Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
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At the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, nine events in gymnastics were contested.[1] Finland led all nations with six gold medals and ten medals overall.[2]
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[edit] Medal summary
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual all-round |  Veikko HuhtanenFinland (FIN) |
 Walter LehmannSwitzerland (SUI) |
Paavo Aaltonen Finland (FIN) |
| Men's floor exercises | .svg/22px-Flag_of_Hungary_(1946-1949,_1956-1957).svg.png){kind=small} Ferenc PatakiHungary (HUN) |
János Mogyorósy Klencs Hungary (HUN) |
 Zdenek RuzickaCzechoslovakia (TCH) |
| Men's horizontal bar | Josef Stalder Switzerland (SUI) |
Walter Lehmann Switzerland (SUI) |
Veikko Huhtanen Finland (FIN) |
| Men's parallel bars | Michael Reusch Switzerland (SUI) |
Veikko Huhtanen Finland (FIN) |
Josef Stalder Switzerland (SUI) |
| Christian Kipfer Switzerland (SUI) |
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| Men's pommel horse | Paavo Aaltonen Finland (FIN) |
none[A] | none[A] |
| Veikko Huhtanen Finland (FIN) |
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| Heikki Savolainen Finland (FIN) |
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| Men's rings | Karl Frei Switzerland (SUI) |
Michael Reusch Switzerland (SUI) |
Zdenek Ruzicka Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
| Men's vault | Paavo Aaltonen Finland (FIN) |
Olavi Rove Finland (FIN) |
János Mogyorósy Klencs Hungary (HUN) |
| Ferenc Pataki Hungary (HUN) |
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| Leo Sotornik Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
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| Men's team competition | Finland (FIN) Paavo Aaltonen Veikko Huhtanen Kalevi Laitinen Olavi Rove Aleksanteri Saarvala Sulo Salmi Heikki Savolainen Einari Teräsvirta |
Switzerland (SUI) Karl Frei Christian Kipfer Walter Lehmann Robert Lucy Michael Reusch Josef Stalder Emil Studer Melchior Thalmann |
Hungary (HUN) László Baranyai Jozsef Fekete Gyözö Mogyorosi János Mogyorósy Klencs Ferenc Pataki Lajos Sántha Lajos Tóth Ferenc Várkõi |
| Women's team competition | Czechoslovakia (TCH) Zdenka Honsova Marie Kovarova Miloslava Misakova Milena Müllerova Vera Ruzickova Olga Silhanova Bozena Srncova Zdenka Vermirovska |
Hungary (HUN) Parényi-Vásárhelyi Weckinger Mária Zalai-Kövi Irén Daruházi-Kárpáti-Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Erzsébet Balázs Olga Lemhényi-Tass Anna Fehér Margit Nagy-Sandor |
 United States (USA)Ladislava Bakanic Marian Barone Consetta Carruccio-Lenz Dorothy Dalton Meta Elste-Neumann Helen Schifano Clara Schroth-Lomady Anita Simonis |
[edit] Notes
- a b Other sources[3][4] claim that Luigi Zanetti (Italy) also won a silver medal and Guido Figone (Italy) also won a bronze medal in the pommel horse event, despite the three gold medals awarded for the three-way first place tie.
[edit] Medal table
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Finland (FIN) |
6 | 2 | 2 | 10 |
| 2 | Switzerland (SUI) |
3 | 4 | 2 | 9 |
| 3 | Hungary (HUN) |
1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) |
1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | United States (USA) |
0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
[edit] References
- ^ (ed.) Lord Burghley (1951). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad (PDF), London: Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, pp. 389–405. Retrieved on 2008-02-04.
- ^ Olympic Medal Winners. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2006-11-18.
- ^ Lord Killanin; Rodda, John (1983). The Olympic Games 1984. Willow. ISBN 0002180626.
- ^ Greenberg, Stan (1996). The Guinness Book of Olympic Facts and Feats. Guinness Publishing. ISBN 0851126391.
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