Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's rings
December 20, 2023
The men's rings 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 Karl Frei of Switzerland, with his countryman Michael Reusch earning silver; they were the nation's first medals in the event. Zdeněk Růžička of Czechoslovakia took bronze.
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: sixth-place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland and eighth-place finisher (and 1932 competitor) Heikki Savolainen of Finland. No world championship had been held since World War II; Alois Hudec, who did not compete in 1948, was still the reigning world (1938) and Olympic (1936) champion. Reusch had finished second at the 1938 world championship.[2]
Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's rings. 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, with one not starting in the rings; and Austria had one gymnast of its 8 not start in the rings). 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 places Benetka 27th in this event, but his score would put him in 25th. Other sources place him 25th.
December 20, 2023
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The men s rings 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 Karl Frei of Switzerland with his countryman Michael Reusch earning silver they were the nation s first medals in the event Zdenek Ruzicka of Czechoslovakia took bronze Men s ringsat the Games of the XIV OlympiadVeikko Huhtanen competing on the ringsVenueEarls Court Exhibition CentreDates12 13 AugustCompetitors121 from 16 nationsWinning score39 6MedalistsKarl Frei SwitzerlandMichael Reusch SwitzerlandZdenek Ruzicka Czechoslovakia 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 sixth place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland and eighth place finisher and 1932 competitor Heikki Savolainen of Finland No world championship had been held since World War II Alois Hudec who did not compete in 1948 was still the reigning world 1938 and Olympic 1936 champion Reusch had finished second at the 1938 world championship 2 Argentina Cuba Denmark and Egypt each made their debut in the men s rings 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 with one not starting in the rings and Austria had one gymnast of its 8 not start in the rings 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 Karl Frei nbsp Switzerland 19 8 19 8 39 6 nbsp Michael Reusch nbsp Switzerland 19 5 19 6 39 1 nbsp Zdenek Ruzicka nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 8 19 7 38 54 Walter Lehmann nbsp Switzerland 19 2 19 2 38 45 Josef Stalder nbsp Switzerland 18 8 19 5 38 3Emil Studer nbsp Switzerland 18 9 19 4 38 37 Vladimir Karas nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 9 19 3 38 28 Heikki Savolainen nbsp Finland 19 0 19 1 38 19 Laszlo Baranyai nbsp Hungary 18 7 19 2 37 9Olavi Rove nbsp Finland 18 8 19 1 37 911 Veikko Huhtanen nbsp Finland 18 7 19 1 37 8Christian Kipfer nbsp Switzerland 18 8 19 0 37 8Ferenc Pataki nbsp Hungary 18 9 18 9 37 814 Andre Weingand nbsp France 18 7 18 9 37 615 Elkana Gronne nbsp Denmark 18 6 18 9 37 516 Kalevi Laitinen nbsp Finland 18 6 18 8 37 417 Paavo Aaltonen nbsp Finland 18 7 18 6 37 3Jey Kugeler nbsp Luxembourg 18 7 18 6 37 3Aleksanteri Saarvala nbsp Finland 18 5 18 8 37 3Sulo Salmi nbsp Finland 18 7 18 6 37 3Leo Sotornik nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 8 18 5 37 3Lajos Toth nbsp Hungary 18 4 18 9 37 323 Antoine Schildwein nbsp France 18 5 18 7 37 224 Robert Lucy nbsp Switzerland 18 3 18 7 37 025 4 Pavel Benetka nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 0 18 9 36 9Vratislav Petracek nbsp Czechoslovakia 18 4 18 5 36 927 Lajos Santha nbsp Hungary 18 6 18 2 36 8Einari Terasvirta nbsp Finland 18 4 18 4 36 829 Alphonse Anger nbsp France 18 4 18 3 36 7Ferenc Varkoi nbsp Hungary 18 9 17 8 36 731 Melchior Thalmann nbsp Switzerland 17 8 18 7 36 532 Marcel de Wolf nbsp France 17 6 18 8 36 4Raymond Dot nbsp France 18 4 18 0 36 4Jozsef Fekete nbsp Hungary 17 8 18 6 36 4Miroslav Malek nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 4 19 0 36 4Ali Zaky nbsp Egypt 17 7 18 7 36 437 Gyozo Mogyorosi nbsp Hungary 17 6 18 7 36 338 Lucien Masset nbsp France 17 6 18 6 36 239 Guido Figone nbsp Italy 18 