Gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar explained

Event:Men's horizontal bar
Games:1960 Summer
Venue:Baths of Caracalla
Dates:5–10 September
Competitors:130
Nations:28
Win Label:Winning score
Win Value:19.600
Longnames:yes
Gold:Takashi Ono
Goldnoc:JPN
Silver:Masao Takemoto
Silvernoc:JPN
Bronze:Boris Shakhlin
Bronzenoc:URS
Prev:1956
Next:1964

The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. It was held on 5, 7, and 10 September at the Baths of Caracalla. There were 130 competitors from 28 nations, with nations in the team competition having up to 6 gymnasts and other nations entering up to 2 gymnasts. The event was won by Takashi Ono of Japan, the nation's second consecutive victory in the men's parallel bars (tying the United States for second-most all-time). Masao Takemoto gave Japan a second medal with his silver. Ono and Takemoto were the third and fourth men to win multiple medals in the parallel bars; Ono was the first to win two gold medals in the event. Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union took bronze.

The 1960 gymnastics competitions introduced apparatus finals, with the all-around competition serving as a qualifying round for the parallel bars final.

Background

This was the 10th 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). Seven of the top 12 (including ties for 10th) gymnasts from 1956 returned: gold medalist Takashi Ono of Japan, silver medalist Yury Titov of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Masao Takemoto of Japan, seventh-place finisher Jack Beckner of the United States, eighth-place finisher Albert Azaryan of the Soviet Union, ninth-place finisher Ferdinand Daniš of Czechoslovakia, and tenth-place finisher Stoyan Stoyanov of Bulgaria. Boris Shakhlin of the Soviet Union was the reigning (1958) world champion, with Azaryan second, Titov and Takemoto tied for third, and Ono sixth.[1]

Morocco and South Korea each made their debut in the men's parallel bars; the short-lived United Arab Republic made its only appearance. The United States made its ninth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

The gymnastics all-around events continued to use the aggregation format. Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to two 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.

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 130th. For the apparatus finals, the all-around score for that apparatus was multiplied by one-half then added to the final round exercise score to give a final total.

Exercise scores ranged from 0 to 10, with the final total apparatus score from 0 to 20.

Schedule

All times are Central European Time (UTC+1)

DateTimeRound
Monday, 5 September 1960 8:00
17:00 		Preliminary: Compulsory
Wednesday, 7 September 1960 8:00
17:00 		Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 10 September 1960 15:00 Final

