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Horse Vault, Men

Date	12 – 13 August 1948 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington, London
Participants	120 from 16 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Paavo Aaltonen had won a bronze medal in the individual all-around in London, but won gold medals in both the horse vault and pommelled horse. Added to his team gold medal, this gave Aaltonen four medals in 1948 gymnastics. He would return in 1952 at Helsinki and win a fifth medal, bronze in team all-around. His teammate in London, Olavi Rove, won the silver in the vault, his only individual medal. The bronze was a three-way tie between Hungarians Ferenc Pataki and János Mogyorósi-Klencs, who had won gold and silver, respectively, in the floor exercise, and Czechoslovak Leo Sotorník.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Compulsory Exercise Points	Optional Exercise Points
1	65	Paavo Aaltonen	FIN	39.10	19.60	19.50	Gold
2	69	Olavi Rove	FIN	39.00	19.60	19.40	Silver
=3	33	Leo Sotorník	TCH	38.50	19.10	19.40	Bronze
=3	90	Ferenc Pataki	HUN	38.50	19.00	19.50	Bronze
=3	89	János Mogyorósi-Klencs	HUN	38.50	18.90	19.60	Bronze
6	66	Veikko Huhtanen	FIN	38.40	19.50	18.90
7	74	Einari Teräsvirta	FIN	38.30	19.30	19.00
=8	71	Sulo Salmi	FIN	38.10	19.20	18.90
=8	114	Walter Lehmann	SUI	38.10	19.00	19.10
=10	68	Kalevi Laitinen	FIN	38.00	19.30	18.70
=10	119	Emil Studer	SUI	38.00	19.20	18.80
=10	93	Lajos Tóth	HUN	38.00	18.90	19.10
=10	94	Ferenc Várkői	HUN	38.00	18.60	19.40
=14	112	Christian Kipfer	SUI	37.90	19.00	18.90
=14	113	Robert Lucy	SUI	37.90	19.00	18.90
=14	86	József Fekete	HUN	37.90	18.70	19.20
17	27	Gustav Hrubý	TCH	37.80	18.70	19.10
=18	238	Guido Figone	ITA	37.70	19.10	18.60
=18	17	Ernst Wister	AUT	37.70	18.70	19.00
=20	40	Vilhelm Møller	DEN	37.60	19.30	18.30
=20	120	Melchior Thalmann	SUI	37.60	19.00	18.60
=20	85	László Baranyai	HUN	37.60	18.70	18.90
=23	43	Arnold Thomsen	DEN	37.50	18.60	18.90
=23	123	Bill Bonsall	USA	37.50	18.50	19.00
=23	137	Miro Longyka	YUG	37.50	18.30	19.20
=26	56	Raymond Dot	FRA	37.40	19.10	18.30
=26	41	Gunner Olesen	DEN	37.40	18.90	18.50
=28	26	Pavel Benetka	TCH	37.30	18.20	19.10
=28	136	Josip Kujundžić	YUG	37.30	18.10	19.20
=30	29	Miroslav Málek	TCH	37.20	18.60	18.60
=30	35	Elkana Grønne	DEN	37.20	18.40	18.80
=32	38	Poul Jessen	DEN	37.10	18.60	18.50
=32	39	Børge Minerth	DEN	37.10	18.40	18.70
=32	103	Polo Welfring	LUX	37.10	18.30	18.80
=32	139	Jakob Šubelj	YUG	37.10	18.20	18.90
=36	97	Jey Kugeler	LUX	37.00	18.30	18.70
=36	49	Ali El-Hefnawi	EGY	37.00	18.10	18.90
=38	118	Sepp Stalder	SUI	36.90	18.70	18.20
=38	34	František Wirth	TCH	36.90	18.40	18.50
=40	58	Lucien Masset	FRA	36.80	18.80	18.00
=40	70	Aleksanteri Saarvala	FIN	36.80	18.70	18.10
=40	10	Hans Friedrich	AUT	36.80	18.60	18.20
=40	135	Ivica Jelić	YUG	36.80	18.00	18.80
=44	240	Domenico Grosso	ITA	36.70	18.50	18.20
=44	132	Konrad Grilec	YUG	36.70	17.50	19.20
=46	9	Karl Bohusch	AUT	36.60	18.40	18.20
=46	32	Zdeněk Růžička	TCH	36.60	17.90	18.70
=48	121	Vincent D'Autorio	USA	36.50	18.60	17.90
