World Artistic Gymnastics Championships – Men's parallel bars

The men's parallel bars competition was an inaugural event at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships.^[1][2] It has been held in every year since its inception.

The first event was in 1903, and followed every other year until and including 1913. Competitions were not held during World War I, ultimately returning in 1922, and was then held every fourth year, until and including 1942. Competitions resumed after World War II, starting in 1950. It continued every fourth even year until and including 1978. The next event was held a year later, when the schedule was switched to an every-odd year until and including 1991. It then became an annual event, until and including 1997. It was next held in 1999. During the 21st century, the World Championships became an annual event held each non-Summer Olympic year.

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.

Medalists

Bold numbers in brackets denotes record number of victories.

Year	Location	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1903[3]	Antwerp	François Hentges Joseph Martinez	-	André Bordang Eugène Dua
1905[4]	Bordeaux	Marcel Lalu Joseph Martinez	-	Pierre Payssé
1907[5]	Prague	Joseph Lux	Josef Čada	František Erben Louis Ségura
1909[6]	Luxembourg	Joseph Martinez (3)	Josef Čada Auguste Castille Marco Torrès	-
1911[7]	Turin	Giorgio Zampori	Dominique Follaci	Antoine Costa Jules Labéeu Jules Lecoutre Paolo Salvi Ferdinand Steiner Stane Vidmar
1913[8]	Paris	Guido Boni Giorgio Zampori	-	Pierre Hentges
1915–1917	Not held due to World War I
1922[9]	Ljubljana	Leon Štukelj	Stane Derganc Stanislav Indruch Miroslav Klinger Vladimir Simončič Stane Vidmar	-
1926[10]	Lyon	Ladislav Vácha	Jan Gajdoš	Leon Štukelj
1930[11]	Luxembourg	Josip Primožič	Alfred Krauss	Ladislav Vácha
1934[12]	Budapest	Eugene Mack	Josef Walter	Walter Bach
1938[13]	Prague	Michael Reusch	Alois Hudec	Josip Primožič
1942	Not held due to World War II
1950[14]	Basel	Hans Eugster	Olavi Rove	Raymond Dot
1954[15]	Rome	Viktor Chukarin	Josef Stalder	Helmut Bantz Hans Eugster Masao Takemoto
1958[16]	Moscow	Boris Shakhlin	Takashi Ono	Pavel Stolbov
1962[17]	Prague	Miroslav Cerar	Boris Shakhlin	Yukio Endō
1966[18]	Dortmund	Sergey Diomidov	Mikhail Voronin	Miroslav Cerar
1970[19]	Ljubljana	Akinori Nakayama	Eizō Kenmotsu Mikhail Voronin	-
1974[20]	Varna	Eizō Kenmotsu	Nikolai Andrianov	Vladimir Marchenko
1978[21]	Strasbourg	Eizō Kenmotsu	Nikolai Andrianov Hiroshi Kajiyama	-
1979[22]	Fort Worth	Bart Conner	Kurt Thomas Aleksandr Tkachyov	-
1981[23]	Moscow	Alexander Dityatin Kōji Gushiken	-	Nobuyuki Kajitani
1983[24]	Budapest	Vladimir Artemov Lou Yun	-	Kōji Sotomura Tong Fei
1985[25]	Montreal	Sylvio Kroll Valentin Mogilny	-	Kōji Gushiken
1987[26]	Rotterdam	Vladimir Artemov	Dmitry Bilozerchev	Sven Tippelt
1989[27]	Stuttgart	Vladimir Artemov (3) Li Jing	-	Andreas Wecker
1991[28]	Indianapolis	Li Jing	Igor Korobchinsky	Guo Linyao
1992[29]	Paris	Li Jing (3) Alexei Voropayev	-	Valery Belenky
1993[30]	Birmingham	Vitaly Scherbo	Igor Korobchinsky	Valery Belenky
1994[31]	Brisbane	Huang Liping	Rustam Sharipov	Alexei Nemov
1995[32]	Sabae	Vitaly Scherbo	Huang Liping	Hikaru Tanaka
1996[33]	San Juan	Rustam Sharipov	Alexei Nemov Vitaly Scherbo	-
1997[34]	Lausanne	Zhang Jinjing	Li Xiaopeng	Naoya Tsukahara
1999[35]	Tianjin	Lee Joo-Hyung	Alexei Bondarenko Naoya Tsukahara	-
2001[36]	Ghent	Sean Townsend	Eric López Ríos	Ivan Ivankov
2002[37]	Debrecen	Li Xiaopeng	Mitja Petkovšek	Alexei Sinkevich
2003[38]	Anaheim	Li Xiaopeng	Huang Xu Alexei Nemov	-
2005[39]	Melbourne	Mitja Petkovšek	Li Xiaopeng	Yann Cucherat
2006[40]	Aarhus	Yang Wei	Hiroyuki Tomita Yoo Won-Chul	-
2007[41]	Stuttgart	Kim Dae-Eun Mitja Petkovšek	-	Anton Fokin
2009	London	Wang Guanyin	Feng Zhe	Kazuhito Tanaka
2010	Rotterdam	Feng Zhe	Teng Haibin	Kōhei Uchimura
2011	Tokyo	Danell Leyva	Vasileios Tsolakidis Zhang Chenglong	-
2013	Antwerp	Lin Chaopan Kōhei Uchimura	-	John Orozco
2014	Nanning	Oleg Verniaiev	Danell Leyva	Ryōhei Katō
2015	Glasgow	You Hao	Oleg Verniaiev	Deng Shudi Oleg Stepko
2017	Montreal	Zou Jingyuan	Oleg Verniaiev	David Belyavsky
2018	Doha
2019	Stuttgart

All-time medal count

Last updated after the 2017 World Championships.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	14	7	3	24
2	Soviet Union (Soviet Union)	8	8	2	18
3	Japan (JPN)	5	5	10	20
4	France (FRA)	5	4	7	16
5	Yugoslavia	3	3	3	9
6	Switzerland (SUI)	3	2	2	7
7	United States (USA)	3	2	1	6
8	Italy (ITA)	3	0	1	4
9	Ukraine (UKR)	2	4	0	6
10	Belarus (BLR)	2	1	2	5
11	Slovenia (SLO)	2	1	0	3
	South Korea (KOR)	2	1	0	3
13	Czechoslovakia	1	4	1	6
14	East Germany	1	0	2	3
	Luxembourg (LUX)	1	0	2	3
16	CIS (CIS)[c]	1	0	1	2
17	Russia (RUS)	0	3	2	5
18	Bohemia[a]	0	2	2	4
19	Cuba (CUB)	0	1	0	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	1	0	1
	Greece (GRE)	0	1	0	1
22	Austria-Hungary (Austria-Hungary)[b]	0	0	1	1
	Azerbaijan (AZE)	0	0	1	1
	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Unattached athlete (UNA)[c]	0	0	1	1
	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 nations)		56	50	47	153

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 documents from the International Gymnastics Federation 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).
• ^[d] At the 1993 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Birmingham, Great Britain, Azerbaijani-born gymnast Valery Belenky earned a bronze medal competing as an unattached (UNA) athlete because Azerbaijan did not have a gymnastics federation for him to compete. Later, official documents from the International Gymnastics Federation credit his medal as a medal for Germany.

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