Artistic Gymnastics — Parallel Bars, Men

Times held 29
Total participants 1593
Total countries 83

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1875 Parallel Bars, Men 0 0
1889 Parallel Bars, Men 6 1
1896 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 18 6
1904 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 3 1
1904 Parallel Bars - YMCA Individual Gymnastic Championships, Men Olympic (non-medal) 13 1
1924 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 72 9
1928 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 85 11
1932 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 15 6
1936 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 110 14
1948 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 122 16
1952 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 185 29
1956 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 63 18
1960 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 129 28
1964 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 128 29
1968 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 117 28
1972 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 112 26
1976 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 90 20
1980 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 65 14
1984 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 71 19
1988 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 89 23
1992 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 93 25
1996 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 106 31
2000 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 81 30
2004 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 81 30
2008 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 76 27
2012 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 71 33
2016 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 67 33
2020 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 70 33
2024 Parallel Bars, Men Olympic 65 27

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Alfred FlatowGER Louis ZutterSUI
1904 George EyserUSA Anton HeidaUSA John DuhaUSA
1924 August GüttingerSUI Robert PražákTCH Giorgio ZamporiITA
1928 Ladislav VáchaTCH Jože PrimožičYUG Hermann HänggiSUI
1932 Romeo NeriITA István PelleHUN Heikki SavolainenFIN
1936 Konrad FreyGER Michael ReuschSUI Alfred SchwarzmannGER
1948 Michael ReuschSUI Veikko HuhtanenFIN Christian Kipfer
Sepp Stalder
SUI
SUI
1952 Hans EugsterSUI Viktor ChukarinURS Sepp StalderSUI
1956 Viktor ChukarinURS Masami KubotaJPN Takashi Ono
Masao Takemoto
JPN
JPN
1960 Boris ShakhlinURS Giovanni CarminucciITA Takashi OnoJPN
1964 Yukio EndoJPN Shuji TsurumiJPN Franco MenichelliITA
1968 Akinori NakayamaJPN Mikhail VoroninURS Viktor KlimenkoURS
1972 Sawao KatoJPN Shigeru KasamatsuJPN Eizo KenmotsuJPN
1976 Sawao KatoJPN Nikolay AndrianovURS Mitsuo TsukaharaJPN
1980 Aleksandr TkachovURS Aleksandr DityatinURS Roland BrücknerGDR
1984 Bart ConnerUSA Nobuyuki KajitaniJPN Mitch GaylordUSA
1988 Vladimir ArtyomovURS Valery LyukinURS Sven TippeltGDR
1992 Vitali ShcherbaEUN Li JingCHN Guo Linyao
Ihor Korobchinskyi
Masayuki Matsunaga
CHN
EUN
JPN
1996 Rustam SharipovUKR Jair LynchUSA Vitali ShcherbaBLR
2000 Li XiaopengCHN Lee Ju-HyeongKOR Aleksey NemovRUS
2004 Valeriy HoncharovUKR Hiroyuki TomitaJPN Li XiaopengCHN
2008 Li XiaopengCHN Yu Won-CheolKOR Anton FokinUZB
2012 Feng ZheCHN Marcel NguyenGER Hamilton SabotFRA
2016 Oleh VerniaievUKR Danell LeyvaUSA David BelyavskyRUS
2020 Zou JingyuanCHN Lukas DauserGER Ferhat ArıcanTUR
2024 Zou JingyuanCHN Illia KovtunUKR Shinnosuke OkaJPN

