The men's horizontal bar competition was an inaugural event at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships.^[1][2] 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[edit]

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
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
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[edit]

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 [a]	3	2	2	7
8	Yugoslavia	3	1	1	5
9	United States	2	1	2	5
10	Finland	2	1	0	3
	Spain	2	1	0	3
12	Greece	2	0	1	3
13	Slovenia	1	3	0	4
	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
	CIS [c]	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
	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
29	Belgium	0	1	1	2
30	Austria-Hungary [b]	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
32	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
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[edit]

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
	Jesús Carballo	Spain	1996–1999	2	1	0	3
	Joseph Martinez	France	1903–1909	2	1	0	3
5	Vlasios Maras	Greece	2001–2006	2	0	1	3
	Leon Štukelj	Yugoslavia	1922–1930	2	0	1	3
7	Dmitry Bilozerchev	Soviet Union	1983–1987	2	0	0	2
	Li Chunyang	China	1989–1991	2	0	0	2
	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
	Daiki Hashimoto	Japan	2021–2023	1	2	0	3
	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
	Akinori Nakayama	Japan	1966–1970	1	1	0	2
	Philippe Rizzo	Australia	2001–2006	1	1	0	2
	Boris Shakhlin	Soviet Union	1954–1958	1	1	0	2
	Aleksandr Tkachyov	Soviet Union	1979–1981	1	1	0	2
	Marco Torrès	France	1911–1913	1	1	0	2
	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
	Brody Malone	United States	2021–2022	1	0	1	2
	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
	Igor Cassina	Italy	2003–2009	0	1	1	2
	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	1995–1996	0	1	1	2
	Ivan Ivankov	Belarus	1994–2002	0	1	1	2
	Pierre Payssé	France	1903–1905	0	1	1	2
	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	1993–1994	0	1	1	2

References[edit]

• FIG Results: 1903 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1905 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1907 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1909 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1911 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1913 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1922 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1926 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1930 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1934 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1938 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1950 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1954 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1958 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1962 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1966 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1970 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1974 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1978 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1979 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1981 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1983 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1985 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1987 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1989 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1992 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Individuals Competition)
• FIG Results: 1994 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Team Competition)
• FIG Results: 1995 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1996 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1997 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 1999 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 2001 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 2002 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 2003 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 2005 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• FIG Results: 2006 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
• FIG Results: 2007 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
• Results: 2009 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships
• FIG Results: 2014 Artistic Gymnastics World Championships