Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around
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Men's artistic individual all-around at the Games of the XIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Auditorio Nacional | |||||||||
Dates | 22–24 October | |||||||||
Competitors | 117 from 28 nations | |||||||||
Winning score | 115.90 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City.[1] It was held on 22 and 24 October at the Auditorio Nacional.[2] There were 117 competitors from 28 nations.[2] Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. The event was won by Sawao Kato of Japan, the nation's second consecutive victory in the event. Kato's teammate Akinori Nakayama took bronze. Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union took silver. It was the fifth consecutive Games with a Soviet gymnast on the podium in the men's all-around and the fourth consecutive Games with a Japanese gymnast there; no gymnast from any other nation medaled in the men's all-around from 1956 to 1976. In 1960 and 1964, the two nations had taken 8 of the top 10 places both Games, with Yugoslavia's Miroslav Cerar and Italy's Franco Menichelli the only two breaking up the Japanese–Soviet dominance; this time, Menichelli did not finish all exercises and Cerar was the only person from outside the Soviet Union or Japan in the top 10 as those two nations took 9 of the top 10 places in the event.