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Gymnastics At The 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's Vault
The women's vault competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall II from 22 to 23 July. It was the first appearance of the event, though vault exercises were part of the women's team all-around events in 1928, 1936, and 1948. Competition format The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The four apparatus that would become standard (floor, balance beam, uneven bars, and vault) were all used in the same Games for the first time. No separate finals were contested. For each individual exercise, five judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining three scores averaged to give the exercise total. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Töölö Sports Hall
sv, Tölö sporthall , image = Töölön Kisahalli.jpg , caption = Töölö Sports Hall photographed from the tower of the Olympic Stadium (2004) , fullname = , former_names = Messuhalli , address = Paavo Nurmen kuja 1c , location = Taka-Töölö, Helsinki, Finland , coordinates = , broke_ground = , built = 1935 , opened = 1935 , renovated = , expanded = 1952 , closed = , owner = , operator = , cost = , architect = Aarne HytönenRisto-Veikko Luukkonen , capacity = 2,000 (seated) , tenants = Torpan Pojat Helsinki Seagulls , website = Töölö Sports Hall ( fi, Töölön kisahalli, sv, Tölö sporthall) is a sports venue located in the Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland. It was designed by Aarne Hytönen and Risto-Veikko Luukko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ekaterina Kalinchuk
Ekaterina Illarionovna Kalinchuk (née Dyomina; russian: Екатерина Илларионовна Калинчук (Дёмина-); 2 December 1922 – 13 July 1997) was a Soviet gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ..., where she was a non-scoring member of the gold-winning Soviet team. Individually she won a gold medal in the vault and a silver in the now-discontinued team portable apparatus event.Biography of Ekaterina Kalinchuk . sport-necropol.ru [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Gorokhovskaya
Maria Kondratyevna Gorokhovskaya (russian: Мария Кондратьевна Гороховская, uk, Марія Кіндратівна Гороховська; 17 October 1921 – 7 July 2001) was a Soviet gymnast of Jewish descent. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, she was the first woman to win seven medals at one Olympics. That is the highest number of medals won by a woman in a single Olympics, which is an achievement shared by only one other female athlete, the Australian swimmer Emma McKeon, who achieved that at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in 2021. Competing for ''Budivelnyk Kharkiv'', Gorokhovskaya won her first USSR title on the balance beam in 1948. She came to the Helsinki Olympics as the twofold national champion. Soviet gymnastics had never competed at major international tournaments before, and it was the first Olympics in which the country participated. The Soviet gymnasts dominated the competition, with Gorokhovskaya leading them. In all four individual apparat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Galina Minaicheva
Galina Yakovlevna Minaicheva (russian: Галина Яковлевна Минаичева; born 17 October 1929) was a Russian artistic gymnast. She competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, finishing within the first 10 in all artistic gymnastics events, and winning one gold, one silver and one bronze medal. Minaicheva married a Georgian man and moved to Tbilisi, changing her last name to Sharabidze (russian: Шарабидзе). Under this name she won a team gold medal at the 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships The 13th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rome, the capital of Italy, on June 28 - July 1, 1954. It was the first World Championships at which the Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Sociali .... In 1957 she graduated from the Institute of Physical Education in Tbilisi and worked as a gymnastics coach. References External linksBiography of Galina Minaicheva 1929 births Living people Sportspeople fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1956 Summer Olympics – Women's Vault
These are the results of the women's vault competition, one of six events for female competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met .... Competition format The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered either a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The 2 exercise scores were summed to give an apparatus total. No separate finals were contested. Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20. Results The results of the competition:Official Report, pp. 492–97. References Official Olympic Report [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsingfors 1952), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in 1938 that it would be unable to host 1940 Olympics in Tokyo due to the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War, Helsinki had been selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were then cancelled due to World War II. Tokyo eventually hosted the games in 1964. Helsinki is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held. With London hosting the 1948 Olympics, 1952 is the most recent time when two consecutive summer Olympics Games were held entirely in Europe. The 1952 Summer Olympics was the last of the two consecutive Olympics to be held in Northern Europe, following the 1952 Winter Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 1952 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics was represented by 15 events: 7 for women and 8 for men. All events were held between 19 and 24 July in the Messuhalli building in Helsinki. Men's events were held in ''Exhibition Hall I'' while women's events were contested in the smaller ''Exhibition Hall II''. Medal summary Men's events Women's events Medal table See also *1952 Summer Olympics References Sources * * {{Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics 1952 Summer Olympics events 1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ... 1952 in gymnastics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnastics At The Summer Olympics
Artistic gymnastics has been contested at the Summer Olympics since the first modern Olympic games in Athens. The Soviet Union leads the medal table. Events Men Women Medal table ''Updated after the 2020 Summer Olympics'' Sources:2016 medalists Men Women See also * Gymnastics at the Summer Olympics * Gymnastics at the Youth Olympic Games * |
