The Olympic men’s rings medalists from 1896 through 2008.
- 1896 (Athens, Greece):
GOLD Ioannis Mitropoulos, Greece
SILVER Hermann Weingartner, Germany
BRONZE Petros Persakis, Greece - 1900 (Paris, France): No men’s rings competition held
- 1904 (St. Louis, USA):
GOLD Herman Glass, USA 45.00
SILVER William Merz, USA 35.00
BRONZE Emil Voigt, USA 32.00 - 1908 (London, Great Britain): No men’s rings competition held
- 1912 (Stockholm, Sweden): No men’s rings competition held
- 1920 (Antwerp, Belgium): No men’s rings competition held
- 1924 (Paris, France):
GOLD Francesco Martino, Italy
SILVER Robert Prazak, Czechoslovakia
BRONZE Ladislav Vacha, Czechoslovakia - 1928 (Amsterdam, Holland)
GOLD Leon Stukelj, Yugoslavia
SILVER Ladislav Vacha, Czechoslovakia
BRONZE Emanuel Loffler, Czechoslovakia - 1932 (Los Angeles, USA)
GOLD George Gulack, USA
SILVER William Denton, USA
BRONZE Giovanni Lattuada, Italy - 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
GOLD Alois Hudec, Czechoslovakia
SILVER Leon Stukelj, Yugoslavia
BRONZE Matthias Volz, Germany - 1948 (London, Great Britain)
GOLD Karl Frei, Switzerland
SILVER Michael Reusch, Switzerland
BRONZE Zdenek Ruzicka, Czechoslovakia - 1952 (Helsinki, Finland)
GOLD Grant Shaginian, USSR 19.75
SILVER Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.55
BRONZE (tie) Hans Eugster, Switzerland 19.40; Dmitri Leonkin, USSR 19.40 - 1956 (Melbourne, Australia)
GOLD Albert Azarian, USSR 19.35
SILVER Valentin Muratov, USSR 19.15
BRONZE (tie) Masumi Kubota, Japan 19.10; Masao Takemoto, Japan 19.10 - 1960 (Rome, Italy
GOLD Albert Azaryan, USSR 19.725
SILVER Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.500
BRONZE (tie) Velik Kapsasov, Bulgaria 19.425; Takashi Ono, Japan 19.425 - 1964 (Tokyo, Japan)
GOLD Hayata Takuji, Japan 19.475
SILVER Franco Menichelli, Italy 19.425
BRONZE Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.400 - 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
GOLD Akinori Nakayama, Japan 19.450
SILVER Mikhail Voronin, USSR 19.325
BRONZE Sawao Kato, Japan 19.225 - 1972 (Munich, Germany)
GOLD Akinori Nakayama, Japan 19.350
SILVER Mikhail Voronin, USSR 19.275
BRONZE Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japan 19.225 - 1976 (Montreal, Canada)
GOLD Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.650
SILVER Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.550
BRONZE Danut Grecu, Romania 19.500 - 1980 (Moscow, USSR)
GOLD Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.875
SILVER Alexander Tkachyov, USSR 19.725
BRONZE Jiri Tabak, Czechoslovakia, 19.600 - 1984 (Los Angeles, USA)*
GOLD (tie) Koji Gushiken, Japan 19.850; Li Ning, China 19.850
BRONZE Mitchell Gaylord, USA 19.825 - 1988 (Seoul, Korea)
GOLD (tie) Holger Behrendt, East Germany 19.925; Dmitry Bilozerchev, USSR 19.925
BRONZE Sven Tippelt, East Germany 19.875 - 1992 (Barcelona, Spain)
GOLD Vitaly Scherbo, The Unified Team** 9.937
SILVER Li Jing, China 9.875
BRONZE (tie) Andreas Wecker, Germany 9.862; Li Xiaoshuang, China 9.862 - 1996 (Atlanta, USA)
GOLD Yuri Chechi, Italy 9.887
SILVER (tie) Dan Burinca, Romania 9.812; Szilveszter Csollany, Hungary 9.812 - 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
GOLD Szilveszter Csollany, Hungary 9.850
SILVER Dimosthenis Tampakos, Greece 9.762
BRONZE Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgaria 9.737 - 2004 (Athens, Greece)
GOLD Dimosthenis Tampakos, Greece 9.862
SILVER Jordan Jovtchev, Bulgaria 9.850
BRONZE Takehiro Kashima, Yuri Chechi, Italy 9.812 - 2008 (Beijing, China)
GOLD Chen Yibing, China 16.600
SILVER Yang Wei, China 16.425
BRONZE Alexander Vorobiov, Ukraine 16.325
* 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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