Horizontal bar at the Olympics

The horizontal bar is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was held again in 1904, but not in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920 when no apparatus events were awarded medals. The horizontal bar was one of the components of the men's artistic individual all-around in 1900, 1908, and 1912, however. The men's horizontal bar returned as a medal event in 1924 and has been held every Games since. Horizontal bar scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final. In 1932, the horizontal bar was entirely separate from the all-around. From 1936 to 1956, there were again no separate apparatus finals with the horizontal bar scores used in the all-around. Beginning in 1960, there were separate apparatus finals.

Horizontal bar
at the Olympic Games
Horizontal bar competition at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Overview
SportArtistic gymnastics
GenderMen
Years heldMen: 1896, 1904, 19242024
Reigning champion
Men Shinnosuke Oka (JPN)

The 1896 Games also featured a team horizontal bar event.

Medalists

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Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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Hermann Weingärtner
  Germany
Alfred Flatow
  Germany
Not awarded
1900 Paris Not held
1904 St. Louis
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Anton Heida
  United States
Edward Hennig
  United States
Not awarded George Eyser
  United States
1908 London Not held
1912 Stockholm Not held
1920 Antwerp Not held
1924 Paris
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Leon Štukelj
  Yugoslavia
Jean Gutweninger
  Switzerland
André Higelin
  France
1928 Amsterdam
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Georges Miez
  Switzerland
Romeo Neri
  Italy
Eugen Mack
  Switzerland
1932 Los Angeles
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Dallas Bixler
  United States
Heikki Savolainen
  Finland
Einari Teräsvirta
  Finland
1936 Berlin
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Aleksanteri Saarvala
  Finland
Konrad Frey
  Germany
Alfred Schwarzmann
  Germany
1948 London
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Josef Stalder
  Switzerland
Walter Lehmann
  Switzerland
Veikko Huhtanen
  Finland
1952 Helsinki
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Jack Günthard
  Switzerland
Alfred Schwarzmann
  Germany
Josef Stalder
  Switzerland
Not awarded
1956 Melbourne
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Takashi Ono
  Japan
Yuri Titov
  Soviet Union
Masao Takemoto
  Japan
1960 Rome
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Takashi Ono
  Japan
Masao Takemoto
  Japan
Boris Shakhlin
  Soviet Union
1964 Tokyo
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Boris Shakhlin
  Soviet Union
Yuri Titov
  Soviet Union
Miroslav Cerar
  Yugoslavia
1968 Mexico City
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Akinori Nakayama
  Japan
Mikhail Voronin
  Soviet Union
Not awarded Eizo Kenmotsu
  Japan
1972 Munich
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Mitsuo Tsukahara
  Japan
Sawao Kato
  Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
  Japan
1976 Montreal
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Mitsuo Tsukahara
  Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
  Japan
Eberhard Gienger
  West Germany
Henri Boerio
  France
1980 Moscow
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Stoyan Deltchev
  Bulgaria
Alexander Dityatin
  Soviet Union
Nikolai Andrianov
  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles
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Shinji Morisue
  Japan
Tong Fei
  China
Koji Gushiken
  Japan
1988 Seoul
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Vladimir Artemov
  Soviet Union
Valeri Liukin
  Soviet Union
Not awarded Holger Behrendt
  East Germany
Marius Gherman
  Romania
1992 Barcelona
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Trent Dimas
  United States
Andreas Wecker
  Germany
Grigory Misutin
  Unified Team
1996 Atlanta
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Andreas Wecker
  Germany
Krasimir Dunev
  Bulgaria
Vitaly Scherbo
  Belarus
Fan Bin
  China
Alexei Nemov
  Russia
2000 Sydney
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Alexei Nemov
  Russia
Benjamin Varonian
  France
Lee Joo-Hyung
  South Korea
2004 Athens
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Igor Cassina
  Italy
Paul Hamm
  United States
Isao Yoneda
  Japan
2008 Beijing
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Zou Kai
  China
Jonathan Horton
  United States
Fabian Hambüchen
  Germany
2012 London
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Epke Zonderland
  Netherlands
Fabian Hambüchen
  Germany
Zou Kai
  China
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Fabian Hambüchen
  Germany
Danell Leyva
  United States
Nile Wilson
  Great Britain
2020 Tokyo
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Daiki Hashimoto
  Japan
Tin Srbić
  Croatia
Nikita Nagornyy
  ROC
2024 Paris
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Shinnosuke Oka
  Japan
Ángel Barajas
  Colombia
Tang Chia-hung
  Chinese Taipei
Zhang Boheng
  China

Multiple medalists

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Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Takashi Ono   Japan (JPN) 1956–1960 2 0 0 2
Mitsuo Tsukahara   Japan (JPN) 1972–1976 2 0 0 2
3 Fabian Hambüchen   Germany (GER) 2008–2016 1 1 1 3
4 Josef Stalder   Switzerland (SUI) 1948–1952 1 1 0 2
Andreas Wecker   Germany (GER) 1992–1996 1 1 0 2
6 Boris Shakhlin   Soviet Union (URS) 1960–1964 1 0 1 2
Alexei Nemov   Russia (RUS) 1996–2000 1 0 1 2
Zou Kai   China (CHN) 2008–2012 1 0 1 2
9 Yuri Titov   Soviet Union (URS) 1956–1964 0 2 0 2
10 Eizo Kenmotsu   Japan (JPN) 1968–1976 0 1 1 2
Alfred Schwarzmann   Germany (GER) 1936–1952 0 1 1 2
Masao Takemoto   Japan (JPN) 1956–1960 0 1 1 2

Medalists by country

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1   Japan (JPN) 8 3 5 16
2   Soviet Union (URS) 4 3 2 9
3   United States (USA) 4 3 1 8
4   Germany (GER) 3 5 2 10
5   Switzerland (SUI) 3 3 1 7
6   China (CHN) 1 1 3 5
  Finland (FIN) 1 1 2 4
8   Bulgaria (BUL) 1 1 0 2
  Italy (ITA) 1 1 0 2
10   Russia (RUS) 1 0 1 2
  Yugoslavia (YUG) 1 0 1 2
12   Netherlands (NED) 1 0 0 1
13   France (FRA) 0 1 2 3
14   Colombia (COL) 0 1 0 1
  Croatia (CRO) 0 1 0 1
16   Belarus (BLR) 0 0 1 1
  Chinese Taipei (TPE) 0 0 1 1
  East Germany (GDR) 0 0 1 1
  West Germany (FRG) 0 0 1 1
  Great Britain (GBR) 0 0 1 1
  Romania (ROU) 0 0 1 1
  ROC 0 0 1 1
  South Korea (KOR) 0 0 1 1
  Unified Team (EUN) 0 0 1 1
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Men's Horizontal Bar at the Olympics

Team horizontal bar

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At the 1896 Olympics a team version of the horizontal bar was held. It was one of two team apparatus events in 1896, along with the team parallel bars. The team apparatus events were never held again.

The team horizontal bar event had 10 horizontal bars for the team to use. Teams in the 1896 team events could be large, with one in the parallel bars exceeding 30 members. Only one team competed in the team horizontal bar. Judges scored the teams on execution, rhythm, and technical difficulty.[1]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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  Germany (GER) Not awarded Not awarded

References

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  1. ^ "Horizontal Bar, Teams, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 December 2020.