The Olympic men’s pommel horse medalists from 1896 through 2008.
- 1896 (Athens, Greece):
GOLD Louis Zutter, Switzerland
SILVER Hermann Weingartner, Germany - 1900 (Paris, France): No men’s pommel horse competition held
- 1904 (St. Louis, USA):
GOLD Anton Heida, USA 42.00
SILVER George Eyser, USA 33.00
BRONZE William Merz, USA 29.00 - 1908 (London, Great Britain): No men’s pommel horse competition held
- 1912 (Stockholm, Sweden): No men’s pommel horse competition held
- 1920 (Antwerp, Belgium): No men’s pommel horse competition held
- 1924 (Paris, France):
GOLD Josef Wilhelm, Switzerland
SILVER Jean Gutweniger, Switzerland
BRONZE Antoine Rebetez, Switzerland - 1928 (Amsterdam, Holland)
GOLD Hermann Hänggi, Switzerland
SILVER Georges Miez, Switzerland
BRONZE Heikki Savolainen, Finland - 1932 (Los Angeles, USA)
GOLD Istvan Pelle, Hungary
SILVER Omero Bonoli, Hungary
BRONZE Frank Haubold, USA - 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
GOLD Konrad Frey, Germany
SILVER Eugene Mack, Switzerland
BRONZE Albert Bachmann, Switzerland - 1948 (London, Great Britain)
GOLD (tie) Paavo Aaltonen, Finland; Veikko Huhtanen, Finland; Heikki Savolainen, Finland - 1952 (Helsinki, Finland)
GOLD Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.50
SILVER (tie) Grant Shaginian, USSR 19.40; Evgeny Korolkov, USSR 19.40 - 1956 (Melbourne, Australia)
GOLD Boris Shakhlin , USSR 19.25
SILVER Takashi Ono, Japan 19.20
BRONZE Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.10 - 1960 (Rome, Italy
GOLD (tie) Eugene Ekman, Finland 19.375; Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.375
BRONZE Shuji Tsurumi, Japan 19.150 - 1964 (Tokyo, Japan)
GOLD Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslavia 19.525
SILVER Shuji Tsurumi, Japan 19.325
BRONZE Yury Tsapenko, USSR 19.200 - 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
GOLD Miroslav Cerar, Yugoslavia 19.325
SILVER Olli Laiho, Finland 19.225
BRONZE Mikhail Voronin, USSR 19.200 - 1972 (Munich, Germany)
GOLD Viktor Klimenko, USSR 19.125
SILVER Sawao Kato, Japan 19.000
BRONZE Eizo Kenmotsu, Japan 18.950 - 1976 (Montreal, Canada)
GOLD Zoltan Magyar, Hungary 19.700
SILVER Eizo Kenmotsu, Japan 19.575
BRONZE (tie) Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.525; Michael Nikolai, East Germany 19.525 - 1980 (Moscow, USSR)
GOLD Zoltan Magyar, Hungary 19.925
SILVER Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.800
BRONZE Michael Nikolai, East Germany 19.775 - 1984 (Los Angeles, USA)*
GOLD (tie) Li Ning, China 19.950; Peter Vidmar, USA 19.950
BRONZE Timothy Daggett, USA 19.825 - 1988 (Seoul, Korea)
GOLD (tie) Dmitry Bilozerchev, USSR 19.950; Zsolt Borkai, Hungary 19.950; Lubomir Geraskov, Bulgaria 19.950 - 1992 (Barcelona, Spain)
GOLD (tie) Pae Gil-Su, North Korea 9.925; Vitaly Scherbo, The Unified Team** 9.925
BRONZE Andreas Wecker, Germany 9.887 - 1996 (Atlanta, USA)
GOLD Li Donghua, Switzerland 9.875
SILVER Marius Urzica, Romania 9.825
BRONZE Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.787 - 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
GOLD Marius Urzica, Romania 9.862
SILVER Eric Poujade, France 9.825
BRONZE Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.800 - 2004 (Athens, Greece)
GOLD Teng Haibin, China 9.837
SILVER Marius Urzica, Romania 9.825
BRONZE Takehiro Kashima, Japan 9.787 - 2008 (Beijing, China)
GOLD Xiao Qin, China 15.875
SILVER Filip Ude, Croatia 15.725
BRONZE Louis Smith, Great Britain 15.725***
* 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
*** This tie was broken. More on tie breaks
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