Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics

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At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested.[1] Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.[2]

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[edit] Medal summary

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Men's individual all-round Finland Veikko Huhtanen
Finland (FIN)
Switzerland Walter Lehmann
Switzerland (SUI)
Finland Paavo Aaltonen
Finland (FIN)
Men's floor exercises Hungary Ferenc Pataki
Hungary (HUN)
Hungary János Mogyorósy Klencs
Hungary (HUN)
Czechoslovakia Zdenek Ruzicka
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Men's horizontal bar Switzerland Josef Stalder
Switzerland (SUI)
Switzerland Walter Lehmann
Switzerland (SUI)
Finland Veikko Huhtanen
Finland (FIN)
Men's parallel bars Switzerland Michael Reusch
Switzerland (SUI)
Finland Veikko Huhtanen
Finland (FIN)
Switzerland Josef Stalder
Switzerland (SUI)
Switzerland Christian Kipfer
Switzerland (SUI)
Men's pommel horse Finland Paavo Aaltonen
Finland (FIN)
none[A] none[A]
Finland Veikko Huhtanen
Finland (FIN)
Finland Heikki Savolainen
Finland (FIN)
Men's rings Switzerland Karl Frei
Switzerland (SUI)
Switzerland Michael Reusch
Switzerland (SUI)
Czechoslovakia Zdenek Ruzicka
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Men's vault Finland Paavo Aaltonen
Finland (FIN)
Finland Olavi Rove
Finland (FIN)
Hungary János Mogyorósy Klencs
Hungary (HUN)
Hungary Ferenc Pataki
Hungary (HUN)
Czechoslovakia Leo Sotornik
Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Men's team competition Finland Finland (FIN)
Paavo Aaltonen
Veikko Huhtanen
Kalevi Laitinen
Olavi Rove
Aleksanteri Saarvala
Sulo Salmi
Heikki Savolainen
Einari Teräsvirta
Switzerland Switzerland (SUI)
Karl Frei
Christian Kipfer
Walter Lehmann
Robert Lucy
Michael Reusch
Josef Stalder
Emil Studer
Melchior Thalmann
Hungary Hungary (HUN)
László Baranyai
Jozsef Fekete
Gyözö Mogyorosi
János Mogyorósy Klencs
Ferenc Pataki
Lajos Sántha
Lajos Tóth
Ferenc Várkõi
Women's team competition Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (TCH)
Zdenka Honsova
Marie Kovarova
Miloslava Misakova
Milena Müllerova
Vera Ruzickova
Olga Silhanova
Bozena Srncova
Zdenka Vermirovska
Hungary Hungary (HUN)
Parényi-Vásárhelyi Weckinger
Mária Zalai-Kövi
Irén Daruházi-Kárpáti-Karcsics
Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles
Erzsébet Balázs
Olga Lemhényi-Tass
Anna Fehér
Margit Nagy-Sandor
United States United States (USA)
Ladislava Bakanic
Marian Barone
Consetta Carruccio-Lenz
Dorothy Dalton
Meta Elste-Neumann
Helen Schifano
Clara Schroth-Lomady
Anita Simonis

[edit] Notes

  1. a b Other sources[3][4] claim that Luigi Zanetti (Italy) also won a silver medal and Guido Figone (Italy) also won a bronze medal in the pommel horse event, despite the three gold medals awarded for the three-way first place tie.

[edit] Medal table

 Rank  Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Finland Finland (FIN) 6 2 2 10
2 Switzerland Switzerland (SUI) 3 4 2 9
3 Hungary Hungary (HUN) 1 2 3 6
4 Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia (TCH) 1 0 3 4
5 United States United States (USA) 0 0 1 1

[edit] References

  1. ^ (ed.) Lord Burghley (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad (PDF), London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, pp. 389–405. Retrieved on 2008-02-04. 
  2. ^ Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-11-18.
  3. ^ Lord Killanin; Rodda, John (1983). The Olympic Games 1984. Willow. ISBN 0002180626. 
  4. ^ Greenberg, Stan (1996). The Guinness Book of Olympic Facts and Feats. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0851126391.