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.

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)

Date Time Round Monday, 5 September 1960 8:0017:00 Preliminary: Compulsory Wednesday, 7 September 1960 8:0017:00 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 — 7.65 Did not advance 127 1.00 6.35 7.35 Did not advance 128 6.40 — 6.40 Did not advance 129 3.00 3.00 6.00 Did not advance 130 — 4.00 4.00 Did not advance

References

Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com www.gymn-forum.net