Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

Men's parallel bars at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Soviet stamp commemorating 1980 Olympics, depicting parallel bars
Venue	Luzhniki Palace of Sports
Dates	20–25 July
Competitors	65 from 14 nations
Winning score	19.775
Medalists
Aleksandr Tkachyov  Soviet Union Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union Roland Brückner  East Germany

The men's parallel bars competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 25th at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports. There were 65 competitors from 14 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have to up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Aleksandr Tkachyov of the Soviet Union, the nation's first victory in the parallel bars since 1960 and third overall, tying Switzerland for second-most all-time behind Japan's four. Fellow Soviet Alexander Dityatin took silver, while Roland Brückner earned East Germany's first medal in the event (and first medal for any German gymnast in the parallel bars since 1936). Japan's four-Games gold medal streak in the event ended with no Japanese gymnasts competing due to the American-led boycott.

Background

This was the 15th 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). Two of the six finalists from 1976 returned: silver medalist Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union and sixth-place finisher Andrzej Szajna of Poland. The two most recent world champions, Eizo Kenmotsu of Japan (1978) and Bart Conner of the United States (1979), did not compete in Moscow due to the boycott. Andrianov had shared silver at the 1978 world championships and Aleksandr Tkachyov, also of the Soviet Union, had shared silver in 1979.

Brazil made its debut in the men's parallel bars. Hungary made its 13th appearance, tying the United States (absent from the parallel bars event for the first time since the inaugural 1896 Games) for most of any nation.

Competition format

Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score. These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score. The top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals, except that nations were limited to two finalists each; others were ranked 7th through 65th. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final.

Schedule

All times are Moscow Time (UTC 3)

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 20 July 1980	10:00 17:00	Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 22 July 1980	10:00 17:00	Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 25 July 1980	14:30	Final

Results

Sixty-five gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 20 and 22. The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 25. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes the "prelim" score.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Aleksandr Tkachyov	Soviet Union	9.85	9.90	19.75	9.875	9.900	19.775
	Alexander Dityatin	Soviet Union	9.80	9.90	19.70	9.850	9.900	19.750
	Roland Brückner	East Germany	9.70	9.90	19.60	9.800	9.850	19.650
4	Michael Nikolay	East Germany	9.60	9.80	19.40	9.700	9.900	19.600
5	Stoyan Deltchev	Bulgaria	9.85	9.90	19.75	9.875	9.700	19.575
6	Roberto Leon	Cuba	9.70	9.90	19.60	9.800	9.700	19.500
7	Nikolai Andrianov	Soviet Union	9.80	9.90	19.70	Did not advance
8	Bohdan Makuts	Soviet Union	9.60	9.90	19.50	Did not advance
9	Dan Grecu	Romania	9.65	9.80	19.45	Did not advance
10	Eduard Azaryan	Soviet Union	9.65	9.75	19.40	Did not advance
11	Andreas Bronst	East Germany	9.50	9.80	19.30	Did not advance
	Sorin Cepoi	Romania	9.60	9.70	19.30	Did not advance
	Ralf-Peter Hemmann	East Germany	9.60	9.70	19.30	Did not advance
14	Ferenc Donáth	Hungary	9.55	9.65	19.20	Did not advance
	Zoltán Magyar	Hungary	9.45	9.75	19.20	Did not advance
	Dancho Yordanov	Bulgaria	9.45	9.75	19.20	Did not advance
17	Aurelian Georgescu	Romania	9.55	9.60	19.15	Did not advance
18	Jozef Konečný	Czechoslovakia	9.50	9.60	19.10	Did not advance
	Lutz Mack	East Germany	9.50	9.60	19.10	Did not advance
	Plamen Petkov	Bulgaria	9.40	9.70	19.10	Did not advance
21	Michel Boutard	France	9.50	9.55	19.05	Did not advance
	Miguel Arroyo	Cuba	9.45	9.60	19.05	Did not advance
	Jiří Tabák	Czechoslovakia	9.35	9.70	19.05	Did not advance
24	Mario Castro	Cuba	9.30	9.70	19.00	Did not advance
	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.40	9.60	19.00	Did not advance
	Han Gwang-song	North Korea	9.50	9.50	19.00	Did not advance
	Lutz Hoffmann	East Germany	9.30	9.70	19.00	Did not advance
28	György Guczoghy	Hungary	9.40	9.55	18.95	Did not advance
	Jan Zoulik	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.55	18.95	Did not advance
	Ognyan Bangiev	Bulgaria	9.35	9.60	18.95	Did not advance
	Sergio Suarez	Cuba	9.25	9.70	18.95	Did not advance
32	Kim Gwang-jin	North Korea	9.30	9.60	18.90	Did not advance
	Vladimir Markelov	Soviet Union	9.10	9.80	18.90	Did not advance
	Nicolae Oprescu	Romania	9.45	9.45	18.90	Did not advance
	Rumen Petkov	Bulgaria	9.35	9.55	18.90	Did not advance
36	Rudolf Babiak	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.45	18.85	Did not advance
	Gabriel Calvo	Spain	9.25	9.60	18.85	Did not advance
	Péter Kovács	Hungary	9.00	9.85	18.85	Did not advance
39	Miloslav Kučeřík	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.40	18.80	Did not advance
40	Kang Gwang-song	North Korea	8.95	9.80	18.75	Did not advance
41	José de la Casa	Spain	9.15	9.55	18.70	Did not advance
	Jan Migdau	Czechoslovakia	9.30	9.40	18.70	Did not advance
43	Fernando Bertrand	Spain	9.25	9.40	18.65	Did not advance
	Romulus Bucuroiu	Romania	9.10	9.55	18.65	Did not advance
	Joël Suty	France	9.15	9.50	18.65	Did not advance
	Kurt Szilier	Romania	9.65	9.00	18.65	Did not advance
47	Enrique Bravo	Cuba	9.15	9.40	18.55	Did not advance
	Lindsay Nylund	Australia	9.30	9.25	18.55	Did not advance
	Waldemar Woźniak	Poland	9.15	9.40	18.55	Did not advance
50	Zoltán Kelemen	Hungary	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
	István Vámos	Hungary	9.35	9.15	18.50	Did not advance
52	Krzysztof Potaczek	Poland	9.05	9.40	18.45	Did not advance
53	Li Su-gil	North Korea	8.95	9.45	18.40	Did not advance
	Yanko Radanchev	Bulgaria	9.25	9.15	18.40	Did not advance
55	Willi Moy	France	9.25	9.10	18.35	Did not advance
	Barry Winch	Great Britain	9.20	9.15	18.35	Did not advance
57	Henri Boerio	France	8.55	9.60	18.15	Did not advance
58	Andrzej Szajna	Poland	8.55	9.55	18.10	Did not advance
59	Yves Bouquel	France	8.85	8.75	17.60	Did not advance
60	Keith Langley	Great Britain	9.10	8.40	17.50	Did not advance
61	Thomas Wilson	Great Britain	8.25	9.15	17.40	Did not advance
62	Song Sun-bong	North Korea	8.15	9.00	17.15	Did not advance
63	João Luiz Ribeiro	Brazil	8.20	8.85	17.05	Did not advance
64	Marc Touchais	France	8.30	8.55	16.85	Did not advance
65	Jorge Roche	Cuba	9.45	0.00	9.45	Did not advance
—	Moustapha Chouara	Lebanon	DNS			Did not advance
	Adnan Horns	Lebanon	DNS			Did not advance
	Maurizio Zonzini	San Marino	DNS			Did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net