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

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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
1st place, gold medalist(s) Akinori Nakayama
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
← 1964
1972 →

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.

Background

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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

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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

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All times are Central Standard Time (UTC-6)

Date Time Round
Tuesday, 22 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Thursday, 24 October 1968 8:30
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 26 October 1968 19:00 Final

Results

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Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Mikhail Voronin  Soviet Union 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.800 19.550
Akinori Nakayama  Japan 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.800 19.550
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan 9.55 9.80 19.35 9.675 9.700 19.375
4 Klaus Köste  East Germany 9.75 9.70 19.45 9.725 9.500 19.225
5 Sergey Diomidov  Soviet Union 9.60 9.70 19.30 9.650 9.500 19.150
6 Yukio Endo  Japan 9.55 9.70 19.25 9.625 9.400 19.025
7 Sawao Kato  Japan 9.60 9.85 19.45 did not compete
8 Valery Ilyinykh  Soviet Union 9.50 9.70 19.20 did not advance
Wilhelm Kubica  Poland 9.50 9.70 19.20 did not advance
10 Matthias Brehme  East Germany 9.55 9.60 19.15 did not advance
11 Siegfried Fülle  East Germany 9.55 9.55 19.10 did not advance
Takeshi Katō  Japan 9.55 9.55 19.10 did not advance
Viktor Klimenko  Soviet Union 9.50 9.60 19.10 did not advance
Mitsuo Tsukahara  Japan 9.50 9.60 19.10 did not advance
15 Christian Guiffroy  France 9.50 9.50 19.00 did not advance
Václav Skoumal  Czechoslovakia 9.45 9.55 19.00 did not advance
17 Janez Brodnik  Yugoslavia 9.45 9.50 18.95 did not advance
Mauno Nissinen  Finland 9.45 9.50 18.95 did not advance
19 Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia 9.55 9.35 18.90 did not advance
Erich Hess  West Germany 9.55 9.35 18.90 did not advance
Christer Jönsson  Sweden 9.50 9.40 18.90 did not advance
Raycho Khristov  Bulgaria 9.50 9.40 18.90 did not advance
23 Gerhard Dietrich  East Germany 9.30 9.55 18.85 did not advance
Hans Ettlin  Switzerland 9.40 9.45 18.85 did not advance
25 Mikołaj Kubica  Poland 9.20 9.60 18.80 did not advance
Viktor Lisitsky  Soviet Union 9.35 9.45 18.80 did not advance
Konrád Mentsik  Hungary 9.30 9.50 18.80 did not advance
Peter Weber  East Germany 9.40 9.40 18.80 did not advance
29 Meinrad Berchtold  Switzerland 9.40 9.35 18.75 did not advance
Luigi Cimnaghi  Italy 9.35 9.40 18.75 did not advance
Willi Jaschek  West Germany 9.30 9.45 18.75 did not advance
Hannu Rantakari  Finland 8.25 9.50 17.75 did not advance
33 Valery Karasyov  Soviet Union 9.40 9.30 18.70 did not advance
34 Georgi Adamov  Bulgaria 9.50 9.15 18.65 did not advance
Günter Beier  East Germany 9.40 9.25 18.65 did not advance
František Bočko  Czechoslovakia 9.25 9.40 18.65 did not advance
Chung-tae Kim  South Korea 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
Heiko Reinemer  West Germany 9.20 9.45 18.65 did not advance
39 Michel Bouchonnet  France 9.20 9.40 18.60 did not advance
Steve Hug  United States 9.25 9.35 18.60 did not advance
Peter Rohner  Switzerland 9.25 9.35 18.60 did not advance
42 Béla Herczeg  Hungary 9.15 9.40 18.55 did not advance
Václav Kubíčka  Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.40 18.55 did not advance
Dave Thor  United States 9.05 9.50 18.55 did not advance
45 Christian Deuza  France 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
Miloš Vratič  Yugoslavia 9.20 9.30 18.50 did not advance
47 Dezső Bordán  Hungary 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Jiří Fejtek  Czechoslovakia 9.15 9.30 18.45 did not advance
