Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

The men's vault competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Töölö Sports Hall (then "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 nations competing in the team event entering up to 8 gymnasts and other nations able to send up to 3. The event was won by Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union, the nation's first medal in the event in its first appearance. Japan also earned its first medal(s): a silver and two bronzes, as Masao Takemoto finished second and there was a tie for third between Takashi Ono and Tadao Uesako.

Men's vault
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Plaque at Töölö Sports Hall commemorating 1952 Olympic sports held there
VenueTöölö Sports Hall, Exhibition Hall I
Date19–21 July
Competitors185 from 29 nations
Winning score19.20
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Masao Takemoto  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tadao Uesako  Japan
← 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). Seven of the top 13 (including ties for 10th) gymnasts from 1948 returned: gold medalist Paavo Aaltonen of Finland, silver medalist Olavi Rove of Finland, all three bronze medalists (János Mogyorósi-Klencs and Ferenc Pataki of Hungary and Leo Sotorník of Czechoslovakia), and tenth-place finishers Kalevi Laitinen of Finland and Lajos Tóth of Hungary. The reigning (1950) world champion was Ernst Gebendinger of Switzerland.[2]

Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Spain each made their debut in the men's vault. 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, 20 competed in Helsinki (only 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 event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each competitor had two tries for each of the compulsory and voluntary vaults with the better score to count.[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
  Viktor Chukarin   Soviet Union 9.45 9.75 19.20
  Masao Takemoto   Japan 9.55 9.60 19.15
  Takashi Ono   Japan 9.50 9.60 19.10
Tadao Uesako   Japan 9.55 9.55 19.10
5 Hans Eugster   Switzerland 9.40 9.55 18.95
Theo Wied   Germany 9.45 9.50 18.95
7 Iosif Berdiev   Soviet Union 9.30 9.60 18.90
Ernst Fivian   Switzerland 9.40 9.50 18.90
9 Adalbert Dickhut   Germany 9.40 9.45 18.85
Wolfgang Girardi   Austria 9.45 9.40 18.85
János Mogyorósi-Klencs   Hungary 9.40 9.45 18.85
Leo Sotorník   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.50 18.85
13 Helmut Bantz   Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80
Ferdinand Daniš   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.45 18.80
Anders Lindh   Sweden 9.40 9.40 18.80
Alfred Schwarzmann   Germany 9.30 9.50 18.80
Josef Stalder   Switzerland 9.45 9.35 18.80
18 Ahmed Issam Allam   Egypt 9.35 9.40 18.75
19 Ivan Čaklec   Yugoslavia 9.55 9.15 18.70
Dmytro Leonkin   Soviet Union 9.20 9.50 18.70
Valentin Muratov   Soviet Union 9.25 9.45 18.70
Ferenc Pataki   Hungary 9.30 9.40 18.70
Jean Tschabold   Switzerland 9.45 9.25 18.70
Kalevi Viskari   Finland 9.45 9.25 18.70
25 Raymond Dot   France 9.30 9.35 18.65
Franjo Jurjević   Yugoslavia 9.40 9.25 18.65
Tetsumi Nabeya   Japan 9.35 9.30 18.65
28 Onni Lappalainen   Finland 9.35 9.25 18.60
Mahmoud Safwat   Egypt 9.10 9.50 18.60
Melchior Thalmann   Switzerland 9.30 9.30 18.60
31 Dušan Furlan   Yugoslavia 9.40 9.15 18.55
