Gymnastics at the 2000 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 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The qualification and final rounds took place on September 16 and 20 at the Sydney SuperDome. There were 97 competitors from 32 nations. Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts (returning to the longstanding team size after one Games of teams of 7 in 1996) or up to 2 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Alexei Nemov of Russia, the nation's first victory in the event. Nemov, with a silver medal in 1996, became the 12th man to earn multiple medals in the all-around. Yang Wei of China took silver. Oleksandr Beresch earned bronze, Ukraine's first medal in the event.
Background This was the 23rd 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.Three of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1996 Games returned: silver medalist Alexei Nemov of Russia, seventh-place finisher John Roethlisberger of the United States, and tenth-place finisher Blaine Wilson of the United States. Russia's Nikolai Kryukov was the reigning (1999) World Champion; Ivan Ivankov of Belarus had won the 1997 World Championship.Latvia made its debut in the event. France made its 21st appearance, most among nations.
Competition format Major changes to the competition format were implemented in 2000.The competition continued to use a preliminary (qualifying) round and a final round, with scores cleared between rounds (no carryover). However, the preliminary round now used only one optional exercise for each apparatus rather than requiring both a compulsory and optional exercise. The team event scoring used a 6–5–4 format (each team had 6 gymnasts, selected 5 per apparatus, with 4 scores counting), a reduced version of the 1996 7–6–5 system, which reduced the number of gymnasts competing in every apparatus. Total scores and an overall rank were still used for all gymnasts, however. 2000 was also the year where the tie-breaking rules came into effect, which resulted in far less tie rankings or duplicate of medals than at the Games before that. Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus the total preliminary score was from 0 to 60.The final total, with six exercises, was from 0 to 60.
Schedule All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10) Date Time Round Saturday, 16 September 2000  '''10:30'''  '''Qualifying''' Wednesday, 20 September 2000  '''19:00'''  '''Final'''
Results There were 97 gymnasts that competed during the qualification round on September 16, though only 52 competed on each apparatus. Fifty-three gymnasts competed in the all-around during the qualification round. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 16.Each country was limited to three competitors in the final. Rank Gymnast  Nation Prelim        Total  Alexei Nemov   58.361  9.8009.7759.6879.6509.7759.78758.474  Yang Wei   57.449  9.7009.7509.7129.7129.7509.73758.361  Oleksandr Beresch   58.049  9.6759.7629.5509.6759.7509.800 '''58.212''' 4 Ivan Ivankov   56.949  9.5759.7259.7629.5009.7009.762 '''58.024''' 5 Oleksandr Svetlichny   57.286  9.6009.6759.7259.7259.700 '''57.950''' 6 Blaine Wilson   56.861  9.7009.5879.6129.8009.7129.525 '''57.936''' 7 Alexei Bondarenko   57.812  9.6379.7259.7129.4009.6759.775 '''57.924''' 8 Yordan Yovchev   57.599  9.5509.7379.7509.4759.6759.700 '''57.887''' 9 Lihui Zheng   57.311  9.6129.6509.5759.6129.6759.350 '''57.474''' 10 Lee Joo-Hyung   55.986  9.2379.6509.6009.5259.7509.700 '''57.462''' 11 Rareş Orzaţa   56.560  9.3129.6129.6379.6629.4629.700 '''57.385''' 12 Yoshihiro Saito   56.487  