Gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

This was the 11th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Seven of the top 11 (including three-way tie for 9th) gymnasts from 1960 returned: joint gold medalists Takashi Ono of Japan and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, fifth-place finisher Yukio Endo, sixth-place finisher Shuji Tsurumi, and eighth-place finisher Takashi Mitsukuri of Japan, and ninth-place finishers Franco Menichelli and Giovanni Carminucci of Italy. Ono had also taken bronze in 1952, Titov had taken bronze in 1956, and Shakhlin had finished fourth in 1956. The reigning (1962) world champion was Přemysl Krbec of Czechoslovakia, with Haruhiro Yamashita of Japan second and Endo and Shakhlin tied for third.[2]

Algeria, the Republic of China, Iran, Mongolia, and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's vault. The United States made its 10th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to two individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score. The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004).

These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score; the top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals; others were ranked 7th through 130th. For the apparatus finals, the all-around score for that apparatus was multiplied by one-half then added to the final round exercise score to give a final total.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, with the final total apparatus score from 0 to 20.[2][3]

All times are Japan Standard Time (UTC+9)

Each gymnast competed in both compulsory and optional exercises, with the median scores from the four judges for the two sets of exercises were summed. This score was also used in calculating both individual all-around and team scores.

The top 6 advanced to the final for the apparatus, keeping half of their preliminary score to be added to their final score.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	​1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Haruhiro Yamashita	Japan	9.70	9.80	19.50	9.750	9.850	19.600
	Victor Lisitsky	Soviet Union	9.75	9.75	19.50	9.750	9.575	19.325
	Hannu Rantakari	Finland	9.65	9.70	19.35	9.675	9.625	19.300
4	Shuji Tsurumi	Japan	9.65	9.65	19.30	9.650	9.575	19.225
5	Boris Shakhlin	Soviet Union	9.65	9.70	19.35	9.675	9.525	19.200
6	Yukio Endo	Japan	9.75	9.65	19.40	9.700	9.375	19.075
7	Siegfried Fulle	United Team of Germany	9.65	9.65	19.30	Did not advance
	Alfred Kucharczyk	Poland	9.60	9.70	19.30	Did not advance
9	Sergey Diomidov	Soviet Union	9.60	9.65	19.25	Did not advance
	Yury Titov	Soviet Union	9.65	9.60	19.25	Did not advance
	Premysl Krbec	Czechoslovakia	9.55	9.70	19.25	Did not advance
	Walter Muller	Switzerland	9.55	9.70	19.25	Did not advance
	Nicola Prodanov	Bulgaria	9.55	9.70	19.25	Did not advance
14	Takashi Ono	Japan	9.65	9.55	19.20	Did not advance
	Wilhelm Weiler	Canada	9.50	9.70	19.20	Did not advance
16	Fritz Feuz	Switzerland	9.50	9.65	19.15	Did not advance
	Takuji Hayata	Japan	9.45	9.70	19.15	Did not advance
	Gunter Lyhs	United Team of Germany	9.55	9.65	19.15	Did not advance
19	Miroslav Cerar	Yugoslavia	9.50	9.60	19.10	Did not advance
	Rajmund Csanyi	Hungary	9.55	9.55	19.10	Did not advance
	Raimo Heinonen	Finland	9.40	9.70	19.10	Did not advance
	Klaus Koste	United Team of Germany	9.40	9.75	19.10	Did not advance
