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.

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

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

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

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

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

1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships

Results

Individual combined

Apparatus finals

Free

Pommel horse

Rings

Vault

Parallel bars

High bars

Medal table

References

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	6	3	0	9
2	West Germany (FRG)	2	2	2	6
3	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	1	1	0	2
4	Sweden (SWE)	0	3	0	3
5	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
5	Luxembourg (LUX)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		9	9	4	22