Olympedia – Individual All-Around, Men

Individual All-Around, Men

Date	3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00
Status	Olympic
Location	West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Participants	63 from 18 countries
Format	Compulsory and optional exercise performed on all six apparatuses.

Date

3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00

Status

Olympic

Location

West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria

Participants

63 from 18 countries

Format

Compulsory and optional exercise performed on all six apparatuses.

The defending champion was Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union, and he had won the event at the 1954 World Championships, tied with his teammate Valentin Muratov. Chukarin was 35-years-old in Melbourne but came thru to defend his gold medal, narrowly defeating Japan’s Takashi Ono. Soviet Yury Titov won the bronze, with Muratov finishing fifth. Chukarin won five medals and three golds in Melbourne, bringing his career total to 11 Olympic medals, with 7 golds. Ono had competed in 1952 and his Olympic career would extend thru the 1964 Olympics. He won five medals in Melbourne, with a gold on the horizontal bar, and at Rome in 1960, he would add six medals and three golds, eventually ending his career with 13 medals and five golds.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	CEP	OEP
1	Viktor Chukarin	URS	114.25	56.80	57.45	Gold
2	Takashi Ono	JPN	114.20	56.95	57.25	Silver
3	Yury Titov	URS	113.80	56.80	57.00	Bronze
4	Masao Takemoto	JPN	113.55	56.35	57.20
5	Valentin Muratov	URS	113.30	56.90	56.40
6	Helmut Bantz	GER	112.90	56.30	56.60
7	Albert Azaryan	URS	112.55	55.55	57.00
=8	Masami Kubota	JPN	112.50	56.25	56.25
=8	Boris Shakhlin	URS	112.50	55.75	56.75
10	Nobuyuki Aihara	JPN	112.45	56.25	56.20
11	Kalevi Suoniemi	FIN	112.35	55.65	56.70
12	Shinsaku Tsukawaki	JPN	112.20	55.95	56.25
13	Ferdinand Daniš	TCH	111.90	56.40	55.50
14	Pavel Stolbov	URS	111.75	55.15	56.60
15	Berndt Lindfors	FIN	111.60	55.40	55.20
16	Akira Kono	JPN	111.55	55.50	56.05
17	Jack Beckner	USA	111.00	55.30	55.70
18	Josef Škvor	TCH	110.85	55.10	55.75
19	Velik Kapsazov	BUL	110.75	55.20	55.55
=20	Robert Klein	GER	110.60	55.40	55.20
=20	Martti Mansikka	FIN	110.60	55.00	55.60
22	Onni Lappalainen	FIN	110.45	54.50	55.95
23	Vladimír Kejř	TCH	110.30	55.00	55.30
24	Attila Takács	HUN	110.15	53.50	56.65
25	Theo Wied	GER	109.90	54.85	55.05
26	Zdeněk Růžička	TCH	109.65	54.80	54.85
=27	Jaroslav Mikoška	TCH	109.35	55.10	54.25
=27	Olavi Leimuvirta	FIN	109.35	54.30	55.05
29	Hans Pfann	GER	109.15	54.10	55.05
30	Josy Stoffel	LUX	109.00	54.55	54.45
31	Armando Vega	USA	108.45	53.20	55.25
=32	Raymond Dot	FRA	108.40	54.50	53.90
=32	William Thoresson	SWE	108.40	54.25	54.15
=32	Charles Simms	USA	108.40	54.05	54.35
35	Dick Beckner	USA	108.30	53.40	54.90
36	Jaroslav Bím	TCH	108.25	53.35	54.90
37	Raimo Heinonen	FIN	108.10	52.85	55.25
38	Nik Stuart	GBR	107.85	54.60	53.25
39	Abie Grossfeld	USA	107.75	53.90	53.85
40	Michel Mathiot	FRA	107.55	53.80	53.75
41	Erich Wied	GER	107.50	52.75	54.75
42	Jakob Kiefer	GER	107.45	54.15	53.30
43	Bill Tom	USA	107.35	52.65	54.70
44	János Héder	HUN	107.30	55.25	52.05
45	Stoyan Stoyanov	BUL	107.05	52.80	54.25
46	Jean Guillou	FRA	106.65	53.85	52.80
47	Mincho Todorov	BUL	106.20	52.65	53.55
48	Kurt Wigartz	SWE	106.15	52.25	53.90
49	Ed Gagnier	CAN	104.40	51.25	53.15
50	Frank Turner	GBR	103.15	51.95	51.20
51	Ronnie Lombard	RSA	100.85	50.35	50.50
52	Rafael Lecuona	CUB	100.25	49.10	51.15
53	Jack Wells	RSA	99.80	49.00	50.80
54	Graham Bond	AUS	96.40	47.65	48.75
55	David Gourlay	AUS	95.90	48.20	47.70
56	John Lees	AUS	93.05	46.10	46.95
57	Bruce Sharp	AUS	92.95	47.30	45.65
58	Brian Blackburn	AUS	91.40	47.00	44.40
59	Noel Punton	AUS	85.75	42.10	43.65
60	Hans Sauter	AUT	79.85	53.40	26.45
61	Pritam Singh	IND	77.35	39.75	37.60
62	Sham Lal	IND	77.10	35.35	41.75
63	Anant Ram	IND	65.55	35.60	29.95

Pos

Competitor(s)

NOC

Points

CEP

OEP

Viktor Chukarin

URS