Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar
November 11, 2023
The men's horizontal bar competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the seventh appearance of the event.[1] There were 121 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Josef Stalder of Switzerland, with his countryman Walter Lehmann taking silver. It was the nation's second victory in the event (after 1928), tying the United States for most all-time. Veikko Huhtanen of Finland earned bronze, giving Finland a three-Games podium streak in the event.
This was the seventh 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). Two of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: gold medalist Aleksanteri Saarvala and fifth-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland. Savolainen was competing in his fourth Olympics; he had placed 13th in 1928 and won the silver medal in 1932. The reigning world champion, Michael Reusch of Switzerland, had won that title in 1938; he was still competing and a serious contender (taking gold in the parallel bars in London).[2]
Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its sixth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.
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The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested.
For each exercise, four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total. If the two scores were sufficiently far apart, the judges would "confer" and decide on a score. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20, apparatus scores from 0 to 40, individual totals from 0 to 240, and team scores from 0 to 1,440.[3]
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The men s horizontal bar competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August It was the seventh appearance of the event 1 There were 121 competitors from 16 nations with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts The event was won by Josef Stalder of Switzerland with his countryman Walter Lehmann taking silver It was the nation s second victory in the event after 1928 tying the United States for most all time Veikko Huhtanen of Finland earned bronze giving Finland a three Games podium streak in the event Men s horizontal barat the Games of the XIV OlympiadArtistic gymnastics pictogramVenueEarls Court Exhibition CentreDates12 13 AugustCompetitors121 from 16 nationsWinning score39 7MedalistsJosef Stalder SwitzerlandWalter Lehmann SwitzerlandVeikko Huhtanen Finland 19361952 Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format 3 Schedule 4 Results 5 ReferencesBackground editThis was the seventh 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 Two of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned gold medalist Aleksanteri Saarvala and fifth place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland Savolainen was competing in his fourth Olympics he had placed 13th in 1928 and won the silver medal in 1932 The reigning world champion Michael Reusch of Switzerland had won that title in 1938 he was still competing and a serious contender taking gold in the parallel bars in London 2 Argentina Cuba Denmark and Egypt each made their debut in the men s parallel bars The United States made its sixth appearance most of any nation having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games Competition format editThe gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts Cuba and Argentina had only 7 Mexico only 