Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around
Introduction The men's individual all-around 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 22nd at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations. Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Vladimir Artemov of the Soviet Union, the nation's sixth victory in the event (then the most of any nation; Japan tied this total in 2016). The Soviets swept the medals, with Valeri Liukin taking silver and Dmitri Bilozertchev bronze. It was the third medal sweep in the men's all-around; France had done it in 1900 and Japan in 1972.
Background This was the 20th appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.Two of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1984 Games returned, both from China: bronze medalist Li Ning and seventh-place finisher Xu Zhiqiang. The reigning (1987) World Champion was Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union; his teammate Yuri Korolyov had won in 1985 and placed second behind Bilozerchev in 1987 but missed the Games due to an Achilles injury. Vladimir Artemov, also of the Soviet Union, had finished just behind Korolyov both years (second at the World Championships in 1985 and third in 1987), and was competing in the 1988 Olympics. The only non-Soviet to earn a medal in the men's all-around at either World Championship was East German Sylvio Kroll (third in 1985).Chinese Taipei made its debut in the event. France made its 18th appearance, most among nations.
Competition format The competition format followed the preliminary and final format introduced in 1972, with the limit on the number of finalists per nation added in 1976.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 preliminary score. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final—except that each nation was limited to 3 finalists. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these scores plus half of the preliminary score resulted in a final total.Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120.With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals.
Schedule All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10) Date Time Round Sunday, 18 September 1988  '''11:00'''  '''Preliminary: Compulsory''' Tuesday, 20 September 1988  '''11:00'''  '''Preliminary: Voluntary''' Thursday, 22 September 1988  '''12:00'''  '''Final'''
Results Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the all-around during the compulsory and optional rounds on September 18 and 20.The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 22.Each country was limited to three 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 each gymnast's "prelim" score. Rank Gymnast  Nation Prelim Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Final Total  Vladimir Artemov   118.95  59.4759.9009.9009.9009.950'''10.000''''''10.000''' 59.650  '''119.125'''  Valeri Liukin   118.85  59.4259.9009.9509.9509.9009.900'''10.000''' 59.600  '''119.025'''  Dmitri Bilozertchev   118.45  59.2259.900'''10.000''''''10.000''''''10.000'''9.9509.900 59.750  '''118.975''' 4 Sven Tippelt   117.60  58.8009.8009.9509.9509.9009.8009.800 59.200  '''118.000''' 5 Marius Gherman   117.55  58.7759.8009.9009.8509.8009.8009.900 59.050  '''117.825''' 6 Kalofer Khristozov   117.70  58.8509.8009.9009.9009.6509.8509.800 58.900  '''117.750''' Wang Chongsheng   117.20  58.6009.7509.9009.8509.9009.8509.900 59.150  '''117.750''' 8 Gyorgy Guczoghy   117.25  58.6259.750'''10.000'''9.9009.8009.8009.800 59.050  '''117.675''' Yukio Iketani   117.65  58.8259.9509.8009.7509.6509.9009.800 58.850  '''117.675''' 10 Sylvio Kroll   117.85  58.9259.900'''10.000'''9.8509.6509.9009.400 58.700  '''117.625''' Koichi Mizushima   117.45  58.7259.8009.8009.9009.6509.8509.900 