Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Women's vault

Women's vault
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
VenueMessuhalli, Exhibition Hall II
Date22–23 July
Competitors134 from 18 nations
Winning score19.20
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union
1956 →

The women's vault competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics was held at Messuhalli, Exhibition Hall II from 22 to 23 July. It was the first appearance of the event, though vault exercises were part of the women's team all-around events in 1928, 1936, and 1948.[1]

Competition format

The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The four apparatus that would become standard (floor, balance beam, uneven bars, and vault) were all used in the same Games for the first time.

No separate finals were contested.

For each individual exercise, five judges gave scores from 0 to 10 in one-tenth point increments. The top and bottom scores were discarded and the remaining three scores averaged to give the exercise total. Thus, exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.

Each competitor had two tries for each of the compulsory and voluntary vaults, with the better score to count.[2]

Results

Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ekaterina Kalinchuk  Soviet Union 9.70 9.50 19.20
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Maria Gorokhovskaya  Soviet Union 9.63 9.56 19.19
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Galina Minaicheva  Soviet Union 9.73 9.43 19.16
4 Medea Jugeli  Soviet Union 9.73 9.40 19.13
5 Galina Urbanovich  Soviet Union 9.70 9.40 19.10
6 Nina Bocharova  Soviet Union 9.80 9.23 19.03
7 Karin Lindberg  Sweden 9.36 9.43 18.79
7 Helena Rakoczy  Poland 9.53 9.26 18.79
9 Mária Kövi-Zalai  Hungary 9.46 9.30 18.76
9 Lidia Pitteri  Italy 9.50 9.23 18.73
11 Edit Perényi-Weckinger  Hungary 9.33 9.30 18.63
12 Pelageya Danilova  Soviet Union 9.46 9.16 18.62
13 Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles  Hungary 9.30 9.30 18.60
14 Licia Macchini  Italy 9.43 9.16 18.59
14 Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling  Sweden 9.36 9.23 18.59
16 Olga Tass  Hungary 9.26 9.30 18.56
16 Miranda Cicognani  Italy 9.43 9.13 18.56
18 Stefania Reindl  Poland 9.46 9.00 18.46
18 Stefania Świerzy  Poland 9.53 8.93 18.46
20 Elisabeth Ostermeyer  Germany 9.30 9.13 18.43
20 Stela Perin  Romania 9.43 9.00 18.43
22 Margit Korondi  Hungary 9.10 9.30 18.40
23 Galina Shamrai  Soviet Union 9.03 9.36 18.39
23 Andrea Bodó  Hungary 9.23 9.16 18.39
25 Vasilka Stancheva  Bulgaria 9.40 8.96 18.36
26 Evy Berggren  Sweden 9.10 9.20 18.30
27 Saltirka Spasova-Tarpova  Bulgaria 9.33 8.96 18.29
27 Brigitte Kiesler  Germany 9.13 9.16 18.29
27 Wolfgard Voß  Germany 9.13 9.16 18.29
30 Hanna Grages  Germany 9.23 9.03 18.26
31 Göta Pettersson  Sweden 9.03 9.20 18.23
31 Huiberdina Krul-van der Nolk van Gogh  Netherlands 9.13 9.10 18.23
33 Eva Věchtová  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.20 18.20
33 Božena Srncová  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.20 18.20
35 Jana Rabasová  Czechoslovakia 9.10 9.06 18.16
35 Liliana Scaricabarozzi  Italy 9.30 8.86 18.16
35 Gun Röring  Sweden 9.13 9.03 18.16
38 Irma Walther  Germany 9.20 8.93 18.13
38 Matylda Šínová  Czechoslovakia 9.40 8.73 18.13
40 Elisabetta Durelli  Italy 9.36 8.76 18.12
41 Ágnes Keleti  Hungary 8.90 9.20 18.10
41 Luciana Reali  Italy 9.20 8.90 18.10
43 Grazia Bozzo  Italy 9.03 9.06 18.09
44 Tsvetanka Stancheva  Bulgaria 9.16 8.90 18.06
44 Alena Chadimová  Czechoslovakia 9.23 8.83 18.06
44 Ida Kadlec  Austria 8.93 9.13 18.06
44 Hilde Koop  Germany 9.03 9.03 18.06
43 Penka Prisadashka  Bulgaria 9.30 8.76 18.06
49 Alena Reichová  Czechoslovakia 9.10 8.93 18.03
49 Ivanka Dolzheva  Bulgaria 9.20 8.83 18.03
49 Tanja Žutić  Yugoslavia 9.10 8.66 18.03
52 Ingrid Sandahl  Sweden 8.80 9.20 18.00
53 Lenie Gerrietsen  Netherlands 8.93 9.06 17.99
