Artistic Gymnastics — Vault, Men

Times held 29
Total participants 1406
Total countries 79

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1875 Horse Vault, Men 0 0
1889 Horse Vault, Men 3 1
1896 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 15 5
1904 Side Horse Vault, Men Olympic 3 1
1904 Horse Vault - YMCA Individual Gymnastic Championships, Men Olympic (non-medal) 6 1
1924 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 70 9
1928 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 85 11
1932 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 10 4
1936 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 110 14
1948 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 120 16
1952 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 185 29
1956 Horse Vault, Men Olympic 63 18
1960 Vault, Men Olympic 129 28
1964 Vault, Men Olympic 130 30
1968 Vault, Men Olympic 116 28
1972 Vault, Men Olympic 111 26
1976 Vault, Men Olympic 90 20
1980 Vault, Men Olympic 64 14
1984 Vault, Men Olympic 71 19
1988 Vault, Men Olympic 89 23
1992 Vault, Men Olympic 93 25
1996 Vault, Men Olympic 105 31
2000 Vault, Men Olympic 80 31
2004 Vault, Men Olympic 79 30
2008 Vault, Men Olympic 16 13
2012 Vault, Men Olympic 17 14
2016 Vault, Men Olympic 17 14
2020 Vault, Men Olympic 24 18
2024 Vault, Men Olympic 18 16

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Carl SchuhmannGER Louis ZutterSUI Hermann WeingärtnerGER
1904 Anton Heida
George Eyser
USA
USA
William MerzUSA
1924 Frank KrizUSA Jan KoutnýTCH Bohumil MořkovskýTCH
1928 Eugen MackSUI Emanuel LöfflerTCH Stane DergancYUG
1932 Savino GuglielmettiITA Al JochimUSA Ed CarmichaelUSA
1936 Alfred SchwarzmannGER Eugen MackSUI Matthias VolzGER
1948 Paavo AaltonenFIN Olavi RoveFIN Ferenc Pataki
János Mogyorósi-Klencs
Leo Sotorník
HUN
HUN
TCH
1952 Viktor ChukarinURS Masao TakemotoJPN Tadao Uesako
Takashi Ono
JPN
JPN
1956 Helmut Bantz
Valentin Muratov
GER
URS
Yury TitovURS
1960 Takashi Ono
Boris Shakhlin
JPN
URS
Vladimir PortnoyURS
1964 Haruhiro YamashitaJPN Viktor LisitskyURS Hannu RantakariFIN
1968 Mikhail VoroninURS Yukio EndoJPN Sergey DiomidovURS
1972 Klaus KösteGDR Viktor KlimenkoURS Nikolay AndrianovURS
1976 Nikolay AndrianovURS Mitsuo TsukaharaJPN Hiroshi KajiyamaJPN
1980 Nikolay AndrianovURS Aleksandr DityatinURS Roland BrücknerGDR
1984 Lou YunCHN Li Ning
Koji Gushiken
Shinji Morisue
Mitch Gaylord
CHN
JPN
JPN
USA
1988 Lou YunCHN Sylvio KrollGDR Park Jong-HunKOR
1992 Vitali ShcherbaEUN Hryhoriy MisiutinEUN Yu Ok-YeolKOR
1996 Aleksey NemovRUS Yeo Hong-CheolKOR Vitali ShcherbaBLR
2000 Gervasio DeferrESP Aleksey BondarenkoRUS Leszek BlanikPOL
2004 Gervasio DeferrESP Jevgēņijs SaproņenkoLAT Marian DrăgulescuROU
2008 Leszek BlanikPOL Thomas BouhailFRA Anton GolotsutskovRUS
2012 Yang Hak-SeonKOR Denis AblyazinRUS Ihor RadivilovUKR
2016 Ri Se-GwangPRK Denis AblyazinRUS Kenzo ShiraiJPN
2020 Sin Jae-HwanKOR Denis AblyazinROC Artur DavtyanARM
2024 Carlos YuloPHI Artur DavtyanARM Harry HepworthGBR

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Soviet Union URS 6 3 4 13
United States USA 3 2 2 7
Germany GER 3 0 2 5
Japan JPN 2 5 4 11
Republic of Korea KOR 2 1 2 5
People's Republic of China CHN 2 1 0 3
Spain ESP 2 0 0 2
Russian Federation RUS 1 3 1 5
Switzerland SUI 1 2 0 3
East Germany GDR 1 1 1 3
Finland FIN 1 1 1 3
Unified Team EUN 1 1 0 2
