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

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
Gymnastics at the
1908 Summer Olympics
All-aroundmen
Teammen

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

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

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 1⁄2 point for every 18 inches climbed.[5]

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

Results

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]

RankGymnastNationScore
1st place, gold medalist(s)Alberto Braglia Italy317
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Walter Tysall Great Britain312
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Louis Ségura France297
4Curt Steuernagel Germany273.5
5Friedrich Wolf Germany267
6Samuel Hodgetts Great Britain266
7Marcel Lalu France258.75
8Raphaël Diaz France258.5
9Edward Potts Great Britain252.5
10Jules Rolland France249.5
11François Nidal France249
12George Bailey Great Britain246
Karl Borchert Germany246
14Antoine Costa France241.75
15János Nyisztor Hungary236
16Thomas Dick Great Britain233.5
Alfred Hodges Great Britain233.5
18Georges Thurnherr France232
19Guido Romano Italy230
20Joseph Castiglioni France227
21Otello Capitani Italy226.75
22Joseph Lux France226
23William Watters Great Britain225.5
24James Graham Great Britain225
25Josef Čada Bohemia222.5
26Dominique Follacci France222
Gustave Charmoille France222
28Auguste Castille France220
Wilhelm Weber Germany220
30Fernand Castille France218
31Joseph Cook Great Britain213
32Victor Dubois France212.5
33Josef Krämer Germany212
34Kálmán Szabó Hungary209
35Paulin Lemaire France207.25
36Bohumil Honzátko Bohemia205.5
37G. Meade Great Britain205
38G. Mounier France204.5
39Imre Gellért Hungary202.5
40Heinrich Siebenhaar Germany198.5
41Paul Fischer Germany198
42Edgar Dyson Great Britain195.5
43E. Gauthier France195
44Jean Van Guysse Belgium194
45Sidney Domville Great Britain193.75
46Robert Hanley Great Britain193.5
47Mihály Antos Hungary192.5
48John Watters Great Britain187.5
49Michel Biet Netherlands187.5
50Georg Karth Germany186.5
51William Fergus Great Britain183.5
52Carl Körting Germany181
53Wilhelm Kaufmann Germany180.5
Félicien Lekim France180.5
Antoine De Buck Belgium180.5
56Edmund Aspinall Great Britain177
57Gaston Ratelot France172.75
58C. H. Smith Great Britain171.75
59Allan Keith Canada170
60Gerardus Wesling Netherlands165
61Reinier Blom Netherlands160.5
62Isidore Goudeket Netherlands159
Johannes Stikkelman Netherlands159
64Emanuel Brouwer Netherlands158
65August Ehrich Germany156.75
66Johannes Posthumus Netherlands155.5
67John Skrataas Norway154.5
Aleko Mulos Turkey (Ottoman Empire154.5
69Dirk Janssen Netherlands153.5
70Petter Hol Norway152.5
71Cornelus Becker Netherlands152.5
72Jan Bolt Netherlands150.5
73Otto Bauscher Great Britain149.5
74Jan Jacob Kieft Netherlands149.5
75Riku Korhonen Finland143.5
76Carl Klæth Norway142
77Frigyes Gráf Hungary141.5
78Abraham Mok Netherlands141
79A. V. Ford Great Britain141.5
80Orvil Elliott Canada132.5
81Jaska Saarivuori Finland132
82Frithjof Olsen Norway127.5
83Hendricus Thijsen Netherlands127
84Conrad Carlsrud Norway124
85Leonard Hanson Great Britain121
Iivari Partanen Finland121
87Per Mathias Jespersen Norway120.5
88Eetu Kosonen Finland120
89Emmanuel Boislèvé France120
90Johann Flemer Netherlands118.5
91David Teivonen Finland117.5
92Ole Iversen Norway117
93Constantijn van Daalen Netherlands116.5
94Eugen Ingebretsen Norway109
95Herman van Leeuwen Netherlands101
96Jonas Slier Netherlands96

References
  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. 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
  • 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.
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