Gymnastics at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's team

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The men's team was an artistic gymnastics event held as part of the gymnastics at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme. It was the fourth appearance of the event, which was one of three team gymnastics events held in 1920 (along with the free system team event and the Swedish system team event). The competition was held on Monday, 23 August 1920 and on Tuesday, 24 August 1920. Five teams competed, for a total of 120 gymnasts.[1]

Men's team gymnastics
at the Games of the VII Olympiad
VenueOlympisch Stadion
Dates23–24 August
Competitors120 from 5 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s)  Belgium
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)  France
← 1912
1924 →

Medalists

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Gold Silver Bronze
  Italy (ITA)
Arnaldo Andreoli
Ettore Bellotto
Pietro Bianchi
Fernando Bonatti
Luigi Cambiaso
Luigi Contessi
Carlo Costigliolo
Luigi Costigliolo
Giuseppe Domenichelli
Roberto Ferrari
Carlo Fregosi
Romualdo Ghiglione
Ambrogio Levati
Francesco Loi
Vittorio Lucchetti
Luigi Maiocco
Ferdinando Mandrini
Lorenzo Mangiante
Antonio Marovelli
Michele Mastromarino
Giuseppe Paris
Manlio Pastorini
Ezio Roselli
Paolo Salvi
Giovanni Tubino
Giorgio Zampori
Angelo Zorzi
  Belgium (BEL)
Eugenius Auwerkerken
Théophile Bauer
François Claessens
Augustus Cootmans
Frans Gibens
Albert Haepers
Domien Jacob
Félicien Kempeneers
Jules Labéeu
Hubert Lafortune
Auguste Landrieu
Charles Lannie
Constant Loriot
Nicolaas Moerloos
Ferdinand Minnaert
Louis Stoop
Jean Van Guysse
Alphonse Van Mele
François Verboven
Jean Verboven
Julien Verdonck
Joseph Verstraeten
Georges Vivex
Julianus Wagemans
  France (FRA)
Georges Berger
Émile Bouchès
René Boulanger
Alfred Buyenne
Eugène Cordonnier
Léon Delsarte
Lucien Démanet
Paul Durin
Georges Duvant
Fernand Fauconnier
Arthur Hermann
Albert Hersoy
André Higelin
Auguste Hoël
Louis Quempe
Georges Lagouge
Paulin Lemaire
Ernest Lespinasse
Émile Boitelle
Jules Pirard
Eugène Pollet
Georges Thurnherr
Marco Torrès
François Walker
Julien Wartelle
Paul Wartelle

Results

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The competition was composed of five parts; exercises with instruments, horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse, and hurdle exercise (four hurdles of 70 cm.). On the horizontal bar, parallel bars, and pommel horse, a compulsory and an optional exercise were performed. Maximum score was 404 points.

Final
Place Team Score
1   Italy (ITA) 359.855
2   Belgium (BEL) 346.765
3   France (FRA) 340.100
4   Czechoslovakia (TCH) 305.255
Josef Bochníček
Ladislav Bubeníček
Josef Čada
Stanislav Indruch
Miroslav Klinger
Josef Malý
Zdeněk Opočenský
Josef Pagáč
František Pecháček
Robert Pražák
Václav Stolař
Svatopluk Svoboda
Ladislav Vácha
František Vaněček
Jaroslav Velda
Václav Wirt
5   Great Britain (GBR) 290.115
Sidney Andrew
Albert Betts
Arthur Cocksedge
James Cotterell
William Cowhig
Sidney Cross
Horace Dawswell
J. E. Dingley
Sidney Domville
H. W. Doncaster
Reginald Edgecombe
Wyndham Edwards
Harry Finchett
Bernard Franklin
J. Harris
Samuel Hodgetts
Stanley Leigh
George Masters
Ronald McLean
Oliver Morris
Ted Ness
A. E. Page
Alfred Pinner
Teddy Pugh
H. W. Taylor
John Walker
Ralph Yandell

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Men's Team All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2019.

Sources

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  • Belgium Olympic Committee (1957). Olympic Games Antwerp 1920: Official Report (in French).
  • Wudarski, Pawel (1999). "Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich" (in Polish). Retrieved 25 April 2008.