Gymnastics at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | |
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Venue | Palau Sant Jordi (artistic) Palau dels Esports de Barcelona (rhythmic) |
Dates | 26 July – 8 August 1992 |
Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of gymnasts | ||
Artistic | ||
Team all-around | men | women |
Individual all-around | men | women |
Vault | men | women |
Floor | men | women |
Pommel horse | men | |
Rings | men | |
Parallel bars | men | |
Horizontal bar | men | |
Uneven bars | women | |
Balance beam | women | |
Rhythmic | ||
Individual all-around | women | |
At the 1992 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics. The artistic gymnastics events were held at the Palau Sant Jordi from July 26 through August 2. The rhythmic gymnastics event were held at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona from August 6 through 8th. [1]
In artistic gymnastics, the New Life rule was introduced at the Olympic Games. Under this rule, a gymnast's scores in the compulsory and optional rounds were not carried over to the all-around and apparatus finals. A gymnast's final standing in both the all-around and apparatus finals was based solely on the scores received by the gymnast during those competitions.
The gymnastics competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:
Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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Team all-around | Unified Team (EUN) Svetlana Boginskaya Oksana Chusovitina Rozalia Galiyeva Elena Grudneva Tatiana Gutsu Tatiana Lysenko | Romania (ROM) Cristina Bontaș Gina Gogean Vanda Hădărean Lavinia Miloșovici Maria Neculiță Mirela Pașca | United States (USA) Wendy Bruce Dominique Dawes Shannon Miller Betty Okino Kerri Strug Kim Zmeskal | |||
Individual all-around | Tatiana Gutsu Unified Team ( Ukraine) | Shannon Miller United States | Lavinia Miloșovici Romania | |||
Vault | Lavinia Miloșovici Romania Henrietta Ónodi Hungary | none awarded | Tatiana Lysenko Unified Team ( Ukraine) | |||
Uneven bars | Lu Li China | Tatiana Gutsu Unified Team ( Ukraine) | Shannon Miller United States | |||
Balance beam | Tatiana Lysenko Unified Team ( Ukraine) | Lu Li China Shannon Miller United States | none awarded | |||
Floor exercise | Lavinia Miloșovici Romania | Henrietta Ónodi Hungary | Cristina Bontaș Romania Shannon Miller United States Tatiana Gutsu Unified Team ( Ukraine) |
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Individual all-around | Alexandra Timoshenko Unified Team ( Ukraine) | Carolina Pascual Spain | Oxana Skaldina Unified Team ( Ukraine) |
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Unified Team (EUN) | 10 | 5 | 5 | 20 |
2 | China (CHN) | 2 | 4 | 2 | 8 |
3 | Romania (ROU) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
4 | United States (USA) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
5 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
6 | North Korea (PRK) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | Germany (GER) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Japan (JPN) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
9 | Spain (ESP) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
10 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Totals (10 entries) | 17 | 16 | 17 | 50 |
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The men's rings competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on 27 July, 29 July and 2 August at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations, with nations in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team, the fourth time in five Games that a Soviet or former Soviet gymnast won the rings. Li Jing of China earned silver. There was a tie for third, with Andreas Wecker of Germany and Li Xiaoshuang of China each receiving bronze medals. It was the first medal for unified Germany since 1936, though East Germany had won gold and bronze in 1988.
The men's parallel bars competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place July 27, 29 and August 2 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations, with nations in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team, the third time in four Games that a Soviet or former Soviet gymnast won the rings. Li Jing of China earned silver. There was a three-way tie for third, with Igor Korobchinski of the Unified Team, Guo Linyao of China, and Masayuki Matsunaga of Japan each receiving bronze medals. They were the first medals for China in the parallel bars.
The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 27, 29 and August 2 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations, with nations in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Trent Dimas of the United States, the nation's first victory in the event since 1932 and fourth gold medal in the horizontal bar overall. Andreas Wecker of Germany earned silver in the nation's return after unification; the first medal for "Germany" in the event since 1952. The Unified Team's Grigory Misutin took bronze.
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The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 29 and 31 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations. Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Vitaly Scherbo, one of his six gold medals in 1992. The Unified Team, making its only Summer Olympics appearance, swept the medals, with Scherbo taking gold, Grigory Misutin silver, and Valery Belenky bronze. It was the second consecutive medal sweep in the event and fourth overall.
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The men's vault 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 25th at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports. There were 65 competitors from 14 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have to up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, the first man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the vault. Andrianov was also the first man to win a third medal in the event, with a bronze in 1972 along with his 1976 and 1980 gold medals. For the eighth consecutive Games, the Soviets had a gymnast in the top two in vault; this time, they had both the top two, as Alexander Dityatin took silver. Roland Brückner of East Germany earned bronze.
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The men's parallel bars competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 29, 31 and August 4 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. There were 71 competitors from 19 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have to up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Bart Conner of the United States, the nation's first victory in the parallel bars since 1904 and second overall. Another American, Mitch Gaylord, took bronze. Japan returned to the podium after the 1980 boycott broke its six-Games medal streak, with Nobuyuki Kajitani's silver.
The Gymnastics competitions in the 1983 Summer Universiade were held in Edmonton, Canada.