Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's vault
Introduction 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. 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.
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). 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.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.
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. 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  '''22:00'''  '''Final'''
Results 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 Compulsory  Voluntary  Total   Vitaly Scherbo    9.825  9.700  '''19.525'''  '''9.856'''   Hrihoriy Misyutin    9.725  9.850  '''19.575'''  '''9.781'''   Yoo Ok-Ryul    9.750  9.750  '''19.500'''  '''9.762''' 4  Li Xiaoshuang    9.475  9.700  '''19.175'''  '''9.731''' 5  Zoltán Supola    9.700  9.550  '''19.250'''  '''9.674''' 6  Sylvio Kroll    9.575  9.675  '''19.250'''  '''9.662''' 7  Szilveszter Csollány    9.650  9.550  '''19.200'''  '''9.524''' 8  Yutaka Aihara    9.575  9.625  '''19.200'''  '''9.450''' 9  Valery Belenky    9.650  9.750  '''19.400'''  Did not advance 10  Rustam Sharipov    9.550  9.800  '''19.350'''  Did not advance 11  Ihor Korobchynskyi    9.675  9.625  '''19.300'''  Did not advance 12  Marius Gherman    9.575  9.600  '''19.175'''  Did not advance James May    9.625  9.550  '''19.175'''  Did not advance Neil Thomas    9.450  9.725  '''19.175'''  Did not advance Yeo Hong-cheol    9.475  9.700  '''19.175'''  Did not advance 16  Ralf Büchner    9.550  9.600  '''19.150'''  Did not advance 17  Masayuki Matsunaga    9.600  9.525  '''19.125'''  Did not advance Andreas Wecker    9.625  9.500  '''19.125'''  Did not advance 19  Curtis Hibbert    9.600  9.500  '''19.100'''  Did not advance Lee Joo-Hyung    9.500  9.600  '''19.100'''  Did not advance Li Chunyang    9.525  9.575  '''19.100'''  Did not advance Ruggero Rossato    9.625  9.475  '''19.100'''  Did not advance 23  Michael Engeler    9.525  9.550  '''19.075'''  Did not advance Daniel Giubellini    9.575  9.500  '''19.075'''  Did not advance Yukio Iketani    9.550  9.525  '''19.075'''  Did not advance Daisuke Nishikawa    9.625  9.450  '''19.075'''  Did not advance 27  Paolo Bucci    9.575  9.475  '''19.050'''  Did not advance Takashi Chinen    9.525  9.525  '''19.050'''  Did not advance Li Dashuang    9.450  9.600  '''19.050'''  Did not advance 30  Guo Linyao    9.550  9.475  '''19.025'''  Did not advance Yoshiaki Hatakeda    9.600  9.425  '''19.025'''  Did not advance Kalofer Hristozov    9.525  9.500  '''19.025'''  Did not advance 33  Martin Modlitba    9.475  9.525  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Boris Preti    9.500  9.500  '''19.000'''  Did not advance Alfonso Rodríguez    9.550  9.450  '''19.000'''  Did not advance 36  Nicolae Bejenaru    9.475  9.500  '''18.975'''  Did not advance 37  Cho Hun    9.600  9.350  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Trent Dimas    9.400  9.550  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Oliver Grimm    9.500  9.450  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Marian Rizan    9.525  9.425  '''18.950'''  Did not advance Gabriele Sala    9.550  9.400  '''18.950'''  Did not advance 42  Patrice Casimir    9.525  9.400  '''18.925'''  Did not advance Sébastien Darrigade    9.525  9.400  '''18.925'''  Did not advance Li Ge    9.425  9.500  '''18.925'''  Did not advance Luis López    9.525  9.400  '''18.925'''  Did not advance Károly Schupkégel    9.550  9.375  '''18.925'''  Did not advance 47  Han Yun-su    9.450  9.450  '''18.900'''  Did not advance Jeong Jin-su    9.425  9.475  '''18.900'''  Did not advance 49  Brennon Dowrick    9.425  9.450  '''18.875'''  Did not advance Adrian Gal    9.675  9.200  '''18.875'''  Did not advance John Roethlisberger    9.375  9.500  '''18.875'''  Did not advance Oliver Walther    9.475  9.400  '''18.875'''  Did not advance 53  Johan Jonasson    9.450  9.400  '''18.850'''  Did not advance Alessandro Viligiardi    9.525  9.325  '''18.850'''  Did not advance 55  Paul Bowler    9.425  9.400  '''18.825'''  Did not advance Róbert Élő    9.525  9.300  '''18.825'''  Did not advance Sin Myong-su    9.550  9.275  '''18.825'''  Did not advance 58  Krasimir Dunev    9.450  9.350  '''18.800'''  Did not advance Yordan Yovchev    9.425  9.375  '''18.800'''  Did not advance 60  Ron Kaplan    9.450  9.325  '''18.775'''  Did not advance 61  Csaba Fajkusz    9.425  9.325  '''18.750'''  Did not advance Pae Gil-Su    9.450  9.300  '''18.750'''  Did not advance 63  Markus Müller    9.375  9.350  '''18.725'''  Did not advance Erich Wanner    9.350  9.375  '''18.725'''  Did not advance 65  Fabrice Guelzec    9.400  9.300  '''18.700'''  Did not advance Jože Kolman    9.425  9.275  '''18.700'''  Did not advance 67  Victor Colon    9.275  9.400  '''18.675'''  Did not advance David Cox    9.350  9.325  '''18.675'''  Did not advance Dominick Minicucci Jr.    9.325  9.350  '''18.675'''  Did not advance 70  Deyan Kolev    9.200  9.450  '''18.650'''  Did not advance Sven Tippelt    9.525  9.125  '''18.650'''  Did not advance Aleksey Voropayev    9.000  9.650  '''18.650'''  Did not advance 73  Han Gwang-ho    9.200  9.425  '''18.625'''  Did not advance 74  Terry Bartlett    9.500  9.100  '''18.600'''  Did not advance Arnold Bugár    9.450  9.150  '''18.600'''  Did not advance Li Jing    9.050  9.550  '''18.600'''  Did not advance Alan Nolet    9.400  9.200  '''18.600'''  Did not advance 78  Mike Inglis    9.225  9.350  '''18.575'''  Did not advance 79  Ilian Aleksandrov    9.500  9.050  '''18.550'''  Did not advance Isidro Ibarrondo    9.275  9.275  '''18.550'''  Did not advance M. Chris Waller    9.025  9.525  '''18.550'''  Did not advance 82  Gianmatteo Centazzo    9.275  9.250  '''18.525'''  Did not advance Scott Keswick    9.525  9.000  '''18.525'''  Did not advance 84  Mario Franke    9.350  9.150  '''18.500'''  Did not advance 85  Flavio Rota    9.400  9.075  '''18.475'''  Did not advance Nicu Stroia    9.150  9.325  '''18.475'''  Did not advance 87  Marvin Campbell    9.050  9.400  '''18.450'''  Did not advance 88  Miklós Pánczél    9.575  8.850  '''18.425'''  Did not advance 89  Marco Monteiro    9.300  9.000  '''18.300'''  Did not advance 90  Adrian Sandu    9.400  8.875  '''18.275'''  Did not advance 91  Miguel Ángel Rubio    9.325  8.500  '''17.825'''  Did not advance 92  Jair Lynch    8.975  8.800  '''17.775'''  Did not advance 93  Georgi Lozanov    0.000  9.375  '''9.375'''  Did not advance
References * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com