1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Location Budapest, Hungary

The 10th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Hungarian Gymnastics Federation,[1]: 46 : 84  on June 1–2, 1934.[1]: 84 

It was the first World Championships with a women's segment to the competition.[1]: 45 

It was also the first world championships at which individual medals for apparatus were given.[2]

Conversely, 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)[3][4] and 6th (1913)[5][6] 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[7] and USAG[8] (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.[9][7]: 62 

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,[10] a pictoral presentation of multiple medals belonging to 1911 World All-Around Champion Ferdinand Steiner on the website of his school[11] shows medals, not only the team gold he won at that competition, that read “Concorso Ginnastico Internazionale 1911 Torino”.[12] 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 rewarded contemporaneously.

Medals

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Switzerland (SUI)66113
2 Czechoslovakia (TCH)3137
3 Germany (GER)1124
4 Hungary (HUN)0202
5 Italy (ITA)0112
6 Poland (POL)0022
7 Luxembourg (LUX)0011
Totals (7 entries)10111031

Men

Team final

Medal Country Points
 Switzerland 787.30
 Czechoslovakia 772.90
Germany 769.50
4
 Italy 761.35
5
  Hungary 757.40
6
  Finland 754.10
7
  France 730.40
8
  Luxembourg 623.10
9
  Belgium 595.35
10
  Poland 589.80
11
  Netherlands 585.80
12
  Bulgaria 555.30
13
  Mexico 427.15

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All-around

Medal Country Gymnast Points
 Switzerland Eugen Mack 138.95
Italy Romeo Neri 137.75
 Czechoslovakia Emanuel Löffler 136.15
4
  Finland Heikki Savolainen 135.75
5
  Czechoslovakia Jan Sládek 134.90
6
  Czechoslovakia Jan Gajdoš 133.15
7
  Switzerland Georges Miez 132.45
8
  Finland Martti Uosikkinen 131.95
9 (tie)
  Hungary József Sarlós 131.90
9 (tie)
  East Germany Ernst Winter 131.90
11
  East Germany Franz Beckert 131.85
12
  Switzerland Josef Walter 130.95

Apparatus

Floor exercise

Medal Country Gymnast Points
 Switzerland Georges Miez 18.95
 Switzerland Eugen Mack 18.35
Germany Kurt Krötzsch 18.25
4
  Switzerland Josef Walter 18.10
5
  Hungary Lajos Tóth 18.05
6
 Germany Heinz Sandrock 18.10

Pommel horse

Medal Country Gymnast Points
 Switzerland Eugen Mack 19.15
 Switzerland Eduard Steinemann 18.90
 Czechoslovakia Jan Sládek 18.75
4
  Italy Omero Bonoli 18.70
5
  Italy Romeo Neri 18.60
6
  Finland Ilmari Pakarinen 18.10

Rings

Medal Country Gymnast Points
 Czechoslovakia Alois Hudec 19.45
 Switzerland Eugen Mack 19.00
(tie)  Czechoslovakia Jaroslav Kolinger 18.90
(tie)  Luxembourg Mathias Logelin 18.90
5
  Hungary József Sarlós 18.75
6
  Luxembourg Jey Kugeler 18.70

Vault

Medal Country Gymnast Points
 Switzerland Eugen Mack 20.00
 Switzerland Eduard Steinemann 19.40
 Czechoslovakia Jan Sládek 19.20
4
  Switzerland Josef Walter 19.05
5
 Italy Savino Guglielmetti 19.00
6
  Hungary Lajos Tóth 18.95

Parallel bars

Medal Country Gymnast Points
 Switzerland Eugen Mack 19.75
 Switzerland Josef Walter 19.25
 Switzerland Walter Bach 19.20
4
  Finland Heikki Savolainen 18.90
5 (tie)
 Italy Romeo Neri 18.80
5 (tie)
  Finland Eino Tukiainen 18.80

Horizontal bar

Medal Country Gymnast Points
Germany Ernst Winter 19.65
 Switzerland Georges Miez 19.45
Germany Heinz Sandrock 19.45
4
  Switzerland Eugen Mack 19.40
5
  Finland Heikki Savolainen 19.15
6 (tie)
 Germany Walter Steffens 19.10
  • A few discrepancies exist in data for the results from these World Championships.[14][15][13]

Due to the existence of those discrepancies, ultimately a later source, that claimed that those discrepancies were the results of computation errors[16] and that was a more thorough source of information with better sourcing to original documents, was used for the results listed in this edit.

