1913 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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1913 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Location Flag of France.svg Paris, France
  1911
1922  

The 6th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Paris, France, on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the "Union des Societes des Gymnastique de France", on November 16, 1913. [1] [2] [3] [4] The tournament was held at the Voltaire gymnasium on Rue Japy. [5]

Contents

The championships were purely team events without any individual awards. Individual all-round scores were only introduced in 1922, with the first all-round individual men's champion being recognised in that year. Individual apparatus scores were introduced subsequently. [6] As such no actual individual medals were awarded at these games, the below rankings were conferred retrospectively. [7]

Conversely, please note that 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) [8] [9] and 6th (1913) [10] [11] 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 [12] and USAG [13] (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. [14] [12] :62 (In any event, all of these data sources - the Slovenian records, the Gymnastics-History.com's reproduced Czech records, the FIG's records, and the USAG's records - have continually failed to recognize the apparent original human error with respect to the discrepancy between Vidal's and Mangin's scores and rankings. In light of that, all of these data sources remain completely consistent, in terms of the data that they do present, with respect to the results of the pre-WWI editions of these 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, [15] a brief biographical treatment containing a photograph of multiple medals belonging to 1911 World All-Around Champion Ferdinand Steiner on the website of an alma mater of his, the Jiří Wolkera Gymnasium  [ cs ], shows multiple medals with the words "Concorso Ginnastico Internazionale 1911 Torino" embossed onto them. [16] This brief biographical treatment was published at least as far back as 14 January 2017 on the official [17] Facebook website of his alma mater in a photograph album, begun on 29 November 2016, containing other such brief biographical treatments of its notable alumni. [18] 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 awarded contemporaneously.

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy  (ITA)5128
2Flag of France.svg  France  (FRA)4307
3Flag of Bohemia.svg  Bohemia  (BOH)2125
4Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium  (BEL)0011
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg  (LUX)0011
Totals (5 entries)115622
Note

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

Team Competition

RankNationGymnastPreliminaries EventsGymnastics EventsAthletics EventsIndividual Grand TotalsTeam Scores
Preliminaries Barres paralleles.svg Barre fixe.svg Cheval d'arcon.svg Gymnastique aux anneaux.svg Gymnastics Events TotalsGymnastics Events Totals RankLong JumpRope climbWeight Lifting100 metersAthletics TotalsAthletics Totals RankGrand TotalsGrand Totals RankTeam Exercise Grand TotalsTeam BehaviorFinal Grand Totals
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Bohemia.svg  Bohemia Karel Starý 28.51819.251917.757461010109391141.52794.75 9.75804.50
Josef Sýkora 29.518.2519.518.2516.2572.25119109.755.534.2541363
Josef Čada 2619201814.571.513910106353132.56
Ferdinand Steiner 28.517.2518.7518167017710105.532.571319
Robert Pražák 2917.518.2516.517.75701771093.529.515128.511
Václav Douda 28.518.7519.2518.517.557466.2539.53.522.2525124.7514
Totals: 170108.75115108.7599.75--48.255358.2533--794.75-
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of France.svg  France Marco Torrès 29.7519.252019.2519.7578.2517101073451421768.25 9.5777.75
?? Marquelet 29.7517.751718.2517.7570.75159108.5633.56131.258
Laurent Grech 26.518.51818.2519.7574.556.258105.529.7514130.7510
?? Ben-Sadoun 25.251718.2515.516.2567261041073110123.2516
?? Aubry 2818.7515.2519.2516.2569.5216.253.5103.523.2521120.7519
Louis Ségura 2518.518.518.251873.2593.55.59.53.52226120.2520
Totals: 161.50109.75107108.75107.75--42415832.5--768.25-
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Italy.svg  Italy Giorgio Zampori 302016.519.7519.7576296.510429.515135.54762.75 9.25772.25
Guido Romano 27.7519.2518.251719.574695.5105.53012131.757
Pietro Bianchi (gymnast) 2318.751918.2519.575.5386.5105.53012128.511
Osvaldo Palazzi 2118.519.519.2518.2575.53106.510531.5912813
Guido Boni 25.5206.518.519.7564.753196.510732.57122.7517
Paolo Salvi 24.519.251817.517.572.25115.5010419.530116.2526
Totals: 151.75115.7597.75110.25114.252--50.5031.506031--762.75-
4Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium Julianus Wagemans 28.75161917.7515.25682576.510427.515124.2515714 9.25723.25
?? Patteson 25.251718.7517.751669.521210103.525.518120.2520
?? Kempeneers 25.516.519.515.518.2569.75194.755.59.54.524.2520119.522
?? Dumont 2716.517.517.751869.75196.252.510422.7524119.523
?? Labeen 27171818.517.571143.5210217.532115.528
?? De Mol 25.2517.2517.5141866.752728103232211529
Totals: 158.75100.25110.25101.25103--25.534.559.521--714-
5Flag of Slovenia.svg  Slovenia Stane Vidmar 27.251718.251916.570.75151010105.535.52133.55696.74 9.75706.5
?? Jerin 28.2515181015.2558.25347109.5430.51111725
Fran Míklavc 2916.2518.51514.564.25333.56.5101.521.527114.7530
?? Rabic 3016.7518.251316.2564.253245.510120.528114.7530
?? Jezeršek 2714.517.7515.517.7565.5304.752100.517.2533109.7533
?? Sever 27.516.517.2517.514.75662922.259013.2535106.7534
Totals: 169961089095--31.2530.558.512.5--696.75-
6Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Pierre Hentges 2619.51816.2519.2573105.54103.5232212218659.25 9668.25
Emile Lanners 25.517.516.751619.2569.5213.55.5101.520.528119.524
Jean-Pierre Thommes 24.2518.51713.517.566.52881.5105.52519115.7527
Jean-Baptiste Horn 2618.7516.251618692441103.518.531113.532
Nicolas Adam 241813.7513.512.557.753520.59.750.512.753694.535
André Bordang 21.751714915.555.5364.75010216.75349436
Totals: 151.50109.2595.7584.25102--27.7512.559.7516.5--659.25-

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Individual all-around

RankNationalityAthleteTotal
1
Flag of France.svg  France Marco Torrès 142,000
2
Flag of Bohemia.svg  Bohemia Karel Stary 141,500
3
Flag of Bohemia.svg  Bohemia Josef Sykora 136,500

Pommel horse

RankNationalityAthleteTotal
1
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Giorgio Zampori 19,750
2
Flag of France.svg  France Marco Torrès 19,250
Flag of France.svg  France N. Aubry 19,250
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Osvaldo Palazzi 19,250

Rings

RankNationalityAthleteTotal
1
Flag of France.svg  France Laurent Grech 19,750
Flag of France.svg  France Marco Torrès 19,750
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Giorgio Zampori 19,750
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Guido Boni 19,750

Parallel bars

RankNationalityAthleteTotal
1
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Giorgio Zampori 20,000
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Guido Boni 20,000
3
Flag of Luxembourg.svg  Luxembourg Pierre Hentges 19,500

Horizontal bar

RankNationalityAthleteTotal
1
Flag of France.svg  France Marco Torrès 20,000
Flag of Bohemia.svg  Bohemia Josef Cada 20,000
3
Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium ?? Kempeneers 19,500
Flag of Italy (1861-1946).svg  Italy Osvaldo Palazzi 19,500
Flag of Bohemia.svg  Bohemia Josef Sykora 19,500

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