Czechoslovakia at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Czechoslovakia at the
World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Czechoslovakia at the; World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
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Also competed as	Bohemia
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Medals	Gold39Silver37Bronze31Total107

Last updated January 17, 2026

Czechoslovak men first competed at the 1907 World Championships as Bohemia.^[1]^[2] They started competing as Czechoslovakia at the 1922 World Championships. Women didn't start competing at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships until 1934, where the Czechoslovak women's team won gold.^[3] At the start of 1993 Czechoslovakia split into two separate nations: the Czech Republic and Slovakia.^[4]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Year	Event
Competing as Bohemia
Gold	Josef Čada, František Erben, Bohumil Honzátko, Karel Sal, Josef Seidl, Karel Starý	1907 Prague	Men's team
Gold	Josef Čada		Men's all-around
Bronze	František Erben		Men's all-around
Gold	František Erben		Men's pommel horse
Bronze	Karel Sal		Men's pommel horse
Silver	Josef Čada		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	František Erben		Men's parallel bars
Gold	František Erben		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	Josef Čada, František Erben, František Machovský, František Mráček, Karel Starý, Ferdinand Steiner	1909 Luxembourg	Men's team
Silver	Josef Čada		Men's all-around
Bronze	František Erben		Men's rings
Silver	Josef Čada		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Josef Čada		Men's horizontal bar
Silver	František Erben		Men's horizontal bar
Gold	Josef Čada, František Erben, Karel Pitl, Karel Starý, Ferdinand Steiner, Svatopluk Svoboda	1911 Turin	Men's team
Gold	Ferdinand Steiner		Men's all-around
Silver	Josef Čada
Bronze	Karel Starý
Bronze	Svatopluk Svoboda
Gold	Ferdinand Steiner		Men's rings
Bronze	Ferdinand Steiner		Men's parallel bars
Gold	Josef Čada		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Svatopluk Svoboda		Men's horizontal bar
Gold	Josef Čada, Václav Donda, Robert Prazák, Karel Starý, Ferdinand Steiner, Josef Sykora	1913 Paris	Men's team
Silver	Karel Starý		Men's all-around
Bronze	Josef Sykora		Men's all-around
Gold	Josef Čada		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Josef Sykora		Men's horizontal bar
Competing as Czechoslovakia
Gold	Stanislav Indruch, Miroslav Karásek, Miroslav Klinger, Josef Malý, František Pecháček, František Vaněček	1922 Ljubljana	Men's team
Gold	František Pecháček		Men's all-around
Gold	Miroslav Klinger		Men's pommel horse
Silver	Stanislav Indruch		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Joseph Maly		Men's rings
Gold	Miroslav Karásek		Men's rings
Silver	Miroslav Klinger		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Stanislav Indruch		Men's parallel bars
Gold	Miroslav Klinger		Men's horizontal bar
Gold	Josef Effenberger, Jan Gajdoš, Jan Karafiát, František Pecháček, Ladislav Riessner, Bedřich Šupčík, Ladislav Vácha, Václav Veselý	1926 Lyon	Men's team
Silver	Josef Effenberger		Men's all-around
Bronze	Ladislav Vácha		Men's all-around
Gold	Jan Karafiát		Men's pommel horse
Silver	Jan Gajdoš
Bronze	Ladislav Vácha
Silver	Ladislav Vácha		Men's rings
Bronze	Bedřich Šupčík		Men's rings
Gold	Ladislav Vácha		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Jan Gajdoš		Men's parallel bars
Bronze	Ladislav Vácha		Men's horizontal bar
Gold	Josef Effenberger, Jan Gajdoš, Emanuel Löffler, Julius Rybak, Bedřich Šupčík, Ladislav Tikal, Jindřich Tintěra, Ladislav Vácha	1930 Luxembourg	Men's team
Silver	Jan Gajdoš		Men's all-around
Bronze	Emanuel Löffler		Men's all-around
Silver	Emanuel Löffler		Men's floor exercise
Bronze	Jan Gajdoš		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Emanuel Löffler		Men's rings
Silver	Bedřich Šupčík
Bronze	Jan Gajdoš
Bronze	Ladislav Vácha		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Jaroslav Baroch, Jan Gajdoš, Alois Hudec, Jaroslav Kollinger, Emanuel Löffler, Jan Sládek, Ladislav Tikal, Jindřich Tintěra	1934 Budapest	Men's team
Gold	Maria Bajerová, Vlasta Děkanová, Vlasta Foltová, Eleonora Hajková, Vlasta Jarusková, Zdeňka Veřmiřovská		Women's team
Bronze	Emanuel Löffler		Men's all-around
Gold	Vlasta Děkanová		Women's all-around
Bronze	Jan Sládek		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Alois Hudec		Men's rings
Bronze	Jaroslav Kollinger		Men's rings
Gold	Jan Gajdoš, Gustav Hrubý, Alois Hudec, Emanuel Löffler, Vratislav Petráček, Jan Sládek, Jindřich Tintěra	1938 Prague	Men's team
Gold	Vlasta Děkanová, Božena Dobešová, Marie Hendrychová, Anna Nezerpová, Matylda Pálfyová, Marie Skálová, Zdeňka Veřmiřovská		Women's team
Gold	Jan Gajdoš		Men's all-around
Silver	Jan Sládek		Men's all-around
Gold	Vlasta Děkanová		Women's all-around
Silver	Zdeňka Veřmiřovská
Bronze	Matylda Pálfyová
Gold	Jan Gajdoš		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Alois Hudec		Men's floor exercise
Silver	Vratislav Petráček		Men's pommel horse
Gold	Alois Hudec		Men's rings
Bronze	Vratislav Petráček		Men's rings
Silver	Alois Hudec		Men's parallel bars
Silver	Alois Hudec		Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Eva Bosáková, Miroslava Brdičková, Alena Chadimová, Věra Drazdíková, Zdeňka Lišková, Anna Marejková, Alena Reichová, Věra Vančurová	1954 Rome	Women's team
Silver	Eva Bosáková		Women's all-around
Gold	Leo Sotorník		Men's vault
Silver	Eva Bosáková		Women's balance beam
Silver	Eva Bosáková		Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Jaroslav Bím, Ferdinand Daniš, Pavel Gajdoš, Karel Klečka, Jindřich Mikulec, Josef Škvor	1958 Moscow	Men's team
Silver	Eva Bosáková, Věra Čáslavská, Anna Marejková, Matylda Matoušková, Ludmila Švédová, Adolfína Tkačíková		Women's team
Silver	Eva Bosáková		Women's all-around
Silver	Eva Bosáková		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Eva Bosáková		Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Pavel Gajdoš, Karel Klečka, Přemysl Krbec, Václav Kubíčka, Ladislav Pazdera, Jaroslav Šťastný	1962 Prague	Men's team
Silver	Eva Bosáková, Věra Čáslavská, Libuse Cmiralova, Hana Růžičková, Ludmila Švédová, Adolfína Tkačíková		Women's team
Silver	Věra Čáslavská		Women's all-around
Gold	Věra Čáslavská		Women's vault
Silver	Eva Bosáková		Women's uneven bars
Gold	Přemysl Krbec		Men's vault
Gold	Eva Bosáková		Women's balance beam
Bronze	Věra Čáslavská		Women's floor exercise
Gold	Věra Čáslavská, Jaroslava Sedláčková, Marianna Krajčírová, Jana Kubičková, Bohumila Řimnáčová, Jindra Košťálová	1966 Dortmund	Women's team
Gold	Věra Čáslavská		Women's all-around
Gold	Věra Čáslavská		Women's vault
Silver	Věra Čáslavská		Women's balance beam
Silver	Věra Čáslavská		Women's floor exercise
Bronze	Soňa Brázdová, Luba Krasna, Hana Lišková, Marianna Némethová-Krajčírová, Bohumila Řimnáčová, Marcella Váchová	1970 Ljubljana	Women's team
Bronze	Božena Perdykulová	1974 Varna	Women's vault
Gold	Věra Černá	1979 Fort Worth	Women's balance beam
Silver	Hana Říčná	1983 Budapest	Women's balance beam
Bronze	Hana Říčná	1985 Montreal	Women's uneven bars

