Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar
April 11, 2024
The men's horizontal bar competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Töölö Sports Hall, Exhibition Hall I from 19 to 21 July. It was the eighth appearance of the event.[1] There were 185 competitors from 29 nations, with each nation sending up to 8 gymnasts.[2] The event was won by Jack Günthard of Switzerland, the nation's second consecutive and third overall victory in the horizontal bar, breaking a tie with the United States for most all-time. Switzerland also took one of the silver medals, as Josef Stalder tied with Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany, competing at the age of 40, for second. Stalder and Schwarzmann were the first two men to win multiple horizontal bars medals; Stalder had won the event in 1948 and Schwarzmann had earned bronze in 1936.
This was the eighth 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 1948 returned: gold medalist Josef Stalder of Switzerland, fourth-place finishers Raymond Dot of France and Lajos Sántha of Hungary, and ninth-place finisher Lajos Tóth of Hungary. 1936 bronze medalist Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany (unable to compete in 1948 due to the exclusion of the World War II aggressor nations) also returned. Hans Eugster of Switzerland was the reigning (1950) world champion; Dot had finished third after Eugster and Olavi Rove of Finland.[2]
Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Spain, and Sweden each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its seventh appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Of the 22 different nations that had competed at least once in the event before 1952, 19 competed in Helsinki (only Greece, Mexico, and the Netherlands were missing among the nations having previously competed).
Competition formatedit
The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of between five and eight gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The 2 exercise scores were summed to give a total for the apparatus.
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 averaged to give the exercise total. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.
The competitor had the option to make a second try only on the compulsory exercise—with the second attempt counting regardless of whether it was better than the first.[3]
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The men s horizontal bar competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Toolo Sports Hall Exhibition Hall I from 19 to 21 July It was the eighth appearance of the event 1 There were 185 competitors from 29 nations with each nation sending up to 8 gymnasts 2 The event was won by Jack Gunthard of Switzerland the nation s second consecutive and third overall victory in the horizontal bar breaking a tie with the United States for most all time Switzerland also took one of the silver medals as Josef Stalder tied with Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany competing at the age of 40 for second Stalder and Schwarzmann were the first two men to win multiple horizontal bars medals Stalder had won the event in 1948 and Schwarzmann had earned bronze in 1936 Men s horizontal barat the Games of the XV OlympiadJack Gunthard 1956 VenueToolo Sports Hall Exhibition Hall IDates19 21 JulyCompetitors185 from 29 nationsWinning score19 55MedalistsJack Gunthard SwitzerlandAlfred Schwarzmann GermanyJosef Stalder Switzerland 19481956 Contents 1 Background 2 Competition format 