Olympedia – Parallel Bars, Men

Date	3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00
Status	Olympic
Location	West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria
Participants	63 from 18 countries
Format	Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Date

3 – 7 December 1956 — 08:00-16:00

Status

Olympic

Location

West Melbourne Stadium, Melbourne, Victoria

Participants

63 from 18 countries

Format

Placement determined by best scores on apparatus in individual all-around event.

Viktor Chukarin, all-around gold medalist in both 1952 and 1956, won this event on the strength of his optional exercise. The next three places went to Japanese gymnasts, with Masami Kubota winning silver, and Takashi Ono and Masao Takemoto sharing bronze medals. Ono would repeat as bronze medalist at Rome in 1960. This was one of three apparatus bronze medals won by Takemoto, who also finished third on rings and the horizontal bar.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	CEP	OEP
1	Viktor Chukarin	URS	19.20	9.55	9.65	Gold
2	Masami Kubota	JPN	19.15	9.55	9.60	Silver
=3	Takashi Ono	JPN	19.10	9.60	9.50	Bronze
=3	Masao Takemoto	JPN	19.10	9.40	9.70	Bronze
5	Albert Azaryan	URS	19.00	9.30	9.70
=6	Berndt Lindfors	FIN	18.90	9.45	9.45
=6	Nobuyuki Aihara	JPN	18.90	9.35	9.55
=8	Shinsaku Tsukawaki	JPN	18.85	9.45	9.40
=8	Yury Titov	URS	18.85	9.40	9.45
=8	Boris Shakhlin	URS	18.85	9.30	9.55
=8	Onni Lappalainen	FIN	18.85	9.30	9.55
=8	Olavi Leimuvirta	FIN	18.85	9.20	9.65
=13	Helmut Bantz	GER	18.80	9.45	9.35
=13	Kalevi Suoniemi	FIN	18.80	9.25	9.55
15	Jack Beckner	USA	18.75	9.40	9.35
=16	Akira Kono	JPN	18.70	9.40	9.30
=16	Ferdinand Daniš	TCH	18.70	9.40	9.30
=16	William Thoresson	SWE	18.70	9.40	9.30
=16	Jaroslav Mikoška	TCH	18.70	9.35	9.35
=16	Valentin Muratov	URS	18.70	9.30	9.40
=21	Raimo Heinonen	FIN	18.65	9.20	9.45
=21	Attila Takács	HUN	18.65	9.20	9.45
23	Hans Pfann	GER	18.55	9.30	9.25
=24	Stoyan Stoyanov	BUL	18.50	9.35	9.15
=24	Velik Kapsazov	BUL	18.50	9.20	9.30
=24	Martti Mansikka	FIN	18.50	9.15	9.35
27	Josef Škvor	TCH	18.45	9.20	9.25
=28	Raymond Dot	FRA	18.40	9.35	9.05
=28	Michel Mathiot	FRA	18.40	9.25	9.15
=28	Charles Simms	USA	18.40	9.10	9.30
=31	Theo Wied	GER	18.35	9.15	9.20
=31	Bill Tom	USA	18.35	9.05	9.30
=33	János Héder	HUN	18.30	9.40	8.90
=33	Robert Klein	GER	18.30	9.20	9.10
=33	Vladimír Kejř	TCH	18.30	9.15	9.15
=33	Nik Stuart	GBR	18.30	9.15	9.15
=33	Zdeněk Růžička	TCH	18.30	9.00	9.30
38	Jaroslav Bím	TCH	18.25	9.15	9.10
39	Erich Wied	GER	18.10	9.00	9.10
40	Mincho Todorov	BUL	18.00	9.10	8.90
=41	Jean Guillou	FRA	17.95	9.10	8.85
=41	Pavel Stolbov	URS	17.95	8.55	9.40
=43	Hans Sauter	AUT	17.85	9.05	8.80
=43	Kurt Wigartz	SWE	17.85	8.80	9.05
=43	Abie Grossfeld	USA	17.85	8.75	9.10
46	Josy Stoffel	LUX	17.80	9.30	8.50
47	Dick Beckner	USA	17.75	8.55	9.20
=48	Jakob Kiefer	GER	17.65	9.20	8.45
=48	Ed Gagnier	CAN	17.65	8.85	8.80
=48	Frank Turner	GBR	17.65	8.75	8.90
51	Armando Vega	USA	17.60	8.10	9.50
52	Rafael Lecuona	CUB	17.45	8.50	8.95
=53	Bruce Sharp	AUS	16.50	8.20	8.30
=53	Graham Bond	AUS	16.50	8.15	8.35
55	John Lees	AUS	16.15	8.00	8.15
56	Brian Blackburn	AUS	15.70	8.45	7.25
57	David Gourlay	AUS	15.45	7.80	7.65
=58	Noel Punton	AUS	15.35	7.70	7.65
=58	Jack Wells	RSA	15.35	7.40	7.95
60	Ronnie Lombard	RSA	14.80	7.65	7.15
61	Pritam Singh	IND	13.50	7.50	6.00
62	Sham Lal	IND	13.35	6.25	7.10
63	Anant Ram	IND	12.70	7.20	5.50

Pos

Competitor(s)

NOC

Points

CEP

OEP

Viktor Chukarin

URS