Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's balance beam

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Women's balance beam
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
VenueMessuhalli, Exhibition Hall II
Date22–23 July
Competitors134 from 18 nations
Winning score19.22
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Margit Korondi  Hungary
1956 →

The women's balance beam competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall II from 22 to 23 July. It was the first appearance of the event, though balance beam exercise were part of the women's team all-around events in 1936 and 1948.[1]

Competition format[]

The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of 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 four apparatus that would become standard (floor, balance beam, uneven bars, and vault) were all used in the same Games for the first time.

No separate finals were contested.

For each individual exercise, five judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining three 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. For voluntary exercises, only one attempt could be made.[2]

Results[]

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union 9.46 9.76 19.22
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union 9.43 9.70 19.13
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Margit Korondi  Hungary 9.46 9.56 19.02
4 Ágnes Keleti  Hungary 9.43 9.53 18.96
5 Galina Urbanovich  Soviet Union 9.40 9.53 18.93
6 Olga Tass  Hungary 9.40 9.46 18.86
6 Tsvetanka Stancheva  Bulgaria 9.43 9.43 18.86
8 Galina Shamrai  Soviet Union 9.43 9.36 18.79
9 Pelageya Danilova  Soviet Union 9.26 9.50 18.76
10 Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union 9.13 9.53 18.66
10 Ivanka Dolzheva  Bulgaria 9.36 9.30 18.66
12 Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova  Bulgaria 9.26 9.33 18.59
13 Eva Věchtová  Czechoslovakia 9.03 9.53 18.56
14 Věra Vančurová  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.50 18.50
15 Medea Jugeli  Soviet Union 9.13 9.36 18.49
16 Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles  Hungary 9.06 9.33 18.39
17 Edit Perényi-Weckinger  Hungary 9.06 9.30 18.36
18 Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union 8.96 9.36 18.32
19 Vasilka Stancheva  Bulgaria 9.16 9.06 18.22
20 Raili Tuominen-Hämäläinen  Finland 9.10 9.10 18.20
21 Božena Srncová  Czechoslovakia 9.13 9.06 18.19
22 Alena Chadimová  Czechoslovakia 8.83 9.33 18.16
22 Gun Röring  Sweden 8.83 9.33 18.16
24 Olga Göllner  Romania 9.16 8.96 18.12
25 Jana Rabasová  Czechoslovakia 8.93 9.13 18.06
25 Ginette Durand  France 8.66 9.40 18.06
25 Matylda Šínová  Czechoslovakia 8.73 9.36 18.06
28 Irma Walther  Germany 8.80 9.23 18.03
29 Karin Lindberg  Sweden 8.76 9.26 18.02
30 Rayna Grigorova  Bulgaria 9.00 8.96 17.96
31 Stela Perin  Romania 8.80 9.13 17.93
31 Hana Bobková  Czechoslovakia 8.63 9.30 17.93
33 Mária Kövi-Zalai  Hungary 8.60 9.30 17.90
34 Stoyanka Angelova  Bulgaria 8.76 9.03 17.79
35 Stefania Świerzy  Poland 8.43 9.33 17.76
36 Lydia Zeitlhofer  Germany 8.80 8.93 17.73
37 Irène Pittelioen  France 8.30 9.40 17.70
38 Alexandra Lemoine  France 8.46 9.23 17.69
39 Helena Rakoczy  Poland 8.26 9.40 17.66
39 Ileana Gyarfaş  Romania 8.63 9.03 17.66
41 Evy Berggren  Sweden 8.26 9.36 17.62
42 Hanna Grages  Germany 8.46 9.13 17.59
42 Yordanka Yovkova  Bulgaria 8.86 8.73 17.59
44 Milica Rožman  Yugoslavia 8.43 9.13 17.56
45 Lenie Gerrietsen  Netherlands 8.53 9.00 17.53
46 Liliane Montagne  France 8.40 9.10 17.50
47 Lidia Pitteri  Italy 8.46 9.03 17.49
48 Ruth Grulkowski  United States 8.56 8.90 17.46
49 Göta Pettersson  Sweden 8.40 9.03 17.43
50 Miranda Cicognani  Italy 8.56 8.86 17.42
51 Sonja Rožman  Yugoslavia 8.33 9.06 17.39
52 Arja Lehtinen  Finland 8.50 8.86 17.36
52 Olga Munteanu  Romania 8.80 8.56 17.36
52 Cissy Davies  Great Britain 8.46 8.90 17.36
55 Wolfgard Voß  Germany 8.66 8.66 17.32
