The men's

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competition at the

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, Helsin ...

was held at

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, Exhibition Hall I from 19 to 21 July. It was the eighth appearance of the event. There were 185 competitors from 29 nations, with each nation sending up to 8 gymnasts. The Soviet Union, in its debut in the event, won a medal of every color but did not quite sweep the medals as there was a tie for third.

Hrant Shahinyan Hrant Shahinyan ( hy, Հրանտ Շահինյան, 30 July 1923 – 29 May 1996), also known as Grant Shaginyan, was a Soviet Armenian gymnast. Specializing in the still rings and pommel horse, he is a two-time Olympic Champion, two-time World Ch ...

was the winner,

Viktor Chukarin Viktor Ivanovich Chukarin (russian: Виктор Иванович Чукарин, uk, Віктор Іванович Чукарін; 9 November 1921 – 25 August 1984) was a Soviet gymnast. He won eleven medals including seven gold medals at t ...

took silver, and

Dmytro Leonkin Dmytro Leonkin (16 December 1928 – 1980) was a Soviet gymnast who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and presented athletes of the Ukrainian SSR. Dmytro Leonkin was born in Ryazan Governorate, Russian SFSR The Russian Soviet Federa ...

shared bronze with

Hans Eugster Hans Eugster (27 March 1929 – 12 November 1956) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic Champion. Biography He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he received a gold medal in parallel bars, a silver medal in team combined exercise ...

of Switzerland.

Background

This was the eighth 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). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1948 returned: bronze medalist

Zdeněk Růžička Zdeněk Růžička (15 April 1925 – 18 April 2021) was a Czech gymnast who was a three-time Olympian. Winning two individual bronze medals on floor exercise and rings at the Gymnastics at the 1948 Summer Olympics where he also placed 7th in th ...

of Czechoslovakia, fifth-place finisher

Josef Stalder Josef Stalder (6 February 1919 – 2 March 1991) was a Swiss gymnast and Olympic champion. Career He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he received a gold medal on the horizontal bar, a silver medal in team combined exercises ...

of Switzerland, and eighth-place finisher Heikki Savolainen (who had also been in the top 10 in 1932 and 1936) and ninth-place finisher

Olavi Rove Olavi Rove (29 July 1915 – 22 May 1966) is a Finnish gymnast and Olympic Champion. He was born and died in Helsinki. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London where he received a gold medal in ''team combined exercises'', and a ...

of Finland. The reigning (1950) world champion, Walter Lehmann of Switzerland, was not competing in Helsinki. Rove had taken second, with

third. Belgium, India, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Saar, South Africa, the Soviet Union, Spain, and Sweden each made their debut in the men's rings. The United States made its seventh appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games. Of the 22 different nations that had competed at least once in the event before 1952, 19 competed in Helsinki (only Greece, Mexico, and the Netherlands were missing among the nations having previously competed).

Competition format

The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of between five and 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 2 exercise scores were summed to give a total for the apparatus. 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 averaged to give the exercise total. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20. The competitor had the option to make a second try only on the compulsory exercise—with the second attempt counting regardless of whether it was better than the first.Official Report, p. 424.

Schedule

All times are

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Results

References

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Men's 1952 Men's events at the 1952 Summer Olympics