The Olympic men’s high bar medalists from 1896 through 2008.
- 1896 (Athens, Greece):
GOLD Hermann Weingärtner, Germany
SILVER Alfred Flatow, Germany - 1900 (Paris, France): No men’s high bar competition held
- 1904 (St. Louis, USA):
GOLD (tie) Anton Heida, USA 40.00; Edward Hennig, USA 40.00
BRONZE George Eyser , USA 39.00 - 1908 (London, Great Britain): No men’s high bar competition held
- 1912 (Stockholm, Sweden): No men’s high bar competition held
- 1920 (Antwerp, Belgium): No men’s high bar competition held
- 1924 (Paris, France):
GOLD Leon Štukelj, Yugoslavia
SILVER Jean Gutweninger, Switzerland
BRONZE André Higelin, France - 1928 (Amsterdam, Holland)
GOLD Georges Miez, Switzerland
SILVER Romeo Neri, Italy
BRONZE Eugen Mack, Switzerland - 1932 (Los Angeles, USA)
GOLD Dallas Bixler, USA
SILVER Heikki Savolainen, Finland
BRONZE Einari Teräsvirta, Finland - 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
GOLD Aleksanteri Saarvala, Finland
SILVER Konrad Frey, Germany
BRONZE Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany - 1948 (London, Great Britain)
GOLD Josef Stalder, Switzerland
SILVER Walter Lehmann, Switzerland
BRONZE Veikko Huhtanen, Finland - 1952 (Helsinki, Finland)
GOLD Jack Günthard, Switzerland 19.55
SILVER (tie) Josef Stalder, Switzerland 19.50; Alfred Schwarzmann, Germany 19.50 - 1956 (Melbourne, Australia)
GOLD Takashi Ono, Japan 19.60
SILVER Yuri Titov, USSR 19.40
BRONZE Masao Takemoto, Japan 19.30 - 1960 (Rome, Italy
GOLD Takashi Ono, Japan 19.600
SILVER Masao Takemoto, Japan 19.525
BRONZE Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.475 - 1964 (Tokyo, Japan)
GOLD Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.625
SILVER Yuri Titov, USSR 19.550
BRONZE Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslavia 19.500 - 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
GOLD (tie) Akinori Nakayama, Japan 19.550; Mikhail Voronin, USSR 19.550
BRONZE Eizo Kenmotsu, Japan 19.375 - 1972 (Munich, Germany)
GOLD Mitsou Tsukahara, Japan 19.725
SILVER Sawao Kato, Japan 19.525
BRONZE Shigeru Kasamatsu, Japan 19.450 - 1976 (Montreal, Canada)
GOLD Mitsou Tsukahara, Japan 19.675
SILVER Eizo Kemmotsu, Japan 19.500
BRONZE (tie) Eberhard Gienger, Germany 19.475; Henri Boerio, France 19.475 - 1980 (Moscow, USSR)
GOLD Stoyan Deltchev, Bulgaria 19.825
SILVER Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.750
BRONZE Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.675 - 1984 (Los Angeles, USA)*
GOLD Shinji Morisue, Japan 20.00
SILVER Tong Fei, China 19.955
BRONZE Koji Gushiken, Japan 19.95 - 1988 (Seoul, Korea)
GOLD (tie) Vladimir Artemev, USSR 19.900; Valeri Liukin, USSR 19.900
BRONZE (tie) Holger Behrendt, East Germany 19.800; Gherman Marius, Romania 19.800 - 1992 (Barcelona, Spain)
GOLD Trent Dimas, USA 9.875
SILVER Grigory Misutin, The Unified Team** 9.837
BRONZE Andreas Wecker, Germany 9.837 - 1996 (Atlanta, USA)
GOLD Andreas Wecker, Germany 9.850
SILVER Krasimir Dounev, Bulgaria 9.825
BRONZE (tie) Fan Bin, China 9.800; Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.800; Vitaly Scherbo, Belarus 9.800 - 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
GOLD Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.787
SILVER Benjamin Varonian, France 9.787***
BRONZE Lee Joo-Hyung, South Korea 9.775 - 2004 (Athens, Greece)
GOLD Igor Cassina, Italy 9.812
SILVER Paul Hamm, USA 9.812***
BRONZE Isao Yoneda, Japan 9.787 - 2008 (Beijing, China)
GOLD Zou Kai, China 16.200
SILVER Jonathan Horton, USA 16.175
BRONZE Fabian Hambuechen, Germany 15.875
* In 1984, the USSR -- one of the most dominant teams of the era -- boycotted the Games, possibly affecting the results
** In 1992, the former USSR competed as the Unified Team, then split into independent republics starting in 1996
***Tie was broken
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