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Parallel Bars, Men

Date	12 – 13 August 1948 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington, London
Participants	122 from 16 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Switzerland’s Michael Reusch had competed at the 1936 Olympics, winning two silver medals, and had won three apparatus gold medals at the 1938 World Gymnastics Championships, including parallel bars. In London he was 34-years-old but still won the gold medal on parallel bars. Finland’s Veikko Huhtanen won silver, while Reusch’s teammates, Christian Kipfer and Sepp Stalder, shared the bronze medal, with Switzerland taking four of the top five places, as Walter Lehmann placed fifth.

Pos	Number	Competitor	NOC	Points	Compulsory Exercise Points	Optional Exercise Points
1	117	Michael Reusch	SUI	39.50	19.80	19.70	Gold
2	66	Veikko Huhtanen	FIN	39.30	19.70	19.60	Silver
=3	112	Christian Kipfer	SUI	39.10	19.70	19.40	Bronze
=3	118	Sepp Stalder	SUI	39.10	19.30	19.80	Bronze
5	114	Walter Lehmann	SUI	39.00	19.50	19.50
6	72	Heikki Savolainen	FIN	38.90	19.20	19.70
=7	32	Zdeněk Růžička	TCH	38.80	19.60	19.20
=7	65	Paavo Aaltonen	FIN	38.80	19.00	19.80
9	91	Lajos Sántha	HUN	38.70	19.40	19.30
10	69	Olavi Rove	FIN	38.60	19.50	19.10
11	241	Savino Guglielmetti	ITA	38.50	19.10	19.40
12	74	Einari Teräsvirta	FIN	38.40	19.50	18.90
13	238	Guido Figone	ITA	38.30	19.30	19.00
=14	93	Lajos Tóth	HUN	38.20	19.10	19.10
=14	59	Michel Mathiot	FRA	38.20	18.90	19.30
=16	68	Kalevi Laitinen	FIN	38.10	19.50	18.60
=16	85	László Baranyai	HUN	38.10	19.30	18.80
=18	90	Ferenc Pataki	HUN	38.00	19.10	18.90
=18	56	Raymond Dot	FRA	38.00	19.10	18.90
20	120	Melchior Thalmann	SUI	37.90	19.10	18.80
=21	113	Robert Lucy	SUI	37.80	18.90	18.90
=21	128	Ed Scrobe	USA	37.80	18.80	19.00
=21	119	Emil Studer	SUI	37.80	18.50	19.30
24	70	Aleksanteri Saarvala	FIN	37.60	18.20	19.40
25	126	Joe Kotys	USA	37.40	18.90	18.50
=26	245	Luigi Zanetti	ITA	37.30	18.90	18.40
=26	26	Pavel Benetka	TCH	37.30	18.80	18.50
28	86	József Fekete	HUN	37.10	18.50	18.60
29	64	André Weingand	FRA	37.00	18.20	18.80
30	111	Karl Frei	SUI	36.90	18.30	18.60
=31	55	Alphonse Anger	FRA	36.80	18.60	18.20
=31	71	Sulo Salmi	FIN	36.80	18.10	18.70
33	28	Vladimír Karas	TCH	36.70	18.80	17.90
34	94	Ferenc Várkői	HUN	36.60	17.80	18.80
=35	10	Hans Friedrich	AUT	36.40	18.30	18.10
=35	88	Győző Mogyoróssy	HUN	36.40	18.10	18.30
37	17	Ernst Wister	AUT	36.10	18.10	18.00
38	127	Bill Roetzheim	USA	36.00	18.30	17.70
=39	89	János Mogyorósi-Klencs	HUN	35.90	17.40	18.50
=39	239	Danilo Fioravanti	ITA	35.90	17.40	18.50
=41	38	Poul Jessen	DEN	35.80	18.00	17.80
=41	83	George Weedon	GBR	35.80	18.00	17.80
=41	35	Elkana Grønne	DEN	35.80	17.90	17.90
=44	132	Konrad Grilec	YUG	35.70	18.90	16.80
=44	57	Marcel de Wolf	FRA	35.70	18.20	17.50
=44	80	Frank Turner	GBR	35.70	17.70	18.00
=44	244	Quinto Vadi	ITA	35.70	17.50	18.20
48	62	Auguste Sirot	FRA	35.60	17.60	18.00
=49	61	Antoine Schlindwein	FRA	35.40	18.00	17.40
=49	240	Domenico Grosso	ITA	35.40	17.70	17.70
51	31	Vratislav Petráček	TCH	35.30	17.60	17.70
