1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Host City Praha
Country TCH
Held 3 – 8 July 1962
Competitors 40
Countries 7

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Individual All-Around Men Medal 3 2
Floor Exercise Men Medal 3 2
Vault Men Medal 4 3
Parallel Bars Men Medal 3 3
Horizontal Bar Men Medal 3 2
Rings Men Medal 3 2
Pommelled Horse Men Medal 4 4
Team All-Around Men Medal 18 3
Individual All-Around Women Medal 3 2
Floor Exercise Women Medal 3 2
Vault Women Medal 3 2
Uneven Bars Women Medal 3 2
Balance Beam Women Medal 4 4
Team All-Around Women Medal 18 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 6 8 5 19
2 Japan JPN 4 4 5 13
3 Czechoslovakia TCH 3 3 2 8
4 Yugoslavia YUG 2 0 0 2
5 China CHN 0 0 1 1
= Hungary HUN 0 0 1 1
= Italy ITA 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Individual All-Around, Men Yury Titov URS Yukio Endo JPN Boris Shakhlin URS
Floor Exercise, Men Nobuyuki Aihara
Yukio Endo
JPN
JPN
Franco Menichelli ITA
Vault, Men Přemysl Krbec TCH Haruhiro Yamashita JPN Boris Shakhlin
Yukio Endo
URS
JPN
Parallel Bars, Men Miroslav Cerar YUG Boris Shakhlin URS Yukio Endo JPN
Horizontal Bar, Men Takashi Ono JPN Yukio Endo
Pavel Stolbov
JPN
URS
Rings, Men Yury Titov URS Yukio Endo
Boris Shakhlin
JPN
URS
Pommelled Horse, Men Miroslav Cerar YUG Boris Shakhlin URS Takashi Mitsukuri
Yu Lifeng
JPN
CHN
Team All-Around, Men Japan JPN Soviet Union URS Czechoslovakia TCH
Individual All-Around, Women Larisa Latynina URS Věra Čáslavská TCH Irina Pervushina URS
Floor Exercise, Women Larisa Latynina URS Irina Pervushina URS Věra Čáslavská TCH
Vault, Women Věra Čáslavská TCH Larisa Latynina URS Tamara Manina URS
Uneven Bars, Women Irina Pervushina URS Eva Bosáková TCH Larisa Latynina URS
Balance Beam, Women Eva Bosáková TCH Larisa Latynina URS Keiko Ikeda
Anikó Ducza
JPN
HUN
Team All-Around, Women Soviet Union URS Czechoslovakia TCH Japan JPN