56 Vappu Salonen  Finland 8.60 8.70 17.30
56 Zofia Kowalczyk  Poland 8.20 9.10 17.30
56 Liliana Scaricabarozzi  Italy 8.60 8.70 17.30
56 Tootje Selbach  Netherlands 8.40 8.90 17.30
60 Grazia Bozzo  Italy 8.46 8.83 17.29
60 Annie Ros  Netherlands 8.33 8.96 17.29
62 Helga Bîrsan  Romania 8.60 8.66 17.26
63 Hjördis Nordin  Sweden 8.30 8.93 17.23
63 Gwynedd Lewis-Lingard  Great Britain 8.40 8.83 17.23
65 Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska  Poland 8.10 9.10 17.20
66 Licia Macchini  Italy 8.23 8.96 17.19
66 Ingrid Sandahl  Sweden 8.33 8.86 17.19
66 Raili Hoviniemi  Finland 8.23 8.96 17.19
69 Meta Elste  United States 8.20 8.96 17.16
69 Pirkko Vilppunen  Finland 8.46 8.70 17.16
69 Teofila Băiaşu  Romania 8.56 8.60 17.16
72 Marija Ivandekić  Yugoslavia 8.30 8.80 17.10
73 Inge Sedlmaier  Germany 8.56 8.53 17.09
73 Marian Barone  United States 8.23 8.86 17.09
75 Elisabeth Ostermeyer  Germany 8.36 8.70 17.06
76 Honorata Marcińczak  Poland 8.00 9.03 17.03
77 Elisabetta Durelli  Italy 8.46 8.56 17.02
77 Hedwig Traindl  Austria 8.16 8.86 17.02
79 Gerti Fesl  Austria 8.16 8.80 16.96
79 Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel  Poland 7.76 9.20 16.96
81 Tanja Žutić  Yugoslavia 8.40 8.53 16.93
82 Nada Spasić  Yugoslavia 8.40 8.50 16.90
82 Cootje van Kampen-Tonneman  Netherlands 8.20 8.70 16.90
84 Luciana Reali  Italy 8.36 8.53 16.89
85 Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling  Sweden 8.43 8.43 16.86
85 Renata Bianchi  Italy 8.36 8.50 16.86
85 Maila Nisula  Finland 8.03 8.83 16.86
88 Ada Smolnikar  Yugoslavia 8.50 8.33 16.83
88 Huiberdina Krul-van der Nolk van Gogh  Netherlands 8.13 8.70 16.83
90 Trude Gollner-Kolar  Austria 7.80 8.93 16.73
91 Alena Reichová  Czechoslovakia 8.66 8.00 16.66
92 Edeltraud Schramm  Austria 8.06 8.56 16.62
93 Irén Daruházi-Karcsics  Hungary 9.13 7.42 16.56
94 Andrea Bodó  Hungary 9.03 7.50 16.53
94 Stefania Reindl  Poland 7.43 9.10 16.53
96 Dália da Cunha-Sammer  Portugal 7.60 8.90 16.50
97 Ida Kadlec  Austria 7.86 8.60 16.46
98 Colette Hué  France 8.40 7.96 16.36
98 Gertrude Gries  Austria 7.93 8.43 16.36
100 Ruth Topalian  United States 8.13 8.20 16.33
101 Anka Drinić  Yugoslavia 7.86 8.64 16.32
102 Vanja Blomberg  Sweden 8.36 7.93 16.29
103 Nanny Simon  Netherlands 8.06 8.20 16.26
103 Jo Cox-Ladru  Netherlands 7.96 8.30 16.26
105 Tereza Kočiš  Yugoslavia 8.43 7.80 16.23
106 Maria Laura Amorim  Portugal 7.60 8.60 16.20
107 Gertrude Winnige-Barosch  Austria 8.26 7.93 16.19
108 Jeanette Vogelbacher  France 7.83 8.33 16.16
109 Margo Morgan  Great Britain 8.03 8.10 16.13
110 Marjorie Raistrick-Carter  Great Britain 7.53 8.56 16.09
111 Margaret Thomas-Neale  Great Britain 8.03 7.96 15.99
112 Bergljot Sandvik-Johansen  Norway 7.76 8.16 15.92
113 Eveline Slavici  Romania 8.53 7.33 15.86
114 Hildegard Grill  Austria 7.90 7.83 15.73
115 Colette Fanara  France 8.20 7.43 15.63
115 Pat Hirst  Great Britain 8.40 7.23 15.63
117 Dorothy Dalton  United States 8.03 7.40 15.43
118 Clara Schroth-Lomady  United States 8.40 6.96 15.36
119 Madeleine Jouffroy  France 8.53 6.80 15.33
120 Penka Prisadashka  Bulgaria 8.50 6.63 15.13
121 Norveig Karlsen  Norway 6.53 8.53 15.06
122 Brigitte Kiesler  Germany 6.70 8.30 15.00
123 Toetie Selbach  Netherlands 8.16 6.76 14.92
124 Pirkko Pyykönen  Finland 8.46 6.33 14.79
125 Irene Hirst  Great Britain 7.93 6.80 14.73
126 Marie Hoesly  United States 8.40 6.30 14.70
127 Raija Simola  Finland 8.23 6.33 14.56
128 Natália Silva  Portugal 6.96 7.56 14.52
129 Grethe Werner  Norway 7.63 6.56 14.19
130 Valerie Mullins  Great Britain 8.00 6.10 14.10
131 Elisabeta Abrudeanu  Romania 8.16 5.83 13.99
132 Urszula Łukomska  Poland 7.86 4.50 12.36
133 Hilde Koop  Germany 4.46 7.36 11.82
134 Doris Kirkman  United States 8.10 8.10

References[]

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's Balance Beam". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 442.
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