# World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar competition was an inaugural event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. It has been held in every year since its inception.
Three medals are awarded: gold for first place, silver for second place, and bronze for third place. Tie breakers have not been used in every year. In the event of a tie between two gymnasts, both names are listed, and the following position (second for a tie for first, third for a tie for second) is left empty because a medal was not awarded for that position. If three gymnastics tied for a position, the following two positions are left empty.

## Medalists

Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories.
| Year | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 1903 | Antwerp | Joseph Martinez | Jules Lecoutre Pierre Payssé Charles van Hulle | — |
| 1905 | Bordeaux | Marcel Lalu | Joseph Martinez | Lucien Démanet Pierre Payssé |
| 1907 | Prague | Georges Charmoille František Erben | — | Jules Rolland |
| 1909 | Luxembourg | Joseph Martinez | Josef Čada František Erben K. Fuchs | — |
| 1911 | Turin | Josef Čada | Marco Torrès | Guido Romano Svatopluk Svoboda |
| 1913 | Paris | Josef Čada Marco Torrès | — | A. Demol Osvaldo Palazzi Josef Sykora |
| 1915–1917 | Not held due to World War I | Not held due to World War I | Not held due to World War I | Not held due to World War I |
| 1922 | Ljubljana | Miroslav Klinger Leon Štukelj Peter Šumi | — | — |
| 1926 | Lyon | Leon Štukelj | Josip Primožič | Ladislav Vácha |
| 1930 | Luxembourg | István Pelle | Miklós Péter | Leon Štukelj |
| 1934 | Budapest | Ernst Winter | Georges Miez Heinz Sandrock | — |
| 1938 | Prague | Michael Reusch | Alois Hudec | Walter Beck |
| 1942 | Not held due to World War II | Not held due to World War II | Not held due to World War II | Not held due to World War II |
| 1950 | Basel | Paavo Aaltonen | Veikko Huhtanen | Walter Lehmann Josef Stalder |
| 1954 | Rome | Valentin Muratov | Helmut Bantz Boris Shakhlin | — |
| 1958 | Moscow | Boris Shakhlin | Albert Azaryan | Masao Takemoto Yuri Titov |
| 1962 | Prague | Takashi Ono | Yukio Endō Pavel Stolbov | — |
| 1966 | Dortmund | Akinori Nakayama | Yukio Endō | Takashi Mitsukuri |
| 1970 | Ljubljana | Eizō Kenmotsu | Akinori Nakayama | Takuji Hayata Klaus Köste |
| 1974 | Varna | Eberhard Gienger | Wolfgang Thüne | Eizō Kenmotsu Andrzej Szajna |
| 1978 | Strasbourg | Shigeru Kasamatsu | Eberhard Gienger | Stoyan Deltchev Gennady Krysin |
| 1979 | Fort Worth | Kurt Thomas | Aleksandr Tkachyov | Alexander Dityatin |
| 1981 | Moscow | Aleksandr Tkachyov | Artur Akopyan Eberhard Gienger | — |
| 1983 | Budapest | Dmitry Bilozerchev | Alexander Pogorelov Philippe Vatuone | — |
| 1985 | Montreal | Tong Fei | Sylvio Kroll | Mitsuaki Watanabe |
| 1987 | Rotterdam | Dmitry Bilozerchev | Curtis Hibbert | Holger Behrendt Zsolt Borkai |
| 1989 | Stuttgart | Li Chunyang | Vladimir Artemov | Yukio Iketani |
| 1991 | Indianapolis | Ralf Büchner Li Chunyang | — | Vitaly Scherbo |
| 1992 | Paris | Hrihoriy Misyutin | Li Jing | Ihor Korobchynskyi |
| 1993 | Birmingham | Sergey Kharkov | Marius Gherman | Zoltán Supola |
| 1994 | Brisbane | Vitaly Scherbo | Zoltán Supola | Ivan Ivankov |
| 1995 | Sabae | Andreas Wecker | Yoshiaki Hatakeda | Krasimir Dunev Zhang Jinjing |
| 1996 | San Juan | Jesús Carballo | Krasimir Dunev | Vitaly Scherbo |
| 1997 | Lausanne | Jani Tanskanen | Jesús Carballo | Oleksandr Beresch |
| 1999 | Tianjin | Jesús Carballo | Alexander Jeltkov | Yang Wei |
| 2001 | Ghent | Vlasios Maras | Oleksandr Beresch Philippe Rizzo | — |
| 2002 | Debrecen | Vlasios Maras | Ivan Ivankov Aljaž Pegan | — |
| 2003 | Anaheim | Takehiro Kashima | Igor Cassina | Alexei Nemov |
| 2005 | Melbourne | Aljaž Pegan | Yann Cucherat | Valeriy Honcharov |
| 2006 | Aarhus | Philippe Rizzo | Aljaž Pegan | Vlasios Maras |
| 2007 | Stuttgart | Fabian Hambüchen | Aljaž Pegan | Hisashi Mizutori |
| 2009 | London | Zou Kai | Epke Zonderland | Igor Cassina |
| 2010 | Rotterdam | Zhang Chenglong | Epke Zonderland | Fabian Hambüchen |
| 2011 | Tokyo | Zou Kai | Zhang Chenglong | Kōhei Uchimura |
| 2013 | Antwerp | Epke Zonderland | Fabian Hambüchen | Kōhei Uchimura |
| 2014 | Nanning | Epke Zonderland | Kōhei Uchimura | Marijo Možnik |
| 2015 | Glasgow | Kōhei Uchimura | Danell Leyva | Manrique Larduet |
| 2017 | Montreal | Tin Srbić | Epke Zonderland | Bart Deurloo |
| 2018 | Doha | Epke Zonderland (3) | Kōhei Uchimura | Sam Mikulak |
| 2019 | Stuttgart | Arthur Mariano | Tin Srbić | Artur Dalaloyan |
| 2021 | Kitakyushu | Hu Xuwei | Daiki Hashimoto | Brody Malone |
| 2022 | Liverpool | Brody Malone | Daiki Hashimoto | Arthur Mariano |
| 2023 | Antwerp | Daiki Hashimoto | Tin Srbić | Su Weide |