3 Schedule 4 Results 5 ReferencesBackground editThis was the eighth 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 1948 returned gold medalist Josef Stalder of Switzerland fourth place finishers Raymond Dot of France and Lajos Santha of Hungary and ninth place finisher Lajos Toth of Hungary 1936 bronze medalist Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany unable to compete in 1948 due to the exclusion of the World War II aggressor nations also returned Hans Eugster of Switzerland was the reigning 1950 world champion Dot had finished third after Eugster and Olavi Rove of Finland 2 Belgium India Norway Poland Portugal Saar South Africa the Soviet Union Spain and Sweden each made their debut in the men s horizontal bar The United States made its seventh appearance most of any nation having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games Of the 22 different nations that had competed at least once in the event before 1952 19 competed in Helsinki only Greece Mexico and the Netherlands were missing among the nations having previously competed Competition format editThe gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format Each nation entered a team of between five and eight gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus The 2 exercise scores were summed to give a total for the apparatus 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 averaged to give the exercise total Thus exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20 The competitor had the option to make a second try only on the compulsory exercise with the second attempt counting regardless of whether it was better than the first 3 Schedule editAll times are Eastern European Summer Time UTC 3 Date Time RoundSaturday 19 July 1952Sunday 20 July 1952Monday 21 July 1952 7 308 008 00 FinalResults editRank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total nbsp Jack Gunthard nbsp Switzerland 9 75 9 80 19 55 nbsp Josef Stalder nbsp Switzerland 9 65 9 85 19 50Alfred Schwarzmann nbsp Germany 9 70 9 80 19 504 Heikki Savolainen nbsp Finland 9 75 9 70 19 455 Viktor Chukarin nbsp Soviet Union 9 60 9 80 19 406 Jean Tschabold nbsp Switzerland 9 65 9 70 19 357 Helmut Bantz nbsp Germany 9 65 9 60 19 25Melchior Thalmann nbsp Switzerland 9 65 9 60 19 259 Berndt Lindfors nbsp Finland 9 60 9 60 19 20Valentin Muratov nbsp Soviet Union 9 65 9 55 19 2011 Paavo Aaltonen nbsp Finland 9 55 9 60 19 15Hans Eugster nbsp Switzerland 9 65 9 50 19 15Kalevi Viskari nbsp Finland 9 60 9 55 19 1514 Hrant Shahinyan nbsp Soviet Union 9 45 9 60 19 05Erich Wied nbsp Germany 9 60 9 45 19 0516 Charles Simms nbsp United States 9 45 9 55 19 0017 Bill Roetzheim nbsp United States 9 60 9 35 18 95Masao Takemoto nbsp Japan 9 35 9 60 18 9519 Akitomo Kaneko nbsp Japan 9 50 9 40 18 90Tetsumi Nabeya nbsp Japan 9 30 9 60 18 90Takashi Ono nbsp Japan 9 45 9 45 18 90Ed Scrobe nbsp United States 9 50 9 40 18 9023 Vladimir Belyakov nbsp Soviet Union 9 25 9 55 18 80Yevgeny Korolkov nbsp Soviet Union 9 35 9 45 18 80Kaino Lempinen nbsp Finland 9 40 9 40 18 80Olavi Rove nbsp Finland 9 40 9 40 18 80Lajos Santha nbsp Hungary 9 40 9 40 18 8028 Onni Lappalainen nbsp Finland 9 40 9 35 18 7529 Mikhail Perelman nbsp Soviet Union 9 30 9 40 18 70Hans Sauter nbsp Austria 9 30 9 40 18 7031 Ferenc Pataki nbsp Hungary 9 40 9 25 18 6532 Ernst Gebendinger nbsp Switzerland 9 65 8 95 18 60Borje Stattin nbsp Sweden 9 20 9 40 18 60Theo Wied nbsp Germany 9 45 9 15 18 6035 Kalevi Laitinen nbsp Finland 9 75 8 80 18 55Bob Stout nbsp United States 