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1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Gymnastics competition

Summary

Gymnastics competition

Field	Value
name	1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
location	Kingdom of Bohemia Prague, Bohemia
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Czechoslovakians]], were team champions at 9 of the 11 editions of these World Championships that had team competitions and that existed from their debut at these 3rd 1907 games to the 11th and last games, in 1938, before [[World War II]]. This team was composed of numerous individuals who would become quite decorated at the level of these World Championships. Standing, left to right: [[Josef Seidl]], [[Karel Sál]], [[Josef Čada]], [[Karel Starý]]; Lying/seated, left to right: [[František Prečner]], [[František Erben]], [[Bohumil Honzátko

The 3rd Artistic Gymnastics World Championships were held in Prague, Bohemia, in conjunction with the 5th Czech Sokol Slet on 30 June 1907.

A historic signpost in the sometimes contentious politics of the sport occurred with respect to these championships. In a 100-year Anniversary Publication of the International Federation of Gymnastics, a past observation of Dr. Miroslav Klinger, an honorary member of the FIG, was noted with regard to a German magazine article. In that FIG publication, it is written that an article in a 1907 issue of the German publication Deutsche Turnzeitung "dissuaded the non-slavic nations from participating in the international competition in Prague, by saying the competitors could be threatened by violence. The goal of the article was to pressure the president of the European Federation into the renunciation of the Prague event. Nevertheless, the German Federation sent observers to Prague."

The championships were purely team events 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. As such no actual individual medals were awarded at these games, the below rankings were conferred retrospectively.

Conversely, please note that 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) and 6th (1913){{cite news|editor-last=Murnik |editor-first=Viktor (Dr.) |title=Slovenci na mednarodni tekmi v Parizu |trans-title=Slovenians at an international competition in Paris

Additionally, please note that in lieu of an article published in the 10 June 2024 issue of The International Journal of the History of Sport (a peer-reviewed journal) claiming that the BFEG’s (the FIG’s predecessor) archives from before 1950 appear to have been lost,{{cite web |last1=Vonnard |first1=Philippe |last2=Mayencourt |first2=Gil |title=Building European Fraternity Through Gymnastics: The Establishment of the Bureau Des Fédérations Européennes de Gymnastiques, 1863–1913

Medals

;Note: Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from Bohemia as medals for Czechoslovakia.

