Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around


The men's individual all-around, also known as the heptathlon, was one of two gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. As suggested by the alternate name, the competition included seven events with the scores summed to give a final score. Each nation could enter up to 20 fencers, with France and Great Britain each entering the maximum. A total of 97 gymnasts from 12 nations competed.

Competition format

The events were:
With the exception of rope climbing, each competitor had a maximum of 2 minutes in each event. Horizontal bars were set at heights of 250 cm and 220 cm; parallel bars were set at heights of 160 cm and 148 cm; rings were adjustable in 10 cm increments from 180 cm to 250 cm. The rope, which was 5 cm in diameter, had a top mark at 720 cm and marks below that every 45 cm down to 180 cm.
Other than for rope climbing, each gymnast performed one "voluntary" exercise on each apparatus, with a maximum score of 24 points from each of the 3 judges. Thus, there was a maximum of 72 points per exercise or 432 points from the six non-rope climbing exercises. Points were awarded for " successful performance of exercise attempted; difficulty and combination of movements; style and sequence; variety of movements."
The rope climbing competition required gymnasts to climb hand-over-hand, with legs together and clear of the rope. Gymnasts had to climb in continuous motion; the judging ended when motion ceased to be continuous. The gymnast earned point for every 18 inches climbed.

Results

The Official Report gives the places and scores of the first 19. A full list of results was printed in a French journal in August 1908, but was not discovered until March 2020.
RankGymnastNationScore
Alberto Braglia317
Walter Tysall312
Louis Ségura297
4Curt Steuernagel273.5
5Friedrich Wolf267
6Samuel Hodgetts266
7Marcel Lalu258.75
8Robert Diaz258.5
9Edward Potts252.5
10Jules Rolland249.5
11François Nidal249
12George Bailey246
12Karl Borchert246
14Antoine Costa241.75
15János Nyisztor236
16Thomas Dick233.5
16Arthur Hodges233.5
18Georges Thurnherr232
19Guido Romano230
20Jean Castigliano227
21Otello Capitani226.75
22Joseph Lux226
23William Watters225.5
24James Graham225
25Josef Čada222.5
26Dominique Follacci222
26Georges Charmoille222
28Alfred Castille220
28Wilhelm Weber220
30Fernand Castille218
31Joseph Cook213
32Victor Dubois212.5
33Josef Krämer212
34Kálmán Szabó209
35Paulin Lemaire207.25
36Bohumil Honzátko205.5
37G. Meade205
38G. Mounier204.5
39Imre Gellért202.5
40Heinrich Siebenhaar198.5
41Paul Fischer198
42Edgar Dyson195.5
43E. Gauthier195
44Jean Van Guysse194
45Sidney Domville193.75
46Robert Hanley193.5
47Mihály Antos192.5
48John Watters187.5
49Michel Biet187.5
50Georg Karth186.5
51William Fergus183.5
52Carl Körting181
53Wilhelm Kaufmann180.5
53Félicien Lekim180.5
53Antoine De Buck180.5
56Edmund Aspinall177
57Georges Ratelot172.75
58C. H. Smith171.75
59Allan Keith170
60Gerardus Wesling165
61Reinier Blom160.5
62Isidore Goudeket159
62Johannes Stikkelman159
64Emanuel Brouwer158
65August Ehrich156.75
66Johannes Posthumus155.5
67John Skrataas154.5
67Aleko Mulos154.5
69Dirk Janssen153.5
70Petter Hol152.5
71Cornelus Becker152.5
72Jan Janssen150.5
73Otto Bauscher149.5
74Jan Jacob Kieft149.5
75Riku Korhonen143.5
76Carl Klæth142
77Frigyes Gráf141.5
78Abraham Mok141
79A. V. Ford141.5
80Orville Elliott132.5
81Jaska Saarivuori132
82Frithjof Olsen127.5
83Hendricus Thijsen127
84Conrad Carlsrud124
85Leonard Hanson121
85Iivari Partanen121
87Per Mathias Jespersen120.5
88Eetu Kosonen120
89Édouard Boislèvé120
90Johann Flemer118.5
91David Teivonen117.5
92Ole Iversen117
93Constantijn van Daalen116.5
94Eugen Ingebretsen109
95Herman van Leeuwen101
96Jonas Slier96