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Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

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Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Artistic gymnastics pictogram
VenueEarls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates12–13 August
Competitors121 from 16 nations
Winning score39.7
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Walter Lehmann
 Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
← 1936
1952 →

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.

Background

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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.

Competition format

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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]

Schedule

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All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Date Time Round
Thursday, 12 August 1948 9:00 Compulsory
Friday, 13 August 1948 9:00 Voluntary

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Josef Stalder  Switzerland 19.8 19.9 39.7
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Walter Lehmann  Switzerland 19.7 19.7 39.4
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Veikko Huhtanen  Finland 19.6 19.6 39.2
4 Raymond Dot  France 19.3 19.5 38.8
Aleksanteri Saarvala  Finland 19.0 19.8 38.8
Lajos Sántha  Hungary 19.4 19.4 38.8
Emil Studer  Switzerland 19.5 19.3 38.8
8 Einari Teräsvirta  Finland 19.5 19.2 38.7
9 Christian Kipfer  Switzerland 19.2 19.4 38.6
Lajos Tóth  Hungary 19.0 19.6 38.6
11 Lucien Masset  France 19.3 19.2 38.5
12 Paavo Aaltonen  Finland 18.8 19.6 38.4
Michael Reusch  Switzerland 19.6 18.8 38.4
14 Kalevi Laitinen  Finland 19.1 19.0 38.1
15 Guido Figone  Italy 19.2 18.8 38.0
Sulo Salmi  Finland 19.1 18.9 38.0
17 Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 19.5 18.4 37.9
Auguste Sirot  France 18.6 19.3 37.9
19 Michel Mathiot  France 18.5 19.3 37.8
20 Alphonse Anger  France 19.0 18.6 37.6
Pavel Benetka  Czechoslovakia 18.7 18.9 37.6
André Weingand  France 18.9 18.7 37.6
23 Robert Lucy  Switzerland 18.6 18.9 37.5
24 Olavi Rove  Finland 18.5 18.9 37.4
25 Frank Cumiskey  United States 18.6 18.7 37.3
Luigi Zanetti  Italy 19.0 18.3 37.3
27 Savino Guglielmetti  Italy 18.9 18.3 37.2
František Wirth  Czechoslovakia 18.6 18.6 37.2
29 Heikki Savolainen  Finland 19.5 17.6 37.1
30 Jack Flaherty  Great Britain 18.0 18.9 36.9
31 Gyözö Mogyorosi  Hungary 18.0 18.8 36.8
32 Karl Bohusch  Austria 18.9 17.8 36.7
33 Danilo Fioravanti  Italy 18.1 18.5 36.6
Domenico Grosso  Italy 18.5 18.1 36.6
Miroslav Málek  Czechoslovakia 18.3 18.3 36.6
Ed Scrobe  United States 18.8 17.8 36.6
Quinto Vadi  Italy 18.4 18.2 36.6
38 László Baranyai  Hungary 17.7 18.8 36.5
George Weedon  Great Britain 18.1 18.4 36.5
40 Bill Roetzheim  United States 17.8 18.6 36.4
41 Willi Schreyer  Austria 18.8 17.3 36.1
42 János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary 18.0 18.0 36.0
Antoine Schildwein  France 16.8 19.2 36.0
44 Konrad Grilc  Yugoslavia 18.4 17.5 35.9
45 Ernst Wister  Austria 19.3 16.5 35.8
46 Josip Kujundžić  Yugoslavia 17.5 18.0 35.5
Ray Sorensen  United States 17.2 18.3 35.5
Melchior Thalmann  Switzerland 17.6 17.9 35.5
49 Vincent D'Autorio  United States 18.0 17.4 35.4
Ettore Perego  Italy 18.4 17.0 35.4
