Gymnastics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

The men's rings competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 and 11 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.[1][2] There were 111 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men.[3] The event was won by Alois Hudec of Czechoslovakia, the nation's first victory after winning two silver medals and two bronze medals in 1924 and 1928. Leon Štukelj was the silver medalist in Berlin, the second man to earn two medals in the rings after his 1928 gold. Host Germany took a bronze medal, its first in the rings since 1896, as Matthias Volz finished third.

Men's rings
at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Hikoroku Arimoto competing on the rings
VenueWaldbühne
Dates10–11 August
Competitors111 from 14 nations
Winning score19.433
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alois Hudec
 Czechoslovakia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Leon Štukelj
 Yugoslavia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Matthias Volz
 Germany
← 1932
1948 →

Background

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This was the sixth 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). Six of the 14 gymnasts from 1932 returned: fifth-place finisher Oreste Capuzzo and sixth-place finisher Franco Tognini of Italy, seventh-place finisher Heikki Savolainen and fourteenth-place finisher Mauri Nyberg-Noroma of Finland, and twelfth-place finisher István Pelle and thirteenth-place finisher József Hegedűs of Hungary. Alois Hudec of Czechoslovakia was the reigning (1934) world champion.[3]

Austria, Bulgaria, and Romania each made their debut in the men's rings. The United States made its fifth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928 but not in 1932. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the rings were added to the other apparatus scores 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.[4]

The compulsory exercise was described in the Official Report (dashes indicate "clearly perceptible" pauses):

Straight hang (it was optional whether grip was high up with the balls of the hands or not)—Raise the straight body into an inverte hang, bend hips in the half inverted hang, hip-swing-up into balance-support—Raise the bent body into handstand—Lower to a free lever with straight arms—Lower to a hang with arms sideward (cross hang)—Lower to a lever frontways, swing downward backward, and dislocate forward to inverted hang, drop forward and swing backward with a stem (rise) to support, circle backward to a handstand-Lower to balance-support, lower legs to support, bend arms slightly and throw body backward to a hang, dislocate (high) backward to hang, swing forward and turn-over (backward) with straddling of legs to stand, bending knees half-deep and raising arms sideward, straighten knees and lower arms to fundamental position.

