# Gymnastics at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar event was part of the gymnastics programme at the 1924 Summer Olympics. It was one of nine gymnastics events and it was contested for the third time after 1896 and 1904. The competition was held on Saturday, July 19, 1924. Seventy-two gymnasts from nine nations competed. The event was won by Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia, with Jean Gutweninger of Switzerland taking silver and André Higelin of France bronze. It was the first medal in the horizontal bar for each of those nations.

## Background

This was the third 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). The 1922 world championship had ended in a three-way tie; two of the winners were competing in Paris: Leon Štukelj of Yugoslavia and Miroslav Klinger of Czechoslovakia.
Two nations had previously competed, Switzerland in 1896 and the United States in 1904. The other seven nations (Czechoslovakia, Finland, France, Great Britain, Italy, Luxembourg, and Yugoslavia) were competing for the first time.

## Competition format

Each gymnast performed a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise. These two exercises were 2 of the 11 components of the individual all-around score, and thus were also included in the team all-around score. Each exercise had a maximum possible score of 11, with half a point each for the approach and dismount and up to 10 points for the routine.

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| Saturday, 19 July 1924 | | Final |

## Results

| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Total |
| | Leon Štukelj | Yugoslavia | 19.730 |
| | Jean Gutweninger | Switzerland | 19.236 |
| | André Higelin | France | 19.163 |
| 4 | Antoine Rebetez | Switzerland | 19.053 |
| 5 | Georges Miez | Switzerland | 19.050 |
| 6 | Jean Gounot | France | 19.043 |
| 7 | François Gangloff | France | 18.933 |
| 8 | August Güttinger | Switzerland | 18.886 |
| 9 | Robert Pražák | Czechoslovakia | 18.730 |
| 10 | Léon Delsarte | France | 18.633 |
| 11 | Francesco Martino | Italy | 18.386 |
| 12 | Mario Lertora | Italy | 18.366 |
| 13 | Stanley Leigh | Great Britain | 18.350 |
| 14 | Ferdinando Mandrini | Italy | 18.120 |
| 15 | Josef Kos | Czechoslovakia | 17.960 |
| 16 | Bedřich Šupčík | Czechoslovakia | 17.860 |
| 17 | Arthur Hermann | France | 17.503 |
| 18 | Frank Kriz | United States | 17.500 |
| 19 | Stanislav Indruch | Czechoslovakia | 17.430 |
| 20 | Vittorio Lucchetti | Italy | 17.270 |
| 21 | Luigi Cambiaso | Italy | 17.180 |
| 22 | Josef Wilhelm | Switzerland | 17.150 |
| 23 | Al Jochim | United States | 17.060 |
| 24 | Hans Grieder | Switzerland | 16.946 |
| 25 | Otto Pfister | Switzerland | 16.920 |
| 26 | Miroslav Klinger | Czechoslovakia | 16.470 |
| 27 | Giuseppe Paris | Italy | 16.356 |
| 28 | Stane Žilič | Yugoslavia | 16.330 |
| 28 | Curtis Rottman | United States | 16.330 |
| 30 | Giorgio Zampori | Italy | 16.203 |
| 31 | Carl Widmer | Switzerland | 16.190 |
| 32 | John Pearson | United States | 15.990 |
| 33 | Eugène Cordonnier | France | 15.886 |
| 34 | Otto Suhonen | Finland | 15.853 |
| 35 | Jan Koutný | Czechoslovakia | 15.716 |
| 36 | Albert Séguin | France | 15.683 |
| 37 | Väinö Karonen | Finland | 15.420 |
| 38 | Stane Hlastan | Yugoslavia | 15.066 |
| 39 | Ladislav Vácha | Czechoslovakia | 14.700 |
| 40 | Luigi Maiocco | Italy | 14.663 |
| 41 | Bohumil Mořkovský | Czechoslovakia | 14.563 |
| 42 | Mihael Oswald | Yugoslavia | 14.280 |
| 43 | Harold Brown | Great Britain | 14.206 |
| 44 | Janez Porenta | Yugoslavia | 14.166 |
| 45 | John Mais | United States | 13.930 |
| 46 | Jaakko Kunnas | Finland | 13.583 |
| 47 | Rastko Poljšak | Yugoslavia | 13.536 |
| 48 | Josip Primožič | Yugoslavia | 13.460 |
| 49 | Aarne Roine | Finland | 13.280 |
| 50 | Frank Safandra | United States | 12.900 |
| 51 | Albert Spencer | Great Britain | 12.893 |
| 52 | Théo Jeitz | Luxembourg | 12.850 |
| 53 | Joseph Huber | France | 12.686 |
| 54 | Henry Finchett | Great Britain | 12.290 |
| 55 | Eevert Kerttula | Finland | 12.273 |
| 56 | Akseli Roine | Finland | 12.233 |
| 57 | Edward Leigh | Great Britain | 12.120 |
| 58 | Stane Derganc | Yugoslavia | 12.100 |
| 59 | Mikko Hämäläinen | Finland | 11.873 |
| 60 | Charles Quaino | Luxembourg | 11.646 |
| 61 | Eetu Kostamo | Finland | 11.253 |
| 62 | Albert Neumann | Luxembourg | 11.243 |
| 63 | Samuel Humphreys | Great Britain | 10.933 |
| 64 | Thomas Hopkins | Great Britain | 10.840 |
| 65 | Émile Munhofen | Luxembourg | 10.366 |
| 66 | Max Wandrer | United States | 10.240 |
| 67 | Mathias Erang | Luxembourg | 9.833 |
| 68 | Frank Hawkins | Great Britain | 9.733 |
| 69 | Rudolph Novak | United States | 9.703 |
| 70 | Jacques Palzer | Luxembourg | 9.463 |
| 71 | Mathias Weishaupt | Luxembourg | 8.550 |
| 72 | Pierre Tolar | Luxembourg | 7.800 |