	Mikolaj Kubica	Poland	9.55	9.55	19.10	Did not advance
24	Fredy Egger	Switzerland	9.45	9.60	19.05	Did not advance
	Franco Menichelli	Italy	9.35	9.70	19.05	Did not advance
	Mitsukuri Takashi	Japan	9.50	9.55	19.05	Did not advance
	Yury Tsapenko	Soviet Union	9.50	9.55	19.05	Did not advance
28	Age Storhaug	Norway	9.45	9.55	19.00	Did not advance
	Peter Weber	United Team of Germany	9.45	9.55	19.00	Did not advance
30	Istvan Aranyos	Hungary	9.50	9.45	18.95	Did not advance
	Philipp Furst	United Team of Germany	9.40	9.55	18.95	Did not advance
	Victor Leontyev	Soviet Union	9.40	9.55	18.95	Did not advance
	Bohumil Mudrik	Czechoslovakia	9.35	9.60	18.95	Did not advance
	Makoto Sakamoto	United States	9.45	9.50	18.95	Did not advance
	Peter Sos	Hungary	9.45	9.50	18.95	Did not advance
36	Meinrad Berchtold	Switzerland	9.40	9.50	18.90	Did not advance
	Vaclav Kubicka	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.50	18.90	Did not advance
	Andras Lelkes	Hungary	9.40	9.50	18.90	Did not advance
	Georgi Mirtchev	Bulgaria	9.40	9.50	18.90	Did not advance
	Russell Mitchell	United States	9.25	9.65	18.90	Did not advance
	Frederic Orendi	Romania	9.40	9.50	18.90	Did not advance
42	Eugen Ekman	Finland	9.35	9.50	18.85	Did not advance
	Gottlieb Fassler	Switzerland	9.40	9.45	18.85	Did not advance
	Olli Laiho	Finland	9.45	9.40	18.85	Did not advance
	John Mulhall	Great Britain	9.45	9.40	18.85	Did not advance
	Aleksander Rokosa	Poland	9.45	9.40	18.85	Did not advance
	Gheorghe Tohaneanu	Romania	9.35	9.50	18.85	Did not advance
48	Pavel Gajdos	Czechoslovakia	9.35	9.45	18.80	Did not advance
	Velik Kapsasov	Bulgaria	9.30	9.50	18.80	Did not advance
	Alojz Petrovic	Yugoslavia	9.35	9.45	18.80	Did not advance
	Arthur Shurlock	United States	9.35	9.45	18.80	Did not advance
	Alexandru Szilagyi	Romania	9.20	9.60	18.80	Did not advance
	Gregor Weiss	United States	9.30	9.50	18.80	Did not advance
54	Larry Banner	United States	9.30	9.45	18.75	Did not advance
	Michel Bouchonnet	France	9.25	9.50	18.75	Did not advance
	Ivan Caklec	Yugoslavia	9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
	Giovanni Carminucci	Italy	9.25	9.50	18.75	Did not advance
	Liuben Christov	Bulgaria	9.40	9.35	18.75	Did not advance
	Luigi Cimnaghi	Italy	9.25	9.50	18.75	Did not advance
	Anton Kadar	Romania	9.30	9.45	18.75	Did not advance
	Karel Klecka	Czechoslovakia	9.20	9.55	18.75	Did not advance
	Erwin Koppe	United Team of Germany	9.40	9.35	18.75	Did not advance
	Wilhelm Kubica	Poland	9.50	9.25	18.75	Did not advance
	Gilbert Larose	Canada	9.25	9.50	18.75	Did not advance
	Martin Srot	Yugoslavia	9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
	Josy Stoffel	Luxembourg	9.30	9.45	18.75	Did not advance
	William Thoresson	Sweden	9.30	9.45	18.75	Did not advance
	Harald Wigaard	Norway	9.30	9.45	18.75	Did not advance
69	Todor Batchvarov	Bulgaria	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Pasquale Carminucci	Italy	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Bernard Fauqueux	France	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Otto Kestola	Finland	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Lee Kwang Jae	South Korea	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Stig Lindevall	Sweden	9.25	9.45	18.70	Did not advance
	Petre Miclaus	Romania	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