## All-time medal count

Last updated after the 2023 World Championships.
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 7 | 8 | 9 | 24 |
| 2 | China | 7 | 2 | 3 | 12 |
| 3 | Soviet Union | 5 | 7 | 4 | 16 |
| 4 | France | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 |
| 5 | Germany | 4 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 7 | Bohemia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 8 | Yugoslavia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 9 | United States | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 10 | Finland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 10 | Spain | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Greece | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 13 | West Germany | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 15 | Hungary | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 16 | Croatia | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 17 | Switzerland | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 18 | Belarus | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 19 | Czechoslovakia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 20 | Australia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 21 | Russia | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 22 | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 22 | CIS | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | East Germany | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 25 | Canada | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 26 | Italy | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 27 | Bulgaria | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 27 | Ukraine | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 29 | Belgium | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 30 | Austria-Hungary | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 32 | Cuba | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 32 | Poland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (33 entries) | Totals (33 entries) | 56 | 58 | 52 | 166 |

### Notes

* ^[a] Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from Bohemia as medals for Czechoslovakia.
* ^[b] Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from Austria-Hungary as medals for Yugoslavia.
* ^[c] Official FIG documents credit medals earned by athletes from former Soviet Union at the 1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Paris, France, as medals for CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States).

## Multiple medalists

| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Years | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Epke Zonderland | Netherlands | 2009–2018 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2 | Josef Čada | Bohemia | 1909–1913 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Jesús Carballo | Spain | 1996–1999 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Joseph Martinez | France | 1903–1909 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Vlasios Maras | Greece | 2001–2006 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Leon Štukelj | Yugoslavia | 1922–1930 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 | Dmitry Bilozerchev | Soviet Union | 1983–1987 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Li Chunyang | China | 1989–1991 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | Zou Kai | China | 2009–2011 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 10 | Aljaž Pegan | Slovenia | 2002–2007 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 11 | Kōhei Uchimura | Japan | 2011–2018 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 12 | Eberhard Gienger | West Germany | 1974–1981 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Daiki Hashimoto | Japan | 2021–2023 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Tin Srbić | Croatia | 2017–2023 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 15 | Fabian Hambüchen | Germany | 2007–2013 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 16 | František Erben | Bohemia | 1907–1909 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Akinori Nakayama | Japan | 1966–1970 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Philippe Rizzo | Australia | 2001–2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | 1954–1958 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Aleksandr Tkachyov | Soviet Union | 1979–1981 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Marco Torrès | France | 1911–1913 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 16 | Zhang Chenglong | China | 2010–2011 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 23 | Vitaly Scherbo | Soviet Union Belarus | 1991–1996 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 24 | Eizō Kenmotsu | Japan | 1970–1974 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | Brody Malone | United States | 2021–2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 24 | Arthur Mariano | Brazil | 2019–2022 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 27 | Yukio Endō | Japan | 1962–1966 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 28 | Oleksandr Beresch | Ukraine | 1997–2001 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 28 | Igor Cassina | Italy | 2003–2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 28 | Krasimir Dunev | Bulgaria | 1995–1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 28 | Ivan Ivankov | Belarus | 1994–2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 28 | Pierre Payssé | France | 1903–1905 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 28 | Zoltán Supola | Hungary | 1993–1994 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |