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was held at the

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on 10 and 11 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report
la84.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019. There were 111 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men. The event was won by

Alois Hudec Alois Hudec (12 July 1908 – 23 January 1997) was a Czechoslovakia, Czechoslovak gymnastics, gymnast and an individual World and Olympic Champion in the sport. He competed for Czechoslovakia at the Olympics, Czechoslovakia at the 1936 Summer Oly ...

of Czechoslovakia, the nation's first victory after winning two silver medals and two bronze medals in 1924 and 1928.

Leon Štukelj Leon Štukelj (; 12 November 1898 – 8 November 1999) was a Slovene professional gymnast. He was an Olympic gold medalist and athlete who represented Yugoslavia at the Olympics. He is a noted figure in Slovenian sporting history. Štukelj is o ...

was the silver medalist in Berlin, the second man to earn two medals in the rings after his 1928 gold. Host Germany took a bronze medal, its first in the rings since 1896, as

Matthias Volz Matthias Volz (4 May 1910 in Schwabach – 26 August 2004 in Spalt) was a German gymnast Gymnastics is a type of sport that includes physical exercises requiring balance, strength, flexibility, agility, coordination, dedication and ...

finished third.

Background

This was the sixth appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Six of the 14 gymnasts from 1932 returned: fifth-place finisher Oreste Capuzzo and sixth-place finisher Franco Tognini of Italy, seventh-place finisher Heikki Savolainen and fourteenth-place finisher

Mauri Nyberg-Noroma Mauri Nyberg-Noroma (31 January 1908 in Vyborg – 23 December 1939 in Muolaa) was a Finnish gymnast. He won three Olympic medals for Finland. He took part in his first Olympics in 1928 in Amsterdam but did not medal. He came joint si ...

of Finland, and twelfth-place finisher

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and thirteenth-place finisher József Hegedűs of Hungary.

of Czechoslovakia was the reigning (1934) world champion. Austria, Bulgaria, and Romania each made their debut in the men's rings. The United States made its fifth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928 but not in 1932. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the rings were added to the other apparatus scores 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.Official Report, p. 848. The compulsory exercise was described in the Official Report (dashes indicate "clearly perceptible" pauses):

Schedule

Results

References

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