1911 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition 1911 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships ITA 1861 Turin, Kingdom of Italy 1909 1913 thumb|300px|The victorious Bohemian team at these championships. From left to right: coach Jindřich Vaníček cs Jindřich Vaníček, Karel Starý, František Erben, Ferdinand Steiner, Svatopluk Svoboda, Karel Pitl, Josef Čada The Turin International Gymnastics Tournament, subsequently regarded as the 5th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships, was held in Turin, Italy, in conjunction with the 8th Italian Federal Festival of Gymnastics, on 13 May 1911.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 81http://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA121N10&lang=en Historical Medalists - Individual 2016-05-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20161009182832/http://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA121N10&lang=en 2016-10-09 deadhttp://iis.siccsports.com/Sports/Medals/Details?id=GA122N10&lang=en Historical Medalists - Team 2016-05-08 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 whose teams were officially scored at the tournament were Italy, France, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, Luxembourg and Bohemia (i.e., the Czech Sokol team). Romania sent a team of gymnasts to the event, but they took part in only some of the exercises, and were not scored for all events.Le Tournoi International De Gymnastique https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bd6t5731219s/f3.image.r=%22Le%20Tournoi%20International%20de%20gymnastique%22 1 May 2025 Paris-Journal 15 May 1911 3 fr The championships were purely a team event 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 https://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 Similarly, Czechoslovakia did not exist as an independent country at the time, instead Czech competitors competed under the flag of Bohemia.I Risultati del Torneo internazionale https://archive.org/details/lastampa_1911-05-15/page/n3/mode/2up?q=%22di+Torino%22 30 April 2025 La Stampa 15 May 1911 5 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 28 May 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.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 14 April 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.) An article published in the 10 June 2024 issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport (a peer-reviewed journal) claimed 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 The International Journal of the History of Sport 2024 41 12 1211–1231 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09523367.2024.2351219#abstract/ Taylor and Francis Online 10.1080/09523367.2024.2351219 10 September 2025 However 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 Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera cs, shows multiple medals with the words "Concorso Ginnastico Internazionale 1911 Torino" embossed onto them.Slavní absolventi naší školy Famous graduates of our school https://www.gjwprostejov.cz/slavni Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera cs 29 April 2025 This brief biographical treatment was published at least as far back as 14 January 2017 on the officialGymnázium Jiřího Wolkera https://www.gjwprostejov.cz/ Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera cs 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) https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1223868384374843&set=a.1181074551987560 Gymnázium Jiřího Wolkera Facebook 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 4 1 4 2 3 3 ITA 1861 0 5 3 0 0 1 YUG shs thumb|250px|A page from the Rozkvět magazine with a photograph of the victorious Bohemian team and a promotional painting for the 1911 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Notes 1 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 2 Some sources erroneously claim that Jules Labéeu represented Belgium, while, in fact, he represented France. 3 The bronze medal earned by Stane Vidmar, originally from Slovenia in Austria-Hungary, is officially credited by the International Gymnastics Federation as a medal for Yugoslavia (YUG), even though the nation did not exist at the time. Medal summary Team all-around CzechoslovakiaJosef ČadaFrantišek ErbenKarel PitlKarel StarýFerdinand SteinerSvatopluk Svoboda FranceAntoine CostaMarco TorrèsJules LabéeuM. MaucerierJules LecoutreDominique Follacci ITA 1861Osvaldo PalazziGiorgio ZamporiPaolo SalviPietro BianchiGuido RomanoFrancesco Loi Individual all-around Ferdinand Steiner TCH Josef Čada TCH Karel Starý TCHSvatopluk Svoboda TCH Pommel horse Osvaldo Palazzi ITA 1861 Giorgio Zampori ITA 1861Paolo Salvi ITA 1861 Rings Ferdinand Steiner TCH Antoine Costa FRADominique Follacci FRAPietro Bianchi ITA 1861 Parallel bars Giorgio Zampori ITA 1861 Dominique Follacci FRA Jules Labéeu FRAAntoine Costa FRAJules Lecoutre FRAPaolo Salvi ITA 1861Ferdinand Steiner TCHStane Vidmar YUG shs Horizontal bar Josef Čada TCH Marco Torrès FRA Guido Romano ITA 1861Svatopluk Svoboda TCH Results Men's team all-around Rank Team Score 1. 974.69 2. 934.41 3. 899.86 4. 881.56 5. 830.22 6. 737.21 7. 687.99 8. 230.49 The team totals were out of a maximum of 1126 points.Sajovic G. (Dr.) Slovenski sokolski koledar za leto Slovenian Falconry Calendar for the year https://www.dlib.si/stream/URN:NBN:SI:DOC-H2ZOLC43/0bb74e27-85f6-4832-940a-07e5d3d0faa8/PDF sl Slovenski Sokolski koledar za leta 7 1912 Kranj Vaditeljski odbor Sokola 105 17 May 2026 The 1 September 1911 issue of the magazine Sokolské besedy reported slightly different team totals for some of these teams, however the ordering was exactly the same.Pn. Unknown 1 September 1911 Télocvičná Hlídka: Úřední výsledek mezinár. Závodú tělocvičných v Turiné. Gymnastics Patrol: Official results of the international gymnastics competitions in Turin. https://www.digitalniknihovna.cz/mzk/view/uuid:97e4c660-337b-11ed-afb8-5ef3fc9bb22f?page=uuid:7ed21db0-3454-11ed-89e3-005056822549 cs Sokolské besedy 6 9 291–292 23 May 2026 Men's individual all-around Rank Team Name Score 1. Ferdinand Steiner 168.25 2. Josef Čada 167.62 3. Karel Starý 167 3. Svatopluk Svoboda 167 This source for the scores for the individual all-around also states that the best French was 4th, the best Vlach (Romanian) was 5th, the best Slovenian was 7th and the best Luxembourger was 15th; however, seeing that this reporting apparently fails to recognize the tie for third (and might also have failed to recognized other ties), each of those placements for the unnamed individuals from those various nations should probably be moved down by at least one placement each. This source also reports Erben and Pitl as having placed 11th and 22nd. References Category:World Artistic Gymnastics Championships Category:International gymnastics competitions hosted by Italy World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, 1911 Category:1911 in gymnastics