The women's vault competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall II from 22 to 23 July. It was the first appearance of the event, though vault exercises were part of the women's team all-around events in 1928, 1936, and 1948.[1]
| Women's vault at the Games of the XV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall II | ||||||||||||
| Date | 22–23 July | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 134 from 18 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 19.20 | ||||||||||||
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Competition format edit
The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of 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 four apparatus that would become standard (floor, balance beam, uneven bars, and vault) were all used in the same Games for the first time.
No separate finals were contested.
For each individual exercise, five judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining three scores averaged to give the exercise total. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.
Each competitor had two tries for each of the compulsory and voluntary vaults, with the better score to count.[2]
Results edit
References edit
- ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ Official Report, p. 442.