Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 and 11 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.[1][2] There were 110 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men.[3] The event was won by Aleksanteri Saarvala of Finland, the nation's first victory in the event. Germany took silver and bronze, as Konrad Frey finished second and Alfred Schwarzmann finished third.

Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Gymnastics competitions in 1936
VenueWaldbühne
Dates10–11 August
Competitors110 from 14 nations
Winning score19.367
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Aleksanteri Saarvala
 Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Konrad Frey
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Alfred Schwarzmann
 Germany
← 1932
1948 →

Background

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This was the sixth 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). Seven of the 12 gymnasts from 1932 returned: silver medalist Heikki Savolainen, bronze medalist Einari Teräsvirta, and fourth-place finisher Ilmari Pakarinen of Finland, fourth-place finisher István Pelle and seventh-place finisher Miklós Péter of Hungary, tenth-place finisher Al Jochim of the United States, and eleventh-place finisher Savino Guglielmetti of Italy. Savolainen, Pelle, Péter, and Jochim had competed in 1928 as well. The 1928 gold medalist, Georges Miez of Switzerland, was also back in Berlin. Miez had finished second in the 1934 world championship to Ernst Winter of Germany, also competing in front of his home nation.[3]

Austria, Bulgaria, and Romania each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its fifth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928 but not in 1932. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions (Neri of Italy did not compete in the horizontal bar) performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the horizontal bar were added to the other apparatus scores 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.[4]

The compulsory exercise was described in the Official Report:

