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Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

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Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Plaque at Töölö Sports Hall commemorating 1952 Olympic sports held there
VenueTöölö Sports Hall, Exhibition Hall I
Dates19–21 July
Competitors185 from 29 nations
Winning score19.65
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hans Eugster
 Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
← 1948
1956 →

The men's parallel bars competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, 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 Hans Eugster of Switzerland, the nation's second consecutive and third overall victory in the parallel bars, breaking a tie with Germany for most all-time. Switzerland also took bronze, as Josef Stalder repeated his 1948 third-place performance (making him the second man to win multiple medals in the event, after fellow Swiss Michael Reusch). The Soviet Union's debut resulted in a silver medal for Viktor Chukarin, who would become the third multi-medalist in 1956.

Background

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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). Six of the top 10 gymnasts from 1948 returned: bronze medalist Josef Stalder of Switzerland, sixth-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland, seventh-place finishers Paavo Aaltonen of Finland and Zdeněk Růžička of Czechoslovakia, ninth-place finisher Lajos Sántha of Hungary, and tenth-place finisher Olavi Rove of Finland. Swiss gymnast Hans Eugster was the reigning (1950) world champion, with Rove the runner-up.[2]

Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Spain, and Sweden each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. 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

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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]

Schedule

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All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 19 July 1952
Sunday, 20 July 1952
Monday, 21 July 1952
7:30
8:00
8:00
Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hans Eugster  Switzerland 9.85 9.80 19.65
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union 9.80 9.80 19.60
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Josef Stalder  Switzerland 9.80 9.70 19.50
4 Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union 9.50 9.85 19.35
5 Ferdinand Daniš  Czechoslovakia 9.70 9.60 19.30
Yevgeny Korolkov  Soviet Union 9.50 9.80 19.30
Jean Tschabold  Switzerland 9.65 9.65 19.30
8 Vladimir Belyakov  Soviet Union 9.45 9.80 19.25
Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union 9.55 9.70 19.25
10 Akitomo Kaneko  Japan 9.50 9.70 19.20
11 Iosif Berdiev  Soviet Union 9.45 9.70 19.15
12 Helmut Bantz  Germany 9.60 9.50 19.10
13 Jack Günthard  Switzerland 9.55 9.50 19.05
Onni Lappalainen  Finland 9.45 9.60 19.05
15 Mikhail Perelman  Soviet Union 9.25 9.75 19.00
Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany 9.55 9.45 19.00
Theo Wied  Germany 9.45 9.55 19.00
18 Hans Schwarzentruber  Switzerland 9.55 9.40 18.95
19 Adalbert Dickhut  Germany 9.40 9.45 18.85
Olavi Rove  Finland 9.40 9.45 18.85
21 Ed Scrobe  United States 9.35 9.45 18.80
Ali Zaky  Egypt 9.40 9.40 18.80
23 Hans Pfann  Germany 9.45 9.30 18.75
Hans Sauter  Austria 9.40 9.35 18.75
Melchior Thalmann  Switzerland 9.40 9.35 18.75
26 Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.40 9.30 18.70
