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Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

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Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Jack Günthard (1956)
VenueTöölö Sports Hall Exhibition Hall I
Dates19–21 July
Competitors185 from 29 nations
Winning score19.55
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jack Günthard
 Switzerland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alfred Schwarzmann
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
← 1948
1956 →

The men's horizontal bar competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Töölö Sports Hall, 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 Jack Günthard of Switzerland, the nation's second consecutive and third overall victory in the horizontal bar, breaking a tie with the United States for most all-time. Switzerland also took one of the silver medals, as Josef Stalder tied with Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany, competing at the age of 40, for second. Stalder and Schwarzmann were the first two men to win multiple horizontal bars medals; Stalder had won the event in 1948 and Schwarzmann had earned bronze in 1936.

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). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1948 returned: gold medalist Josef Stalder of Switzerland, fourth-place finishers Raymond Dot of France and Lajos Sántha of Hungary, and ninth-place finisher Lajos Tóth of Hungary. 1936 bronze medalist Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany (unable to compete in 1948 due to the exclusion of the World War II aggressor nations) also returned. Hans Eugster of Switzerland was the reigning (1950) world champion; Dot had finished third after Eugster and Olavi Rove of Finland.[2]

Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Spain, and Sweden each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar. 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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Jack Günthard  Switzerland 9.75 9.80 19.55
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Josef Stalder  Switzerland 9.65 9.85 19.50
Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany 9.70 9.80 19.50
4 Heikki Savolainen  Finland 9.75 9.70 19.45
5 Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union 9.60 9.80 19.40
6 Jean Tschabold  Switzerland 9.65 9.70 19.35
7 Helmut Bantz  Germany 9.65 9.60 19.25
Melchior Thalmann  Switzerland 9.65 9.60 19.25
9 Berndt Lindfors  Finland 9.60 9.60 19.20
Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union 9.65 9.55 19.20
11 Paavo Aaltonen  Finland 9.55 9.60 19.15
Hans Eugster  Switzerland 9.65 9.50 19.15
Kalevi Viskari  Finland 9.60 9.55 19.15
14 Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union 9.45 9.60 19.05
Erich Wied  Germany 9.60 9.45 19.05
16 Charles Simms  United States 9.45 9.55 19.00
17 Bill Roetzheim  United States 9.60 9.35 18.95
Masao Takemoto  Japan 9.35 9.60 18.95
19 Akitomo Kaneko  Japan 9.50 9.40 18.90
Tetsumi Nabeya  Japan 9.30 9.60 18.90
Takashi Ono  Japan 9.45 9.45 18.90
Ed Scrobe  United States 9.50 9.40 18.90
23 Vladimir Belyakov  Soviet Union 9.25 9.55 18.80
Yevgeny Korolkov  Soviet Union 9.35 9.45 18.80
Kaino Lempinen  Finland 9.40 9.40 18.80
Olavi Rove  Finland 9.40 9.40 18.80
Lajos Sántha  Hungary 9.40 9.40 18.80
28 Onni Lappalainen  Finland 9.40 9.35 18.75
29 Mikhail Perelman  Soviet Union 9.30 9.40 18.70
