1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Location	Prague, Bohemia
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The 3rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Prague, Bohemia, in conjunction with the 5th Czech Sokol Slet on 30 June 1907. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

A historic signpost in the sometimes contentious politics of the sport occurred with respect to these championships. In a 100-year Anniversary Publication of the International Federation of Gymnastics, a past observation of Dr. Miroslav Klinger, an honorary member of the FIG, was noted with regards to a German magazine article. In that FIG publication, it is written that an article in a 1907 issue of the German publication Deutsche Turnzeitung "dissuaded the non-slavic nations from participating in the international competition in Prague, by saying the competitors could be threatened by violence. The goal of the article was to pressure the president of the European Federation into the renunciation of the Prague event. Nevertheless, the German Federation sent observers to Prague." ^[1]

Medals

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bohemia  (BOH)	4	1	3	8
2	France  (FRA)	2	3	2	7
3	Belgium  (BEL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		6	4	6	16

Note

Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from Bohemia as medals for Czechoslovakia. ^[4]

Team Competition

Rank	Nation	Gymnast	Preliminaries Events							Gymnastics Events										Athletics Events					Individual Grand Totals		Team Scores		Team Grand Totals
			1st Preliminary	2nd Preliminary	3rd Preliminary	4th Preliminary	5th Preliminary	Preliminary Totals	Preliminary Totals Rank	Compulsories	Optionals	Totals	Compulsories	Optionals	Totals	Compulsories	Optionals	Gymnastics Events Totals	Gymnastics Events Totals Rank	Long Jump	Weight Lifting	150 meters	Athletics Totals	Athletics Totals Rank	Grand Totals	Grand Totals Rank	Team Exercise Grand Totals	Team Behavior	Final Grand Totals
	Bohemia	Josef Čada	10	9.5	9	9	10	47.5	6	9.25	11.5	20.75	11.25	11.75	23	9.5	10.5	63.75	4	20	20	16	56	1	167.25	1	944.5	6.75	951.25
		František Erben	9	8.5	9	9	9	44.5	17	8.75	10	18.75	11	11.75	22.75	10	8.75	60.25	10	12	20	20	52	4	156.75	4
		Karel Starý	9.5	9.25	9.75	9	9.25	46.75	9	8.5	12	20.5	11.75	12	23.75	10.75	11.5	66.5	1	12	16	16	44	22	157.25	3
		Karel Sál	8.75	9	9	8.25	9	44	21	8.75	9.5	18.25	10.25	11.5	21.75	10.5	10.25	60.75	9	14	20	16	50	6	154.75	6
		Josef Seidl	9.75	8.75	9	8.75	10	46.25	12	9.25	11	20.25	8	10.5	18.55	9.5	10	58.25	13	14	20	16	50	6	154.5	7
		Bohumil Honzátko	8	9.25	9.5	9	9.25	45	15	8	11	19	8	11.25	19.25	9.75	8	56	16	20	17	16	53	3	154	9
		Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	275	-	-	-	119.50	-	-	113	60	59	-	-	92	113	100	-	-	944.5
	France	Jules Rolland	9.25	9	9.5	9.75	9.75	47.25	7	9	11	20	11.5	12	23.5	10.5	10.5	64.55	2	14	17	16	47	13	158.75	2	915.5	7.5	923
		Francois Vidal	9.75	9.75	9.25	9.75	9.75	48.25	3	10.5	7	17.5	12	12	24	10	10.25	61.75	7	14	14	18	46	15	156	5
		Georges Charmoille	9	9	9.5	8.5	9.5	45.5	13	7.75	10.75	18.5	11.75	12	23.75	8.75	8	59	12	20	13	14	47	13	151.5	11
		Joseph Castigliani	8.75	9	8.5	9	9.5	44.75	16	9.5	9.75	19.25	11.75	10.5	22.25	10	10.25	61.75	7	12	20	16	48	10	154.5	7
		Louis Ségura	10	9.75	9.75	9.75	10	49.25	1	10.75	9.75	20.5	11	12	23	8.5	11	63	5	10	10	16	36	32	148.25	13
		Joseph Lux	9.5	10	9.5	9	10	48	4	10.25	11.5	21.75	11	12	23	9.5	10.25	64.5	2	6	14	14	34	35	146.5	15
		Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	284.50	-	-	-	119.50	-	-	141.50	57.25	60.25	-	-	76	88	94	-	-	915.5
	Belgium	Louis de Winter	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.25	9.25	47	8	5.75	8	13.75	9.75	10.75	20.5	11.25	8.25	53.75	19	14	20	18	52	4	152.75	10	864.25	8	872.25
		Leo Pauvels	8.75	9	9.5	10	6	43.25	23	8.5	10.5	19	11	11.5	22.5	10.75	9.75	62	6	14	16	16	46	15	151.25	12