Team Competition

Rank	Nation	Gymnast	Preliminaries Events	Gymnastics Events	Athletics Events	Individual Grand Totals	Team Scores	Team Grand Totals	1st Prelim	2nd Prelim	3rd Prelim	4th Prelim	5th Prelim	Prelim Totals	Prelim Totals Rank	Comp.	Opt.	Totals	Comp.	Opt.	Totals	Comp.	Opt.	Totals	Gymnastics Events Totals	Gymnastics Events Totals Rank	Long Jump	Weight Lifting	150 meters	Athletics Totals
		Josef Čada	10	9.5	9	9	10	47.5	6	9.25	11.5	20.75	11.25	11.75	23	9.5	10.5	20	63.75	4	20	20	16	56	1	167.25	1	944.5	6.75	951.25
František Erben	9.5	9.25	9.75	9	9.25	46.75	9	8.5	12	20.5	11.75	12	23.75	10.75	11.5	22.25	66.5	1	12	16	16	44	22	157.25	3
Karel Starý	9	8.5	9	9	9	44.5	17	8.75	10	18.75	11	11.75	22.75	10	8.75	18.75	60.25	10	12	20	20	52	5	156.75	4
Karel Sál	8.75	9	9	8.25	9	44	21	8.75	9.5	18.25	10.25	11.5	21.75	10.5	10.25	20.75	60.75	9	14	20	16	50	7	154.75	6
Josef Seidl	9.75	8.75	9	8.75	10	46.25	12	9.25	11	20.25	8	10.5	18.55	9.5	10	19.5	58.25	13	14	20	16	50	7	154.5	7
Bohumil Honzátko	8	9.25	9.5	9	9.25	45	15	8	11	19	8	11.25	19.25	9.75	8	17.75	56	16	20	17	16	53	4	154	9
Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	275	-	-	-	119.50	-	-	113	60	59	119	-	-	92	113	100	-	-	944.5
		Jules Rolland	9.25	9	9.5	9.75	9.75	47.25	7	9	11	20	11.5	12	23.5	10.5	10.5	21	64.55	2	14	17	16	47	13	158.75	2	915.5	7.5	923
Francois Vidal†	9.75	9.75	9.25	9.75	9.75	48.25	3	10.5	7	17.5	12	12		10	10.25	20.25	61.75	7	14	14	18	46	15	156	5
Georges Charmoille	9	9	9.5	8.5	9.5	45.5	13	7.75	10.75	18.5	11.75	12	23.75	8.75	8	16.75	59	12	20	13	14	47	13	151.5	11
Joseph Castigliani	8.75	9	8.5	9	9.5	44.75	16	9.5	9.75	19.25	11.75	10.5	22.25	10	10.25	20.25	61.75	7	12	20	16	48	11	154.5	7
Louis Ségura	10	9.75	9.75	9.75	10	49.25	1	10.75	9.75	20.5	11	12	23	8.5	11	19.5	63	5	10	10	16	36	32	148.25	13
	9.5	10	9.5	9	10	48	4	10.25	11.5	21.75	11	12	23	9.5	10.25	19.75	64.5	2	6	14	14	34	35	146.5	15
Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	284.50	-	-	-	119.50	-	-	141.50	57.25	60.25	117.5	-	-	76	88	94	-	-	915.5
		Louis de Winter	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.25	9.25	47	8	5.75	8	13.75	9.75	10.75	20.5	11.25	8.25	19.50	53.75	19	14	20	18	52	5	152.75	10	864.25	8	872.25
Leo Pauvels	8.75	9	9.5	10	6	43.25	23	8.5	10.5	19	11	11.5	22.5	10.75	9.75	20.5	62	6	14	16	16	46	15	151.25	12
Charles Lannie	9.25	9	9.5	9.25	9.5	46.5	10	7	10	17	10	10	20	9.75	8.75	18.50	55.5	17	10	20	16	46	15	148	14
Pol Giesenfeld	9	10	9.5	10	10	48.5	2	8	10	18	11	11.5	22.5	8.75	7	15.75	56.25	15	10	15	14	39	28	143.75	17
Paul Mangin†	8.5	9.25	9	9.5	9	45.25	14	7.75	8	15.75	11	11.75	22.75	11.25	9.75		59.5	11	12	11	14	37	29	141.75	19
Henri Carsan	8	8.75	8.25	8.75	8.5	42.25	27	3.75	5.5	9.25	6.75	8	14.75	10.25	9.5	19.75	43.75	25	8	18	14	40	26	126	27
Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	274.75	-	-	-	94.75	-	-	125	62	53	115	-	-	68	100	92	-	-	864.25
4		Nikol Kanive	8.75	7.5	7.5	7.25	8.75	39.75	28	5.5	7.75	13.25	10.25	11	21.25	7.5	6.5	14	48.5	21	18	18	18	54	2	142.25	18	782	6.75	788.75
André Bordaug	9.5	9.5	9.75	9.75	9.5	48	4	7.25	8.75	16	2	11.25	13.25	6.5	6.5	13	42.25	28	12	18	16	46	15	136.25	20
Guillaume Hary	8	8	8	6	8	38	30	9	7	16	10.25	11.75	22	7	6	13	51	20	12	20	14	46	15	135	21
Charles Behm	6.5	7	6.25	4	6.5	30.25	36	6.25	7	13.25	9.5	9	18.5	7.25	6	13.25	45	23	12	20	18	50	7	125.25	28
Nikolaus Kummer	9.5	8.75	8.5	7	9.75	43.5	22	8.25	7.25	15.5	6	10	16	6.5	5.75	12.25	43.75	25	6	15	16	37	29	124.25	30
Ernes Greiveldinger	7.5	8	8	7	7.5	38	30	4	9.25	13.25	2	11.25	13.25	7.5	6	13.5	40	32	10	20	16	46	15	124	31
Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	239	-	-	-	84.25	-	-	106.25	42.25	36.75	79	-	-	70	111	98	-	-	782
5		Albin Kandare	8	9	9.25	9	9.25	44.5	17	7.25	9.5	16.75	11.5	11.75	23.25	9.75	8.5	18.25	58.25	13	6	20	16	42	24	144.75	34	765.25	6	771.25
	8	8	8	7.5	7	38.5	29	6.5	8	14.5	10.5	11.25	21.75	9	9	18	54.25	18	10	20	12	42	24	134.75	22
Anton Thaler	8	8.75	8.5	9	9.25	43.25	23	4	7	11	8	10.75	18.75	8	7.25	15.25	45	23	6	9	12	37	29	125.25	28
Fran Miklavk	8	7.5	7.75	7.75	6.5	37.5	33	5	6.75	11.75	2	8.5	10.5	8.75	10.5	19.25	41.5	29	14	15	14	43	23	122	32
Vladimir Deklevek	9	9.25	9	8.5	8.75	44.5	17	6	6	12	2	10	12	8.25	8	16.25	40.25	31	10	11	14	35	33	119.75	33
Josip Rihar	9.5	8.75	9	9.5	9.75	46.5	10	4.75	6.5	11.25	2	7	9	8	9	17	37.25	33	10	15	10	35	33	118.75	34
Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	256	-	-	-	78.25	-	-	97.25	51.75	52.25	104	-	-	56	100	78	-	-	765.25
6		Nandor Kovats	8.75	9	8.75	9.25	8.75	44.5	17	4.25	8.75	13	2	10.5	12.5	8	7.5	15.5	41	30	12	20	16	48	11	133.5	23	727.25	6	733.25
Lajos Kmetykó	8.75	8.75	8.25	7.5	9.25	42.5	26	2.75	7.25	10	2	9	11	8.75	5.5	14.25	35.25	34	20	16	18	54	2	131.75	24
János Kmetykó	7.5	7.5	8	7.5	7.5	38	30	4.75	7	11.75	10	8	18	6.25	7.5	13.75	43.5	27	16	20	14	50	7	131.5	25
Lakatos Bela	7	6.5	7.5	7	8	36	34	8.25	10.5	18.75	6.5	8.5	15	5.5	6.75	12.25	46	22	16	12	18	46	15	128	26
Hándor Bak	8.5	9.75	8	7.5	9	42.75	25	2.5	4.5	7	1	10	11	6.75	6	12.75	30.75	35	14	12	14	40	27	113.5	35
Karoly Bajor	6	7	6.5	6	6.75	32.25	35	2.75	4	6.75	1	5.5	6.5	6.5	5	11.5	24.75	36	6	10	16	32	36	89	36
Totals:	-	-	-	-	-	237.50	-	-	-	68.25	-	-	76	41.75	38.25	80	-	-	84	90	96	-	-	727.25

