Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars
February 15, 2024
The men's parallel bars 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 122 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Michael Reusch of Switzerland, with his countrymen Christian Kipfer and Josef Stalder tying for bronze. Between the Swiss gymnasts was Veikko Huhtanen of Finland, taking silver. Reusch was the first man to win multiple medals in the event (and the only one to do so 12 years apart); Stalder would become the second in 1952. It was Switzerland's second victory in the event, tying Germany for most gold medals.
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). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: silver medalist Michael Reusch of Switzerland, seventh-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland, ninth-place finisher Savino Guglielmetti of Italy, and tenth-place finisher Lajos Tóth of Hungary. Reusch was the reigning world champion, though the title was 10 years old—no world championship had yet been held post-World War II, so the 1938 event was the latest.[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 parallel bars 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 122 competitors from 16 nations with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts The event was won by Michael Reusch of Switzerland with his countrymen Christian Kipfer and Josef Stalder tying for bronze Between the Swiss gymnasts was Veikko Huhtanen of Finland taking silver Reusch was the first man to win multiple medals in the event and the only one to do so 12 years apart Stalder would become the second in 1952 It was Switzerland s second victory in the event tying Germany for most gold medals Men s parallel barsat the Games of the XIV OlympiadVeikko Huhtanen competing on the ringsVenueEarls Court Exhibition CentreDates12 13 AugustCompetitors122 from 16 nationsWinning score39 5MedalistsMichael Reusch SwitzerlandVeikko Huhtanen FinlandChristian Kipfer SwitzerlandJosef Stalder Switzerland 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 Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned silver medalist Michael Reusch of Switzerland seventh place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland ninth place finisher Savino Guglielmetti of Italy and tenth place finisher Lajos Toth of Hungary Reusch was the reigning world champion though the title was 10 years old no world championship had yet been held post World War II so the 1938 event was the latest 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 Michael Reusch nbsp Switzerland 19 8 19 7 39 5 nbsp Veikko Huhtanen nbsp Finland 19 7 19 6 39 3 nbsp Christian Kipfer nbsp Switzerland 19 7 19 4 39 1Josef Stalder nbsp Switzerland 19 3 19 8 39 15 Walter Lehmann nbsp Switzerland 19 5 19 5 39 06 Heikki Savolainen nbsp Finland 19 2 19 7 38 97 Paavo Aaltonen nbsp Finland 19 0 19 8 38 8Zdenek Ruzicka nbsp Czechoslovakia 19 6 19 2 38 89 Lajos Santha nbsp Hungary 19 4 19 3 38 710 Olavi Rove nbsp Finland 19 5 19 1 38 611 Savino Guglielmetti nbsp Italy 19 1 19 4 38 512 Einari Terasvirta nbsp Finland 19 5 18 9 38 413 Guido Figone nbsp Italy 19 3 19 0 38 314 Michel Mathiot nbsp France 18 9 19 3 38 2Lajos Toth nbsp Hungary 19 1 19 1 38 216 Laszlo Baranyai nbsp Hungary 19 3 18 8 38 1Kalevi Laitinen nbsp Finland 19 5 18 6 38 118 Raymond Dot nbsp France 19 1 18 9 38 0Ferenc Pataki nbsp Hungary 19 1 18 9 38 020 Melchior Thalmann nbsp Switzerland 19 1 18 8 37 921 Robert Lucy nbsp Switzerland 18 9 18 9 37 8Ed Scrobe nbsp United States 18 8 19 0 37 8Emil Studer nbsp Switzerland 18 5 19 3 37 824 Aleksanteri Saarvala nbsp Finland 18 2 19 4 37 625 Joe Kotys nbsp United States 18 9 18 5 37 426 Pavel Benetka nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 8 18 5 37 3Luigi Zanetti nbsp Italy 18 9 18 4 37 328 Jozsef Fekete nbsp Hungary 18 5 18 6 37 129 Andre Weingand nbsp France 18 2 18 8 37 030 Karl Frei nbsp Switzerland 18 3 18 6 36 931 Alphonse Anger nbsp France 18 6 18 2 36 8Sulo Salmi nbsp Finland 18 1 18 7 36 833 Vladimir Karas nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 8 17 9 36 734 Ferenc Varkoi nbsp Hungary 17 8 18 8 36 635 Hans Friedrich nbsp Austria 18 3 18 1 36 4Gyozo Mogyorosi nbsp Hungary 18 1 18 3 36 437 Ernst