Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

The men's pommel horse 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 ended in a three-way tie for the gold medal, with all three winners from Finland: Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen, and Heikki Savolainen. It was the third time the medals had been swept in the event (United States in 1904, Switzerland in 1924). Another three-way tie would occur in 1988. It was Finland's first victory in the event, and first medal since 1928.

Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Earls Court Exhibition Centre (2012)
VenueEarls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates12–13 August
Competitors121 from 16 nations
Winning score38.7
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paavo Aaltonen  Finland
1st place, gold medalist(s) Veikko Huhtanen  Finland
1st place, gold medalist(s) Heikki Savolainen  Finland
← 1936
1952 →

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). One of the top 10 gymnasts from 1936 returned: seventh-place finisher Michael Reusch of Switzerland. Reusch had won the 1938 world championship, the last before World War II; there had not yet been another since the war, so he was the reigning champion.[2]

Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, and Egypt each made their debut in the men's pommel horse. 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). 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
  Paavo Aaltonen   Finland 19.2 19.5 38.7
Veikko Huhtanen   Finland 19.2 19.5 38.7
Heikki Savolainen   Finland 19.3 19.4 38.7
4 Luigi Zanetti   Italy 18.9 19.4 38.3
5 Guido Figone   Italy 19.0 19.2 38.2
6 Frank Cumiskey   United States 18.8 19.1 37.9
7 Michael Reusch   Switzerland 18.6 19.2 37.8
8[4] Aleksanteri Saarvala   Finland 19.2 18.5 37.7
Josef Stalder   Switzerland 19.3 18.4 37.7
Emil Studer   Switzerland 18.7 19.0 37.7
11 Walter Lehmann   Switzerland 18.4 19.2 37.6
12 Ettore Perego   Italy 18.9 18.6 37.5
13 Quinto Vadi   Italy 18.4 19.0 37.4
14 Christian Kipfer   Switzerland 18.3 18.9 37.2
Lucien Masset   France 19.1 18.1 37.2
16 Robert Lucy   Switzerland 18.8 18.3 37.1
Lajos Sántha   Hungary 18.3 18.8 37.1
18 Einari Teräsvirta   Finland 18.2 18.8 37.0
19 Jozsef Fekete   Hungary 18.4 18.5 36.9
Savino Guglielmetti   Italy 18.2 18.7 36.9
Kalevi Laitinen   Finland 17.5 19.4 36.9
22 Domenico Grosso   Italy 18.5 18.1 36.6
23 Joe Kotys   United States 17.9 18.6 36.5
Olavi Rove   Finland 17.9 18.6 36.5
Melchior Thalmann   Switzerland 18.3 18.2 36.5
26 Karl Frei   Switzerland 18.5 17.9 36.4
Bill Roetzheim   United States 18.5 17.9 36.4
Ernst Wister   Austria 18.0 18.4 36.4
Ferenc Várkõi   Hungary 18.4 18.0 36.4
30 László Baranyai   Hungary 17.3 19.0 36.3
Karl Bohusch   Austria 17.9 18.4 36.3
Zdeněk Růžička   Czechoslovakia 18.8 17.5 36.3
Auguste Sirot   France 18.0 18.3 36.3
Lajos Tóth   Hungary 18.1 18.2 36.3
35 Marcel de Wolf   France 18.0 18.2 36.2
36 Michel Mathiot   France 18.0 18.0 36.0
Hans Sauter   Austria 18.1 17.9 36.0
38 Egidio Armelloni   Italy 18.4 17.5 35.9
39 Alec Wales   Great Britain 17.6 18.2 35.8
40 André Weingand   France 18.4 17.3 35.7
41 Konrad Grilc   Yugoslavia 17.7 17.9 35.6
Gustav Hrubý   Czechoslovakia 18.7 16.9 35.6
Ed Scrobe   United States 17.4 18.2 35.6
Ray Sorensen   United States 17.8 17.8 35.6
45 Vincent D'Autorio   United States 18.7 16.5 35.2
Ferenc Pataki   Hungary 17.6 17.6 35.2
Sulo Salmi   Finland 16.9 18.3 35.2
48 Alphonse Anger   France 17.6 17.3 34.9
