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Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

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Men's parallel bars
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Artistic gymnastics pictogram
VenueFestival Hall
Dates3–7 December
Competitors63 from 18 nations
Winning score19.20
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Masumi Kubota
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Takashi Ono
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Masao Takemoto
 Japan
← 1952
1960 →

The men's parallel bars competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. It was held from 3 to 7 December at the Melbourne Festival Hall. There were 63 competitors from 18 nations (down sharply from the 185 gymnasts in 1952), with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union, the nation's first victory in the parallel bars. Japan took three medals: a silver by Masumi Kubota and bronzes by Takashi Ono and Masao Takemoto. It was the third time a nation had won three medals in the event in the same Games: the United States had swept the medals in 1904 and Switzerland had earned a gold and two bronzes in 1948. Chukarin was the third man to win multiple medals in the parallel bars; Ono would become the fourth in 1960.

Background

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This was the ninth appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Three of the top 10 gymnasts from 1952 returned: silver medalist Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union, fifth-place finisher Ferdinand Daniš of Czechoslovakia, and eighth-place finisher Valentin Muratov of the Soviet Union. Chukarin (the 1952 Olympic all-around champion) had won the 1954 world championships.[1]

Australia and Canada each made their debut in the men's parallel bars; East and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany for the first time. The United States made its eighth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format, mostly following the scoring tweaks made in 1952. Each nation entered either a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The 2 exercise scores were summed to give an apparatus total. No separate finals were contested.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.[2]

Schedule

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All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Monday, 3 December 1956
Tuesday, 4 December 1956
Wednesday, 5 December 1956
Thursday, 6 December 1956
Friday, 7 December 1956
8:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union 9.55 9.65 19.20
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Masami Kubota  Japan 9.55 9.60 19.15
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan 9.60 9.50 19.10
Masao Takemoto  Japan 9.40 9.70 19.10
5 Albert Azaryan  Soviet Union 9.30 9.70 19.00
6 Berndt Lindfors  Finland 9.45 9.45 18.90
Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan 9.35 9.55 18.90
8 Yury Titov  Soviet Union 9.40 9.45 18.85
Shinsaku Tsukawaki  Japan 9.45 9.40 18.85
Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union 9.30 9.55 18.85
Onni Lappalainen  Finland 9.30 9.55 18.85
Olavi Leimuvirta  Finland 9.20 9.65 18.85
13 Helmut Bantz  United Team of Germany 9.45 9.35 18.80
Kalevi Suoniemi  Finland 9.25 9.55 18.80
15 Jack Beckner  United States 9.40 9.35 18.75
16 Ferdinand Daniš  Czechoslovakia 9.40 9.30 18.70
Akira Kono  Japan 9.40 9.30 18.70
Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union 9.30 9.40 18.70
Jaroslav Mikoška  Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.35 18.70
William Thoresson  Sweden 9.40 9.30 18.70
21 Raimo Heinonen  Finland 9.20 9.45 18.65
Attila Takács  Hungary 9.40 9.25 18.65
23 Hans Pfann  United Team of Germany 9.30 9.25 18.55
24 Stoyan Stoyanov  Bulgaria 9.35 9.15 18.50
Velik Kapsazov  Bulgaria 9.20 9.30 18.50
Martti Mansikka  Finland 9.15 9.35 18.50
27 Josef Škvor  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.25 18.45
28 Raymond Dot  France 9.25 9.15 18.40
Charles Simms  United States 9.10 9.30 18.40
Michel Mathiot  France 9.10 9.30 18.40
31 Theo Wied  United Team of Germany 9.15 9.20 18.35
Bill Tom  United States 9.05 9.30 18.35
33 Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.30 18.30
Robert Klein  United Team of Germany 9.20 9.10 18.30
Vladimír Kejř  Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.15 18.30
Nik Stuart  Great Britain 9.15 9.15 18.30
János Héder  Hungary 9.20 9.10 18.30
38 Jaroslav Bím  Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.10 18.25
39 Erich Wied  United Team of Germany 9.00 9.10 18.10
40 Mincho Todorov  Bulgaria 9.10 8.90 18.00
41 Pavel Stolbov  Soviet Union 8.55 9.40 17.95
Jean Guillou  France 9.35 8.60 17.95
43 Abie Grossfeld  United States 8.75 9.10 17.85
Kurt Wigartz  Sweden 8.80 9.05 17.85
Hans Sauter  Austria 9.05 8.80 17.85
46 Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.30 8.50 17.80
47 Dick Beckner  United States 8.55 9.20 17.75
48 Jakob Kiefer  United Team of Germany 9.20 8.45 17.65
Frank Turner  Great Britain 8.75 8.90 17.65
Ed Gagnier  Canada 8.85 8.80 17.65
51 Armando Vega  United States 8.10 9.50 17.60
52 Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 8.50 8.95 17.45
53 Graham Bond  Australia 8.15 8.35 16.50
Bruce Sharp  Australia 8.20 8.30 16.50
55 John Lees  Australia 8.00 8.15 16.15
56 Brian Blackburn  Australia 8.45 7.25 15.70
57 David Gourlay  Australia 7.80 7.65 15.45
58 Jack Wells  South Africa 7.40 7.95 15.35
Noel Punton  Australia 7.70 7.65 15.35
60 Ronnie Lombard  South Africa 7.65 7.15 14.80
61 Pritam Singh  India 7.50 6.00 13.50
62 Sham Lal  India 6.25 7.10 13.35
63 Anant Ram  India 7.20 5.50 12.70

References

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  1. ^ a b "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 472.