Parallel bars at the Olympics

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Parallel bars
at the Olympic Games
Gymnastics at the 1896 Summer Olympics - Men's parallel bars.jpg
Parallel bars competition at the 1896 Summer Olympics
Overview
SportArtistic gymnastics
GenderMen
Years heldMen: 1896, 1904, 19242020
Reigning champion
Men Zou Jingyuan (CHN)

The parallel bars 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 parallel bars was one of the components of the men's artistic individual all-around in 1900, 1908, and 1912, however. The men's parallel bars returned as a medal event in 1924 and has been held every Games since. Parallel bars scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final. In 1932, the parallel bars was entirely separate from the all-around. From 1936 to 1956, there were again no separate apparatus finals with the parallel bars scores used in the all-around. Beginning in 1960, there were separate apparatus finals.

The 1896 Games also featured a team parallel bars event.

Medalists[]

Men[]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
details
Alfred Flatow
 Germany
Louis Zutter
 Switzerland
Not awarded
1900 Paris Not held
1904 St. Louis
details
George Eyser
 United States
Anton Heida
 United States
John Duha
 United States
1908 London Not held
1912 Stockholm Not held
1920 Antwerp Not held
1924 Paris
details
August Güttinger
 Switzerland
Robert Pražák
 Czechoslovakia
Giorgio Zampori
 Italy
1928 Amsterdam
details
Ladislav Vácha
 Czechoslovakia
Josip Primožič
 Yugoslavia
Hermann Hänggi
 Switzerland
1932 Los Angeles
details
Romeo Neri
 Italy
István Pelle
 Hungary
Heikki Savolainen
 Finland
1936 Berlin
details
Konrad Frey
 Germany
Michael Reusch
 Switzerland
Alfred Schwarzmann
 Germany
1948 London
details
Michael Reusch
 Switzerland
Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
Christian Kipfer
 Switzerland
Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
1952 Helsinki
details
Hans Eugster
 Switzerland
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Josef Stalder
 Switzerland
1956 Melbourne
details
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Masumi Kubota
 Japan
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Masao Takemoto
 Japan
1960 Rome
details
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Giovanni Carminucci
 Italy
Takashi Ono
 Japan
1964 Tokyo
details
Yukio Endo
 Japan
Shuji Tsurumi
 Japan
Franco Menichelli
 Italy
1968 Mexico City
details
Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
Viktor Klimenko
 Soviet Union
1972 Munich
details
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Shigeru Kasamatsu
 Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
1976 Montreal
details
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Nikolai Andrianov
 Soviet Union
Mitsuo Tsukahara
 Japan
1980 Moscow
details
Aleksandr Tkachyov
 Soviet Union
Alexander Dityatin
 Soviet Union
Roland Brückner
 East Germany
1984 Los Angeles
details
Bart Conner
 United States
Nobuyuki Kajitani
 Japan
Mitchell Gaylord
 United States
1988 Seoul
details
Vladimir Artemov
 Soviet Union
Valeri Liukin
 Soviet Union
Sven Tippelt
 East Germany
1992 Barcelona
details
Vitaly Scherbo
 Unified Team
Li Jing
 China
Igor Korobchinski
 Unified Team
Guo Linyao
 China
Masayuki Matsunaga
 Japan
1996 Atlanta
details
Rustam Sharipov
 Ukraine
Jair Lynch
 United States
Vitaly Scherbo
 Belarus
2000 Sydney
details
Li Xiaopeng
 China
Lee Joo-Hyung
 South Korea
Alexei Nemov
 Russia
2004 Athens
details
Valeri Goncharov
 Ukraine
Hiroyuki Tomita
 Japan
Li Xiaopeng
 China
2008 Beijing
details
Li Xiaopeng
 China
Yoo Won-Chul
 South Korea
Anton Fokin
 Uzbekistan
2012 London
details
Feng Zhe
 China
Marcel Nguyen
 Germany
Hamilton Sabot
 France
2016 Rio de Janeiro
details
Oleg Verniaiev
 Ukraine
Danell Leyva
 United States
David Belyavskiy
 Russia
2020 Tokyo
details
Zou Jingyuan
 China
Lukas Dauser
 Germany
Ferhat Arican
 Turkey

Multiple medalists[]

Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Li Xiaopeng  China (CHN) 2000–2008 2 0 1 3
2 Sawao Kato  Japan (JPN) 1972–1976 2 0 0 2
3 Michael Reusch  Switzerland (SUI) 1936–1948 1 1 0 2
Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union (URS) 1952–1956 1 1 0 2
5 Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team (EUN)
 Belarus (BLR)
1992–1996 1 0 1 2
6 Josef Stalder  Switzerland (SUI) 1948–1952 0 0 2 2
Takashi Ono  Japan (JPN) 1956–1960 0 0 2 2

Medalists by country[]

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Japan (JPN) 4 5 6 15
2  Soviet Union (URS) 4 5 1 10
3  China (CHN) 4 1 2 7
4  Switzerland (SUI) 3 2 4 9
5  Ukraine (UKR) 3 0 0 3
6  United States (USA) 2 3 2 7
7  Germany (GER) 2 2 1 5
8  Italy (ITA) 1 1 2 4
9  Czechoslovakia (TCH) 1 1 0 2
10  Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 1 2
11  South Korea (KOR) 0 2 0 2
12  Finland (FIN) 0 1 1 2
13  Hungary (HUN) 0 1 0 1
 Yugoslavia (YUG) 0 1 0 1
15  East Germany (GDR) 0 0 2 2
 Russia (RUS) 0 0 2 2
17  Belarus (BLR) 0 0 1 1
 France (FRA) 0 0 1 1
 Turkey (TUR) 0 0 1 1
 Uzbekistan (UZB) 0 0 1 1

Gallery[]

Men's Parallel Bars at the Olympics

Team parallel bars[]

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

The team parallel bar event had 10 sets of parallel bars for the team to use. Teams could be large, with one exceeding 30 members. Three teams competed, one from Germany and two from Greece. Judges scored the teams on execution, rhythm, and technical difficulty.[1]

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
details
 Germany (GER)  Panellinios G.S. (GRE)  Ethnikos G.S. Athens (GRE)

References[]

  1. ^ "Parallel Bars, Teams, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
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