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Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

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Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Veikko Huhtanen competing on the rings
VenueEarls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates12–13 August
Competitors122 from 16 nations
Winning score39.5
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Michael Reusch
 Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Christian Kipfer
 Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
← 1936
1952 →

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.

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). 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.

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) Michael Reusch  Switzerland 19.8 19.7 39.5
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Veikko Huhtanen  Finland 19.7 19.6 39.3
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Christian Kipfer  Switzerland 19.7 19.4 39.1
Josef Stalder  Switzerland 19.3 19.8 39.1
5 Walter Lehmann  Switzerland 19.5 19.5 39.0
6 Heikki Savolainen  Finland 19.2 19.7 38.9
7 Paavo Aaltonen  Finland 19.0 19.8 38.8
Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 19.6 19.2 38.8
9 Lajos Sántha  Hungary 19.4 19.3 38.7
10 Olavi Rove  Finland 19.5 19.1 38.6
11 Savino Guglielmetti  Italy 19.1 19.4 38.5
12 Einari Teräsvirta  Finland 19.5 18.9 38.4
13 Guido Figone  Italy 19.3 19.0 38.3
14 Michel Mathiot  France 18.9 19.3 38.2
Lajos Tóth  Hungary 19.1 19.1 38.2
16 László Baranyai  Hungary 19.3 18.8 38.1
Kalevi Laitinen  Finland 19.5 18.6 38.1
18 Raymond Dot  France 19.1 18.9 38.0
Ferenc Pataki  Hungary 19.1 18.9 38.0
20 Melchior Thalmann  Switzerland 19.1 18.8 37.9
21 Robert Lucy  Switzerland 18.9 18.9 37.8
Ed Scrobe  United States 18.8 19.0 37.8
Emil Studer  Switzerland 18.5 19.3 37.8
24 Aleksanteri Saarvala  Finland 18.2 19.4 37.6
25 Joe Kotys  United States 18.9 18.5 37.4
26 Pavel Benetka  Czechoslovakia 18.8 18.5 37.3
Luigi Zanetti  Italy 18.9 18.4 37.3
28 Jozsef Fekete  Hungary 18.5 18.6 37.1
29 André Weingand  France 18.2 18.8 37.0
30 Karl Frei  Switzerland 18.3 18.6 36.9
31 Alphonse Anger  France 18.6 18.2 36.8
Sulo Salmi  Finland 18.1 18.7 36.8
33 Vladimír Karas  Czechoslovakia 18.8 17.9 36.7
34 Ferenc Várkõi  Hungary 17.8 18.8 36.6
35 Hans Friedrich  Austria 18.3 18.1 36.4
Gyözö Mogyorosi  Hungary 18.1 18.3 36.4
37 Ernst Wister  Austria 18.1 18.0 36.1
38 Bill Roetzheim  United States 18.3 17.7 36.0
39 Danilo Fioravanti  Italy 17.4 18.5 35.9
János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary 17.4 18.5 35.9
41 Elkana Grønne  Denmark 17.9 17.9 35.8
Poul Jessen  Denmark 18.0 17.8 35.8
George Weedon  Great Britain 18.0 17.8 35.8
44 Marcel de Wolf  France 18.2 17.5 35.7
Konrad Grilc  Yugoslavia 18.9 16.8 35.7
Frank Turner  Great Britain 17.7 18.0 35.7
Quinto Vadi  Italy 17.5 18.2 35.7
48 Auguste Sirot  France 17.6 18.0 35.6
49 Domenico Grosso  Italy 17.7 17.7 35.4
Antoine Schildwein  France 18.0 17.4 35.4
51 Vratislav Petráček  Czechoslovakia 17.6 17.7 35.3
52 Egidio Armelloni  Italy 17.6 17.4 35.0
