Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
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Plaque at Töölö Sports Hall commemorating 1952 Olympic sports held there
VenueTöölö Sports Hall, Exhibition Hall I
Date19–21 July
Competitors185 from 29 nations
Winning score19.20
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Masao Takemoto  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tadao Uesako  Japan
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Gymnastics at the
1952 Summer Olympics
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Team all-aroundmenwomen
Team portable apparatuswomen
Individual all-aroundmenwomen
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The men's vault competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Töölö Sports Hall (then "Messuhalli"), 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 nations competing in the team event entering up to 8 gymnasts and other nations able to send up to 3. The event was won by Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union, the nation's first medal in the event in its first appearance. Japan also earned its first medal(s): a silver and two bronzes, as Masao Takemoto finished second and there was a tie for third between Takashi Ono and Tadao Uesako.

Background[]

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). Seven of the top 13 (including ties for 10th) gymnasts from 1948 returned: gold medalist Paavo Aaltonen of Finland, silver medalist Olavi Rove of Finland, all three bronze medalists (János Mogyorósi-Klencs and Ferenc Pataki of Hungary and Leo Sotorník of Czechoslovakia), and tenth-place finishers Kalevi Laitinen of Finland and Lajos Tóth of Hungary. The reigning (1950) world champion was Ernst Gebendinger of Switzerland.[2]

Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, and Spain each made their debut in the men's vault. 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, 20 competed in Helsinki (only Mexico and the Netherlands were missing among the nations having previously competed).

Competition format[]

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 event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each competitor had two tries for each of the compulsory and voluntary vaults with the better score to count.[3]

Schedule[]

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[]

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union 9.45 9.75 19.20
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Masao Takemoto  Japan 9.55 9.60 19.15
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan 9.50 9.60 19.10
Tadao Uesako  Japan 9.55 9.55 19.10
5 Hans Eugster  Switzerland 9.40 9.55 18.95
Theo Wied  Germany 9.45 9.50 18.95
7 Iosif Berdiev  Soviet Union 9.30 9.60 18.90
Ernst Fivian  Switzerland 9.40 9.50 18.90
9 Adalbert Dickhut  Germany 9.40 9.45 18.85
Wolfgang Girardi  Austria 9.45 9.40 18.85
János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary 9.40 9.45 18.85
Leo Sotorník  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.50 18.85
13 Helmut Bantz  Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80
Ferdinand Daniš  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.45 18.80
Anders Lindh  Sweden 9.40 9.40 18.80
Alfred Schwarzmann  Germany 9.30 9.50 18.80
Josef Stalder  Switzerland 9.45 9.35 18.80
18 Ahmed Issam Allam  Egypt 9.35 9.40 18.75
19 Ivan Čaklec  Yugoslavia 9.55 9.15 18.70
Dmytro Leonkin  Soviet Union 9.20 9.50 18.70
Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union 9.25 9.45 18.70
Ferenc Pataki  Hungary 9.30 9.40 18.70
Jean Tschabold  Switzerland 9.45 9.25 18.70
Kalevi Viskari  Finland 9.45 9.25 18.70
25 Raymond Dot  France 9.30 9.35 18.65
Franjo Jurjević  Yugoslavia 9.40 9.25 18.65
Tetsumi Nabeya  Japan 9.35 9.30 18.65
28 Onni Lappalainen  Finland 9.35 9.25 18.60
Mahmoud Safwat  Egypt 9.10 9.50 18.60
Melchior Thalmann  Switzerland 9.30 9.30 18.60
31 Dušan Furlan  Yugoslavia 9.40 9.15 18.55
Mathias Jamtvedt  Norway 9.25 9.30 18.55
Akitomo Kaneko  Japan 9.25 9.30 18.55
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.30 9.25 18.55
35 Paavo Aaltonen  Finland 9.25 9.25 18.50
Vladimir Belyakov  Soviet Union 9.10 9.40 18.50
József Fekete  Hungary 9.20 9.30 18.50
Hrant Shahinyan  Soviet Union 9.05 9.45 18.50
Josef Svoboda  Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.35 18.50
40 René Changeat  France 9.25 9.20 18.45
Charles Simms  United States 9.30 9.15 18.45
Willi Welt  Austria 9.20 9.25 18.45
Ali Zaky  Egypt 9.45 9.00 18.45
44 Arne Carlsson  Sweden 9.30 9.10 18.40
Paul Grubenthal  Austria 9.25 9.15 18.40
Georg Johansen  Norway 9.30 9.10 18.40
Yevgeny Korolkov  Soviet Union 8.90 9.50 18.40
Kalevi Laitinen  Finland 9.20 9.20 18.40
Kaino Lempinen  Finland 9.20 9.20 18.40
Friedel Overwien  Germany 9.10 9.30 18.40
Littorio Sampieri  Italy 9.15 9.25 18.40
Hans Schwarzentruber  Switzerland 9.25 9.15 18.40
Volmer Thomsen  Denmark 9.30 9.10 18.40
54 Walter Blattmann  United States 9.25 9.10 18.35
Marcel Coppin  Luxembourg 9.10 9.25 18.35
Ernst Gebendinger  Switzerland 9.40 8.95 18.35
Poul Jessen  Denmark 9.30 9.05 18.35
Odd Lie  Norway 9.25 9.10 18.35
Michel Mathiot  France 9.05 9.30 18.35
Hans Sauter  Austria 9.20 9.15 18.35
Ed Scrobe  United States 9.35 9.00 18.35
Josef Škvor  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.15 18.35
Mincho Todorov  Bulgaria 9.15 9.20 18.35
Erich Wied  Germany 8.95 9.40 18.35
65 Jack Günthard  Switzerland 9.15 9.15 18.30
Alf Nørgaard  Norway 9.20 9.10 18.30
Mikhail Perelman  Soviet Union 9.05 9.25 18.30
Lajos Tóth  Hungary 9.05 9.25 18.30
Luigi Zanetti  Italy 9.15 9.15 18.30
70 Hans Friedrich  Austria 9.25 9.00 18.25
Orlando Polmonari  Italy 9.05 9.20 18.25
Frank Turner  Great Britain 9.20 9.05 18.25
73 Joaquín Blume  Spain 9.30 8.90 18.20
Paweł Gaca  Poland 8.95 9.25 18.20
Vladimír Kejř  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.20 18.20
Sándor Réthy  Hungary 9.10 9.10 18.20
Bob Stout  United States 8.80 9.40 18.20
Kurt Wigartz  Sweden 9.20 9.00 18.20
79 Hubert Erang  Luxembourg 8.90 9.25 18.15
Alf Olsen  Norway 9.25 8.90 18.15
Lajos Sántha  Hungary 8.95 9.20 18.15
Jack Wells  South Africa 9.10 9.05 18.15
83 Ferenc Kemény  Hungary 9.20 8.90 18.10
Arne Knudsen  Norway 9.10 9.00 18.10
Hans Pfann  Germany 9.00 9.10 18.10
Dimitar Yordanov  Bulgaria 9.05 9.05 18.10
87 Jack Beckner  United States 9.25 8.80 18.05
Magdy Gheriani  Egypt 8.95 9.10 18.05
Károly Kocsis  Hungary 9.10 8.95 18.05
Miloš Kolejka  Czechoslovakia 8.85 9.20 18.05
Jindřich Mikulec  Czechoslovakia 9.10 8.95 18.05
Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.00 18.05
Börje Stattin  Sweden 9.25 8.80 18.05
Todor Todorov  Bulgaria 9.05 9.00 18.05
95 Don Holder  United States 9.20 8.80 18.00
Bjarne Jørgensen  Denmark 9.05 8.95 18.00
Berndt Lindfors  Finland 9.00 9.00 18.00
98 Ronnie Lombard  South Africa 9.05 8.90 17.95
Gunnar Pedersen  Denmark 9.10 8.85 17.95
100 Nikolay Atanasov  Bulgaria 8.85 9.05 17.90
Nils Sjöberg  Sweden 9.10 8.80 17.90
102 Vasil Konstantinov  Bulgaria 9.00 8.85 17.85
Heikki Savolainen  Finland 8.75 9.10 17.85
104 Arrigo Carnoli  Italy 8.80 9.00 17.80
William Thoresson  Sweden 9.10 8.70 17.80
André Weingand  France 8.95 8.85 17.80
107 Friedrich Fetz  Austria 9.10 8.60 17.70
Jey Kugeler  Luxembourg 8.60 9.10 17.70
Jack Whitford  Great Britain 9.05 8.65 17.70
110 Frederik De Waele  Belgium 8.85 8.80 17.65
Manuel Gouveia  Portugal 9.00 8.65 17.65
Heinz Ostheimer  Saar 8.80 8.85 17.65
Olavi Rove  Finland 8.15 9.50 17.65
114 Andrei Kerekes  Romania 8.45 9.15 17.60
Børge Nielsen  Denmark 8.70 8.90 17.60
Bill Roetzheim  United States 8.85 8.75 17.60
Ernst Wister  Austria 9.10 8.50 17.60
118 Aurel Losnita  Romania 8.45 9.10 17.55
Jeroom Riske  Belgium 8.60 8.95 17.55
120 Carol Bedö  Romania 8.55 8.95 17.50
Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi  Egypt 8.55 8.95 17.50
Ivica Jelić  Yugoslavia 8.40 9.10 17.50
123 Franz Kemter  Austria 8.90 8.50 17.40
Magne Kleiven  Norway 8.70 8.70 17.40
Frederic Orendi  Romania 8.40 9.00 17.40
Fred Wiedersporn  Saar 8.65 8.75 17.40
Ragai Youssef  Egypt 8.75 8.65 17.40
128 Ángel Aguiar  Cuba 8.75 8.60 17.35
Fabio Bonacina  Italy 8.35 9.00 17.35
Francisc Cocis  Romania 8.50 8.85 17.35
Ryszard Kucjas  Poland 8.35 9.00 17.35
Zdzisław Lesiński  Poland 9.10 8.25 17.35
Walter Müller  Saar 8.60 8.75 17.35
George Weedon  Great Britain 8.35 9.00 17.35
135 Juan Caviglia  Argentina 8.40 8.85 17.25
Marcel de Wolf  France 8.40 8.85 17.25
137 Georges Floquet  France 8.25 8.95 17.20
Ede Mađar  Yugoslavia 8.20 9.00 17.20
Quinto Vadi  Italy 8.30 8.90 17.20
140 Szymon Sobala  Poland 9.15 8.00 17.15
141 Guido Figone  Italy 8.70 8.25 16.95
142 Ken Buffin  Great Britain 9.00 7.90 16.90
Jean Guillou  France 8.90 8.00 16.90
Ernst Madland  Norway 8.65 8.25 16.90
Manuel Prazeres  Portugal 8.40 8.50 16.90
146 Armand Huberty  Luxembourg 8.35 8.50 16.85
Børge Minerth  Denmark 9.10 7.75 16.85
Peter Starling  Great Britain 8.35 8.50 16.85
149 Freddy Jensen  Denmark 7.80 9.00 16.80
150 Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 8.00 8.75 16.75
151 Nikolay Milev  Bulgaria 7.65 9.05 16.70
Sreten Stefanović  Yugoslavia 9.20 7.50 16.70
153 Zoltan Balogh  Romania 7.55 9.10 16.65
Graham Harcourt  Great Britain 8.55 8.10 16.65
Jerzy Jokiel  Poland 9.15 7.50 16.65
156 Mohamed Sayed Hamdi  Egypt 7.75 8.70 16.45
René Schroeder  Luxembourg 7.70 8.75 16.45
158 Raymond Badin  France 7.55 8.85 16.40
159 Mahmoud Mohamed Reda  Egypt 7.50 8.80 16.30
160 Vincent D'Autorio  United States 7.10 9.15 16.25
161 Rolf Lauer  Saar 8.15 8.05 16.20
162 Karel Janež  Yugoslavia 7.10 8.95 16.05
Jerzy Solarz  Poland 8.80 7.25 16.05
164 Paweł Świętek  Poland 8.45 7.50 15.95
165 Silvio Brivio  Italy 8.50 7.35 15.85
166 Iliya Topalov  Bulgaria 6.60 9.05 15.65
167 Mihai Botez  Romania 6.50 9.00 15.50
168 César Bonoris  Argentina 8.95 6.50 15.45
169 Erich Peters  Sweden 6.65 8.75 15.40
170 Francisco Cascante  Cuba 6.65 8.35 15.00
171 Eugen Balint  Romania 6.00 8.95 14.95
172 Raúl Caldeira  Portugal 6.50 8.05 14.55
173 Arthur Schmitt  Saar 5.65 8.85 14.50
174 Rolf Yelseth  South Africa 7.05 7.35 14.40
175 Vir Singh  India 6.50 7.50 14.00
176 Norbert Dietrich  Saar 6.90 7.00 13.90
177 Paweł Gawron  Poland 8.00 5.50 13.50
178 Joaquim Granger  Portugal 6.25 7.00 13.25
179 Maurice De Groote  Belgium 4.75 7.25 12.00
180 António Leite  Portugal 5.25 6.00 11.25
181 Stoyan Stoyanov  Bulgaria 9.20 — 9.20
182 Jakob Kiefer  Germany 9.00 — 9.00
183 Antun Kropivšek  Yugoslavia 8.40 — 8.40
184 Manuel Cardoso  Portugal 0.00 5.65 5.65
185 Khushi Ram  India 0.00 5.50 5.50

References[]

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
  2. ^ "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 424.
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