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Horizontal Bar, Men

Date	12 – 13 August 1948 — 9:00
Status	Olympic
Location	Empress Hall, Earls Court Exhibition Centre, Kensington, London
Participants	121 from 16 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Sepp Stalder won the gold medal on the high bar, pioneering a move which would later bear his name, the Stalder-Grätsche, or Stalder Shoot, and which would be used by generations on both high bar and uneven bars. Stalder was one of the rare 1948 gymnasts to return and win a medal in 1952, adding a silver medal in this event. The silver medal in London went to his Swiss teammate, Walter Lehmann, who had also won silver in the individual all-around, while bronze went to Finland’s Veikko Huhtanen.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	CEP	OEP
1	Sepp Stalder	SUI	39.70	19.80	19.90	Gold
2	Walter Lehmann	SUI	39.40	19.70	19.70	Silver
3	Veikko Huhtanen	FIN	39.20	19.60	19.60	Bronze
=4	Emil Studer	SUI	38.80	19.50	19.30
=4	Lajos Sántha	HUN	38.80	19.40	19.40
=4	Raymond Dot	FRA	38.80	19.30	19.50
=4	Aleksanteri Saarvala	FIN	38.80	19.00	19.80
8	Einari Teräsvirta	FIN	38.70	19.50	19.20
=9	Christian Kipfer	SUI	38.60	19.20	19.40
=9	Lajos Tóth	HUN	38.60	19.00	19.60
11	Lucien Masset	FRA	38.50	19.30	19.20
=12	Michael Reusch	SUI	38.40	19.60	18.80
=12	Paavo Aaltonen	FIN	38.40	18.80	19.60
14	Kalevi Laitinen	FIN	38.10	19.10	19.00
=15	Guido Figone	ITA	38.00	19.20	18.80
=15	Sulo Salmi	FIN	38.00	19.10	18.90
=17	Zdeněk Růžička	TCH	37.90	19.50	18.40
=17	Auguste Sirot	FRA	37.90	18.60	19.30
19	Michel Mathiot	FRA	37.80	18.50	19.30
=20	Alphonse Anger	FRA	37.60	19.00	18.60
=20	André Weingand	FRA	37.60	18.90	18.70
=20	Pavel Benetka	TCH	37.60	18.70	18.90
23	Robert Lucy	SUI	37.50	18.60	18.90
24	Olavi Rove	FIN	37.40	18.50	18.90
=25	Luigi Zanetti	ITA	37.30	19.00	18.30
=25	Frank Cumiskey	USA	37.30	18.60	18.70
=27	Savino Guglielmetti	ITA	37.20	18.90	18.30
=27	František Wirth	TCH	37.20	18.60	18.60
29	Heikki Savolainen	FIN	37.10	19.50	17.60
30	Jack Flaherty	GBR	36.90	18.00	18.90
31	Győző Mogyoróssy	HUN	36.80	18.00	18.80
32	Karl Bohusch	AUT	36.70	18.90	17.80
=33	Ed Scrobe	USA	36.60	18.80	17.80
=33	Domenico Grosso	ITA	36.60	18.50	18.10
=33	Quinto Vadi	ITA	36.60	18.40	18.20
=33	Miroslav Málek	TCH	36.60	18.30	18.30
=33	Danilo Fioravanti	ITA	36.60	18.10	18.50
=38	George Weedon	GBR	36.50	18.10	18.40
=38	László Baranyai	HUN	36.50	17.70	18.80
40	Bill Roetzheim	USA	36.40	17.80	18.60
41	Willi Schreyer	AUT	36.10	18.80	17.30
=42	János Mogyorósi-Klencs	HUN	36.00	18.00	18.00
=42	Antoine Schlindwein	FRA	36.00	16.80	19.20
44	Konrad Grilec	YUG	35.90	18.40	17.50
45	Ernst Wister	AUT	35.80	19.30	16.50
=46	Melchior Thalmann	SUI	35.50	17.60	17.90
=46	Josip Kujundžić	YUG	35.50	17.50	18.00
=46	Ray Sorensen	USA	35.50	17.20	18.30
=49	Ettore Perego	ITA	35.40	18.40	17.00
