Gymnastics_at_the_1928_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_rings
Gymnastics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's rings
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The men's rings event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1928 Summer Olympics. It was one of seven gymnastics events for men and it was contested for the fourth time after 1896, 1904, and 1924. Scores from the rings event were added to the results from other individual apparatus events to give aggregate scores for the individual and team all-around events. Eighty-eight gymnasts from eleven nations competed, with each nation having a team of 8 gymnasts. The event was won by Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia, the nation's first medal in the rings event. For the second consecutive Games, Czechoslovakian gymnasts took both silver and bronze: Ladislav Vácha finished second and Emanuel Löffler is credited with a third place finish. Vácha, the bronze medalist in 1924, was the first man to win multiple medals in the event.
Löffler's bronze medal may be the result of a math error.[1] His scores in the compulsory and voluntary exercises were 27.25 and 28.25, respectively, which would result in a total score of 55.50.[2] This score is consistent with the individual all-around and team all-around scores for Löffler and Czechoslovakia.[2][3] However, his total score is listed as 56.50 instead in the Official Report for the rings apparatus.[4] A score of 55.50 would have placed Löffler fourth in the rings, behind Italy's Romeo Neri at 56.00.