Women

This first ever women's competition at a World Artistic Gymnastics Championships consisted of a competitive field including five countries and 40 individual competitors.[17]

Rank Nation Gymnast Individual results Group exercises Final Team totals
Gymnastics events Athletics events Individual grand totals Individual grand totals rank Group exercises Final Team totals
Beam rank Bars* Bars rank Vault rank Gymnastics Events Totals Gymnastics Events Totals Rank 60 meters 60 meters rank Long jump Long jump rank Javelin Javelin rank Athletics totals Athletics totals rank Individual grand totals Individual grand totals rank Entrance Preliminary Ensemble Partner Exercises Rhythmic or National Dance Rest Exercises Additional Exercises Punctuality Time Deductions Final team totals
 Czechoslovakia Vlasta Děkanová 9.07 6 13.05 9 8.16 5 30.28 3 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 60.28 1 6.46 38.53 23.39 42.18 8.93 111.20 180.00 - 738.06
Zdeňka Veřmiřovská 9.10 4 13.65 3 8.10 6 30.85 2 10.00 1 10.00 1 6.80 9 26.80 7 57.65 5
Vlasta Foltová 8.73 11 13.50 5 8.00 7 30.23 4 10.00 1 10.00 1 3.20 23 23.20 13 53.43 10
Nora Hájková 7.96 15 12.67 10 7.56 8 28.19 11 10.00 1 10.00 1 4.80 13 24.80 10 52.99 11
Jaroslava Bajerová 9.07 6 11.85 17 8.30 4 29.22 8 8.50 19 9.00 14 5.00 12 22.50 15 51.72 12
Vlasta Jarůšková 9.07 6 12.37 14 6.66 16 28.10 12 10.00 1 9.00 14 4.20 18 23.20 13 51.30 13
Milena Šebková 7.93 16 13.35 6 6.93 14 28.21 10 9.50 15 7.00 16 3.40 21 19.90 18 48.11 15
Anna Hřebřinová 7.86 18 5.15 38 6.66 16 19.67 26 10.00 1 10.00 1 8.40 5 28.40 5 48.07 16
Totals: 53.00 - 77.09 - 46.78 - - - 58.50 - 58.00 - 34.00 - - - 327.37
 Hungary Margit Kalocsai 9.10 4 12.15 16 8.33 3 29.58 6 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 59.58 2 7.83 35.98 22.99 39.66 7.66 102.79 180.00 - 734.40
Anna Kael 6.66 23 12.60 11 8.83 2 28.09 13 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 58.09 4
Lenke Balkanji 9.00 9 11.18 20 6.50 18 26.68 17 10.00 1 10.00 1 10.00 1 30.00 1 56.68 6
Jenőné Varga 8.76 10 13.20 8 7.33 9 29.29 7 10.00 1 10.00 1 5.800 11 25.80 9 55.09 7
Judit Tóth 9.20 3 13.65 3 9.33 1 32.18 1 9.50 15 10.00 1 2.60 24 22.10 16 54.28 8
Mária Munkácsi 8.50 13 11.70 18 7.17 12 27.37 15 10.00 1 10.00 1 6.40 10 26.40 8 53.77 9
?? Kemenes 8.36 14 11.10 21 7.33 9 26.79 16 8.50 19 7.00 16 8.00 6 23.50 12 50.29 14
Gabriella Mészáros 9.60 1 11.55 19 7.33 9 28.48 9 8.50 19 3.00 26 4.80 13 16.30 20 44.78 18
Totals: 51.22 - 74.48 - 47.49 - - - 59.50 - 60.00 - 44.80 - - - 337.49
 Poland Janina Skirlińska 9.23 2 13.35 6 7.07 13 29.65 5 10.00 1 10.00 1 8.00 6 28.00 6 58.65 3 7.60 35.24 21.17 31.79 7.06 87.99 180.00 - 629.48
