World Gymnastics Championships 1950

The 12th World Gymnastics Championships took place from 14.-16. July 1950 in Basel . After a 12-year break, it was the first world championships after the Second World War .

In the men's all-around competition, the Swiss Walter Lehmann won ahead of his compatriot Marcel Adatte and the Finn Olavi Rove . Switzerland also emerged as the most successful team.

In the women’s category, Helena Rakoczy from Poland won the world title, the best team was Sweden .

Attendees

•  Egypt
•  Belgium
•  Denmark
•  Finland
•  France
•  Italy
•  Yugoslavia
•  Luxembourg
•  Netherlands
•  Austria
•  Poland
•  Sweden
•  Switzerland
•  United Kingdom

Results

Men

All-around

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Walter Lehmann	143.30
2.	Marcel Adatte	141.00
3.	Olavi Rove	140.80
4th	Guido Figone	139.95
5.	Josef Stoffel	139.50
6th	Josef Stalder	139.40
7th	Kalevi Viskari	139.35
8th.	Raymond Dot	138.85

team

rank	team	Points
1.	Switzerland	852.25
2.	Finland	838.50
3.	France	807.85
4th	Italy	728.90
5.	Yugoslavia	664.90
6th	Egypt	623.80

ground

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Ernst Gebendinger	19,250
1.	Josef Stalder	19,250
3.	Raymond Dot	19,200
4th	E. Wister	19,150

Horizontal bar

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Paavo Aaltonen	19,450
2.	Veikko Huhtanen	19,400
3.	Walther Lehmann	19,350
3.	Josef Stalder	19,350

Ingots

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Hans Eugster	19,850
2.	Olavi Rove	19,450
3.	Raymond Dot	19,350
4th	Walther Lehmann	19,300

Pommel horse

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Josef Stalder	19,700
2.	Marcel Adatte	19,350
3.	Walther Lehmann	19,050
4th	Melchior Thalmann	18,900

Rings

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Walther Lehmann	19,700
2.	Olavi Rove	19,300
3.	Hans Eugster	19,200

Leap

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Ernst Gebendinger	19,700
2.	Olavi Rove	19,350
3.	Walther Lehmann	19,050
4th	Josef Stalder	19,200
4th	Melchior Thalmann	19,200
4th	Jean Tschabold	19,200

Women

All-around

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Helena Rakoczy	94.016
2.	Anna Petterson	91,700
3.	Gertrude Kolar	91,000
4th	Evy Berggren	90,633
5.	Alexandra Lemoine	90,516
6th	Ginette Durand	90,466
7th	Laura Micheli	90,100
8th.	Ingrid Sandahl	89,933

team

rank	team	Gymnasts	Points
1.	Sweden	Evy Berggren Vanja Blomberg Karin Lindberg Gunnel Ljungström Hjördis Nordin Ann-Sofi Pettersson Göta Pettersson Ingrid Sandahl	607,500
2.	France	Ginette Durand Colette Hué Madeleine Jouffroy Alexandra Lemoine Liliane Montagne Christine Palau Irène Pittelioen Jeanette Vogelbacher	598,766
3.	Italy	Renata Bianchi Licia Macchini Laura Micheli Anna Monlarini Marja Nutti Elena Santoni Liliana Scaricabarozzi Lilia Torriani	594.250
4th	Yugoslavia		589,333
5.	Poland		587,333
6th	Austria		585.783
7th	Belgium		509.866

bar

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Helena Rakoczy	23,433
2.	Wanda Nutti	23,333
3.	Licia Macchini	23,200

ground

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Helena Rakoczy	23,166
2.	Tereza Kočiš	23,033
3.	Stefania Reindl	23,000

Uneven bars / swing rings

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Gertrude Kolar	24,000
1.	Anna Petterson	24,000
3.	Helena Rakoczy	23,850
...
5.	Edeltraud Schramm	23,550
6th	Traudl Ruckser	23,500

Leap

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Helena Rakoczy	23,566
2.	Gertrude Kolar	23,466
3.	Alexandra Lemoine	23,400

Medal table

rank	country				total
1	Switzerland	8th	2	5	15th
2	Poland	4th	-	2	6th
3	Sweden	2	1	-	3
4th	Finland	1	5	1	6th
5	Austria	1	1	1	3
6th	France	-	1	4th	5
7th	Italy	-	1	2	3
8th	Yugoslavia	-	1	-	1

Web links

• Results at romgym.ro