Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse
November 30, 2023
The men's pommel horse 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 ended in a three-way tie for the gold medal, with all three winners from Finland: Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen, and Heikki Savolainen. It was the third time the medals had been swept in the event (United States in 1904, Switzerland in 1924). Another three-way tie would occur in 1988. It was Finland's first victory in the event, and first medal since 1928.
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). One of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: seventh-place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland. Reusch had won the 1938 world championship, the last before World War II; there had not yet been another since the war, so he was the reigning champion.[2]
Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's pommel horse. 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]
^The Official Report indicates Saarvala finished 5th in this event, but his score is 8th place. Other sources list him in 8th place.
November 30, 2023
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The men s pommel horse 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 ended in a three way tie for the gold medal with all three winners from Finland Paavo Aaltonen Veikko Huhtanen and Heikki Savolainen It was the third time the medals had been swept in the event United States in 1904 Switzerland in 1924 Another three way tie would occur in 1988 It was Finland s first victory in the event and first medal since 1928 Men s pommel horseat the Games of the XIV OlympiadEarls Court Exhibition Centre 2012 VenueEarls Court Exhibition CentreDates12 13 AugustCompetitors121 from 16 nationsWinning score38 7MedalistsPaavo Aaltonen FinlandVeikko Huhtanen FinlandHeikki Savolainen 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 One of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned seventh place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland Reusch had won the 1938 world championship the last before World War II there had not yet been another since the war so he was the reigning champion 2 Argentina Cuba Denmark and Egypt each made their debut in the men s pommel horse 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 Paavo Aaltonen nbsp Finland 19 2 19 5 38 7Veikko Huhtanen nbsp Finland 19 2 19 5 38 7Heikki Savolainen nbsp Finland 19 3 19 4 38 74 Luigi Zanetti nbsp Italy 18 9 19 4 38 35 Guido Figone nbsp Italy 19 0 19 2 38 26 Frank Cumiskey nbsp United States 18 8 19 1 37 97 Michael Reusch nbsp Switzerland 18 6 19 2 37 88 4 Aleksanteri Saarvala nbsp Finland 19 2 18 5 37 7Josef Stalder nbsp Switzerland 19 3 18 4 37 7Emil Studer nbsp Switzerland 18 7 19 0 37 711 Walter Lehmann nbsp Switzerland 18 4 19 2 37 612 Ettore Perego nbsp Italy 18 9 18 6 37 513 Quinto Vadi nbsp Italy 18 4 19 0 37 414 Christian Kipfer nbsp Switzerland 18 3 18 9 37 2Lucien Masset nbsp France 19 1 18 1 37 216 Robert Lucy nbsp Switzerland 18 8 18 3 37 1Lajos Santha nbsp Hungary 18 3 18 8 37 118 Einari Terasvirta nbsp Finland 18 2 18 8 37 019 Jozsef Fekete nbsp Hungary 18 4 18 5 36 9Savino Guglielmetti nbsp Italy 18 2 18 7 36 9Kalevi Laitinen nbsp Finland 17 5 19 4 36 922 Domenico Grosso nbsp Italy 18 5 18 1 36 623 Joe Kotys nbsp United States 17 9 18 6 36 5Olavi Rove nbsp Finland 17 9 18 6 36 5Melchior Thalmann nbsp Switzerland 18 3 18 2 36 526 Karl Frei nbsp Switzerland 18 5 17 9 36 4Bill Roetzheim nbsp United States 18 5 17 9 36 4Ernst Wister nbsp Austria 18 0 18 4 36 4Ferenc Varkoi nbsp Hungary 18 4 18 0 36 430 Laszlo Baranyai nbsp Hungary 17 3 19 0 36 3Karl Bohusch nbsp Austria 17 9 18 4 36 3Zdenek Ruzicka nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 8 17 5 36 3Auguste Sirot nbsp France 18 0 18 3 36 3Lajos Toth nbsp Hungary 18 1 18 2 36 335 Marcel de Wolf nbsp France 18 0 18 2 36 236 Michel Mathiot nbsp France 18 0 18 0 36 0Hans Sauter nbsp Austria 18 1 17 9 36 038 Egidio Armelloni nbsp Italy 18 4 17 5 35 939 Alec Wales nbsp Great Britain 17 6 18 2 35 840 Andre Weingand nbsp France 18 4 17 3 35 741 Konrad Grilc nbsp Yugoslavia 17 7 17 9 35 6Gustav Hruby nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 7 16 9 35 6Ed Scrobe nbsp United States 17 4 