1922 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition 1922 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Kingdom of Yugoslavia Ljubljana, Kingdom of Yugoslavia 1913 1926 The 7th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Ljubljana, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (now Slovenia) on August 11–12, 1922.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 83 This was the first international tournament arranged under the auspices of FIG at which individual medals for all-round performance were awarded. However, the individual medals for apparatus were not awarded at the 1922 tournament, those discussed below were awarded by FIG retrospectively.1922: The First World All-Around Champion in Men's Gymnastics https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/08/1922-the-first-world-all-around-champion-in-mens-gymnastics/ Gymnastics History 7 May 2025 2 August 2022 Conversely, please note that 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 6 6 1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia 6 3 0 0 0 1 Team competition Rank Nation Prelim. Calisthenics Behavior Total Behavior Total Behavior Total Behavior Total Behavior Total Gymnastics Events Totals High Jump Shot Put 100 meters 50 meter swim Athletics Events Totals Team Grand Totals 174.5 1.75 176.25 107.25 2 109.25 112.25 2 114.25 110.75 1.75 112.5 117 2 119 631.25 27 31.25 31 52.5 141.75 773 Kingdom of Yugoslavia 174.75 2 176.75 112 2 114 108 2 110 109.5 1.75 111.5 110.75 1.75 112.5 624.5 32 29 20 58.5 139.5 764 163.5 1.25 164.75 92 1 93 99.25 2 101.25 82.75 1.25 102.75 101 1.75 102.75 564.5 21 11.75 17.5 40 90.25 636 4 165.25 1.75 167 87.75 2 89.75 99 2 101 87.5 1.5 89 106.25 2 108.25 555 21 6.5 24 21.5 73 628 5 149.25 1 150.25 84.25 2 86.25 80.25 1.25 81.5 81 1.5 82.5 78.5 1 79.5 480 15 17.5 16.5 30.75 79.75 559.75 History.com Gymnastics 1922: The First World All-Around Champion in Men's Gymnastics https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/08/1922-the-first-world-all-around-champion-in-mens-gymnastics/// Gymnastics-History.com April 19, 2024 Individual Standings Rank Nation Gymnast Prelim. Calisthenics Gymnastics Events Athletics EventsIndividual Grand Totals Prelim. Calisthenics Gymnastics Events Totals Gymnastics Events Totals Rank High Jump Shot Put 100 meters 50 meter swim Athletics Events Totals Athletics Events Totals Rank Individual Grand Totals (tie) Kingdom of Yugoslavia Peter Sumi 29.5 18.75 19.75 19 19.75 77.25 3 7 6 5.5 10 28.5 3 135.25 (tie) František Pecháček 28.25 18 19 18.5 19 74.5 7 7 10 8 7.5 32.5 1 135.25 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Stane Derganc 29.25 19 19.25 18 17.25 73.5 8 5 10 4.5 10 29.5 2 132.25 4 Miroslav Klinger 29 19 19.75 19.25 19.5 77.5 2 5 4.5 5 10 24.5 4 131 5 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Stane Vidmar 29.25 19 19 18.5 18.25 74.75 6 5 5 4 10 24 5 128 6 Stanislav Jindrich 30 19 18.5 19 19.5 76 4 3 4 3 9.5 19.5 11 125.5 7 Josef Malý 29.5 16.5 18.25 17.5 19.75 72 9 4 7.75 6 6 23.75 6 125.25 8 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Leon Štukelj 27.75 20 19.75 19 19.75 78.5 1 5 0 3.5 9.5 18 15 124.25 9 Miroslav Karásek 28.25 18 19.25 18.75 19.75 75.75 5 4 1.25 4.5 10 19.75 