Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse
The men's pommel horse competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics was held at Earls Court Exhibition Centre on 12 and 13 August. It was the seventh appearance of the event.[1]
Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XIV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Earls Court Exhibition Centre | ||||||||||||
Date | 12–13 August | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 121 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning score | 38.7 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics | ||
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Artistic | ||
Team all-around | men | women |
Individual all-around | men | |
Vault | men | |
Floor | men | |
Pommel horse | men | |
Rings | men | |
Parallel bars | men | |
Horizontal bar | men | |
Competition format
The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of up to eight gymnasts (Cuba and Argentina had only 7; Mexico only 5). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in each of the six apparatus competitions were added together to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested.
For each exercise, four judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining two scores summed to give the exercise total. If the two scores were sufficiently far apart, the judges would "confer" and decide on a score. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 20, apparatus scores from 0 to 40, individual totals from 0 to 240, and team scores from 0 to 1,440.[2]
Results
References
- "Gymnastics at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Pommelled Horse". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- Official Report, p. 343.
- The Official Report indicates Saarvala finished 5th in this event, but his score is 8th place. Other sources list him in 8th place.