Willi Schreyer   Austria 16.9 18.0 34.9
50 Gyözö Mogyorosi   Hungary 17.8 17.0 34.8
Antoine Schildwein   France 16.8 18.0 34.8
52 Danilo Fioravanti   Italy 18.1 16.3 34.4
53 Freddy Jensen   Denmark 18.1 16.2 34.3
Rafael Lecuona   Cuba 18.0 16.3 34.3
János Mogyorósi-Klencs   Hungary 17.8 16.5 34.3
56 Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 16.7 17.5 34.2
57 František Wirth   Czechoslovakia 18.3 15.6 33.9
58 Poul Jessen   Denmark 17.7 16.1 33.8
59 Pavel Benetka   Czechoslovakia 18.1 15.5 33.6
Vladimír Karas   Czechoslovakia 17.2 16.4 33.6
61 Hans Friedrich   Austria 18.1 15.4 33.5
62 William Bonsall   United States 16.1 17.1 33.2
63 Miroslav Málek   Czechoslovakia 17.0 16.1 33.1
64 Ivica Jelić   Yugoslavia 16.2 16.7 32.9
65 Stjepan Boltižar   Yugoslavia 15.8 17.0 32.8
66 Drago Jelić   Yugoslavia 17.0 15.75 32.75
Frank Turner   Great Britain 17.0 15.75 32.75
68 Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 16.0 16.5 32.5
69 Raymond Dot   France 18.2 14.2 32.4
70 Vratislav Petráček   Czechoslovakia 15.6 16.7 32.3
71 Elkana Grønne   Denmark 18.0 14.25 32.25
72 Josip Kujundžić   Yugoslavia 15.4 16.6 32.0
73 Arnold Thomsen   Denmark 15.25 16.4 31.65
74 Robert Pranz   Austria 13.5 18.1 31.6
George Weedon   Great Britain 15.5 16.1 31.6
76 Leo Sotorník   Czechoslovakia 17.0 14.4 31.4
77 Raimundo Rey   Cuba 15.1 14.75 29.85
78 Miro Longyka   Yugoslavia 14.1 15.5 29.6
79 Fernando Lecuona   Cuba 16.5 13.0 29.5
80 Volmer Thomsen   Denmark 16.3 13.0 29.3
81 Jakob Šubelj   Yugoslavia 14.5 14.75 29.25
82 Vilhelm Møller   Denmark 14.75 13.95 28.7
83 Georges Wengler   Luxembourg 15.25 13.0 28.25
84 Alejandro Díaz   Cuba 14.5 13.25 27.75
85 Gunner Olesen   Denmark 14.3 13.0 27.3
86 Ken Buffin   Great Britain 14.95 12.25 27.2
87 Percy May   Great Britain 14.0 12.75 26.75
88 Jack Flaherty   Great Britain 12.0 14.5 26.5
89 Moustafa Abdelal   Egypt 12.0 13.75 25.75
90 Menn Krecke   Luxembourg 11.2 14.0 25.2
91 Polo Welfring   Luxembourg 10.0 15.0 25.0
92 Ahmed Khalaf Ali   Egypt 11.6 13.25 24.85
93 Roberto Villacián   Cuba 14.4 10.0 24.4
94 Glyn Hopkins   Great Britain 11.45 12.5 23.95
95 Karel Janež   Yugoslavia 13.6 10.0 23.6
96 Ivor Vice   Great Britain 11.0 12.5 23.5
97 Arturo Amos   Argentina 9.1 14.25 23.35
Mohamed Roushdi   Egypt 10.6 12.75 23.35
99 Pierre Schmitz   Luxembourg 9.8 12.75 22.55
100 Enrique Rapesta   Argentina 10.0 11.5 21.5
Baldomero Rubiera   Cuba 10.5 11.0 21.5
René Schroeder   Luxembourg 10.5 11.0 21.5
103 Ángel Aguiar   Cuba 10.2 10.0 20.2
104 Jos Bernard   Luxembourg 7.0 12.75 19.75
105 Pedro Lonchibuco   Argentina 6.0 12.5 18.5
106 Ali Zaky   Egypt 6.3 11.75 18.05
107 Jorge Soler   Argentina 6.0 11.0 17.0
108 Gottfried Hermann   Austria 16.4 16.4
109 Børge Minerth   Denmark 16.0 16.0
110 Ali El-Hefnawi   Egypt 5.3 9.75 15.05
111 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi   Egypt 5.5 9.0 14.5
112 Mahmoud Abdel-Aal   Egypt 4.8 9.25 14.05
113 Dario Aguilar   Mexico 4.0 10.0 14.0
César Bonoris   Argentina 4.0 10.0 14.0
Rubén Lira   Mexico 7.5 6.5 14.0
116 Mohamed Aly   Egypt 3.5 9.0 12.5
117 Louis Bordo   United States 12.0 12.0
Roberto Núñez   Argentina 4.0 8.0 12.0
119 Jorge Vidal   Argentina 11.8 11.8
120 Jorge Castro   Mexico 3.0 8.0 11.0
121 Everardo Rios   Mexico 4.7 4.7

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Pommelled Horse". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 343.
  4. ^ The Official Report indicates Saarvala finished 5th in this event, but his score is 8th place. Other sources list him in 8th place.