The 10th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Gymnastics Federation, on June 1–2, 1934.

It was the first World Championships with a women's segment to the competition.

It was also the first world championships at which individual medals for apparatus were given.

Conversely, contemporaneous, detailed coverage – beyond merely team totals – of select World Championships prior to World War I exists both in the pages of “Slovenski Sokol” magazine (via the Digital Library of Slovenia) and in reproductions of apparently original and contemporaneous Czech source materials (via Gymnastics-History.com) for both the 3rd (1907) and 6th (1913) editions of the World Championships. In the Czech versions of those sources, reproduced by Gymnastics-History.com, both individual all-around scores and apparatus scores are presented for every competitor, and in the Slovenian versions of those sources, individual all-around scores and rankings are reproduced for the top 14 and very last-place competitor for the 1907 Worlds and for every competitor at the 1913 Worlds. Additionally, all of the data that is presented in each of those sources completely matches the data that both the FIG and USAG (the official governing body of the sport of Artistic gymnastics within the USA) present in their respective treatments on the results of these pre-WWI World Championships, with the sole two exceptions of the horizontal bar placing of French Gymnast Francois Vidal and the parallel bars placement of Belgian gymnast Paul Mangin, both at the 1907 World Championships.

Additionally, please note that in lieu of an article published in the 10 June 2024 issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport (a peer-reviewed journal) claiming that the BFEG's (the FIG's predecessor) archives from before 1950 appear to have been lost, a pictoral presentation of multiple medals belonging to 1911 World All-Around Champion Ferdinand Steiner on the website of his school shows medals, not only the team gold he won at that competition, that read “Concorso Ginnastico Internazionale 1911 Torino”. That pictoral presentation of Steiner's medals helps suggest that individual medals were awarded for those 1911 World Championships as they were from the same locale and year as the 1911 Worlds, and with the original title of the competition being printed on those medals, this further helps suggest that these individual medals were rewarded contemporaneously.

Medals

Men

Team final

Medal Country Points 787.30 772.90 769.50 761.35 757.40 754.10 730.40 623.10 595.35 589.80 585.80 555.30 427.15

All-around Medal Country Gymnast Points Eugen Mack 138.95 Romeo Neri 137.75 Emanuel Löffler 136.15 Heikki Savolainen 135.75 Jan Sládek 134.90 Jan Gajdoš 133.15 Georges Miez 132.45 Martti Uosikkinen 131.95 József Sarlós 131.90 Ernst Winter 131.90 Franz Beckert 131.85 Josef Walter 130.95

Apparatus

Floor exercise Medal Country Gymnast Points Georges Miez 18.95 Eugen Mack 18.35 Kurt Krötzsch 18.25 Josef Walter 18.10 Lajos Tóth 18.05 Heinz Sandrock 18.10

Pommel horse Medal Country Gymnast Points Eugen Mack 19.15 Eduard Steinemann 18.90 Jan Sládek 18.75 Omero Bonoli 18.70 Romeo Neri 18.60 Ilmari Pakarinen 18.10

Rings

Medal Country Gymnast Points Alois Hudec 19.45 Eugen Mack 19.00 (tie) Jaroslav Kolinger 18.90 (tie) Mathias Logelin 18.90 József Sarlós 18.75 Jey Kugeler 18.70

Vault

Medal Country Gymnast Points Eugen Mack 20.00 Eduard Steinemann 19.40 Jan Sládek 19.20 Josef Walter 19.05 Savino Guglielmetti 19.00 Lajos Tóth 18.95

Parallel bars

Medal Country Gymnast Points Eugen Mack 19.75 Josef Walter 19.25 Walter Bach 19.20 Heikki Savolainen 18.90 Romeo Neri 18.80 Eino Tukiainen 18.80

Horizontal bar

Medal Country Gymnast Points Ernst Winter 19.65 Georges Miez19.45 Heinz Sandrock 19.45 Eugen Mack 19.40 Heikki Savolainen 19.15 Walter Steffens 19.10

A few discrepancies exist in data for the results from these World Championships.

