Men's artistic individual all-around at the Games of the XXV Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Palau dels Esports de Barcelona | |||||||||
Date | 29 July – 2 August | |||||||||
Competitors | 93 from 25 nations | |||||||||
Winning score | 9.856 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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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 | |
The men's vault 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 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. [1] The event was won by Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team, the first victory by a Soviet or former Soviet in the event since 1980. The silver went to Hrihoriy Misyutin, a Ukrainian also competing for the Unified Team. Yoo Ok-ryul gave South Korea its second consecutive bronze medal in the men's vault.
This was the 18th 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). Three of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: silver medalist Sylvio Kroll of East Germany (now unified Germany), fourth-place finisher Deyan Kolev of Bulgaria, and seventh-place finisher Yukio Iketani of Japan. Yoo Ok-Ryul of South Korea had won the last two world championships (1991 and 1992), with Vitaly Scherbo and Ihor Korobchynskyi the runners-up. [1]
Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's vault; some former Soviet Republics competed as the Unified Team. The United States made its 16th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 vault and the boycotted 1980 Games.
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. The top eight gymnasts, with a limit of two per nation, advanced to the final. In a change from previous years, the preliminary score had no effect on the final; once the eight finalists were selected, their ranking depended only on the final exercise. Non-finalists were ranked 9th through 93rd based on preliminary score. [1] [2]
All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Date | Time | Round |
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Wednesday, 29 July 1992 | Preliminary | |
Sunday, 2 August 1992 | 22:00 | Final |
Ninety-three gymnasts competed in the vault event during the compulsory and optional rounds on July 27 and 29. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on August 2. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. No scores carried over from the preliminary to the final.
Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Preliminary | Final | ||
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Compulsory | Voluntary | Total | ||||
Vitaly Scherbo | Unified Team | 9.825 | 9.700 | 19.525 | 9.856 | |
Hrihoriy Misyutin | Unified Team | 9.725 | 9.850 | 19.575 | 9.781 | |
Yoo Ok-Ryul | South Korea | 9.750 | 9.750 | 19.500 | 9.762 | |
4 | Li Xiaoshuang | China | 9.475 | 9.700 | 19.175 | 9.731 |
5 | Zoltán Supola | Hungary | 9.700 | 9.550 | 19.250 | 9.674 |
6 | Sylvio Kroll | Germany | 9.575 | 9.675 | 19.250 | 9.662 |
7 | Szilveszter Csollány | Hungary | 9.650 | 9.550 | 19.200 | 9.524 |
8 | Yutaka Aihara | Japan | 9.575 | 9.625 | 19.200 | 9.450 |
9 | Valery Belenky | Unified Team | 9.650 | 9.750 | 19.400 | Did not advance |
10 | Rustam Sharipov | Unified Team | 9.550 | 9.800 | 19.350 | Did not advance |
11 | Ihor Korobchynskyi | Unified Team | 9.675 | 9.625 | 19.300 | Did not advance |
12 | Marius Gherman | Romania | 9.575 | 9.600 | 19.175 | Did not advance |
James May | Great Britain | 9.625 | 9.550 | 19.175 | Did not advance | |
Neil Thomas | Great Britain | 9.450 | 9.725 | 19.175 | Did not advance | |
Yeo Hong-cheol | South Korea | 9.475 | 9.700 | 19.175 | Did not advance | |
16 | Ralf Büchner | Germany | 9.550 | 9.600 | 19.150 | Did not advance |
17 | Masayuki Matsunaga | Japan | 9.600 | 9.525 | 19.125 | Did not advance |
Andreas Wecker | Germany | 9.625 | 9.500 | 19.125 | Did not advance | |
19 | Curtis Hibbert | Canada | 9.600 | 9.500 | 19.100 | Did not advance |
Lee Joo-Hyung | South Korea | 9.500 | 9.600 | 19.100 | Did not advance | |
Li Chunyang | China | 9.525 | 9.575 | 19.100 | Did not advance | |
Ruggero Rossato | Italy | 9.625 | 9.475 | 19.100 | Did not advance | |
23 | Michael Engeler | Switzerland | 9.525 | 9.550 | 19.075 | Did not advance |
Daniel Giubellini | Switzerland | 9.575 | 9.500 | 19.075 | Did not advance | |
Yukio Iketani | Japan | 9.550 | 9.525 | 19.075 | Did not advance | |
Daisuke Nishikawa | Japan | 9.625 | 9.450 | 19.075 | Did not advance | |
27 | Paolo Bucci | Italy | 9.575 | 9.475 | 19.050 | Did not advance |
Takashi Chinen | Japan | 9.525 | 9.525 | 19.050 | Did not advance | |
Li Dashuang | China | 9.450 | 9.600 | 19.050 | Did not advance | |
30 | Guo Linyao | China | 9.550 | 9.475 | 19.025 | Did not advance |
