The men's artistic individual all-around was an artistic gymnastics event held as part of the Gymnastics at the 1912 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on 12 July at the Stockholm Olympic Stadium. It was the fourth appearance of the event. There were 44 competitors from 9 nations. Each nation was limited to 6 gymnasts (a marked reduction from the 20 permitted in 1908).Official Report, p. 64. The event was won by Alberto Braglia of Italy, the first man to successfully defend a title in the artistic individual all-around. The bronze medalist from 1908, Louis Ségura, this time took silver. Braglia and Ségura were the first two men to win multiple medals in the event. Italian Adolfo Tunesi earned bronze.

As in 1908, the individual results were not considered for any of the team competitions. As in 1900 and 1908, there were no separate apparatus events.

Background

This was the fourth appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.

Four of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1908 Games returned: gold medalist Alberto Braglia of Italy, bronze medalist Louis Ségura of France, sixth-place finisher Samuel Hodgetts of Great Britain, and seventh-place finisher Marcel Lalu of France. Marco Torrès of France (1909) had won a World Championship since the last Games; reigning (1911) World Champion Ferdinand Steiner of Bohemia did not compete in Stockholm.

Denmark, Luxembourg, and the Russian Empire each made their debut in the event. Bohemia, France, Great Britain, Hungary, and Italy each made their third appearance, tying the absent Germany (missing the event for the first time) for most among nations. Germany, Sweden, and Norway had gymnasts competing in the team events, but opted not to have individual gymnasts; Sweden and Norway cited their view that gymnastics should be a team sport with mass displays.

Competition format

Gymnasts competed on the horizontal bar, parallel bars, rings, and pommel horse. Three judges marked each performer in each of the four apparati; these 12 scores were summed to give a final score. The scoring was from 0 to 12; this led to a possible total of 36 on each apparatus and 144 for the grand total.

Schedule

Two three-hour sessions were held on a single day, from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 14:00 to 17:00.

Date Time Round Friday, 12 July 1912 9:30 Final

Results

Results are listed in the order that they appeared in the Official Olympic Report, rather than the Olympic Order that exists today.

Rank Gymnast Nation Total Alberto Braglia 34.75 31.75 34.75 32.75 135.00 Louis Ségura 34.50 32.25 35.75 30.00 132.50 Adolfo Tunesi 35.75 30.50 35.00 30.25 131.50 4 Guido Boni 34.75 28.25 35.25 29.75 128.00 Giorgio Zampori 33.25 30.75 35.00 29.00 128.00 6 Pietro Bianchi 31.75 30.75 33.75 29.50 127.75 7 Marcel Lalu 31.75 30.50 35.50 29.25 127.00 Marco Torrès 30.75 31.00 35.00 30.25 127.00 9 Guido Romano 34.50 30.00 32.50 29.25 126.25 10 Antoine Costa 30.75 29.75 34.25 29.75 124.50 11 Louis-Charles Marty 30.50 30.50 34.75 26.75 122.50 12 Leonard Hanson 29.50 31.50 31.75 28.50 121.25 13 Elemér Pászti 33.75 27.00 30.50 27.75 119.00 14 Auguste Pompogne 31.00 28.00 32.00 27.00 118.00 15 József Szalai 26.00 29.75 33.00 28.00 117.25 Antoine Wehrer 29.00 28.75 33.00 26.50 117.25 17 Imre Gellért 32.25 26.75 34.00 24.00 117.00 18 Pierre Hentges 30.75 29.25 29.50 26.00 115.50 19 János Krizmanich 33.00 26.75 28.75 26.50 115.00 20 Nicolas Kanivé 28.50 29.50 31.25 22.25 111.50 21 John Whitaker 27.25 29.75 27.75 26.50 111.25 22 Jean-Pierre Thommes 28.50 27.50 32.00 22.75 110.75 23 François Hentges 30.25 27.00 32.50 20.75 110.50 24 Emile Lanners 28.75 27.00 29.00 25.00 109.75 25 Samuel Hodgetts 27.25 28.25 27.75 25.25 108.50 26 Arvor Hansen 22.50 28.50 29.50 27.00 107.50 27 Villiam Nieminen 24.25 25.00 30.00 26.50 105.75 28 Charles Simmons 23.00 28.50 30.50 23.50 105.50 29 William Cowhig 22.50 26.75 29.50 25.75 104.50 30 Charles Jensen 25.25 26.25 27.00 25.25 103.75 31 Edvard Jansson 19.75 24.25 30.75 28.25 103.00 32 Reginald Potts 24.75 28.25 23.25 25.50 101.75 33 Axel Andersen 20.00 26.50 30.00 22.25 98.75 34 Carl Pedersen 20.00 28.25 28.25 20.75 97.25 Niels Petersen 23.75 25.50 25.00 17.00 97.25 36 Bohumil Honzátko 23.75 25.50 25.00 17.00 91.25 37 Anders Tamminen 18.25 26.00 23.25 23.00 90.50 38 Pavel Kushnikov 19.25 21.50 24.50 24.75 90.00 39 Aleksandr Akhyun 18.50 23.25 25.25 20.75 87.75 40 Einar Møbius 20.00 26.25 27.00 13.50 86.75 41 Semyon Kulikov 17.50 21.50 24.00 16.50 79.50 42 Fyodor Zabelin 17.00 22.50 22.00 14.75 76.25 — Yrjö Vuolio — — 29.00 23.25 52.25 Kaarlo Ekholm — — 25.50 25.00 50.50

References

Sources (pp 558–559)