Due to the existence of those discrepancies, ultimately a later source, that claimed that those discrepancies were the results of computation errors and that was a more thorough source of information with better sourcing to original documents, was used for the results listed in this edit.

Women

This first ever women's competition at a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships consisted of a competitive field including five countries and 40 individual competitors.

Rank Nation Gymnast Individual results Group exercises Final Team totals Gymnastics events Athletics events Individual grand totals Individual grand totals rank Group exercises Final Team totals Beam rank Bars* Bars rank Vault rank Gymnastics Events Totals Gymnastics Events Totals Rank 60 meters 60 meters rank Long jump Long jump rank Javelin Javelin rank Athletics totals Athletics totals rank Individual grand totals Individual grand totals rank Entrance Preliminary Ensemble Partner Exercises Rhythmic or National Dance Rest Exercises Additional Exercises Punctuality Time Deductions Final team totals Vlasta Děkanová 9.07 6 13.05 9 8.16 5 30.28 3 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 60.28 1 6.46 38.53 23.39 42.18 8.93 111.20 180.00 - 738.06 Zdeňka Veřmiřovská 9.10 4 13.65 3 8.10 6 30.85 2 10.00 1 10.00 1 6.80 9 26.80 7 57.65 5 Vlasta Foltová 8.73 11 13.50 5 8.00 7 30.23 4 10.00 1 10.00 1 3.20 23 23.20 13 53.43 10 Nora Hájková 7.96 15 12.67 10 7.56 8 28.19 11 10.00 1 10.00 1 4.80 13 24.80 10 52.99 11 Jaroslava Bajerová 9.07 6 11.85 17 8.30 4 29.22 8 8.50 19 9.00 14 5.00 12 22.50 15 51.72 12 Vlasta Jarůšková 9.07 6 12.37 14 6.66 16 28.10 12 10.00 1 9.00 14 4.20 18 23.20 13 51.30 13 Milena Šebková 7.93 16 13.35 6 6.93 14 28.21 10 9.50 15 7.00 16 3.40 21 19.90 18 48.11 15 Anna Hřebřinová 7.86 18 5.15 38 6.66 16 19.67 26 10.00 1 10.00 1 8.40 5 28.40 5 48.07 16 Totals: 53.00 - 77.09 - 46.78 - - - 58.50 - 58.00 - 34.00 - - - 327.37 Margit Kalocsai 9.10 4 12.15 16 8.33 3 29.58 6 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 59.58 2 7.83 35.98 22.99 39.66 7.66 102.79 180.00 - 734.40 Anna Kael 6.66 23 12.60 11 8.83 2 28.09 13 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 58.09 4 Lenke Balkanji 9.00 9 11.18 20 6.50 18 26.68 17 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 56.68 6 Jenőné Varga 8.76 10 13.20 8 7.33 9 29.29 7 10.00 1 10.00 1 5.800 11 25.80 9 55.09 7 Judit Tóth 9.20 3 13.65 3 9.33 1 32.18 1 9.50 15 10.00 1 2.60 24 22.10 16 54.28 8 Mária Munkácsi 8.50 13 11.70 18 7.17 12 27.37 15 10.00 1 10.00 1 6.40 10 26.40 8 53.77 9 ?? Kemenes 8.36 14 11.10 21 7.33 9 26.79 16 8.50 19 7.00 16 8.00 6 23.50 12 50.29 14 Gabriella Mészáros 9.60 1 11.55 19 7.33 9 28.48 9 8.50 19 3.00 26 4.80 13 16.30 20 44.78 18 Totals: 51.22 - 