Hans Sauter  Austria 9.30 9.40 18.70
31 Ferenc Pataki  Hungary 9.40 9.25 18.65
32 Ernst Gebendinger  Switzerland 9.65 8.95 18.60
Börje Stattin  Sweden 9.20 9.40 18.60
Theo Wied  Germany 9.45 9.15 18.60
35 Kalevi Laitinen  Finland 9.75 8.80 18.55
Bob Stout  United States 9.25 9.30 18.55
Tadao Uesako  Japan 9.05 9.50 18.55
38 Iosif Berdiev  Soviet Union 9.20 9.30 18.50
Jakob Kiefer  Germany 9.45 9.05 18.50
40 Joaquín Blume  Spain 9.15 9.30 18.45
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.35 9.10 18.45
Lajos Tóth  Hungary 9.15 9.30 18.45
43 Raymond Dot  France 9.05 9.30 18.35
Dmytro Leonkin  Soviet Union 9.05 9.30 18.35
Mahmoud Safwat  Egypt 9.25 9.10 18.35
Mincho Todorov  Bulgaria 9.30 9.05 18.35
47 Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 8.95 9.35 18.30
48 Antun Kropivšek  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.05 18.25
Michel Mathiot  France 8.95 9.30 18.25
Dimitar Yordanov  Bulgaria 9.10 9.15 18.25
51 Wolfgang Girardi  Austria 9.10 9.10 18.20
Frederic Orendi  Romania 9.25 8.95 18.20
Hans Pfann  Germany 9.60 8.60 18.20
Hans Schwarzentruber  Switzerland 9.35 8.85 18.20
55 Josef Svoboda  Czechoslovakia 9.35 8.80 18.15
56 Ferenc Kemény  Hungary 9.05 9.05 18.10
Friedel Overwien  Germany 9.35 8.75 18.10
58 Jindřich Mikulec  Czechoslovakia 9.20 8.85 18.05
59 Jack Beckner  United States 9.10 8.90 18.00
60 Guido Figone  Italy 9.05 8.90 17.95
61 Ferdinand Daniš  Czechoslovakia 9.10 8.80 17.90
Bjarne Jørgensen  Denmark 9.25 8.65 17.90
63 Alf Olsen  Norway 8.85 9.00 17.85
Szymon Sobala  Poland 8.80 9.05 17.85
Ernst Wister  Austria 8.60 9.25 17.85
66 Ken Buffin  Great Britain 9.45 8.35 17.80
67 Paweł Gaca  Poland 9.05 8.70 17.75
Freddy Jensen  Denmark 8.70 9.05 17.75
Miloš Kolejka  Czechoslovakia 9.15 8.60 17.75
70 Ahmed Issam Allam  Egypt 8.75 8.95 17.70
Vladimír Kejř  Czechoslovakia 8.80 8.90 17.70
János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary 9.00 8.70 17.70
73 Paul Grubenthal  Austria 9.00 8.65 17.65
Armand Huberty  Luxembourg 8.65 9.00 17.65
75 Adalbert Dickhut  Germany 7.95 9.65 17.60
Poul Jessen  Denmark 8.80 8.80 17.60
Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia 9.05 8.55 17.60
78 Károly Kocsis  Hungary 9.25 8.30 17.55
79 René Changeat  France 8.60 8.85 17.45
Ernst Fivian  Switzerland 8.10 9.35 17.45
Paweł Gawron  Poland 9.05 8.40 17.45
Nils Sjöberg  Sweden 8.90 8.55 17.45
83 Mathias Jamtvedt  Norway 8.90 8.50 17.40
Anders Lindh  Sweden 8.80 8.60 17.40
Volmer Thomsen  Denmark 8.80 8.60 17.40
86 Dušan Furlan  Yugoslavia 8.45 8.90 17.35
87 Jerzy Jokiel  Poland 9.00 8.30 17.30
Arthur Schmitt  Saar 9.05 8.25 17.30
89 Børge Minerth  Denmark 8.85 8.40 17.25
Alf Nørgaard  Norway 8.55 8.70 17.25
Stoyan Stoyanov  Bulgaria 9.60 7.65 17.25
92 Silvio Brivio  Italy 8.95 8.25 17.20
Franz Kemter  Austria 8.95 8.25 17.20
Sándor Réthy  Hungary 8.65 8.55 17.20
95 Børge Nielsen  Denmark 8.75 8.40 17.15
96 Arne Carlsson  Sweden 8.45 8.65 17.10
97 Don Holder  United States 9.05 8.00 17.05
98 Arne Knudsen  Norway 8.40 8.60 17.00
Ronnie Lombard  South Africa 8.40 8.60 17.00
100 Andrei Kerekes  Romania 8.30 8.65 16.95
Josef Škvor  Czechoslovakia 9.15 7.80 16.95
Ali Zaky  Egypt 7.65 9.30 16.95
Luigi Zanetti  Italy 7.80 9.15 16.95
104 Vasil Konstantinov  Bulgaria 8.55 8.35 16.90
105 Arrigo Carnoli  Italy 8.10 8.75 16.85
106 Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 8.10 8.70 16.80
Walter Müller  Saar 9.05 7.75 16.80
Frank Turner  Great Britain 8.25 8.55 16.80
109 Vincent D'Autorio  United States 8.75 8.00 16.75