=49	Vincent D'Autorio	USA	35.40	18.00	17.40
51	Gottfried Hermann	AUT	35.10	18.00	17.10
52	Poul Jessen	DEN	35.00	17.20	17.80
=53	Egidio Armelloni	ITA	34.80	18.30	16.50
=53	Marcel de Wolf	FRA	34.80	16.20	18.60
55	Ferenc Várkői	HUN	34.70	16.60	18.10
56	Jey Kugeler	LUX	34.60	16.00	18.60
=57	Hans Sauter	AUT	34.40	17.50	16.90
=57	Ken Buffin	GBR	34.40	17.40	17.00
59	Joe Kotys	USA	34.00	17.20	16.80
60	Freddy Jensen	DEN	33.95	15.75	18.20
=61	Miro Longyka	YUG	33.90	17.40	16.50
=61	Drago Jelić	YUG	33.90	17.40	16.50
=61	Vladimír Karas	TCH	33.90	17.30	16.60
=61	Polo Welfring	LUX	33.90	16.20	17.70
=65	József Fekete	HUN	33.70	17.40	16.30
=65	Karl Frei	SUI	33.70	15.00	18.70
67	Arnold Thomsen	DEN	33.30	15.50	17.80
=68	Elkana Grønne	DEN	33.10	16.20	16.90
=68	Ferenc Pataki	HUN	33.10	14.00	19.10
70	Ali Zaky	EGY	33.00	17.60	15.40
71	William Bonsall	USA	32.95	15.25	17.70
72	Volmer Thomsen	DEN	32.80	16.40	16.40
73	Jos Bernard	LUX	32.00	15.00	17.00
74	Børge Minerth	DEN	31.90	16.80	15.10
75	Vilhelm Møller	DEN	31.85	14.75	17.10
76	Josy Stoffel	LUX	31.45	14.75	16.70
=77	Hans Friedrich	AUT	31.30	18.00	13.30
=77	Vratislav Petráček	TCH	31.30	16.00	15.30
=79	Pierre Schmitz	LUX	31.20	15.00	16.20
=79	Leo Sotorník	TCH	31.20	14.00	17.20
81	Moustafa Abdel-Aal	EGY	30.45	13.75	16.70
82	René Schroeder	LUX	30.30	15.50	14.80
83	Adli Roushdi	EGY	30.20	14.00	16.20
84	Ahmed Khalaf Ali	EGY	30.05	13.75	16.30
85	Arturo Amos	ARG	29.55	15.75	13.80
86	Alec Wales	GBR	29.45	12.25	17.20
87	Robert Pranz	AUT	29.40	13.00	16.40
88	Frank Turner	GBR	29.20	13.00	16.20
89	Mohamed Aly	EGY	28.50	10.60	17.90
90	Mahmoud Abdel-Aal	EGY	28.00	16.00	12.00
91	Menn Krecke	LUX	27.35	11.75	15.60
92	Ivica Jelić	YUG	27.00	14.00	13.00
93	Jakob Šubelj	YUG	26.40	10.00	16.40
94	Rafael Lecuona	CUB	26.35	10.75	15.60
95	Stjepan Boltižar	YUG	26.10	10.50	15.60
96	Ahmed El-Giddawi	EGY	25.50	9.50	16.00
97	Enrique Rapesta	ARG	25.05	10.25	14.80
98	Ali El-Hefnawi	EGY	24.30	10.50	13.80
99	Butz Wengler	LUX	23.15	9.25	13.90
100	Gunner Olesen	DEN	22.90	6.00	16.90
101	César Bonoris	ARG	22.20	8.00	14.20
102	Jorge Soler	ARG	21.40	8.50	12.90
103	Gustav Hrubý	TCH	21.30	15.30	6.00
104	Pedro Lonchibuco	ARG	20.50	6.00	14.50
105	Percy May	GBR	19.50	6.00	13.50
106	Baldomero Rubiera	CUB	19.00	4.50	14.50
107	Fernando Lecuona	CUB	17.30	5.50	11.80
=108	Jorge Castro	MEX	17.00	6.00	11.00
=108	Rubén Lira	MEX	17.00	3.00	14.00
=110	Roberto Villacián	CUB	16.50	5.50	11.00
=110	Alejandro Díaz	CUB	16.50	5.50	11.00
112	Raimundo Rey	CUB	16.25	6.25	10.00
113	Karel Janež	YUG	16.00	8.00	8.00
114	Louis Bordo	USA	15.75	15.75	0.00
115	Ángel Aguiar	CUB	14.50	5.50	9.00
116	Roberto Núñez	ARG	14.40	5.00	9.40
117	Glyn Hopkins	GBR	13.75	5.25	8.50
118	Ivor Vice	GBR	13.00	4.50	8.50
119	Dionisio Aguilar	MEX	8.00	2.00	6.00
=120	Jorge Vidal	ARG	6.00	6.00	0.00
=120	Everardo Ríos	MEX	6.00	6.00	0.00