1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
Location	Rome, Italy
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The 13th Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Rome, the capital of Italy, on June 28 - July 1, 1954. It was the first World Championships at which the Soviet Union competed, winning 20 medals overall (more than three times the amount of any other country). Other major changes at this championships included: 1) it was the first world championships at which a Code of Points was used; and 2) it was the last world championships that would be held "in open air" (outdoors).^[1]

Medallists[edit]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Albert Azaryan Viktor Chukarin Sergei Dzhayani Yevgeny Korolkov Valentin Muratov Hrant Shahinyan Boris Shakhlin Ivan Vostrikov	Japan Akitomo Kaneko Akira Kono Masami Kubota Tetsumi Nabeya Takashi Ono Yoshiyuki Oshima Masao Takemoto	Switzerland Hans Bründler Oswald Bühler Hans Eugster Jack Günthard Hans Schwartzentruber Josef Stalder Melchior Thalmann Jean Tschabold
Individual all-around details	Viktor Chukarin Valentin Muratov	none awarded	Hrant Shahinyan
Floor details	Masao Takemoto Valentin Muratov	none awarded	Karl William Thoresson
Pommel horse details	Hrant Shahinyan	Josef Stalder	Viktor Chukarin
Rings details	Albert Azaryan	Yevgeny Korolkov	Valentin Muratov
Vault details	Leo Sotorník	Helmut Bantz	Sergei Dzhayani
Parallel bars details	Viktor Chukarin	Josef Stalder	Helmut Bantz Masao Takemoto Hans Eugster
Horizontal bar details	Valentin Muratov	Helmut Bantz Boris Shakhlin	none awarded
Women
Team all-around details	Soviet Union Nina Bocharova Pelageya Danilova Maria Gorokhovskaya Larisa Diriy Tamara Manina Sofia Muratova Galina Rud'ko Galina Sarabidze	Hungary Eva Banati Ilona Bánhegyi Milanovits Irén Daruházi-Karcsics Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles Ágnes Keleti Alice Kertész Olga Lemhényi-Tass Edit Perényi-Weckinger	Czechoslovakia Eva Bosáková Miroslava Brdičková Alena Chadimová Věra Drazdíková Zdeňka Lišková Anna Marejková Alena Reichová Věra Vančurová
Individual all-around details	Galina Rud'ko	Eva Bosáková	Helena Rakoczy
Vault details	Ann-Sofi Pettersson Tamara Manina	none awarded	Evy Berggren
Uneven bars details	Ágnes Keleti	Galina Rud'ko	Helena Rakoczy
Balance beam details	Keiko Tanaka	Eva Bosáková	Ágnes Keleti
Floor details	Tamara Manina	Eva Bosáková	Maria Gorokhovskaya

Men's results[edit]

Team competition[edit]

Rank	Team	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Soviet Union	344.500	345.400	689.900
	Japan	333.600	339.650	673.250
	Switzerland	333.650	337.900	671.550
4	Germany	334.400	335.850	670.250
5	Czechoslovakia	328.350	333.050	661.400
6	Finland	328.150	331.700	659.850
7	Hungary	322.600	327.400	650.000
8	Italy	314.300	323.150	637.450
9	Bulgaria	312.500	313.050	625.550
10	France	313.450	310.200	623.650
11	Poland	303.800	311.700	615.500
12	Yugoslavia	297.250	305.900	603.150
13	Austria	293.300	297.500	590.800
14	Egypt	280.800	275.900	566.700
15	Luxembourg	274.350	287.050	561.400
16	Denmark	273.000	287.500	560.500

Individual all-around[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Valentin Muratov (URS)	115.450
	Viktor Chukarin (URS)	115.450
	Hrant Shahinyan (URS)	114.600
4	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	114.050
4	Albert Azaryan (URS)	114.050
6	Ivan Vostrikov (URS)	113.650
7	Yevgeny Korolkov (URS)	113.500
8	Helmut Bantz (FRG)	113.400
9	Josef Stalder (SUI)	113.350
10	Takashi Ono (JPN)	112.850
11	Akira Kono (JPN)	112.500
12	Jack Günthard (SUI)	112.300

Floor exercise[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Valentin Muratov (URS)	9.650	9.600	19.250
	Masao Takemoto (JPN)	9.650	9.600	19.250
	William Thoresson (SWE)	9.450	9.750	19.200
4	Viktor Chukarin (URS)	9.550	9.600	19.150
4	Masami Kubota (JPN)	9.600	9.550	19.150
6	Hrant Shahinyan (URS)	9.550	9.500	19.050

Pommel horse[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Hrant Shahinyan (URS)	9.600	9.700	19.300
	Josef Stalder (SUI)	9.600	9.650	19.250
	Viktor Chukarin (URS)	9.500	9.700	19.200
4	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	9.450	9.700	19.150
5	Ivan Vostrikov (URS)	9.400	9.500	18.900
6	Valentin Muratov (URS)	9.350	9.500	18.850