Manuel Gouveia  Portugal 8.25 8.50 16.75
Georg Johansen  Norway 8.90 7.85 16.75
112 Walter Blattmann  United States 8.25 8.45 16.70
József Fekete  Hungary 8.65 8.05 16.70
114 Nikolay Atanasov  Bulgaria 8.20 8.45 16.65
Gunnar Pedersen  Denmark 8.40 8.25 16.65
116 Raymond Badin  France 7.55 9.00 16.55
117 William Thoresson  Sweden 9.30 7.20 16.50
118 Jean Guillou  France 8.45 8.00 16.45
119 Ryszard Kucjas  Poland 8.25 8.10 16.35
Kurt Wigartz  Sweden 8.00 8.35 16.35
121 Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 7.80 8.50 16.30
122 Friedrich Fetz  Austria 7.80 8.45 16.25
Mohamed Sayed Hamdi  Egypt 8.10 8.15 16.25
124 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi  Egypt 7.70 8.50 16.20
René Schroeder  Luxembourg 7.85 8.35 16.20
126 Raúl Caldeira  Portugal 7.80 8.35 16.15
127 Marcel Coppin  Luxembourg 8.30 7.80 16.10
Zdzisław Lesiński  Poland 8.80 7.30 16.10
129 Nikolay Milev  Bulgaria 9.05 7.00 16.05
Littorio Sampieri  Italy 8.30 7.75 16.05
131 César Bonoris  Argentina 8.00 8.00 16.00
Hubert Erang  Luxembourg 8.20 7.80 16.00
133 Norbert Dietrich  Saar 8.85 7.10 15.95
134 Georges Floquet  France 7.35 8.55 15.90
135 Fabio Bonacina  Italy 8.95 6.90 15.85
136 Orlando Polmonari  Italy 8.20 7.55 15.75
137 Willi Welt  Austria 8.75 6.95 15.70
138 Jack Whitford  Great Britain 7.25 8.40 15.65
139 Todor Todorov  Bulgaria 8.40 7.15 15.55
140 André Weingand  France 6.50 9.00 15.50
141 Rolf Yelseth  South Africa 7.60 7.80 15.40
142 Ivica Jelić  Yugoslavia 7.20 8.10 15.30
143 Rolf Lauer  Saar 8.35 6.90 15.25
Fred Wiedersporn  Saar 8.00 7.25 15.25
145 Joaquim Granger  Portugal 7.65 7.55 15.20
Magne Kleiven  Norway 6.50 8.70 15.20
Erich Peters  Sweden 6.60 8.60 15.20
148 Odd Lie  Norway 7.00 8.10 15.10
Paweł Świętek  Poland 8.20 6.90 15.10
150 Ede Mađar  Yugoslavia 7.45 7.50 14.95
151 Juan Caviglia  Argentina 6.90 7.85 14.75
Franjo Jurjević  Yugoslavia 6.15 8.60 14.75
153 Quinto Vadi  Italy 6.00 8.70 14.70
154 Magdy Gheriani  Egypt 6.40 8.25 14.65
155 Frederik De Waele  Belgium 6.60 7.75 14.35
156 Graham Harcourt  Great Britain 7.80 6.45 14.25
157 Maurice De Groote  Belgium 7.10 7.00 14.10
George Weedon  Great Britain 8.20 5.90 14.10
159 Peter Starling  Great Britain 7.00 7.00 14.00
160 Ivan Čaklec  Yugoslavia 7.25 6.65 13.90
161 Ragai Youssef  Egypt 7.10 6.75 13.85
162 Sreten Stefanović  Yugoslavia 6.90 6.90 13.80
163 Mihai Botez  Romania 5.50 8.15 13.65
164 Karel Janež  Yugoslavia 6.50 6.60 13.10
165 Marcel de Wolf  France 6.50 6.40 12.90
166 Jack Wells  South Africa 6.45 6.10 12.55
167 Ernst Madland  Norway 2.90 8.85 11.75
168 Francisc Cocis  Romania 4.50 7.00 11.50
169 Aurel Losnita  Romania 5.30 6.10 11.40
Iliya Topalov  Bulgaria 6.90 4.50 11.40
171 Manuel Prazeres  Portugal 4.65 6.65 11.30
172 Eugen Balint  Romania 4.50 6.75 11.25
173 Jeroom Riske  Belgium 7.65 3.50 11.15
174 António Leite  Portugal 3.00 7.25 10.25
175 Ángel Aguiar  Cuba 4.50 5.70 10.20
176 Manuel Cardoso  Portugal 3.50 6.60 10.10
177 Heinz Ostheimer  Saar 2.00 7.80 9.80
178 Jerzy Solarz  Poland 3.25 6.25 9.50
179 Vir Singh  India 2.00 5.75 7.75
180 Carol Bedö  Romania 1.75 5.50 7.25
181 Francisco Cascante  Cuba 3.00 4.00 7.00
182 Zoltan Balogh  Romania 1.25 5.50 6.75
183 Khushi Ram  India 1.25 4.50 5.75
184 Hans Friedrich  Austria 4.00 4.00
185 Mahmoud Mohamed Reda  Egypt 0.50 0.50

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Horizontal Bar". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ^ a b "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 424.