18 2 35 6Ray Sorensen nbsp United States 17 8 17 8 35 645 Vincent D Autorio nbsp United States 18 7 16 5 35 2Ferenc Pataki nbsp Hungary 17 6 17 6 35 2Sulo Salmi nbsp Finland 16 9 18 3 35 248 Alphonse Anger nbsp France 17 6 17 3 34 9Willi Schreyer nbsp Austria 16 9 18 0 34 950 Gyozo Mogyorosi nbsp Hungary 17 8 17 0 34 8Antoine Schildwein nbsp France 16 8 18 0 34 852 Danilo Fioravanti nbsp Italy 18 1 16 3 34 453 Freddy Jensen nbsp Denmark 18 1 16 2 34 3Rafael Lecuona nbsp Cuba 18 0 16 3 34 3Janos Mogyorosi Klencs nbsp Hungary 17 8 16 5 34 356 Jey Kugeler nbsp Luxembourg 16 7 17 5 34 257 Frantisek Wirth nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 3 15 6 33 958 Poul Jessen nbsp Denmark 17 7 16 1 33 859 Pavel Benetka nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 1 15 5 33 6Vladimir Karas nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 2 16 4 33 661 Hans Friedrich nbsp Austria 18 1 15 4 33 562 William Bonsall nbsp United States 16 1 17 1 33 263 Miroslav Malek nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 0 16 1 33 164 Ivica Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 16 2 16 7 32 965 Stjepan Boltizar nbsp Yugoslavia 15 8 17 0 32 866 Drago Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 17 0 15 75 32 75Frank Turner nbsp Great Britain 17 0 15 75 32 7568 Josy Stoffel nbsp Luxembourg 16 0 16 5 32 569 Raymond Dot nbsp France 18 2 14 2 32 470 Vratislav Petracek nbsp Czechoslovakia 15 6 16 7 32 371 Elkana Gronne nbsp Denmark 18 0 14 25 32 2572 Josip Kujundzic nbsp Yugoslavia 15 4 16 6 32 073 Arnold Thomsen nbsp Denmark 15 25 16 4 31 6574 Robert Pranz nbsp Austria 13 5 18 1 31 6George Weedon nbsp Great Britain 15 5 16 1 31 676 Leo Sotornik nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 0 14 4 31 477 Raimundo Rey nbsp Cuba 15 1 14 75 29 8578 Miro Longyka nbsp Yugoslavia 14 1 15 5 29 679 Fernando Lecuona nbsp Cuba 16 5 13 0 29 580 Volmer Thomsen nbsp Denmark 16 3 13 0 29 381 Jakob Subelj nbsp Yugoslavia 14 5 14 75 29 2582 Vilhelm Moller nbsp Denmark 14 75 13 95 28 783 Georges Wengler nbsp Luxembourg 15 25 13 0 28 2584 Alejandro Diaz nbsp Cuba 14 5 13 25 27 7585 Gunner Olesen nbsp Denmark 14 3 13 0 27 386 Ken Buffin nbsp Great Britain 14 95 12 25 27 287 Percy May nbsp Great Britain 14 0 12 75 26 7588 Jack Flaherty nbsp Great Britain 12 0 14 5 26 589 Moustafa Abdelal nbsp Egypt 12 0 13 75 25 7590 Menn Krecke nbsp Luxembourg 11 2 14 0 25 291 Polo Welfring nbsp Luxembourg 10 0 15 0 25 092 Ahmed Khalaf Ali nbsp Egypt 11 6 13 25 24 8593 Roberto Villacian nbsp Cuba 14 4 10 0 24 494 Glyn Hopkins nbsp Great Britain 11 45 12 5 23 9595 Karel Janez nbsp Yugoslavia 13 6 10 0 23 696 Ivor Vice nbsp Great Britain 11 0 12 5 23 597 Arturo Amos nbsp Argentina 9 1 14 25 23 35Mohamed Roushdi nbsp Egypt 10 6 12 75 23 3599 Pierre Schmitz nbsp Luxembourg 9 8 12 75 22 55100 Enrique Rapesta nbsp Argentina 10 0 11 5 21 5Baldomero Rubiera nbsp Cuba 10 5 11 0 21 5Rene Schroeder nbsp Luxembourg 10 5 11 0 21 5103 Angel Aguiar nbsp Cuba 10 2 10 0 20 2104 Jos Bernard nbsp Luxembourg 7 0 12 75 19 75105 Pedro Lonchibuco nbsp Argentina 6 0 12 5 18 5106 Ali Zaky nbsp Egypt 6 3 11 75 18 05107 Jorge Soler nbsp Argentina 6 0 11 0 17 0108 Gottfried Hermann nbsp Austria 16 4 16 4109 Borge Minerth nbsp Denmark 16 0 16 0110 Ali El Hefnawi nbsp Egypt 5 3 9 75 15 05111 Ahmed Khalil El Giddawi nbsp Egypt 5 5 9 0 14 5112 Mahmoud Abdel Aal nbsp Egypt 4 8 9 25 14 05113 Dario Aguilar nbsp Mexico 4 0 10 0 14 0Cesar Bonoris nbsp Argentina 4 0 10 0 14 0Ruben Lira nbsp Mexico 7 5 6 5 14 0116 Mohamed Aly nbsp Egypt 3 5 9 0 12 5117 Louis Bordo nbsp United States 12 0 12 0Roberto Nunez nbsp Argentina 4 0 8 0 12 0119 Jorge Vidal nbsp Argentina 11 8 11 8120 Jorge Castro nbsp Mexico 3 0 8 0 11 0121 Everardo Rios nbsp Mexico 4 7 4 7References edit Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games Men s Pommelled Horse Sports Reference Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 16 October 2019 Pommelled Horse Men Olympedia Retrieved 30 November 2020 Official Report p 343 The Official Report indicates Saarvala finished 5th in this event but his score is 8th place Other sources list him in 8th place Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men 27s pommel horse amp oldid 1145550017, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
