On August 5, Beijing time, the men's horizontal bar final of gymnastics at the Paris Olympics began, and Zhang Boheng and Su Weide of the Chinese team formed a double insurance to impact the championship. In this game, Zhang Boheng and Su Weide both made mistakes in the landing link, and finally Oka Shinnosuke won the championship, Zhang Boheng was third, and Su Weide was fifth.
In the preliminary stage, Zhang Boheng ranked first with 15.133 points, and Su Weide ranked seventh with 14.400 points, both of which reached the finals. In the previous team competition, Su Weide's horizontal bar performance was abnormal and dropped the bar twice, so that the Chinese team lost the gold medal. This time when he came to the personal project, Su Weide ushered in the last chance to redeem himself. As the captain, Zhang Boheng can be called a model worker in Paris, winning silver medals in both team and individual all-around, and missing the podium on parallel bars because of the slightly lower difficulty score. In the horizontal bar event, Zhang Boheng launched an attack on his first Olympic gold medal.
The order of appearance in the final stage is still very beneficial to the Chinese team, among the eight players, Zhang Boheng is the sixth to appear, and Su Weide is the last to appear. Chinese Taipei's Tang Jiahong, who took the lead, made a mistake and scored only 13.966 points. Shinnosuke Okanake, the new individual all-around champion of the Japan team, made his second appearance, and he performed very steadily with a score of 14.533, including 5.900 difficulty and 8.633 completion. Colombia's Baracas tied with Shinnosuke Oka on 14.533 points, but was ahead because Shinnosuke Oka had a higher completion score. Gilgio of Cyprus made a mistake and scored 13.333 points.
In the second half, the biggest opponent of the Chinese team was still Shinnosuke Oka. Japan's Masayo Sugino, who appeared in fifth place, dropped the bar and almost fell to his knees on the court, scoring only 11.633 points. Zhang Boheng, who appeared in sixth place, played perfectly on the bar, the difficulty was higher than that of Shinnosuke Oka, and there were not many points deducted for completion. At the moment when Zhang Boheng was about to finish the race perfectly, there was a big mistake when he landed, and he stumbled forward, Zhang Boheng's expression was very regretful, he knew that his gold medal was hopeless. Zhang Boheng had a difficulty of 6.500, and the completion score was 7.466, and he got 13.966 points, losing to Oka Shinnosuke.
In this way, all the hopes of the Chinese team are pinned on Su Weide. Sarbic, who came in seventh place, won silver on the horizontal bar at the Tokyo Olympics, but he fell off the bar twice and Su Weide had one less opponent, and he only needed to surpass Shinnosuke Oka to be the champion. Like Zhang Boheng, Su Weide played quite well on the bar, as if he already had the hope of competing for the gold medal with Oka Shinnosuke, but when he landed, Su Weide also made a mistake and only scored 13.433 points.
In this way, Shinnosuke Oka won the championship again, the runner-up was Colombia, Zhang Boheng won a bronze medal, and Su Weide was fifth. Shinnosuke Oka became the double champion of the Japan team.