3 17 8 36 140 Savino Guglielmetti nbsp Italy 17 7 18 3 36 0Poul Jessen nbsp Denmark 17 8 18 2 36 0Josy Stoffel nbsp Luxembourg 17 8 18 4 36 043 Janos Mogyorosi Klencs nbsp Hungary 17 65 18 2 35 8544 Rene Schroeder nbsp Luxembourg 17 2 18 5 35 7Ernst Wister nbsp Austria 17 8 17 9 35 746 Gustav Hruby nbsp Czechoslovakia 17 0 18 5 35 547 Michel Mathiot nbsp France 17 5 17 9 35 448 Freddy Jensen nbsp Denmark 17 5 17 8 35 349 Arnold Thomsen nbsp Denmark 17 7 17 4 35 150 Mohamed Roushdi nbsp Egypt 16 9 18 1 35 051 Angel Aguiar nbsp Cuba 16 8 18 1 34 952 Konrad Grilc nbsp Yugoslavia 17 7 17 1 34 853 Vilhelm Moller nbsp Denmark 17 3 17 4 34 754 Gunner Olesen nbsp Denmark 16 7 17 9 34 6Ed Scrobe nbsp United States 17 8 16 8 34 656 Moustafa Abdelal nbsp Egypt 17 0 17 5 34 557 Frank Turner nbsp Great Britain 17 6 16 8 34 4Quinto Vadi nbsp Italy 17 6 16 8 34 459 Ivica Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 16 0 18 3 34 360 Domenico Grosso nbsp Italy 17 0 17 2 34 2Volmer Thomsen nbsp Denmark 16 4 17 8 34 262 Luigi Zanetti nbsp Italy 16 2 17 9 34 163 Karl Bohusch nbsp Austria 16 4 17 5 33 9Jack Flaherty nbsp Great Britain 17 4 16 5 33 9Fernando Lecuona nbsp Cuba 17 1 16 8 33 966 Auguste Sirot nbsp France 17 8 15 9 33 767 Stjepan Boltizar nbsp Yugoslavia 16 9 16 6 33 5Danilo Fioravanti nbsp Italy 17 3 16 2 33 569 Mahmoud Abdel Aal nbsp Egypt 16 0 17 2 33 2Roberto Villacian nbsp Cuba 17 2 16 0 33 271 Alec Wales nbsp Great Britain 16 95 16 2 33 1572 Egidio Armelloni nbsp Italy 15 75 17 3 33 0573 Frantisek Wirth nbsp Czechoslovakia 16 6 16 4 33 074 Baldomero Rubiera nbsp Cuba 16 05 16 9 32 9575 Vincent D Autorio nbsp United States 16 3 16 6 32 976 Pierre Schmitz nbsp Luxembourg 17 0 15 7 32 777 Miro Longyka nbsp Yugoslavia 16 0 16 6 32 678 Jos Bernard nbsp Luxembourg 16 6 15 9 32 5Josip Kujundzic nbsp Yugoslavia 14 5 18 0 32 580 Drago Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 15 0 17 4 32 481 Polo Welfring nbsp Luxembourg 17 1 15 2 32 3Georges Wengler nbsp Luxembourg 16 9 15 4 32 383 Pedro Lonchibuco nbsp Argentina 16 2 16 0 32 2Willi Schreyer nbsp Austria 16 5 15 7 32 285 Rafael Lecuona nbsp Cuba 16 8 15 2 32 086 Hans Sauter nbsp Austria 16 2 15 6 31 887 William Bonsall nbsp United States 16 05 15 7 31 7588 Menn Krecke nbsp Luxembourg 16 8 14 6 31 489 Hans Friedrich nbsp Austria 14 0 17 3 31 390 George Weedon nbsp Great Britain 16 8 14 4 31 291 Mohamed Aly nbsp Egypt 17 3 13 7 31 0Ray Sorensen nbsp United States 16 8 14 2 31 093 Percy May nbsp Great Britain 14 5 16 3 30 894 Ahmed Khalaf Ali nbsp Egypt 15 0 15 7 30 795 Ali El Hefnawi nbsp Egypt 15 0 15 5 30 596 Frank Cumiskey nbsp United States 15 5 14 8 30 397 Enrique Rapesta nbsp Argentina 15 75 14 5 30 2598 Robert Pranz nbsp Austria 15 5 14 3 29 899 Joe Kotys nbsp United States 15 4 14 2 29 4100 Ken Buffin nbsp Great Britain 14 5 14 8 29 3101 Ettore Perego nbsp Italy 13 8 14 7 28 5102 Bill Roetzheim nbsp United States 14 5 13 0 27 9103 Jakob Subelj nbsp Yugoslavia 12 0 15 8 27 8104 Ahmed Khalil El Giddawi nbsp Egypt 12 0 14 4 26 4105 Alejandro Diaz nbsp Cuba 13 0 13 2 26 2106 Arturo Amos nbsp Argentina 14 0 12 1 26 1107 Ivor Vice nbsp Great Britain 11 5 12 1 23 6108 Glyn Hopkins nbsp Great Britain 12 0 11 0 23 0109 Jorge Soler nbsp Argentina 10 0 12 8 22 8110 Cesar Bonoris nbsp Argentina 10 5 12 0 22 5111 Karel Janez nbsp Yugoslavia 9 5 12 3 21 8112 Raimundo Rey nbsp Cuba 9 75 10 5 20 25113 Roberto Nunez nbsp Argentina 7 5 11 5 19 0114 Borge Minerth nbsp Denmark 17 8 17 8115 Louis Bordo nbsp United States 16 75 16 75116 Jorge Castro nbsp Mexico 6 5 8 0 14 5117 Gottfried Hermann nbsp Austria 14 25 14 25118 Ruben Lira nbsp Mexico 7 0 6 2 13 2119 Dario Aguilar nbsp Mexico 6 0 5 4 11 4120 Everardo Rios nbsp Mexico 11 0 11 0121 Jorge Vidal nbsp Argentina 8 0 8 0References edit Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games Men s Rings Sports Reference Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 16 October 2019 Rings Men Olympedia Retrieved 3 December 2020 Official Report p 343 The Official Report places Benetka 27th in this event but his score would put him in 25th Other sources place him 25th Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics Men 27s rings amp oldid 1145550025, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
