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1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Gymnastics competition
Field Value name 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships location West Germany Dortmund, West Germany prev [1962](1962-world-artistic-gymnastics-championships) next [1970](1970-world-artistic-gymnastics-championships)
The 16th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Dortmund, West Germany, in 1966. During these championships, new elements were performed including a full-twisting piked dismount from high bar, a layout with full turn (rings), and a double somersault.
Results
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 Shuji Tsurumi Akinori Nakayama Takeshi Katō Yukio Endo Takashi Mitsukuri Haruhiro Matsuda Mikhail Voronin Sergei Diomidov Valery Kerdemelidi Yuri Titov Valery Karasev Boris Shakhlin Matthias Brehme Gerhard Dietrich Werner Dolling Erwin Koppe Siegfried Fulle Peter Weber URS Mikhail Voronin JPN Shuji Tsurumi JPN Akinori Nakayama JPN Akinori Nakayama JPN Yukio Endo ITA Franco Menichelli YUG Miroslav Cerar URS Mikhail Voronin JPN Takeshi Katō URS Mikhail Voronin JPN Akinori Nakayama ITA Franco Menichelli JPN Haruhiro Matsuda JPN Takeshi Katō JPN Akinori Nakayama URS Sergei Diomidov URS Mikhail Voronin YUG Miroslav Cerar JPN Akinori Nakayama JPN Yukio Endo JPN Takashi Mitsukuri **Women** Věra Čáslavská Jaroslava Sedláčková Marianna Krajčírová Jana Kubičková Bohumila Řimnáčová Jindra Košťálová Natalia Kuchinskaya Larisa Petrik Zinaida Druzhinina Larisa Latynina Polina Astakhova Olga Kharlova Keiko Ikeda Taki Shibuya Hiroko Ikenada Taniko Mitsukuri Yasuko Furuyama Mitsuko Kandori TCH Věra Čáslavská URS Natalia Kuchinskaya JPN Keiko Ikeda TCH Věra Čáslavská GDR Erika Zuchold URS Natalia Kuchinskaya URS Natalia Kuchinskaya JPN Keiko Ikeda JPN Taniko Mitsukuri URS Natalia Kuchinskaya TCH Věra Čáslavská URS Larisa Petrik URS Natalia Kuchinskaya TCH Věra Čáslavská URS Zinaida Druzhinina
Men
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** 287.850 287.300 **575.150** **Soviet Union** 285.900 285.000 **570.900** **East Germany** 278.800 282.200 **561.000** Czechoslovakia 275.800 275.400 **551.200** Poland 274.200 276.400 **550.600** United States 273.850 276.550 **550.400** Yugoslavia 271.400 276.750 **548.150** West Germany 273.200 274.800 **548.000** Italy 273.450 272.550 **546.000** France 272.350 272.900 **545.250** Finland 267.750 273.750 **541.700** Sweden 270.600 270.500 **541.100** Hungary 262.150 268.100 **530.250** Norway 258.100 266.850 **524.950** Cuba 256.850 257.350 **514.200** Spain 252.350 259.300 **511.650** Great Britain 253.850 255.200 **509.050** Canada 243.800 254.950 **498.750** Austria 242.550 250.100 **492.650** New Zealand 212.050 217.100 **429.150**
All-around
Rank Gymnast Compulsory Optional score Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Mikhail Voronin 57.900 58.250 **116.150** Shuji Tsurumi 57.750 57.500 **115.250** Akinori Nakayama 57.000 57.960 **114.950** Miroslav Cerar 57.150 57.600 **114.750** Franco Menichelli 57.200 57.450 **114.650** Takashi Kato 57.150 57.450 **114.600** Yukio Endo 57.550 56.800 **114.350** Takashi Mitsukuri 57.100 57.000 **114.100** Matthias Brehme 56.750 57.300 **114.050** Haruhiro Matsuda 57.250 56.600 **113.850** Sergei Diomidov 57.600 55.650 **113.250** Valery Kerdemelidi 56.450 56.450 **112.900**
Floor Exercise
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Akinori Nakayama 9.750 9.650 **19.400** Yukio Endo 9.700 9.675 **19.375** Franco Menichelli 9.650 9.650 **19.300** Takeshi Katō 9.650 9.575 **19.225** Valery Karasyov 9.450 9.550 **19.000** Shuji Tsurumi 9.300 9.575 **18.875**
Pommel Horse
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Miroslav Cerar 9.800 9.725 **19.525** Mikhail Voronin 9.700 9.625 **19.325** Takeshi Katō 9.600 9.525 **19.125** Matthias Brehme 9.500 9.525 **19.025** Shuji Tsurumi 9.500 9.500 **19.000** Olli Laiho 9.250 9.550 **18.800**