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Monday, 10 August 1936
Tuesday, 11 August 1936
7:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
  Alois Hudec   Czechoslovakia 9.633 9.800 19.433
  Leon Štukelj   Yugoslavia 9.467 9.400 18.867
  Matthias Volz   Germany 9.100 9.567 18.667
4 Alfred Schwarzmann   Germany 9.167 9.367 18.534
5 Franz Beckert   Germany 9.033 9.500 18.533
6 Michael Reusch   Switzerland 9.067 9.367 18.434
7 Jaroslav Kollinger   Czechoslovakia 9.000 9.433 18.433
8 Heikki Savolainen   Finland 9.233 9.167 18.400
9 Oreste Capuzzo   Italy 8.967 9.400 18.367
10 Emanuel Löffler   Czechoslovakia 8.933 9.300 18.233
11 Gábor Kecskeméti   Hungary 8.867 9.233 18.100
12 Vratislav Petráček   Czechoslovakia 8.767 9.267 18.034
13 Eugen Mack   Switzerland 8.733 9.267 18.000
14 Savino Guglielmetti   Italy 8.833 9.133 17.966
15 Paul Masino   France 8.933 9.000 17.933
16 Jey Kugeler   Luxembourg 8.700 9.167 17.867
17 Mauri Nyberg-Noroma   Finland 8.767 9.033 17.800
18 Konrad Frey   Germany 8.533 9.200 17.733
19 Antoine Schildwein   France 8.767 8.933 17.700
Nicolo Tronci   Italy 8.667 9.033 17.700
21 Jan Gajdoš   Czechoslovakia 8.633 9.033 17.666
22 Martti Uosikkinen   Finland 8.267 9.367 17.634
23 Aleksanteri Saarvala   Finland 8.600 8.933 17.533
József Sarlós   Hungary 8.433 9.100 17.533
25 István Pelle   Hungary 8.533 8.933 17.466
26 Innozenz Stangl   Germany 8.600 8.767 17.367
27 Jindrich Tintěra   Czechoslovakia 8.367 8.867 17.234
Eino Tukiainen   Finland 8.467 8.767 17.234
29 Albert Bachmann   Switzerland 8.300 8.900 17.200
István Sárkány   Hungary 8.167 9.033 17.200
31 Eduard Steinemann   Switzerland 8.300 8.867 17.167
32 Metty Logelin   Luxembourg 8.533 8.633 17.166
Maurice Rousseau   France 8.733 8.433 17.166
34 Jan Sládek   Czechoslovakia 8.000 9.033 17.033
35 Kiichiro Toyama   Japan 8.133 8.867 17.000
36 Willi Stadel   Germany 8.433 8.533 16.966
37 József Hegedüs   Hungary 7.933 8.933 16.866
Franco Tognini   Italy 8.333 8.533 16.866
39 Konrad Grilc   Yugoslavia 8.933 7.867 16.800
40 Esa Seeste   Finland 8.233 8.500 16.733
41 Miroslav Forte   Yugoslavia 8.633 8.067 16.700
Dokan Sone   Japan 8.467 8.233 16.700
43 Dimitrije Merzlikin   Yugoslavia 8.567 8.100 16.667
44 Einari Teräsvirta   Finland 8.300 8.333 16.633
45 Ilmari Pakarinen   Finland 8.300 8.300 16.600
Danilo Fioravanti   Italy 8.133 8.467 16.600
47 Lucien Masset   France 8.033 8.533 16.566
48 Armand Solbach   France 8.000 8.533 16.533
49 Neno Mirchev   Bulgaria 7.800 8.667 16.467
50 Lajos Tóth   Hungary 7.500 8.933 16.433
51 Hikoroku Arimoto   Japan 8.233 8.167 16.400
52 Al Jochim   United States 7.767 8.567 16.334
53 Josip Primožič   Yugoslavia 8.300 8.000 16.300
54 Armand Walter   France 7.733 8.500 16.233
55 Egidio Armelloni   Italy 7.200 9.000 16.200
Walter Bach   Switzerland 7.667 8.533 16.200
57 Ernst Winter   Germany 7.967 8.200 16.167
58 Walter Steffens   Germany 8.033 8.100 16.133
59 Miklos Péter   Hungary 7.433 8.667 16.100
60 Joze Vadnov   Yugoslavia 8.600 7.467 16.067
61 Otello Ternelli   Italy 7.733 8.333 16.066
62 Walter Beck   Switzerland 7.733 8.233 15.966
Janez Pristov   Yugoslavia 8.133 7.833 15.966
64 Jean Aubry   France 7.933 7.967 15.900
Georges Miez   Switzerland 7.233 8.667 15.900
66 Bohumil Povejšil   Czechoslovakia 7.167 8.600 15.767
67 Yoshitaka Takeda   Japan 7.367 8.333 15.700
68 Kenny Griffin   United States 7.233 8.167 15.400
Robert Herold   France 7.333 8.067 15.400
Yoshio Miyake   Japan 7.767 7.633 15.400
71 Josef Walter   Switzerland 6.900 8.267 15.167
72 Hiroshi Nosaka   Japan 7.633 7.500 15.133
73 Jos Romersa   Luxembourg 7.533 7.500 15.033
74 Ivan Chureshki   Bulgaria 7.200 7.667 14.867
75 Artie Pitt   United States 7.467 7.233 14.700
76 Leopold Redl   Austria 6.967 7.700 14.667
77 Gyözö Mogyorossy   Hungary 6.233 8.433 14.666
78 Francisc Draghici   Romania 6.500 8.067 14.567
79 Franz Haupert   Luxembourg 7.533 6.933 14.466
80 Boris Gregorka   Yugoslavia 6.933 7.367 14.300
Fujio Kakuta   Japan 6.600 7.700 14.300
82 Frank Cumiskey   United States 6.467 7.767 14.234
83 Hiroshi Matsunobu   Japan 7.333 6.767 14.100
84 Yovcho Khristov   Bulgaria 5.567 8.367 13.934
85 Pando Sidov   Bulgaria 6.267 7.567 13.834
86 Georgi Dimitrov   Bulgaria 6.400 7.333 13.733
87 George Wheeler   United States 6.767 6.667 13.434
88 Chet Phillips   United States 6.567 6.567 13.134
89 Frank Haubold   United States 5.600 7.400 13.000
90 Ivan Stoychev   Bulgaria 5.833 7.067 12.900
91 Robert Pranz   Austria 6.233 6.433 12.666
92 Willy Klein   Luxembourg 6.333 6.067 12.400
93 Jos Cillien   Luxembourg 6.067 6.200 12.267
94 Karl Pannos   Austria 5.667 7.333 12.000
95 Pius Hollenstein   Austria 5.467 6.467 11.934
96 August Sturm   Austria 5.467 6.333 11.800
97 Gottfried Hermann   Austria 4.967 6.700 11.667
98 Iosif Matusec   Romania 5.000 6.567 11.567
Fred Meyer   United States 5.600 5.967 11.567
100 Marcel Leineweber   Luxembourg 5.867 5.667 11.534
101 Remus Ludu   Romania 5.200 6.167 11.367
102 Lyuben Obretenov   Bulgaria 4.733 6.133 10.866
103 Andrei Abraham   Romania 4.833 5.867 10.700
104 Franz Swoboda   Austria 4.000 6.500 10.500
105 Adolf Scheffknecht   Austria 4.433 5.933 10.366
106 Alexandru Dan   Romania 5.267 5.067 10.334
107 Ion Albert   Romania 3.000 5.900 8.900
108 Iohan Schmidt   Romania 2.167 4.567 6.734
Romeo Neri   Italy 8.733 DNF
Mathias Erang   Luxembourg 7.167 DNFDNF
Vasile Moldovan   Romania 4.667 DNF

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics: 1936 Olympic Results - Men's rings". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  2. ^ Official Olympic Report, la84.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 848.