Gymnastics at the 1992 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 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 29 and 31 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations. Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Vitaly Scherbo, one of his six gold medals in 1992.The Unified Team, making its only Summer Olympics appearance, swept the medals, with Scherbo taking gold, Grigory Misutin silver, and Valery Belenky bronze. It was the second consecutive medal sweep in the event (the Soviet Union had done it in 1988) and fourth overall (France in 1900, Japan in 1972).
Background This was the 21st 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.Five of the top 11 gymnasts (including a tie for tenth place) from the 1988 Games returned: fourth-place finisher Sven Tippelt of East Germany (now competing for unified Germany), fifth-place finisher Marius Gherman of Romania, sixth-place finisher Kalofer Khristozov of Bulgaria, eighth-place finisher Yukio Iketani of Japan, and tenth-place finisher Sylvio Kroll of East Germany (now Germany). The reigning (1991) World Champion was Grigory Misutin of the Soviet Union/Unified Team, with his teammate Vitaly Scherbo second. The 1989 World Champion (and 1992 European champion) Igor Korobchinsky, also of the Soviet Union/Unified Team, also competed in Barcelona.Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the event. Some former Soviet republics competed together as the Unified Team. France made its 19th appearance, most among nations.
Competition format In the first major format change since 1976 (when the number of gymnasts per nation in the final was limited to three), the 1992 Games ended the carryover of preliminary scores to the final. The preliminary round and final round were now separate. In the preliminary round (which also served as the team all-around competition as well as the qualifying round for the individual apparatus events), each gymnast performed a compulsory exercise and an optional exercise on each apparatus. The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around preliminary score. The top 36 gymnasts advanced 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 six exercise scores 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.The final total, with six exercises, was from 0 to 60.The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals.
Schedule All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2) Date Time Round Wednesday, 29 July 1992   '''Preliminary''' Friday, 31 July 1992  '''20:00'''  '''Final'''
Results Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the all-around during the compulsory and optional rounds on July 29.The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 31.Each country was limited to three competitors in the final. Rank Gymnast  Nation Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Total  Vitaly Scherbo   117.875  9.8759.8759.9009.8009.8009.775 '''59.025'''  Grigory Misutin   116.975  9.8259.7759.8009.8259.8009.900 '''58.925'''  Valery Belenky   117.500  9.8259.8509.7759.5759.8259.775 '''58.625''' 4 Andreas Wecker   116.875  9.7009.8509.8009.5509.7009.850 '''58.450''' 5 Li Xiaoshuang   116.450  9.8259.7509.7009.6259.6509.600 '''58.150''' 6 Guo Linyao   115.900  9.6509.8009.6009.5509.6759.650 '''57.925''' 7 Marius Gherman   115.300  9.5259.6759.4009.7259.6759.700 '''57.700''' 8 Lee Joo-Hyung   114.375  9.6009.6259.4759.6009.5759.800 '''57.675''' 9 Han Yun-su   113.825  9.5509.6509.4759.6009.6509.725 '''57.650''' Szilveszter Csollány   114.500  9.6259.6759.6759.5509.5509.575 '''57.650''' 