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Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

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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 →

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.

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Karl Frei  Switzerland 19.8 19.8 39.6
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Michael Reusch  Switzerland 19.5 19.6 39.1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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.