Poland POL 1 0 1 2
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1 0 0 1
Italy ITA 1 0 0 1
Philippines PHI 1 0 0 1
Czechoslovakia TCH 0 2 2 4
Armenia ARM 0 1 1 2
France FRA 0 1 0 1
Latvia LAT 0 1 0 1
ROC ROC 0 1 0 1
Hungary HUN 0 0 2 2
Belarus BLR 0 0 1 1
Great Britain GBR 0 0 1 1
Romania ROU 0 0 1 1
Ukraine UKR 0 0 1 1
Yugoslavia YUG 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Nikolay Andrianov RUS
URS
2 0 1 3
Lou Yun CHN 2 0 0 2
Gervasio Deferr ESP 2 0 0 2
Eugen Mack SUI 1 1 0 2
Vitali Shcherba BLR
EUN
1 0 1 2
Takashi Ono JPN 1 0 1 2
Leszek Blanik POL 1 0 1 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Algeria ALG 1964 Summer Olympics Mohamed Lazhari =77 r1/2 See all
Argentina ARG 1948 Summer Olympics Arturo Amos =77 See all
Armenia ARM 2024 Summer Olympics Artur Davtyan 2 Silver See all
Australia AUS 1984 Summer Olympics Werner Birnbaum =25 r1/2 See all
1984 Summer Olympics Rob Edmonds =25 r1/2
Austria AUT 1952 Summer Olympics Wolfgang Girardi =9 See all
Azerbaijan AZE 2020 Summer Olympics İvan Tixonov AC r1/2 See all
Barbados BAR 1996 Summer Olympics Shane de Freitas =71 r1/1 See all
Belarus BLR 1996 Summer Olympics Vitali Shcherba 3 Bronze See all
Belgium BEL 1960 Summer Olympics René Marteaux =87 r1/2 See all
Brazil BRA 2020 Summer Olympics Caio Souza 8 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1988 Summer Olympics Deyan Kolev 4 See all
1996 Summer Olympics Ivan Ivanov =4
Canada CAN 2004 Summer Olympics Kyle Shewfelt 4 See all
Chile CHI 2012 Summer Olympics Tomás González 4 See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 2000 Summer Olympics Lin Yung-Hsi 50 r1/1 See all
Colombia COL 2004 Summer Olympics Jorge Giraldo =41 r1/1 See all
Croatia CRO 2024 Summer Olympics Aurel Benović 5 See all
Cuba CUB 1980 Summer Olympics Casimiro Suárez =11 r1/1 See all
Czechia CZE 1996 Summer Olympics Jiří Fiřt =63 r1/1 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1924 Summer Olympics Jan Koutný 2 Silver See all
1928 Summer Olympics Emanuel Löffler 2 Silver
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 2016 Summer Olympics Ri Se-Gwang 1 Gold See all
Denmark DEN 1948 Summer Olympics Vilhelm Møller =20 See all
Dominican Republic DOM 2024 Summer Olympics Audrys Nin 16 r1/2 See all
East Germany GDR 1972 Summer Olympics Klaus Köste 1 Gold See all
Ecuador ECU 1968 Summer Olympics Sergio Luna =106 r1/2 See all
Egypt EGY 2012 Summer Olympics Mohamed El-Saharty 12 r1/2 See all
Finland FIN 1948 Summer Olympics Paavo Aaltonen 1 Gold See all
France FRA 2008 Summer Olympics Thomas Bouhail 2 Silver See all
Georgia GEO 2004 Summer Olympics Ilia Giorgadze 52 r1/1 See all
Germany GER 1896 Summer Olympics Carl Schuhmann 1 Gold See all
1936 Summer Olympics Alfred Schwarzmann 1 Gold
1956 Summer Olympics Helmut Bantz =1 Gold
Great Britain GBR 2024 Summer Olympics Harry Hepworth 3 Bronze See all
Hong Kong, China HKG 2020 Summer Olympics Shek Wai Hung 12 r1/2 See all
Hungary HUN 1948 Summer Olympics Ferenc Pataki =3 Bronze See all
1948 Summer Olympics János Mogyorósi-Klencs =3 Bronze
Iceland ISL 2004 Summer Olympics Rúnar Alexandersson 78 r1/1 See all
India IND 1956 Summer Olympics Sham Lal 60 See all
Ireland IRL 1996 Summer Olympics Barry McDonald 95 r1/1 See all
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 2024 Summer Olympics Mahdi Olfati 7 See all
