Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's rings
Introduction 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 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 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.
Background 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). Two of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: bronze medalist Sven Tippelt of East Germany and fourth-place finisher Kalofer Khristozov of Bulgaria. The reigning (1991) world champion was Grigory Misutin of the Unified Team. Wecker had placed second in both 1989 and 1991.Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's rings; 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 rings and the boycotted 1980 Games.
Competition format 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.
Schedule All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) Date Time Round Wednesday, 29 July 1992   '''Preliminary''' Sunday, 2 August 1992  '''21:30'''  '''Final'''
Results  Rank  Gymnast  Nation  Preliminary  Final Compulsory  Voluntary  Total   Vitaly Scherbo    9.900  9.900  '''19.800'''  '''9.937'''   Li Jing    9.875  9.775  '''19.650'''  '''9.875'''   Li Xiaoshuang    9.900  9.725  '''19.625'''  '''9.862''' Andreas Wecker    9.900  9.850  '''19.750'''  '''9.862''' 5  Valery Belenky    9.875  9.800  '''19.675'''  '''9.825''' 6  Szilveszter Csollány    9.875  9.800  '''19.675'''  '''9.800''' 7  Yukio Iketani    9.875  9.725  '''19.600'''  '''9.762''' 8  Kalofer Hristozov    9.800  9.750  '''19.550'''  '''9.750''' 9  Grigory Misutin    9.800  9.850  '''19.650'''  Did not advance 10  Li Chunyang    9.800  9.775  '''19.575'''  Did not advance 11  Sven Tippelt    9.750  9.750  '''19.500'''  Did not advance 12  Ihor Korobchynskyi    9.800  9.675  '''19.475'''  Did not advance 13  Mario Franke    9.750  9.700  '''19.450'''  Did not advance Zoltán Supola    9.800  9.650  '''19.450'''  Did not advance Aleksey Voropayev    9.700  9.750  '''19.450'''  Did not advance Yoo Ok-ryul    9.800  9.650  '''19.450'''  Did not advance 17  Scott Keswick    9.775  9.650  '''19.425'''  Did not advance Daisuke Nishikawa    9.775  9.650  '''19.425'''  Did not advance 19  Li Ge    9.625  9.775  '''19.400'''  Did not advance 20  Boris Preti    9.700  9.675  '''19.375'''  Did not advance 21  Guo Linyao    9.700  9.650  '''19.350'''  Did not advance Alfonso Rodríguez    9.775  9.575  '''19.350'''  Did not advance Rustam Sharipov    9.700  9.650  '''19.350'''  Did not advance Sin Myong-su    9.800  9.550  '''19.350'''  Did not advance 25  Paolo Bucci    9.675  9.625  '''19.300'''  Did not advance Jeong Jin-su    9.600  9.700  '''19.300'''  Did not advance 27  Sylvio Kroll    9.700  9.550  '''19.250'''  Did not advance Masayuki Matsunaga    9.650  9.600  '''19.250'''  Did not advance 29  John Roethlisberger    9.700  9.525  '''19.225'''  Did not advance M. Chris Waller    9.675  9.550  '''19.225'''  Did not advance 31  Takashi Chinen    9.650  9.550  '''19.200'''  Did not advance 32  Pae Gil-su    9.750  9.425  '''19.175'''  Did not advance Neil Thomas    9.750  9.425  '''19.175'''  Did not advance 34  Ralf Büchner    9.650  9.500  '''19.150'''  Did not advance Yordan Yovchev    9.475  9.675  '''19.150'''  Did not advance 36  Yutaka Aihara    9.500  9.625  '''19.125'''  Did not advance Oliver Walther    9.700  9.425  '''19.125'''  Did not advance 38  Marius Gherman    9.650  9.450  '''19.100'''  Did not advance Lee Joo-hyung    9.650  9.450  '''19.100'''  Did not advance 40  Nicolae Bejenaru    9.525  9.525  '''19.050'''  Did not advance Csaba Fajkusz    