The men's parallel bars competition at the 1936 Summer Olympics was held at the Waldbühne on 10 and 11 August. It was the sixth appearance of the event.Official Olympic Report, la84.org. Retrieved 11 March 2019. There were 110 competitors from 14 nations, with each nation sending a team of up to 8 men. The event was won by Konrad Frey of Germany, the nation's first victory in the event since 1896 (and second overall, with Germany having the winning gymnast both times it competed). Germany also took the bronze, as Alfred Schwarzmann finished third. Second place and the silver medal went to Michael Reusch of Switzerland. Germany was the first nation to have two gymnasts win the parallel bars.

Background

This was the sixth 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). Eight of the 15 gymnasts from 1932 returned: silver medalist István Pelle of Hungary, bronze medalist Heikki Savolainen of Finland, fourth-place finisher Mauri Nyberg-Noroma of Finland, sixth-place finisher Al Jochim of the United States, seventh-place finishers József Hegedűs and Miklós Péter of Hungary, tenth-place finisher Savino Guglielmetti of Italy, and eleventh-place finisher Frank Haubold of the United States. All but Guglielmetti had also competed in 1928. 1932 gold medalist Romeo Neri was competing in Berlin but did not contest the parallel bars. Switzerland had swept the podium at the 1934 world championships with Eugen Mack, Josef Walter, and Walter Bach.

Austria and Romania each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its fifth appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.

Competition format

The gymnastics format returned to the aggregation format used in 1928 but not in 1932. Each nation entered a team of eight gymnasts (Bulgaria had only 7). All entrants in the gymnastics competitions (Neri of Italy did not compete in the parallel bars) performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the parallel bars were added to the other apparatus scores to give individual all-around scores; the top six individual scores on each team were summed to give a team all-around score. No separate finals were contested.Official Report, p. 844.

The compulsory exercise was described in the Official Report:

Schedule

Date Time Round Monday, 10 August 1936Tuesday, 11 August 1936 7:00 Final

Results

RankGymnastNationCompulsoryVoluntaryTotal Konrad Frey 9.500 9.567 19.067 Michael Reusch 9.567 9.467 19.034 Alfred Schwarzmann 9.500 9.467 18.967 4 Alois Hudec 9.433 9.533 18.966 5 Eugen Mack 9.267 9.567 18.834 6 Walter Bach 9.333 9.400 18.733 7 Heikki Savolainen 9.133 9.500 18.633 8 Eduard Steinemann 9.200 9.300 18.500 9 Savino Guglielmetti 9.033 9.433 18.466 10 Lajos Tóth 8.867 9.567 18.434 11 Martti Uosikkinen 9.000 9.433 18.433 12 István Pelle 9.167 9.167 18.334 13 Albert Bachmann 9.100 9.167 18.267 14 Josef Walter 9.033 9.233 18.266 15 Miklos Péter 9.100 9.067 18.167 16 Vratislav Petráček 9.233 8.933 18.166 17 Mauri Nyberg-Noroma 8.867 9.267 18.134 18 Willi Stadel 9.033 9.100 18.133 19 Aleksanteri Saarvala 9.267 8.767 18.034 20 Jaroslav Kollinger 8.933 9.033 17.966 21 Franz Beckert 8.800 9.133 17.933 22 Leon Štukelj 9.067 8.800 17.867 23 Walter Beck 8.900 8.800 17.700 24 Yoshitaka Takeda 8.800 8.867 17.667 25 Hiroshi Nosaka 8.700 8.833 17.533 Josip Primožič 8.700 8.833 17.533 27 Georges Miez 8.567 8.933 17.500 Einari Teräsvirta 8.767 8.733 17.500 29 Jan Gajdoš 8.533 8.933 17.466 30 Chet Phillips 8.200 9.200 17.400 31 Nicolo Tronci 8.433 8.900 17.333 32 Jindrich Tintěra 8.533 8.733 17.266 33 Gottfried Hermann 8.400 8.800 17.200 34 Metty Logelin 8.400 8.700 17.100 George Wheeler 8.667 8.433 17.100 36 Emanuel Löffler 8.167 8.900 17.067 37 Jan Sládek 8.433 8.633 17.066 38 Matthias Volz 7.933 9.100 17.033 39 Konrad Grilc 9.133 7.833 16.966 40 Franco Tognini 8.133 8.800 16.933 41 Frank Cumiskey 8.467 8.433 16.900 42 Jey Kugeler 8.067 8.767 16.834 Bohumil Povejšil 8.867 7.967 16.834 Walter Steffens 7.467 9.367 16.834 45 Gábor Kecskeméti 7.733 9.067 16.800 46 Karl Pannos 8.500 8.267 16.767 Eino Tukiainen 8.000 8.767 16.767 48 Robert Herold 8.233 8.367 16.600 49 Ernst Winter 7.700 8.800 16.500 50 Yoshio Miyake 7.400 9.067 16.467 51 Miroslav Forte 8.833 7.633 16.466 52 Esa Seeste 8.667 7.767 16.434 53 Egidio Armelloni 7.300 8.900 16.200 54 Lucien Masset 8.167 8.000 16.167 Maurice Rousseau 8.067 8.100 16.167 56 Armand Solbach 8.133 8.000 16.133 57 Oreste Capuzzo 7.533 8.567 16.100 58 Antoine Schildwein 8.333 7.600 15.933 59 Kenny Griffin 7.633 8.200 15.833 August Sturm 8.033 7.800 15.833 61 Fred Meyer 7.767 8.000 15.767 Kiichiro Toyama 8.200 7.567 15.767 63 Gyözö Mogyorossy 7.733 8.000 15.733 Innozenz Stangl 9.333 6.400 15.733 Armand Walter 8.033 7.700 15.733 66 Dimitrije Merzlikin 8.867 6.800 15.667 67 Ilmari Pakarinen 6.633 9.033 15.666 68 Danilo Fioravanti 7.567 8.033 15.600 69 Otello Ternelli 7.333 8.167 15.500 70 Joze Vadnov 7.600 7.833 15.433 71 József Hegedüs 7.200 8.033 15.233 72 Paul Masino 7.367 7.767 15.134 73 Hiroshi Matsunobu 7.233 7.600 14.833 74 Janez Pristov 8.000 6.667 14.667 75 József Sarlós 5.467 9.133 14.600 76 István Sárkány 6.333 8.133 14.466 77 Fujio Kakuta 6.500 7.933 14.433 78 Hikoroku Arimoto 6.233 7.900 14.133 Neno Mirchev 5.800 8.333 14.133 80 Frank Haubold 5.500 8.600 14.100 Pius Hollenstein 6.767 7.333 14.100 82 Jos Romersa 6.267 7.767 14.034 83 Adolf Scheffknecht 6.700 7.333 14.033 84 Jean Aubry 8.133 5.767 13.900 85 Robert Pranz 6.767 7.100 13.867 86 Boris Gregorka 6.700 7.033 13.733 87 Artie Pitt 8.367 5.200 13.567 88 Georgi Dimitrov 6.433 6.867 13.300 89 Franz Swoboda 5.967 7.300 13.267 90 Dokan Sone 5.800 7.333 13.133 91 Yovcho Khristov 6.667 6.433 13.100 Willy Klein 6.433 6.667 13.100 93 Jos Cillien 5.567 7.200 12.767 94 Andrei Abraham 4.900 6.767 11.667 Marcel Leineweber 5.767 5.900 11.667 96 Al Jochim 3.067 8.267 11.334 97 Lyuben Obretenov 4.700 6.333 11.033 98 Franz Haupert 4.133 6.733 10.866 99 Ivan Chureshki 5.233 5.333 10.566 100 Alexandru Dan 4.533 5.633 10.166 101 Iosif Matusec 3.767 6.233 10.000 102 Francisc Draghici 2.667 7.133 9.800 103 Pando Sidov 3.767 5.733 9.500 104 Leopold Redl 7.467 2.000 9.467 105 Ion Albert 2.333 6.433 8.766 106 Iohan Schmidt 2.867 5.333 8.200 107 Remus Ludu 2.700 5.067 7.767 108 Ivan Stoychev 1.667 5.900 7.567 — Mathias Erang 6.167 — Vasile Moldovan 4.400 —

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