The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Gymnastics - Artistic Pommel Horse

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

SOVIET UNION - 12 Medals
SWITZERLAND - 9 Medals
JAPAN - 8 Medals

Medal Table
Artistic Pommel Horse
 Artistic Team All-Around Artistic Individual All-Around
Artistic Floor Exercise Artistic Vault Artistic Horizontal Bar
Artistic Parallel Bars Artistic Rings
 Artistic Balance Beam
Artistic Uneven Bars
 Rhythmic Individual All-Around
 Rhythmic Group
Trampolining
 Discontinued

Medal Winners  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1896
 Louis Zutter - Switzerland
 Hermann Weingärtner - Germany
 NONE
1904
 Anton Heida - United States
 George Eyser - United States
 William Merz - United States
1924
 Josef Wilhelm - Switzerland
 Jean Gutweninger - Switzerland
 Antoine Rebetez - Switzerland
1928
 Hermann Hänggi - Switzerland
 Georges Miez - Switzerland
 Heikki Savolainen - Finland
1932
 István Pelle - Hungary
 Omero Bonoli - Italy
 Frank Haubold - United States
1936
 Konrad Frey - Germany
 Eugen Mack - Switzerland
 Albert Bachmann - Switzerland
1948
 Paavo Aaltonen - Finland
Veikko Huhtanen - Finland
Heikki Savolainen - Finland
 NONE
 NONE
1952
 Viktor Chukarin - Soviet Union
 Yevgeny Korolkov - Soviet Union
Hrant Shahinyan - Soviet Union
 NONE
1956
 Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union
 Takashi Ono - Japan
 Viktor Chukarin - Soviet Union
1960
 Eugen Ekman - Finland
Boris Shakhlin - Soviet Union
 NONE
 Shuji Tsurumi - Japan
1964
 Miroslav Cerar - Yugoslavia
 Shuji Tsurumi - Japan Yury Tsapenko - Soviet Union
1968
 Miroslav Cerar - Yugoslavia Olli Laiho - Finland
 Mikhail Voronin - Soviet Union
1972
 Viktor Klimenko - Soviet Union
 Sawao Kato - Japan
 Eizo Kenmotsu - Japan
1976
 Zoltán Magyar - Hungary
 Eizo Kenmotsu - Japan Nikolai Adrianov - Soviet Union
Michael Nikolay - East Germany
1980
 Zoltán Magyar - Hungary Alexander Dityatin - Soviet Union
 Michael Nikolay - East Germany
1984
 Li Ning - China
Peter Vidmar - United States
 NONE
 Timothy Daggett - United States
1988
 Dmitry Bilozerchev - Soviet Union
Zsolt Borkai - Hungary
Lubomir Geraskov - Bulgaria
 NONE
 NONE
1992
 Pae Gil-su - North Korea
Vitaly Scherbo - Unified Team
 NONE
 Andreas Wecker - Germany
1996
 Donghua Li - Switzerland
 Marius Urzică - Romania
 Alexei Nemov - Russia
2000
 Marius Urzică - Romania Eric Poujade - France
 Alexei Nemov - Russia
2004
 Teng Haibin - China
 Marius Urzică - Romania Takehiro Kashima - Japan
2008
 Xiao Qin - China
 Filip Ude - Croatia
 Louis Smith - Great Britain
2012
 Krisztián Berki - Hungary
 Louis Smith - Great Britain
 Max Whitlock - Great Britain
2016
 Max Whitlock - Great Britain Louis Smith - Great Britain Alexander Naddour - United States
2020
 Max Whitlock - Great Britain Lee Chih-Kai - Chinese Taipei Kazuma Kaya - Japan

Medal Total  Medal Winners
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 Soviet Union
 5
 3
 4
 12
2
 Switzerland
 4
 3
 2
 9
3
 Japan 0
 4
 4
 8
4
 United States
 2
 1
 4
 7
5
 Finland
 4
 1
 1
 6
6
 Great Britain 2
 2
 2
 6
7
 Hungary
 5
 0
 0
 5
8
 China
 3
 0
 0
 3
9
 Romania
 1
 2
 0
 3
10
 Germany
 1
 1
 1
 3
11
 Yugoslavia
 2
 0
 0
 2
12
 Russia
 0
 0
 2
 2
13
 East Germany
 0
 0
 2
 2
14
 Bulgaria
 1
 0
 0
 1
15
 North Korea
 1
 0
 0
 1
16
 Unfied Team
 1
 0
 0
 1
17
 Italy
 0
 1
 0
 1
18
 France
 0
 1
 0
 1
19
 Croatia
 0
 1
 0
 1
20
 Chinese Taipei
 0
 1
 0
 1