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 5 1 2 8
Japan JPN 4 5 7 16
Soviet Union URS 4 5 1 10
Switzerland SUI 3 2 4 9
Ukraine UKR 3 1 0 4
United States USA 2 3 2 7
Germany GER 2 2 1 5
Italy ITA 1 1 2 4
Czechoslovakia TCH 1 1 0 2
Unified Team EUN 1 0 1 2
Republic of Korea KOR 0 2 0 2
Finland FIN 0 1 1 2
Hungary HUN 0 1 0 1
Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 0 1
East Germany GDR 0 0 2 2
Russian Federation RUS 0 0 2 2
Belarus BLR 0 0 1 1
France FRA 0 0 1 1
Türkiye TUR 0 0 1 1
Uzbekistan UZB 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Li Xiaopeng CHN 2 0 1 3
Sawao Kato JPN 2 0 0 2
Zou Jingyuan CHN 2 0 0 2
Michael Reusch SUI 1 1 0 2
Viktor Chukarin URS
UKR
1 1 0 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Algeria ALG 2016 Summer Olympics Mohamed Bourguieg =57 r1/2 See all
Argentina ARG 1948 Summer Olympics Arturo Amos 83 See all
Armenia ARM 2012 Summer Olympics Artur Davtyan 47 r1/2 See all
Australia AUS 2004 Summer Olympics Philippe Rizzo =12 r1/1 See all
Austria AUT 1952 Summer Olympics Hans Sauter =23 See all
Azerbaijan AZE 2016 Summer Olympics Oleq Stepko 18 r1/2 See all
Bangladesh BAN 2012 Summer Olympics Quazi Syque Caesar 27 r1/2 See all
Barbados BAR 1996 Summer Olympics Shane de Freitas 85 r1/1 See all
Belarus BLR 1996 Summer Olympics Vitali Shcherba 3 Bronze See all
Belgium BEL 2012 Summer Olympics Jimmy Verbaeys 42 r1/2 See all
Brazil BRA 2012 Summer Olympics Sérgio Sasaki 17 r1/2 See all
Bulgaria BUL 1988 Summer Olympics Kalofer Hristozov 4 See all
Canada CAN 1988 Summer Olympics Curtis Hibbert 6 See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 2020 Summer Olympics Lee Chih-Kai 39 r1/2 See all
Colombia COL 2016 Summer Olympics Jossimar Calvo 13 r1/2 See all
Croatia CRO 1996 Summer Olympics Aleksej Demjanov 60 r1/1 See all
Cuba CUB 2016 Summer Olympics Manrique Larduet 5 See all
Cyprus CYP 2016 Summer Olympics Marios Georgiou 35 r1/2 See all
Czechia CZE 2020 Summer Olympics David Jessen 53 r1/2 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1928 Summer Olympics Ladislav Vácha 1 Gold See all
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1972 Summer Olympics Li Song-Sob =22 r1/1 See all
Denmark DEN 1948 Summer Olympics Poul Jessen =41 See all
1948 Summer Olympics Elkana Grønne =41
East Germany GDR 1980 Summer Olympics Roland Brückner 3 Bronze See all
1988 Summer Olympics Sven Tippelt 3 Bronze
Ecuador ECU 1968 Summer Olympics Sergio Luna 105 r1/2 See all
Egypt EGY 1952 Summer Olympics Ali Zaky =21 See all
Finland FIN 1948 Summer Olympics Veikko Huhtanen 2 Silver See all
France FRA 2012 Summer Olympics Hamilton Sabot 3 Bronze See all
Georgia GEO 2000 Summer Olympics Ilia Giorgadze 12 r1/1 See all
Germany GER 1896 Summer Olympics Alfred Flatow 1 Gold See all
1936 Summer Olympics Konrad Frey 1 Gold
Great Britain GBR 2020 Summer Olympics Joe Fraser 8 See all
Hungary HUN 1932 Summer Olympics István Pelle 2 Silver See all
Iceland ISL 2000 Summer Olympics Rúnar Alexandersson =35 r1/1 See all
India IND 1956 Summer Olympics Pritam Singh 61 See all
Ireland IRL 2016 Summer Olympics Kieran Behan 53 r1/2 See all
Islamic Republic of Iran IRI 1964 Summer Olympics Jalal Bazargan-Vali =116 r1/2 See all
Israel ISR 2004 Summer Olympics Pavel Gofman =26 r1/1 See all
Italy ITA 1932 Summer Olympics Romeo Neri 1 Gold See all
Japan JPN 1964 Summer Olympics Yukio Endo 1 Gold See all
1968 Summer Olympics Akinori Nakayama 1 Gold
1972 Summer Olympics Sawao Kato 1 Gold
1976 Summer Olympics Sawao Kato 1 Gold
