Men's High Bar

The Olympic men’s high bar medalists from 1896 through 2004.

• 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

* 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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