Olympic Summer Games 2012 / apparatus gymnastics - horizontal bar (men)

sport	Apparatus gymnastics
discipline	Horizontal bar
gender	Men
Attendees	8 athletes from 6 countries
Competition location	North Greenwich Arena
Competition phase	August 7, 2012
Medalist Epke Zonderland ( NED ) Fabian Hambüchen ( GER ) Zou Kai ( CHN )
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The final on the men's bar at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 7, 2012 at The O₂ . A total of eight gymnasts competed.

In the qualifying competition on July 28, 2012, eight gymnasts had qualified for the final. The regulations stipulated that only two gymnasts per NOK were allowed to compete in the final. A third qualifier was not allowed to compete and was replaced by a gymnast who was the next best.

The evaluation of an exercise consisted of the degree of difficulty (D-Score) and the execution (E-Score), which were added to the overall evaluation and from which any penalty points were deducted. If two gymnasts have the same total number of points, the higher score of the execution is decisive.

Bottom line

space	Gymnast	nation	difficulty	execution	Penalty points	total
1	Epke Zonderland	Netherlands	7,900	8,633		16,533
2	Fabian Hambüchen	Germany	7,500	8,900		16,400
3	Zou Kai	People's Republic of China	7,900	8,466		16,366
4th	Zhang Chenglong	People's Republic of China	7,700	8,566		16,266
5	Danell Leyva	United States	7,200	8,633		15,833
6th	Jonathan Horton	United States	6,800	8,666		15,466
7th	Emin Garibow	Russia	7,100	8.233		15,333
8th	Kim Ji-hoon	South Korea	7,100	8,033		15,133

Epke Zonderland won the first Dutch medal on the horizontal bar. At the same time, it was the first Olympic victory for a male gymnast from the country.

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion Epke Zonderland (NED)

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  Fabian Hambüchen (GER) wins silver

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  Defending champion Zou Kai (CHN) wins bronze

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  Jonathan Horton (USA), 6th place

Web links

• Horizontal bar men