Gymnastics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

{{Infobox Olympic event

|event = Men's vault

|games = 1932 Summer

|image = File:Savino Guglielmetti 1932d.jpg

|image_size = 200px

|caption = Savino Guglielmetti

|venue = Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum

|date = 10 August 1932

|competitors = 10

|nations = 4

|longnames = yes

| win_label = Winning score

| win_value = 54.1

|gold = Savino Guglielmetti

|goldNOC = ITA

|silver = Al Jochim

|silverNOC = USA

|bronze = Ed Carmichael

|bronzeNOC = USA

|prev = 1928

|next = 1936

}}

The men's vault or "long horse vaulting" event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1932 Summer Olympics. It was contested for the fifth time after 1896, 1904, 1924, and 1928. The competition was held on Wednesday, August 10, 1932. Ten gymnasts from four nations competed.{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1932/GYM/mens-horse-vault.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417182424/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1932/GYM/mens-horse-vault.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Gymnastics at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Horse Vault |work=Sports Reference |access-date=19 July 2019}}{{cite web| url = https://www.olympic.org/news/gymnast-pelle-takes-double-gold| title = Gymnast Pelle takes double gold - Olympic News}} Each nation was limited to three gymnasts.Official Report, p. 656. The event was won by Savino Guglielmetti of Italy, the nation's first medal in the event. Americans Al Jochim and Ed Carmichael took silver and bronze, respectively.

Background

This was the fifth appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the gymnasts from 1928 returned: István Pelle and Miklós Péter of Hungary, Mario Lertora of Italy, and Al Jochim of the United States; none had finished better than 21st among the 85-man field that year. The vault was still not an event at the gymnastics world championships, and there was no clear favorite (especially without reigning Olympic champion Eugen Mack not present).{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/results/70105 |work=Olympedia |title=Horse Vault, Men |access-date=25 November 2020}}

No nation made its debut in the men's vault. The United States made its fourth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

In the early Olympics, the vault format changed considerably. The 1932 competition bore little resemblance to the 1924 or 1928 events. The 1932 event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each gymnast made two compulsory vaults and two voluntary vaults, with the better of the two counting in each category. The score for each vault was up to 30 points, with a combined score of 60 points maximum. A jump-off, with each gymnast making another compulsory and another voluntary vault, was held to break a tie for third place.Official Report, p. 656.

For the second (after 1896) and last time, the vault competition was entirely separate from the individual all-around rather than being entirely aggregated into the all-around or sharing qualification results.

Schedule

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! Date

! Time

! Round

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| Wednesday, 10 August 1932

8:00

Final

Results

class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" ! Rank	Gymnast	Nation	{{abbr\|C\|Compulsory}}	{{abbr\|V\|Voluntary}}	Total	{{abbr\|C\|Compulsory}}	{{abbr\|V\|Voluntary}}	Jump-off
{{gold01}}	align=left\| Savino Guglielmetti	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|ITA\|1932 Summer}}	26.4	27.7	54.1
{{silver02}}	align=left\| Al Jochim	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|USA\|1932 Summer}}	26.6	26.7	53.3
{{bronze03}}	align=left\| Ed Carmichael	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|USA\|1932 Summer}}	26.2	26.4	52.6	26.3	28.2	54.5
4	align=left\| Einari Teräsvirta	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|FIN\|1932 Summer}}	26.0	26.6	52.6	26.1	26.6	52.7
5	align=left\| Marcel Gleyre	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|USA\|1932 Summer}}	25.8	26.6	52.4
6	align=left\| István Pelle	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|HUN\|1932 Summer}}	26.7	24.7	51.4
7	align=left\| Miklós Péter	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|HUN\|1932 Summer}}	24.2	26.7	50.9
8	align=left\| Mario Lertora	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|ITA\|1932 Summer}}	25.2	24.0	49.2
9	align=left\| Péter Boros	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|HUN\|1932 Summer}}	24.2	24.6	48.8
10	align=left\| Heikki Savolainen	align=left\| {{flagIOC\|FIN\|1932 Summer}}	20.0	26.6	46.6

References

[https://web.archive.org/web/20080522105330/http://www.la84foundation.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Olympic Report]
{{cite web | last = Wudarski | first = Pawel | year = 1999 | url = http://olympic.w.interia.pl/ | title = Wyniki Igrzysk Olimpijskich | access-date = 1 November 2008|language=pl}}

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