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

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.

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 →

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
  Jack Günthard   Switzerland 9.75 9.80 19.55
  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.