1909 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition 1909 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships LUX Luxembourg, Luxembourg 1907 1911 thumb|300px|The victorious French team from these championships. Numerous of the individuals in this team already were or would become quite decorated individually at the level of these World Championships and the Olympic Games. From Left to right: Joseph Castiglioni, Joseph Martinez, Marco Torrès, Armand Coidelle, Louis Ségura, Auguste Castille The 4th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Luxembourg, in conjunction with the 9th Federal Festival of Luxembourg, on August 1, 1909.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 Federation 80http://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA121N10&lang=en Historical Medalists - Individual 2017-07-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20161009182832/http://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA121N10&lang=en 2016-10-09 dead http://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA122N10&lang=en Historical Medalists - Team 2017-07-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20161009183146/http://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA122N10&lang=en 2016-10-09 dead Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique 125th Anniversary - The story goes on... https://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/The_story_goes_on_150dpi.pdf FIG 62 2005 The countries sending teams to the games were France, Bohemia (i.e., the Czechs), Belgium, Carniola (i.e., Slovenia), and Italy.Le Tournoi International de Gymnastique https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t511302087/f3.image.r=%22Le%20Tournoi%20International%20de%20gymnastique%22 1 May 2025 Paris-Journal 1 August 1909 3 The championships were purely team events without any individual awards. Individual all-round scores were only introduced in 1922, with the first all-round individual men's champion being recognised in that year. Individual apparatus scores were introduced subsequently.100 Years of the International Gymnastics Federation 1881-1981 1981 FIG 76 http://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/100%20years%20of%20the%20FIG-e.pdf 28 April 2025 As such no actual individual medals were awarded at these games, the below rankings were conferred retrospectively.1903: Men's Gymnastics at the First World Championships https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/01/1903-mens-gymnastics-at-the-first-world-championships/ Gymnastics History 28 April 2025 25 January 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 (In any event, all of these data sources - the Slovenian records, the Gymnastics-History.com's reproduced Czech records, the FIG's records, and the USAG's records - have continually failed to recognize the apparent original human error with respect to the discrepancy between Vidal's and Mangin's scores and rankings. In light of that, all of these data sources remain completely consistent, in terms of the data that they do present, with respect to the results of the pre-WWI editions of these World Championships.) 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 brief biographical treatment containing a photograph of multiple medals belonging to 1911 World All-Around Champion Ferdinand Steiner on the website of an alma mater of his, the Jiří Wolkera Gymnasium cs Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera, shows multiple medals with the words "Concorso Ginnastico Internazionale 1911 Torino" embossed onto them.Slavní absolventi naší školys Famous graduates of our school https://www.gjwprostejov.cz/slavni Gymnázium_Jiřího_Wolkera April 29, 2025 This brief biographical treatment was published at least as far back as 14 January 2017 on the officialGymnázium Jiřího Wolkera Homepage https://www.gjwprostejov.cz/ Gymnázium_Jiřího_Wolkera 14 September 2025 Facebook website of his alma mater in a photograph album, begun on 29 November 2016, containing other such brief biographical treatments of its notable alumni."Ferdinand Steiner " (in Zapomenutí rodáci města Prostějova (Forgotten Natives of the City of Prostějov)) https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1223868384374843&set=a.1181074551987560 Official Facebook Account of Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera Prostějov 14 January 2017 cs 14 September 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 awarded contemporaneously. Medal table 5 2 1 1 0 3 ITA 1861 0 5 1 0 1 0 Austria-Hungary † The FIG (now World Gymnastics) in their 125-year anniversary publication, whereas pre-World War I editions of these championships are concerned, credits the teams and athletes from the Bohemian/Czech lands, then part of Austria-Hungary, as belonging to Czechoslovakia, and also credits the teams and athletes from Slovenia, then also part of Austria-Hungary, as belonging to Yugoslavia.The Story Goes On: 125 Ans/Years Federation Internationale Gymnastique 1881-2006 http://www.fig-docs.com/website/highlights/The_story_goes_on_150dpi.pdf International Gymnastics Federation fr, en 61–63 Men's individual all around Rank Athlete Total 1 FRA Marco Torrès 163,250 2 TCH Josef Cada 159,500 3 FRA Armand Coidelle 158,750 4 ITA Otello Capitani 158,250 5 (tie) ITA Guido Romano 157,750 5 (tie) FRA Louis Ségura 157,750 Men's team all around Rank Members Total 1 FRAJoseph Castiglioni, Auguste Castille, Armand Coidelle, Joseph Martinez, Louis Ségura, Marcos Torrès 950,500 2 TCH Josef Czada, Frantisek Erben, Frantisek Machovsky, Frantisek Mracek, Karel Stary, Ferdinand Steiner 940,500 3 ITA 1861Pietro Borghi, Alberto Braglia, Otello Capitani, Angelo Mazzoncini, Guido Romano, Giorgio Zampori 924,250 Men's rings Rank Athlete Total 1 FRA Marco Torrès 23,750 ITA 1861 Guido Romano 23,750 3 TCH 1861 Frantisek Erben 23,250 ITA 1861 Angelo Mazzoncini 23,250 ITA 1861 Giorgio Zampori 23,250 Men's parallel bars Rang Gymnaste Total 1 FRA Joseph Martinez 24,000 2 FRA Marco Torrès 23,570 FRA Auguste Castille 23,570 TCH Josef Cada 23,570 5FRA Armand Coidelle 23,500 Men's horizontal bar Rang Gymnaste Total 1 FRA Joseph Martinez 24,000 2 TCH Frantisek Erben 23,750 Yugoslavia K. Fuchs 23,750 TCH Josef Cada 23,750 5FRA Marco Torrès 23,750 References Category:World Artistic Gymnastics Championships G World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1909 G