1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Host City Dortmund
Country GER
Held 21 – 25 September 1966
Competitors 39
Countries 6

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
Individual All-Around Men Medal 3 2
Floor Exercise Men Medal 3 2
Vault Men Medal 3 1
Parallel Bars Men Medal 3 2
Horizontal Bar Men Medal 3 1
Rings Men Medal 3 3
Pommelled Horse Men Medal 3 3
Team All-Around Men Medal 18 3
Individual All-Around Women Medal 3 3
Floor Exercise Women Medal 3 2
Vault Women Medal 3 3
Uneven Bars Women Medal 3 2
Balance Beam Women Medal 3 2
Team All-Around Women Medal 18 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Soviet Union URS 6 5 3 14
2 Japan JPN 4 6 7 17
3 Czechoslovakia TCH 3 2 0 5
4 Yugoslavia YUG 1 0 1 2
5 East Germany GDR 0 1 1 2
6 Italy ITA 0 0 2 2

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
Individual All-Around, Men Mikhail Voronin URS Shuji Tsurumi JPN Akinori Nakayama JPN
Floor Exercise, Men Akinori Nakayama JPN Yukio Endo JPN Franco Menichelli ITA
Vault, Men Haruhiro Yamashita JPN Takeshi Kato JPN Akinori Nakayama JPN
Parallel Bars, Men Sergey Diomidov URS Mikhail Voronin URS Miroslav Cerar YUG
Horizontal Bar, Men Akinori Nakayama JPN Yukio Endo JPN Takashi Mitsukuri JPN
Rings, Men Mikhail Voronin URS Akinori Nakayama JPN Franco Menichelli ITA
Pommelled Horse, Men Miroslav Cerar YUG Mikhail Voronin URS Takeshi Kato JPN
Team All-Around, Men Japan JPN Soviet Union URS East Germany GDR
Individual All-Around, Women Věra Čáslavská TCH Nataliya Kuchinskaya URS Keiko Ikeda JPN
Floor Exercise, Women Nataliya Kuchinskaya URS Věra Čáslavská TCH Zinaida Druzhinina URS
Vault, Women Věra Čáslavská TCH Erika Zuchold GDR Nataliya Kuchinskaya URS
Uneven Bars, Women Nataliya Kuchinskaya URS Keiko Ikeda JPN Taniko Mitsukuri JPN
Balance Beam, Women Nataliya Kuchinskaya URS Věra Čáslavská TCH Larisa Petrik URS
Team All-Around, Women Czechoslovakia TCH Soviet Union URS Japan JPN