Gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar
Introduction The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 18, 20, and 23rd at the Montreal Forum. There were 90 competitors from 20 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Mitsuo Tsukahara of Japan, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the horizontal bar. It was the third consecutive victory by a Japanese gymnast in the event, and fifth in six Games. Japan also took silver, as Eizo Kenmotsu finished second, but was prevented from repeating its 1972 podium sweep by new rules that limited nations to two gymnasts in the final (Japan had the top four gymnasts in qualifying). Tsukuhara and Kenmotsu (bronze in 1968) were the seventh and eighth men to win multiple medals in the horizontal bar. Henri Boerio of France and Eberhard Gienger of West Germany tied for bronze, the first medal for France in the event since 1924 and first horizontal bar medal for West Germany.
Background This was the 14th 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). Four of the six finalists from 1972 returned: gold medalist Mitsuo Tsukahara, silver medalist Sawao Kato, and fourth-place finisher (and 1968 bronze medalist) Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan and sixth-place finisher Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union. Eberhard Gienger of West Germany was the reigning (1974) world champion.Israel made its debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its 13th appearance, most of any nation, having missed only the inaugural 1896 Games.
Competition format Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three 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 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, except that nations were limited to two finalists each; others were ranked 7th through 90th. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final.
Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) Date Time Round Sunday, 18 July 1976  '''12:30''''''19:15''''''21:00'''  '''Preliminary: Compulsory''' Tuesday, 20 July 1976  '''15:00''''''19:00''''''20:45'''  '''Preliminary: Voluntary''' Friday, 23 July 1976  '''19:30'''  '''Final'''
Results Ninety gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 18 and 20.The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 23.Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes the "prelim" score. Rank  Gymnast  Nation  Preliminary  Final Compulsory  Voluntary  Total   Prelim. Final  Total   Mitsuo Tsukahara    9.75  9.90  '''19.65'''  9.775  9.900  '''19.675'''   Eizo Kenmotsu    9.65  9.85  '''19.50'''  9.750  9.750  '''19.500'''   Eberhard Gienger    9.65  9.70  '''19.35'''  9.675  9.800  '''19.475''' Henri Boerio    9.60  9.75  '''19.35'''  9.675  9.800  '''19.475''' 5  Gennady Krysin    9.50  9.80  '''19.30'''  9.525  9.600  '''19.125''' 6  Ferenc Donath    9.55  9.65  '''19.20'''  9.500  9.450  '''18.950''' 7  Hisato Igarashi    9.60  9.85  '''19.45'''  Did not advance 8  Sawao Kato    9.65  9.75  '''19.40'''  Did not advance 9  Vladimir Markelov    9.60  9.70  '''19.30'''  Did not advance 10  Hiroshi Kajiyama    9.50  9.75  '''19.25'''  Did not advance 11  Nikolai Andrianov    9.70  9.50  '''19.20'''  Did not advance Bernd Jäger    9.60  9.60  '''19.20'''  Did not advance Michael Nikolay    9.60  9.60  '''19.20'''  Did not advance 14  Tom Beach    9.45  9.65  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Alexander Dityatin    9.45  9.65  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Andrzej Szajna    9.50  9.60  '''19.10'''  Did not advance 17  Zoltán Magyar    9.50  9.55  '''19.05'''  Did not advance Vladimir Marchenko    9.45  9.60  '''19.05'''  Did not advance 19  Dan Grecu    9.40  9.60  '''19.00'''  Did not advance 20  Vladimir Tikhonov    9.30  9.65  '''18.95'''  Did not advance 21  Robert Bretscher    9.25  9.65  '''18.90'''  Did not advance 22  Imre Molnar    9.35  9.50  '''18.85'''  Did not advance Volker Rohrwick    9.40  9.45  '''18.85'''  Did not advance Wayne Young    9.35  9.50  '''18.85'''  Did not advance 25  Béla Laufer    9.25  9.55  