Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Olympics Volleyball at Earl Court.jpg
Earls Court Exhibition Centre (2012)
VenueEarls Court Exhibition Centre
Dates12–13 August
Competitors120 from 16 nations
Winning score39.1
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paavo Aaltonen
 Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Olavi Rove
 Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) János Mogyorósi-Klencs
 Hungary
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ferenc Pataki
 Hungary
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Leo Sotorník
 Czechoslovakia
← 1936
1952 →

The men's vault 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 120 competitors from 16 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Paavo Aaltonen of Finland with fellow Finn Olavi Rove finishing second; the medals were the nation's first in the men's vault. There was a three-way tie for third place resulting in three bronze medals being awarded to János Mogyorósi-Klencs and Ferenc Pataki of Hungary and Leo Sotorník of Czechoslovakia.

Background[]

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. There had been no world championship yet after World War II, so the reigning two-time world champion was 40-year-old Eugen Mack, who had won Olympic gold in 1928 and silver in 1936; he did not compete.[2]

Argentina, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, and Mexico each made their debut in the men's vault. The United States made its sixth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format[]

The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5), though 3 gymnasts did not compete in the vault (one each from Austria, Mexico, and the United States). 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] For the vault, each gymnast attempted both the compulsory and voluntary vaults twice, with the better score counting.[4]

Schedule[]

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[]

