1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

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
	Soviet Union	Boris Shakhlin	9.55	9.75	9.55	9.45	9.75	9.75	57.80
	Soviet Union	Albert Azaryan	9.50	8.50	9.85	9.55	9.75	9.60	56.75
	West Germany	Helmut Bantz	9.40	9.20	9.55	9.60	9.75	9.15	56.65
4	West Germany	Adalbert Dickhut	9.60	9.15	9.40	9.75	9.05	9.35	56.30
5	Luxembourg	Joseph Stoffel	9.20	9.20	9.35	9.60	9.35	9.45	56.15
6	Sweden	Jean Cronstedt	9.70	9.35	8.75	9.30	9.40	9.60	56.10
7	France	Raymond Dot	9.25	9.00	9.30	9.30	9.45	9.45	55.75
8	France	Michel Mathiot	9.25	9.25	9.25	9.35	9.25	9.25	55.60

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

1	Soviet Union	6	3	0	9
2	West Germany	2	2	2	6
3	Czechoslovakia	1	1	0	2
4	Sweden	0	3	0	3
5	Luxembourg	0	0	1	1
5	Austria	0	0	1	1

External links

European Champions in Artistic Gymnastics - Men’s Individual All-Around

1955: Boris Shakhlin 1957: Joaquín Blume 1959: Yuri Titov 1961: Miroslav Cerar 1963: Miroslav Cerar 1965: Franco Menichelli 1967: Mikhail Voronin 1969: Mikhail Voronin 1971: Viktor Klimenko 1973: Viktor Klimenko 1975: Nikolai Andrianov 1977: Vladimir Markelov 1979: Stoyan Deltchev 1981: Alexander Tkachev 1983: Dmitry Bilozerchev 1985: Dmitry Bilozerchev 1987: Valeri Liukin 1989: Igor Korobchinsky 1990: Valentin Mogilny 1992: Igor Korobchinsky 1994: Ivan Ivankov 1996: Ivan Ivankov 1998: Alexei Bondarenko 2000: Alexander Beresch 2002: Dan Potra 2004: Marian Drăgulescu 2005: Rafael Martínez 2007: Maxim Deviatovski 2009: Fabian Hambüchen 2011: Philipp Boy 2013: David Belyavskiy 2015: Oleg Vernyayev

All medalist

European Gymnastics Championships

Men's Artistic	1955 1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Women's Artistic	1957 1959 1961 1963 1965 1967 1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Trampoline	1969 1971 1973 1975 1977 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016

Rhythmic	1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Acrobatic	1978 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

Aerobic	1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015

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