10 123.75 10 František Vaneček 29.5 16.75 17.5 17.75 19.5 71.75 10 4 3.75 4.5 9.5 21.75 7 122.75 11 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Slavko Hlastan 29.75 16.25 18.25 17.75 18.25 70.5 11 5 5.25 1 9.5 20.75 9 121 12 Jean Gounot 29.25 16.25 18.5 18 17.75 70.5 12 6 2.25 2.5 6.5 17.25 17 117 13 Alex Pannetier 18.5 17 17.5 15.5 16.5 66.5 15 7 0 4.5 9.5 21 8 116 14 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Vlado Simončič 29.25 19 12 17.25 17.5 65.75 17 5 2.75 1.5 9.5 18.75 13 113.75 15 Francois Verboven 26.5 13.75 17.75 16 18 65.5 18 4 2.5 4 8 18.5 14 110.5 16 Marco Torrès 28 16 18.75 15 18.5 68.25 13 3 0 4 7 14 20 110.25 17 Jean Verboven 28.5 15.75 12 15 17 59.75 22 3 1.75 5.5 7.5 17.75 16 106 18 Louis De Winter 28.25 14 18.5 14.75 18.75 66 16 3 2.25 5.5 0 10.75 25 105 19 Emil Münhofen 28 14.5 16 13.5 13.25 57.25 25 5 10 4.5 0 19.5 11 104.75 20 Jean Gibens 24.25 16.25 16 17.5 18.25 68 14 1 0 1.5 6 8.5 29 100.75 21 (tie) Louis Marty 23.75 17.25 16.75 14.75 15.75 64.5 19 1 2 1 6.5 10.5 26 98.75 21 (tie) Gust. Verstraeten 29 15.25 18.5 10.75 17.75 62.25 20 5 0 2.5 0 7.5 30 98.75 23 Jacques Moser 27 14 15 14 17.25 60.25 21 1 1.5 1.5 7 11 23 98.25 24 Gust. Gyselinck 28.75 12.75 16.25 13.5 16.5 59 23 5 0 5 0 10 27 97.75 25 Nicolas Roeser 23.5 13 16 16.5 13.25 58.75 24 3 3.5 4.5 0 11 23 93.25 26 Emil François 23.75 13 8.5 15.25 14.75 51.5 28 3 0 2 10 15 19 90.25 27 Robert Leroy 26.75 13.75 13.75 8.5 14.25 50.25 29 2 2 1.5 7 12.5 22 89.5 28 Francois Zuang 22 17.5 11.75 16.25 8.75 54.25 26 2 2 3 5.75 12.75 21 89 29 Robert Morin 27 11.5 12.75 5.5 15.25 45 30 3 6 4 3.5 16.5 18 88.5 30 Jos. Knepper 25.25 12.5 14.25 11 14.25 52 27 0 0 1 8 9 28 86.25 History.com Gymnastics 1922: The First World All-Around Champion in Men's Gymnastics https://www.gymnastics-history.com/2022/08/1922-the-first-world-all-around-champion-in-mens-gymnastics/// Gymnastics-History.com April 19, 2024 Pommel horse Rank Nationality Athlete Total 1 Miroslav Klinger 19,250 2 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Leon Štukelj 19,000 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Peter Šumi 19,000 Stanislav Indruch 19,000 Rings Rank Nationality Athlete Total 1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Leon Štukelj 19,750 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Peter Šumi 19,750 Joseph Maly 19,750 Miroslav Karásek 19,750 Parallel bars Rank Nationality Athlete Total 1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Leon Štukelj 20,000 2 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Stane Derganc 19,000 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Stane Vidmar 19,000 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Vladimir Simončič 19,000 Miroslav Klinger 19,000 Stanislav Indruch 19,000 Horizontal bar Rank Nationality Athlete Total 1 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Leon Štukelj 20,000 Kingdom of Yugoslavia Peter Šumi 20,000 Miroslav Klinger 20,000 References Sources Prvi ljubljanski stadion sl Category:World Artistic Gymnastics Championships World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1922 Category:Sport in Ljubljana Category:International gymnastics competitions hosted by Yugoslavia Category:1922 in Yugoslav sport