boris Shakhlin JPN Nobuyuki Aihara JPN Yukio Endo none awarded ITA Franco Menichelli YUG Miroslav Cerar URS Boris Shakhlin JPN Takashi Mitsukuri CHN Yu Lifeng URS Yuri Titov JPN Yukio Endo URS Boris Shakhlin none awarded TCH Přemysl Krbec JPN Haruhiro Yamashita URS Boris Shakhlin JPN Yukio Endo YUG Miroslav Cerar URS Boris Shakhlin JPN Yukio Endo JPN Takashi Ono JPN Yukio Endo URS Pavel Stolbov none awarded Women Polina Astakhova Lidiya Ivanova Larisa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova Irina Pervuschina Eva Bosáková Věra Čáslavská Libuse Cmiralova Hana Růžičková Ludmila Švédová Adolfína Tkačíková Ginko Abukawa Keiko Ikeda Taniko Nakamura Kiyoko Ono Toshiko Shirasu Hiroko Tsuji URS Larisa Latynina TCH Věra Čáslavská URS Irina Pervuschina TCH Věra Čáslavská URS Larisa Latynina URS Tamara Manina URS Irina Pervuschina TCH Eva Bosáková URS Larisa Latynina TCH Eva Bosáková URS Larisa Latynina JPN Keiko Ikeda HUN Anikó Ducza URS Larisa Latynina URS Irina Pervuschina TCH Věra Čáslavská
Men's results
Team competition
Rank Team Compulsory Optional Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Japan 285.650 289.000 574.650 Soviet Union 285.700 287.450 573.150 Czechoslovakia 280.450 281.050 561.500 China 278.450 280.550 559.000 Italy 278.200 279.000 557.200 United States 273.650 281.600 555.250 Finland 274.250 280.650 554.900 East Germany 275.450 279.050 554.500 Switzerland 274.050 278.900 552.950 Yugoslavia 274.800 277.900 552.700 Bulgaria 275.450 276.300 551.750 Hungary 273.800 276.850 550.650 Poland 276.050 274.300 550.350 France 272.400 270.750 543.150 Sweden 269.200 272.550 541.750 West Germany 267.550 270.650 538.200 United Arab Republic 257.950 259.300 517.250 Canada 248.900 255.950 504.850 Cuba 231.500 230.250 461.750 Turkey 171.350 202.800 374.150
Individual all-around
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 11 12 Yuri Titov 115.650 Yukio Endo 115.500 Boris Shakhlin 115.200 Takashi Ono 115.150 Miroslav Cerar 114.950 Takashi Mitsukuri 114.300 Haruhiro Yamashita 114.100 Pavel Stolbov 114.000 Valery Kerdemelidi 113.850 Shuji Tsurumi 113.850 Franco Menichelli 113.600 Nobuyuki Aihara 113.450
Floor exercise
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 Nobuyuki Aihara 19.500 Yukio Endo 19.500 Franco Menichelli 19.450 Haruhiro Yamashita 19.300 Takashi Ono 19.275 Jaroslav Stastny 19.000
Pommel horse
Rank Gymnast Total 5 6 Miroslav Cerar 19.750 Boris Shakhlin 19.375 Takashi Mitsukuri 19.300 Yu Lifeng 19.300 Yuri Titov 19.275 Valery Kerdemelidi 18.400
Rings
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 Yuri Titov 19.550 Yukio Endo 19.425 Boris Shakhlin 19.425 Nobuyuki Aihara 19.250 Viktor Leontyev 19.225 Miroslav Cerar 19.200
Vault
Rank Gymnast Total 5 6 Přemysl Krbec 19.550 Haruhiro Yamashita 19.350 Boris Shakhlin 19.225 Yukio Endo 19.225 Takashi Ono 19.175 Siegfried Fülle 19.075
Parallel Bars
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 Miroslav Cerar 19.625 Boris Shakhlin 19.600 Yukio Endo 19.500 Haruhiro Yamashita 19.375 Takashi Ono 19.250 Valery Kerdemelidi 19.125
Horizontal Bar
Rank Gymnast Total 4 4 6 Takashi Ono 19.675 Yukio Endo 19.625 Pavel Stolbov 19.625 Takashi Mitsukuri 19.500 Yuri Titov 19.500 Miroslav Cerar 19.425
Women's results
Team competition
Rank Team Compulsory Optional Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Soviet Union 190.461 194.527 384.988 Czechoslovakia 188.562 194.028 382.590 Japan 186.861 192.662 379.523 Hungary 185.562 192.228 377.790 East Germany 184.626 190.660 375.286 China 183.795 189.193 372.988 Poland 181.726 190.161 371.887 United States 179.926 188.426 368.352 Romania 180.859 186.061 366.920 Sweden 181.194 185.661 366.855 Yugoslavia 179.228 183.526 362.754 France 179.262 182.661 361.923 West Germany 175.226 179.692 354.918 Finland 171.262 180.860 352.122 Israel 170.495 175.494 345.989 Canada 160.693 170.292 330.985 Cuba 137.095 154.727 291.822
Individual all-around
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Larisa Latynina 78.030 Věra Čáslavská 77.732 Irina Pervuschina 77.465 Eva Bosáková 76.898 Tamara Manina 76.865 Keiko Ikeda 76.832 Ingrid Föst 76.631 Polina Astakhova 76.330 Judith Hamori 76.264 Toshiko Shirasu 76.064 Kiyoko Ono 75.965 Natalia Kot 75.931
Vault
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 Věra Čáslavská 19.649 Larisa Latynina 19.632 Tamara Manina 19.549 Birgit Radochla 19.483 Ingrid Föst 19.466 Irina Pervuschina 19.433
Uneven bars
Rank Gymnast Total 4 5 6 Irina Pervuschina 19.566 Eva Bosáková 19.466 Larisa Latynina 19.449 Polina Astakhova 19.399 Věra Čáslavská 19.366 Katalin Makray 19.316
Balance beam
Rank Gymnast Total 5 6 Eva Bosáková 19.499 Larisa Latynina 19.416 Keiko Ikeda 19.366 Anikó Ducza 19.366 Věra Čáslavská 19.333 Irina Pervuschina 19.250
Floor exercise
Rank Gymnast Total 4 4 6 Larisa Latynina 19.716 Irina Pervuschina 19.616 Věra Čáslavská 19.550 Polina Astakhova 19.466 Eva Bosáková 19.466 Toshiko Shirasu 19.416
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