=48	72	Heikki Savolainen	FIN	36.50	18.50	18.00
=50	126	Joe Kotys	USA	36.40	18.70	17.70
=50	–	Ali Zaky	EGY	36.40	18.40	18.00
=50	61	Antoine Schlindwein	FRA	36.40	18.30	18.10
=50	102	Josy Stoffel	LUX	36.40	18.20	18.20
=50	83	George Weedon	GBR	36.40	18.20	18.20
55	241	Savino Guglielmetti	ITA	36.30	18.00	18.30
=56	242	Ettore Perego	ITA	36.20	18.20	18.00
=56	80	Frank Turner	GBR	36.20	18.10	18.10
58	127	Bill Roetzheim	USA	36.10	18.30	17.80
59	129	Ray Sorensen	USA	35.90	18.60	17.30
=60	59	Michel Mathiot	FRA	35.80	18.20	17.60
=60	244	Quinto Vadi	ITA	35.80	18.00	17.80
=60	100	Pierre Schmitz	LUX	35.80	17.70	18.10
63	44	Volmer Thomsen	DEN	35.70	18.70	17.00
=64	91	Lajos Sántha	HUN	35.60	18.30	17.30
=64	111	Karl Frei	SUI	35.60	17.10	18.50
66	96	Menn Krecké	LUX	35.50	17.60	17.90
67	64	André Weingand	FRA	35.40	17.70	17.70
=68	57	Marcel de Wolf	FRA	35.30	18.00	17.30
=68	101	René Schroeder	LUX	35.30	16.80	18.50
70	62	Auguste Sirot	FRA	35.20	17.10	18.10
71	128	Ed Scrobe	USA	35.00	16.70	18.30
72	75	Ken Buffin	GBR	34.90	17.70	17.20
73	245	Luigi Zanetti	ITA	34.80	16.80	18.00
74	125	Frank Cumiskey	USA	34.50	18.50	16.00
=75	134	Drago Jelić	YUG	34.40	17.20	17.20
=75	55	Alphonse Anger	FRA	34.40	16.00	18.40
=77	88	Győző Mogyoróssy	HUN	34.30	18.20	16.10
=77	1	Arturo Amos	ARG	34.30	16.00	18.30
=79	20	Rafael Lecuona	CUB	34.00	18.00	16.00
=79	239	Danilo Fioravanti	ITA	34.00	16.00	18.00
81	47	Mohamed Aly	EGY	33.80	15.80	18.00
82	36	Freddy Jensen	DEN	33.70	15.60	18.10
83	51	Ahmed Khalaf Ali	EGY	33.50	17.00	16.50
=84	117	Michael Reusch	SUI	33.30	16.10	17.20
=84	31	Vratislav Petráček	TCH	33.30	15.80	17.50
86	79	Percy May	GBR	33.20	16.00	17.20
87	15	Willi Schreyer	AUT	33.10	14.20	18.90
88	14	Hans Sauter	AUT	32.90	14.40	18.50
89	28	Vladimír Karas	TCH	32.40	14.40	18.00
90	133	Karel Janež	YUG	32.20	13.80	18.40
91	131	Stjepan Boltižar	YUG	32.00	15.30	16.70
92	104	Butz Wengler	LUX	31.60	15.60	16.00
93	23	Baldomero Rubiera	CUB	31.40	15.60	15.80
94	95	Jos Bernard	LUX	31.20	15.30	15.90
95	54	Adli Roushdi	EGY	30.45	15.25	15.20
96	22	Raimundo Rey	CUB	30.10	15.60	14.50
97	46	Moustafa Abdel-Aal	EGY	30.00	13.10	16.90
98	45	Mahmoud Abdel-Aal	EGY	29.75	13.95	15.80
99	81	Ivor Vice	GBR	29.65	13.65	16.00
100	2	César Bonoris	ARG	29.50	16.10	13.40
101	6	Jorge Soler	ARG	29.30	12.00	17.30
102	3	Pedro Lonchibuco	ARG	28.95	13.75	15.20
103	18	Ángel Aguiar	CUB	28.10	11.80	16.30
104	50	Ahmed El-Giddawi	EGY	28.00	11.50	16.50
105	21	Fernando Lecuona	CUB	27.40	15.40	12.00
106	77	Glyn Hopkins	GBR	27.10	14.10	13.00
107	106	Jorge Castro	MEX	26.90	16.90	10.00
108	107	Rubén Lira	MEX	25.50	11.50	14.00
109	4	Roberto Núñez	ARG	24.30	13.00	11.30
110	236	Egidio Armelloni	ITA	23.70	6.00	17.70
111	5	Enrique Rapesta	ARG	22.60	11.00	11.60
112	12	Robert Pranz	AUT	21.00	5.00	16.00
113	105	Dionisio Aguilar	MEX	20.40	4.00	16.40
114	19	Alejandro Díaz	CUB	20.00	6.00	14.00
115	11	Gottfried Hermann	AUT	18.75	6.00	12.75
116	82	Alec Wales	GBR	18.00	5.00	13.00
117	76	Jack Flaherty	GBR	16.00	6.00	10.00
118	24	Roberto Villacián	CUB	13.30	13.30	0.00
119	109	Everardo Ríos	MEX	12.00	12.00	0.00
120	7	Jorge Vidal	ARG	5.00	5.00	0.00