Gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The event was held on 22, 24, and 26 October. There were 115 competitors from 27 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won in a tie between Akinori Nakayama of Japan (the nation's third victory in the horizontal bar in four Games, tying Switzerland for most all-time) and Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union (the nation's second consecutive gold medal in the event, tying the United States for third-most all-time). Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan took bronze.

Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XIX Olympiad
Mikhail Voronin (1966, on parallel bars)
Akinori Nakayama (1966, on rings)
VenueAuditorio Nacional
Dates22–26 October
Competitors115 from 27 nations
Winning score19.550
Medalists
Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan

Background

This was the 12th 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). Three of the six finalists from 1964 returned: bronze medalist Miroslav Cerar of Yugoslavia, fourth-place finisher Victor Lisitsky of the Soviet Union, and fifth-place finisher Yukio Endo of Japan. Cerar and Endo had both been finalists in 1960 as well. Japan had swept the medals at the 1966 world championships, with Akinori Nakayama winning, Endo taking second, and Takashi Mitsukuri third. Cerar had tied with Mikhail Voronin of the Soviet Union for fourth.[1]

Ecuador and the Philippines each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar; East and West Germany competed separately for the first time. The United States made its 11th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

Each nation entered 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 scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score. (Two gymnasts who entered the all-around competition did not perform on the horizontal bar.)

These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the new apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score; the top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals; others were ranked 7th through 115th. In the final, each gymnast performed an additional voluntary exercise; half of the score from the preliminary carried over.[1][2]

Schedule

All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 22 October 19688:30
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Thursday, 24 October 19688:30
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 26 October 196819:00Final