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paavo Aaltonen  Finland 19.6 19.5 39.1
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Olavi Rove  Finland 19.6 19.4 39.0
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary 18.9 19.6 38.5
Ferenc Pataki  Hungary 19.0 19.5 38.5
Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia 19.1 19.4 38.5
6 Veikko Huhtanen  Finland 19.5 18.9 38.4
7 Einari Teräsvirta  Finland 19.3 19.0 38.3
8 Walter Lehmann  Switzerland 19.0 19.1 38.1
Sulo Salmi  Finland 19.2 18.9 38.1
10 Kalevi Laitinen  Finland 19.3 18.7 38.0
Emil Studer  Switzerland 19.2 18.8 38.0
Lajos Tóth  Hungary 18.9 19.1 38.0
Ferenc Várkõi  Hungary 18.6 19.4 38.0
14 Jozsef Fekete  Hungary 18.7 19.2 37.9
Christian Kipfer  Switzerland 19.0 18.9 37.9
Robert Lucy  Switzerland 19.0 18.9 37.9
17 Gustav Hrubý  Czechoslovakia 18.7 19.1 37.8
18 Guido Figone  Italy 19.1 18.6 37.7
Ernst Wister  Austria 18.7 19.0 37.7
20 László Baranyai  Hungary 18.7 18.9 37.6
Vilhelm Møller  Denmark 19.3 18.3 37.6
Melchior Thalmann  Switzerland 19.0 18.6 37.6
23 William Bonsall  United States 18.5 19.0 37.5
Miro Longyka  Yugoslavia 18.3 19.2 37.5
Arnold Thomsen  Denmark 18.6 18.9 37.5
26 Raymond Dot  France 19.1 18.3 37.4
Gunner Olesen  Denmark 18.9 18.5 37.4
28 Pavel Benetka  Czechoslovakia 18.2 19.1 37.3
Josip Kujundžić  Yugoslavia 18.1 19.2 37.3
30 Elkana Grønne  Denmark 18.4 18.8 37.2
Miroslav Málek  Czechoslovakia 18.6 18.6 37.2
32 Poul Jessen  Denmark 18.6 18.5 37.1
Børge Minerth  Denmark 18.4 18.7 37.1
Jakob Šubelj  Yugoslavia 18.2 18.9 37.1
Polo Welfring  Luxembourg 18.3 18.8 37.1
36 Ali El-Hefnawi  Egypt 18.1 18.9 37.0
Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 38.3 18.7 37.0
38 Josef Stalder  Switzerland 18.7 18.2 36.9
František Wirth  Czechoslovakia 18.4 18.5 36.9
40 Hans Friedrich  Austria 18.6 18.2 36.8
Ivica Jelić  Yugoslavia 18.0 16.8 36.8
Lucien Masset  France 18.8 18.0 36.8
Aleksanteri Saarvala  Finland 18.7 18.1 36.8
44 Konrad Grilc  Yugoslavia 17.5 19.2 36.7
Domenico Grosso  Italy 18.5 18.2 36.7
46 Karl Bohusch  Austria 18.4 18.2 36.6
Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 17.9 18.7 36.6
48 Vincent D'Autorio  United States 18.6 17.9 36.5
Heikki Savolainen  Finland 18.5 18.0 36.5
50 Joe Kotys  United States 18.7 17.7 36.4
Antoine Schildwein  France 18.3 18.1 36.4
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 18.2 18.2 36.4
George Weedon  Great Britain 18.2 18.2 36.4
Ali Zaky  Egypt 18.4 18.0 36.4
55 Savino Guglielmetti  Italy 18.0 18.3 36.3
56 Ettore Perego  Italy 18.2 18.0 36.2
Frank Turner  Great Britain 18.1 18.1 36.2
58 Bill Roetzheim  United States 18.3 17.8 36.1
59 Ray Sorensen  United States 18.6 17.3 35.9
60 Michel Mathiot  France 18.2 17.6 35.8
Pierre Schmitz  Luxembourg 17.7 18.1 35.8
Quinto Vadi  Italy 18.0 17.8 35.8
63 Volmer Thomsen  Denmark 18.7 17.0 35.7
64 Karl Frei  Switzerland 317.1 18.5 35.6
Lajos Sántha  Hungary 18.3 17.3 35.6
66 Menn Krecke  Luxembourg 17.6 17.9 35.5
67 André Weingand  France 17.7 17.7 35.4
68 Marcel de Wolf  France 18.0 17.3 35.3
René Schroeder  Luxembourg 16.8 18.5 35.3
70 Auguste Sirot  France 17.1 18.2 35.2
71 Ed Scrobe  United States 16.7 18.3 35.0
72 Ken Buffin  Great Britain 17.7 17.2 34.9
73 Luigi Zanetti  Italy 16.8 18.0 34.8
74 Frank Cumiskey  United States 18.5 16.0 34.5
75 Alphonse Anger  France 16.0 18.4 34.4
Drago Jelić  Yugoslavia 17.2 17.2 34.4
77 Arturo Amos  Argentina 16.0 18.3 34.3
Gyözö Mogyorosi  Hungary 18.2 16.1 34.3
79 Danilo Fioravanti  Italy 16.0 18.0 34.0
Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 18.0 16.0 34.0
81 Mohamed Aly  Egypt 15.8 18.0 33.8
82 Freddy Jensen  Denmark 15.6 18.1 33.7
83 Ahmed Khalaf Ali  Egypt 17.0 16.5 33.5
84 Vratislav Petráček  Czechoslovakia 15.8 17.5 33.3
Michael Reusch  Switzerland 16.1 17.2 33.3
86 Percy May  Great Britain 16.0 17.2 33.2
87 Willi Schreyer  Austria 14.2 18.9 33.1
88 Hans Sauter  Austria 14.4 18.5 32.9
89 Vladimír Karas  Czechoslovakia 14.4 18.0 32.4
90 Karel Janež  Yugoslavia 13.8 18.4 32.2
91 Stjepan Boltižar  Yugoslavia 15.3 11.7 32.0
92 Georges Wengler  Luxembourg 15.6 16.0 31.6
93 Baldomero Rubiera  Cuba 15.6 15.8 31.4
94 Jos Bernard  Luxembourg 15.3 15.9 31.2
95 Mohamed Roushdi  Egypt 15.25 15.2 30.45
96 Raimundo Rey  Cuba 15.6 14.5 30.1
97 Moustafa Abdelal  Egypt 13.1 16.9 30.0
98 Mahmoud Abdel-Aal  Egypt 13.95 15.8 29.75
99 Ivor Vice  Great Britain 13.65 16.0 29.65
100 César Bonoris  Argentina 16.1 13.4 29.5
101 Jorge Soler  Argentina 12.0 17.3 29.3
102 Pedro Lonchibuco  Argentina 13.75 15.2 28.95
103 Ángel Aguiar  Cuba 11.8 16.3 28.1
104 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi  Egypt 11.5 16.5 28.0
105 Fernando Lecuona  Cuba 15.4 12.0 27.4
106 Glyn Hopkins  Great Britain 14.1 13.0 27.1
107 Jorge Castro  Mexico 16.9 10.0 26.9
108 Rubén Lira  Mexico 11.5 14.0 25.5
109 Roberto Núñez  Argentina 13.0 11.3 24.3
110 Egidio Armelloni  Italy 6.0 17.7 23.7
111 Enrique Rapesta  Argentina 11.0 11.6 22.6
112 Robert Pranz  Austria 5.0 16.0 21.0
113 Dario Aguilar  Mexico 4.0 16.4 20.4
114 Alejandro Díaz  Cuba 6.0 14.0 20.0
115 Gottfried Hermann  Austria 6.0 12.75 18.75
116 Alec Wales  Great Britain 5.0 13.0 18.0
117 Jack Flaherty  Great Britain 6.0 10.0 16.0
118 Roberto Villacián  Cuba 13.3 13.3
119 Everardo Rios  Mexico 12.0 12.0
120 Jorge Vidal  Argentina 5.0 5.0

References[]

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 393.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 392.
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