Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

The men's rings 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 121 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Karl Frei of Switzerland, with his countryman Michael Reusch earning silver; they were the nation's first medals in the event. Zdeněk Růžička of Czechoslovakia took bronze.

Men's rings
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Veikko Huhtanen competing on the rings
VenueEarls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates12–13 August
Competitors121 from 16 nations
Winning score39.6
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Karl Frei
 Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michael Reusch
 Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zdeněk Růžička
 Czechoslovakia
← 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). Two of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: sixth-place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland and eighth-place finisher (and 1932 competitor) Heikki Savolainen of Finland. No world championship had been held since World War II; Alois Hudec, who did not compete in 1948, was still the reigning world (1938) and Olympic (1936) champion. Reusch had finished second at the 1938 world championship.[2]

Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's rings. 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, with one not starting in the rings; and Austria had one gymnast of its 8 not start in the rings). 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
  Karl Frei   Switzerland 19.8 19.8 39.6
  Michael Reusch   Switzerland 19.5 19.6 39.1
  Zdeněk Růžička   Czechoslovakia 18.8 19.7 38.5
4 Walter Lehmann   Switzerland 19.2 19.2 38.4
5 Josef Stalder   Switzerland 18.8 19.5 38.3
Emil Studer   Switzerland 18.9 19.4 38.3
7 Vladimír Karas   Czechoslovakia 18.9 19.3 38.2
8 Heikki Savolainen   Finland 19.0 19.1 38.1
9 László Baranyai   Hungary 18.7 19.2 37.9
Olavi Rove   Finland 18.8 19.1 37.9
11 Veikko Huhtanen   Finland 18.7 19.1 37.8
Christian Kipfer   Switzerland 18.8 19.0 37.8
Ferenc Pataki   Hungary 18.9 18.9 37.8
14 André Weingand   France 18.7 18.9 37.6
15 Elkana Grønne   Denmark 18.6 18.9 37.5
16 Kalevi Laitinen   Finland 18.6 18.8 37.4
17 Paavo Aaltonen   Finland 18.7 18.6 37.3
Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 18.7 18.6 37.3
Aleksanteri Saarvala   Finland 18.5 18.8 37.3
Sulo Salmi   Finland 18.7 18.6 37.3
Leo Sotorník   Czechoslovakia 18.8 18.5 37.3
Lajos Tóth   Hungary 18.4 18.9 37.3
23 Antoine Schildwein   France 18.5 18.7 37.2
24 Robert Lucy   Switzerland 18.3 18.7 37.0
25[4] Pavel Benetka   Czechoslovakia 18.0 18.9 36.9
Vratislav Petráček   Czechoslovakia 18.4 18.5 36.9
27 Lajos Sántha   Hungary 18.6 18.2 36.8
Einari Teräsvirta   Finland 18.4 18.4 36.8
29 Alphonse Anger   France 18.4 18.3 36.7
Ferenc Várkõi   Hungary 18.9 17.8 36.7
31 Melchior Thalmann   Switzerland 17.8 18.7 36.5
32 Marcel de Wolf   France 17.6 18.8 36.4
Raymond Dot   France 18.4 18.0 36.4
Jozsef Fekete   Hungary 17.8 18.6 36.4
Miroslav Málek   Czechoslovakia 17.4 19.0 36.4
Ali Zaky   Egypt 17.7 18.7 36.4
37 Gyözö Mogyorosi   Hungary 17.6 18.7 36.3
38 Lucien Masset   France 17.6 18.6 36.2
39 Guido Figone   Italy 18.3 17.8 36.1
40 Savino Guglielmetti   Italy 17.7 18.3 36.0
Poul Jessen   Denmark 17.8 18.2 36.0
Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 17.8 18.4 36.0
43 János Mogyorósi-Klencs   Hungary 17.65 18.2 35.85
44 René Schroeder   Luxembourg 17.2 18.5 35.7
Ernst Wister   Austria 17.8 17.9 35.7