9 25 9 30 18 55Tadao Uesako nbsp Japan 9 05 9 50 18 5538 Iosif Berdiev nbsp Soviet Union 9 20 9 30 18 50Jakob Kiefer nbsp Germany 9 45 9 05 18 5040 Joaquin Blume nbsp Spain 9 15 9 30 18 45Josy Stoffel nbsp Luxembourg 9 35 9 10 18 45Lajos Toth nbsp Hungary 9 15 9 30 18 4543 Raymond Dot nbsp France 9 05 9 30 18 35Dmytro Leonkin nbsp Soviet Union 9 05 9 30 18 35Mahmoud Safwat nbsp Egypt 9 25 9 10 18 35Mincho Todorov nbsp Bulgaria 9 30 9 05 18 3547 Zdenek Ruzicka nbsp Czechoslovakia 8 95 9 35 18 3048 Antun Kropivsek nbsp Yugoslavia 9 20 9 05 18 25Michel Mathiot nbsp France 8 95 9 30 18 25Dimitar Yordanov nbsp Bulgaria 9 10 9 15 18 2551 Wolfgang Girardi nbsp Austria 9 10 9 10 18 20Frederic Orendi nbsp Romania 9 25 8 95 18 20Hans Pfann nbsp Germany 9 60 8 60 18 20Hans Schwarzentruber nbsp Switzerland 9 35 8 85 18 2055 Josef Svoboda nbsp Czechoslovakia 9 35 8 80 18 1556 Ferenc Kemeny nbsp Hungary 9 05 9 05 18 10Friedel Overwien nbsp Germany 9 35 8 75 18 1058 Jindrich Mikulec nbsp Czechoslovakia 9 20 8 85 18 0559 Jack Beckner nbsp United States 9 10 8 90 18 0060 Guido Figone nbsp Italy 9 05 8 90 17 9561 Ferdinand Danis nbsp Czechoslovakia 9 10 8 80 17 90Bjarne Jorgensen nbsp Denmark 9 25 8 65 17 9063 Alf Olsen nbsp Norway 8 85 9 00 17 85Szymon Sobala nbsp Poland 8 80 9 05 17 85Ernst Wister nbsp Austria 8 60 9 25 17 8566 Ken Buffin nbsp Great Britain 9 45 8 35 17 8067 Pawel Gaca nbsp Poland 9 05 8 70 17 75Freddy Jensen nbsp Denmark 8 70 9 05 17 75Milos Kolejka nbsp Czechoslovakia 9 15 8 60 17 7570 Ahmed Issam Allam nbsp Egypt 8 75 8 95 17 70Vladimir Kejr nbsp Czechoslovakia 8 80 8 90 17 70Janos Mogyorosi Klencs nbsp Hungary 9 00 8 70 17 7073 Paul Grubenthal nbsp Austria 9 00 8 65 17 65Armand Huberty nbsp Luxembourg 8 65 9 00 17 6575 Adalbert Dickhut nbsp Germany 7 95 9 65 17 60Poul Jessen nbsp Denmark 8 80 8 80 17 60Leo Sotornik nbsp Czechoslovakia 9 05 8 55 17 6078 Karoly Kocsis nbsp Hungary 9 25 8 30 17 5579 Rene Changeat nbsp France 8 60 8 85 17 45Ernst Fivian nbsp Switzerland 8 10 9 35 17 45Pawel Gawron nbsp Poland 9 05 8 40 17 45Nils Sjoberg nbsp Sweden 8 90 8 55 17 4583 Mathias Jamtvedt nbsp Norway 8 90 8 50 17 40Anders Lindh nbsp Sweden 8 80 8 60 17 40Volmer Thomsen nbsp Denmark 8 80 8 60 17 4086 Dusan Furlan nbsp Yugoslavia 8 45 8 90 17 3587 Jerzy Jokiel nbsp Poland 9 00 8 30 17 30Arthur Schmitt nbsp Saar 9 05 8 25 17 3089 Borge Minerth nbsp Denmark 8 85 8 40 17 25Alf Norgaard nbsp Norway 8 55 8 70 17 25Stoyan Stoyanov nbsp Bulgaria 9 60 7 65 17 2592 Silvio Brivio nbsp Italy 8 95 8 25 17 20Franz Kemter nbsp Austria 8 95 8 25 17 20Sandor Rethy nbsp Hungary 8 65 8 55 17 2095 Borge Nielsen nbsp Denmark 8 75 8 40 17 1596 Arne Carlsson nbsp Sweden 8 45 8 65 17 1097 Don Holder nbsp United States 9 05 8 00 17 0598 Arne Knudsen nbsp Norway 8 40 8 60 17 00Ronnie Lombard nbsp South Africa 8 40 8 60 17 00100 Andrei Kerekes nbsp Romania 8 30 8 65 16 95Josef Skvor nbsp Czechoslovakia 9 15 7 80 16 95Ali Zaky nbsp Egypt 7 65 9 30 16 95Luigi Zanetti nbsp Italy 7 80 9 15 16 95104 Vasil Konstantinov nbsp Bulgaria 8 55 8 35 16 90105 Arrigo Carnoli nbsp Italy 8 10 8 75 16 85106 Rafael Lecuona nbsp Cuba 8 10 8 70 16 80Walter Muller nbsp Saar 9 05 7 75 16 80Frank Turner nbsp Great Britain 8 25 8 55 16 80109 Vincent D Autorio nbsp United States 8 75 8 00 16 75Manuel Gouveia nbsp Portugal 8 25 8 50 16 75Georg Johansen nbsp Norway 8 90 7 85 16 75112 Walter Blattmann nbsp United States 8 25 8 45 16 70Jozsef Fekete nbsp Hungary 8 65 8 05 16 70114 Nikolay Atanasov nbsp Bulgaria 8 20 8 45 16 65Gunnar Pedersen