Yoshiaki Hatakeda | Japan | 9.600 | 9.425 | 19.025 | Did not advance | |
Kalofer Hristozov | Bulgaria | 9.525 | 9.500 | 19.025 | Did not advance | |
33 | Martin Modlitba | Czechoslovakia | 9.475 | 9.525 | 19.000 | Did not advance |
Boris Preti | Italy | 9.500 | 9.500 | 19.000 | Did not advance | |
Alfonso Rodríguez | Spain | 9.550 | 9.450 | 19.000 | Did not advance | |
36 | Nicolae Bejenaru | Romania | 9.475 | 9.500 | 18.975 | Did not advance |
37 | Cho Hun | North Korea | 9.600 | 9.350 | 18.950 | Did not advance |
Trent Dimas | United States | 9.400 | 9.550 | 18.950 | Did not advance | |
Oliver Grimm | Switzerland | 9.500 | 9.450 | 18.950 | Did not advance | |
Marian Rizan | Romania | 9.525 | 9.425 | 18.950 | Did not advance | |
Gabriele Sala | Italy | 9.550 | 9.400 | 18.950 | Did not advance | |
42 | Patrice Casimir | France | 9.525 | 9.400 | 18.925 | Did not advance |
Sébastien Darrigade | France | 9.525 | 9.400 | 18.925 | Did not advance | |
Li Ge | China | 9.425 | 9.500 | 18.925 | Did not advance | |
Luis López | Mexico | 9.525 | 9.400 | 18.925 | Did not advance | |
Károly Schupkégel | Hungary | 9.550 | 9.375 | 18.925 | Did not advance | |
47 | Han Yun-su | South Korea | 9.450 | 9.450 | 18.900 | Did not advance |
Jeong Jin-su | South Korea | 9.425 | 9.475 | 18.900 | Did not advance | |
49 | Brennon Dowrick | Australia | 9.425 | 9.450 | 18.875 | Did not advance |
Adrian Gal | Romania | 9.675 | 9.200 | 18.875 | Did not advance | |
John Roethlisberger | United States | 9.375 | 9.500 | 18.875 | Did not advance | |
Oliver Walther | Germany | 9.475 | 9.400 | 18.875 | Did not advance | |
53 | Johan Jonasson | Sweden | 9.450 | 9.400 | 18.850 | Did not advance |
Alessandro Viligiardi | Italy | 9.525 | 9.325 | 18.850 | Did not advance | |
55 | Paul Bowler | Great Britain | 9.425 | 9.400 | 18.825 | Did not advance |
Róbert Élő | Hungary | 9.525 | 9.300 | 18.825 | Did not advance | |
Sin Myong-su | North Korea | 9.550 | 9.275 | 18.825 | Did not advance | |
58 | Krasimir Dunev | Bulgaria | 9.450 | 9.350 | 18.800 | Did not advance |
Yordan Yovchev | Bulgaria | 9.425 | 9.375 | 18.800 | Did not advance | |
60 | Ron Kaplan | Israel | 9.450 | 9.325 | 18.775 | Did not advance |
61 | Csaba Fajkusz | Hungary | 9.425 | 9.325 | 18.750 | Did not advance |
Pae Gil-Su | North Korea | 9.450 | 9.300 | 18.750 | Did not advance | |
63 | Markus Müller | Switzerland | 9.375 | 9.350 | 18.725 | Did not advance |
Erich Wanner | Switzerland | 9.350 | 9.375 | 18.725 | Did not advance | |
65 | Fabrice Guelzec | France | 9.400 | 9.300 | 18.700 | Did not advance |
Jože Kolman | Slovenia | 9.425 | 9.275 | 18.700 | Did not advance | |
67 | Victor Colon | Puerto Rico | 9.275 | 9.400 | 18.675 | Did not advance |
David Cox | Great Britain | 9.350 | 9.325 | 18.675 | Did not advance | |
Dominick Minicucci Jr. | United States | 9.325 | 9.350 | 18.675 | Did not advance | |
70 | Deyan Kolev | Bulgaria | 9.200 | 9.450 | 18.650 | Did not advance |
Sven Tippelt | Germany | 9.525 | 9.125 | 18.650 | Did not advance | |
Aleksey Voropayev | Unified Team | 9.000 | 9.650 | 18.650 | Did not advance | |
73 | Han Gwang-ho | South Korea | 9.200 | 9.425 | 18.625 | Did not advance |
74 | Terry Bartlett | Great Britain | 9.500 | 9.100 | 18.600 | Did not advance |
Arnold Bugár | Czechoslovakia | 9.450 | 9.150 | 18.600 | Did not advance | |
Li Jing | China | 9.050 | 9.550 | 18.600 | Did not advance | |
Alan Nolet | Canada | 9.400 | 9.200 | 18.600 | Did not advance | |
78 | Mike Inglis | Canada | 9.225 | 9.350 | 18.575 | Did not advance |
79 | Ilian Aleksandrov | Bulgaria | 9.500 | 9.050 | 18.550 | Did not advance |
Isidro Ibarrondo | Argentina | 9.275 | 9.275 | 18.550 | Did not advance | |
M. Chris Waller | United States | 9.025 | 9.525 | 18.550 | Did not advance | |
82 | Gianmatteo Centazzo | Italy | 9.275 | 9.250 | 18.525 | Did not advance |
Scott Keswick | United States | 9.525 | 9.000 | 18.525 | Did not advance | |
84 | Mario Franke | Germany | 9.350 | 9.150 | 18.500 | Did not advance |
85 | Flavio Rota | Switzerland | 9.400 | 9.075 | 18.475 | Did not advance |
Nicu Stroia | Romania | 9.150 | 9.325 | 18.475 | Did not advance | |
87 | Marvin Campbell | Great Britain | 9.050 | 9.400 | 18.450 | Did not advance |
88 | Miklós Pánczél | Hungary | 9.575 | 8.850 | 18.425 | Did not advance |
89 | Marco Monteiro | Brazil | 9.300 | 9.000 | 18.300 | Did not advance |
90 | Adrian Sandu | Romania | 9.400 | 8.875 | 18.275 | Did not advance |
91 | Miguel Ángel Rubio | Spain | 9.325 | 8.500 | 17.825 | Did not advance |
92 | Jair Lynch | United States | 8.975 | 8.800 | 17.775 | Did not advance |
93 | Georgi Lozanov | Bulgaria | 0.000 | 9.375 | 9.375 | Did not advance |
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