Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

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Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Dityatin Aleksandr Nikolayevich.jpg
Gold medalist Alexander Dityatin (2018)
Venue Luzhniki Palace of Sports
Dates20–24 July 1980
Competitors65 from 14 nations
Winning score118.650
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Alexander Dityatin
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Silver medal icon.svg Nikolai Andrianov
Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union
Bronze medal icon.svg Stoyan Deltchev
Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria
  1976
1984  

The men's individual all-around 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 24th at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium. [1] There were 65 competitors from 14 nations. [2] Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Alexander Dityatin of the Soviet Union, the nation's second consecutive and fifth overall victory in the event (taking the lead for most among nations at the time). It was the second of Dityatin's 8 total medals in 1980, a record that still stands through the 2016 Games (though it has been tied twice by Michael Phelps, including his 2008 performance of 8 gold medals). Dityatin's teammate, defending gold medalist Nikolai Andrianov, finished with the silver medal. Andrianov was the 10th man to win multiple medals in the event; he would also finish the 1980 Games with a total of 15 medals over all years—most among men at the time (though behind Larisa Latynina's 18; Phelps would later shatter both those totals with 28). Bronze went to Stoyan Deltchev of Bulgaria—the first medal in the event by a gymnast not from the Soviet Union or Japan since 1952. It was Bulgaria's first-ever medal in the men's all-around. Japan, which had joined the American-led 1980 Summer Olympics boycott and did not compete, had its six-Games podium streak ended.

Background

This was the 18th appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900. [2]

Five of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1976 Games returned: gold medalist Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Alexander Dityatin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Andrzej Szajna of Poland, seventh-place finisher Michael Nikolay of East Germany, and ninth-place finisher Zoltán Magyar of Hungary. The World Championships had shifted from a quadrennial (non-Olympic even years) to a biennial (odd years) event, so there had been two World Champions since the last Games: Andrianov (1978) and Dityatin (1979). Significant absences due to the American-led boycott included Kurt Thomas of the United States (second at the 1979 World Championships) and the entire Japanese team, especially Eizo Kenmotsu (second at the 1978 World Championships). [2]

Brazil made its debut in the event. France made its 16th appearance, most among nations (moving out of a tie with Italy, not competing in the event this time).

Competition format

The competition format followed the preliminary and final format introduced in 1972, with the limit on the number of finalists per nation added in 1976. 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 preliminary score. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final—except that each nation was limited to 3 finalists. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these scores plus half of the preliminary score resulted in a final total.

Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120. With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.

The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. [2]

Schedule

All times are Moscow Time (UTC+3)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 20 July 198010:00
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 22 July 198010:00
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Thursday, 24 July 198014:30Final

Results

Sixty-eight gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 20 and 22. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 24. Each country was limited to three 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 each gymnast's "prelim" score.