46 Gustav Hrubý   Czechoslovakia 17.0 18.5 35.5
47 Michel Mathiot   France 17.5 17.9 35.4
48 Freddy Jensen   Denmark 17.5 17.8 35.3
49 Arnold Thomsen   Denmark 17.7 17.4 35.1
50 Mohamed Roushdi   Egypt 16.9 18.1 35.0
51 Ángel Aguiar   Cuba 16.8 18.1 34.9
52 Konrad Grilc   Yugoslavia 17.7 17.1 34.8
53 Vilhelm Møller   Denmark 17.3 17.4 34.7
54 Gunner Olesen   Denmark 16.7 17.9 34.6
Ed Scrobe   United States 17.8 16.8 34.6
56 Moustafa Abdelal   Egypt 17.0 17.5 34.5
57 Frank Turner   Great Britain 17.6 16.8 34.4
Quinto Vadi   Italy 17.6 16.8 34.4
59 Ivica Jelić   Yugoslavia 16.0 18.3 34.3
60 Domenico Grosso   Italy 17.0 17.2 34.2
Volmer Thomsen   Denmark 16.4 17.8 34.2
62 Luigi Zanetti   Italy 16.2 17.9 34.1
63 Karl Bohusch   Austria 16.4 17.5 33.9
Jack Flaherty   Great Britain 17.4 16.5 33.9
Fernando Lecuona   Cuba 17.1 16.8 33.9
66 Auguste Sirot   France 17.8 15.9 33.7
67 Stjepan Boltižar   Yugoslavia 16.9 16.6 33.5
Danilo Fioravanti   Italy 17.3 16.2 33.5
69 Mahmoud Abdel-Aal   Egypt 16.0 17.2 33.2
Roberto Villacián   Cuba 17.2 16.0 33.2
71 Alec Wales   Great Britain 16.95 16.2 33.15
72 Egidio Armelloni   Italy 15.75 17.3 33.05
73 František Wirth   Czechoslovakia 16.6 16.4 33.0
74 Baldomero Rubiera   Cuba 16.05 16.9 32.95
75 Vincent D'Autorio   United States 16.3 16.6 32.9
76 Pierre Schmitz   Luxembourg 17.0 15.7 32.7
77 Miro Longyka   Yugoslavia 16.0 16.6 32.6
78 Jos Bernard   Luxembourg 16.6 15.9 32.5
Josip Kujundžić   Yugoslavia 14.5 18.0 32.5
80 Drago Jelić   Yugoslavia 15.0 17.4 32.4
81 Polo Welfring   Luxembourg 17.1 15.2 32.3
Georges Wengler   Luxembourg 16.9 15.4 32.3
83 Pedro Lonchibuco   Argentina 16.2 16.0 32.2
Willi Schreyer   Austria 16.5 15.7 32.2
85 Rafael Lecuona   Cuba 16.8 15.2 32.0
86 Hans Sauter   Austria 16.2 15.6 31.8
87 William Bonsall   United States 16.05 15.7 31.75
88 Menn Krecke   Luxembourg 16.8 14.6 31.4
89 Hans Friedrich   Austria 14.0 17.3 31.3
90 George Weedon   Great Britain 16.8 14.4 31.2
91 Mohamed Aly   Egypt 17.3 13.7 31.0
Ray Sorensen   United States 16.8 14.2 31.0
93 Percy May   Great Britain 14.5 16.3 30.8
94 Ahmed Khalaf Ali   Egypt 15.0 15.7 30.7
95 Ali El-Hefnawi   Egypt 15.0 15.5 30.5
96 Frank Cumiskey   United States 15.5 14.8 30.3
97 Enrique Rapesta   Argentina 15.75 14.5 30.25
98 Robert Pranz   Austria 15.5 14.3 29.8
99 Joe Kotys   United States 15.4 14.2 29.4
100 Ken Buffin   Great Britain 14.5 14.8 29.3
101 Ettore Perego   Italy 13.8 14.7 28.5
102 Bill Roetzheim   United States 14.5 13.0 27.9
103 Jakob Šubelj   Yugoslavia 12.0 15.8 27.8
104 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi   Egypt 12.0 14.4 26.4
105 Alejandro Díaz   Cuba 13.0 13.2 26.2
106 Arturo Amos   Argentina 14.0 12.1 26.1
107 Ivor Vice   Great Britain 11.5 12.1 23.6
108 Glyn Hopkins   Great Britain 12.0 11.0 23.0
109 Jorge Soler   Argentina 10.0 12.8 22.8
110 César Bonoris   Argentina 10.5 12.0 22.5
111 Karel Janež   Yugoslavia 9.5 12.3 21.8
112 Raimundo Rey   Cuba 9.75 10.5 20.25
113 Roberto Núñez   Argentina 7.5 11.5 19.0
114 Børge Minerth   Denmark 17.8 17.8
115 Louis Bordo   United States 16.75 16.75
116 Jorge Castro   Mexico 6.5 8.0 14.5
117 Gottfried Hermann   Austria 14.25 14.25
118 Rubén Lira   Mexico 7.0 6.2 13.2
119 Dario Aguilar   Mexico 6.0 5.4 11.4
120 Everardo Rios   Mexico 11.0 11.0
121 Jorge Vidal   Argentina 8.0 8.0

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Rings". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 343.
  4. ^ The Official Report places Benetka 27th in this event, but his score would put him in 25th. Other sources place him 25th.