52	236	Egidio Armelloni	ITA	35.00	17.60	17.40
=53	33	Leo Sotorník	TCH	34.80	18.60	16.20
=53	97	Jey Kugeler	LUX	34.80	17.60	17.20
55	54	Adli Roushdi	EGY	34.60	16.70	17.90
=56	39	Børge Minerth	DEN	34.50	19.00	15.50
=56	45	Mahmoud Abdel-Aal	EGY	34.50	17.50	17.00
=56	29	Miroslav Málek	TCH	34.50	17.40	17.10
=56	136	Josip Kujundžić	YUG	34.50	17.40	17.10
=56	121	Vincent D'Autorio	USA	34.50	16.60	17.90
61	58	Lucien Masset	FRA	34.35	18.60	15.75
62	41	Gunner Olesen	DEN	34.30	17.80	16.50
63	14	Hans Sauter	AUT	34.25	18.30	15.95
64	34	František Wirth	TCH	34.15	18.70	15.45
65	36	Freddy Jensen	DEN	34.10	17.60	16.50
66	125	Frank Cumiskey	USA	34.00	16.20	17.80
67	82	Alec Wales	GBR	33.90	16.50	17.40
68	9	Karl Bohusch	AUT	33.80	17.20	16.60
69	–	Ali Zaky	EGY	33.70	15.70	18.00
70	44	Volmer Thomsen	DEN	33.55	17.80	15.75
71	242	Ettore Perego	ITA	33.40	15.60	17.80
=72	123	Bill Bonsall	USA	33.10	15.80	17.30
=72	129	Ray Sorensen	USA	33.10	15.60	17.50
74	15	Willi Schreyer	AUT	33.00	16.10	16.90
75	21	Fernando Lecuona	CUB	32.95	17.70	15.25
76	11	Gottfried Hermann	AUT	32.30	17.80	14.50
77	43	Arnold Thomsen	DEN	32.10	17.60	14.50
78	40	Vilhelm Møller	DEN	31.90	15.00	16.90
=79	20	Rafael Lecuona	CUB	31.80	17.30	14.50
=79	51	Ahmed Khalaf Ali	EGY	31.80	14.90	16.90
81	47	Mohamed Aly	EGY	31.75	17.00	14.75
82	75	Ken Buffin	GBR	31.30	16.30	15.00
83	1	Arturo Amos	ARG	31.25	17.00	14.25
=84	102	Josy Stoffel	LUX	31.20	17.70	13.50
=84	79	Percy May	GBR	31.20	15.00	16.20
86	137	Miro Longyka	YUG	31.10	18.10	13.00
=87	49	Ali El-Hefnawi	EGY	30.70	16.70	14.00
=87	131	Stjepan Boltižar	YUG	30.70	14.90	15.80
89	46	Moustafa Abdel-Aal	EGY	30.00	14.00	16.00
90	50	Ahmed El-Giddawi	EGY	29.70	16.20	13.50
91	101	René Schroeder	LUX	29.25	14.00	15.25
=92	135	Ivica Jelić	YUG	29.00	14.50	14.50
=92	133	Karel Janež	YUG	29.00	14.50	14.50
94	96	Menn Krecké	LUX	28.95	14.70	14.25
95	76	Jack Flaherty	GBR	28.75	16.00	12.75
=96	134	Drago Jelić	YUG	28.45	14.40	14.05
=96	2	César Bonoris	ARG	28.45	14.20	14.25
98	3	Pedro Lonchibuco	ARG	28.30	13.30	15.00
=99	103	Polo Welfring	LUX	27.45	16.20	11.25
=99	18	Ángel Aguiar	CUB	27.45	15.70	11.75
101	100	Pierre Schmitz	LUX	27.25	14.00	13.25
102	27	Gustav Hrubý	TCH	26.80	16.80	10.00
103	95	Jos Bernard	LUX	26.70	13.20	13.50
104	5	Enrique Rapesta	ARG	25.00	11.00	14.00
105	139	Jakob Šubelj	YUG	24.80	13.80	11.00
106	22	Raimundo Rey	CUB	24.30	12.80	11.50
107	12	Robert Pranz	AUT	24.00	10.50	13.50
108	104	Butz Wengler	LUX	23.75	10.50	13.25
109	24	Roberto Villacián	CUB	22.65	14.40	8.25
110	23	Baldomero Rubiera	CUB	22.50	13.50	9.00
111	77	Glyn Hopkins	GBR	21.25	7.50	13.75
112	6	Jorge Soler	ARG	20.50	7.00	13.50
113	4	Roberto Núñez	ARG	18.50	6.50	12.00
114	19	Alejandro Díaz	CUB	17.25	6.00	11.25
115	105	Dionisio Aguilar	MEX	17.00	6.00	11.00
116	81	Ivor Vice	GBR	16.25	1.00	15.25
117	124	Louis Bordo	USA	14.90	14.90	0.00
118	106	Jorge Castro	MEX	14.50	7.00	7.50
119	107	Rubén Lira	MEX	12.25	4.00	8.25
120	109	Everardo Ríos	MEX	9.50	9.50	0.00
121	7	Jorge Vidal	ARG	6.50	6.50	0.00
122	16	Willi Welt	AUT	2.00	2.00	0.00