Israel ISR 2004 Summer Olympics Pavel Gofman =48 r1/1 See all
Italy ITA 1932 Summer Olympics Savino Guglielmetti 1 Gold See all
Japan JPN 1960 Summer Olympics Takashi Ono =1 Gold See all
1964 Summer Olympics Haruhiro Yamashita 1 Gold
Kazakhstan KAZ 2000 Summer Olympics Sergey Fedorchenko 5 See all
Latvia LAT 2004 Summer Olympics Jevgēņijs Saproņenko 2 Silver See all
Liechtenstein LIE 1972 Summer Olympics Bruno Banzer =88 r1/1 See all
Lithuania LTU 2016 Summer Olympics Robert Tvorogal 15 r1/2 See all
Luxembourg LUX 1960 Summer Olympics Josy Stoffel =20 r1/2 See all
Malaysia MAS 2004 Summer Olympics Ng Shu Wai =41 r1/1 See all
Mexico MEX 1968 Summer Olympics Armando Valles =37 r1/2 See all
Mongolia MGL 1964 Summer Olympics Zagdbazaryn Davaanyam =69 r1/2 See all
Morocco MAR 1960 Summer Olympics Miloud Amselek 109 r1/2 See all
Netherlands NED 2024 Summer Olympics Casimir Schmidt 13 r1/2 See all
New Zealand NZL 2016 Summer Olympics Misha Koudinov 16 r1/2 See all
Norway NOR 1964 Summer Olympics Åge Storhaug =28 r1/2 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 1984 Summer Olympics Lou Yun 1 Gold See all
1988 Summer Olympics Lou Yun 1 Gold
Philippines PHI 2024 Summer Olympics Carlos Yulo 1 Gold See all
Poland POL 2008 Summer Olympics Leszek Blanik 1 Gold See all
Portugal POR 1968 Summer Olympics José Filipe Abreu =71 r1/2 See all
Puerto Rico PUR 2008 Summer Olympics Luis Rivera 13 r1/2 See all
ROC ROC 2020 Summer Olympics Denis Ablyazin 2 Silver See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2012 Summer Olympics Yang Hak-Seon 1 Gold See all
2020 Summer Olympics Sin Jae-Hwan 1 Gold
Romania ROU 2004 Summer Olympics Marian Drăgulescu 3 Bronze See all
Russian Federation RUS 1996 Summer Olympics Aleksey Nemov 1 Gold See all
Saar SAA 1952 Summer Olympics Heinz Ostheimer =110 See all
San Marino SMR 1984 Summer Olympics Maurizio Zonzini =63 r1/2 See all
Slovenia SLO 1992 Summer Olympics Jože Kolman =65 r1/1 See all
South Africa RSA 1956 Summer Olympics Ronnie Lombard =50 See all
Soviet Union URS 1952 Summer Olympics Viktor Chukarin 1 Gold See all
1956 Summer Olympics Valentin Muratov =1 Gold
1960 Summer Olympics Boris Shakhlin =1 Gold
1968 Summer Olympics Mikhail Voronin 1 Gold
1976 Summer Olympics Nikolay Andrianov 1 Gold
1980 Summer Olympics Nikolay Andrianov 1 Gold
Spain ESP 2000 Summer Olympics Gervasio Deferr 1 Gold See all
2004 Summer Olympics Gervasio Deferr 1 Gold
Sweden SWE 1952 Summer Olympics Anders Lindh =13 See all
Switzerland SUI 1928 Summer Olympics Eugen Mack 1 Gold See all
Tunisia TUN 2004 Summer Olympics Wajdi Bouallègue 69 r1/1 See all
Türkiye TUR 2020 Summer Olympics Adem Asil 6 See all
Ukraine UKR 2012 Summer Olympics Ihor Radivilov 3 Bronze See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Vitali Shcherba 1 Gold See all
United Arab Republic UAR 1960 Summer Olympics Ismail Abdallah =58 r1/2 See all
United States USA 1904 Summer Olympics Anton Heida =1 Gold See all
1904 Summer Olympics George Eyser =1 Gold
1924 Summer Olympics Frank Kriz 1 Gold
Vietnam VIE 2020 Summer Olympics Lê Thanh Tùng 19 r1/2 See all
West Germany FRG 1988 Summer Olympics Jürgen Brümmer =13 r1/1 See all
Yemen YEM 2008 Summer Olympics Nashwan Al-Harazi 16 r1/2 See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1928 Summer Olympics Stane Derganc 3 Bronze See all