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Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

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Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Gold medalist Alberto Braglia on the pommel horse
VenueWhite City Stadium
DatesJuly 14–15
Competitors97 from 12 nations
Winning score317
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alberto Braglia
 Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Walter Tysall
 Great Britain
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Louis Ségura
 France
← 1904
1912 →

The men's individual all-around, also known as the heptathlon, was one of two gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. As suggested by the alternate name, the competition included seven events with the scores summed to give a final score.[1] Each nation could enter up to 20 gymnasts,[2] with France and Great Britain each entering the maximum. A total of 97 gymnasts from 12 nations competed. The event was won by Alberto Braglia of Italy, the nation's first medal in the men's individual all-around. Silver went to Walter Tysall of Great Britain, the first medal for the nation as well. France's Louis Ségura earned bronze.

Unlike in 1904, the results for the individual all-around were not used for the men's team event in 1908.

Background

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This was the third appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.[3]

One of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1904 Games returned: silver medalist Wilhelm Weber of Germany. The reigning (1907) World Champion was Josef Čada of Bohemia.

Canada, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Turkey each made their debut in the event. Germany made its third appearance, the only nation to have competed at all editions of the event to that point.

Competition format

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The events were:

  • Horizontal bar, swinging movements
  • Horizontal bar, slow movements
  • Parallel bars
  • Rings, swinging
  • Rings, stationary
  • Pommel horse
  • Rope climbing

With the exception of rope climbing, each competitor had a maximum of 2 minutes in each event (with a one-point penalty for exceeding the limit). Horizontal bars were set at heights of 250 cm and 220 cm; parallel bars were set at heights of 160 cm and 148 cm; rings were adjustable in 10 cm increments from 180 cm to 250 cm. The rope, which was 5 cm in diameter, had a top mark at 720 cm and marks below that every 45 cm down to 180 cm.[4]

Other than for rope climbing, each gymnast performed one "voluntary" exercise on each apparatus, with a maximum score of 24 points from each of the 3 judges.[5] Thus, there was a maximum of 72 points per exercise or 432 points from the six non-rope climbing exercises. Points were awarded for "(a) successful performance of exercise attempted; (b) difficulty and combination of movements; (c) style and sequence; (d) variety of movements."[6]

The rope climbing competition required gymnasts to climb hand-over-hand, with legs together and clear of the rope. Gymnasts had to climb in continuous motion; the judging ended when motion ceased to be continuous. The gymnast earned 12 point for every 18 inches climbed.[5]

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Tuesday, 14 July 1908 Final
Wednesday, 15 July 1908 Final, continued

Results

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The Official Report gives the places and scores of the first 19. A full list of results was printed in a French journal in August 1908,[7] but was not discovered until March 2020.[8]

Rank Gymnast Nation Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alberto Braglia  Italy 317
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Walter Tysall  Great Britain 312
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Louis Ségura  France 297
4 Curt Steuernagel  Germany 273.5
5 Friedrich Wolf  Germany 267
6 Samuel Hodgetts  Great Britain 266
7 Marcel Lalu  France 258.75
8 Raphaël Diaz  France 258.5
9 Edward Potts  Great Britain 252.5
10 Jules Rolland  France 249.5
11 François Nidal  France 249
12 George Bailey  Great Britain 246
Karl Borchert  Germany 246
14 Antoine Costa  France 241.75
15 János Nyisztor  Hungary 236
16 Thomas Dick  Great Britain 233.5
Alfred Hodges  Great Britain 233.5
18 Georges Thurnherr  France 232
19 Guido Romano  Italy 230
20 Joseph Castiglioni  France 227
21 Otello Capitani  Italy 226.75
22 Joseph Lux  France 226
23 William Watters  Great Britain 225.5
24 James Graham  Great Britain 225
25 Josef Čada  Bohemia 222.5
26 Dominique Follacci  France 222
Gustave Charmoille  France 222
28 Auguste Castille  France 220
Wilhelm Weber  Germany 220
30 Fernand Castille  France 218
31 Joseph Cook  Great Britain 213
32 Victor Dubois  France 212.5
33 Josef Krämer  Germany 212
34 Kálmán Szabó  Hungary 209
35 Paulin Lemaire  France 207.25
36 Bohumil Honzátko  Bohemia 205.5
37 G. Meade  Great Britain 205
38 G. Mounier  France 204.5
39 Imre Gellért  Hungary 202.5
40 Heinrich Siebenhaar  Germany 198.5
41 Paul Fischer  Germany 198
42 Edgar Dyson  Great Britain 195.5
43 E. Gauthier  France 195
44 Jean Van Guysse  Belgium 194
45 Sidney Domville  Great Britain 193.75
46 Robert Hanley  Great Britain 193.5
47 Mihály Antos  Hungary 192.5
48 John Watters  Great Britain 187.5
49 Michel Biet  Netherlands 187.5
50 Georg Karth  Germany 186.5
51 William Fergus  Great Britain 183.5
52 Carl Körting  Germany 181
53 Wilhelm Kaufmann  Germany 180.5
Félicien Lekim  France 180.5
Antoine De Buck  Belgium 180.5
56 Edmund Aspinall  Great Britain 177
57 Gaston Ratelot  France 172.75
58 C. H. Smith  Great Britain 171.75
59 Allan Keith  Canada 170
60 Gerardus Wesling  Netherlands 165
61 Reinier Blom  Netherlands 160.5
62 Isidore Goudeket  Netherlands 159
Johannes Stikkelman  Netherlands 159
64 Emanuel Brouwer  Netherlands 158
65 August Ehrich  Germany 156.75
66 Johannes Posthumus  Netherlands 155.5
67 John Skrataas  Norway 154.5
Aleko Mulos  Turkey (Ottoman Empire) 154.5
69 Dirk Janssen  Netherlands 153.5
70 Petter Hol  Norway 152.5
71 Cornelus Becker  Netherlands 152.5
72 Jan Bolt  Netherlands 150.5
73 Otto Bauscher  Great Britain 149.5
74 Jan Jacob Kieft  Netherlands 149.5
75 Riku Korhonen  Finland 143.5
76 Carl Klæth  Norway 142
77 Frigyes Gráf  Hungary 141.5
78 Abraham Mok  Netherlands 141
79 A. V. Ford  Great Britain 141.5
80 Orvil Elliott  Canada 132.5
81 Jaska Saarivuori  Finland 132
82 Frithjof Olsen  Norway 127.5
83 Hendricus Thijsen  Netherlands 127
84 Conrad Carlsrud  Norway 124
85 Leonard Hanson  Great Britain 121
Iivari Partanen  Finland 121
87 Per Mathias Jespersen  Norway 120.5
88 Eetu Kosonen  Finland 120
89 Emmanuel Boislèvé  France 120
90 Johann Flemer  Netherlands 118.5
91 David Teivonen  Finland 117.5
92 Ole Iversen  Norway 117
93 Constantijn van Daalen  Netherlands 116.5
94 Eugen Ingebretsen  Norway 109
95 Herman van Leeuwen  Netherlands 101
96 Jonas Slier  Netherlands 96

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 35.
  3. ^ "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  4. ^ Official Report, pp. 186–192.
  5. ^ a b Official Report, p. 485.
  6. ^ Official Report, p. 189.
  7. ^ "Heptathlon Gymnastic Competition". Les Jeunes : courrier de quinzaine du journal “Le Patronage”. 8 August 1908. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
  8. ^ "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 July 2020.

Sources

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  • Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
  • De Wael, Herman (2001). "Gymnastics 1908". Herman's Full Olympians. Archived from the original on 23 February 2005. Retrieved 3 May 2006.