The men's horizontal bar event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was one of nine gymnastics events and it was contested for the third time after 1896 and 1904. The competition was held on Saturday, July 19, 1924.Official Report, p. 340. Seventy-two gymnasts from nine nations competed. The event was won by Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia, with Jean Gutweninger of Switzerland taking silver and André Higelin of France bronze. It was the first medal in the horizontal bar for each of those nations.
Background
This was the third 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). The 1922 world championship had ended in a three-way tie; two of the winners were competing in Paris: Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia and Miroslav Klinger of Czechoslovakia.
Two nations had previously competed, Switzerland in 1896 and the United States in 1904. The other seven nations (Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, and Yugoslavia) were competing for the first time.
Competition format
Each gymnast performed a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise. These two exercises were 2 of the 11 components of the individual all-around score, and thus were also included in the team all-around score. Each exercise had a maximum possible score of 11, with half a point each for the approach and dismount and up to 10 points for the routine.Official Report, p. 346.
Schedule
Date Time Round Saturday, 19 July 1924 Final
Results
Rank Gymnast Nation Total Leon Štukelj 19.730 Jean Gutweninger 19.236 André Higelin 19.163 4 Antoine Rebetez 19.053 5 Georges Miez 19.050 6 Jean Gounot 19.043 7 François Gangloff 18.933 8 August Güttinger 18.886 9 Robert Pražák 18.730 10 Léon Delsarte 18.633 11 Francesco Martino 18.386 12 Mario Lertora 18.366 13 Stanley Leigh 18.350 14 Ferdinando Mandrini 18.120 15 Josef Kos 17.960 16 Bedřich Šupčík 17.860 17 Arthur Hermann 17.503 18 Frank Kriz 17.500 19 Stanislav Indruch 17.430 20 Vittorio Lucchetti 17.270 21 Luigi Cambiaso 17.180 22 Josef Wilhelm 17.150 23 Al Jochim 17.060 24 Hans Grieder 16.946 25 Otto Pfister 16.920 26 Miroslav Klinger 16.470 27 Giuseppe Paris 16.356 28 Stane Žilič 16.330 Curtis Rottman 16.330 30 Giorgio Zampori 16.203 31 Carl Widmer 16.190 32 John Pearson 15.990 33 Eugène Cordonnier 15.886 34 Otto Suhonen 15.853 35 Jan Koutný 15.716 36 Albert Séguin 15.683 37 Väinö Karonen 15.420 38 Stane Hlastan 15.066 39 Ladislav Vácha 14.700 40 Luigi Maiocco 14.663 41 Bohumil Mořkovský 14.563 42 Mihael Oswald 14.280 43 Harold Brown 14.206 44 Janez Porenta 14.166 45 John Mais 13.930 46 Jaakko Kunnas 13.583 47 Rastko Poljšak 13.536 48 Josip Primožič 13.460 49 Aarne Roine 13.280 50 Frank Safandra 12.900 51 Albert Spencer 12.893 52 Théo Jeitz 12.850 53 Joseph Huber 12.686 54 Henry Finchett 12.290 55 Eevert Kerttula 12.273 56 Akseli Roine 12.233 57 Edward Leigh 12.120 58 Stane Derganc 12.100 59 Mikko Hämäläinen 11.873 60 Charles Quaino 11.646 61 Eetu Kostamo 11.253 62 Albert Neumann 11.243 63 Samuel Humphreys 10.933 64 Thomas Hopkins 10.840 65 Émile Munhofen 10.366 66 Max Wandrer 10.240 67 Mathias Erang 9.833 68 Frank Hawkins 9.733 69 Rudolph Novak 9.703 70 Jacques Palzer 9.463 71 Mathias Weishaupt 8.550 72 Pierre Tolar 7.800
References
Official Olympic Report