	Niamdawaa Zagdbazar	Mongolia	9.25	9.45	18.70	Did not advance
77	Franz Fah	Switzerland	9.20	9.45	18.65	Did not advance
	Andres Gonzalez	Cuba	9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
	Kang Soo Il	South Korea	9.10	9.55	18.65	Did not advance
	Richard Kihn	Canada	9.20	9.45	18.65	Did not advance
	Leif Koorn	Sweden	9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
	Mohamed Lazhari	Algeria	9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
	Angelo Vicardi	Italy	9.25	9.40	18.65	Did not advance
84	Jan Jankowicz	Poland	9.30	9.30	18.60	Did not advance
	Octavio Suarez	Cuba	9.25	9.35	18.60	Did not advance
86	Bruno Franceschetti	Italy	9.15	9.40	18.55	Did not advance
	Christian Guiffroy	France	9.25	9.30	18.55	Did not advance
	Héctor Ramírez	Cuba	9.25	9.30	18.55	Did not advance
	Benjamin de Roo	Australia	9.30	9.25	18.55	Did not advance
90	Gheorghe Condovici	Romania	9.15	9.35	18.50	Did not advance
	Kim Choong Tai	South Korea	9.25	9.25	18.50	Did not advance
	Todor Kondev	Bulgaria	9.30	9.20	18.50	Did not advance
	John Pancott	Great Britain	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
	Carlos Pizzini	Argentina	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
95	Ronald Barak	United States	9.15	9.30	18.45	Did not advance
	Janez Brodnik	Yugoslavia	9.15	9.30	18.45	Did not advance
	Kauko Heikkinen	Finland	9.10	9.35	18.45	Did not advance
	Andrzej Konopka	Poland	9.20	9.25	18.45	Did not advance
	Suh Jae Kyu	South Korea	9.00	9.45	18.45	Did not advance
100	Ladislav Pazdera	Czechoslovakia	9.10	9.30	18.40	Did not advance
	Frederick Trainer	Australia	9.05	9.35	18.40	Did not advance
	Lajos Varga	Hungary	9.15	9.25	18.40	Did not advance
103	Jalal Bazargan	Iran	9.05	9.30	18.35	Did not advance
	Graham Bond	Australia	9.30	9.05	18.35	Did not advance
105	Gyozo Cser	Hungary	9.00	9.30	18.30	Did not advance
106	Barry Cheales	Australia	9.15	9.10	18.25	Did not advance
	Chung Yi Kwang	South Korea	9.30	8.95	18.25	Did not advance
	Kim Kwang Duk	South Korea	8.90	9.35	18.25	Did not advance
109	Jan Thai San	Republic of China	9.25	8.90	18.15	Did not advance
	Felix Padron	Cuba	9.05	9.10	18.15	Did not advance
	Nenad Vidovic	Yugoslavia	8.85	9.30	18.15	Did not advance
112	Lai Chu Long	Republic of China	9.00	9.10	18.10	Did not advance
113	Ady Stefanetti	Luxembourg	8.85	9.20	18.05	Did not advance
114	D. Mondal	India	8.90	9.00	17.90	Did not advance
	Wang Shian Ming	Republic of China	9.00	8.90	17.90	Did not advance
116	Carlos Garcia	Cuba	8.65	9.20	17.85	Did not advance
	Pablo Hernandez	Cuba	9.10	8.75	17.85	Did not advance
	Douglas McLennon	Australia	8.95	8.90	17.85	Did not advance
119	Trilok Singh	India	8.70	9.10	17.80	Did not advance
120	Marcus Faulks	Australia	9.25	8.45	17.70	Did not advance
121	Liuh Reng Suhn	Republic of China	8.95	8.70	17.65	Did not advance
122	Uih Yah Torh	Republic of China	8.55	9.00	17.55	Did not advance
123	Lee Bu Ti	Republic of China	9.20	8.10	17.30	Did not advance
124	Vithal Karande	India	8.80	8.40	17.20	Did not advance
125	Y. More	India	8.65	8.50	17.15	Did not advance
126	B. Bhosle	India	7.90	8.75	16.65	Did not advance
127	Mohamed Ibrahim	Egypt	9.20	—	9.20	Did not advance
128	Fortunato Payao	Philippines	7.50	—	7.50	Did not advance
129	Demetrio Pastrana	Philippines	5.00	—	5.00	Did not advance
130	Anand Ram	India	—	—	0.00	Did not advance

• Tokyo Organizing Committee (1964). The Games of the XVIII Olympiad: Tokyo 1964, vol. 2.