?? Pawłowska 7.77 19 9.15 29 5.67 23 22.59 23 10.00 1 10.00 1 4.80 13 24.80 11 47.39 17
?? Dylewska 7.06 22 12.23 15 6.37 20 25.66 18 7.00 23 5.00 20 2.60 24 14.60 21 40.26 18
?? Szymowa 4.77 33 12.45 13 6.40 19 23.62 21 5.50 32 3.00 26 8.00 6 16.50 19 40.12 20
Klara Sierońska 7.93 16 13.95 1 6.13 22 28.01 14 6.00 28 0.00 33 3.60 19 9.60 28 37.61 22
?? Mikulska 7.60 20 12.60 11 5.00 29 25.20 19 6.00 28 0.00 33 3.40 21 9.40 29 34.60 23
?? Lubańska 8.60 12 9.60 24 4.67 34 22.87 22 7.00 23 0.00 33 3.60 19 10.60 27 33.47 24
?? Wisłocka 5.40 25 13.88 2 5.50 24 24.78 20 3.50 36 0.00 33 4.60 16 8.10 30 32.88 25
Totals: 44.36 - 73.73 - 36.64 - - - 44.50 - 28.00 - 30.40 - - - 258.63
4  France ?? Ramos 5.06 28 9.07 31 4.33 35 18.46 33 10.00 1 6.00 19 4.40 17 20.40 17 38.86 21 8.30 35.84 19.39 26.65 4.33 75.33 180.00 (15.00) 521.31
?? Esposito 3.00 39 9.30 27 4.96 32 17.26 36 8.50 19 5.00 20 1.00 28 14.50 22 31.76 26
?? Montané 5.96 24 9.22 28 3.66 39 18.84 30 6.00 28 4.00 23 1.80 26 11.80 25 30.64 27
?? Paon 3.86 36 8.92 33 4.26 37 17.04 37 9.00 18 4.00 23 0.20 29 13.20 23 30.24 28
?? Tarillon 1.93 40 9.90 23 5.50 24 17.33 35 9.50 15 2.00 28 0.00 30 11.50 26 28.83 30
?? Bourrier 5.36 26 9.45 26 4.33 35 19.14 28 7.00 23 0.00 33 0.00 30 7.00 34 26.14 34
?? Allain 3.80 37 8.85 34 3.33 40 15.98 38 4.00 35 1.00 32 0.00 30 5.00 37 20.98 38
?? Guenerin 3.50 38 9.00 32 5.00 29 17.50 34 0.00 40 0.00 33 0.00 30 0.00 40 17.50 39
Totals: 25.17 - 55.86 - 27.04 - - - 50.00 - 21.00 - 7.40 - - - 186.47
5  Bulgaria ?? Taraktsien 7.60 20 8.55 36 5.33 28 21.48 24 6.00 28 2.00 28 0.00 30 8.00 31 29.48 29 6.60 30.06 15.49 21.24 0.00 69.39 180.00 481.16
?? Makedonska 4.83 30 3.75 39 6.36 21 14.94 39 7.00 23 5.00 20 0.00 30 12.00 24 26.94 31
?? Kraeva 4.16 35 10.12 22 5.00 29 19.28 27 5.50 32 2.00 28 0.00 30 7.50 32 26.78 32
?? Parova 5.23 27 9.15 29 4.26 37 18.64 32 3.50 36 4.00 23 0.00 30 7.50 32 26.14 33
?? Antipova 4.63 34 8.77 35 5.33 27 18.73 31 7.00 23 0.00 33 0.00 30 7.00 34 25.73 35
?? Gatcseva 4.83 30 7.35 37 6.73 15 18.91 29 3.00 38 0.00 33 1.40 27 4.40 38 23.31 36
?? Kazandjeva 4.93 29 9.60 24 5.40 26 19.93 25 1.50 39 0.00 33 0.00 30 1.50 39 21.43 37
?? Barcowa 4.80 32 0.00 40 4.86 33 9.66 40 5.00 34 2.00 28 0.00 30 7.00 34 16.66 40
Totals: 31.28 - 47.69 - 33.01 - - - 32.00 - 13.00 - 1.40 - - - 158.38

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  • = Some teams competed on the parallel bars whereas others competed on the uneven bars.

• The scores of the two lowest overall scorers from each team were dropped from each event to arrive at the team total for each event.

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