Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 18, 20, and 23rd at the Montreal Forum. There were 90 competitors from 20 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the horizontal bar. It was the third consecutive victory by a Japanese gymnast in the event, and fifth in six Games. Japan also took silver, as Eizo Kenmotsu finished second, but was prevented from repeating its 1972 podium sweep by new rules that limited nations to two gymnasts in the final (Japan had the top four gymnasts in qualifying). Tsukuhara and Kenmotsu (bronze in 1968) were the seventh and eighth men to win multiple medals in the horizontal bar. Henri Boerio of France and Eberhard Gienger of West Germany tied for bronze, the first medal for France in the event since 1924 and first horizontal bar medal for West Germany.[2]

Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Mitsuo Tsukahara (1972, on the rings)
VenueMontreal Forum
Dates18–23 July
Competitors90 from 20 nations
Winning score19.675
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mitsuo Tsukahara
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eberhard Gienger
 West Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Henri Boerio
 France
← 1972
1980 →

Background

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This was the 14th 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). Four of the six finalists from 1972 returned: gold medalist Mitsuo Tsukahara, silver medalist Sawao Kato, and fourth-place finisher (and 1968 bronze medalist) Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan and sixth-place finisher Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union. Eberhard Gienger of West Germany was the reigning (1974) world champion.[1]

Israel made its debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its 13th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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Each nation entered 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 scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score. These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score. The top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals, except that nations were limited to two finalists each; others were ranked 7th through 90th. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final.[1][3]

Schedule

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All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 18 July 1976 12:30
19:15
21:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 July 1976 15:00
19:00
20:45
Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 23 July 1976 19:30 Final

