Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

The men's parallel bars competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall I from 19 to 21 July. It was the eighth appearance of the event.[1] There were 185 competitors from 29 nations, with each nation sending up to 8 gymnasts.[2] The event was won by Hans Eugster of Switzerland, the nation's second consecutive and third overall victory in the parallel bars, breaking a tie with Germany for most all-time. Switzerland also took bronze, as Josef Stalder repeated his 1948 third-place performance (making him the second man to win multiple medals in the event, after fellow Swiss Michael Reusch). The Soviet Union's debut resulted in a silver medal for Viktor Chukarin, who would become the third multi-medalist in 1956.

Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Plaque at Töölö Sports Hall commemorating 1952 Olympic sports held there
VenueTöölö Sports Hall, Exhibition Hall I
Dates19–21 July
Competitors185 from 29 nations
Winning score19.65
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hans Eugster
 Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
← 1948
1956 →

Background

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This was the eighth 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). Six of the top 10 gymnasts from 1948 returned: bronze medalist Josef Stalder of Switzerland, sixth-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland, seventh-place finishers Paavo Aaltonen of Finland and Zdeněk Růžička of Czechoslovakia, ninth-place finisher Lajos Sántha of Hungary, and tenth-place finisher Olavi Rove of Finland. Swiss gymnast Hans Eugster was the reigning (1950) world champion, with Rove the runner-up.[2]

Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Spain, and Sweden each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its seventh appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Of the 22 different nations that had competed at least once in the event before 1952, 19 competed in Helsinki (only Greece, Mexico, and the Netherlands were missing among the nations having previously competed).

Competition format

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The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of between five and 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 2 exercise scores were summed to give a total for the apparatus.

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 averaged to give the exercise total. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.

The competitor had the option to make a second try only on the compulsory exercise—with the second attempt counting regardless of whether it was better than the first.[3]