9.600  9.450  '''19.050'''  Did not advance Daniel Giubellini    9.550  9.500  '''19.050'''  Did not advance Yoshiaki Hatakeda    9.650  9.400  '''19.050'''  Did not advance Luis López    9.625  9.425  '''19.050'''  Did not advance 45  Li Dashuang    9.500  9.525  '''19.025'''  Did not advance James May    9.600  9.425  '''19.025'''  Did not advance 47  Sébastien Darrigade    9.600  9.400  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Ron Kaplan    9.550  9.450  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Dominick Minicucci Jr.    9.525  9.475  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Marian Rizan    9.675  9.325  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Ruggero Rossato    9.575  9.425  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Károly Schupkégel    9.550  9.450  '''19.000'''  Did not advance 53  Johan Jonasson    9.600  9.375  '''18.975'''  Did not advance Miguel Ángel Rubio    9.575  9.400  '''18.975'''  Did not advance 55  Gianmatteo Centazzo    9.600  9.350  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Róbert Élő    9.550  9.400  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Michael Engeler    9.650  9.300  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Fabrice Guelzec    9.500  9.450  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Han Yun-su    9.600  9.350  '''18.950'''  Did not advance 60  Patrice Casimir    9.600  9.325  '''18.925'''  Did not advance 61  Brennon Dowrick    9.600  9.250  '''18.850'''  Did not advance 62  Adrian Gal    9.525  9.300  '''18.825'''  Did not advance Oliver Grimm    9.450  9.375  '''18.825'''  Did not advance 64  Adrian Sandu    9.450  9.350  '''18.800'''  Did not advance Nicu Stroia    9.425  9.375  '''18.800'''  Did not advance 66  Han Gwang-ho    9.475  9.300  '''18.775'''  Did not advance Jair Lynch    9.475  9.300  '''18.775'''  Did not advance 68  Miklós Pánczél    9.475  9.250  '''18.725'''  Did not advance 69  Trent Dimas    9.575  9.125  '''18.700'''  Did not advance Gabriele Sala    9.600  9.100  '''18.700'''  Did not advance Erich Wanner    9.350  9.350  '''18.700'''  Did not advance 72  Cho Hun    9.475  9.175  '''18.650'''  Did not advance Curtis Hibbert    9.625  9.025  '''18.650'''  Did not advance Martin Modlitba    9.500  9.150  '''18.650'''  Did not advance 75  Ilian Aleksandrov    9.325  9.300  '''18.625'''  Did not advance Alan Nolet    9.325  9.300  '''18.625'''  Did not advance 77  Krasimir Dunev    9.650  8.950  '''18.600'''  Did not advance 78  Alessandro Viligiardi    9.325  9.200  '''18.525'''  Did not advance 79  Terry Bartlett    9.400  9.100  '''18.500'''  Did not advance 80  Georgi Lozanov    9.400  9.075  '''18.475'''  Did not advance Flavio Rota    9.250  9.225  '''18.475'''  Did not advance 82  Marvin Campbell    9.325  9.125  '''18.450'''  Did not advance 83  Jože Kolman    9.300  9.100  '''18.400'''  Did not advance 84  Arnold Bugár    9.300  8.975  '''18.275'''  Did not advance David Cox    9.000  9.275  '''18.275'''  Did not advance 86  Isidro Ibarrondo    9.025  9.050  '''18.075'''  Did not advance 87  Marco Monteiro    9.200  8.675  '''17.875'''  Did not advance 88  Markus Müller    9.050  8.675  '''17.725'''  Did not advance 89  Mike Inglis    9.000  8.575  '''17.575'''  Did not advance 90  Yeo Hong-cheol    8.150  8.975  '''17.125'''  Did not advance 91  Deyan Kolev    9.700  —  '''9.700'''  Did not advance 92  Paul Bowler    9.550  —  '''9.550'''  Did not advance 93  Victor Colon    9.225  —  '''9.225'''  Did not advance
References * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com