All Round

Rank	Athlete	Total
1.	Bohemia Josef Čada	167.250
2.	France Jules Rolland	158.750
3.	Bohemia František Erben	157.250

High Bar

Ranlk	Athlete	Total
1.	France Georges Charmoille	23.750
1.	Bohemia František Erben	23.750
3.	France Jules Rolland	23.500

†=The website Gymnastics-History.com, in a blog entry about the 1907 World Championships, states that "In 125 Years of the FIG: The Story Goes on, the FIG lists Erben and Charmoille as the high bar champions. That is a mistake, given that [Francois] Vidal had a perfect 24 on high bar" and goes on to reproduce apparently original source material therein identified as "V. slet všesokolský 1907: pamětní list vydaný" that replicates that fact." In other areas of this competition, also, Vidal was one of the highest scorers.

Parallel bars

Rank	Athlete	Total
1.	France Joseph Lux	21.750
2.	Bohemia Josef Čada	20.750
3.	France Louis Ségura	20.500
3.	Bohemia František Erben	20.500

Pommel Horse

Rank	Athlete	Total
1.	Bohemia František Erben	22.250
2.	France Jules Rolland	21.000
3.	Bohemia Karel Sál	20.750

†=Belgian Paul Mangin's combined score of 21 on the Pommel Horse apparatus should have garnered him a tied-for-silver finish (with Jules Rolland of France), and also dropped Bohemian Karel Sál out of the medal-place finishes, however none of this is indicated in the FIG’s record, as it currently stands.

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