Mathias Jamtvedt   Norway 9.25 9.30 18.55
Akitomo Kaneko   Japan 9.25 9.30 18.55
Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 9.30 9.25 18.55
35 Paavo Aaltonen   Finland 9.25 9.25 18.50
Vladimir Belyakov   Soviet Union 9.10 9.40 18.50
József Fekete   Hungary 9.20 9.30 18.50
Hrant Shahinyan   Soviet Union 9.05 9.45 18.50
Josef Svoboda   Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.35 18.50
40 René Changeat   France 9.25 9.20 18.45
Charles Simms   United States 9.30 9.15 18.45
Willi Welt   Austria 9.20 9.25 18.45
Ali Zaky   Egypt 9.45 9.00 18.45
44 Arne Carlsson   Sweden 9.30 9.10 18.40
Paul Grubenthal   Austria 9.25 9.15 18.40
Georg Johansen   Norway 9.30 9.10 18.40
Yevgeny Korolkov   Soviet Union 8.90 9.50 18.40
Kalevi Laitinen   Finland 9.20 9.20 18.40
Kaino Lempinen   Finland 9.20 9.20 18.40
Friedel Overwien   Germany 9.10 9.30 18.40
Littorio Sampieri   Italy 9.15 9.25 18.40
Hans Schwarzentruber   Switzerland 9.25 9.15 18.40
Volmer Thomsen   Denmark 9.30 9.10 18.40
54 Walter Blattmann   United States 9.25 9.10 18.35
Marcel Coppin   Luxembourg 9.10 9.25 18.35
Ernst Gebendinger   Switzerland 9.40 8.95 18.35
Poul Jessen   Denmark 9.30 9.05 18.35
Odd Lie   Norway 9.25 9.10 18.35
Michel Mathiot   France 9.05 9.30 18.35
Hans Sauter   Austria 9.20 9.15 18.35
Ed Scrobe   United States 9.35 9.00 18.35
Josef Škvor   Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.15 18.35
Mincho Todorov   Bulgaria 9.15 9.20 18.35
Erich Wied   Germany 8.95 9.40 18.35
65 Jack Günthard   Switzerland 9.15 9.15 18.30
Alf Nørgaard   Norway 9.20 9.10 18.30
Mikhail Perelman   Soviet Union 9.05 9.25 18.30
Lajos Tóth   Hungary 9.05 9.25 18.30
Luigi Zanetti   Italy 9.15 9.15 18.30
70 Hans Friedrich   Austria 9.25 9.00 18.25
Orlando Polmonari   Italy 9.05 9.20 18.25
Frank Turner   Great Britain 9.20 9.05 18.25
73 Joaquín Blume   Spain 9.30 8.90 18.20
Paweł Gaca   Poland 8.95 9.25 18.20
Vladimír Kejř   Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.20 18.20
Sándor Réthy   Hungary 9.10 9.10 18.20
Bob Stout   United States 8.80 9.40 18.20
Kurt Wigartz   Sweden 9.20 9.00 18.20
79 Hubert Erang   Luxembourg 8.90 9.25 18.15
Alf Olsen   Norway 9.25 8.90 18.15
Lajos Sántha   Hungary 8.95 9.20 18.15
Jack Wells   South Africa 9.10 9.05 18.15
83 Ferenc Kemény   Hungary 9.20 8.90 18.10
Arne Knudsen   Norway 9.10 9.00 18.10
Hans Pfann   Germany 9.00 9.10 18.10
Dimitar Yordanov   Bulgaria 9.05 9.05 18.10
87 Jack Beckner   United States 9.25 8.80 18.05
Magdy Gheriani   Egypt 8.95 9.10 18.05
Károly Kocsis   Hungary 9.10 8.95 18.05
Miloš Kolejka   Czechoslovakia 8.85 9.20 18.05
Jindřich Mikulec   Czechoslovakia 9.10 8.95 18.05
Zdeněk Růžička   Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.00 18.05
Börje Stattin   Sweden 9.25 8.80 18.05
Todor Todorov   Bulgaria 9.05 9.00 18.05
95 Don Holder   United States 9.20 8.80 18.00
Bjarne Jørgensen   Denmark 9.05 8.95 18.00
Berndt Lindfors   Finland 9.00 9.00 18.00
98 Ronnie Lombard   South Africa 9.05 8.90 17.95
Gunnar Pedersen   Denmark 9.10 8.85 17.95
100 Nikolay Atanasov   Bulgaria 8.85 9.05 17.90
Nils Sjöberg   Sweden 9.10 8.80 17.90
102 Vasil Konstantinov   Bulgaria 9.00 8.85 17.85
Heikki Savolainen   Finland 8.75 9.10 17.85
104 Arrigo Carnoli   Italy 8.80 9.00 17.80
William Thoresson   Sweden 9.10 8.70 17.80
André Weingand   France 8.95 8.85 17.80
107 Friedrich Fetz   Austria 9.10 8.60 17.70
Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 8.60 9.10 17.70