5 All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus with the scores summed to give a final total The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all around scores the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all around score No separate finals were contested For each exercise four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one tenth point increments The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total If the two scores were sufficiently far apart the judges would confer and decide on a score Thus exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20 apparatus scores from 0 to 40 individual totals from 0 to 240 and team scores from 0 to 1 440 3 Schedule editAll times are British Summer Time UTC 1 Date Time RoundThursday 12 August 1948 9 00 CompulsoryFriday 13 August 1948 9 00 VoluntaryResults editRank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total nbsp Josef Stalder nbsp Switzerland 19 8 19 9 39 7 nbsp Walter Lehmann nbsp Switzerland 19 7 19 7 39 4 nbsp Veikko Huhtanen nbsp Finland 19 6 19 6 39 24 Raymond Dot nbsp France 19 3 19 5 38 8Aleksanteri Saarvala nbsp Finland 19 0 19 8 38 8Lajos Santha nbsp Hungary 19 4 19 4 38 8Emil Studer nbsp Switzerland 19 5 19 3 38 88 Einari Terasvirta nbsp Finland 19 5 19 2 38 79 Christian Kipfer nbsp Switzerland 19 2 19 4 38 6Lajos Toth nbsp Hungary 19 0 19 6 38 611 Lucien Masset nbsp France 19 3 19 2 38 512 Paavo Aaltonen nbsp Finland 18 8 19 6 38 4Michael Reusch nbsp Switzerland 19 6 18 8 38 414 Kalevi Laitinen nbsp Finland 19 1 19 0 38 115 Guido Figone nbsp Italy 19 2 18 8 38 0Sulo Salmi nbsp Finland 19 1 18 9 38 017 Zdenek Ruzicka nbsp Czechoslovakia 19 5 18 4 37 9Auguste Sirot nbsp France 18 6 19 3 37 919 Michel Mathiot nbsp France 18 5 19 3 37 820 Alphonse Anger nbsp France 19 0 18 6 37 6Pavel Benetka nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 7 18 9 37 6Andre Weingand nbsp France 18 9 18 7 37 623 Robert Lucy nbsp Switzerland 18 6 18 9 37 524 Olavi Rove nbsp Finland 18 5 18 9 37 425 Frank Cumiskey nbsp United States 18 6 18 7 37 3Luigi Zanetti nbsp Italy 19 0 18 3 37 327 Savino Guglielmetti nbsp Italy 18 9 18 3 37 2Frantisek Wirth nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 6 18 6 37 229 Heikki Savolainen nbsp Finland 19 5 17 6 37 130 Jack Flaherty nbsp Great Britain 18 0 18 9 36 931 Gyozo Mogyorosi nbsp Hungary 18 0 18 8 36 832 Karl Bohusch nbsp Austria 18 9 17 8 36 733 Danilo Fioravanti nbsp Italy 18 1 18 5 36 6Domenico Grosso nbsp Italy 18 5 18 1 36 6Miroslav Malek nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 3 18 3 36 6Ed Scrobe nbsp United States 18 8 17 8 36 6Quinto Vadi nbsp Italy 18 4 18 2 36 638 Laszlo Baranyai nbsp Hungary 17 7 18 8 36 5George Weedon nbsp Great Britain 18 1 18 4 36 540 Bill Roetzheim nbsp United States 17 8 18 6 36 441 Willi Schreyer nbsp Austria 18 8 17 3 36 142 Janos Mogyorosi Klencs nbsp Hungary 18 0 18 0 36 0Antoine Schildwein nbsp France 16 8 19 2 36 044 Konrad Grilc nbsp Yugoslavia 18 4 17 5 35 945 Ernst Wister nbsp Austria 19 3 16 5 35 846 Josip Kujundzic nbsp Yugoslavia 17 5 18 0 35 5Ray Sorensen nbsp United States 17 2 18 3 35 5Melchior Thalmann nbsp Switzerland 17 6 17 9 35 549 Vincent D Autorio nbsp United States 18 0 17 4 35 4Ettore Perego nbsp Italy 18 4 17 0 35 451 Gottfried Hermann nbsp Austria 18 0 17 1 35 152 Poul Jessen nbsp Denmark 17 2 17 8 35 053 Egidio Armelloni nbsp Italy 18 3 16 5 34 8Marcel de Wolf nbsp France 16 2 18 6 34 855 Ferenc Varkoi nbsp