The Olympic men’s vault medalists from 1896 through 2008.
- 1896 (Athens, Greece):
GOLD Carl Schuhmann, Germany
SILVER Louis Zutter, Switzerland
BRONZE Hermann Weingartner, Germany - 1900 (Paris, France): No men’s vault competition held
- 1904 (St. Louis, USA):
GOLD (tie) George Eyser, USA; Anton Heida, USA
BRONZE William Mertz, USA - 1908 (London, Great Britain): No men’s vault competition held
- 1912 (Stockholm, Sweden): No men’s vault competition held
- 1920 (Antwerp, Belgium): No men’s vault competition held
- 1924 (Paris, France):
GOLD Frank Kriz, USA
SILVER Jan Koulny, Czechoslovakia
BRONZE Bohumil, Czechoslovakia - 1928 (Amsterdam, Holland)
GOLD Eugene Mack, Switzerland
SILVER Emanuel Loffler, Czechoslovakia
BRONZE Stane Derganc, Yugoslavia - 1932 (Los Angeles, USA)
GOLD Savino Guglielmetti, Italy
SILVER Alfred Jochim, USA
BRONZE Edward Carmichael, USA - 1936 (Berlin, Germany)
GOLD Karl Schwarzmann, Germany
SILVER Eugene Mack, Switzerland
BRONZE Matthias Volz, Germany - 1948 (London, Great Britain)
GOLD Paavo Aaltonen, Finland
SILVER Olavi, Rove, Finland
BRONZE (tie) Janos Mogyorossy-Klencs, Hungary; Ferenc Pataki, Hungary; Leo Sotornik, Czechoslovakia - 1952 (Helsinki, Finland)
GOLD Viktor Chukarin, USSR 19.20
SILVER Takashi Ono, Japan 19.10
BRONZE Tadao Uesako, Japan 19.10 - 1956 (Melbourne, Australia)
GOLD (tie) Helmut Bantz, West Germany 18.85; Valentin Murotov, USSR 18.85
BRONZE Yuri Titov, USSR 18.75 - 1960 (Rome, Italy
GOLD (tie) Takashi Ono, Japan 19.350; Boris Shakhlin, USSR 19.350
BRONZE Vladimir Portnoi, USSR 19.225 - 1964 (Tokyo, Japan)
GOLD Yamashita Haruhiro, Japan 19.600
SILVER Victor Lisitsky , USSR 19.325
BRONZE Hannu Rantakari, Finland 19.300 - 1968 (Mexico City, Mexico)
GOLD Mikhail Voronin, USSR 19.00
SILVER Yukio Endo, Japan 18.950
BRONZE Sergei Diamidov, USSR 18.925 - 1972 (Munich, Germany)
GOLD Klaus Koste, East Germany 18.850
SILVER Viktor Klimenko, USSR 18.825
BRONZE Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 18.800 - 1976 (Montreal, Canada)
GOLD Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.450
SILVER Mitsuo Tsukahara, Japan 19.375
BRONZE Hiroshi Kajiyama, Japan 19.275 - 1980 (Moscow, USSR)
GOLD Nikolai Andrianov, USSR 19.825
SILVER Alexander Dityatin, USSR 19.800
BRONZE Roland Bruckner, East Germany 19.775 - 1984 (Los Angeles, USA)*
GOLD Lou Yun, China 19.950
SILVER (tie) Mitchell Gaylord, USA 19.825; Koji Gushiken, Japan 19.825; Shinji Morisue, Japan 19.825; Li Ning, China 19.825 - 1988 (Seoul, Korea)
GOLD Lou Yun, China 19.875
SILVER Sylvio Kroll, East Germany 19.862
BRONZE Park Jong-Hoon, South Korea 19.775 - 1992 (Barcelona, Spain)
GOLD Vitaly Scherbo, The Unified Team** 9.856
SILVER Grigory Misutin, The Unified Team 9.781
BRONZE Yoo Ok Ryul, South Korea - 1996 (Atlanta, USA)
GOLD Alexei Nemov, Russia 9.787
SILVER Yeo Hong-Chul 9.756
BRONZE Vitaly Scherbo, Belarus 9.724 - 2000 (Sydney, Australia)
GOLD Gervasio Deferr, Spain 9.712
SILVER Alexei Bondarenko, Russia 9.587
BRONZE Leszek Blanik, Poland 9.475 - 2004 (Athens, Greece)
GOLD Gervasio Deferr, Spain 9.787
SILVER Evgeni Sapronenko, Latvia 9.700
BRONZE Marian Dragulescu, Romania 9.325 - 2008 (Beijing, China)
GOLD Leszek Blanik, Poland, 16.537
SILVER Thomas Bouhail, France 16.537***
BRONZE Anton Golotsutskov, Russia 16.475
* 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 score was broken by the highest scoring single vault. More on tie scores
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