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Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

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Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
German team
VenueWaldbühne
Dates10–11 August
Competitors110 from 14 nations
Winning score19.333
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Konrad Frey
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eugen Mack
 Switzerland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Albert Bachmann
 Switzerland
← 1932
1948 →

The men's pommel horse competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 and 11 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.[1][2] There were 110 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men. The event was won by Konrad Frey of Germany, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal since 1896. Switzerland earned the other two medals, with Eugen Mack getting silver and Albert Bachmann receiving bronze.

Background

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This was the sixth 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 10 gymnasts from 1932 returned: gold medalist István Pelle of Hungary, bronze medalist Frank Haubold of the United States, fourth-place finisher Frank Cumiskey of the United States, sixth-place finisher Al Jochim of the United States, seventh-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland, eighth-place finisher Ilmari Pakarinen of Finland, and ninth-place finisher Mauri Nyberg-Noroma of Finland. Eugen Mack of Switzerland was the reigning (1934) world champion and a favorite in the event.[3]

Austria, Japan, and Romania each made their debut in the men's pommel horse. The United States made its fifth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928 but not in 1932. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions (Erang of Luxembourg did not compete in the pommel horse) performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the pommel horse were added to the other apparatus scores 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.[4]

The compulsory exercise was described in the Official Report:

Sidestand frontways with grip on pommels, swing right leg under left hand, scissors toward right, saving left leg under left hand, flankswing right and travel to the right to support rearways on the croup (left hand on rear pommel, right hand on croup), swing (circle) the right leg under left and right hand, dorsal swing left with ½ turn left into support rearways over the saddle, flank-swing backward under the left hand into support frontways over the pommels, swing right leg under right hand, scissors toward the left, swing left leg under right hand, circle both legs under left, right and left hand, swing right under right hand, scissors toward left, scissors toward right, swing left under left hand, circle both legs under right, left, right, left and right hand with a dorsal-swing left with ½ turn left into a side-support rearways over the croup (left hand supported with reverse undergrip on rear pommel, right hand on croup), flank-swing under left hand with ¼ turn left to cross support with both hands upon the croup, a further ¼ turn left with flank-swing right to a side-stand rearways, bending knees half deep and raising arms sideward, straighten knees and lower arms to the fundamental position. This exercise could be executed the opposite way or counter-like, but only “in toto”, not the individual parts.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Monday, 10 August 1936
Tuesday, 11 August 1936
7:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Konrad Frey  Germany 9.800 9.533 19.333
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eugen Mack  Switzerland 9.500 9.667 19.167
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Albert Bachmann  Switzerland 9.500 9.567 19.067
4 Martti Uosikkinen  Finland 9.533 9.533 19.066
5 Walter Bach  Switzerland 9.633 9.400 19.033
Walter Steffens  Germany 9.500 9.533 19.033
7 Michael Reusch  Switzerland 9.600 9.400 19.000
Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany 9.500 9.500 19.000
9 Willi Stadel  Germany 9.467 9.400 18.867
10 Matthias Volz  Germany 9.433 9.333 18.766
11 Egidio Armelloni  Italy 9.100 9.467 18.567
Georges Miez  Switzerland 9.100 9.467 18.567
13 Franz Beckert  Germany 9.467 9.067 18.534
14 Oreste Capuzzo  Italy 8.967 9.467 18.434
15 Lajos Tóth  Hungary 9.300 9.067 18.367
16 Ilmari Pakarinen  Finland 9.000 9.233 18.233
17 István Pelle  Hungary 8.833 9.367 18.200
18 Fred Meyer  United States 9.033 9.133 18.166
Eduard Steinemann  Switzerland 9.333 8.833 18.166
20 Savino Guglielmetti  Italy 8.633 9.500 18.133
21 Frank Cumiskey  United States 8.767 9.333 18.100
Mauri Nyberg-Noroma  Finland 9.200 8.900 18.100
Otello Ternelli  Italy 9.033 9.067 18.100
24 József Hegedüs  Hungary 8.833 9.200 18.033
25 Aleksanteri Saarvala  Finland 8.500 9.467 17.967
26 Alois Hudec  Czechoslovakia 9.233 8.733 17.966
27 Nicolo Tronci  Italy 8.767 9.167 17.934
28 Jan Sládek  Czechoslovakia 8.900 9.000 17.900
Innozenz Stangl  Germany 9.000 8.900 17.900
30 Gottfried Hermann  Austria 8.933 8.933 17.866
31 Josef Walter  Switzerland 8.200 9.500 17.700
32 Eino Tukiainen  Finland 8.367 9.300 17.667
33 Metty Logelin  Luxembourg 8.667 8.800 17.467
34 Ernst Winter  Germany 7.833 9.600 17.433
35 Heikki Savolainen  Finland 9.267 8.133 17.400
36 Esa Seeste  Finland 8.367 9.000 17.367
37 Emanuel Löffler  Czechoslovakia 9.300 8.000 17.300
38 Leon Štukelj  Yugoslavia 8.233 9.000 17.233
39 Konrad Grilc  Yugoslavia 8.400 8.733 17.133
Jaroslav Kollinger  Czechoslovakia 8.133 9.000 17.133
41 Danilo Fioravanti  Italy 8.467 9.333 17.800
42 Hiroshi Nosaka  Japan 8.533 8.567 17.100
43 Franco Tognini  Italy 8.233 8.833 17.066
44 Armand Solbach  France 8.233 8.767 17.000
45 Maurice Rousseau  France 8.367 8.600 16.967
46 Miroslav Forte  Yugoslavia 8.000 8.767 16.767
47 Josip Primožič  Yugoslavia 8.167 8.533 16.700
48 Walter Beck  Switzerland 8.467 8.067 16.534
49 Karl Pannos  Austria 8.567 7.933 16.500
50 Jindrich Tintěra  Czechoslovakia 7.967 8.500 16.467
51 Hikoroku Arimoto  Japan 7.967 8.467 16.434
52 Robert Herold  France 7.467 8.933 16.400
53 Einari Teräsvirta  Finland 7.500 8.833 16.333
54 Armand Walter  France 8.100 8.200 16.300
55 Janez Pristov  Yugoslavia 8.300 7.933 16.233
56 Pius Hollenstein  Austria 7.600 8.600 16.200
57 Jan Gajdoš  Czechoslovakia 8.400 7.767 16.167
58 Frank Haubold  United States 8.867 7.167 16.034
59 Dokan Sone  Japan 8.200 7.767 15.967
60 Vratislav Petráček  Czechoslovakia 7.933 7.933 15.866
61 Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 7.967 7.733 15.700
62 Boris Gregorka  Yugoslavia 8.200 7.400 15.600
Lucien Masset  France 7.233 8.367 15.600
64 Gyözö Mogyorossy  Hungary 6.733 8.767 15.500
65 Fujio Kakuta  Japan 8.100 7.300 15.400
66 Joze Vadnov  Yugoslavia 7.967 7.400 15.367
67 Yoshitaka Takeda  Japan 7.400 7.800 15.200
68 Hiroshi Matsunobu  Japan 8.467 6.600 15.067
69 Artie Pitt  United States 8.133 6.767 14.900
70 Kiichiro Toyama  Japan 7.633 7.200 14.833
71 August Sturm  Austria 6.500 8.267 14.767
72 Yoshio Miyake  Japan 7.433 7.167 14.600
73 Antoine Schildwein  France 7.600 6.967 14.567
74 Miklos Péter  Hungary 5.267 9.267 14.534
75 Franz Swoboda  Austria 6.667 7.767 14.434
76 Al Jochim  United States 7.467 6.800 14.267
77 Gábor Kecskeméti  Hungary 6.333 7.533 13.866
István Sárkány  Hungary 6.433 7.433 13.866
79 Franz Haupert  Luxembourg 7.333 6.333 13.666
80 Robert Pranz  Austria 5.900 7.667 13.567
81 József Sarlós  Hungary 7.433 6.033 13.466
82 Chet Phillips  United States 7.533 5.800 13.333
83 Jean Aubry  France 7.533 5.767 13.300
84 Adolf Scheffknecht  Austria 5.567 7.633 13.200
85 Dimitrije Merzlikin  Yugoslavia 7.367 5.667 13.034
86 Neno Mirchev  Bulgaria 6.000 6.800 12.800
87 Jos Romersa  Luxembourg 7.000 5.733 12.733
88 Leopold Redl  Austria 5.033 7.600 12.633
89 George Wheeler  United States 8.233 4.333 12.566
90 Paul Masino  France 6.467 5.967 12.434
91 Willy Klein  Luxembourg 5.633 6.767 12.400
92 Marcel Leineweber  Luxembourg 5.367 6.633 12.000
93 Remus Ludu  Romania 5.333 6.633 11.966
94 Jos Cillien  Luxembourg 5.933 5.900 11.833
95 Yovcho Khristov  Bulgaria 4.500 6.200 10.700
96 Kenny Griffin  United States 5.567 5.000 10.567
97 Pando Sidov  Bulgaria 4.233 5.867 10.100
98 Andrei Abraham  Romania 4.733 5.300 10.033
99 Ion Albert  Romania 4.500 5.400 9.900
100 Ivan Stoychev  Bulgaria 4.167 5.633 9.800
101 Iosif Matusec  Romania 5.100 4.400 9.500
102 Bohumil Povejšil  Czechoslovakia 8.133 1.333 9.466
103 Alexandru Dan  Romania 4.167 5.200 9.367
104 Lyuben Obretenov  Bulgaria 4.000 5.000 9.000
105 Francisc Draghici  Romania 4.033 4.700 8.733
106 Iohan Schmidt  Romania 4.267 4.233 8.500
107 Ivan Chureshki  Bulgaria 3.667 3.667 7.334
108 Georgi Dimitrov  Bulgaria 3.667 1.667 5.334
Romeo Neri  Italy 8.567 DNF
Vasile Moldovan  Romania 3.567 DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics: 1936 Olympic Results - Men's pommelled horse". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  2. ^ Official Olympic Report, la84.org. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 846.