Hungary 16 6 18 1 34 756 Jey Kugeler nbsp Luxembourg 16 0 18 6 34 657 Ken Buffin nbsp Great Britain 17 4 17 0 34 4Hans Sauter nbsp Austria 17 5 16 9 34 459 Joe Kotys nbsp United States 17 2 16 8 34 060 Freddy Jensen nbsp Denmark 15 75 18 2 33 9561 Drago Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 17 4 16 5 33 9Vladimir Karas nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 3 16 6 33 9Miro Longyka nbsp Yugoslavia 17 4 16 5 33 9Polo Welfring nbsp Luxembourg 16 2 17 7 33 965 Jozsef Fekete nbsp Hungary 17 4 16 3 33 7Karl Frei nbsp Switzerland 15 0 18 7 33 767 Arnold Thomsen nbsp Denmark 15 5 17 8 33 368 Elkana Gronne nbsp Denmark 16 2 16 9 33 1Ferenc Pataki nbsp Hungary 14 0 19 1 33 170 Ali Zaky nbsp Egypt 17 6 15 4 33 071 William Bonsall nbsp United States 15 25 17 7 32 9572 Volmer Thomsen nbsp Denmark 16 4 16 4 32 873 Jos Bernard nbsp Luxembourg 15 0 17 0 32 074 Borge Minerth nbsp Denmark 16 8 15 1 31 975 Vilhelm Moller nbsp Denmark 14 75 17 1 31 8576 Josy Stoffel nbsp Luxembourg 14 75 16 7 31 4577 Hans Friedrich nbsp Austria 18 0 13 3 31 3Vratislav Petracek nbsp Czechoslovakia 16 0 15 3 31 379 Pierre Schmitz nbsp Luxembourg 15 0 16 2 31 2Leo Sotornik nbsp Czechoslovakia 14 0 17 2 31 281 Moustafa Abdelal nbsp Egypt 13 75 16 7 30 4582 Rene Schroeder nbsp Luxembourg 15 5 14 8 30 383 Mohamed Roushdi nbsp Egypt 14 0 16 2 30 284 Ahmed Khalaf Ali nbsp Egypt 13 75 16 3 30 0585 Arturo Amos nbsp Argentina 15 75 13 8 29 5586 Alec Wales nbsp Great Britain 12 25 17 2 29 4587 Robert Pranz nbsp Austria 13 0 16 4 29 488 Frank Turner nbsp Great Britain 13 0 16 2 29 289 Mohamed Aly nbsp Egypt 10 6 17 9 28 590 Mahmoud Abdel Aal nbsp Egypt 16 0 12 0 28 091 Menn Krecke nbsp Luxembourg 11 75 15 6 27 3592 Ivica Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 14 0 13 0 27 093 Jakob Subelj nbsp Yugoslavia 10 0 16 4 26 494 Rafael Lecuona nbsp Cuba 10 75 15 6 26 3595 Stjepan Boltizar nbsp Yugoslavia 10 5 15 6 26 196 Ahmed Khalil El Giddawi nbsp Egypt 9 5 16 0 25 597 Enrique Rapesta nbsp Argentina 10 25 14 8 25 0598 Ali El Hefnawi nbsp Egypt 10 5 13 8 24 399 Georges Wengler nbsp Luxembourg 9 25 13 9 23 15100 Gunner Olesen nbsp Denmark 6 0 16 9 22 9101 Cesar Bonoris nbsp Argentina 8 0 14 2 22 2102 Jorge Soler nbsp Argentina 8 5 12 9 21 4103 Gustav Hruby nbsp Czechoslovakia 15 3 6 0 21 3104 Pedro Lonchibuco nbsp Argentina 6 0 14 5 20 5105 Percy May nbsp Great Britain 6 0 13 5 19 5106 Baldomero Rubiera nbsp Cuba 4 5 14 5 19 0107 Fernando Lecuona nbsp Cuba 5 5 11 8 17 3108 Jorge Castro nbsp Mexico 6 0 11 0 17 0Ruben Lira nbsp Mexico 3 0 14 0 17 0110 Alejandro Diaz nbsp Cuba 5 5 11 0 16 5Roberto Villacian nbsp Cuba 5 5 11 0 16 5112 Raimundo Rey nbsp Cuba 6 25 10 0 16 25113 Karel Janez nbsp Yugoslavia 8 0 8 0 16 0114 Louis Bordo nbsp United States 15 75 15 75115 Angel Aguiar nbsp Cuba 5 5 9 0 14 5116 Roberto Nunez nbsp Argentina 5 0 9 4 14 4117 Glyn Hopkins nbsp Great Britain 5 25 8 5 13 75118 Ivor Vice nbsp Great Britain 4 5 8 5 13 0119 Dario Aguilar nbsp Mexico 2 0 6 0 8 0120 Everardo Rios nbsp Mexico 6 0 6 0Jorge Vidal nbsp Argentina 6 0 6 0References edit Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games Men s Horizontal Bar Sports Reference Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 18 October 2019 Parallel Bars Men Olympedia Retrieved 7 December 2020 Official Report p 343 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men 27s horizontal bar amp oldid 1145550000, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