Bohumil Mudřík  Czechoslovakia 9.05 9.40 18.45 did not advance
Fred Roethlisberger  United States 9.10 9.35 18.45 did not advance
Helmut Tepasse  West Germany 9.35 9.10 18.45 did not advance
52 Andrzej Gonera  Poland 9.15 9.25 18.40 did not advance
Sylwester Kubica  Poland 9.40 9.00 18.40 did not advance
Kanati Allen  United States 8.80 9.50 18.40 did not advance
Sid Freudenstein  United States 8.95 9.45 18.40 did not advance
56 Milenko Kersnić  Yugoslavia 9.05 9.30 18.35 did not advance
57 Steve Cohen  United States 8.90 9.40 18.30 did not advance
Hermann Höpfner  West Germany 9.20 9.10 18.30 did not advance
59 Heikki Sappinen  Finland 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
Jerzy Kruża  Poland 8.90 9.35 18.25 did not advance
Aleksander Rokosa  Poland 8.80 9.45 18.25 did not advance
62 István Aranyos  Hungary 8.90 9.30 18.20 did not advance
Heinz Häussler  West Germany 9.05 9.15 18.20 did not advance
Héctor Ramírez  Cuba 9.15 9.05 18.20 did not advance
Arne Thomsen  Denmark 9.00 9.20 18.20 did not advance
66 Edwin Greutmann  Switzerland 9.05 9.10 18.15 did not advance
Juhani Rahikainen  Finland 8.95 9.20 18.15 did not advance
Stefan Zoev  Bulgaria 9.25 8.90 18.15 did not advance
69 Olli Laiho  Finland 8.65 9.40 18.05 did not advance
Evert Lindgren  Sweden 8.70 9.35 18.05 did not advance
71 Sid Jensen  Canada 8.80 9.20 18.00 did not advance
72 Larbi Lazhari  Algeria 8.70 9.25 17.95 did not advance
Jorge Rodríguez  Cuba 8.75 9.20 17.95 did not advance
Endre Tihanyi  Hungary 8.80 9.15 17.95 did not advance
75 Roland Hürzeler  Switzerland 8.40 9.45 17.85 did not advance
76 Rogelio Mendoza  Mexico 8.80 9.00 17.80 did not advance
Damir Anić  Yugoslavia 8.80 9.00 17.80 did not advance
Roger Dion  Canada 8.95 8.85 17.80 did not advance
Bruno Franceschetti  Italy 8.70 9.10 17.80 did not advance
Paul Müller  Switzerland 9.00 8.80 17.80 did not advance
81 Michael Booth  Great Britain 8.75 9.00 17.75 did not advance
Giovanni Carminucci  Italy 9.30 8.45 17.75 did not advance
Pasquale Carminucci  Italy 8.80 8.95 17.75 did not advance
Ivan Kondev  Bulgaria 8.75 9.00 17.75 did not advance
85 Enrique García  Mexico 8.65 9.05 17.70 did not advance
Reino Heino  Finland 8.40 9.30 17.70 did not advance
Sándor Kiss  Hungary 8.60 9.10 17.70 did not advance
88 José Vilchis  Mexico 8.85 8.80 17.65 did not advance
89 José González  Mexico 8.85 8.75 17.60 did not advance
90 Steve Mitruk  Canada 8.70 8.75 17.45 did not advance
Tine Šrot  Yugoslavia 8.40 9.05 17.45 did not advance
92 Gilbert Larose  Canada 8.80 8.60 17.40 did not advance
Roberto Pumpido  Cuba 8.65 8.75 17.40 did not advance
94 Finn Johannesson  Sweden 7.95 9.40 17.35 did not advance
95 Hans Peter Nielsen  Denmark 8.30 9.00 17.30 did not advance
Armando Valles  Mexico 9.30 8.00 17.30 did not advance
97 Stan Wild  Great Britain 8.50 8.75 17.25 did not advance
98 Chu-Long Lai  Taiwan 8.70 8.40 17.10 did not advance
99 José Filipe Abreu  Portugal 8.40 8.50 16.90 did not advance
100 Rumen Gabrovski  Bulgaria 9.10 7.75 16.85 did not advance
101 Miloslav Netušil  Czechoslovakia 7.50 9.25 16.75 did not advance
Luis Ramírez  Cuba 7.80 8.95 16.75 did not advance
Fernando Valles  Mexico 8.35 8.40 16.75 did not advance
104 Octavio Suárez  Cuba 7.50 9.20 16.70 did not advance
105 Bozhidar Ivanov  Bulgaria 7.50 9.15 16.65 did not advance
106 Sergio Luna  Ecuador 8.05 8.55 16.60 did not advance
107 Vincenzo Mori  Italy 8.45 8.10 16.55 did not advance
108 Davaanyam Zagdbazaryn  Mongolia 8.50 8.00 16.50 did not advance
109 Barry Brooker  Canada 8.65 7.80 16.45 did not advance
110 Murray Chessell  Australia 8.05 8.25 16.30 did not advance
111 Luis Navarrete  Cuba 8.25 7.00 15.25 did not advance
112 Eduardo Nájera  Ecuador 8.05 4.70 12.75 did not advance
113 Fu Cheng  Taiwan 8.10 4.00 12.10 did not advance
114 Franco Menichelli  Italy 9.60 9.60 did not advance
115 Pedro Rendón  Ecuador 4.65 3.50 8.15 did not advance

References

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