1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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).

Medallists

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

Men's results

Team competition

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

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	115.450
	Template:Flagathlete	115.450
	Template:Flagathlete	114.600
4	Template:Flagathlete	114.050
4	Template:Flagathlete	114.050
6	Template:Flagathlete	113.650
7	Template:Flagathlete	113.500
8	Template:Flagathlete	113.400
9	Template:Flagathlete	113.350
10	Template:Flagathlete	112.850
11	Template:Flagathlete	112.500
12	Template:Flagathlete	112.300

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.650	9.600	19.250
	Template:Flagathlete	9.650	9.600	19.250
	Template:Flagathlete	9.450	9.750	19.200
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.550	9.600	19.150
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.550	19.150
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.550	9.500	19.050

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.700	19.300
	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.650	19.250
	Template:Flagathlete	9.500	9.700	19.200
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.450	9.700	19.150
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.400	9.500	18.900
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.350	9.500	18.850

Rings

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.750	9.950	19.750
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800	9.750	19.550
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800	9.700	19.500
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.800	9.650	19.450
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.800	19.400
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.650	9.650	19.300

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.450	9.800	19.250
	Template:Flagathlete	9.400	9.800	19.200
	Template:Flagathlete	9.550	9.550	19.100
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.300	9.600	18.900
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.450	9.450	18.900
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.200	9.650	18.850

Parallel bars

Rank	Gymnast	Score	Prelim score	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.850	9.750	19.600
	Template:Flagathlete	9.750	9.800	19.550
	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.800	19.400
	Template:Flagathlete	9.650	9.750	19.400
	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.800	19.400
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.700	9.650	19.350

Horizontal bar

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.800	9.900	19.700
	Template:Flagathlete	9.750	9.650	19.400
	Template:Flagathlete	9.700	9.700	19.400
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.700	19.300
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.650	19.250
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.550	9.700	19.250

Women's results

Team competition

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

Rank	Gymnast	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	75.680
	Template:Flagathlete	75.110
	Template:Flagathlete	74.370
4	Template:Flagathlete	74.310
5	Template:Flagathlete	74.240
6	Template:Flagathlete	74.210
7	Template:Flagathlete	74.140
8	Template:Flagathlete	73.740
9	Template:Flagathlete	73.600
10	Template:Flagathlete	73.470
11	Template:Flagathlete	73.440
12	Template:Flagathlete	73.420

Vault

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.400	9.560	18.960
	Template:Flagathlete	9.660	9.300	18.960
	Template:Flagathlete	9.430	9.500	18.930
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.260	18.860
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.430	9.360	18.790
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.260	9.360	18.620

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.730	9.730	19.460
	Template:Flagathlete	9.600	9.730	19.330
	Template:Flagathlete	9.500	9.700	19.200
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.400	9.730	19.130
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.530	9.600	19.130
6	Template:Flagathlete	9.460	9.660	19.110

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.260	9.630	18.890
	Template:Flagathlete	9.300	9.460	18.760
	Template:Flagathlete	9.160	9.560	18.720
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.260	9.400	18.660
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.200	9.400	18.600
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.000	9.560	18.560

Floor exercise

Rank	Gymnast	Compulsory	Optional	Total
	Template:Flagathlete	9.660	9.730	19.390
	Template:Flagathlete	9.400	9.760	19.160
	Template:Flagathlete	9.660	9.460	19.120
4	Template:Flagathlete	9.500	9.600	19.100
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.360	9.600	18.960
5	Template:Flagathlete	9.460	9.500	18.960

References

• Romanian Gymnastics Federation: 1954 Results Template:Webarchive
• Gymn Forum: World Championships Results
• Gymnastics