54 Pat Hirst  Great Britain 8.93 9.03 17.96
54 Nada Spasić  Yugoslavia 9.10 8.86 17.96
54 Marjorie Raistrick  Great Britain 9.10 8.86 17.96
57 Hana Bobková  Czechoslovakia 8.93 9.00 17.93
57 Renata Bianchi  Italy 9.26 8.66 17.92
58 Ruth Topalian  United States 8.96 8.96 17.92
58 Alexandra Lemoine  France 9.16 8.76 17.92
61 Sonja Rožman  Yugoslavia 8.93 8.96 17.89
62 Ginette Durand  France 8.86 8.96 17.82
62 Arja Lehtinen  Finland 8.86 8.96 17.82
64 Vappu Salonen  Finland 8.96 8.83 17.79
65 Marian Barone  United States 8.90 8.86 17.76
65 Eveline Slavici  Romania 9.36 8.40 17.76
65 Gertrude Winnige-Barosch  Austria 9.10 8.66 17.76
65 Hjördis Nordin  Sweden 8.73 9.03 17.76
65 Norveig Karlsen  Norway 8.93 8.83 17.76
70 Gwynedd Lewis-Lingard  Great Britain 9.13 8.60 17.73
71 Inge Sedlmaier  Germany 9.16 8.56 17.72
72 Irén Daruházi-Karcsics  Hungary 8.66 9.03 17.69
73 Trude Gollner-Kolar  Austria 8.80 8.86 17.66
73 Irene Hirst  Great Britain 8.93 8.70 17.63
74 Grethe Werner  Norway 8.93 8.70 17.63
76 Věra Vančurová  Czechoslovakia 9.16 8.46 17.62
76 Margo Morgan  Great Britain 8.90 8.63 17.53
78 Nanny Simon  Netherlands 8.90 8.60 17.50
79 Dorota Horzonek-Jokiel  Poland 9.13 8.36 17.49
79 Cissy Davies  Great Britain 8.86 8.63 17.49
81 Clara Schroth-Lomady  United States 8.63 8.83 17.46
81 Valerie Mullins  Great Britain 8.83 8.63 17.46
83 Raili Tuominen-Hämäläinen  Finland 8.60 8.83 17.43
84 Irène Pittelioen  France 8.43 8.96 17.39
84 Anka Drinić  Yugoslavia 8.73 8.93 17.39
86 Honorata Marcińczak  Poland 8.96 8.40 17.36
86 Tootje Selbach  Netherlands 8.36 9.00 17.36
86 Ada Smolnikar  Yugoslavia 8.73 8.63 17.36
86 Dália da Cunha-Sammer  Portugal 8.33 9.03 17.36
86 Maria Laura Amorim  Portugal 8.80 8.56 17.36
91 Helga Bîrsan  Romania 9.06 8.26 17.32
91 Elisabeta Abrudeanu  Romania 9.06 8.26 17.32
93 Zofia Kowalczyk  Poland 8.96 8.33 17.29
94 Ileana Gyarfaş  Romania 8.70 8.56 17.26
94 Margaret Thomas-Neale  Great Britain 8.83 8.43 17.26
96 Vanja Blomberg  Sweden 8.23 9.00 17.23
96 Ruth Grulkowski  United States 8.90 8.30 17.20
98 Hedwig Traindl  Austria 8.66 8.53 17.19
98 Colette Hué  France 8.86 8.33 17.19
100 Yordanka Yovkova  Bulgaria 9.13 8.03 17.16
101 Gertrude Gries  Austria 8.40 8.66 17.06
101 Dorothy Dalton  United States 8.46 8.66 17.06
103 Annie Ros  Netherlands 8.00 8.93 16.93
104 Bergljot Sandvik-Johansen  Norway 8.53 8.36 16.89
105 Colette Fanara  France 8.76 8.10 16.86
106 Jo Cox-Ladru  Netherlands 8.03 8.80 16.83
107 Gerti Fesl  Austria 8.96 7.80 16.76
108 Rayna Grigorova  Bulgaria 8.80 7.93 16.73
109 Madeleine Jouffroy  France 9.00 7.70 16.70
101 Marija Ivandekić  Yugoslavia 8.40 8.16 16.56
111 Olga Göllner  Romania 8.13 8.40 16.53
112 Liliane Montagne  France 8.73 7.70 16.43
113 Pirkko Vilppunen  Finland 8.16 8.26 16.42
114 Marie Hoesly  United States 7.73 8.60 16.33
115 Olga Munteanu  Romania 8.16 8.06 16.22
116 Raili Hoviniemi  Finland 7.90 8.30 16.20
117 Lydia Zeitlhofer  Germany 7.50 8.63 16.13
118 Edeltraud Schramm  Austria 7.36 8.40 15.76
118 Maila Nisula  Finland 7.86 7.90 15.76
120 Milica Rožman  Yugoslavia 6.83 8.83 15.66
121 Urszula Łukomska  Poland 7.36 8.26 15.62
121 Pirkko Pyykönen  Finland 7.76 7.86 15.62
123 Hildegard Grill  Austria 7.86 7.73 15.59
124 Jeanette Vogelbacher  France 8.00 7.56 15.56
125 Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska  Poland 7.33 7.96 15.29
126 Toetie Selbach  Netherlands 7.36 7.90 15.26
127 Raija Simola  Finland 8.16 6.73 14.89
128 Cootje van Kampen-Tonneman  Netherlands 7.26 6.33 13.59
129 Stoyanka Angelova  Bulgaria 5.93 7.40 13.33
130 Tereza Kočiš  Yugoslavia 0.00 9.10 9.10
131 Meta Elste  United States 8.66 8.66
132 Teofila Băiașu  Romania - 8.26 8.26
133 Natália Silva  Portugal 0.00 7.56 7.56
134 Doris Kirkman  United States 7.10 7.10

References

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Women's Horse Vault". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 442.