Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around
Men's all-around gymnastics at the Games of the IV Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | White City Stadium | ||||||||||||
Dates | July 14–15 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 97 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics | |
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All-around | men |
Team | men |
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.[1] Each nation could enter up to 20 fencers,[2] with France and Great Britain each entering the maximum. A total of 97 gymnasts from 12 nations competed.
The events were:
- Horizontal bar, swinging movements
- Horizontal bar, slow movements
- Parallel bars
- Rings, swinging
- Rings, stationary
- Vault
- Rope climbing
Results
The Official Report gives the places and scores of the first 19. A full list of results was printed in a French journal in August 1908,[3] but was not discovered until March 2020.[4]
References
- ^ "Gymnastics at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2019.
- ^ Official Report, p. 35.
- ^ "Heptathlon Gymnastic Competition". Les Jeunes : courrier de quinzaine du journal “Le Patronage”. 8 August 1908. Retrieved 25 June 2020.
- ^ "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
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.