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Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

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Men's rings
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Leon Štukelj (1958)
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date8 August
Competitors88 from 11 nations
Winning score57.75
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Leon Štukelj
 Yugoslavia
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ladislav Vácha
 Czechoslovakia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Emanuel Löffler
 Czechoslovakia
← 1924
1932 →

The men's rings event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was one of seven gymnastics events for men and it was contested for the fourth time after 1896, 1904, and 1924. Scores from the rings event were added to the results from other individual apparatus events to give aggregate scores for the individual and team all-around events. Eighty-eight gymnasts from eleven nations competed, with each nation having a team of 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia, the nation's first medal in the rings event. For the second consecutive Games, Czechoslovakian gymnasts took both silver and bronze: Ladislav Vácha finished second and Emanuel Löffler is credited with a third place finish. Vácha, the bronze medalist in 1924, was the first man to win multiple medals in the event.

Löffler's bronze medal may be the result of a math error.[1] His scores in the compulsory and voluntary exercises were 27.25 and 28.25, respectively, which would result in a total score of 55.50.[2] This score is consistent with the individual all-around and team all-around scores for Löffler and Czechoslovakia.[2][3] However, his total score is listed as 56.50 instead in the Official Report for the rings apparatus.[4] A score of 55.50 would have placed Löffler fourth in the rings, behind Italy's Romeo Neri at 56.00.

Background

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This was the fourth 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 top 10 gymnasts from 1924 returned: bronze medalist Ladislav Vácha of Czechoslovakia, fourth-place finisher Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia, fifth-place finisher Bedřich Šupčík of Czechoslovakia, seventh-place finisher Jan Koutný of Czechoslovakia, eighth-place finisher Ferdinando Mandrini of Italy, and ninth-place finisher Vittorio Lucchetti of Italy. The 1926 world championship podium had Štukelj (who had also won in 1922), Vácha, and Šupčík atop it, in that order.[1]

The Netherlands made its debut in the men's rings. Hungary competed for the first time since 1896. The other nine nations had all competed in 1924. The United States made its third appearance, most of any nation.

Competition format

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Each gymnast performed a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise. The maximum score for each exercise was 30 points. The rings was one of the apparatus used in the individual and team all-around scores. It accounted for 29 of the score.[5]

Schedule

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Date Time Round
Wednesday, 8 August 1928 Final

Results

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Source: Official results;[6] De Wael[7]

Rank Gymnast Nation Score
1st place, gold medalist(s) Leon Štukelj  Yugoslavia 57.75
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ladislav Vácha  Czechoslovakia 57.50
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Emanuel Löffler  Czechoslovakia 56.50
4 Romeo Neri  Italy 56.00
5 Mauri Nyberg-Noroma  Finland 55.00
6 Bedřich Šupčík  Czechoslovakia 54.75
7 Paul Krempel  United States 54.50
8 Jan Gajdoš  Czechoslovakia 54.25
Georges Miez  Switzerland 54.25
Armand Solbach  France 54.25
11 Edvard Antonijevič  Yugoslavia 54.00
12 Heikki Savolainen  Finland 53.75
13 Janez Porenta  Yugoslavia 53.25
14 Vittorio Lucchetti  Italy 53.00
15 Al Jochim  United States 52.75
Anton Malej  Yugoslavia 52.75
Václav Veselý  Czechoslovakia 52.75
18 Jan Koutný  Czechoslovakia 52.50
Eugen Mack  Switzerland 52.50
Josip Primožič  Yugoslavia 52.50
Martti Uosikkinen  Finland 52.50
22 Josef Effenberger  Czechoslovakia 52.00
23 Melchior Wezel  Switzerland 51.75
24 Mario Lertora  Italy 51.50
25 Alfred Krauss  France 51.25
26 André Lemoine  France 50.75
Edi Steinemann  Switzerland 50.75
28 Giuseppe Lupi  Italy 50.50
Ezio Roselli  Italy 50.50
30 Giuseppe Paris  Italy 50.25
István Pelle  Hungary 50.25
32 Jaakko Kunnas  Finland 50.00
33 Antoine Chatelaine  France 49.75
Urho Korhonen  Finland 49.75
Ferdinando Mandrini  Italy 49.75
36 Hermann Hänggi  Switzerland 49.50
37 Dragutin Cioti  Yugoslavia 49.25
Boris Gregorka  Yugoslavia 49.25
39 Rezső Kende  Hungary 49.00
Stane Derganc  Yugoslavia 49.00
41 Elias Melkman  Netherlands 48.75
Étienne Schmitt  France 48.75
Ladislav Tikal  Czechoslovakia 48.75
44 August Güttinger  Switzerland 48.50
Mario Tambini  Italy 48.50
46 Jean Larrouy  France 48.00
47 Glenn Berry  United States 47.75
Jean Gounot  France 47.75
49 Hans Grieder  Switzerland 47.50
Georges Leroux  France 47.50
Nic Roeser  Luxembourg 47.50
52 Otto Pfister  Switzerland 47.25
53 Mathias Logelin  Luxembourg 47.00
54 Fränz Zouang  Luxembourg 46.75
55 Mozes Jacobs  Netherlands 46.00
56 Rafael Ylönen  Finland 45.00
57 Miklós Péter  Hungary 44.75
58 Frank Haubold  United States 44.50
Josy Staudt  Luxembourg 44.50
60 Birger Stenman  Finland 43.00
61 Herman Witzig  United States 42.75
62 Kalervo Kinos  Finland 42.50
Gyula Kunszt  Hungary 42.50
Harold Newhart  United States 42.50
65 Edouard Grethen  Luxembourg 42.25
66 Jean-Pierre Urbing  Luxembourg 41.75
67 Arthur Whitford  Great Britain 41.50
68 John Pearson  United States 41.25
69 Mathias Erang  Luxembourg 40.25
70 Elemér Pászti  Hungary 40.00
Willibrordus Pouw  Netherlands 40.00
72 Albert Neumann  Luxembourg 39.75
Israel Wijnschenk  Netherlands 39.75
74 Bart Cronin  Great Britain 39.25
Frank Kriz  United States 39.25
76 József Szalai  Hungary 39.00
77 Pieter van Dam  Netherlands 38.25
E. W. Warren  Great Britain 38.25
79 Jacobus van der Vinden  Netherlands 37.25
80 Géza Tóth  Hungary 36.25
81 Klaas Boot  Netherlands 36.00
82 E. A. Walton  Great Britain 35.50
83 T. B. Parkinson  Great Britain 34.50
84 Henry Finchett  Great Britain 34.25
85 Samuel Humphreys  Great Britain 33.75
86 Hugo Licher  Netherlands 32.75
87 G. C. Raynes  Great Britain 31.25
Imre Erdődy  Hungary DNF

References

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  1. ^ a b "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b Official Report, p. 651.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 668.
  4. ^ Official Report, p. 660.
  5. ^ Official Report, p. 646.
  6. ^ "1928 Summer Olympics official report" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Gymnastics 1928". Archived from the original on 5 December 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2012.