Rings[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Albert Azaryan (URS)	9.750	9.950	19.750
	Yevgeny Korolkov (URS)	9.800	9.750	19.550
	Valentin Muratov (URS)	9.800	9.700	19.500
4	Viktor Chukarin (URS)	9.800	9.650	19.450
5	Hrant Shahinyan (URS)	9.600	9.800	19.400
6	Sergei Dzhayani (URS)	9.650	9.650	19.300

Vault[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Leo Sotorník (TCH)	9.450	9.800	19.250
	Helmut Bantz (FRG)	9.400	9.800	19.200
	Sergei Dzhayani (URS)	9.550	9.550	19.100
4	Albert Azaryan (URS)	9.300	9.600	18.900
4	Takashi Ono (JPN)	9.450	9.450	18.900
6	Adalbert Dickhut (FRG)	9.200	9.650	18.850

Parallel bars[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Viktor Chukarin (URS)	9.850	9.750	19.600
	Josef Stalder (SUI)	9.750	9.800	19.550
	Masao Takemoto (JPN)	9.600	9.800	19.400
	Hans Eugster (SUI)	9.650	9.750	19.400
	Helmut Bantz (FRG)	9.600	9.800	19.400
6	Jack Günthard (SUI)	9.700	9.650	19.350

Horizontal bar[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Valentin Muratov (URS)	9.800	9.900	19.700
	Helmut Bantz (FRG)	9.750	9.650	19.400
	Boris Shakhlin (URS)	9.700	9.700	19.400
4	Josef Stalder (SUI)	9.600	9.700	19.300
5	Masao Takemoto (JPN)	9.600	9.650	19.250
5	Viktor Chukarin (URS)	9.550	9.700	19.250

Women's results[edit]

Team competition[edit]

Rank	Team	Total
	Soviet Union	524.310
	Hungary	518.280
	Czechoslovakia	511.750
4	Romania	498.570
5	Italy	495.770
6	Poland	495.660
7	Bulgaria	494.030
8	Sweden	491.210
9	France	490.360
10	Germany	486.560
11	Yugoslavia	485.440
12	Austria	453.790
13	Belgium	430.710
14	Saar	407.240
15	Luxembourg	378.560

Individual all-around[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Galina Rud'ko (URS)	75.680
	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	75.110
	Helena Rakoczy (POL)	74.370
4	Edit Perényi (HUN)	74.310
5	Elena Leuşteanu (ROU)	74.240
6	Nina Bocharova (URS)	74.210
7	Maria Gorokhovskaya (URS)	74.140
8	Keiko Tanaka (JPN)	73.740
9	Alena Chadimová (TCH)	73.600
10	Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles (HUN)	73.470
11	Alice Kertész (HUN)	73.440
12	Galina Sarabidze (URS)	73.420

Vault[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Ann-Sofi Pettersson (SWE)	9.400	9.560	18.960
	Tamara Manina (URS)	9.660	9.300	18.960
	Evy Berggren (SWE)	9.430	9.500	18.930
4	Maria Gorokhovskaya (URS)	9.600	9.260	18.860
5	Galina Rud'ko (URS)	9.430	9.360	18.790
6	Elena Leuşteanu (ROU)	9.260	9.360	18.620

Uneven bars[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Ágnes Keleti (HUN)	9.730	9.730	19.460
	Galina Rud'ko (URS)	9.600	9.730	19.330
	Helena Rakoczy (POL)	9.500	9.700	19.200
4	Nina Bocharova (URS)	9.400	9.730	19.130
4	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	9.530	9.600	19.130
6	Pelageya Danilova (URS)	9.460	9.660	19.110

Balance beam[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Keiko Tanaka (JPN)	9.260	9.630	18.890
	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	9.300	9.460	18.760
	Ágnes Keleti (HUN)	9.160	9.560	18.720
4	Edit Perényi (HUN)	9.260	9.400	18.660
5	Galina Rud'ko (URS)	9.200	9.400	18.600
5	Nina Bocharova (URS)	9.000	9.560	18.560

Floor exercise[edit]

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Tamara Manina (URS)	9.660	9.730	19.390
	Eva Bosáková (TCH)	9.400	9.760	19.160
	Maria Gorokhovskaya (URS)	9.660	9.460	19.120
4	Ágnes Keleti (HUN)	9.500	9.600	19.100
5	Galina Rud'ko (URS)	9.360	9.600	18.960
5	Larisa Latynina (URS)	9.460	9.500	18.960

Medals[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	12	3	5	20
2	Japan (JPN)	2	1	1	4
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	3	1	5
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	1	3
5	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	2	3
6	Switzerland (SUI)	0	2	2	4
7	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	1	3
8	Poland (POL)	0	0	2	2
Totals (8 entries)		17	12	15	44

References[edit]

• Romanian Gymnastics Federation: 1954 Results Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
• Gymn Forum: World Championships Results
• Gymnastics