Rings
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Mikhail Voronin 9.900 9.850 **19.750** Akinori Nakayama 9.750 9.750 **19.500** Franco Menichelli 9.800 9.675 **19.475** Takeshi Katō 9.650 9.650 **19.300** Sergei Diomidov 9.550 9.650 **19.200** Shuji Tsurumi 3.000 9.650 **12.650**
Vault
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Haruhiro Matsuda 9.675 9.750 **19.425** Takeshi Katō 9.650 9.675 **19.325** Akinori Nakayama 9.500 9.550 **19.050** Yukio Endo 9.125 9.575 **18.700** Mikhail Voronin 9.100 9.550 **18.650** Shuji Tsurumi 0.000 9.600 **9.600**
Parallel Bars
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Sergei Diamidov 9.750 9.800 **19.550** Mikhail Voronin 9.700 9.700 **19.400** Miroslav Cerar 9.700 9.650 **19.350** Franco Menichelli 9.600 9.625 **19.225** Matthias Brehme 9.600 9.600 **19.200** Shuji Tsurumi 0.000 9.625 **9.625**
Horizontal Bar
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 4 6 Akinori Nakayama 9.900 9.775 **19.675** Yukio Endo 9.800 9.800 **19.600** Takashi Mitsukuri 9.700 9.725 **19.425** Miroslav Cerar 9.700 9.700 **19.400** Mikhail Voronin 9.700 9.700 **19.400** Shuji Tsurumi 0.000 9.675 **9.675**
Women
Team competition
Rank Team Compulsory Optional Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 **Czechoslovakia** 190.995 192.630 **383.625** **Soviet Union** 191.358 192.229 **383.587** **Japan** 190.894 190.029 **380.923** East Germany 187.494 190.324 **377.818** Hungary 186.527 187.362 **373.889** United States 182.360 185.260 **367.620** France 183.193 183.225 **366.418** Bulgaria 182.694 183.661 **366.355** Sweden 181.429 181.662 **363.091** West Germany 181.093 181.859 **362.952** Poland 180.526 182.394 **362.920** Norway 173.127 179.962 **252.089** Yugoslavia 174.125 175.528 **349.653** Netherlands 172.660 176.328 **348.988** Canada 173.461 172.693 **346.154** Israel 168.662 174.660 **343.322** Great Britain 165.293 173.360 **338.653** New Zealand 168.459 169.893 **338.352** South Africa 168.693 166.761 **335.454** Cuba 168.894 165.026 **333.920** Finland 166.061 166.295 **332.356** Austria 161.228 168.825 **330.053**
All-around
Rank Gymnast Compulsory Optional score Total 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Věra Čáslavská 39.032 39.266 **78.298** Natalia Kuchinskaya 38.865 39.232 **78.097** Keiko Ikeda 38.599 38.398 **76.997** Erika Zuchold 38.265 38.331 **76.596** Jaroslava Sedláčková 38.099 38.366 **76.465** Larisa Petrik 37.966 38.400 **76.366** Marianna Némethová-Krajčírová 37.999 38.222 **76.332** Jana Kubičková 37.933 38.299 **76.232** Taki Shibuya 38.232 37.933 **76.165** Zinaida Druzhinina 37.831 38.333 **76.164** Larisa Latynina 38.099 37.999 **76.098** Hiroko Ikenada 38.266 37.733 **75.999**
Vault
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Věra Čáslavská 9.783 9.750 **19.583** Erika Zuchold 9.733 9.666 **19.399** Natalia Kuchinskaya 9.666 9.650 **19.316** Ute Starke 9.666 9.550 **19.216** Jana Kubičková 9.633 9.566 **19.199** Hiroko Ikenada 9.600 9.550 **19.150**
Uneven Bars
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Natalia Kuchinskaya 9.800 9.816 **19.616** Keiko Ikeda 9.766 9.800 **19.566** Taniko Mitsukuri 9.800 9.716 **19.516** Věra Čáslavská 9.666 9.816 **19.482** Polina Astakhova 9.700 9.716 **19.146** Taki Shibuya 9.600 9.733 **19.333**
Balance Beam
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Natalia Kuchinskaya 9.900 9.750 **19.650** Věra Čáslavská 9.600 9.733 **19.333** Larisa Petrik 9.600 9.650 **19.250** Keiko Ikeda 9.700 9.533 **19.233** Anikó Ducza-Jánosi 9.633 9.600 **19.233** Jaroslava Sedláčková 9.600 9.583 **19.183**
Floor Exercise
Rank Gymnast Score Prelim score Total 4 5 6 Natalia Kuchinskaya 9.900 9.833 **19.733** Věra Čáslavská 9.833 9.850 **19.683** Zinaida Druzhinina 9.933 9.733 **19.666** Larisa Petrik 9.766 9.650 **19.416** Jana Kubičková 9.700 9.663 **19.363** Yasuko Furuyama 9.666 9.650 **19.316**
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