Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse
Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XVI Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Festival Hall | |||||||||
Date | 3–7 December | |||||||||
Competitors | 63 from 18 nations | |||||||||
Winning score | 19.25 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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The men's pommel horse competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. It was held from 3 to 7 December at the Melbourne Festival Hall. There were 63 competitors from 18 nations (down sharply from the 185 gymnasts in 1952), with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union, the nation's second consecutive victory in the pommel horse. Takashi Ono earned Japan's first medal in the event with his silver. Soviet Viktor Chukarin became the first man to win multiple medals in the pommel horse, adding a bronze to his 1952 gold.
Background
This was the ninth 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). Two of the top 10 gymnasts from 1952 returned: gold medalist Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union and sixth-place finisher Hans Sauter of Austria. Reigning world champion and Olympic silver medalist Hrant Shahinyan of the Soviet Union did not compete; Chukarin at third place in the worlds was the highest placed gymnast to come to Melbourne.[1]
Australia and Canada each made their debut in the men's pommel horse; East and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany for the first time. The United States made its eighth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.
Competition format
The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format, mostly following the scoring tweaks made in 1952. Each nation entered either a team of six 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 an apparatus total. No separate finals were contested.
Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.[2]
Schedule
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Date | Time | Round |
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Monday, 3 December 1956 Tuesday, 4 December 1956 Wednesday, 5 December 1956 Thursday, 6 December 1956 Friday, 7 December 1956 | 8:00 | Final |
Results
Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Compulsory | Voluntary | Total |
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![]() | Boris Shakhlin | ![]() | 9.50 | 9.75 | 19.25 |
![]() | Takashi Ono | ![]() | 9.50 | 9.70 | 19.20 |
![]() | Viktor Chukarin | ![]() | 9.50 | 9.60 | 19.10 |
4 | Josef Škvor | ![]() | 9.45 | 9.60 | 19.05 |
5 | Yury Titov | ![]() | 9.45 | 9.55 | 19.00 |
6 | Jaroslav Bím | ![]() | 9.35 | 9.60 | 18.95 |
7 | Masao Takemoto | ![]() | 9.45 | 9.45 | 18.90 |
Pavel Stolbov | ![]() | 9.40 | 9.50 | 18.90 | |
9 | Valentin Muratov | ![]() | 9.45 | 9.35 | 18.80 |
Kalevi Suoniemi | ![]() | 9.35 | 9.45 | 18.80 | |
Berndt Lindfors | ![]() | 9.45 | 9.35 | 18.80 | |
12 | Nobuyuki Aihara | ![]() | 9.35 | 9.40 | 18.75 |
Helmut Bantz | ![]() | 9.35 | 9.40 | 18.75 | |
Josy Stoffel | ![]() | 9.30 | 9.45 | 18.75 | |
Albert Azaryan | ![]() | 9.25 | 9.50 | 18.75 | |
16 | Martti Mansikka | ![]() | 9.30 | 9.35 | 18.65 |
Masami Kubota | ![]() | 9.35 | 9.30 | 18.65 | |
Olavi Leimuvirta | ![]() | 9.35 | 9.30 | 18.65 | |
Velik Kapsazov | ![]() | 9.30 | 9.35 | 18.65 | |
20 | Akira Kono | ![]() | 9.00 | 9.60 | 18.60 |
21 | Nik Stuart | ![]() | 9.30 | 9.25 | 18.55 |
22 | Shinsaku Tsukawaki | ![]() | 9.20 | 9.25 | 18.45 |
Onni Lappalainen | ![]() | 9.05 | 9.40 | 18.45 | |
Attila Takács | ![]() | 9.10 | 9.35 | 18.45 | |
25 | Jack Beckner | ![]() | 9.30 | 9.10 | 18.40 |
26 | Ferdinand Daniš | ![]() | 9.40 | 8.85 | 18.25 |
Vladimír Kejř | ![]() | 9.15 | 9.10 | 18.25 | |
28 | Hans Pfann | ![]() | 9.25 | 8.95 | 18.20 |
Michel Mathiot | ![]() | 9.20 | 9.00 | 18.20 | |
30 | Raimo Heinonen | ![]() | 8.90 | 9.25 | 18.15 |
Charles Simms | ![]() | 9.35 | 8.80 | 18.15 | |
32 | Jaroslav Mikoška | ![]() | 9.35 | 8.75 | 18.10 |
33 | Jakob Kiefer | ![]() | 9.20 | 8.85 | 18.05 |
Rafael Lecuona | ![]() | 8.90 | 9.15 | 18.05 | |
Ronnie Lombard | ![]() | 9.05 | 9.00 | 18.05 | |
36 | Robert Klein | ![]() | 8.95 | 9.05 | 18.00 |
37 | Theo Wied | ![]() | 8.90 | 9.05 | 17.95 |
38 | Kurt Wigartz | ![]() | 8.85 | 9.00 | 18.85 |
Zdeněk Růžička | ![]() | 9.15 | 8.70 | 17.85 | |
Stoyan Stoyanov | ![]() | 9.10 | 8.75 | 17.85 | |
Jean Guillou | ![]() | 9.40 | 8.45 | 17.85 | |
János Héder | ![]() | 8.80 | 9.05 | 17.85 | |
43 | Raymond Dot | ![]() | 8.70 | 9.10 | 17.80 |
44 | Bill Tom | ![]() | 8.60 | 9.15 | 17.75 |
45 | William Thoresson | ![]() | 8.90 | 8.80 | 17.70 |
Ed Gagnier | ![]() | 8.50 | 9.20 | 17.70 | |
47 | Dick Beckner | ![]() | 8.70 | 8.80 | 17.50 |
48 | Jack Wells | ![]() | 8.70 | 8.75 | 17.45 |
49 | Mincho Todorov | ![]() | 8.50 | 8.90 | 17.40 |
50 | Armando Vega | ![]() | 8.60 | 8.75 | 17.35 |
51 | Abie Grossfeld | ![]() | 8.65 | 8.65 | 17.30 |
Erich Wied | ![]() | 8.60 | 8.70 | 17.30 | |
53 | Frank Turner | ![]() | 8.55 | 7.80 | 16.35 |
54 | John Lees | ![]() | 7.70 | 7.85 | 15.55 |
55 | David Gourlay | ![]() | 7.50 | 7.20 | 14.70 |
56 | Graham Bond | ![]() | 6.95 | 7.00 | 13.95 |
57 | Noel Punton | ![]() | 5.50 | 7.10 | 12.60 |
58 | Brian Blackburn | ![]() | 5.00 | 7.10 | 12.10 |
59 | Bruce Sharp | ![]() | 5.65 | 4.95 | 10.60 |
60 | Pritam Singh | ![]() | 4.50 | 5.75 | 10.25 |
61 | Sham Lal | ![]() | 3.40 | 6.60 | 10.00 |
62 | Hans Sauter | ![]() | 9.10 | — | 9.10 |
63 | Anant Ram | ![]() | 2.00 | 6.25 | 8.25 |
References
- ^ a b "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ Official Report, p. 472.
- Official Olympic Report
- www.gymnasticsresults.com
- www.gymn-forum.net