Sidestand: From a slight preliminary swing with under-grip, high underswing, backward swing, swingstem (rise) with a high frontal turn into a momentary handstand with upper grip (i.e. ½ turn about the stationary hand, either left or right), lower body to a free support, free hip-circle backward with straddling over bar into a balance-support, seat or balance-circle backward, drop backward, return-straddle of legs and at once squat through and hip-swing-up rearways forward with flanking backward into a momentary side-support frontways, underswing with ½ turn left or right, forward swing into giant-circle-swing into a momentary handstand with mixed grip, (change to upper grip) two giant-circles backward, with the second circle ½ turn left or right into a handstand with undergrip, one giant-circle forward, at the next giant-circle forward stoop through arms and over bar, scat-circle forward and jump forward into a sidestand rearways, knees bent half deep and arms raised sideward, straighten knees and lower arms to the fundamental position.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Monday, 10 August 1936
Tuesday, 11 August 1936
7:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
  Aleksanteri Saarvala   Finland 9.700 9.667 19.367
  Konrad Frey   Germany 9.700 9.567 19.267
  Alfred Schwarzmann   Germany 9.700 9.533 19.233
4 Innozenz Stangl   Germany 9.400 9.767 19.167
5 Heikki Savolainen   Finland 9.400 9.733 19.133
6 Ilmari Pakarinen   Finland 9.567 9.500 19.067
7 Martti Uosikkinen   Finland 9.333 9.667 19.000
8 Walter Steffens   Germany 9.333 9.633 18.966
9 Eugen Mack   Switzerland 9.300 9.600 18.900
10 Alois Hudec   Czechoslovakia 9.367 9.467 18.834
11 Eduard Steinemann   Switzerland 9.333 9.467 18.800
Matthias Volz   Germany 9.300 9.500 18.800
13 Einari Teräsvirta   Finland 9.300 9.433 18.733
14 Willi Stadel   Germany 9.400 9.300 18.700
15 Frank Cumiskey   United States 9.200 9.400 18.600
Gottfried Hermann   Austria 9.200 9.400 18.600
Mauri Nyberg-Noroma   Finland 9.000 9.600 18.600
18 Michael Reusch   Switzerland 9.133 9.433 18.566
19 Esa Seeste   Finland 9.067 9.433 18.500
20 Georges Miez   Switzerland 9.167 9.300 18.467
21 István Pelle   Hungary 9.133 9.333 18.466
22 Konrad Grilc   Yugoslavia 9.367 9.000 18.367
23 Walter Bach   Switzerland 8.833 9.500 18.333
Lajos Tóth   Hungary 9.033 9.300 18.333
25 Karl Pannos   Austria 8.967 9.333 18.300
26 Metty Logelin   Luxembourg 9.133 9.067 18.200
Eino Tukiainen   Finland 9.033 9.167 18.200
28 Walter Beck   Switzerland 9.167 9.000 18.167
August Sturm   Austria 9.200 8.967 18.167
30 Savino Guglielmetti   Italy 8.433 9.500 17.933
31 Dimitrije Merzlikin   Yugoslavia 9.300 8.600 17.900
Armand Walter   France 8.533 9.367 17.900
33 Yoshitaka Takeda   Japan 9.000 8.733 17.733
34 Adolf Scheffknecht   Austria 8.467 9.200 '17.667
35 Leon Štukelj   Yugoslavia 8.433 9.200 17.633
36 Yoshio Miyake   Japan 9.267 8.333 17.600
Bohumil Povejšil   Czechoslovakia 8.833 8.767 17.600
38 Otello Ternelli   Italy 8.633 8.900 17.533
39 Oreste Capuzzo   Italy 8.567 8.833 17.400
40 Josip Primožič   Yugoslavia 9.034 8.333 17.367
Jan Sládek   Czechoslovakia 8.400 8.967 17.367
42 Albert Bachmann   Switzerland 8.167 9.167 17.334
43 Egidio Armelloni   Italy 9.167 7.933 17.100
44 Armand Solbach   France 7.667 9.367 17.034
45 Franz Beckert   Germany 7.700 9.333 17.033
46 Neno Mirchev   Bulgaria 8.800 8.133 16.933
47 Gábor Kecskeméti   Hungary 8.233 9.667 16.900
Josef Walter   Switzerland 7.867 9.033 16.900
49 Jaroslav Kollinger   Czechoslovakia 7.867 8.900 16.767
50 Fred Meyer   United States 7.467 9.133 16.600
József Sarlós   Hungary 8.000 8.600 16.600
52 Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 7.267 9.300 16.567
53 Fujio Kakuta   Japan 9.100 7.400 16.500
54 Jindrich Tintěra   Czechoslovakia 8.100 8.300 16.400
55 Robert Herold   France 7.500 8.867 16.367
56 Vratislav Petráček   Czechoslovakia 7.733 8.600 16.333
57 Antoine Schildwein   France 7.333 8.933 16.266
58 István Sárkány   Hungary 8.433 7.800 16.233
59 Jan Gajdoš   Czechoslovakia 8.500 7.700 16.200
Artie Pitt   United States 7.000 9.200 16.200
61 Danilo Fioravanti   Italy 7.700 8.467 16.167
62 Paul Masino   France 7.433 8.667 16.100
63 Miklos Péter   Hungary 6.900 9.167 16.067
64 Pius Hollenstein   Austria 7.333 8.733 16.066
65 George Wheeler   United States 7.200 8.767 15.967
66 Nicolo Tronci   Italy 7.500 8.433 15.933
67 Janez Pristov   Yugoslavia 7.800 8.000 15.800
68 Boris Gregorka   Yugoslavia 7.000 8.767 15.767
69 Franz Swoboda   Austria 7.133 8.633 15.766
70 Franco Tognini   Italy 8.267 7.400 15.667
71 Hikoroku Arimoto   Japan 7.533 8.133 15.666
72 Lucien Masset   France 6.633 8.967 15.600
73 Hiroshi Matsunobu   Japan 7.367 8.167 15.534
74 Miroslav Forte   Yugoslavia 6.500 8.933 15.433
75 Gyözö Mogyorossy   Hungary 7.300 8.100 15.400
76 Hiroshi Nosaka   Japan 8.333 6.933 15.266
77 Leopold Redl   Austria 6.600 8.633 15.233
Joze Vadnov   Yugoslavia 6.733 8.500 15.233
79 Frank Haubold   United States 7.100 8.033 15.133
Al Jochim   United States 6.400 8.733 15.133
81 Emanuel Löffler   Czechoslovakia 6.167 8.800 14.967
Jos Romersa   Luxembourg 7.067 7.900 14.967
83 Maurice Rousseau   France 5.833 9.100 14.933
84 Robert Pranz   Austria 6.233 8.300 14.533
85 Kiichiro Toyama   Japan 7.500 7.000 14.500
86 Georgi Dimitrov   Bulgaria 7.267 6.833 14.100
87 Chet Phillips   United States 5.333 8.667 14.000
88 Jean Aubry   France 6.233 7.467 13.700
89 Dokan Sone   Japan 9.300 4.000 13.300
90 József Hegedüs   Hungary 4.333 8.533 12.866
91 Francisc Draghici   Romania 5.000 7.533 12.533
92 Marcel Leineweber   Luxembourg 4.333 7.733 12.066
93 Kenny Griffin   United States 6.333 5.667 12.000
94 Franz Haupert   Luxembourg 3.333 7.967 11.300
95 Ivan Chureshki   Bulgaria 4.000 6.800 10.800
96 Iohan Schmidt   Romania 3.333 7.167 10.500
97 Pando Sidov   Bulgaria 4.000 6.333 10.333
98 Ernst Winter   Germany 9.133 1.000 10.133
99 Yovcho Khristov   Bulgaria 5.333 4.267 9.600
100 Iosif Matusec   Romania 3.333 5.833 9.166
101 Willy Klein   Luxembourg 2.500 6.567 9.067
102 Remus Ludu   Romania 2.000 6.533 8.533
103 Alexandru Dan   Romania 2.000 5.933 7.933
104 Jos Cillien   Luxembourg 2.833 5.000 7.833
Lyuben Obretenov   Bulgaria 2.500 5.333 7.833
106 Ivan Stoychev   Bulgaria 4.000 3.567 7.567
107 Andrei Abraham   Romania 2.000 5.400 7.400
Ion Albert   Romania 5.567 DNF
Mathias Erang   Luxembourg 5.333 DNF
Vasile Moldovan   Romania 2.500 DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics: 1936 Olympic Results - Men's horizontal bar". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  2. ^ Official Olympic Report, la84.org. Retrieved 12 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  4. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 852.