Gymnastics World Championships 1954

The 13th World Gymnastics Championships took place in Rome from June 28th to July 1st, 1954 . For the first time after the Second World War , German athletes took part in gymnastics world championships. Both German states put together a team. The dominant nation was the Soviet Union .

Attendees

Egypt  Belgium  Bulgaria  Denmark  Germany  Finland  France  Iran

Italy  Japan  Yugoslavia  Luxembourg  Austria  Poland  Romania  Saarland

Sweden  Switzerland  Soviet Union  Spain  South African Union  Czechoslovakia  Hungary  United States

[*] Joint team of FR Germany and GDR.

Results

Men

All-around

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Viktor Chukarin	115,450
1.	Valentin Muratov	115,450
3.	Hrant Shahinyan	114,600

team

rank	team	Points
1.	Soviet Union	689,900
2.	Japan	673.250
3.	Switzerland	671,550
4th	Germany	670.250
...
13.	Austria	590,800
15th	Luxembourg	561,400

Horizontal bar

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Valentin Muratov	19.70
2.	Helmut Bantz	19.40
2.	Boris Schachlin	19.40

Ingots

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Viktor Chukarin	19.60
2.	Josef Stalder	19.55
3.	Masao Takemoto	19.40
3.	Hans Eugster	19.40
3.	Helmut Bantz	19.40
6th	Jack Günthard	19.35

Leap

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Leo Sotornik	19.25
2.	Helmut Bantz	19.20
3.	Sergei Diaiani	19.10
...
6th	Adalbert Dickhut	18.85

Rings

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Albert Azarianan	19.75
2.	Yevgeny Korolkov	19.55
3.	Valentin Muratov	19.50

horse

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Hrant Shahinyan	7.30 p.m.
2.	Josef Stalder	19.25
3.	Viktor Chukarin	19.20

ground

rank	athlete	Points
1.	Valentin Muratov	19.25
1.	Masao Takemoto	19.25
3.	William Thoresson	19.20

Women

All-around

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Galina Shamrai	75.68
2.	Eva Bosáková	75.11
3.	Helena Rakoczy	74.37

team

rank	team	Gymnasts	Points
1.	Soviet Union	Nina Bocharova Pelageja Danilowa Maria Gorokhovskaya Larissa Latynina Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova Galina Rudko Galina Sarabidze	524.310
2.	Hungary	Eva Banati Ilona Banhegyine Milanovits Iren Daruhazine Karpati-Karcsics Erzsebet Gulyasne Köteles Aliz Kertesz Olga Lemhenyine Tass Edit Perenyine Vasarhelyi-Weckinger Ágnes Keleti	518.280
3.	Czechoslovakia	Eva Bosáková Miroslava Brdičková Alena Chadimová Věra Drazdíková Zdena Lizkova Anna Marejková Alena Reichová Věra Vančurová	511,750
...
10.	Germany		486,560
12.	Austria		453.790
14th	Saarland		407.240
15th	Luxembourg		378,560

ground

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Tamara Manina	19.39
2.	Eva Bosáková	19.16
3.	Maria Gorokhovskaya	19.12

bar

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Keiko Tanaka	18.89
2.	Eva Bosáková	18.76
3.	Ágnes Keleti	18.72

Leap

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Tamara Manina	18.96
1.	Anna Petterson	18.96
3.	Evy Berggren	18.93

Uneven bars

rank	Athlete	Points
1.	Ágnes Keleti	19.46
2.	Galina Shamrai	19.33
3.	Helena Rakoczy	19.20

Medal table

rank	country				total
1	Soviet Union	12	3	5	20th
2	Japan	2	1	1	4th
3	Czechoslovakia	1	3	1	5
4th	Hungary	1	1	1	3
5	Sweden	1	-	2	3
6th	Switzerland	-	2	2	4th
7th	Germany	-	2	1	3
8th	Poland	-	-	2	2

Web links

• Results at romgym.ro