Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's floor

The men's floor exercise competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the third appearance of the event.[1]

Men's floor exercise
at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
VenueEarls Court Exhibition Centre
Date12–13 August
Competitors121 from 16 nations
Winning score38.7
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ferenc Pataki  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) János Mogyorósi-Klencs  Hungary
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia
← 1936
1952 →

Competition format

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The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5). 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.[2]

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
  Ferenc Pataki   Hungary 19.3 19.4 38.7
  János Mogyorósi-Klencs   Hungary 19.5 18.9 38.4
  Zdeněk Růžička   Czechoslovakia 19.1 19.0 38.1
4 Raymond Dot   France 18.8 19.0 37.8
5 Elkana Grønne   Denmark 18.45 19.2 37.65
6 Pavel Benetka   Czechoslovakia 18.9 18.7 37.6
6 Leo Sotorník   Czechoslovakia 18.8 18.8 37.6
8 Vladimír Karas   Czechoslovakia 18.8 18.6 37.4
9 Lajos Sántha   Hungary 18.9 18.4 37.3
10 Michel Mathiot   France 18.5 18.7 37.2
10 Ernst Wister   Austria 17.9 19.3 37.2
10 Luigi Zanetti   Italy 18.6 18.6 37.2
13 Kalevi Laitinen   Finland 18.75 18.4 37.15
14 Karl Bohusch   Austria 18.6 18.5 37.1
14 Josip Kujundžić   Yugoslavia 18.5 18.6 37.1
16 Guido Figone   Italy 18.9 18.1 37.0
16 Freddy Jensen   Denmark 18.7 18.3 37.0
16 Vilhelm Møller   Denmark 18.7 18.3 37.0
16 Josef Stalder   Switzerland 18.6 18.4 37.0
20 Lucien Masset   France 18.1 18.8 36.9
21 Vincent D'Autorio   United States 18.1 18.7 36.8
21 Gunner Olesen   Denmark 18.4 18.4 36.8
21 Lajos Tóth   Hungary 18.7 18.1 36.8
24 Antoine Schildwein   France 18.2 18.5 36.7
25 Jozsef Fekete   Hungary 18.2 18.4 36.6
25 Poul Jessen   Denmark 17.9 18.7 36.6
25 Melchior Thalmann   Switzerland 18.5 18.1 36.6
25 Arnold Thomsen   Denmark 18.3 18.3 36.6
29 Paavo Aaltonen   Finland 18.5 18.0 36.5
29 Hans Friedrich   Austria 17.9 18.6 36.5
29 Christian Kipfer   Switzerland 18.4 18.1 36.5
29 Walter Lehmann   Switzerland 18.3 18.2 36.5
29 André Weingand   France 18.3 18.2 36.5
34 Danilo Fioravanti   Italy 17.9 18.4 36.3
34 Veikko Huhtanen   Finland 17.8 18.5 36.3
34 Bill Roetzheim   United States 18.55 17.75 36.3
34 Ferenc Várkõi   Hungary 18.8 17.5 36.3
38 Gustav Hrubý   Czechoslovakia 18.1 18.0 36.1
38 Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 17.7 18.4 36.1
38 Willi Schreyer   Austria 17.8 18.3 36.1
41 Alphonse Anger   France 17.8 18.2 36.0
41 László Baranyai   Hungary 18.3 17.7 36.0
41 Marcel de Wolf   France 17.9 18.1 36.0
41 Robert Lucy   Switzerland 18.3 17.7 36.0
41 Emil Studer   Switzerland 18.8 17.2 36.0
46 René Schroeder   Luxembourg 17.75 18.2 35.95
47 Olavi Rove   Finland 17.9 17.9 35.8
47 Josy Stoffel   Luxembourg 17.4 18.4 35.8
47 Einari Teräsvirta   Finland 17.6 18.2 35.8
50 Miro Longyka   Yugoslavia 17.5 18.2 35.7
50 Gyözö Mogyorosi   Hungary 17.9 17.8 35.7
50 Volmer Thomsen   Denmark 18.0 17.7 35.7
53 Auguste Sirot   France 17.5 17.9 35.4