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Lutz Mack    9.30  9.50  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Willi Moy    9.40  9.40  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Kurt Thomas    9.30  9.50  '''18.80'''  Did not advance 29  Ueli Bachmann    9.30  9.45  '''18.75'''  Did not advance Sorin Cepoi    9.30  9.45  '''18.75'''  Did not advance 31  Rainer Hanschke    9.40  9.30  '''18.70'''  Did not advance Peter Kormann    9.20  9.50  '''18.70'''  Did not advance 33  Philip Delesalle    9.40  9.25  '''18.65'''  Did not advance Wolfgang Klotz    9.20  9.45  '''18.65'''  Did not advance Bernhard Locher    9.15  9.50  '''18.65'''  Did not advance 36  Bart Conner    9.40  9.20  '''18.60'''  Did not advance Gustav Tannenberger    9.25  9.35  '''18.60'''  Did not advance 38  Imre Bánrévi    9.25  9.30  '''18.55'''  Did not advance Roland Brückner    9.25  9.30  '''18.55'''  Did not advance Nicolae Oprescu    9.15  9.40  '''18.55'''  Did not advance Ştefan Gal    9.10  9.45  '''18.55'''  Did not advance Werner Steinmetz    9.20  9.35  '''18.55'''  Did not advance 43  Marshall Avener    9.10  9.40  '''18.50'''  Did not advance Edgar Jorek    9.30  9.20  '''18.50'''  Did not advance 45  Vladislav Nehasil    9.35  9.05  '''18.40'''  Did not advance 46  Philippe Gaille    9.05  9.30  '''18.35'''  Did not advance Andrey Keranov    9.15  9.20  '''18.35'''  Did not advance 48  Bernard Decoux    9.05  9.25  '''18.30'''  Did not advance Miloslav Netusil    9.15  9.15  '''18.30'''  Did not advance Marian Pieczka    9.05  9.25  '''18.30'''  Did not advance Reinhard Dietze    8.95  9.35  '''18.30'''  Did not advance Eric Koloko    9.35  8.95  '''18.30'''  Did not advance 53  Mariusz Zasada    9.30  8.90  '''18.20'''  Did not advance Jiri Tabak    9.00  9.20  '''18.20'''  Did not advance 55  Keith Carter    9.00  9.10  '''18.10'''  Did not advance Georgi Todorov    9.00  9.10  '''18.10'''  Did not advance 57  Maurizio Montesi    8.80  9.25  '''18.05'''  Did not advance 58  Ole Benediktson    8.65  9.30  '''17.95'''  Did not advance Maurizio Milanetto    8.65  9.30  '''17.95'''  Did not advance Peter Rohner    9.05  8.90  '''17.95'''  Did not advance 61  Patrick Boutet    8.50  9.35  '''17.85'''  Did not advance Árpád Farkas    9.10  8.75  '''17.85'''  Did not advance Pierre Leclerc    9.00  8.85  '''17.85'''  Did not advance 64  Mihai Borş    8.65  9.15  '''17.80'''  Did not advance Ion Checicheş    8.90  8.90  '''17.80'''  Did not advance 66  Angelo Zucca    8.40  9.30  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Dimitar Koychev    8.75  8.95  '''17.70'''  Did not advance Roman Tkaczyk    8.70  9.00  '''17.70'''  Did not advance 69  Dov Lupi    8.75  8.90  '''17.65'''  Did not advance 70  Jan Zoulík    8.70  8.80  '''17.50'''  Did not advance 71  Stoyan Delchev    8.45  8.95  '''17.40'''  Did not advance Łukasz Uhma    8.55  8.85  '''17.40'''  Did not advance 73  Michel Boutard    9.20  8.15  '''17.35'''  Did not advance Gabriel Calvo    8.40  8.95  '''17.35'''  Did not advance 75  Ian Neale    8.10  9.20  '''17.30'''  Did not advance 76  Reinhard Ritter    8.05  9.20  '''17.25'''  Did not advance Zhivko Rusev    8.50  8.75  '''17.25'''  Did not advance 78  José de la Casa    8.60  8.60  '''17.20'''  Did not advance 79  Tommy Wilson    8.15  9.00  '''17.15'''  Did not advance 80  Peter Lloyd    8.40  8.70  '''17.10'''  Did not advance 81  Grzegorz Ciastek    8.90  8.15  '''17.05'''  Did not advance Dimitrios Janulidis    8.50  8.55  '''17.05'''  Did not advance 83  Phil Cheetham    8.65  8.30  '''16.95'''  Did not advance Jeff Davis    8.15  8.80  '''16.95'''  Did not advance 85  Toncho Todorov    8.20  8.70  '''16.90'''  Did not advance 86  Nelson Fernández    7.60  9.15  '''16.75'''  Did not advance 87  Fernando Bertrand    7.30  8.90  '''16.20'''  Did not advance 88  Shun Fujimoto    9.60  —  '''9.60'''  Did not advance 89  Roberto Richards    9.20  —  '''9.20'''  Did not advance 90  Armin Vock    8.90  —  '''8.90'''  Did not advance —  Jorge Cuervo      Did not advance
References * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com* www.gymn-forum.net