Schedule

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All times are Eastern European Summer Time (UTC+3)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 19 July 1952
Sunday, 20 July 1952
Monday, 21 July 1952
7:30
8:00
8:00
Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
  Hans Eugster   Switzerland 9.85 9.80 19.65
  Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union 9.80 9.80 19.60
  Josef Stalder   Switzerland 9.80 9.70 19.50
4 Hrant Shahinyan   Soviet Union 9.50 9.85 19.35
5 Ferdinand Daniš   Czechoslovakia 9.70 9.60 19.30
Yevgeny Korolkov   Soviet Union 9.50 9.80 19.30
Jean Tschabold   Switzerland 9.65 9.65 19.30
8 Vladimir Belyakov   Soviet Union 9.45 9.80 19.25
Valentin Muratov   Soviet Union 9.55 9.70 19.25
10 Akitomo Kaneko   Japan 9.50 9.70 19.20
11 Iosif Berdiev   Soviet Union 9.45 9.70 19.15
12 Helmut Bantz   Germany 9.60 9.50 19.10
13 Jack Günthard   Switzerland 9.55 9.50 19.05
Onni Lappalainen   Finland 9.45 9.60 19.05
15 Mikhail Perelman   Soviet Union 9.25 9.75 19.00
Alfred Schwarzmann   Germany 9.55 9.45 19.00
Theo Wied   Germany 9.45 9.55 19.00
18 Hans Schwarzentruber   Switzerland 9.55 9.40 18.95
19 Adalbert Dickhut   Germany 9.40 9.45 18.85
Olavi Rove   Finland 9.40 9.45 18.85
21 Ed Scrobe   United States 9.35 9.45 18.80
Ali Zaky   Egypt 9.40 9.40 18.80
23 Hans Pfann   Germany 9.45 9.30 18.75
Hans Sauter   Austria 9.40 9.35 18.75
Melchior Thalmann   Switzerland 9.40 9.35 18.75
26 Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 9.40 9.30 18.70
27 Paavo Aaltonen   Finland 9.00 9.65 18.65
Jakob Kiefer   Germany 9.45 9.20 18.65
Jindřich Mikulec   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.30 18.65
Erich Wied   Germany 9.30 9.35 18.65
31 Tetsumi Nabeya   Japan 9.40 9.20 18.60
Takashi Ono   Japan 9.45 9.15 18.60
Lajos Sántha   Hungary 9.45 9.15 18.60
Josef Škvor   Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.40 18.60
35 Guido Figone   Italy 9.20 9.35 18.55
Michel Mathiot   France 9.35 9.20 18.55
Bob Stout   United States 9.30 9.25 18.55
38 Ernst Gebendinger   Switzerland 9.65 8.85 18.50
Tadao Uesako   Japan 9.20 9.30 18.50
40 Friedel Overwien   Germany 9.35 9.10 18.45
Ferenc Pataki   Hungary 9.40 9.05 18.45
Kalevi Viskari   Finland 9.45 9.00 18.45
Willi Welt   Austria 9.35 9.10 18.45
44 Raymond Dot   France 9.30 9.10 18.40
Josef Svoboda   Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.15 18.40
Lajos Tóth   Hungary 9.30 9.10 18.40
47 Littorio Sampieri   Italy 9.00 9.35 18.35
Börje Stattin   Sweden 9.30 9.05 18.35
49 Ernst Fivian   Switzerland 8.70 9.60 18.30
Wolfgang Girardi   Austria 9.15 9.15 18.30
Jean Guillou   France 9.35 8.95 18.30
52 Kalevi Laitinen   Finland 9.10 9.15 18.25
Ernst Wister   Austria 9.05 9.20 18.25
54 Hans Friedrich   Austria 9.25 8.95 18.20
Heikki Savolainen   Finland 9.00 9.20 18.20
Todor Todorov   Bulgaria 9.00 9.20 18.20
57 Alf Olsen   Norway 9.10 9.05 18.15
Szymon Sobala   Poland 9.20 8.95 18.15
William Thoresson   Sweden 9.15 9.00 18.15
60 Raymond Badin   France 9.20 8.90 18.10
Joaquín Blume   Spain 9.00 9.10 18.10
Bill Roetzheim   United States 9.15 8.95 18.10
Leo Sotorník   Czechoslovakia 9.35 8.75 18.10
André Weingand   France 9.20 8.90 18.10
65 Kaino Lempinen   Finland 9.35 8.70 18.05
Dimitar Yordanov   Bulgaria 8.90 9.15 18.05
67 Ahmed Issam Allam   Egypt 9.10 8.90 18.00
Arne Carlsson   Sweden 9.00 9.00 18.00
Anders Lindh   Sweden 9.00 9.00 18.00
Frederic Orendi   Romania 9.05 8.95 18.00
71 Zdeněk Růžička   Czechoslovakia 9.05 8.90 17.95
Masao Takemoto   Japan 9.10 8.85 17.95
Mincho Todorov   Bulgaria 9.00 8.95 17.95
74 Vincent D'Autorio   United States 9.00 8.90 17.90
Paweł Gaca   Poland 8.90 9.00 17.90
Franz Kemter   Austria 9.20 8.70 17.90
Miloš Kolejka   Czechoslovakia 9.20 8.70 17.90
Vasil Konstantinov   Bulgaria 8.95 8.95 17.90
Nikolay Milev   Bulgaria 9.15 8.75 17.90
Erich Peters   Sweden 8.90 9.00 17.90
81 Jack Beckner   United States 8.85 9.00 17.85
Mihai Botez   Romania 8.90 8.95 17.85
René Changeat   France 8.90 8.95 17.85
József Fekete   Hungary 9.15 8.70 17.85
Paweł Gawron   Poland 8.85 9.00 17.85
86 Károly Kocsis   Hungary 9.30 8.50 17.80
87 Magdy Gheriani   Egypt 8.90 8.85 17.75
Vladimír Kejř   Czechoslovakia 9.20 8.55 17.75
Ferenc Kemény   Hungary 8.75 9.00 17.75
Berndt Lindfors   Finland 9.05 8.70 17.75