54 Ettore Perego   Italy 18.3 17.0 35.3
55 Miroslav Málek   Czechoslovakia 17.5 17.6 35.1
56 Karl Frei   Switzerland 17.0 18.0 35.0
57 Joe Kotys   United States 16.3 18.5 34.8
58 Heikki Savolainen   Finland 17.55 17.1 34.65
59 Domenico Grosso   Italy 17.7 16.9 34.6
60 František Wirth   Czechoslovakia 17.8 17.35 34.55
61 Konrad Grilc   Yugoslavia 16.25 18.1 34.35
61 Frank Turner   Great Britain 17.55 16.8 34.35
63 Ed Scrobe   United States 17.9 16.4 34.3
64 Vratislav Petráček   Czechoslovakia 16.0 18.2 34.2
65 Quinto Vadi   Italy 17.1 17.0 34.1
65 George Weedon   Great Britain 16.0 18.1 34.1
67 Michael Reusch   Switzerland 16.2 17.7 33.9
67 Aleksanteri Saarvala   Finland 17.9 16.0 33.9
69 Stjepan Boltižar   Yugoslavia 17.0 16.8 33.8
70 Hans Sauter   Austria 17.0 16.75 33.75
71 Polo Welfring   Luxembourg 15.4 18.2 33.5
72 Ray Sorensen   United States 16.75 16.7 33.45
73 William Bonsall   United States 17.95 15.25 33.2
74 Jakob Šubelj   Yugoslavia 15.95 17.2 33.15
75 Egidio Armelloni   Italy 15.9 16.7 32.6
76 Arturo Amos   Argentina 16.0 16.3 32.3
76 Savino Guglielmetti   Italy 15.0 17.3 32.3
78 Menn Krecke   Luxembourg 14.75 17.4 32.15
79 Sulo Salmi   Finland 17.05 15.0 32.05
80 Ali El-Hefnawi   Egypt 17.0 15.0 32.0
81 Ivica Jelić   Yugoslavia 16.0 15.75 31.75
82 Ken Buffin   Great Britain 16.05 15.5 31.55
83 Raimundo Rey   Cuba 16.3 15.0 31.3
84 Frank Cumiskey   United States 17.4 13.75 31.15
85 Mohamed Aly   Egypt 16.1 15.0 31.1
86 Ángel Aguiar   Cuba 16.25 14.75 31.0
87 Alec Wales   Great Britain 15.0 15.5 30.5
88 Jos Bernard   Luxembourg 13.75 16.5 30.25
89 Percy May   Great Britain 15.5 14.5 30.0
89 Ali Zaky   Egypt 15.5 14.5 30.0
91 Drago Jelić   Yugoslavia 13.0 16.9 29.9
92 Karel Janež   Yugoslavia 14.0 15.85 29.85
93 Rafael Lecuona   Cuba 14.75 14.5 29.25
94 Alejandro Díaz   Cuba 14.25 14.8 29.05
95 Robert Pranz   Austria 13.0 15.75 28.75
96 Ivor Vice   Great Britain 13.5 15.0 28.5
97 Mahmoud Abdel-Aal   Egypt 14.75 13.25 28.0
98 Georges Wengler   Luxembourg 12.75 14.9 27.65
99 Roberto Villacián   Cuba 12.75 14.5 27.25
100 Moustafa Abdelal   Egypt 14.25 12.75 27.0
101 Ahmed Khalaf Ali   Egypt 13.25 13.0 26.25
102 Pierre Schmitz   Luxembourg 9.0 16.8 25.8
103 Glyn Hopkins   Great Britain 13.5 12.25 25.75
103 Pedro Lonchibuco   Argentina 12.25 13.5 25.75
105 Fernando Lecuona   Cuba 11.0 14.3 25.3
106 Ahmed Khalil El-Giddawi   Egypt 13.0 11.75 24.75
107 Enrique Rapesta   Argentina 11.5 13.0 24.5
108 Baldomero Rubiera   Cuba 11.5 12.3 23.8
109 Mohamed Roushdi   Egypt 10.0 13.75 23.75
110 Jorge Soler   Argentina 12.0 11.3 23.3
111 Jack Flaherty   Great Britain 9.5 13.75 23.25
112 César Bonoris   Argentina 10.0 13.0 23.0
113 Roberto Núñez   Argentina 10.5 11.25 21.75
114 Jorge Castro   Mexico 11.0 9.0 20.0
115 Børge Minerth   Denmark 19.0 19.0
116 Louis Bordo   United States 17.6 17.6
117 Rubén Lira   Mexico 9.5 7.5 17.0
118 Gottfried Hermann   Austria 15.5 15.5
119 Everardo Rios   Mexico 12.0 12.0
120 Dario Aguilar   Mexico 4.0 7.0 11.0
121 Nicolas Villareal   Mexico 4.0 4.0

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Floor Exercise". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 343.