Results

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Ninety gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 18 and 20. The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 23. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes the "prelim" score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
  Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan 9.75 9.90 19.65 9.775 9.900 19.675
  Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan 9.65 9.85 19.50 9.750 9.750 19.500
  Eberhard Gienger   West Germany 9.65 9.70 19.35 9.675 9.800 19.475
Henri Boerio   France 9.60 9.75 19.35 9.675 9.800 19.475
5 Gennady Krysin   Soviet Union 9.50 9.80 19.30 9.525 9.600 19.125
6 Ferenc Donath   Hungary 9.55 9.65 19.20 9.500 9.450 18.950
7 Hisato Igarashi   Japan 9.60 9.85 19.45 Did not advance
8 Sawao Kato   Japan 9.65 9.75 19.40 Did not advance
9 Vladimir Markelov   Soviet Union 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
10 Hiroshi Kajiyama   Japan 9.50 9.75 19.25 Did not advance
11 Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union 9.70 9.50 19.20 Did not advance
Bernd Jäger   East Germany 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
Michael Nikolay   East Germany 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
14 Tom Beach   United States 9.45 9.65 19.10 Did not advance
Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union 9.45 9.65 19.10 Did not advance
Andrzej Szajna   Poland 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
17 Zoltán Magyar   Hungary 9.50 9.55 19.05 Did not advance
Vladimir Marchenko   Soviet Union 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
19 Dan Grecu   Romania 9.40 9.60 19.00 Did not advance
20 Vladimir Tikhonov   Soviet Union 9.30 9.65 18.95 Did not advance
21 Robert Bretscher   Switzerland 9.25 9.65 18.90 Did not advance
22 Imre Molnar   Hungary 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
Volker Rohrwick   West Germany 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
Wayne Young   United States 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
25 Béla Laufer   Hungary 9.25 9.55 18.80 Did not advance
Lutz Mack   East Germany 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Willi Moy   France 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
Kurt Thomas   United States 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
29 Ueli Bachmann   Switzerland 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Sorin Cepoi   Romania 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
31 Rainer Hanschke   East Germany 9.40 9.30 18.70 Did not advance
Peter Kormann   United States 9.20 9.50 18.70 Did not advance
33 Philip Delesalle   Canada 9.40 9.25 18.65 Did not advance
Wolfgang Klotz   East Germany 9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
Bernhard Locher   Switzerland 9.15 9.50 18.65 Did not advance
36 Bart Conner   United States 9.40 9.20 18.60 Did not advance
Gustav Tannenberger   Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.35 18.60 Did not advance
38 Imre Bánrévi   Hungary 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Roland Brückner   East Germany 9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
Nicolae Oprescu   Romania 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
Ştefan Gal   Romania 9.10 9.45 18.55 Did not advance
Werner Steinmetz   West Germany 9.20 9.35 18.55 Did not advance
43 Marshall Avener   United States 9.10 9.40 18.50 Did not advance
Edgar Jorek   West Germany 9.30 9.20 18.50 Did not advance
45 Vladislav Nehasil   Czechoslovakia 9.35 9.05 18.40 Did not advance
46 Philippe Gaille   Switzerland 9.05 9.30 18.35 Did not advance
Andrey Keranov   Bulgaria 9.15 9.20 18.35 Did not advance
48 Bernard Decoux   France 9.05 9.25 18.30 Did not advance
Miloslav Netusil   Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.15 18.30 Did not advance
Marian Pieczka   Poland 9.05 9.25 18.30 Did not advance
Reinhard Dietze   West Germany 8.95 9.35 18.30 Did not advance
Eric Koloko   France 9.35 8.95 18.30 Did not advance
53 Mariusz Zasada   Poland 9.30 8.90 18.20 Did not advance
Jiri Tabak   Czechoslovakia 9.00 9.20 18.20 Did not advance
55 Keith Carter   Canada 9.00 9.10 18.10 Did not advance
Georgi Todorov   Bulgaria 9.00 9.10 18.10 Did not advance
57 Maurizio Montesi   Italy 8.80 9.25 18.05 Did not advance
58 Ole Benediktson   Denmark 8.65 9.30 17.95 Did not advance
Maurizio Milanetto   Italy 8.65 9.30 17.95 Did not advance
Peter Rohner   Switzerland 9.05 8.90 17.95 Did not advance
61 Patrick Boutet   France 8.50 9.35 17.85 Did not advance
Árpád Farkas   Hungary 9.10 8.75 17.85 Did not advance
Pierre Leclerc   Canada 9.00 8.85 17.85 Did not advance
64 Mihai Borş   Romania 8.65 9.15 17.80 Did not advance
Ion Checicheş   Romania 8.90 8.90 17.80 Did not advance
66 Angelo Zucca   Italy 8.40 9.30 17.70 Did not advance
Dimitar Koychev   Bulgaria 8.75 8.95 17.70 Did not advance
Roman Tkaczyk   Poland 8.70 9.00 17.70 Did not advance
69 Dov Lupi   Israel 8.75 8.90 17.65 Did not advance
70 Jan Zoulík   Czechoslovakia 8.70 8.80 17.50 Did not advance
71 Stoyan Delchev   Bulgaria 8.45 8.95 17.40 Did not advance
Łukasz Uhma   Poland 8.55 8.85 17.40 Did not advance
73 Michel Boutard   France 9.20 8.15 17.35 Did not advance
Gabriel Calvo   Spain 8.40 8.95 17.35 Did not advance
75 Ian Neale   Great Britain 8.10 9.20 17.30 Did not advance
76 Reinhard Ritter   West Germany 8.05 9.20 17.25 Did not advance
Zhivko Rusev   Bulgaria 8.50 8.75 17.25 Did not advance
78 José de la Casa   Spain 8.60 8.60 17.20 Did not advance
79 Tommy Wilson   Great Britain 8.15 9.00 17.15 Did not advance
80 Peter Lloyd   Australia 8.40 8.70 17.10 Did not advance
81 Grzegorz Ciastek   Poland 8.90 8.15 17.05 Did not advance
Dimitrios Janulidis   Czechoslovakia 8.50 8.55 17.05 Did not advance
83 Phil Cheetham   Australia 8.65 8.30 16.95 Did not advance
Jeff Davis   Great Britain 8.15 8.80 16.95 Did not advance
85 Toncho Todorov   Bulgaria 8.20 8.70 16.90 Did not advance
86 Nelson Fernández   Cuba 7.60 9.15 16.75 Did not advance
87 Fernando Bertrand   Spain 7.30 8.90 16.20 Did not advance
88 Shun Fujimoto   Japan 9.60 9.60 Did not advance
89 Roberto Richards   Cuba 9.20 9.20 Did not advance
90 Armin Vock   Switzerland 8.90 8.90 Did not advance
Jorge Cuervo   Cuba DNS Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ^ The IOC credits West Germany as "Germany" in 1952, when Alfred Schwarzmann won silver.
  3. ^ Official Report, vol. 3, p. 327.