Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's vault
Introduction The men's vault 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 24th at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts and other nations having up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Lou Yun of China, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the vault and fourth man to win two medals of any color in the event. Sylvio Kroll of East Germany took the silver medal, while Park Jong-hoon of South Korea earned his nation's first men's vault medal with his bronze.
Background This was the 17th 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 1984 returned, both of the Chinese finalists: gold medalist Lou Yun and one of the four silver medalists, Li Ning. Lou had finished second in the 1985 World Championships and shared gold with Sylvio Kroll of East Germany in the 1987 World Championships; the defending champion was heavily favored to repeat.Chinese Taipei made its debut in the men's vault. The United States made its 15th 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. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final. The 1984 Games had expanded the number of finalists from six to eight. Nations were still limited to two finalists each. Others were ranked 9th through 89th.
Schedule All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10) Date Time Round Sunday, 18 September 1988   '''Preliminary: Compulsory''' Tuesday, 20 September 1988   '''Preliminary: Voluntary''' Saturday, 24 September 1988  '''13:40'''  '''Final'''
Results Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the vault event during the compulsory and optional rounds on September 18 and 20.The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 24.Each country was limited to two 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 the "prelim" score. Rank  Gymnast  Nation  Preliminary  Final Compulsory  Voluntary  Total   Prelim. Final  Total   Lou Yun    9.90  9.95  '''19.85'''  9.925  9.950  '''19.875'''   Sylvio Kroll    9.85  9.95  '''19.80'''  9.900  9.962  '''19.862'''   Park Jong-Hoon    9.85  9.75  '''19.60'''  9.800  9.975  '''19.775''' 4  Deyan Kolev    9.80  9.85  '''19.65'''  9.825  9.912  '''19.737''' 5  Holger Behrendt    9.80  9.90  '''19.70'''  9.850  9.800  '''19.650''' 6  Sergey Kharkov    9.85  9.95  '''19.80'''  9.900  9.700  '''19.600''' 7  Yukio Iketani    9.90  9.75  '''19.65'''  9.825  9.700  '''19.525''' 8  Vladimir Gogoladze    9.90  9.85  '''19.75'''  9.875  9.637  '''19.512''' 9  Vladimir Artemov    9.85  9.80  '''19.65'''  Did not advance 10  Dmitri Bilozertchev    9.80  9.80  '''19.60'''  Did not advance Ralf Büchner    9.80  9.80  '''19.60'''  Did not advance Valeri Liukin    9.70  9.90  '''19.60'''  Did not advance 13  Jürgen Brümmer    9.85  9.70  '''19.55'''  Did not advance Sven Tippelt    9.75  9.80  '''19.55'''  Did not advance 15  Marius Gherman    9.70  9.80  '''19.50'''  Did not advance Wang Chongsheng    9.65  9.85  '''19.50'''  Did not advance Xu Zhiqiang    9.80  9.70  '''19.50'''  Did not advance 18  Gyorgy Guczoghy    9.75  9.70  '''19.45'''  Did not advance Curtis Hibbert    9.70  9.75  '''19.45'''  Did not advance Ulf Hoffmann    9.70  9.75  '''19.45'''  Did not advance Dimitar Taskov    9.65  9.80  '''19.45'''  Did not advance 22  Terry Bartlett    9.80  9.60  '''19.40'''  Did not advance Patrick Mattioni    9.75  9.65  '''19.40'''  Did not advance Daisuke Nishikawa    9.75  9.65  '''19.40'''  Did not advance Alfonso Rodríguez    9.80  9.60  '''19.40'''  Did not advance 26  Lorne Bobkin    9.70  9.65  '''19.35'''  Did not advance Zsolt Borkai    9.80  9.55  '''19.35'''  Did not advance Guo Linxian    9.65  9.70  '''19.35'''  Did not advance Zsolt Horváth    9.65  9.70  '''19.35'''  Did not advance Koichi Mizushima    9.70  9.65  '''19.35'''  Did not advance Toshiharu Sato    9.70  9.65  '''19.35'''  Did not advance Song Yu-jin    9.85  9.50  '''19.35'''  Did not advance 33  Jury Chechi    9.70  9.60  '''19.30'''  Did not advance Petar Georgiev    9.60  9.70  '''19.30'''  Did not advance Ralph Kern    9.80  9.50  '''19.30'''  Did not advance Kalofer Khristozov    9.65  9.65  '''19.30'''  Did not advance Marius Toba    9.70  9.60  '''19.30'''  Did not advance Andreas Wecker    9.65  9.65  '''19.30'''  Did not advance 39  Mike Beckmann    9.65  9.60  '''19.25'''  Did not advance Vladimir Novikov    9.80  9.45  '''19.25'''  Did not advance Jenő Paprika    9.65  9.60  '''19.25'''  Did not advance 42  Csaba Fajkusz    9.50  9.70  '''19.20'''  Did not advance Scott Johnson    9.50  9.70  '''19.20'''  Did not advance Charles Lakes    9.60  9.60  '''19.20'''  Did not advance James Rozon    9.60  9.60  '''19.20'''  Did not advance 46  Lyubomir Gueraskov    9.60  9.55  '''19.15'''  Did not advance Hiroyuki Konishi    9.55  9.60  '''19.15'''  Did not advance Boris Preti    9.75  9.40  '''19.15'''  Did not advance Bernhard Simmelbauer    9.65  9.50  '''19.15'''  Did not advance 50  Paolo Bucci    9.60  9.50  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Li Chunyang    9.50  9.60  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Álvaro Montesinos    9.55  9.55  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Brad Peters    9.60  9.50  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Lance Ringnald    9.40  9.70  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Gabriele Sala    9.50  9.60  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Adrian Sandu    9.70  9.40  '''19.10'''  Did not advance Daniel Winkler    9.50  9.60  '''19.10'''  Did not advance 58  Ju Yeong-sam    9.75  9.30  '''19.05'''  Did not advance Alan Nolet    9.45  9.60  '''19.05'''  Did not advance 60  Claude Carmona    9.50  9.50  '''19.00'''  Did not advance Christian Chevalier    9.70  9.30  '''19.00'''  Did not advance Johan Jonasson    9.50  9.50  '''19.00'''  Did not advance Thierry Pecqueux    9.50  9.50  '''19.00'''  Did not advance Valentin Pîntea    9.60  9.40  '''19.00'''  Did not advance Wes Suter    9.50  9.50  '''19.00'''  Did not advance Takahiro Yamada    9.40  9.60  '''19.00'''  Did not advance 67  Vittorio Allievi    9.45  9.45  '''18.90'''  Did not advance Stoyko Gochev    9.30  9.60  '''18.90'''  Did not advance Jože Kolman    9.50  9.40  '''18.90'''  Did not advance Frédéric Longuepée    9.70  9.20  '''18.90'''  Did not advance Kenneth Meredith    9.40  9.50  '''18.90'''  Did not advance Riccardo Trapella    9.30  9.60  '''18.90'''  Did not advance 73  Nicolae Bejenaru    9.35  9.50  '''18.85'''  Did not advance Stéphane Cauterman    9.35  9.50  '''18.85'''  Did not advance Chang Chao-chun    9.15  9.70  '''18.85'''  Did not advance Dominick Minicucci Jr.    9.50  9.35  '''18.85'''  Did not advance 77  Andrew Morris    9.35  9.45  '''18.80'''  Did not advance Josef Zellweger    9.30  9.50  '''18.80'''  Did not advance 79  Bruno Cavelti    9.50  9.25  '''18.75'''  Did not advance Kevin Davis    9.30  9.45  '''18.75'''  Did not advance Marian Rizan    9.40  9.35  '''18.75'''  Did not advance Miguel Ángel Rubio    9.60  9.15  '''18.75'''  Did not advance 83  Gil Pinto    9.40  9.30  '''18.70'''  Did not advance 84  Philippe Chartrand    9.45  9.15  '''18.60'''  Did not advance 85  Andreas Aguilar    9.35  9.20  '''18.55'''  Did not advance 86  Li Ning    9.25  9.15  '''18.40'''  Did not advance 87  Tony Piñeda    9.05  9.25  '''18.30'''  Did not advance 88  Hélder Pinheiro    8.80  9.15  '''17.95'''  Did not advance 89  Balázs Tóth    9.70  0.00  '''9.70'''  Did not advance
References * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com