Results

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total Prelim. Final Total
9.80 9.80 19.60 9.800 9.800 19.600
9.80 9.75 19.55 9.775 9.750 19.525
9.80 9.75 19.55 9.775 9.700 19.475
4 9.70 9.75 19.45 9.725 9.700 19.425
5 9.70 9.80 19.50 9.750 9.650 19.400
9.65 9.85 19.50 9.750 9.650 19.400
7 9.75 9.70 19.45 Did not advance
8 9.50 9.75 19.25 Did not advance
9 9.55 9.65 19.20 Did not advance
9.55 9.65 19.20 Did not advance
11 9.50 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
12 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
13 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
15 9.30 9.65 18.95 Did not advance
16 9.30 9.60 18.90 Did not advance
17 9.40 9.45 18.85 Did not advance
9.45 9.40 18.85 Did not advance
9.30 9.55 18.85 Did not advance
20 9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
9.40 9.40 18.80 Did not advance
22 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
26 9.15 9.55 18.70 Did not advance
9.25 9.45 18.70 Did not advance
28 9.35 9.30 18.65 Did not advance
9.20 9.45 18.65 Did not advance
9.35 9.30 18.65 Did not advance
31 9.15 9.45 18.60 Did not advance
9.30 9.30 18.60 Did not advance
33 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
9.05 9.50 18.55 Did not advance
9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance
9.25 9.30 18.55 Did not advance
38 9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
9.10 9.40 18.50 Did not advance
9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
9.20 9.30 18.50 Did not advance
42 9.20 9.25 18.45 Did not advance
9.25 9.20 18.45 Did not advance
9.00 9.45 18.45 Did not advance
9.00 9.45 18.45 Did not advance
46 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
9.20 9.20 18.40 Did not advance
9.20 9.20 18.40 Did not advance
9.20 9.20 18.40 Did not advance
50 9.05 9.30 18.35 Did not advance
9.05 9.30 18.35 Did not advance
9.15 9.20 18.35 Did not advance
9.05 9.30 18.35 Did not advance
54 9.30 9.00 18.30 Did not advance
9.00 9.30 18.30 Did not advance
56 9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance
8.95 9.30 18.25 Did not advance
9.10 9.15 18.25 Did not advance
59 9.00 9.20 18.20 Did not advance
9.00 9.20 18.20 Did not advance
61 8.95 9.20 18.15 Did not advance
9.00 9.15 18.15 Did not advance
9.10 9.05 18.15 Did not advance
64 9.20 8.90 18.10 Did not advance
65 9.15 8.90 18.05 Did not advance
9.05 9.00 18.05 Did not advance
9.10 8.95 18.05 Did not advance
8.85 9.20 18.05 Did not advance
9.00 9.05 18.05 Did not advance
70 9.10 8.90 18.00 Did not advance
9.00 9.00 18.00 Did not advance
72 8.95 9.00 17.95 Did not advance
9.10 8.85 17.95 Did not advance
8.85 9.10 17.95 Did not advance
9.00 8.95 17.95 Did not advance
76 8.90 9.00 17.90 Did not advance
8.70 9.20 17.90 Did not advance
78 9.00 8.85 17.85 Did not advance
8.90 8.95 17.85 Did not advance
80 8.80 9.00 17.80 Did not advance
81 9.10 8.65 17.75 Did not advance
8.60 9.15 17.75 Did not advance
9.10 8.65 17.75 Did not advance
84 9.15 8.50 17.65 Did not advance
9.30 8.35 17.65 Did not advance
86 8.80 8.80 17.60 Did not advance
87 9.20 8.35 17.55 Did not advance
8.45 9.10 17.55 Did not advance
8.65 8.90 17.55 Did not advance
90 8.75 8.75 17.50 Did not advance
91 9.15 8.30 17.45 Did not advance
8.55 8.90 17.45 Did not advance
93 8.50 8.90 17.40 Did not advance
9.20 8.20 17.40 Did not advance
8.50 8.90 17.40 Did not advance
96 8.60 8.75 17.35 Did not advance
97 8.25 9.00 17.25 Did not advance
98 8.20 9.00 17.20 Did not advance
99 8.70 8.30 17.00 Did not advance
100 8.20 8.70 16.90 Did not advance
101 8.30 8.45 16.75 Did not advance
102 8.20 8.50 16.70 Did not advance
103 9.15 7.50 16.65 Did not advance
104 7.90 8.60 16.50 Did not advance
8.35 8.15 16.50 Did not advance
106 7.85 8.45 16.30 Did not advance
107 8.05 8.20 16.25 Did not advance
108 8.00 7.95 15.95 Did not advance
109 8.25 7.65 15.90 Did not advance
110 7.90 7.75 15.65 Did not advance
7.85 7.80 15.65 Did not advance
112 6.30 9.15 15.45 Did not advance
113 7.00 8.25 15.25 Did not advance
114 7.75 7.45 15.20 Did not advance
115 7.05 8.00 15.05 Did not advance
116 8.10 6.90 15.00 Did not advance
117 7.45 7.30 14.75 Did not advance
118 6.95 7.20 14.15 Did not advance
119 9.35 4.50 13.85 Did not advance
120 7.60 5.50 13.10 Did not advance
121 7.80 4.00 11.80 Did not advance
122 3.00 8.05 11.05 Did not advance
123 5.00 5.80 10.80 Did not advance
124 5.50 4.95 10.45 Did not advance
125 4.00 5.15 9.15 Did not advance
126 7.65 data-sort-value=0.00— 7.65 Did not advance
127 1.00 6.35 7.35 Did not advance
128 6.40 data-sort-value=0.00— 6.40 Did not advance
129 3.00 3.00 6.00 Did not advance
130 data-sort-value=0.00— 4.00 4.00 Did not advance

References

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Horizontal Bar, Men . Olympedia . 9 December 2020.

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