58.900  '''117.625''' 12 Lou Yun   117.10  58.5509.9009.9009.9009.7009.9009.750 59.050  '''117.600''' 13 Daisuke Nishikawa   117.25  58.6259.8509.9009.8009.4509.9009.900 58.800  '''117.425''' 14 Csaba Fajkusz   116.75  58.3759.7509.9009.8009.7509.750'''10.000''' 58.950  '''117.325''' 15 Xu Zhiqiang   117.00  58.5009.9009.8509.9009.8009.9009.450 58.800  '''117.300''' Boris Preti   116.90  58.4509.8509.9009.9009.8009.7509.650 58.850  '''117.300''' 17 Jury Chechi   116.55  58.2759.8009.9009.9509.8009.8009.750 59.000  '''117.275''' 18 Ralf Büchner   117.20  58.6009.7509.8009.8009.6509.7509.850 58.600  '''117.200''' 19 Charles Lakes   116.45  58.2259.9009.7509.8009.8509.7009.950 58.950  '''117.175''' 20 Dimitar Taskov   116.75  58.3759.5509.8009.7509.8509.9009.900 58.750  '''117.125''' 21 Marius Toba   116.75  58.3759.8009.8509.9009.7009.5009.800 58.550  '''116.925''' 22 Curtis Hibbert   116.75  58.3759.8009.6009.7009.6009.8509.900 58.45  '''116.825''' 23 Lyubomir Gueraskov   116.75  58.3759.5509.9009.8009.5009.7009.800 58.250  '''116.625''' 24 Paolo Bucci   115.70  57.8609.7509.9009.8509.8009.7509.700 58.750  '''116.600''' 25 Park Jong-Hoon   115.60  57.8009.7509.6009.8009.8509.8509.850 58.700  '''116.500''' 26 Brad Peters   116.05  58.0259.8009.9009.7509.5009.8009.700 58.450  '''116.475''' 27 Alfonso Rodríguez   115.45  57.7259.8009.9009.8009.6009.7009.900 58.700  '''116.425''' 28 Zsolt Horváth   115.50  57.7509.8009.9509.6009.9009.7009.700 58.650  '''116.400''' 29 Christian Chevalier   116.15  58.0759.7009.6009.5009.6009.7009.800 57.900  '''115.975''' 30 Johan Jonasson   114.60  57.3009.7009.8509.8509.8009.6509.800 58.650  '''115.950''' 31 Patrick Mattioni   116.00  58.0009.6509.8009.7509.5509.7508.950 57.450  '''115.450''' Josef Zellweger   114.60  57.3009.6509.8009.8009.5009.8009.600 58.150  '''115.450''' 33 Nicolae Bejenaru   115.30  57.6509.7009.8009.7509.6009.9009.000 57.750  '''115.400''' 34 Kevin Davis   114.75  57.3759.6509.8009.6509.5009.6509.700 57.950  '''115.325''' 35 Lance Ringnald   115.25  57.6259.5009.8009.6509.5509.8509.100 57.450  '''115.075''' 36 Claude Carmona   115.05  57.5259.6009.8009.6509.6009.8008.950 57.400  '''114.925''' 37  Sergey Kharkov    118.40  38  Lado Gogoladze    117.70 39  Vladimir Novikov    117.50 40  Holger Behrendt    116.95 41  Toshiharu Sato    116.65 42  Ulf Hoffmann    116.40 43  Deyan Kolev    116.30 Andreas Wecker    116.30 45  Li Chunyang    116.15 46  Stoyko Gochev    115.95 47  Hiroyuki Konishi    115.80 48  Petar Georgiev    115.60 49  Zsolt Borkai    115.40 Takahiro Yamada    115.40 51  Guo Linxian    115.35 52  Adrian Sandu    115.15 53  Li Ning    114.95 54  Thierry Pecqueux    114.85 Marian Rizan    114.85 56  Riccardo Trapella    114.75 57  Jenő Paprika    114.70 58  Lorne Bobkin    114.60 59  Daniel Winkler   114.50  60  Mike Beckmann    114.45 61  Ju Yeong-sam    114.25 Gabriele Sala    114.25 63  Scott Johnson   114.20  64  Jürgen Brümmer    114.15 65  James Rozon    114.10 Alan Nolet    114.10 67  Ralph Kern    113.90 Dominick Minicucci Jr.    113.90 69  Wes Suter    113.85 70  Stéphane Cauterman    113.75 71  Song Yu-jin    113.60 Bernhard Simmelbauer    113.60 73  Andreas Aguilar    113.35 74  Bruno Cavelti    113.10 75  Terry Bartlett    112.95 76  Frédéric Longuepée    112.90 77  Miguel Ángel Rubio    112.85 78  Álvaro Montesinos    112.65 Vittorio Allievi    112.65 80  Kenneth Meredith    112.10 81  Andrew Morris   112.05  82  Jože Kolman    110.45 83  Chang Chao-chun    110.30 84  Gil Pinto    109.90 85  Hélder Pinheiro    109.60 86  Philippe Chartrand    105.80 87  Valentin Pîntea    105.55 88  Tony Piñeda    102.40 89  Balázs Tóth   77.05
References
External links * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com