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

Men's all-around gymnastics
at the Games of the IV Olympiad
Venue White City Stadium
Dates July 14–15
Competitors 97 from 12 nations
Medalists
1st, gold medalist(s) Alberto Braglia  Italy
2nd, silver medalist(s) Walter Tysall  Great Britain
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Louis Ségura  France

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.

The events were:

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

Results

The names of the 97 competitors are known. The Official Report gives the places and scores of the first 19. The places of some others are known, though without much systematicity save for the preservation of the placings of the Dutch gymnasts.

PlaceGymnastNationScore
1Alberto Braglia Italy317
2Walter Tysall Great Britain312
3Louis Ségura France297
4Curt Steuernagel Germany273.5
5Friedrich Wolf Germany267
6Samuel Hodgetts Great Britain266
7Marcel Lalu France258.75
8Robert 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
16Franklin Dick Great Britain233.5
Arthur Hodges Great Britain233.5
18Georges Thurnherr France232
19Jean Castigliano France227
20Guido Romano ItalyUnknown
21UnknownUnknown
22UnknownUnknown
23UnknownUnknown
24UnknownUnknown
25Josef Čada BohemiaUnknown
26UnknownUnknown
27UnknownUnknown
28UnknownUnknown
29UnknownUnknown
30UnknownUnknown
31UnknownUnknown
32UnknownUnknown
33UnknownUnknown
34Kálmán Szabó HungaryUnknown
35UnknownUnknown
36Bohumil Honzátko BohemiaUnknown
37UnknownUnknown
38UnknownUnknown
39Imre Gellért HungaryUnknown
40UnknownUnknown
41UnknownUnknown
42UnknownUnknown
43UnknownUnknown
44UnknownUnknown
45Mihály Antos HungaryUnknown
46UnknownUnknown
47UnknownUnknown
48UnknownUnknown
49Michel Biet Netherlands187.5
50UnknownUnknown
51UnknownUnknown
52UnknownUnknown
53UnknownUnknown
54UnknownUnknown
55UnknownUnknown
56UnknownUnknown
57UnknownUnknown
58UnknownUnknown
59Allan Keith CanadaUnknown
60Gerardus Wesling Netherlands165
61Reinier Blom Netherlands160.5
62Isidore Goudeket Netherlands159
63Johannes Stikkelman Netherlands159
64Emanuel Brouwer Netherlands158
65UnknownUnknown
66Johannes Posthumus Netherlands155.5
67UnknownUnknown
68UnknownUnknown
69Dirk Janssen Netherlands153.5
70UnknownUnknown
71Cornelus Becker Netherlands152.5
72Jan Janssen Netherlands150.5
73UnknownUnknown
74Jan Jacob Kieft Netherlands149.5
75Riku Korhonen FinlandUnknown
76UnknownUnknown
77UnknownUnknown
78Abraham Mok Netherlands141
79UnknownUnknown
80Orville Elliott CanadaUnknown
81UnknownUnknown
82UnknownUnknown
83Hendricus Thijsen Netherlands127
84UnknownUnknown
85UnknownUnknown
86UnknownUnknown
87UnknownUnknown
88UnknownUnknown
89UnknownUnknown
90Johann Flemer Netherlands118.5
91UnknownUnknown
92UnknownUnknown
93Constantijn van Daalen Netherlands116.5
94UnknownUnknown
95Herman van Leeuwen Netherlands101
96Jonas Slier Netherlands96
97Frigyes Gráf HungaryDid not finish

Unplaced gymnasts

51 other gymnasts competed, but their places are unknown.

GymnastNation
E. Aspinall Great Britain
Oliver Bauscher Great Britain
Edouard Boislevé France
Antoine de Buck Belgium
Otello Capitani Italy
Conrad Carlsrud Norway
Alfred Castille France
Ferdinand Castille France
Georges Charmoille France
Joseph Cook Great Britain
S. Domville Great Britain
Victor Dubois France
E. Dyson Great Britain
August Ehrlich Germany
W. Fergus Great Britain
Paul Fischer Germany
Dominique Follacci France
A. Ford Great Britain
E. Gauthier France
J. Graham Great Britain
Jean van Guysse Belgium
R. Hanley Great Britain
Leonard Hanson Great Britain
Petter Hol Norway
Eugen Ingebretsen Norway
Ole Iversen Norway
Per Mathias Jespersen Norway
Georg Karth Germany
Wilhelm Kaufmann Germany
Carl Klæth Norway
Carl Körting Germany
Eetu Kosonen Finland
Josef Krämer Germany
F. Lekim France
Paulin Lemaire France
Justinien Lux France
G. Meade Great Britain
Mr. Moullos Turkey
G. Mounier France
Frithjof Olsen Norway
Iivari Partanen Finland
Georges Ratelot France
Jaska Saarivuori Finland
Heinrich Siebenhaar Germany
John Skrataas Norway
C. H. Smith Great Britain
Ferenc Szüts Hungary
David Teivonen Finland
J. A. Walters Great Britain
W. Watters Great Britain
Wilhelm Weber Germany

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. Retrieved 3 May 2006.
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