Pommel horse scores were included in the individual all-around for 1924 and 1928, with no separate apparatus final.

The medals have been swept four times, something which is no longer possible under current rules: by the United States in 1904, Switzerland in 1924, Finland in 1948, and the Soviet Union in 1952.

The most successful Olympian on pommel horse is Max Whitlock of Great Britain with two gold medals, in 2016 and 2020, and a bronze in 2012.

He shares the title of most decorated Olympian on the apparatus, with three Olympic medals, with close contemporary and compatriot Louis Smith with two silvers and a bronze, and Romanian gymnast Marius Urzică, with one gold medal and two silvers.

Three other gymnasts have won the gold medal twice: Soviet Boris Shakhlin, Yugoslav Miroslav Cerar, and Hungarian legend Zoltán Magyar.