9.5129.6009.6629.4379.4259.725 '''57.361''' 13 Marian Drăgulescu   57.349  9.6379.3009.5629.5629.4879.550 '''57.098''' 14 Paul Hamm   57.436  9.6759.6129.5509.5879.7508.875 '''57.049''' 15 Dimitri Karbanenko   56.424  9.4509.1259.4259.6129.7129.637 '''56.961''' 16 Yann Cucherat   56.323  9.2629.6629.5759.2129.6129.600 '''56.923''' 17 Eric López   56.574  8.6629.6009.6759.6879.6129.575 '''56.811''' 18 Naoya Tsukahara   56.985  9.3628.4259.6509.5629.6629.762 '''56.423''' 19 Maxim Aleshin   56.274  9.3259.0009.4129.4129.5509.700 '''56.399''' 20 Benjamin Varonian   56.161  9.5008.8879.5508.9879.7259.712 '''56.361''' 21 Dimitrij Nonin   56.049  8.9379.4379.5879.0129.5879.750 '''56.310''' 22 Cho Seong-Min   56.937  9.2629.2509.5509.6009.6628.900 '''56.224''' 23 Aleksei Sinkevich   56.622  8.7509.5879.5009.1379.5759.512 '''56.061''' 24 Dimitar Lountchev   54.948  9.0379.5629.0759.3759.4379.525 '''56.011''' 25 Kenichi Fujita   56.560  9.5129.6379.6009.5758.7508.800 '''55.874''' 26 Omar Cortés   55.061  8.1129.6759.5509.3259.5379.650 '''55.849''' 27 Roman Zozulya   55.923  8.8129.6259.6879.1628.9259.600 '''55.811''' 28 Ioan Suciu   56.773  8.7129.7259.3259.2129.4009.412 '''55.786''' 29 Philippe Rizzo   54.123  9.3509.6378.7759.0879.1879.750 '''55.786''' 30 Lazaro Lamelas   55.722  8.7759.2629.4379.2629.2759.575 '''55.586''' 31 Víctor Cano   55.748  9.0879.6509.4628.8258.8759.662 '''55.561''' 32 Craig Heap   54.511  9.1129.2629.4509.0379.2759.212 '''55.348''' 33 Ivan Pavlovsky   56.374  8.9259.5009.3129.4378.3759.362 '''54.911''' 34 Alejandro Barrenechea   54.911  8.1628.6129.5759.2379.5879.237 '''54.410''' 35 Alberto Busnari   54.686  8.3009.5508.4008.3629.5379.662 '''53.811''' 36 Igor Cassina   54.111  7.8379.3508.4129.1758.8129.687 '''53.373''' 37  Ilia Giorgadze    56.948   38  Jeong Jin-su    56.574   39  Andreas Wecker    56.011   40  Igors Vihrovs    56.186   41  Stephen McCain    55.686   42  Florentin Pescaru    55.823  43  Yevgeny Podgorny    56.273 44  Dieter Rehm    54.423 45  Saúl Cofiño    54.286 46  Flemming Solberg    53.975  47  Damian Istria    53.973 48  Kim Dong-hwa    53.124 48  Diego Lizardi    52.261 50  Rúnar Alexandersson    52.149 51  Lin Yung-hsi    51.674 52  David Phillips   49.461  53  Pae Gil-su    48.411 54  Li Xiaopeng   47.962  55  Xing Aowei    47.574 56  Nikolay Kryukov   47.336  57  Morgan Hamm    47.262 58  Mutsumi Harada    46.974 59  Valeriy Honcharov    46.611 60  Jan-Peter Nikiferow    46.587 61  Sergej Pfeifer    46.549 62  Deyan Yordanov    44.274 63  Florent Maree    44.087 64  Vasil Vetsev    43.362 65  Sean Townsend    38.337 66  Akihiro Kasamatsu    38.311 67  Valeriy Pereshkura    38.236 68  Huang Xu    37.999 69  Aleksandr Shostak    37.973 70  Xiao Junfeng    37.712 71  Andreu Vivó    37.612 72  Zoltán Supola   37.586  73  Vitaly Rudnitsky    37.399 74  Marius Tobă    37.337 75  Aleksandr Kruzhilov    37.224 76  Khristian Ivanov    37.211 77  Rene Tschernitschek    36.998 78  Leszek Blanik    36.325 79  Mladen Stefanov    36.286 80  Raouf Abdelraouf    35.212 81  Sergey Fedorchenko    29.162 82  Marius Urzică    29.049 83  Lee Jang-hyeong    28.849 84  Éric Casimir    28.837 85  Yeo Hong-cheol    28.762 86  Norimasa Iwai    28.699 87  Ruslan Mezentsev    28.462 88  John Roethlisberger    28.412 89  Kyle Shewfelt    19.150 90  Gervasio Deferr    19.087 91  Dimosthenis Tambakos    18.574 92  Sasha Jeltkov    17.699 93  Éric Poujade    9.787 94  Szilveszter Csollány    9.775 95  Ioannis Melissanidis    9.737 96  Dmitry Drevin    9.225 97  Mitja Petkovšek    8.687
References
External links * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com