World Gymnastics Championships 1966

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The 16th World Gymnastics Championships took place from 21. – 25. September 1966 in the Westfalenhalle in Dortmund and thus for the first time on German soil.

Attendees

Results

Men

All-around

rank athlete Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin 116,150
2. JapanJapan Shūji Tsurumi 115,250
3. JapanJapan Akinori Nakayama 114,950

team

rank team Points
1. JapanJapan Japan 575.150
2. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 570,900
3. Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 561,000
...
8th. Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 548,000
19th AustriaAustria Austria 492,650

ground

rank athlete Points
1. JapanJapan Akinori Nakayama 19,400
2. JapanJapan Yukio Endo 19,375
3. ItalyItaly Franco Menichelli 19,300

Horizontal bar

rank athlete Points
1. JapanJapan Akinori Nakayama 19,675
2. JapanJapan Yukio Endo 19,600
3. JapanJapan Takashi Mitsukuri 19,425

Ingots

rank athlete Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sergei Diamidov 19,550
2. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin 19,400
3. Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Miroslav Cerar 19,350
...
5. Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Matthias Brehme 19,200

Pommel horse

rank athlete Points
1. Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Miroslav Cerar 19,525
2. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin 19,325
3. JapanJapan Takeshi Kato 19,125
4th Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Mathias Brehme 19,025

Rings

rank athlete Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Mikhail Voronin 19,750
2. JapanJapan Akinori Nakayama 19,500
3. ItalyItaly Franco Menichelli 19,475

Leap

rank athlete Points
1. JapanJapan Haruhiro Matsuda 19,425
2. JapanJapan Takeshi Kato 19,325
3. JapanJapan Akinori Nakayama 19,050

Women

All-around

rank Athlete Points
1. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská 78,298
2. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya 78.097
3. JapanJapan Keiko Ikeda 76,997
4th Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Erika Zuchold 76,596

team

rank team Gymnasts Points
1. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská
Jaroslava Sedláčková
Maria Krajčírová
Jana Kubičková
Bohumila Řimnáčová
Jindra Košťálová 		383.625
2. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union Natalja Kutschinskaja
Larissa Petrik
Sinaida Drushinina
Larissa Latynina
Polina Astachowa
Olga Charlowa 		383,587
3. JapanJapan Japan Keiko Ikeda
Taki Shibuya
Hiroko Ikenada
Taniko Mitsukuri
Jasuko Furuyama
Mitsuko Kandori 		380,923
4th Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 377.818
...
10. Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany 362,952
22nd AustriaAustria Austria 330.053

bar

rank Athlete Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya 19,650
2. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská 19,333
3. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Larissa Petrik 19,250

ground

rank Athlete Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya 19,733
2. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská 19,683
3. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sinaida Druzhinina 19,666

Uneven bars

rank Athlete Points
1. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya 19,616
2. JapanJapan Keiko Ikeda 19,566
3. JapanJapan Takashi Mitsukuri 19,516

Leap

rank Athlete Points
1. CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Věra Čáslavská 19,616
2. Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Erika Zuchold 19,566
3. Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Natalia Kuchinskaya 19,516
4th Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Ute Starke 19,216

Medal table

rank country Gold medal.svg Silver medal.svg Bronze medal.svg total
1 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 6th 5 3 14th
2 JapanJapan Japan 4th 6th 7th 17th
3 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 3 2 - 5
4th Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 1 - 1 2
5 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic - 1 1 2
6th ItalyItaly Italy - - 2 2