Jack Whitford   Great Britain 9.05 8.65 17.70
110 Frederik De Waele   Belgium 8.85 8.80 17.65
Manuel Gouveia   Portugal 9.00 8.65 17.65
Heinz Ostheimer   Saar 8.80 8.85 17.65
Olavi Rove   Finland 8.15 9.50 17.65
114 Andrei Kerekes   Romania 8.45 9.15 17.60
Børge Nielsen   Denmark 8.70 8.90 17.60
Bill Roetzheim   United States 8.85 8.75 17.60
Ernst Wister   Austria 9.10 8.50 17.60
118 Aurel Losnita   Romania 8.45 9.10 17.55
Jeroom Riske   Belgium 8.60 8.95 17.55
120 Carol Bedö   Romania 8.55 8.95 17.50
Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi   Egypt 8.55 8.95 17.50
Ivica Jelić   Yugoslavia 8.40 9.10 17.50
123 Franz Kemter   Austria 8.90 8.50 17.40
Magne Kleiven   Norway 8.70 8.70 17.40
Frederic Orendi   Romania 8.40 9.00 17.40
Fred Wiedersporn   Saar 8.65 8.75 17.40
Ragai Youssef   Egypt 8.75 8.65 17.40
128 Ángel Aguiar   Cuba 8.75 8.60 17.35
Fabio Bonacina   Italy 8.35 9.00 17.35
Francisc Cocis   Romania 8.50 8.85 17.35
Ryszard Kucjas   Poland 8.35 9.00 17.35
Zdzisław Lesiński   Poland 9.10 8.25 17.35
Walter Müller   Saar 8.60 8.75 17.35
George Weedon   Great Britain 8.35 9.00 17.35
135 Juan Caviglia   Argentina 8.40 8.85 17.25
Marcel de Wolf   France 8.40 8.85 17.25
137 Georges Floquet   France 8.25 8.95 17.20
Ede Mađar   Yugoslavia 8.20 9.00 17.20
Quinto Vadi   Italy 8.30 8.90 17.20
140 Szymon Sobala   Poland 9.15 8.00 17.15
141 Guido Figone   Italy 8.70 8.25 16.95
142 Ken Buffin   Great Britain 9.00 7.90 16.90
Jean Guillou   France 8.90 8.00 16.90
Ernst Madland   Norway 8.65 8.25 16.90
Manuel Prazeres   Portugal 8.40 8.50 16.90
146 Armand Huberty   Luxembourg 8.35 8.50 16.85
Børge Minerth   Denmark 9.10 7.75 16.85
Peter Starling   Great Britain 8.35 8.50 16.85
149 Freddy Jensen   Denmark 7.80 9.00 16.80
150 Rafael Lecuona   Cuba 8.00 8.75 16.75
151 Nikolay Milev   Bulgaria 7.65 9.05 16.70
Sreten Stefanović   Yugoslavia 9.20 7.50 16.70
153 Zoltan Balogh   Romania 7.55 9.10 16.65
Graham Harcourt   Great Britain 8.55 8.10 16.65
Jerzy Jokiel   Poland 9.15 7.50 16.65
156 Mohamed Sayed Hamdi   Egypt 7.75 8.70 16.45
René Schroeder   Luxembourg 7.70 8.75 16.45
158 Raymond Badin   France 7.55 8.85 16.40
159 Mahmoud Mohamed Reda   Egypt 7.50 8.80 16.30
160 Vincent D'Autorio   United States 7.10 9.15 16.25
161 Rolf Lauer   Saar 8.15 8.05 16.20
162 Karel Janež   Yugoslavia 7.10 8.95 16.05
Jerzy Solarz   Poland 8.80 7.25 16.05
164 Paweł Świętek   Poland 8.45 7.50 15.95
165 Silvio Brivio   Italy 8.50 7.35 15.85
166 Iliya Topalov   Bulgaria 6.60 9.05 15.65
167 Mihai Botez   Romania 6.50 9.00 15.50
168 César Bonoris   Argentina 8.95 6.50 15.45
169 Erich Peters   Sweden 6.65 8.75 15.40
170 Francisco Cascante   Cuba 6.65 8.35 15.00
171 Eugen Balint   Romania 6.00 8.95 14.95
172 Raúl Caldeira   Portugal 6.50 8.05 14.55
173 Arthur Schmitt   Saar 5.65 8.85 14.50
174 Rolf Yelseth   South Africa 7.05 7.35 14.40
175 Vir Singh   India 6.50 7.50 14.00
176 Norbert Dietrich   Saar 6.90 7.00 13.90
177 Paweł Gawron   Poland 8.00 5.50 13.50
178 Joaquim Granger   Portugal 6.25 7.00 13.25
179 Maurice De Groote   Belgium 4.75 7.25 12.00
180 António Leite   Portugal 5.25 6.00 11.25
181 Stoyan Stoyanov   Bulgaria 9.20 9.20
182 Jakob Kiefer   Germany 9.00 9.00
183 Antun Kropivšek   Yugoslavia 8.40 8.40
184 Manuel Cardoso   Portugal 0.00 5.65 5.65
185 Khushi Ram   India 0.00 5.50 5.50

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 424.