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1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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The first European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships took place in 1955. In this championship, there was no team competition, only individual competitions. Only men took part, and the championship took place in Frankfurt am Main.

The Soviet Union dominated the championships, and took the top two places, with a total of five golds in the apparatus finals. Boris Shakhlin, who won a total of 14 World Championship medals and 13 Olympic medals in gymnastics, won the overall competition.

Results

Individual combined

Note: Free (FX), Pommel horse (PH), Rings (R), Vault (VT), Parallel bars (PB), High bar (HB), .

Place		Country		Name		FX		PH		R		VT		PB		HB		TOTAL

Apparatus finals

Free

Place	Gymnast	Points
Czechoslovakia Vladimir Prorok	9.75
Sweden Jan Cronstedt
Germany Adalbert Dickhut

Pommel horse

Place	Gymnast	Points
Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin	9.75
Sweden Jan Cronstedt
Austria Hans Sauter

Rings

Place	Gymnast	Points
Soviet Union Albert Azaryan	9.85
Germany Helmut Bantz
Czechoslovakia Vladimir Prorok
Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin

Vault

Place	Gymnast	Points
Germany Adalbert Dickhut	9.75
Germany Helmut Bantz
Luxembourg Joseph Stoffel

Parallel bars

Place	Gymnast	Points
Germany Helmut Bantz	9.75
Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin	9.75
Soviet Union Albert Azaryan	9.75

High bars

Place	Gymnast	Points
Soviet Union Boris Shakhlin	9.75
Soviet Union Albert Azaryan
Sweden Jan Cronstedt

Medal table

References

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