Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
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Artistic gymnastics pictogram
Venue Olympic Gymnastics Hall
Date18–24 September
Competitors89 from 23 nations
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Lou Yun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Silver medal icon.svg Sylvio Kroll Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany
Bronze medal icon.svg Park Jong-Hoon Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea
  1984
1992  

The men's vault competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The qualification and final rounds took place on September 18, 20 and 24th at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts and other nations having up to 3 gymnasts. [1] The event was won by Lou Yun of China, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the vault and fourth man to win two medals of any color in the event. Sylvio Kroll of East Germany took the silver medal, while Park Jong-hoon of South Korea earned his nation's first men's vault medal with his bronze.

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Background

This was the 17th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Two of the eight finalists from 1984 returned, both of the Chinese finalists: gold medalist Lou Yun and one of the four silver medalists, Li Ning. Lou had finished second in the 1985 World Championships and shared gold with Sylvio Kroll of East Germany in the 1987 World Championships; the defending champion was heavily favored to repeat. [1]

Chinese Taipei made its debut in the men's vault. The United States made its 15th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 vault and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. 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 score. These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final. The 1984 Games had expanded the number of finalists from six to eight. Nations were still limited to two finalists each. Others were ranked 9th through 89th. [1] [2]

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)

DateTimeRound
Sunday, 18 September 1988Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 September 1988Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 24 September 198813:40Final

Results

Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the vault event during the compulsory and optional rounds on September 18 and 20. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 24. Each country was limited to two 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 the "prelim" score.

