The men's vault (or "horse vault" or "long horse") competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report, la84.org. Retrieved 6 September 2018. There were 110 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men. The event was won by Alfred Schwarzmann of Germany, the nation's first victory in the event since 1896 and second overall. Eugen Mack of Switzerland earned silver, the first man to win multiple medals in the event (he had won gold in 1928). Another member of the host German team, Matthias Volz, took bronze.

Background

This was the sixth appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the 10 gymnasts from 1932 returned: gold medalist Savino Guglielmetti of Italy, silver medalist Al Jochim of the United States, fourth-place finisher Einari Teräsvirta of Finland, sixth-place finisher István Pelle of Hungary, seventh-place finisher Miklós Péter of Hungary, and tenth-place finisher Heikki Savolainen of Finland. Also returning was 1928 gold medalist Eugen Mack of Switzerland, who had also won the first world championship in the apparatus in 1934. Alfred Schwarzmann of host Germany was among the favorites as well.

Austria, Japan, and Romania each made their debut in the men's vault. The United States made its fifth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928 but not in 1932. The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions (Neri of Italy did not compete in the vault) performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. Two vaults were done for each, with the better score counted. The scores in the vault were added to the other apparatus scores to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested.Official Report, p. 846.

The compulsory vault was described in the Official Report:

Schedule

Date Time Round Monday, 10 August 1936 7:00 Final

Results

RankGymnastNationCompulsoryVoluntaryTotal Alfred Schwarzmann 9.433 9.767 19.200 Eugen Mack 9.267 9.700 18.967 Matthias Volz 8.967 9.500 18.467 4 Walter Bach 9.233 9.167 18.400 5 Walter Beck 8.700 9.667 18.367 6 Martti Uosikkinen 9.167 9.133 18.300 7 Michael Reusch 8.833 9.433 18.266 8 Georges Miez 9.067 9.167 18.234 Josef Walter 8.667 9.567 18.234 10 Eduard Steinemann 9.000 9.200 18.200 11 Konrad Grilc 9.200 8.900 18.100 12 Danilo Fioravanti 8.967 9.100 18.067 13 Savino Guglielmetti 8.867 9.167 18.034 14 Willi Stadel 9.100 8.933 18.033 15 Albert Bachmann 8.267 9.700 17.967 16 Miroslav Forte 9.067 8.867 17.934 17 Ernst Winter 8.433 9.467 17.900 18 Alois Hudec 8.667 9.200 17.867 19 Innozenz Stangl 8.367 9.300 17.667 20 Konrad Frey 8.333 9.333 17.666 21 Joze Vadnov 9.067 8.567 17.634 22 Jindrich Tintěra 8.867 8.733 17.600 23 Jan Gajdoš 8.733 8.833 17.566 24 George Wheeler 8.333 9.100 17.433 25 Franz Beckert 8.333 9.067 17.400 26 Franco Tognini 8.500 8.867 17.367 27 Jaroslav Kollinger 8.633 8.667 17.300 Neno Mirchev 8.233 9.067 17.300 29 Walter Steffens 8.867 8.367 17.234 30 Jan Sládek 8.700 8.533 17.233 31 Jey Kugeler 8.433 8.767 17.200 Mauri Nyberg-Noroma 8.600 8.600 17.200 István Sárkány 8.700 8.500 17.200 Yoshitaka Takeda 8.667 8.533 17.200 35 Miklos Péter 7.900 9.233 17.133 Josip Primožič 8.833 8.300 17.133 37 Esa Seeste 8.133 8.967 17.100 38 Heikki Savolainen 8.133 8.867 17.000 39 Karl Pannos 8.667 8.300 16.967 40 Janez Pristov 8.500 8.433 16.933 41 Egidio Armelloni 8.367 8.533 16.900 42 Vratislav Petráček 8.100 8.700 16.800 43 Bohumil Povejšil 8.833 7.933 16.766 44 Fred Meyer 7.933 8.767 16.700 45 Frank Cumiskey 7.400 9.267 16.667 45 Armand Walter 8.000 8.667 16.667 47 Hikoroku Arimoto 8.500 8.133 16.633 48 Einari Teräsvirta 8.167 8.367 16.534 49 Georgi Dimitrov 8.300 8.200 16.500 50 Boris Gregorka 8.233 8.200 16.433 Otello Ternelli 7.800 8.633 16.433 52 Franz Swoboda 8.200 8.200 16.400 53 Yoshio Miyake 8.000 8.333 16.333 54 August Sturm 7.433 8.867 16.300 55 Antoine Schildwein 7.900 8.367 16.267 56 Leopold Redl 7.333 8.800 16.133 57 Ilmari Pakarinen 7.567 8.533 16.100 58 Jos Romersa 7.767 8.300 16.067 59 Dokan Sone 7.933 8.033 15.966 60 Paul Masino 8.033 7.900 15.933 Chet Phillips 8.400 7.533 15.933 62 Kiichiro Toyama 8.000 7.833 15.833 63 Lucien Masset 7.567 8.233 15.800 64 István Pelle 7.500 8.233 15.733 65 Fujio Kakuta 7.433 8.167 15.600 66 Emanuel Löffler 7.067 8.500 15.567 67 Eino Tukiainen 8.633 6.933 15.566 68 Robert Herold 7.867 7.667 15.534 69 Francisc Draghici 7.233 8.233 15.466 70 József Sarlós 6.933 8.467 15.400 71 Gábor Kecskeméti 7.500 7.867 15.367 72 Gottfried Hermann 8.933 6.300 15.233 Artie Pitt 7.100 8.133 15.233 74 Maurice Rousseau 7.200 8.000 15.200 75 Aleksanteri Saarvala 7.800 7.367 15.167 76 Kenny Griffin 6.567 8.567 15.134 77 Frank Haubold 6.933 8.100 15.033 Pius Hollenstein 7.900 7.133 15.033 79 Oreste Capuzzo 8.633 6.333 14.966 80 Franz Haupert 7.667 7.233 14.900 81 Dimitrije Merzlikin 5.667 9.133 14.800 Armand Solbach 8.067 6.733 14.800 83 Ivan Chureshki 7.933 6.800 14.733 Marcel Leineweber 6.600 8.133 14.733 85 Nicolo Tronci 8.100 6.567 14.667 86 Adolf Scheffknecht 7.167 7.467 14.634 87 Lajos Tóth 6.033 8.600 14.633 88 Metty Logelin 7.000 7.333 14.333 89 Hiroshi Matsunobu 6.800 7.467 14.267 90 Willy Klein 7.233 7.000 14.233 91 Jean Aubry 7.567 6.500 14.067 92 Leon Štukelj 8.233 5.667 13.900 93 Yovcho Khristov 7.500 6.300 13.800 94 Al Jochim 6.333 7.433 13.766 95 Lyuben Obretenov 5.833 7.767 13.600 96 Hiroshi Nosaka 5.333 8.200 13.533 97 József Hegedüs 6.833 6.667 13.500 98 Gyözö Mogyorossy 8.400 5.000 13.400 99 Pando Sidov 7.733 4.167 11.900 100 Vasile Moldovan 6.500 5.167 11.667 101 Robert Pranz 5.667 4.767 10.434 102 Jos Cillien 4.667 4.400 9.067 103 Iosif Matusec 5.000 4.000 9.000 104 Remus Ludu 4.333 4.200 8.533 105 Mathias Erang 4.333 4.000 8.333 106 Alexandru Dan 4.833 3.333 8.166 107 Ion Albert 2.900 5.200 8.100 108 Ivan Stoychev 4.733 2.467 7.200 109 Andrei Abraham 1.867 4.533 6.400 110 Iohan Schmidt 1.500 4.133 5.633

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