27 Paavo Aaltonen  Finland 9.00 9.65 18.65
Jakob Kiefer  Germany 9.45 9.20 18.65
Jindřich Mikulec  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.30 18.65
Erich Wied  Germany 9.30 9.35 18.65
31 Tetsumi Nabeya  Japan 9.40 9.20 18.60
Takashi Ono  Japan 9.45 9.15 18.60
Lajos Sántha  Hungary 9.45 9.15 18.60
Josef Škvor  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.40 18.60
35 Guido Figone  Italy 9.20 9.35 18.55
Michel Mathiot  France 9.35 9.20 18.55
Bob Stout  United States 9.30 9.25 18.55
38 Ernst Gebendinger  Switzerland 9.65 8.85 18.50
Tadao Uesako  Japan 9.20 9.30 18.50
40 Friedel Overwien  Germany 9.35 9.10 18.45
Ferenc Pataki  Hungary 9.40 9.05 18.45
Kalevi Viskari  Finland 9.45 9.00 18.45
Willi Welt  Austria 9.35 9.10 18.45
44 Raymond Dot  France 9.30 9.10 18.40
Josef Svoboda  Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.15 18.40
Lajos Tóth  Hungary 9.30 9.10 18.40
47 Littorio Sampieri  Italy 9.00 9.35 18.35
Börje Stattin  Sweden 9.30 9.05 18.35
49 Ernst Fivian  Switzerland 8.70 9.60 18.30
Wolfgang Girardi  Austria 9.15 9.15 18.30
Jean Guillou  France 9.35 8.95 18.30
52 Kalevi Laitinen  Finland 9.10 9.15 18.25
Ernst Wister  Austria 9.05 9.20 18.25
54 Hans Friedrich  Austria 9.25 8.95 18.20
Heikki Savolainen  Finland 9.00 9.20 18.20
Todor Todorov  Bulgaria 9.00 9.20 18.20
57 Alf Olsen  Norway 9.10 9.05 18.15
Szymon Sobala  Poland 9.20 8.95 18.15
William Thoresson  Sweden 9.15 9.00 18.15
60 Raymond Badin  France 9.20 8.90 18.10
Joaquín Blume  Spain 9.00 9.10 18.10
Bill Roetzheim  United States 9.15 8.95 18.10
Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia 9.35 8.75 18.10
André Weingand  France 9.20 8.90 18.10
65 Kaino Lempinen  Finland 9.35 8.70 18.05
Dimitar Yordanov  Bulgaria 8.90 9.15 18.05
67 Ahmed Issam Allam  Egypt 9.10 8.90 18.00
Arne Carlsson  Sweden 9.00 9.00 18.00
Anders Lindh  Sweden 9.00 9.00 18.00
Frederic Orendi  Romania 9.05 8.95 18.00
71 Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 9.05 8.90 17.95
Masao Takemoto  Japan 9.10 8.85 17.95
Mincho Todorov  Bulgaria 9.00 8.95 17.95
74 Vincent D'Autorio  United States 9.00 8.90 17.90
Paweł Gaca  Poland 8.90 9.00 17.90
Franz Kemter  Austria 9.20 8.70 17.90
Miloš Kolejka  Czechoslovakia 9.20 8.70 17.90
Vasil Konstantinov  Bulgaria 8.95 8.95 17.90
Nikolay Milev  Bulgaria 9.15 8.75 17.90
Erich Peters  Sweden 8.90 9.00 17.90
81 Jack Beckner  United States 8.85 9.00 17.85
Mihai Botez  Romania 8.90 8.95 17.85
René Changeat  France 8.90 8.95 17.85
József Fekete  Hungary 9.15 8.70 17.85
Paweł Gawron  Poland 8.85 9.00 17.85
86 Károly Kocsis  Hungary 9.30 8.50 17.80
87 Magdy Gheriani  Egypt 8.90 8.85 17.75
Vladimír Kejř  Czechoslovakia 9.20 8.55 17.75
Ferenc Kemény  Hungary 8.75 9.00 17.75
Berndt Lindfors  Finland 9.05 8.70 17.75
Paweł Świętek  Poland 8.80 8.95 17.75
Frank Turner  Great Britain 9.10 8.65 17.75
Luigi Zanetti  Italy 9.00 8.75 17.75
94 Fabio Bonacina  Italy 9.00 8.70 17.70
Armand Huberty  Luxembourg 8.90 8.80 17.70
96 Silvio Brivio  Italy 8.75 8.90 17.65
Mathias Jamtvedt  Norway 8.85 8.80 17.65
Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 8.85 8.80 17.65
Jack Whitford  Great Britain 9.10 8.55 17.65
100 Walter Blattmann  United States 9.10 8.50 17.60
Dušan Furlan  Yugoslavia 9.00 8.60 17.60
Paul Grubenthal  Austria 9.10 8.50 17.60
János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary 9.10 8.50 17.60
Orlando Polmonari  Italy 8.90 8.70 17.60
Nils Sjöberg  Sweden 8.85 8.75 17.60
106 Arthur Schmitt  Saar 8.95 8.60 17.55
