The Olympic men’s parallel bars medalists from 1896 through 2008.
- 1896 (Athens, Greece):
GOLD Alfred Flatow, Germany
SILVER Louis Zutter, Switzerland - 1900 (Paris, France): No men’s parallel bars competition held
- 1904 (St. Louis, USA):
GOLD George Eyser, USA 44.00
SILVER Anton Heida, USA 43.00
BRONZE John Duha, USA 40.00 - 1908 (London, Great Britain): No men’s parallel bars competition held
- 1912 (Stockholm, Sweden): No men’s parallel bars competition held
- 1920 (Antwerp, Belgium): No men’s parallel bars competition held
- 1924 (Paris, France):
GOLD August Guttinger, Switzerland
SILVER Robert Prazak, Czechoslovakia
BRONZE Giorgio Zampori, Italy - 1928 (Amsterdam, Holland)
GOLD Ladislav Vacha, Czechoslovakia
SILVER Josip Primozic, Yugoslavia
BRONZE Hermann Hanggi, Switzerland - 1932 (Los Angeles, USA)
GOLD Romeo Neri, Italy
SILVER Istvan Pelle, Hungary
BRONZE Heikki Savolainen, Finland - 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
GOLD Konrad Frey, Germany
SILVER Michael Reusch, Switzerland
BRONZE (tie) Karl Schwarzmann, Germany - 1948 (London, Great Britain)
GOLD Michael Reusch, Switzerland
SILVER Veikko Huhtanen, Finland
BRONZE (tie) Christian Kipfer, Switzerland; Josef Stalder, Switzerland - 1952 (Helsinki, Finland)
GOLD Hans Eugster, Switzerland 19.65
SILVER Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.60
BRONZE Josef Stalder, Switzerland 19.50 - 1956 (Melbourne, Australia)
GOLD Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.20
SILVER Masumi Kubota, Japan 19.15
BRONZE (tie) Takashi Ono, Japan 19.10; Masao Takemoto, Japan 19.10 - 1960 (Rome, Italy
GOLD Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.400
SILVER Giovanni Carminucci, Italy 19.375
BRONZE Takashi Ono, Japan 19.350 - 1964 (Tokyo, Japan)
GOLD Yamashita Haruhiro, Japan 19.675
SILVER Shuji Tsurumi, Japan 19.450
BRONZE Franco Menichelli, Italy 19.350 - 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
GOLD Akinori Nakayama, Japan 19.475
SILVER Mikhail Voronin, USSR 19.425
BRONZE Vladimir Klimenko, USSR 19.225 - 1972 (Munich, Germany)
GOLD Sawao Kato, Japan 19.475
SILVER Shigeru Kasamatsu, Japan 19.375
BRONZE Eizo Kenmotsu, Japan 19.250 - 1976 (Montreal, Canada)
GOLD Sawao Kato, Japan 19.675
SILVER Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.500
BRONZE Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japan 19.475 - 1980 (Moscow, USSR)
GOLD Alexander Tkachyov, USSR 19.775
SILVER Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.750
BRONZE Roland Brückner, East Germany 19.650 - 1984 (Los Angeles, USA)*
GOLD Bart Conner, USA 19.950
SILVER Kajitani Nobuyuki, Japan 19.925
BRONZE Mitchell Gaylord, USA 19.850 - 1988 (Seoul, Korea)
GOLD Vladimir Artemev, USSR 19.925
SILVER Valeri Liukin, USSR 19.900
BRONZE Sven Tippelt, East Germany 19.750 - 1992 (Barcelona, Spain)
GOLD Vitaly Scherbo, The Unified Team** 9.900
SILVER Li Jing, China 9.812
BRONZE (tie) Guo Linyao, China 9.800; Igor Korobchinsky, The Unified Team 9.800; Masayuki Matsunaga, Japan 9.800 - 1996 (Atlanta, USA)
GOLD Rustam Sharipov, Ukraine 9.837
SILVER Jair Lynch, USA 9.825
BRONZE Vitaly Scherbo, Belarus 9.800 - 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
GOLD Li Xiaopeng, China 9.825
SILVER Lee Joo-Hyung, South Korea 9.812
BRONZE Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.800 - 2004 (Athens, Greece)
GOLD Valeri Goncharov, Ukraine 9.787
SILVER Hiroyuki Tomita, Japan 9.775
BRONZE Li Xiaopeng, China 9.762 - 2008 (Beijing, China)
GOLD Li Xiaopeng, China 16.450
SILVER Yoo Won-Chul, South Korea 16.250
BRONZE Anton Fokin, Uzbekistan 16.200
* 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
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