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.
Individual combined
Note: Free (FX), Pommel horse (PH), Rings (R), Vault (VT), Parallel bars (PB), High bar (HB), .
References
1955 European Men's Artistic Gymnastics Championships Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA