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Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

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Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medal presentation: Titov, Ono, and Takemoto
VenueFestival Hall
Dates3–7 December
Competitors63 from 18 nations
Winning score19.60
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Takashi Ono
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yuri Titov
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Masao Takemoto
 Japan
← 1952
1960 →

The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. There were 63 competitors from 18 nations (down sharply from the 185 gymnasts in 1952), with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Takashi Ono of Japan, with his countryman Masao Takemoto taking bronze. Silver went to Yuri Titov of the Soviet Union. Japan and the Soviet Union each earned their first horizontal bar medals.

Background

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This was the ninth appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Four of the top 10 gymnasts from 1952 returned: fifth-place finisher Viktor Chukarin of the Soviet Union, seventh-place finisher Helmut Bantz of Germany, and ninth-place finishers Berndt Lindfors of Finland and Valentin Muratov of the Soviet Union. Muratov had won the 1954 world championship, with Bantz and Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union tying for second.[1]

Australia and Canada each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar; East and West Germany competed together as the United Team of Germany for the first time. The United States made its eighth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

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The gymnastics format continued to use the aggregation format, mostly following the scoring tweaks made in 1952. Each nation entered either a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The 2 exercise scores were summed to give an apparatus total. No separate finals were contested.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10 and apparatus scores from 0 to 20.[2]

Schedule

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All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Monday, 3 December 1956
Tuesday, 4 December 1956
Wednesday, 5 December 1956
Thursday, 6 December 1956
Friday, 7 December 1956
8:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Compulsory Voluntary Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Takashi Ono  Japan 9.75 9.85 19.60
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yury Titov  Soviet Union 9.70 9.70 19.40
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Masao Takemoto  Japan 9.70 9.60 19.30
4 Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union 9.55 9.70 19.25
Pavel Stolbov  Soviet Union 9.55 9.70 19.25
6 Helmut Bantz  United Team of Germany 9.50 9.65 19.15
7 Jack Beckner  United States 9.40 9.60 19.00
8 Albert Azaryan  Soviet Union 9.40 9.55 18.95
9 Ferdinand Daniš  Czechoslovakia 9.45 9.40 18.85
10 Stoyan Stoyanov  Bulgaria 9.35 9.45 18.80
Raymond Dot  France 9.40 9.40 18.80
Zdeněk Růžička  Czechoslovakia 9.45 9.35 18.80
13 Shinsaku Tsukawaki  Japan 9.30 9.45 18.75
Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union 9.30 9.45 18.75
Akira Kono  Japan 9.30 9.45 18.75
Velik Kapsazov  Bulgaria 9.40 9.35 18.75
Abie Grossfeld  United States 9.35 9.40 18.75
18 Kalevi Suoniemi  Finland 9.25 9.45 18.70
Raimo Heinonen  Finland 9.25 9.45 18.70
Josef Škvor  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.50 18.70
Theo Wied  United Team of Germany 9.25 9.45 18.70
22 Berndt Lindfors  Finland 9.20 9.45 18.65
Charles Simms  United States 9.20 9.45 18.65
Jakob Kiefer  United Team of Germany 9.25 9.40 18.65
25 Masami Kubota  Japan 9.20 9.40 18.60
Valentin Muratov  Soviet Union 9.55 9.05 18.60
27 Nobuyuki Aihara  Japan 9.30 9.25 18.55
28 Jean Guillou  France 9.30 9.20 18.50
29 Robert Klein  United Team of Germany 9.25 9.20 18.45
Josy Stoffel  Luxembourg 9.25 9.20 18.45
Dick Beckner  United States 9.10 9.35 18.45
32 Jaroslav Bím  Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.30 18.35
33 Jaroslav Mikoška  Czechoslovakia 9.35 8.95 18.30
Vladimír Kejř  Czechoslovakia 9.20 9.10 18.30
35 Onni Lappalainen  Finland 9.00 9.25 18.25
36 Nik Stuart  Great Britain 9.15 9.05 18.20
37 Olavi Leimuvirta  Finland 8.95 9.20 18.15
Erich Wied  United Team of Germany 8.65 9.50 18.15
39 Mincho Todorov  Bulgaria 9.00 9.10 18.10
40 Kurt Wigartz  Sweden 9.20 8.85 18.05
Armando Vega  United States 9.15 8.90 18.05
42 Martti Mansikka  Finland 8.90 9.10 18.00
43 Ronnie Lombard  South Africa 9.05 8.90 17.95
44 Attila Takács  Hungary 9.45 8.45 17.90
Michel Mathiot  France 9.15 8.75 17.90
46 Bill Tom  United States 8.80 9.05 17.85
47 William Thoresson  Sweden 9.05 8.75 17.80
48 Hans Pfann  United Team of Germany 8.55 9.20 17.75
Frank Turner  Great Britain 8.95 8.80 17.75
50 Graham Bond  Australia 8.90 8.75 17.65
51 János Héder  Hungary 9.20 8.25 17.45
52 Jack Wells  South Africa 8.50 8.70 17.20
53 Ed Gagnier  Canada 7.65 8.45 16.10
54 David Gourlay  Australia 8.10 7.90 16.00
55 Rafael Lecuona  Cuba 6.75 7.80 14.55
56 Bruce Sharp  Australia 7.30 6.65 13.95
57 John Lees  Australia 7.70 6.10 13.80
58 Brian Blackburn  Australia 8.20 5.00 13.20
59 Pritam Singh  India 5.80 5.75 11.55
60 Sham Lal  India 4.00 6.50 10.50
61 Anant Ram  India 8.20 1.50 9.70
62 Hans Sauter  Austria 9.20 9.20
63 Noel Punton  Australia 4.50 4.00 8.50

References

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  1. ^ a b "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, p. 472.