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Pommel horse at the Olympics

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Pommel horse
at the Olympic Games
Pommel horse competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Overview
SportArtistic gymnastics
GenderMen
Years heldMen: 1896, 1904, 19242024
Reigning champion
Men Rhys McClenaghan (IRL)

The pommel horse is an artistic gymnastics event held at the Summer Olympics. The event was first held for men at the first modern Olympics in 1896. It was held again in 1904, but not in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920 when no apparatus events were awarded medals. The pommel horse was one of the components of the men's artistic individual all-around in 1900, however. The men's pommel horse returned as a medal event in 1924 and has been held every Games since. Pommel horse scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final. In 1932, the pommel horse was entirely separate from the all-around. From 1936 to 1956, there were again no separate apparatus finals with the pommel horse scores used in the all-around. Beginning in 1960, there were separate apparatus finals.

Medalists

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Men

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The medals have been swept four times, something which is no longer possible under current rules: by the United States in 1904, Switzerland in 1924, Finland in 1948, and the Soviet Union in 1952. There have been three-way ties for gold twice (still possible but very unlikely under current rules): 1948 and 1988.

Games Gold Silver Bronze
1896 Athens
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Louis Zutter
 Switzerland
Hermann Weingärtner
 Germany
Not awarded
1900 Paris Not held
1904 St. Louis
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Anton Heida
 United States
George Eyser
 United States
William Merz
 United States
1908 London Not held
1912 Stockholm Not held
1920 Antwerp Not held
1924 Paris
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Josef Wilhelm
 Switzerland
Jean Gutweninger
 Switzerland
Antoine Rebetez
 Switzerland
1928 Amsterdam
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Hermann Hänggi
 Switzerland
Georges Miez
 Switzerland
Heikki Savolainen
 Finland
1932 Los Angeles
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István Pelle
 Hungary
Omero Bonoli
 Italy
Frank Haubold
 United States
1936 Berlin
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Konrad Frey
 Germany
Eugen Mack
 Switzerland
Albert Bachmann
 Switzerland
1948 London
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Paavo Aaltonen
 Finland
Veikko Huhtanen
 Finland
Heikki Savolainen
 Finland
Not awarded Not awarded
1952 Helsinki
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Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
Yevgeny Korolkov
 Soviet Union
Hrant Shahinyan
 Soviet Union
Not awarded
1956 Melbourne
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Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Takashi Ono
 Japan
Viktor Chukarin
 Soviet Union
1960 Rome
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Eugen Ekman
 Finland
Boris Shakhlin
 Soviet Union
Not awarded Shuji Tsurumi
 Japan
1964 Tokyo
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Miroslav Cerar
 Yugoslavia
Shuji Tsurumi
 Japan
Yury Tsapenko
 Soviet Union
1968 Mexico City
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Miroslav Cerar
 Yugoslavia
Olli Laiho
 Finland
Mikhail Voronin
 Soviet Union
1972 Munich
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Viktor Klimenko
 Soviet Union
Sawao Kato
 Japan
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
1976 Montreal
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Zoltán Magyar
 Hungary
Eizo Kenmotsu
 Japan
Nikolai Andrianov
 Soviet Union
Michael Nikolay
 East Germany
1980 Moscow
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Zoltán Magyar
 Hungary
Alexander Dityatin
 Soviet Union
Michael Nikolay
 East Germany
1984 Los Angeles
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Li Ning
 China
Peter Vidmar
 United States
Not awarded Timothy Daggett
 United States
1988 Seoul
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Lubomir Geraskov
 Bulgaria
Zsolt Borkai
 Hungary
Dmitri Bilozertchev
 Soviet Union
Not awarded Not awarded
1992 Barcelona
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Vitaly Scherbo
 Unified Team
Pae Gil-Su
 North Korea
Not awarded Andreas Wecker
 Germany
1996 Atlanta
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Li Donghua
 Switzerland
Marius Urzică
 Romania
Alexei Nemov
 Russia
2000 Sydney
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Marius Urzică
 Romania
Eric Poujade
 France
Alexei Nemov
 Russia
2004 Athens
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Teng Haibin
 China
Marius Urzică
 Romania
Takehiro Kashima
 Japan
2008 Beijing
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Xiao Qin
 China
Filip Ude
 Croatia
Louis Smith
 Great Britain
2012 London
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Krisztián Berki
 Hungary
Louis Smith
 Great Britain
Max Whitlock
 Great Britain
2016 Rio de Janeiro
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Max Whitlock
 Great Britain
Louis Smith
 Great Britain
Alexander Naddour
 United States
2020 Tokyo
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Max Whitlock
 Great Britain
Lee Chih-kai
 Chinese Taipei
Kazuma Kaya
 Japan
2024 Paris
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Rhys McClenaghan
 Ireland
Nariman Kurbanov
 Kazakhstan
Stephen Nedoroscik
 United States

Multiple medalists

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The most successful Olympian on pommel horse is Max Whitlock of Great Britain with two gold medals, in 2016 and 2020, and a bronze in 2012. He shares the title of most decorated Olympian on the apparatus, with three Olympic medals, with close contemporary and compatriot Louis Smith with two silvers and a bronze, and Romanian gymnast Marius Urzică, with one gold medal and two silvers. Three other gymnasts have won the gold medal twice, Soviet Boris Shakhlin, Yugoslav Miroslav Cerar and Hungarian legend Zoltán Magyar.

Rank Gymnast Nation Olympics Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Max Whitlock  Great Britain (GBR) 2012–2020 2 0 1 3
2 Boris Shakhlin  Soviet Union (URS) 1956–1960 2 0 0 2
Miroslav Cerar  Yugoslavia (YUG) 1964–1968 2 0 0 2
Zoltán Magyar  Hungary (HUN) 1976–1980 2 0 0 2
5 Marius Urzică  Romania (ROU) 1996–2004 1 2 0 3
6 Viktor Chukarin  Soviet Union (URS) 1952–1956 1 0 1 2
7 Louis Smith  Great Britain (GBR) 2008–2016 0 2 1 3
8 Shuji Tsurumi  Japan (JPN) 1960–1964 0 1 1 2
Eizo Kenmotsu  Japan (JPN) 1972–1976 0 1 1 2
10 Michael Nikolay  East Germany (GDR) 1976–1980 0 0 2 2
Alexei Nemov  Russia (RUS) 1996–2000 0 0 2 2

Medalists by country

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Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total
1  Soviet Union (URS) 5 3 4 12
2  Hungary (HUN) 5 0 0 5
3  Switzerland (SUI) 4 3 2 9
4  Finland (FIN) 4 1 1 6
5  China (CHN) 3 0 0 3
6  Great Britain (GBR) 2 2 2 6
7  United States (USA) 2 1 5 8
8  Yugoslavia (YUG) 2 0 0 2
9  Romania (ROU) 1 2 0 3
10  Germany (GER) 1 1 1 3
11  Bulgaria (BUL) 1 0 0 1
 Ireland (IRL) 1 0 0 1
 North Korea (PRK) 1 0 0 1
 Unified Team (EUN) 1 0 0 1
15  Japan (JPN) 0 4 4 8
16  Chinese Taipei (TPE) 0 1 0 1
 Croatia (CRO) 0 1 0 1
 France (FRA) 0 1 0 1
 Italy (ITA) 0 1 0 1
 Kazakhstan (KAZ) 0 1 0 1
21  East Germany (GDR) 0 0 2 2
 Russia (RUS) 0 0 2 2
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Men's Pommel Horse at the Olympics

References

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