The men's rings competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 and 11 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report, la84.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019. There were 111 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men. The event was won by Alois Hudec of Czechoslovakia, the nation's first victory after winning two silver medals and two bronze medals in 1924 and 1928. Leon Štukelj was the silver medalist in Berlin, the second man to earn two medals in the rings after his 1928 gold. Host Germany took a bronze medal, its first in the rings since 1896, as Matthias Volz finished third.
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). Six of the 14 gymnasts from 1932 returned: fifth-place finisher Oreste Capuzzo and sixth-place finisher Franco Tognini of Italy, seventh-place finisher Heikki Savolainen and fourteenth-place finisher Mauri Nyberg-Noroma of Finland, and twelfth-place finisher István Pelle and thirteenth-place finisher József Hegedűs of Hungary. Alois Hudec of Czechoslovakia was the reigning (1934) world champion.
Austria, Bulgaria, and Romania each made their debut in the men's rings. 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. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the rings 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. 848.
The compulsory exercise was described in the Official Report (dashes indicate "clearly perceptible" pauses):
Schedule
Date Time Round Monday, 10 August 1936Tuesday, 11 August 1936 7:00 Final
Results
RankGymnastNationCompulsoryVoluntaryTotal Alois Hudec 9.633 9.800 19.433 Leon Štukelj 9.467 9.400 18.867 Matthias Volz 9.100 9.567 18.667 4 Alfred Schwarzmann 9.167 9.367 18.534 5 Franz Beckert 9.033 9.500 18.533 6 Michael Reusch 9.067 9.367 18.434 7 Jaroslav Kollinger 9.000 9.433 18.433 8 Heikki Savolainen 9.233 9.167 18.400 9 Oreste Capuzzo 8.967 9.400 18.367 10 Emanuel Löffler 8.933 9.300 18.233 11 Gábor Kecskeméti 8.867 9.233 18.100 12 Vratislav Petráček 8.767 9.267 18.034 13 Eugen Mack 8.733 9.267 18.000 14 Savino Guglielmetti 8.833 9.133 17.966 15 Paul Masino 8.933 9.000 17.933 16 Jey Kugeler 8.700 9.167 17.867 17 Mauri Nyberg-Noroma 8.767 9.033 17.800 18 Konrad Frey 8.533 9.200 17.733 19 Antoine Schildwein 8.767 8.933 17.700 Nicolo Tronci 8.667 9.033 17.700 21 Jan Gajdoš 8.633 9.033 17.666 22 Martti Uosikkinen 8.267 9.367 17.634 23 Aleksanteri Saarvala 8.600 8.933 17.533 József Sarlós 8.433 9.100 17.533 25 István Pelle 8.533 8.933 17.466 26 Innozenz Stangl 8.600 8.767 17.367 27 Jindrich Tintěra 8.367 8.867 17.234 Eino Tukiainen 8.467 8.767 17.234 29 Albert Bachmann 8.300 8.900 17.200 István Sárkány 8.167 9.033 17.200 31 Eduard Steinemann 8.300 8.867 17.167 32 Metty Logelin 8.533 8.633 17.166 Maurice Rousseau 8.733 8.433 17.166 34 Jan Sládek 8.000 9.033 17.033 35 Kiichiro Toyama 8.133 8.867 17.000 36 Willi Stadel 8.433 8.533 16.966 37 József Hegedüs 7.933 8.933 16.866 Franco Tognini 8.333 8.533 16.866 39 Konrad Grilc 8.933 7.867 16.800 40 Esa Seeste 8.233 8.500 16.733 41 Miroslav Forte 8.633 8.067 16.700 Dokan Sone 8.467 8.233 16.700 43 Dimitrije Merzlikin 8.567 8.100 16.667 44 Einari Teräsvirta 8.300 8.333 16.633 45 Ilmari Pakarinen 8.300 8.300 16.600 Danilo Fioravanti 8.133 8.467 16.600 47 Lucien Masset 8.033 8.533 16.566 48 Armand Solbach 8.000 8.533 16.533 49 Neno Mirchev 7.800 8.667 16.467 50 Lajos Tóth 7.500 8.933 16.433 51 Hikoroku Arimoto 8.233 8.167 16.400 52 Al Jochim 7.767 8.567 16.334 53 Josip Primožič 8.300 8.000 16.300 54 Armand Walter 7.733 8.500 16.233 55 Egidio Armelloni 7.200 9.000 16.200 Walter Bach 7.667 8.533 16.200 57 Ernst Winter 7.967 8.200 16.167 58 Walter Steffens 8.033 8.100 16.133 59 Miklos Péter 7.433 8.667 16.100 60 Joze Vadnov 8.600 7.467 16.067 61 Otello Ternelli 7.733 8.333 16.066 62 Walter Beck 7.733 8.233 15.966 Janez Pristov 8.133 7.833 15.966 64 Jean Aubry 7.933 7.967 15.900 Georges Miez 7.233 8.667 15.900 66 Bohumil Povejšil 7.167 8.600 15.767 67 Yoshitaka Takeda 7.367 8.333 15.700 68 Kenny Griffin 7.233 8.167 15.400 Robert Herold 7.333 8.067 15.400 Yoshio Miyake 7.767 7.633 15.400 71 Josef Walter 6.900 8.267 15.167 72 Hiroshi Nosaka 7.633 7.500 15.133 73 Jos Romersa 7.533 7.500 15.033 74 Ivan Chureshki 7.200 7.667 14.867 75 Artie Pitt 7.467 7.233 14.700 76 Leopold Redl 6.967 7.700 14.667 77 Gyözö Mogyorossy 6.233 8.433 14.666 78 Francisc Draghici 6.500 8.067 14.567 79 Franz Haupert 7.533 6.933 14.466 80 Boris Gregorka 6.933 7.367 14.300 Fujio Kakuta 6.600 7.700 14.300 82 Frank Cumiskey 6.467 7.767 14.234 83 Hiroshi Matsunobu 7.333 6.767 14.100 84 Yovcho Khristov 5.567 8.367 13.934 85 Pando Sidov 6.267 7.567 13.834 86 Georgi Dimitrov 6.400 7.333 13.733 87 George Wheeler 6.767 6.667 13.434 88 Chet Phillips 6.567 6.567 13.134 89 Frank Haubold 5.600 7.400 13.000 90 Ivan Stoychev 5.833 7.067 12.900 91 Robert Pranz 6.233 6.433 12.666 92 Willy Klein 6.333 6.067 12.400 93 Jos Cillien 6.067 6.200 12.267 94 Karl Pannos 5.667 7.333 12.000 95 Pius Hollenstein 5.467 6.467 11.934 96 August Sturm 5.467 6.333 11.800 97 Gottfried Hermann 4.967 6.700 11.667 98 Iosif Matusec 5.000 6.567 11.567 Fred Meyer 5.600 5.967 11.567 100 Marcel Leineweber 5.867 5.667 11.534 101 Remus Ludu 5.200 6.167 11.367 102 Lyuben Obretenov 4.733 6.133 10.866 103 Andrei Abraham 4.833 5.867 10.700 104 Franz Swoboda 4.000 6.500 10.500 105 Adolf Scheffknecht 4.433 5.933 10.366 106 Alexandru Dan 5.267 5.067 10.334 107 Ion Albert 3.000 5.900 8.900 108 Iohan Schmidt 2.167 4.567 6.734 — Romeo Neri 8.733 — Mathias Erang 7.167 — Vasile Moldovan 4.667 —
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