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

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.

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 →

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
  Michael Reusch   Switzerland 19.8 19.7 39.5
  Veikko Huhtanen   Finland 19.7 19.6 39.3
  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.