RankGymnastNationPrelim12
Prelim
FloorPommel
horse
RingsVaultParallel
bars
Horizontal
bar
FinalTotal
Gold medal icon.svg Alexander Dityatin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 118.4059.2009.8009.9009.95010.0009.8509.95059.450118.650
Silver medal icon.svg Nikolai Andrianov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 118.1559.0759.8009.9009.9009.9009.7509.90059.150118.225
Bronze medal icon.svg Stoyan Deltchev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 117.5058.7509.7009.90010.0009.9009.8009.95059.250118.000
4 Aleksandr Tkachyov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 117.4058.7009.5509.8009.8509.9009.90010.00059.000117.700
5 Roland Brückner Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 116.9058.4509.8009.8009.9509.9009.6509.75058.850117.300
6 Michael Nikolay Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 116.5058.2509.35010.0009.8509.8509.6509.80058.500116.750
7 Lutz Hoffmann Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 115.7557.8759.6009.4009.8009.9009.5509.90058.150116.025
8 Jiří Tabák Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 115.9557.9759.7009.1509.8009.8009.4509.80057.700115.675
9 Danuț Grecu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 114.8557.4259.1509.6009.8509.8009.5509.85057.800115.225
10 Zoltán Magyar Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 115.8557.9259.10010.0009.8009.5509.1009.75057.300115.225
11 Péter Kovács Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 114.7057.3509.6009.8009.8009.8009.5509.30057.850115.200
12 Ferenc Donáth Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 115.9057.9509.2509.3009.1009.8009.5509.90056.900114.850
13 Dancho Yordanov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 113.7556.8759.3509.7009.7509.6009.6509.80057.850114.725
14 Kurt Szilier Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 114.8057.4009.4009.7009.8009.6008.9009.85057.250114.650
15 Plamen Petkov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 113.5056.7509.5509.2009.7509.9009.5009.75057.650114.400
16 Willi Moy Olympic flag.svg  France 112.8556.4259.3509.6009.9009.8509.3009.85057.850114.275
17 Andrzej Szajna Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 112.8556.4259.2509.6009.7509.8509.5509.80057.800114.225
18 Aurelian Georgescu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 113.7556.8759.5009.5509.8009.9008.9009.55057.200114.075
19 Sergio Suárez Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 112.5056.2509.6509.4009.7009.9009.2009.80057.650113.900
20 Michel Boutard Olympic flag.svg  France 112.9556.4759.5009.6509.3009.6509.6009.55057.250113.725
21 Rudolf Babiak Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 114.1057.0509.4008.9009.8009.5509.1009.75056.500113.550
22 Miguel Arroyo Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 112.1556.0759.1509.5509.8509.5509.5509.90057.450113.525
23 Roberto León Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 112.4556.2258.9009.8509.5509.8009.6509.40057.150113.375
24 Henri Boerio Olympic flag.svg  France 111.3555.6759.3009.8009.7009.8509.4009.55057.600113.275
25 Jan Zoulík Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 113.7056.8509.4009.2009.3509.7508.9009.65056.250113.100
26 Han Gwang-song Flag of North Korea (1948-1992).svg  North Korea 109.8054.9009.3009.6509.8009.5509.3509.80057.450112.350
27 Kang Gwang-song Flag of North Korea (1948-1992).svg  North Korea 109.7054.8509.1509.6509.8509.4509.6509.70057.450112.300
28 Gabriel Calvo Spain Olympic Flag 1980.svg  Spain 110.5555.2759.2009.0009.4509.8009.2509.65056.350111.625
29 Waldemar Woźniak Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 110.8555.4259.1008.9509.7509.8508.9009.60056.150111.575
30 Barry Winch Olympic flag.svg  Great Britain 109.7554.8759.1508.8009.6009.8009.4009.50056.250111.125
31 Thomas Wilson Olympic flag.svg  Great Britain 108.9554.4759.3509.2509.6509.5008.4009.75055.900110.375
32 José de la Casa Spain Olympic Flag 1980.svg  Spain 109.4054.7008.9009.3009.1509.7009.0009.55055.600110.300
33 Fernando García Spain Olympic Flag 1980.svg  Spain 108.7554.3759.0009.5009.3509.2008.8509.55055.450109.825
34 Lindsay Nylund Olympic flag.svg  Australia 109.1554.5758.8008.6009.3509.7008.9509.70055.100109.675
35 Keith Langley Olympic flag.svg  Great Britain 109.1554.5759.1508.6509.2009.9008.4509.70055.050109.625
36 Kim Gwang-jin Flag of North Korea (1948-1992).svg  North Korea 109.8054.9000.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.0000.00054.900
37 Eduard Azaryan Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 117.40Did not advance—3 per nation rule
38 Bohdan Makuts Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 116.95
39 Vladimir Markelov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 116.40
40 Ralf-Peter Hemmann Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 115.70
41 Andreas Bronst Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 114.85
42 Lutz Mack Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 114.00
43 György Guczoghy Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 113.85
44 Sorin Cepoi Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 113.55
45 István Vámos Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 113.10
46 Romulus Bucuroiu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 112.75
47 Nicolae Oprescu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 112.95
48 Zoltán Kelemen Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 112.70
49 Rumen Petkov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 112.50
50 Miloslav Kučeřík Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 112.10
51 Ognyan Bangiev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 112.05
52 Jan Migdau Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 111.95
53 Enrique Bravo Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 111.75
54 Yanko Radanchev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 111.60
55 Jozef Konečný Flag of Czechoslovakia.svg  Czechoslovakia 111.35
56 Joël Suty Olympic flag.svg  France 111.25
57 Mario Castro Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 111.15
58 Cho Hun Flag of North Korea (1948-1992).svg  North Korea 108.90
59 Yves Bouquel Olympic flag.svg  France 108.65Did not advance
60 Song Sun-bong Flag of North Korea (1948-1992).svg  North Korea 108.60
61 Li Su-gil Flag of North Korea (1948-1992).svg  North Korea 108.30
62 Marc Touchais Olympic flag.svg  France 108.10
63 Krzysztof Potaczek Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 108.05
64 João Luiz Ribeiro Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg  Brazil 105.75
65 Jorge Roche Flag of Cuba (3-2).svg  Cuba 83.40

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