Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's all-around

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The men's individual all-around, also known as the heptathlon, was one of two gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. As suggested by the alternate name, the competition included seven events with the scores summed to give a final score.

The events were:

Horizontal bar, swinging movements
Horizontal bar, slow movements
Parallel bars
Rings, swinging
Rings, stationary
Vault
Rope climbing

[edit] Results

The names of 95 of the 97 competitors are known. The Official Report gives the places and scores of the first 19. The places of some others are known, though without much systematicity save for the preservation of the placings of the Dutch gymnasts.

Place	Gymnast	Nation	Score
1	Alberto Braglia	Italy	317
2	S. Walter Tysal	Great Britain	312
3	Louis Ségura	France	297
4	Curt Steuernagel	Germany	273.5
5	Friedrich Wolf	Germany	267
6	Samuel Hodgetts	Great Britain	266
7	Marcel Lalu	France	258.75
8	Robert Diaz	France	258.5
9	Edward Potts	Great Britain	252.5
10	Jules Rolland	France	249.5
11	François Nidal	France	249
12	George Bailey	Great Britain	246
12	Karl Borchert	Germany	246
14	Antoine Costa	France	241.75
15	János Nyisztor	Hungary	236
16	Franklin Dick	Great Britain	233.5
16	Arthur Hodges	Great Britain	233.5
18	Georges Turnheer	France	232
19	Jean Castigliano	France	227
20	Guido Romano	Italy	Unknown
21	Unknown		Unknown
22	Unknown		Unknown
23	Unknown		Unknown
24	Unknown		Unknown
25	Josef Cada	Bohemia	Unknown
26	Unknown		Unknown
27	Unknown		Unknown
28	Unknown		Unknown
29	Unknown		Unknown
30	Unknown		Unknown
31	Unknown		Unknown
32	Unknown		Unknown
33	Unknown		Unknown
34	Szabó Kálmán	Hungary	Unknown
35	Unknown		Unknown
36	Bohumil Honzátko	Bohemia	Unknown
37	Unknown		Unknown
38	Unknown		Unknown
39	Gellért Imre	Hungary	Unknown
40	Unknown		Unknown
41	Unknown		Unknown
42	Unknown		Unknown
43	Unknown		Unknown
44	Unknown		Unknown
45	Antos Mihály	Hungary	Unknown
46	Unknown		Unknown
47	Unknown		Unknown
48	Unknown		Unknown
49	Michel Biet	Netherlands	Unknown
50	Unknown		Unknown
51	Unknown		Unknown
52	Unknown		Unknown
53	Unknown		Unknown
54	Unknown		Unknown
55	Unknown		Unknown
56	Unknown		Unknown
57	Unknown		Unknown
58	Unknown		Unknown
59	Allan Keith	Canada	Unknown
60	Gerardus Wesling	Netherlands	Unknown
61	Reiner Blom	Netherlands	Unknown
62	I. Goudeket	Netherlands	Unknown
63	Johannes Stikkelman	Netherlands	Unknown
64	E. Brouwer	Netherlands	Unknown
65	Unknown		Unknown
66	Johannes Posthumus	Netherlands	Unknown
67	Unknown		Unknown
68	Unknown		Unknown
69	Dirk Janssen	Netherlands	Unknown
70	Unknown		Unknown
71	Cornelis Becker	Netherlands	Unknown
72	Jan Janssen	Netherlands	Unknown
73	Unknown		Unknown
74	Jan Jacob Kieft	Netherlands	Unknown
75	Riku Korhonen	Finland	Unknown
76	Unknown		Unknown
77	Unknown		Unknown
78	Abraham Mok	Netherlands	Unknown
79	Unknown		Unknown
80	Orville Elliott	Canada	Unknown
81	Unknown		Unknown
82	Unknown		Unknown
83	Hendricus Thijsen	Netherlands	Unknown
84	Unknown		Unknown
85	Unknown		Unknown
86	Unknown		Unknown
87	Unknown		Unknown
88	Unknown		Unknown
89	Unknown		Unknown
90	Johann Flemer	Netherlands	Unknown
91	Unknown		Unknown
92	Unknown		Unknown
93	Constantijn van Daalen	Netherlands	Unknown
94	Unknown		Unknown
95	Herman van Leeuwen	Netherlands	Unknown
96	Jonas Slier	Netherlands	Unknown
97	Gráf Frigyes	Hungary	Did not finish

[edit] Unplaced gymnasts

51 other gymnasts competed, but their places are unknown. The names of 50 are known.

Gymnast	Nation
E. Aspinall	Great Britain
Oliver Bauscher	Great Britain
Edouard Boislevé	France
Antoine de Buck	Belgium
Otello Capitani	Italy
Conrad Carlsrud	Norway
Alfred Castille	France
Ferdinand Castille	France
Georges Charmoille	France
Joseph Cook	Great Britain
S. Domville	Great Britain
Victor Dubois	France
E. Dyson	Great Britain
August Ehrlich	Germany
Szüts Ferenc	Hungary
W. Fergus	Great Britain
Paul Fischer	Germany
Dominique Follacci	France
A. Ford	Great Britain
E. Gauthier	France
J. Graham	Great Britain
Jean van Guysse	Belgium
R. Hanley	Great Britain
Leonard Hanson	Great Britain
Peter Hol	Norway
Eugen Ingebretsen	Norway
Ole Iversen	Norway
Per Mathias Jespersen	Norway
Georg Karth	Germany
Wilhelm Kaufman	Germany
Carl Klæth	Norway
Carl Körting	Germany
Eetu Kosonen	Finland
Josef Krämer	Germany
F. Lekim	France
Justinien Lux	France
G. Meade	Great Britain
Aleko Moullos	Turkey
G. Mounier	France
Frithjof Olsen	Norway
Iivari Partanen	Finland
Georges Ratelot	France
Jaska Saarivuori	Finland
Heinrich Siebenhaar	Germany
John Skrataas	Norway
C. H. Smith	Great Britain
David Teivonen	Finland
J. A. Walters	Great Britain
W. Watters	Great Britain
Wilhelm Weber	Germany
Unknown gymnast 1

[edit] Sources

Cook, Theodore Andrea (1908). The Fourth Olympiad, Being the Official Report. London: British Olympic Association.
De Wael, Herman (2001). Gymnastics 1908. Herman's Full Olympians. Retrieved on 3 May 2006.