1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition 1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships HUN 1920 Budapest, Hungary 1931 1938 thumb|300px|The victorious first-ever Women's World Championship team, from Czechoslovakia, at these 1934 games. Their Czechoslovak male counterparts, and their nation-state team predecessors, the Bohemians, were team champions at 9 of the 11 editions of these World Championships that had team competitions and that existed from their debut at the 3rd 1907 games to the 11th and last games, in 1938, before World War II. Upon the debut of the competitive women's program at these games, this women's team mirrored their male countrymen's successes and, as a team, successfully defended their title at the next World Championships in 1938, as well as at the 1948 London Summer Olympics (at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, they placed second). Standing, left to right: Jaroslava Štětková (coach), Vlasta Jarůšková, Jaroslava Bajerová, Nora Hájková, Milena Šebková, Anna Hřebřinová, repeat World All-Around Champion Vlasta Děkanová, Vlasta Foltová, Zdeňka Veřmiřovská. Děkanová and Veřmiřovská co-anchored the team and were the longest-term mainstays of the team. 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,Huguenin Andre Unger Beatrice 100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation: 1881-1981 http://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/100%20years%20of%20the%20FIG-e.pdf International Gymnastics Federation4684 on June 1–2, 1934.84 It was the first World Championships with a women's segment to the competition.45 It was also the first world championships at which individual medals for apparatus were given.1934: The Rules for the Men's Competition at the World Championships https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/03/1934-the-rules-for-the-mens-competition-at-the-world-championships/ Gymnastics History 7 May 2025 22 March 2022 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)Murnik Viktor (Dr.) Telovadba na zletu v Pragi Gymnastics on the runway in Prague https://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-1IVKTRET/1f0617dc-f7ff-4565-b6a9-d132bd5387ad/PDF sl Slovenski Sokol 5 3 20–21 25 March 1908 31 August 2025History.com Gymnastics 1907: Perfect Scores Abound at the World Championships in Prague https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/05/1907-perfect-scores-abound-at-the-world-championships-in-prague/ Gymnastics-History.com 10 September 2025 and 6th (1913)Murnik Viktor (Dr.) Slovenci na mednarodni tekmi v Parizu Slovenians at an international competition in Paris https://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-MM5WIOC8/04e875f0-c5c7-4599-9292-6c70a222793f/PDF sl Slovenski Sokol 10 12 13–14 25 December 1913 31 August 2025History.com Gymnastics 1913: The Last World Championships before World War I https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/06/1913-the-last-world-championships-before-world-war-i/ Gymnastics-History.com 10 September 2025 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 FIGFédération Internationale de Gymnastique 125th Anniversary - The story goes on... http://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/The_story_goes_on_150dpi.pdf FIG 2005 61–63 and USAGEvent History > World Championships – Men's Past Champions https://usagym.org/history/mens-world-champions/ usagym.org Indianapolis, IN, USA USA Gymnastics May 28, 2025 (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.History.com Gymnastics 1907: Perfect Scores Abound at the World Championships in Prague https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/05/1907-perfect-scores-abound-at-the-world-championships-in-prague/ Gymnastics-History.com April 14, 202462 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,Vonnard Philippe Mayencourt Gil Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–1913 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2024.2351219#abstract/ Taylor and Francis Online 10 September 2025 a pictoral presentation of multiple medals belonging to 1911 World All-Around Champion Ferdinand Steiner on the website of his schoolSlavní absolventi naší školys Famous graduates of our school https://www.gjwprostejov.cz/slavni Gymnázium_Jiřího_Wolkera April 29, 2025 shows medals, not only the team gold he won at that competition, that read “Concorso Ginnastico Internazionale 1911 Torino”.Ferdinand Steiner https://www.gjwprostejov.cz/media/5060 Gymnázium_Jiřího_Wolkera Czech April 29, 2025 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 6 6 1 3 1 3 1 1 2 GER 1933 0 2 0 HUN 1920 0 1 1 ITA 1861 0 0 2 0 0 1 Men Team final Medal Country Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg 787.30 Image:Silver medal icon.svg 772.90 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg Germany 1933 769.50 4 Italy 1861 761.355 757.40 6 754.10 7 730.40 8 623.10 9 595.35 10 589.80 11 585.80 12 555.30 13 427.15Macanovic Hrvoje June 8, 1934 X medunarodne gimnastičke utakmice u Budimpešti. X International Gymnastics Matches in Budapest. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/15/URN_NBN_SI_doc_JDMXQM30 sl Sokolsky Glasnik 5 24 6 January 13, 2021 All-around Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Eugen Mack 138.95 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Italy 1861 Romeo Neri 137.75 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg Emanuel Löffler 136.15 4 Heikki Savolainen 135.75 5 Jan Sládek 134.90 6 Jan Gajdoš 133.15 7 Georges Miez 132.45 8 Martti Uosikkinen 131.95 9 (tie) József Sarlós 131.90 9 (tie) Ernst Winter 131.90 11 Franz Beckert 131.85 12 Josef Walter 130.95 Apparatus Floor exercise Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Georges Miez 18.95 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Eugen Mack 18.35 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg Germany 1933 Kurt Krötzsch 18.25 4 Josef Walter 18.10 5 Lajos Tóth 18.05 6 Germany 1933 Heinz Sandrock 18.10 Pommel horse Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Eugen Mack 19.15 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Eduard Steinemann 18.90 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg Jan Sládek 18.75 4 Omero Bonoli 18.70 5 Romeo Neri 18.60 6 Ilmari Pakarinen 18.10 Rings Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Alois Hudec 19.45 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Eugen Mack 19.00 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg (tie) Jaroslav Kolinger 18.90 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg (tie) Mathias Logelin 18.90 5 József Sarlós 18.75 6 Jey Kugeler 18.70 Vault Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Eugen Mack 20.00 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Eduard Steinemann 19.40 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg Jan Sládek 19.20 4 Josef Walter 19.05 5 Italy 1861 Savino Guglielmetti 19.00 6 Lajos Tóth 18.95 Parallel bars Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Eugen Mack 19.75 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Josef Walter 19.25 Image:Bronze medal icon.svg Walter Bach 19.20 4 Heikki Savolainen 18.90 5 (tie) Italy 1861 Romeo Neri 18.80 5 (tie) Eino Tukiainen 18.80 Horizontal bar Medal Country Gymnast Points Image:Gold medal icon.svg Germany 1933 Ernst Winter 19.65 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Georges Miez19.45 Image:Silver medal icon.svg Germany 1933 Heinz Sandrock 19.45 4 Eugen Mack 19.40 5 Heikki Savolainen 19.15 6 (tie) Germany 1933 Walter Steffens 19.10 A few discrepancies exist in data for the results from these World Championships.http://sports123.com/gym/index.html Results Sports123.com Sports123.com https://web.archive.org/web/20111007001033/http://sports123.com/gym/index.html January 15, 2021 2011-10-07 https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/worlds_artistic_results_1934.pdf 1934 World Gymnastics Championships Results Usagym.org USA Gymnastics January 15, 2021 December 21, 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20181221105707/https://www.usagym.org/PDFs/Results/worlds_artistic_results_1934.pdf dead Due to the existence of those discrepancies, ultimately a later source, that claimed that those discrepancies were the results of computation errorsHistory.com Gymnastics Math Problems and Two Perfect 10s during the Men's Competition at the World Championships (1934) https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/03/1934-math-problems-and-two-perfect-10s-during-the-mens-competition-at-the-world-championships/ Gymnastics-History.com April 10, 2024 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.Huguenin Andre 110e Anniversaire: Objectif An 2000 http://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/110e_Anniversaire_150.pdf International Gymnastics Federation fr, de, en 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 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 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 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 ?? 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 ?? 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 - - - 158.38History.com Gymnastics 1934: Women Compete at the World Championships for the First Time https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/03/1934-women-compete-at-the-world-championships-for-the-first-time/ Gymnastics-History.com April 9, 2024 = 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. References Category:World Artistic Gymnastics Championships World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1934 Gym Category:International gymnastics competitions hosted by Hungary