The men's horizontal bar 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 12 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 Aleksanteri Saarvala of Finland, the nation's first victory in the event. Germany took silver and bronze, as Konrad Frey finished second and Alfred Schwarzmann finished third.
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). Seven of the 12 gymnasts from 1932 returned: silver medalist Heikki Savolainen, bronze medalist Einari Teräsvirta, and fourth-place finisher Ilmari Pakarinen of Finland, fourth-place finisher István Pelle and seventh-place finisher Miklós Péter of Hungary, tenth-place finisher Al Jochim of the United States, and eleventh-place finisher Savino Guglielmetti of Italy. Savolainen, Pelle, Péter, and Jochim had competed in 1928 as well. The 1928 gold medalist, Georges Miez of Switzerland, was also back in Berlin. Miez had finished second in the 1934 world championship to Ernst Winter of Germany, also competing in front of his home nation.
Austria, Bulgaria, and Romania each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar. 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 horizontal bar) performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise, with the scores summed to give a final total. The scores in the horizontal bar 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, vol. 2, p. 852.
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 Aleksanteri Saarvala 9.700 9.667 19.367 Konrad Frey 9.700 9.567 19.267 Alfred Schwarzmann 9.700 9.533 19.233 4 Innozenz Stangl 9.400 9.767 19.167 5 Heikki Savolainen 9.400 9.733 19.133 6 Ilmari Pakarinen 9.567 9.500 19.067 7 Martti Uosikkinen 9.333 9.667 19.000 8 Walter Steffens 9.333 9.633 18.966 9 Eugen Mack 9.300 9.600 18.900 10 Alois Hudec 9.367 9.467 18.834 11 Eduard Steinemann 9.333 9.467 18.800 Matthias Volz 9.300 9.500 18.800 13 Einari Teräsvirta 9.300 9.433 18.733 14 Willi Stadel 9.400 9.300 18.700 15 Frank Cumiskey 9.200 9.400 18.600 Gottfried Hermann 9.200 9.400 18.600 Mauri Nyberg-Noroma 9.000 9.600 18.600 18 Michael Reusch 9.133 9.433 18.566 19 Esa Seeste 9.067 9.433 18.500 20 Georges Miez 9.167 9.300 18.467 21 István Pelle 9.133 9.333 18.466 22 Konrad Grilc 9.367 9.000 18.367 23 Walter Bach 8.833 9.500 18.333 Lajos Tóth 9.033 9.300 18.333 25 Karl Pannos 8.967 9.333 18.300 26 Metty Logelin 9.133 9.067 18.200 Eino Tukiainen 9.033 9.167 18.200 28 Walter Beck 9.167 9.000 18.167 August Sturm 9.200 8.967 18.167 30 Savino Guglielmetti 8.433 9.500 17.933 31 Dimitrije Merzlikin 9.300 8.600 17.900 Armand Walter 8.533 9.367 17.900 33 Yoshitaka Takeda 9.000 8.733 17.733 34 Adolf Scheffknecht 8.467 9.200 17.667'' |- | 35 ||align=left| Leon Štukelj ||align=left| || 8.433 || 9.200 || 17.633|- |rowspan=2| 36 ||align=left| Yoshio Miyake ||align=left| || 9.267 || 8.333 || 17.600|- |align=left| Bohumil Povejšil ||align=left| || 8.833 || 8.767 || 17.600|- | 38 ||align=left| Otello Ternelli ||align=left| || 8.633 || 8.900 || 17.533|- | 39 ||align=left| Oreste Capuzzo ||align=left| || 8.567 || 8.833 || 17.400|- |rowspan=2| 40 ||align=left| Josip Primožič ||align=left| || 9.034 || 8.333 || 17.367|- |align=left| Jan Sládek ||align=left| || 8.400 || 8.967 || 17.367|- | 42 ||align=left| Albert Bachmann ||align=left| || 8.167 || 9.167 || 17.334|- | 43 ||align=left| Egidio Armelloni ||align=left| || 9.167 || 7.933 || 17.100|- | 44 ||align=left| Armand Solbach ||align=left| || 7.667 || 9.367 || 17.034|- | 45 ||align=left| Franz Beckert ||align=left| || 7.700 || 9.333 || 17.033|- | 46 ||align=left| Neno Mirchev ||align=left| || 8.800 || 8.133 || 16.933|- |rowspan=2| 47 ||align=left| Gábor Kecskeméti ||align=left| || 8.233 || 9.667 || 16.900|- |align=left| Josef Walter ||align=left| || 7.867 || 9.033 || 16.900|- | 49 ||align=left| Jaroslav Kollinger ||align=left| || 7.867 || 8.900 || 16.767|- |rowspan=2| 50 ||align=left| Fred Meyer ||align=left| || 7.467 || 9.133 || 16.600|- |align=left| József Sarlós ||align=left| || 8.000 || 8.600 || 16.600|- | 52 ||align=left| Jey Kugeler ||align=left| || 7.267 || 9.300 || 16.567|- | 53 ||align=left| Fujio Kakuta ||align=left| || 9.100 || 7.400 || 16.500|- | 54 ||align=left| Jindrich Tintěra ||align=left| || 8.100 || 8.300 || 16.400|- | 