Gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
Medalists
    Japan
    Soviet Union
    Japan
«1952 1960»
Gymnastics at the
1956 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around   men   women
Team Portable
Apparatus
  women

Individual all-around men women
Vault men women
Floor men women
Pommel horse men
Rings men
Parallel bars men
Horizontal bar men
Uneven bars women
Balance beam women

These are the results of the men's horizontal bar competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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Results

Qualification

Sixty three gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds of the team competition. The top scorers in the team competition won the individual medals. There was no separate competition for individual apparatus.

Final

Rank Gymnast C V Total
 Takashi Ono (JPN) 9.750 9.850 19.600
 Yuri Titov (URS) 9.700 9.700 19.400
 Masao Takemoto (JPN) 9.700 9.600 19.300
4  Viktor Chukarin (URS) 9.550 9.700 19.250
4  Pavel Stolbov (URS) 9.550 9.700 19.250
6  Helmut Bantz (EUA) 9.500 9.650 19.150

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