RankGymnastNationPreliminaryFinal
CompulsoryVoluntaryTotal12 Prelim.FinalTotal
Gold medal icon.svg Lou Yun Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 9.909.9519.859.9259.95019.875
Silver medal icon.svg Sylvio Kroll Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 9.859.9519.809.9009.96219.862
Bronze medal icon.svg Park Jong-Hoon Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 9.859.7519.609.8009.97519.775
4 Deyan Kolev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 9.809.8519.659.8259.91219.737
5 Holger Behrendt Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 9.809.9019.709.8509.80019.650
6 Sergey Kharkov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.859.9519.809.9009.70019.600
7 Yukio Iketani Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.909.7519.659.8259.70019.525
8 Vladimir Gogoladze Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.909.8519.759.8759.63719.512
9 Vladimir Artemov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.859.8019.65Did not advance
10 Dmitri Bilozertchev Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.809.8019.60Did not advance
Ralf Büchner Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 9.809.8019.60Did not advance
Valeri Liukin Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.709.9019.60Did not advance
13 Jürgen Brümmer Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 9.859.7019.55Did not advance
Sven Tippelt Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 9.759.8019.55Did not advance
15 Marius Gherman Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 9.709.8019.50Did not advance
Wang Chongsheng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 9.659.8519.50Did not advance
Xu Zhiqiang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 9.809.7019.50Did not advance
18 Gyorgy Guczoghy Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.759.7019.45Did not advance
Curtis Hibbert Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 9.709.7519.45Did not advance
Ulf Hoffmann Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 9.709.7519.45Did not advance
Dimitar Taskov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 9.659.8019.45Did not advance
22 Terry Bartlett Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 9.809.6019.40Did not advance
Patrick Mattioni Flag of France.svg  France 9.759.6519.40Did not advance
Daisuke Nishikawa Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.759.6519.40Did not advance
Alfonso Rodríguez Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9.809.6019.40Did not advance
26 Lorne Bobkin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 9.709.6519.35Did not advance
Zsolt Borkai Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.809.5519.35Did not advance
Guo Linxian Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 9.659.7019.35Did not advance
Zsolt Horváth Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.659.7019.35Did not advance
Koichi Mizushima Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.709.6519.35Did not advance
Toshiharu Sato Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.709.6519.35Did not advance
Song Yu-jin Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 9.859.5019.35Did not advance
33 Jury Chechi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.709.6019.30Did not advance
Petar Georgiev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 9.609.7019.30Did not advance
Ralph Kern Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 9.809.5019.30Did not advance
Kalofer Khristozov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 9.659.6519.30Did not advance
Marius Toba Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 9.709.6019.30Did not advance
Andreas Wecker Flag of East Germany.svg  East Germany 9.659.6519.30Did not advance
39 Mike Beckmann Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 9.659.6019.25Did not advance
Vladimir Novikov Flag of the Soviet Union.svg  Soviet Union 9.809.4519.25Did not advance
Jenő Paprika Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.659.6019.25Did not advance
42 Csaba Fajkusz Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.509.7019.20Did not advance
Scott Johnson Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.509.7019.20Did not advance
Charles Lakes Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.609.6019.20Did not advance
James Rozon Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 9.609.6019.20Did not advance
46 Lyubomir Gueraskov Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 9.609.5519.15Did not advance
Hiroyuki Konishi Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.559.6019.15Did not advance
Boris Preti Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.759.4019.15Did not advance
Bernhard Simmelbauer Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 9.659.5019.15Did not advance
50 Paolo Bucci Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.609.5019.10Did not advance
Li Chunyang Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 9.509.6019.10Did not advance
Álvaro Montesinos Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9.559.5519.10Did not advance
Brad Peters Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 9.609.5019.10Did not advance
Lance Ringnald Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.409.7019.10Did not advance
Gabriele Sala Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.509.6019.10Did not advance
Adrian Sandu Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 9.709.4019.10Did not advance
Daniel Winkler Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 9.509.6019.10Did not advance
58 Ju Yeong-sam Flag of South Korea (1984-1997).svg  South Korea 9.759.3019.05Did not advance
Alan Nolet Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 9.459.6019.05Did not advance
60 Claude Carmona Flag of France.svg  France 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Christian Chevalier Flag of France.svg  France 9.709.3019.00Did not advance
Johan Jonasson Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Thierry Pecqueux Flag of France.svg  France 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Valentin Pîntea Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 9.609.4019.00Did not advance
Wes Suter Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.509.5019.00Did not advance
Takahiro Yamada Flag of Japan (1870-1999).svg  Japan 9.409.6019.00Did not advance
67 Vittorio Allievi Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.459.4518.90Did not advance
Stoyko Gochev Flag of Bulgaria (1971-1990).svg  Bulgaria 9.309.6018.90Did not advance
Jože Kolman Flag of SFR Yugoslavia.svg  Yugoslavia 9.509.4018.90Did not advance
Frédéric Longuepée Flag of France.svg  France 9.709.2018.90Did not advance
Kenneth Meredith Flag of Australia.svg  Australia 9.409.5018.90Did not advance
Riccardo Trapella Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9.309.6018.90Did not advance
73 Nicolae Bejenaru Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 9.359.5018.85Did not advance
Stéphane Cauterman Flag of France.svg  France 9.359.5018.85Did not advance
Chang Chao-chun Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei 9.159.7018.85Did not advance
Dominick Minicucci Jr. Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.509.3518.85Did not advance
77 Andrew Morris Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 9.359.4518.80Did not advance
Josef Zellweger Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 9.309.5018.80Did not advance
79 Bruno Cavelti Flag of Switzerland.svg  Switzerland 9.509.2518.75Did not advance
Kevin Davis Flag of the United States.svg  United States 9.309.4518.75Did not advance
Marian Rizan Flag of Romania (1965-1989).svg  Romania 9.409.3518.75Did not advance
Miguel Ángel Rubio Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9.609.1518.75Did not advance
83 Gil Pinto Flag of Brazil (1968-1992).svg  Brazil 9.409.3018.70Did not advance
84 Philippe Chartrand Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 9.459.1518.60Did not advance
85 Andreas Aguilar Flag of Germany.svg  West Germany 9.359.2018.55Did not advance
86 Li Ning Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 9.259.1518.40Did not advance
87 Tony Piñeda Flag of Mexico.svg  Mexico 9.059.2518.30Did not advance
88 Hélder Pinheiro Flag of Portugal.svg  Portugal 8.809.1517.95Did not advance
89 Balázs Tóth Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9.700.009.70Did not advance

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