55 ||align=left| Robert Herold ||align=left| || 7.500 || 8.867 || 16.367|- | 56 ||align=left| Vratislav Petráček ||align=left| || 7.733 || 8.600 || 16.333|- | 57 ||align=left| Antoine Schildwein ||align=left| || 7.333 || 8.933 || 16.266|- | 58 ||align=left| István Sárkány ||align=left| || 8.433 || 7.800 || 16.233|- |rowspan=2| 59 ||align=left| Jan Gajdoš ||align=left| || 8.500 || 7.700 || 16.200|- |align=left| Artie Pitt ||align=left| || 7.000 || 9.200 || 16.200|- | 61 ||align=left| Danilo Fioravanti ||align=left| || 7.700 || 8.467 || 16.167|- | 62 ||align=left| Paul Masino ||align=left| || 7.433 || 8.667 || 16.100|- | 63 ||align=left| Miklos Péter ||align=left| || 6.900 || 9.167 || 16.067|- | 64 ||align=left| Pius Hollenstein ||align=left| || 7.333 || 8.733 || 16.066|- | 65 ||align=left| George Wheeler ||align=left| || 7.200 || 8.767 || 15.967|- | 66 ||align=left| Nicolo Tronci ||align=left| || 7.500 || 8.433 || 15.933|- | 67 ||align=left| Janez Pristov ||align=left| || 7.800 || 8.000 || 15.800|- | 68 ||align=left| Boris Gregorka ||align=left| || 7.000 || 8.767 || 15.767|- | 69 ||align=left| Franz Swoboda ||align=left| || 7.133 || 8.633 || 15.766|- | 70 ||align=left| Franco Tognini ||align=left| || 8.267 || 7.400 || 15.667|- | 71 ||align=left| Hikoroku Arimoto ||align=left| || 7.533 || 8.133 || 15.666|- | 72 ||align=left| Lucien Masset ||align=left| || 6.633 || 8.967 || 15.600|- | 73 ||align=left| Hiroshi Matsunobu ||align=left| || 7.367 || 8.167 || 15.534|- | 74 ||align=left| Miroslav Forte ||align=left| || 6.500 || 8.933 || 15.433|- | 75 ||align=left| Gyözö Mogyorossy ||align=left| || 7.300 || 8.100 || 15.400|- | 76 ||align=left| Hiroshi Nosaka ||align=left| || 8.333 || 6.933 || 15.266|- |rowspan=2| 77 ||align=left| Leopold Redl ||align=left| || 6.600 || 8.633 || 15.233|- |align=left| Joze Vadnov ||align=left| || 6.733 || 8.500 || 15.233|- |rowspan=2| 79 ||align=left| Frank Haubold ||align=left| || 7.100 || 8.033 || 15.133|- |align=left| Al Jochim ||align=left| || 6.400 || 8.733 || 15.133|- |rowspan=2| 81 ||align=left| Emanuel Löffler ||align=left| || 6.167 || 8.800 || 14.967|- |align=left| Jos Romersa ||align=left| || 7.067 || 7.900 || 14.967|- | 83 ||align=left| Maurice Rousseau ||align=left| || 5.833 || 9.100 || 14.933|- | 84 ||align=left| Robert Pranz ||align=left| || 6.233 || 8.300 || 14.533|- | 85 ||align=left| Kiichiro Toyama ||align=left| || 7.500 || 7.000 || 14.500|- | 86 ||align=left| Georgi Dimitrov ||align=left| || 7.267 || 6.833 || 14.100|- | 87 ||align=left| Chet Phillips ||align=left| || 5.333 || 8.667 || 14.000|- | 88 ||align=left| Jean Aubry ||align=left| || 6.233 || 7.467 || 13.700|- | 89 ||align=left| Dokan Sone ||align=left| || 9.300 || 4.000 || 13.300|- | 90 ||align=left| József Hegedüs ||align=left| || 4.333 || 8.533 || 12.866|- | 91 ||align=left| Francisc Draghici ||align=left| || 5.000 || 7.533 || 12.533|- | 92 ||align=left| Marcel Leineweber ||align=left| || 4.333 || 7.733 || 12.066|- | 93 ||align=left| Kenny Griffin ||align=left| || 6.333 || 5.667 || 12.000|- | 94 ||align=left| Franz Haupert ||align=left| || 3.333 || 7.967 || 11.300|- | 95 ||align=left| Ivan Chureshki ||align=left| || 4.000 || 6.800 || 10.800|- | 96 ||align=left| Iohan Schmidt ||align=left| || 3.333 || 7.167 || 10.500|- | 97 ||align=left| Pando Sidov ||align=left| || 4.000 || 6.333 || 10.333|- | 98 ||align=left| Ernst Winter ||align=left| || 9.133 || 1.000 || 10.133|- | 99 ||align=left| Yovcho Khristov ||align=left| || 5.333 || 4.267 || 9.600|- | 100 ||align=left| Iosif Matusec ||align=left| || 3.333 || 5.833 || 9.166|- | 101 ||align=left| Willy Klein ||align=left| || 2.500 || 6.567 || 9.067|- | 102 ||align=left| Remus Ludu ||align=left| || 2.000 || 6.533 || 8.533|- | 103 ||align=left| Alexandru Dan ||align=left| || 2.000 || 5.933 || 7.933|- |rowspan=2| 104 ||align=left| Jos Cillien ||align=left| || 2.833 || 5.000 || 7.833|- |align=left| Lyuben Obretenov ||align=left| || 2.500 || 5.333 || 7.833|- | 106 ||align=left| Ivan Stoychev ||align=left| || 4.000 || 3.567 || 7.567|- | 107 ||align=left| Andrei Abraham ||align=left| || 2.000 || 5.400 || 7.400''' — Ion Albert 5.567 — Mathias Erang 5.333 — Vasile Moldovan 2.500 —
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