51 Gottfried Hermann  Austria 18.0 17.1 35.1
52 Poul Jessen  Denmark 17.2 17.8 35.0
53 Egidio Armelloni  Italy 18.3 16.5 34.8
Marcel de Wolf  France 16.2 18.6 34.8
55 Ferenc Várkõi  Hungary 16.6 18.1 34.7
56 Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 16.0 18.6 34.6
57 Ken Buffin  Great Britain 17.4 17.0 34.4
Hans Sauter  Austria 17.5 16.9 34.4
59 Joe Kotys  United States 17.2 16.8 34.0
60 Freddy Jensen  Denmark 15.75 18.2 33.95
61 Drago Jelić  Yugoslavia 17.4 16.5 33.9
Vladimír Karas  Czechoslovakia 17.3 16.6 33.9
Miro Longyka  Yugoslavia 17.4 16.5 33.9
Polo Welfring  Luxembourg 16.2 17.7 33.9
65 Jozsef Fekete  Hungary 17.4 16.3 33.7
Karl Frei  Switzerland 15.0 18.7 33.7
67 Arnold Thomsen  Denmark 15.5 17.8 33.3
68 Elkana Grønne  Denmark 16.2 16.9 33.1
Ferenc Pataki  Hungary 14.0 19.1 33.1
70 Ali Zaky  Egypt 17.6 15.4 33.0
71 William Bonsall  United States 15.25 17.7 32.95
72 Volmer Thomsen  Denmark 16.4 16.4 32.8
73 Jos Bernard  Luxembourg 15.0 17.0 32.0
74 Børge Minerth  Denmark 16.8 15.1 31.9
75 Vilhelm Møller  Denmark 14.75 17.1 31.85
76 Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 14.75 16.7 31.45
77 Hans Friedrich  Austria 18.0 13.3 31.3
Vratislav Petráček  Czechoslovakia 16.0 15.3 31.3
79 Pierre Schmitz  Luxembourg 15.0 16.2 31.2
Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia 14.0 17.2 31.2
81 Moustafa Abdelal  Egypt 13.75 16.7 30.45
82 René Schroeder  Luxembourg 15.5 14.8 30.3
83 Mohamed Roushdi  Egypt 14.0 16.2 30.2
84 Ahmed Khalaf Ali  Egypt 13.75 16.3 30.05
85 Arturo Amos  Argentina 15.75 13.8 29.55
86 Alec Wales  Great Britain 12.25 17.2 29.45
87 Robert Pranz  Austria 13.0 16.4 29.4
88 Frank Turner  Great Britain 13.0 16.2 29.2
89 Mohamed Aly  Egypt 10.6 17.9 28.5
90 Mahmoud Abdel-Aal  Egypt 16.0 12.0 28.0
91 Menn Krecke  Luxembourg 11.75 15.6 27.35
92 Ivica Jelić  Yugoslavia 14.0 13.0 27.0
93 Jakob Šubelj  Yugoslavia 10.0 16.4 26.4
94 Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 10.75 15.6 26.35
95 Stjepan Boltižar  Yugoslavia 10.5 15.6 26.1
96 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi  Egypt 9.5 16.0 25.5
97 Enrique Rapesta  Argentina 10.25 14.8 25.05
98 Ali El-Hefnawi  Egypt 10.5 13.8 24.3
99 Georges Wengler  Luxembourg 9.25 13.9 23.15
100 Gunner Olesen  Denmark 6.0 16.9 22.9
101 César Bonoris  Argentina 8.0 14.2 22.2
102 Jorge Soler  Argentina 8.5 12.9 21.4
103 Gustav Hrubý  Czechoslovakia 15.3 6.0 21.3
104 Pedro Lonchibuco  Argentina 6.0 14.5 20.5
105 Percy May  Great Britain 6.0 13.5 19.5
106 Baldomero Rubiera  Cuba 4.5 14.5 19.0
107 Fernando Lecuona  Cuba 5.5 11.8 17.3
108 Jorge Castro  Mexico 6.0 11.0 17.0
Rubén Lira  Mexico 3.0 14.0 17.0
110 Alejandro Díaz  Cuba 5.5 11.0 16.5
Roberto Villacián  Cuba 5.5 11.0 16.5
112 Raimundo Rey  Cuba 6.25 10.0 16.25
113 Karel Janež  Yugoslavia 8.0 8.0 16.0
114 Louis Bordo  United States 15.75 15.75
115 Ángel Aguiar  Cuba 5.5 9.0 14.5
116 Roberto Núñez  Argentina 5.0 9.4 14.4
117 Glyn Hopkins  Great Britain 5.25 8.5 13.75
118 Ivor Vice  Great Britain 4.5 8.5 13.0
119 Dario Aguilar  Mexico 2.0 6.0 8.0
120 Everardo Rios  Mexico 6.0 6.0
Jorge Vidal  Argentina 6.0 6.0

References

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  1. ^ "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.
  2. ^ "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 343.