107 Georges Floquet  France 9.15 8.30 17.45
Jerzy Solarz  Poland 8.80 8.65 17.45
Quinto Vadi  Italy 8.50 8.95 17.45
110 Sándor Réthy  Hungary 8.60 8.80 17.40
111 Georg Johansen  Norway 8.65 8.60 17.25
Alf Nørgaard  Norway 8.80 8.45 17.25
Volmer Thomsen  Denmark 9.00 8.25 17.25
Kurt Wigartz  Sweden 8.95 8.30 17.25
115 Ryszard Kucjas  Poland 8.40 8.80 17.20
116 Jerzy Jokiel  Poland 8.50 8.60 17.10
Børge Nielsen  Denmark 8.70 8.40 17.10
118 Ivan Čaklec  Yugoslavia 8.65 8.40 17.05
Don Holder  United States 9.05 8.00 17.05
120 Franjo Jurjević  Yugoslavia 9.00 8.00 17.00
121 Nikolay Atanasov  Bulgaria 8.65 8.30 16.95
Sreten Stefanović  Yugoslavia 8.55 8.40 16.95
123 Antun Kropivšek  Yugoslavia 8.65 8.25 16.90
124 Bjarne Jørgensen  Denmark 8.85 7.95 16.80
Arne Knudsen  Norway 9.10 7.70 16.80
126 Ernst Madland  Norway 8.75 8.00 16.75
127 Dmytro Leonkin  Soviet Union 7.10 9.60 16.70
128 Poul Jessen  Denmark 8.85 7.80 16.65
Odd Lie  Norway 8.60 8.05 16.65
130 César Bonoris  Argentina 8.75 7.85 16.60
Andrei Kerekes  Romania 8.95 7.65 16.60
132 Ivica Jelić  Yugoslavia 8.40 8.15 16.55
133 Karel Janež  Yugoslavia 7.85 8.60 16.45
Freddy Jensen  Denmark 7.55 8.90 16.45
Ragai Youssef  Egypt 8.55 7.90 16.45
136 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi  Egypt 8.20 8.20 16.40
Ede Mađar  Yugoslavia 8.05 8.35 16.40
138 Ken Buffin  Great Britain 8.85 7.50 16.35
139 Joaquim Granger  Portugal 8.45 7.80 16.25
140 Walter Müller  Saar 8.40 7.80 16.20
141 Frederik De Waele  Belgium 7.85 8.25 16.10
142 Marcel Coppin  Luxembourg 8.65 7.40 16.05
Charles Simms  United States 7.25 8.80 16.05
144 Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 8.90 7.10 16.00
145 Eugen Balint  Romania 7.55 8.40 15.95
Graham Harcourt  Great Britain 8.70 7.25 15.95
147 Norbert Dietrich  Saar 8.20 7.65 15.85
Hubert Erang  Luxembourg 8.40 7.45 15.85
149 Zoltan Balogh  Romania 7.90 7.90 15.80
Arrigo Carnoli  Italy 7.50 8.30 15.80
Mahmoud Safwat  Egypt 8.45 7.35 15.80
152 Iliya Topalov  Bulgaria 9.25 6.50 15.75
153 Magne Kleiven  Norway 7.90 7.70 15.60
154 Aurel Losnita  Romania 7.00 8.50 15.50
155 Ángel Aguiar  Cuba 7.45 8.00 15.45
René Schroeder  Luxembourg 7.90 7.55 15.45
157 Rolf Lauer  Saar 7.70 7.70 15.40
158 Carol Bedö  Romania 7.70 7.55 15.25
Gunnar Pedersen  Denmark 8.75 6.50 15.25
Jeroom Riske  Belgium 8.10 7.15 15.25
161 Rolf Yelseth  South Africa 7.70 7.50 15.20
162 Marcel de Wolf  France 8.10 7.00 15.10
163 Ronnie Lombard  South Africa 8.05 7.00 15.05
164 Manuel Gouveia  Portugal 6.70 8.25 14.95
165 Zdzisław Lesiński  Poland 6.00 8.85 14.85
166 Juan Caviglia  Argentina 7.90 6.75 14.65
167 Heinz Ostheimer  Saar 6.70 7.90 14.60
168 Francisc Cocis  Romania 6.25 8.20 14.45
169 Francisco Cascante  Cuba 8.30 6.00 14.30
170 George Weedon  Great Britain 6.15 7.75 13.90
171 Mohamed Sayed Hamdi  Egypt 8.65 5.00 13.65
172 Peter Starling  Great Britain 7.05 6.50 13.55
173 Raúl Caldeira  Portugal 6.95 6.30 13.25
Jack Wells  South Africa 8.25 5.00 13.25
175 Manuel Prazeres  Portugal 6.25 6.90 13.15
176 Fred Wiedersporn  Saar 6.60 6.30 12.90
177 António Leite  Portugal 7.00 5.75 12.75
178 Børge Minerth  Denmark 7.10 5.45 12.55
179 Manuel Cardoso  Portugal 5.00 5.00 10.00
180 Mahmoud Mohamed Reda  Egypt 6.50 3.00 9.50
181 Stoyan Stoyanov  Bulgaria 9.15 9.15
182 Friedrich Fetz  Austria 8.40 8.40
183 Maurice De Groote  Belgium 0.00 8.10 8.10
184 Vir Singh  India 2.25 4.00 6.25
185 Khushi Ram  India 0.00 4.00 4.00

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Parallel Bars". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 424.