Kazakhstan KAZ 2004 Summer Olympics Yernar Yerimbetov 8 See all
Latvia LAT 2000 Summer Olympics Igors Vihrovs =31 r1/1 See all
Liechtenstein LIE 1972 Summer Olympics Bruno Banzer =88 r1/1 See all
Lithuania LTU 2020 Summer Olympics Robert Tvorogal 32 r1/2 See all
Luxembourg LUX 1952 Summer Olympics Josy Stoffel 26 See all
1960 Summer Olympics Josy Stoffel =26 r1/2
Malaysia MAS 2020 Summer Olympics Jeremiah Loo 70 r1/2 See all
Mexico MEX 2012 Summer Olympics Daniel Corral 5 See all
Monaco MON 2016 Summer Olympics Kévin Crovetto 67 r1/2 See all
Mongolia MGL 1968 Summer Olympics Zagdbazaryn Davaanyam 99 r1/2 See all
Morocco MAR 1960 Summer Olympics Mohamed Sekkat =122 r1/2 See all
Netherlands NED 2024 Summer Olympics Frank Rijken 16 r1/2 See all
New Zealand NZL 2020 Summer Olympics Misha Koudinov 35 r1/2 See all
Nigeria NGR 2020 Summer Olympics Uche Eke 64 r1/2 See all
Norway NOR 1960 Summer Olympics Åge Storhaug =37 r1/2 See all
People's Republic of China CHN 2000 Summer Olympics Li Xiaopeng 1 Gold See all
2008 Summer Olympics Li Xiaopeng 1 Gold
2012 Summer Olympics Feng Zhe 1 Gold
2020 Summer Olympics Zou Jingyuan 1 Gold
2024 Summer Olympics Zou Jingyuan 1 Gold
Philippines PHI 2024 Summer Olympics Carlos Yulo 19 r1/2 See all
Poland POL 1976 Summer Olympics Andrzej Szajna 6 See all
Portugal POR 2012 Summer Olympics Manuel Campos 45 r1/2 See all
Puerto Rico PUR 2004 Summer Olympics Tingui Vargas =49 r1/1 See all
ROC ROC 2020 Summer Olympics David Belyavsky 5 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2000 Summer Olympics Lee Ju-Hyeong 2 Silver See all
2008 Summer Olympics Yu Won-Cheol 2 Silver
Romania ROU 1988 Summer Olympics Marius Gherman 5 See all
Russian Federation RUS 2000 Summer Olympics Aleksey Nemov 3 Bronze See all
2016 Summer Olympics David Belyavsky 3 Bronze
Saar SAA 1952 Summer Olympics Artur Schmitt 106 See all
San Marino SMR 1984 Summer Olympics Maurizio Zonzini =61 r1/2 See all
Slovakia SVK 2012 Summer Olympics Samuel Piasecký 11 r1/2 See all
Slovenia SLO 2008 Summer Olympics Mitja Petkovšek 5 See all
South Africa RSA 1956 Summer Olympics Jack Wells =58 See all
Soviet Union URS 1956 Summer Olympics Viktor Chukarin 1 Gold See all
1960 Summer Olympics Boris Shakhlin 1 Gold
1980 Summer Olympics Aleksandr Tkachov 1 Gold
1988 Summer Olympics Vladimir Artyomov 1 Gold
Spain ESP 2000 Summer Olympics Andreu Vivó =17 r1/1 See all
Sweden SWE 1956 Summer Olympics William Thoresson =16 See all
Switzerland SUI 1924 Summer Olympics August Güttinger 1 Gold See all
1948 Summer Olympics Michael Reusch 1 Gold
1952 Summer Olympics Hans Eugster 1 Gold
Syrian Arab Republic SYR 2024 Summer Olympics Lais Najjar 47 r1/2 See all
Tunisia TUN 2004 Summer Olympics Wajdi Bouallègue 77 r1/1 See all
Türkiye TUR 2020 Summer Olympics Ferhat Arıcan 3 Bronze See all
Ukraine UKR 1996 Summer Olympics Rustam Sharipov 1 Gold See all
2004 Summer Olympics Valeriy Honcharov 1 Gold
2016 Summer Olympics Oleh Verniaiev 1 Gold
Unified Team EUN 1992 Summer Olympics Vitali Shcherba 1 Gold See all
United Arab Republic UAR 1960 Summer Olympics Ahmed Allam =23 r1/2 See all
United States USA 1904 Summer Olympics George Eyser 1 Gold See all
1984 Summer Olympics Bart Conner 1 Gold
Uzbekistan UZB 2008 Summer Olympics Anton Fokin 3 Bronze See all
Venezuela VEN 2008 Summer Olympics José Luis Fuentes 31 r1/2 See all
Vietnam VIE 2012 Summer Olympics Phạm Phước Hưng 19 r1/2 See all
West Germany FRG 1972 Summer Olympics Eberhard Gienger =6 r1/1 See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1928 Summer Olympics Jože Primožič 2 Silver See all