Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XVI Olympiad
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Boris Shakhlin | Soviet Union | ||
Takashi Ono | Japan | ||
Viktor Chukarin | Soviet Union |
These are the results of the men's pommel horse competition, one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
Sixty three gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds of the team competition. The top scorers in the team competition won the individual medals. There was no separate competition for individual apparatus.