Medal tables

By gender

By event


Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Men's team	7	2	2	11
Men's rings	6	2	5	13
Men's individual all-around	4	6	7	17
Men's horizontal bar	4	3	3	10
Women's individual all-around	3	4	1	8
Men's pommel horse	3	3	4	10
Women's team	3	2	2	7
Women's balance beam	2	3	0	5
Women's vault	2	0	1	3
Men's vault	2	0	0	2
Men's parallel bars	1	6	3	10
Women's floor exercise	1	2	1	4
Men's floor exercise	1	2	0	3
Women's uneven bars	0	2	1	3

References

↑ Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 79.
↑ "1907: Perfect Scores Abound at the World Championships in Prague". Gymnastics History. 2 May 2022.
↑ "1934: Women Compete at the World Championships for the First Time". Gymnastics History. 16 March 2022.
↑ "Czechoslovakia Breaks in Two, To Wide Regret". The New York Times . 1 January 1993.

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[FIG_100_Year_Anniversary-1] Huguenin, Andre. 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 (PDF). Translated by Unger, Beatrice. International Gymnastics Federation. p. 79.

[2] "1907: Perfect Scores Abound at the World Championships in Prague". Gymnastics History. 2 May 2022.

[3] "1934: Women Compete at the World Championships for the First Time". Gymnastics History. 16 March 2022.

[4] "Czechoslovakia Breaks in Two, To Wide Regret". The New York Times . 1 January 1993.

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