11 Kalofer Hristozov   115.300  9.5759.7009.6509.5509.5509.575 '''57.600''' 12 Zoltán Supola   115.275  9.6009.5759.4759.6509.6009.650 '''57.550''' 13 Oliver Walther   114.425  9.3259.6259.5009.6259.6009.800 '''57.475''' Yoshiaki Hatakeda   115.300  9.6259.7259.3009.4759.7509.600 '''57.475''' 15 Paolo Bucci   115.100  9.5009.6759.6509.4759.5759.550 '''57.425''' 16 Boris Preti   115.275  9.5759.4009.6259.6009.5009.575 '''57.275''' Alfonso Rodriguez   115.000  9.6009.6509.6759.6009.6509.100 '''57.275''' 18 Li Chunyang   115.925  9.7009.7509.7009.5759.6008.875 '''57.200''' 19 Scott Keswick   113.725  9.4009.7009.6009.7259.6259.050 '''57.100''' 20 Neil Thomas   114.675  9.8009.2759.4509.6509.2759.600 '''57.050''' 20 Adrian Gal   113.325  9.6759.5259.4009.8009.5509.100 '''57.050''' 22 Ruggero Rossato   114.175  9.6009.6759.5259.3509.3509.500 '''57.000''' 23 Yukio Iketani   115.450  9.7259.7259.0509.5259.7259.150 '''56.900''' 23 Yoo Ok-Ryul   115.025  9.8009.5009.5259.6259.4509.000 '''56.900''' 25 Michael Engeler   113.875  9.6759.5759.3009.5759.4259.275 '''56.825''' 26 Sylvio Kroll   114.850  9.2759.8009.5759.4259.5009.125 '''56.700''' 27 Takashi Chinen   115.275  9.5759.1259.5509.3759.6259.425 '''56.675''' 28 Csaba Fajkusz   113.925  9.6259.5509.4009.3508.9009.725 '''56.550''' 29 Pae Gil-Su   114.425  9.3009.8759.4259.3509.6258.950 '''56.525''' 30 Marian Rizan   114.725  9.1259.7009.1759.4509.6259.400 '''56.475''' 31 Patrice Casimir   113.750  9.4759.6509.4759.5758.6759.575 '''56.425''' 32 Sébastien Darrigade   113.325  9.6009.1509.2509.5009.4259.450 '''56.375''' 33 James May   113.225  9.6509.4509.3259.0759.3259.525 '''56.350''' 34 John Roethlisberger   114.200  8.4009.7009.5259.5009.4259.550 '''56.100''' 35 M. Chris Waller   114.800  8.5759.1259.4509.3759.6009.675 '''55.800''' 36 Curtis Hibbert   113.425  8.2009.3009.0259.0509.5009.050 '''54.125''' 37  Ihor Korobchinskiy    116.500  38  Aleksey Voropayev    115.125 39  Daisuke Nishikawa    115.100 40  Yutaka Aihara    114.975 41  Li Jing    114.950 Rustam Sharipov    114.950 43  Li Dashuang    114.875 Li Ge    114.875 45  Ralf Büchner    114.400 46  Masayuki Matsunaga    114.325 47  Sven Tippelt    113.775 48  Trent Dimas    113.675 49  Jeong Jin-su    113.625 50  Mario Franke    113.175  51  Nicolae Bejenaru    113.150 52  Johan Jonasson    113.100 53  Gabriele Sala    113.075 54  Daniel Giubellini    113.025 55  Yordan Yovchev    113.000 56  Dominick Minicucci Jr.    112.950 57  Luis López    112.925 Nicu Stroia    112.925 59  Adrian Sandu    112.850 60  Jair Lynch    112.775 61  Brennon Dowrick    112.725 62  Martin Modlitba    112.625 63  Fabrice Guelzec    112.600 64  Han Gwang-ho    112.350 65  Ron Kaplan    112.250 66  Gianmatteo Centazzo    112.125 67  Ilian Aleksandrov    112.000 Oliver Grimm    112.000 69  Sin Myong-su    111.950 70  Krasimir Dunev    111.900 71  Róbert Élő    111.850 Alessandro Viligiardi    111.850 73  Károly Schupkégel    111.650 74  Cho Hun    111.550 75  Flavio Rota    111.475 76  Miguel Ángel Rubio    111.325 77  Arnold Bugár    111.200 78  Alan Nolet    111.175 79  Erich Wanner    110.925 80  Jože Kolman    110.875 81  Yeo Hong-cheol    110.525 82  Terry Bartlett    110.275 83  Markus Müller    109.850 84  Marco Monteiro    109.575 85  David Cox    108.875 86  Mike Inglis    107.900 87  Isidro Ibarrondo    107.450 88  Marvin Campbell    106.975 89  Miklós Pánczél    103.600 90  Georgi Lozanov    101.250 91  Deyan Kolev    94.675 92  Paul Bowler    65.500 93  Víctor Colon    64.575
References
External links * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com