nbsp Denmark 8 40 8 25 16 65116 Raymond Badin nbsp France 7 55 9 00 16 55117 William Thoresson nbsp Sweden 9 30 7 20 16 50118 Jean Guillou nbsp France 8 45 8 00 16 45119 Ryszard Kucjas nbsp Poland 8 25 8 10 16 35Kurt Wigartz nbsp Sweden 8 00 8 35 16 35121 Jey Kugeler nbsp Luxembourg 7 80 8 50 16 30122 Friedrich Fetz nbsp Austria 7 80 8 45 16 25Mohamed Sayed Hamdi nbsp Egypt 8 10 8 15 16 25124 Ahmed Khalil El Giddawi nbsp Egypt 7 70 8 50 16 20Rene Schroeder nbsp Luxembourg 7 85 8 35 16 20126 Raul Caldeira nbsp Portugal 7 80 8 35 16 15127 Marcel Coppin nbsp Luxembourg 8 30 7 80 16 10Zdzislaw Lesinski nbsp Poland 8 80 7 30 16 10129 Nikolay Milev nbsp Bulgaria 9 05 7 00 16 05Littorio Sampieri nbsp Italy 8 30 7 75 16 05131 Cesar Bonoris nbsp Argentina 8 00 8 00 16 00Hubert Erang nbsp Luxembourg 8 20 7 80 16 00133 Norbert Dietrich nbsp Saar 8 85 7 10 15 95134 Georges Floquet nbsp France 7 35 8 55 15 90135 Fabio Bonacina nbsp Italy 8 95 6 90 15 85136 Orlando Polmonari nbsp Italy 8 20 7 55 15 75137 Willi Welt nbsp Austria 8 75 6 95 15 70138 Jack Whitford nbsp Great Britain 7 25 8 40 15 65139 Todor Todorov nbsp Bulgaria 8 40 7 15 15 55140 Andre Weingand nbsp France 6 50 9 00 15 50141 Rolf Yelseth nbsp South Africa 7 60 7 80 15 40142 Ivica Jelic nbsp Yugoslavia 7 20 8 10 15 30143 Rolf Lauer nbsp Saar 8 35 6 90 15 25Fred Wiedersporn nbsp Saar 8 00 7 25 15 25145 Joaquim Granger nbsp Portugal 7 65 7 55 15 20Magne Kleiven nbsp Norway 6 50 8 70 15 20Erich Peters nbsp Sweden 6 60 8 60 15 20148 Odd Lie nbsp Norway 7 00 8 10 15 10Pawel Swietek nbsp Poland 8 20 6 90 15 10150 Ede Mađar nbsp Yugoslavia 7 45 7 50 14 95151 Juan Caviglia nbsp Argentina 6 90 7 85 14 75Franjo Jurjevic nbsp Yugoslavia 6 15 8 60 14 75153 Quinto Vadi nbsp Italy 6 00 8 70 14 70154 Magdy Gheriani nbsp Egypt 6 40 8 25 14 65155 Frederik De Waele nbsp Belgium 6 60 7 75 14 35156 Graham Harcourt nbsp Great Britain 7 80 6 45 14 25157 Maurice De Groote nbsp Belgium 7 10 7 00 14 10George Weedon nbsp Great Britain 8 20 5 90 14 10159 Peter Starling nbsp Great Britain 7 00 7 00 14 00160 Ivan Caklec nbsp Yugoslavia 7 25 6 65 13 90161 Ragai Youssef nbsp Egypt 7 10 6 75 13 85162 Sreten Stefanovic nbsp Yugoslavia 6 90 6 90 13 80163 Mihai Botez nbsp Romania 5 50 8 15 13 65164 Karel Janez nbsp Yugoslavia 6 50 6 60 13 10165 Marcel de Wolf nbsp France 6 50 6 40 12 90166 Jack Wells nbsp South Africa 6 45 6 10 12 55167 Ernst Madland nbsp Norway 2 90 8 85 11 75168 Francisc Cocis nbsp Romania 4 50 7 00 11 50169 Aurel Losnita nbsp Romania 5 30 6 10 11 40Iliya Topalov nbsp Bulgaria 6 90 4 50 11 40171 Manuel Prazeres nbsp Portugal 4 65 6 65 11 30172 Eugen Balint nbsp Romania 4 50 6 75 11 25173 Jeroom Riske nbsp Belgium 7 65 3 50 11 15174 Antonio Leite nbsp Portugal 3 00 7 25 10 25175 Angel Aguiar nbsp Cuba 4 50 5 70 10 20176 Manuel Cardoso nbsp Portugal 3 50 6 60 10 10177 Heinz Ostheimer nbsp Saar 2 00 7 80 9 80178 Jerzy Solarz nbsp Poland 3 25 6 25 9 50179 Vir Singh nbsp India 2 00 5 75 7 75180 Carol Bedo nbsp Romania 1 75 5 50 7 25181 Francisco Cascante nbsp Cuba 3 00 4 00 7 00182 Zoltan Balogh nbsp Romania 1 25 5 50 6 75183 Khushi Ram nbsp India 1 25 4 50 5 75184 Hans Friedrich nbsp Austria 4 00 4 00185 Mahmoud Mohamed Reda nbsp Egypt 0 50 0 50References edit Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games Men s Horizontal Bar Sports Reference Archived from the original on 17 April 2020 Retrieved 31 October 2019 a b Horizontal Bar Men Olympedia Retrieved 9 December 2020 Official Report 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