74.48 - 47.49 - - - 59.50 - 60.00 - 44.80 - - - 337.49 Janina Skirlińska 9.23 2 13.35 6 7.07 13 29.65 5 10.00 1 10.00 1 8.00 6 28.00 6 58.65 3 7.60 35.24 21.17 31.79 7.06 87.99 180.00 - 629.48 ?? Pawłowska 7.77 19 9.15 29 5.67 23 22.59 23 10.00 1 10.00 1 4.80 13 24.80 11 47.39 17 ?? Dylewska 7.06 22 12.23 15 6.37 20 25.66 18 7.00 23 5.00 20 2.60 24 14.60 21 40.26 18 ?? Szymowa 4.77 33 12.45 13 6.40 19 23.62 21 5.50 32 3.00 26 8.00 6 16.50 19 40.12 20 Klara Sierońska 7.93 16 13.95 1 6.13 22 28.01 14 6.00 28 0.00 33 3.60 19 9.60 28 37.61 22 ?? Mikulska 7.60 20 12.60 11 5.00 29 25.20 19 6.00 28 0.00 33 3.40 21 9.40 29 34.60 23 ?? Lubańska 8.60 12 9.60 24 4.67 34 22.87 22 7.00 23 0.00 33 3.60 19 10.60 27 33.47 24 ?? Wisłocka 5.40 25 13.88 2 5.50 24 24.78 20 3.50 36 0.00 33 4.60 16 8.10 30 32.88 25 Totals: 44.36 - 73.73 - 36.64 - - - 44.50 - 28.00 - 30.40 - - - 258.63 4 ?? Ramos 5.06 28 9.07 31 4.33 35 18.46 33 10.00 1 6.00 19 4.40 17 20.40 17 38.86 21 8.30 35.84 19.39 26.65 4.33 75.33 180.00 (15.00) 521.31 ?? Esposito 3.00 39 9.30 27 4.96 32 17.26 36 8.50 19 5.00 20 1.00 28 14.50 22 31.76 26 ?? Montané 5.96 24 9.22 28 3.66 39 18.84 30 6.00 28 4.00 23 1.80 26 11.80 25 30.64 27 ?? Paon 3.86 36 8.92 33 4.26 37 17.04 37 9.00 18 4.00 23 0.20 29 13.20 23 30.24 28 ?? Tarillon 1.93 40 9.90 23 5.50 24 17.33 35 9.50 15 2.00 28 0.00 30 11.50 26 28.83 30 ?? Bourrier 5.36 26 9.45 26 4.33 35 19.14 28 7.00 23 0.00 33 0.00 30 7.00 34 26.14 34 ?? Allain 3.80 37 8.85 34 3.33 40 15.98 38 4.00 35 1.00 32 0.00 30 5.00 37 20.98 38 ?? Guenerin 3.50 38 9.00 32 5.00 29 17.50 34 0.00 40 0.00 33 0.00 30 0.00 40 17.50 39 Totals: 25.17 - 55.86 - 27.04 - - - 50.00 - 21.00 - 7.40 - - - 186.47 5 ?? Taraktsien 7.60 20 8.55 36 5.33 28 21.48 24 6.00 28 2.00 28 0.00 30 8.00 31 29.48 29 6.60 30.06 15.49 21.24 0.00 69.39 180.00 481.16 ?? Makedonska 4.83 30 3.75 39 6.36 21 14.94 39 7.00 23 5.00 20 0.00 30 12.00 24 26.94 31 ?? Kraeva 4.16 35 10.12 22 5.00 29 19.28 27 5.50 32 2.00 28 0.00 30 7.50 32 26.78 32 ?? Parova 5.23 27 9.15 29 4.26 37 18.64 32 3.50 36 4.00 23 0.00 30 7.50 32 26.14 33 ?? Antipova 4.63 34 8.77 35 5.33 27 18.73 31 7.00 23 0.00 33 0.00 30 7.00 34 25.73 35 ?? Gatcseva 4.83 30 7.35 37 6.73 15 18.91 29 3.00 38 0.00 33 1.40 27 4.40 38 23.31 36 ?? Kazandjeva 4.93 29 9.60 24 5.40 26 19.93 25 1.50 39 0.00 33 0.00 30 1.50 39 21.43 37 ?? Barcowa 4.80 32 0.00 40 4.86 33 9.66 40 5.00 34 2.00 28 0.00 30 7.00 34 16.66 40 Totals: 31.28 - 47.69 - 33.01 - - - 32.00 - 13.00 - 1.40 - - - 158.38

= Some teams competed on the parallel bars whereas others competed on the uneven bars.

• The scores of the two lowest overall scorers from each team were dropped from each event to arrive at the team total for each event.

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