Wister nbsp Austria 18 1 18 0 36 138 Bill Roetzheim nbsp United States 18 3 17 7 36 039 Danilo Fioravanti nbsp Italy 17 4 18 5 35 9Janos Mogyorosi Klencs nbsp Hungary 17 4 18 5 35 941 Elkana Gronne nbsp Denmark 17 9 17 9 35 8Poul Jessen nbsp Denmark 18 0 17 8 35 8George Weedon nbsp Great Britain 18 0 17 8 35 844 Marcel de Wolf nbsp France 18 2 17 5 35 7Konrad Grilc nbsp Yugoslavia 18 9 16 8 35 7Frank Turner nbsp Great Britain 17 7 18 0 35 7Quinto Vadi nbsp Italy 17 5 18 2 35 748 Auguste Sirot nbsp France 17 6 18 0 35 649 Domenico Grosso nbsp Italy 17 7 17 7 35 4Antoine Schildwein nbsp France 18 0 17 4 35 451 Vratislav Petracek nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 6 17 7 35 352 Egidio Armelloni nbsp Italy 17 6 17 4 35 053 Jey Kugeler nbsp Luxembourg 17 6 17 2 34 8Leo Sotornik nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 6 16 2 34 855 Mohamed Roushdi nbsp Egypt 16 7 17 9 34 656 Mahmoud Abdel Aal nbsp Egypt 17 5 17 0 34 5Vincent D Autorio nbsp United States 16 6 17 9 34 5Josip Kujundzic nbsp Yugoslavia 17 4 17 1 34 5Miroslav Malek nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 4 17 1 34 5Borge Minerth nbsp Denmark 19 0 15 5 34 561 Lucien Masset nbsp France 18 6 15 75 34 3562 Gunner Olesen nbsp Denmark 17 8 16 5 34 363 Hans Sauter nbsp Austria 18 3 15 95 34 2564 Frantisek Wirth nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 7 15 45 34 1565 Freddy Jensen nbsp Denmark 17 6 16 5 34 166 Frank Cumiskey nbsp United States 16 2 17 8 34 067 Alec Wales nbsp Great Britain 16 5 17 4 33 968 Karl Bohusch nbsp Austria 17 2 16 6 33 869 Ali Zaky nbsp Egypt 15 7 18 0 33 770 Volmer Thomsen nbsp Denmark 17 8 15 75 33 5571 Ettore Perego nbsp Italy 15 6 17 8 33 472 William Bonsall nbsp United States 15 8 17 3 33 1Ray Sorensen nbsp United States 15 6 17 5 33 174 Willi Schreyer nbsp Austria 16 1 16 9 33 075 Fernando Lecuona nbsp Cuba 17 7 15 25 32 9576 Gottfried Hermann nbsp Austria 17 8 14 5 32 377 Arnold Thomsen nbsp Denmark 17 6 14 5 32 178 Vilhelm Moller nbsp Denmark 15 0 16 9 31 979 Ahmed Khalaf Ali nbsp Egypt 14 9 16 9 31 8Rafael Lecuona nbsp Cuba 17 3 14 5 31 881 Mohamed Aly nbsp Egypt 17 0 14 75 31 7582 Ken Buffin nbsp Great Britain 16 3 15 0 31 383 Arturo Amos nbsp Argentina 17 0 14 25 31 2584 Percy May nbsp Great Britain 15 0 16 2 31 2Josy Stoffel nbsp Luxembourg 17 7 13 5 31 286 Miro Longyka nbsp Yugoslavia 18 1 13 0 31 187 Stjepan Boltizar nbsp Yugoslavia 14 9 15 8 30 7Ali El Hefnawi nbsp Egypt 16 7 14 0 30 789 Moustafa Abdelal nbsp Egypt 14 0 16 0 30 090 Ahmed Khalil El Giddawi nbsp Egypt 16 2 13 5 29 791 Rene Schroeder nbsp Luxembourg 14 0 15 25 29 2592 Karel Janez nbsp Yugoslavia 14 5 14 5 29 0Ivica Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 14 5 14 5 29 094 Menn Krecke nbsp Luxembourg 14 7 14 25 28 9595 Jack Flaherty nbsp Great Britain 16 0 12 75 28 7596 Cesar Bonoris nbsp Argentina 14 2 14 25 28 45Drago Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 14 4 14 05 28 4598 Pedro Lonchibuco nbsp Argentina 13 3 15 0 28 399 Angel Aguiar nbsp Cuba 15 7 11 75 27 45Polo Welfring nbsp Luxembourg 16 2 11 25 27 45101 Pierre Schmitz nbsp Luxembourg 14 0 13 25 27 25102 Gustav Hruby nbsp Czechoslovakia 16 8 10 0 26 8103 Jos Bernard nbsp Luxembourg 13 2 13 5 26 7104 Enrique Rapesta nbsp Argentina 11 0 14 0 25 0105 Jakob Subelj nbsp Yugoslavia 13 8 11 0 24 8106 Raimundo Rey nbsp Cuba 12 8 11 5 24 3107 Robert Pranz nbsp Austria 10 5 13 5 24 0108 Georges Wengler nbsp Luxembourg 10 5 13 25 23 75109 Roberto Villacian nbsp Cuba 14 4 8 25 22 65110 Baldomero Rubiera nbsp Cuba 13 5 9 0 22 5111 Glyn Hopkins nbsp Great Britain 7 5 13 75 21 25112 Jorge Soler nbsp Argentina 7 0 13 5 20 5113 Roberto Nunez nbsp Argentina 6 5 12 0 18 5114 Alejandro Diaz nbsp Cuba 6 0 11 25 17 25115 Dario Aguilar nbsp Mexico 6 0 11 0 17 0116 Ivor Vice nbsp Great Britain 1 0 15 25 16 25117 Louis Bordo nbsp United States 14 9 14 9118 Jorge Castro nbsp Mexico 7 0 7 5 14 5119 Ruben Lira nbsp Mexico 4 0 8 25 12 25120 Everardo Rios nbsp Mexico 9 5 9 5121 Jorge Vidal nbsp Argentina 6 5 6 5122 Willi Welt nbsp Austria 2 0 2 0References edit Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games Men s Parallel Bars 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 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