Paweł Świętek   Poland 8.80 8.95 17.75
Frank Turner   Great Britain 9.10 8.65 17.75
Luigi Zanetti   Italy 9.00 8.75 17.75
94 Fabio Bonacina   Italy 9.00 8.70 17.70
Armand Huberty   Luxembourg 8.90 8.80 17.70
96 Silvio Brivio   Italy 8.75 8.90 17.65
Mathias Jamtvedt   Norway 8.85 8.80 17.65
Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 8.85 8.80 17.65
Jack Whitford   Great Britain 9.10 8.55 17.65
100 Walter Blattmann   United States 9.10 8.50 17.60
Dušan Furlan   Yugoslavia 9.00 8.60 17.60
Paul Grubenthal   Austria 9.10 8.50 17.60
János Mogyorósi-Klencs   Hungary 9.10 8.50 17.60
Orlando Polmonari   Italy 8.90 8.70 17.60
Nils Sjöberg   Sweden 8.85 8.75 17.60
106 Arthur Schmitt   Saar 8.95 8.60 17.55
107 Georges Floquet   France 9.15 8.30 17.45
Jerzy Solarz   Poland 8.80 8.65 17.45
Quinto Vadi   Italy 8.50 8.95 17.45
110 Sándor Réthy   Hungary 8.60 8.80 17.40
111 Georg Johansen   Norway 8.65 8.60 17.25
Alf Nørgaard   Norway 8.80 8.45 17.25
Volmer Thomsen   Denmark 9.00 8.25 17.25
Kurt Wigartz   Sweden 8.95 8.30 17.25
115 Ryszard Kucjas   Poland 8.40 8.80 17.20
116 Jerzy Jokiel   Poland 8.50 8.60 17.10
Børge Nielsen   Denmark 8.70 8.40 17.10
118 Ivan Čaklec   Yugoslavia 8.65 8.40 17.05
Don Holder   United States 9.05 8.00 17.05
120 Franjo Jurjević   Yugoslavia 9.00 8.00 17.00
121 Nikolay Atanasov   Bulgaria 8.65 8.30 16.95
Sreten Stefanović   Yugoslavia 8.55 8.40 16.95
123 Antun Kropivšek   Yugoslavia 8.65 8.25 16.90
124 Bjarne Jørgensen   Denmark 8.85 7.95 16.80
Arne Knudsen   Norway 9.10 7.70 16.80
126 Ernst Madland   Norway 8.75 8.00 16.75
127 Dmytro Leonkin   Soviet Union 7.10 9.60 16.70
128 Poul Jessen   Denmark 8.85 7.80 16.65
Odd Lie   Norway 8.60 8.05 16.65
130 César Bonoris   Argentina 8.75 7.85 16.60
Andrei Kerekes   Romania 8.95 7.65 16.60
132 Ivica Jelić   Yugoslavia 8.40 8.15 16.55
133 Karel Janež   Yugoslavia 7.85 8.60 16.45
Freddy Jensen   Denmark 7.55 8.90 16.45
Ragai Youssef   Egypt 8.55 7.90 16.45
136 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi   Egypt 8.20 8.20 16.40
Ede Mađar   Yugoslavia 8.05 8.35 16.40
138 Ken Buffin   Great Britain 8.85 7.50 16.35
139 Joaquim Granger   Portugal 8.45 7.80 16.25
140 Walter Müller   Saar 8.40 7.80 16.20
141 Frederik De Waele   Belgium 7.85 8.25 16.10
142 Marcel Coppin   Luxembourg 8.65 7.40 16.05
Charles Simms   United States 7.25 8.80 16.05
144 Rafael Lecuona   Cuba 8.90 7.10 16.00
145 Eugen Balint   Romania 7.55 8.40 15.95
Graham Harcourt   Great Britain 8.70 7.25 15.95
147 Norbert Dietrich   Saar 8.20 7.65 15.85
Hubert Erang   Luxembourg 8.40 7.45 15.85
149 Zoltan Balogh   Romania 7.90 7.90 15.80
Arrigo Carnoli   Italy 7.50 8.30 15.80
Mahmoud Safwat   Egypt 8.45 7.35 15.80
152 Iliya Topalov   Bulgaria 9.25 6.50 15.75
153 Magne Kleiven   Norway 7.90 7.70 15.60
154 Aurel Losnita   Romania 7.00 8.50 15.50
155 Ángel Aguiar   Cuba 7.45 8.00 15.45
René Schroeder   Luxembourg 7.90 7.55 15.45
157 Rolf Lauer   Saar 7.70 7.70 15.40
158 Carol Bedö   Romania 7.70 7.55 15.25
Gunnar Pedersen   Denmark 8.75 6.50 15.25
Jeroom Riske   Belgium 8.10 7.15 15.25
161 Rolf Yelseth   South Africa 7.70 7.50 15.20
162 Marcel de Wolf   France 8.10 7.00 15.10
163 Ronnie Lombard   South Africa 8.05 7.00 15.05
164 Manuel Gouveia   Portugal 6.70 8.25 14.95
165 Zdzisław Lesiński   Poland 6.00 8.85 14.85
166 Juan Caviglia   Argentina 7.90 6.75 14.65
167 Heinz Ostheimer   Saar 6.70 7.90 14.60
168 Francisc Cocis   Romania 6.25 8.20 14.45
169 Francisco Cascante   Cuba 8.30 6.00 14.30
170 George Weedon   Great Britain 6.15 7.75 13.90
171 Mohamed Sayed Hamdi   Egypt 8.65 5.00 13.65
172 Peter Starling   Great Britain 7.05 6.50 13.55
173 Raúl Caldeira   Portugal 6.95 6.30 13.25
Jack Wells   South Africa 8.25 5.00 13.25
175 Manuel Prazeres   Portugal 6.25 6.90 13.15
176 Fred Wiedersporn   Saar 6.60 6.30 12.90
177 António Leite   Portugal 7.00 5.75 12.75
178 Børge Minerth   Denmark 7.10 5.45 12.55
179 Manuel Cardoso   Portugal 5.00 5.00 10.00
180 Mahmoud Mohamed Reda   Egypt 6.50 3.00 9.50
181 Stoyan Stoyanov   Bulgaria 9.15 9.15
182 Friedrich Fetz   Austria 8.40 8.40
183 Maurice De Groote   Belgium 0.00 8.10 8.10
184 Vir Singh   India 2.25 4.00 6.25
185 Khushi Ram   India 0.00 4.00 4.00

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Parallel Bars". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 424.