		Charles Lannie	9.25	9	9.5	9.25	9.5	46.5	10	7	10	17	10	10	20	9.75	8.75	55.5	17	124	16	16	46	15	148	14
		Pol Giesenfeld	9	10	9.5	10	10	48.5	2	8	10	18	11	11.5	22.5	8.75	7	56.25	15	10	15	14	39	28	143.75	17
		Paul Mangin	8.5	9.25	9	9.5	9	45.25	14	7.75	8	15.75	11	11.75	22.75	11.25	9.75	59.5	11	12	11	14	37	29	141.75	19
		Henri Carsan	8	8.75	8.25	8.75	8.5	42.25	27	3.75	5.5	9.25	6.75	8	14.75	10.25	9.5	43.75	25	8	18	14	40	26	126	27
		Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	274.75	-	-	-	94.75	-	-	125	62	53	-	-	68	100	92	-	-	864.25
4	Luxembourg	Nikol Kanive	8.75	7.5	7.5	7.25	8.75	39.75	28	5.5	7.75	13.25	10.25	11	21.25	7.5	6.5	48.5	21	18	18	18	54	2	142.25	18	782	6.75	788.75
		André Bordaug	9.5	9.5	9.75	9.75	9.5	48	4	7.25	8.75	16	2	11.25	13.25	6.5	6.5	42.25	28	12	18	16	46	15	136.25	20
		Guillaume Hary	8	8	8	6	8	38	30	9	7	16	10.25	11.75	22	7	6	51	20	12	20	14	46	15	135	21
		Charles Behm	6.5	7	6.25	4	6.5	30.25	36	6.25	7	13.25	9.5	9	18.5	7.25	6	45	23	12	20	18	50	6	125.25	28
		Nikolaus Kummer	9.5	8.75	8.5	7	9.75	43.5	22	8.25	7.25	15.5	6	10	16	6.5	5.75	43.75	25	6	15	16	37	29	124.25	30
		Ernes Greiveldinger	7.5	8	8	7	7.5	38	30	4	9.25	13.25	2	11.25	13.25	7.5	6	40	32	10	20	16	46	15	124	31
		Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	239	-	-	-	84.25	-	-	106.25	42.25	36.75	-	-	70	111	98	-	-	782
5	Slovenia	Albin Kandare	8	9	9.25	9	9.25	44.5	17	7.25	9.5	16.75	11.5	11.75	23.25	9.75	8.5	58.25	13	6	20	16	42	24	144.75	16	765.25	6	771.25
		Viktor Murnik  [ sl ]	8	8	8	7.5	7	38.5	29	6.5	8	14.5	10.5	11.25	21.75	9	9	54.25	18	10	20	12	42	24	134.75	22
		Anton Thaler	8	8.75	8.5	9	9.25	43.25	23	4	7	11	8	10.75	18.75	8	7.25	45	23	6	9	12	37	29	125.25	28
		Fran Miklavk	8	7.5	7.75	7.75	6.5	37.5	33	5	6.75	11.75	2	8.5	10.5	8.75	10.5	41.5	29	14	15	14	43	23	122	32
		Vladimir Deklevek	9	9.25	9	8.5	8.75	44.5	17	6	6	12	2	10	12	8.25	8	40.25	31	10	11	14	35	33	119.75	33
		Josip Rihar	9.5	8.75	9	9.5	9.75	46.5	10	4.75	6.5	11.25	2	7	9	8	9	37.25	33	10	15	10	35	33	118.75	34
		Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	256	-	-	-	78.25	-	-	97.25	51.7	52.25	-	-	56	100	78	-	-	765.25
6	Hungary	Nandor Kovats	8.75	9	8.75	9.25	8.75	44.5	17	4.25	8.75	13	2	10.5	12.5	8	7.5	41	30	12	20	16	48	10	133.5	23	727.25	6	733.25
		Lajos Kmetykó	8.75	9	8.75	9.25	8.75	44.5	17	4.25	8.75	13	2	10.5	12.5	8	7.5	41	30	12	20	16	48	10	133.5	23
		János Kmetykó	7.5	7.5	8	7.5	7.5	38	30	4.75	7	11.75	10	8	18	6.25	7.5	43.5	27	16	20	14	50	6	131.5	25
		Lakatos Bela	7	6.5	7.5	7	8	36	34	8.25	10.5	18.75	6.5	8.5	15	5.5	6.75	46	22	16	12	18	46	15	128	26
		Hándor Bak	8.5	9.75	8	7.5	9	42.75	25	2.5	4.5	7	1	10	11	6.75	6	30.75	35	14	12	14	40	27	113.5	35
		Karoly Bajor	6	7	6.5	6	6.75	32.25	35	2.75	4	6.75	1	5.5	6.5	6.5	5	24.75	36	6	10	16	32	36	89	36
		Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	237.50	-	-	-	68.25	-	-	76	41.75	38.25	-	-	84	90	96	-	-	727.25

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All Round

Rank	Athlete	Total
1.	Josef Cada	167.250
2.	Jules Rolland	158.750
3.	Frantisek Erben	157.250

High Bar

Ranlk	Athlete	Total
1.	Georges Charmoille	23.750
1.	Frantisek Erben	23.750
3.	Jules Rolland	23.500

Parallel bars

Rank	Athlete	Total
1.	Joseph Lux	21.750
2.	Josef Cada	20.750
3.	Louis Ségura	20.500
3.	Frantisek Erben	20.500

Pommel Horse

Rank	Athlete	Total
1.	Frantisek Erben	22.250
2.	Jules Rolland	21.000
3.	Karel Sál	20.750

References

1. Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 79.
2. "Historical Medalists - Individual". Archived from the original on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
3. "Historical Medalists - Team". Archived from the original on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
4. Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (2005). 125th Anniversary - The story goes on... FIG. pp. 61–62.
5. History.com, Gymnastics. "1907: Perfect Scores Abound at the World Championships in Prague". Gymnastics-History.com. Retrieved April 14, 2024.