Results

RankGymnastNationPreliminaryFinal
CompulsoryVoluntaryTotal12 Prelim.FinalTotal
Mikhail Voronin Soviet Union9.709.8019.509.7509.80019.550
Akinori Nakayama Japan9.709.8019.509.7509.80019.550
Eizo Kenmotsu Japan9.559.8019.359.6759.70019.375
4Klaus Köste East Germany9.759.7019.459.7259.50019.225
5Sergey Diomidov Soviet Union9.609.7019.309.6509.50019.150
6Yukio Endo Japan9.559.7019.259.6259.40019.025
7Sawao Kato Japan9.609.8519.45Did not compete
8Valery Ilyinykh Soviet Union9.509.7019.20Did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica Poland9.509.7019.20Did not advance
10Matthias Brehme East Germany9.559.6019.15Did not advance
11Siegfried Fülle East Germany9.559.5519.10Did not advance
Takeshi Katō Japan9.559.5519.10Did not advance
Viktor Klimenko Soviet Union9.509.6019.10Did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara Japan9.509.6019.10Did not advance
15Christian Guiffroy France9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Václav Skoumal Czechoslovakia9.459.5519.00Did not advance
17Janez Brodnik Yugoslavia9.459.5018.95Did not advance
Mauno Nissinen Finland9.459.5018.95Did not advance
19Miroslav Cerar Yugoslavia9.559.3518.90Did not advance
Erich Hess West Germany9.559.3518.90Did not advance
Christer Jönsson Sweden9.509.4018.90Did not advance
Raycho Khristov Bulgaria9.509.4018.90Did not advance
23Gerhard Dietrich East Germany9.309.5518.85Did not advance
Hans Ettlin Switzerland9.409.4518.85Did not advance
25Mikołaj Kubica Poland9.209.6018.80Did not advance
Viktor Lisitsky Soviet Union9.359.4518.80Did not advance
Konrád Mentsik Hungary9.309.5018.80Did not advance
Peter Weber East Germany9.409.4018.80Did not advance
29Meinrad Berchtold Switzerland9.409.3518.75Did not advance
Luigi Cimnaghi Italy9.359.4018.75Did not advance
Willi Jaschek West Germany9.309.4518.75Did not advance
Hannu Rantakari Finland8.259.5017.75Did not advance
33Valery Karasyov Soviet Union9.409.3018.70Did not advance
34Georgi Adamov Bulgaria9.509.1518.65Did not advance
Günter Beier East Germany9.409.2518.65Did not advance
František Bočko Czechoslovakia9.259.4018.65Did not advance
Chung-tae Kim South Korea9.209.4518.65Did not advance
Heiko Reinemer West Germany9.209.4518.65Did not advance
39Michel Bouchonnet France9.209.4018.60Did not advance
Steve Hug United States9.259.3518.60Did not advance
Peter Rohner Switzerland9.259.3518.60Did not advance
42 Béla Herczeg Hungary9.159.4018.55Did not advance
Václav Kubíčka Czechoslovakia9.159.4018.55Did not advance
Dave Thor United States9.059.5018.55Did not advance
45Christian Deuza France9.209.3018.50Did not advance
Miloš Vratič Yugoslavia9.209.3018.50Did not advance
47Dezső Bordán Hungary9.059.4018.45Did not advance
Jiří Fejtek Czechoslovakia9.159.3018.45Did not advance
Bohumil Mudřík Czechoslovakia9.059.4018.45Did not advance
Fred Roethlisberger United States9.109.3518.45Did not advance
Helmut Tepasse West Germany9.359.1018.45Did not advance
52Andrzej Gonera Poland9.159.2518.40Did not advance
Sylwester Kubica Poland9.409.0018.40Did not advance
Kanati Allen United States8.809.5018.40Did not advance
Sid Freudenstein United States8.959.4518.40Did not advance
56Milenko Kersnić Yugoslavia9.059.3018.35Did not advance
57Steve Cohen United States8.909.4018.30Did not advance
Hermann Höpfner West Germany9.209.1018.30Did not advance
59Heikki Sappinen Finland8.909.3518.25Did not advance
Jerzy Kruża Poland8.909.3518.25Did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa Poland8.809.4518.25Did not advance
62 István Aranyos Hungary8.909.3018.20Did not advance
Heinz Häussler West Germany9.059.1518.20Did not advance
Héctor Ramírez Cuba9.159.0518.20Did not advance
Arne Thomsen Denmark9.009.2018.20Did not advance
66Edwin Greutmann Switzerland9.059.1018.15Did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen Finland8.959.2018.15Did not advance
Stefan Zoev Bulgaria9.258.9018.15Did not advance
69Olli Laiho Finland8.659.4018.05Did not advance
Evert Lindgren Sweden8.709.3518.05Did not advance
71Sid Jensen Canada8.809.2018.00Did not advance
72Larbi Lazhari Algeria8.709.2517.95Did not advance
Jorge Rodríguez Cuba8.759.2017.95Did not advance
Endre Tihanyi Hungary8.809.1517.95Did not advance
75Roland Hürzeler Switzerland8.409.4517.85Did not advance
76Rogelio Mendoza Mexico8.809.0017.80Did not advance
Damir Anić Yugoslavia8.809.0017.80Did not advance
Roger Dion Canada8.958.8517.80Did not advance
Bruno Franceschetti Italy8.709.1017.80Did not advance
Paul Müller Switzerland9.008.8017.80Did not advance
81Michael Booth Great Britain8.759.0017.75Did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci Italy9.308.4517.75Did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci Italy8.808.9517.75Did not advance
Ivan Kondev Bulgaria8.759.0017.75Did not advance
85Enrique García Mexico8.659.0517.70Did not advance
Reino Heino Finland8.409.3017.70Did not advance
Sándor Kiss Hungary8.609.1017.70Did not advance
88José Vilchis Mexico8.858.8017.65Did not advance
89José González Mexico8.858.7517.60Did not advance
90Steve Mitruk Canada8.708.7517.45Did not advance
Tine Šrot Yugoslavia8.409.0517.45Did not advance
92Gilbert Larose Canada8.808.6017.40Did not advance
Roberto Pumpido Cuba8.658.7517.40Did not advance
94Finn Johannesson Sweden7.959.4017.35Did not advance
95Hans Peter Nielsen Denmark8.309.0017.30Did not advance
Armando Valles Mexico9.308.0017.30Did not advance
97Stan Wild Great Britain8.508.7517.25Did not advance
98Chu-Long Lai Republic of China8.708.4017.10Did not advance
99José Filipe Abreu Portugal8.408.5016.90Did not advance
100Rumen Gabrovski Bulgaria9.107.7516.85Did not advance
101Miloslav Netušil Czechoslovakia7.509.2516.75Did not advance
Luis Ramírez Cuba7.808.9516.75Did not advance
Fernando Valles Mexico8.358.4016.75Did not advance
104Octavio Suárez Cuba7.509.2016.70Did not advance
105Bozhidar Ivanov Bulgaria7.509.1516.65Did not advance
106Sergio Luna Ecuador8.058.5516.60Did not advance
107Vincenzo Mori Italy8.458.1016.55Did not advance
108Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn Mongolia8.508.0016.50Did not advance
109Barry Brooker Canada8.657.8016.45Did not advance
110Murray Chessell Australia8.058.2516.30Did not advance
111Luis Navarrete Cuba8.257.0015.25Did not advance
112Eduardo Nájera Ecuador8.054.7012.75Did not advance
113Fu Cheng Republic of China8.104.0012.10Did not advance
114Franco Menichelli Italy9.609.60Did not advance
115Pedro Rendón Ecuador4.653.508.15Did not advance

References

  1. "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. Official Report, p. 676.
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