53 Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 17.6 17.2 34.8
Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia 18.6 16.2 34.8
55 Mohamed Roushdi  Egypt 16.7 17.9 34.6
56 Mahmoud Abdel-Aal  Egypt 17.5 17.0 34.5
Vincent D'Autorio  United States 16.6 17.9 34.5
Josip Kujundžić  Yugoslavia 17.4 17.1 34.5
Miroslav Málek  Czechoslovakia 17.4 17.1 34.5
Børge Minerth  Denmark 19.0 15.5 34.5
61 Lucien Masset  France 18.6 15.75 34.35
62 Gunner Olesen  Denmark 17.8 16.5 34.3
63 Hans Sauter  Austria 18.3 15.95 34.25
64 František Wirth  Czechoslovakia 18.7 15.45 34.15
65 Freddy Jensen  Denmark 17.6 16.5 34.1
66 Frank Cumiskey  United States 16.2 17.8 34.0
67 Alec Wales  Great Britain 16.5 17.4 33.9
68 Karl Bohusch  Austria 17.2 16.6 33.8
69 Ali Zaky  Egypt 15.7 18.0 33.7
70 Volmer Thomsen  Denmark 17.8 15.75 33.55
71 Ettore Perego  Italy 15.6 17.8 33.4
72 William Bonsall  United States 15.8 17.3 33.1
Ray Sorensen  United States 15.6 17.5 33.1
74 Willi Schreyer  Austria 16.1 16.9 33.0
75 Fernando Lecuona  Cuba 17.7 15.25 32.95
76 Gottfried Hermann  Austria 17.8 14.5 32.3
77 Arnold Thomsen  Denmark 17.6 14.5 32.1
78 Vilhelm Møller  Denmark 15.0 16.9 31.9
79 Ahmed Khalaf Ali  Egypt 14.9 16.9 31.8
Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 17.3 14.5 31.8
81 Mohamed Aly  Egypt 17.0 14.75 31.75
82 Ken Buffin  Great Britain 16.3 15.0 31.3
83 Arturo Amos  Argentina 17.0 14.25 31.25
84 Percy May  Great Britain 15.0 16.2 31.2
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 17.7 13.5 31.2
86 Miro Longyka  Yugoslavia 18.1 13.0 31.1
87 Stjepan Boltižar  Yugoslavia 14.9 15.8 30.7
Ali El-Hefnawi  Egypt 16.7 14.0 30.7
89 Moustafa Abdelal  Egypt 14.0 16.0 30.0
90 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi  Egypt 16.2 13.5 29.7
91 René Schroeder  Luxembourg 14.0 15.25 29.25
92 Karel Janež  Yugoslavia 14.5 14.5 29.0
Ivica Jelić  Yugoslavia 14.5 14.5 29.0
94 Menn Krecke  Luxembourg 14.7 14.25 28.95
95 Jack Flaherty  Great Britain 16.0 12.75 28.75
96 César Bonoris  Argentina 14.2 14.25 28.45
Drago Jelić  Yugoslavia 14.4 14.05 28.45
98 Pedro Lonchibuco  Argentina 13.3 15.0 28.3
99 Ángel Aguiar  Cuba 15.7 11.75 27.45
Polo Welfring  Luxembourg 16.2 11.25 27.45
101 Pierre Schmitz  Luxembourg 14.0 13.25 27.25
102 Gustav Hrubý  Czechoslovakia 16.8 10.0 26.8
103 Jos Bernard  Luxembourg 13.2 13.5 26.7
104 Enrique Rapesta  Argentina 11.0 14.0 25.0
105 Jakob Šubelj  Yugoslavia 13.8 11.0 24.8
106 Raimundo Rey  Cuba 12.8 11.5 24.3
107 Robert Pranz  Austria 10.5 13.5 24.0
108 Georges Wengler  Luxembourg 10.5 13.25 23.75
109 Roberto Villacián  Cuba 14.4 8.25 22.65
110 Baldomero Rubiera  Cuba 13.5 9.0 22.5
111 Glyn Hopkins  Great Britain 7.5 13.75 21.25
112 Jorge Soler  Argentina 7.0 13.5 20.5
113 Roberto Núñez  Argentina 6.5 12.0 18.5
114 Alejandro Díaz  Cuba 6.0 11.25 17.25
115 Dario Aguilar  Mexico 6.0 11.0 17.0
116 Ivor Vice  Great Britain 1.0 15.25 16.25
117 Louis Bordo  United States 14.9 14.9
118 Jorge Castro  Mexico 7.0 7.5 14.5
119 Rubén Lira  Mexico 4.0 8.25 12.25
120 Everardo Rios  Mexico 9.5 9.5
121 Jorge Vidal  Argentina 6.5 6.5
122 Willi Welt  Austria 2.0 2.0

References

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