Gymnastics at the 1996 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 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 24th at the Georgia Dome. There were 111 competitors from 31 nations. Each nation could enter a team of 7 gymnasts (up from 6 in previous Games) or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Li Xiaoshuang of China, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color since 1984.Two nations making their debut as independent nations after the dissolution of the Soviet Union took silver (Alexei Nemov of Russia) and bronze (Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus). Scherbo had won the event as a member of the Unified Team in 1992; he was the 11th man to earn multiple all-around medals.
Background This was the 22nd 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.Seven of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1992 Games returned: gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team (now representing Belarus), bronze medalist Valery Belenky of the Unified Team (now competing for Germany), fourth-place finisher Andreas Wecker of Germany, fifth-place finisher Li Xiaoshuang of China, eighth-place finisher Lee Joo-Hyung of South Korea, and ninth-place finishers Han Yun-su of South Korea and Szilveszter Csollány of Hungary. Li was the reigning (1995) World Champion; Scherbo had won in 1993, taken third in 1994, and finished second behind Li in 1995.Li recognized Alexei Nemov of Russia (relatively unknown in all-around but with strong results in each apparatus at the 1996 World Championships, which had no all-around event) as a bigger contender in Atlanta than Scherbo, however.Armenia, Barbados, Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine each made their debut in the event. France made its 20th appearance, most among nations.
Competition format The 1996 competition followed the revised format from 1992, which ended the carryover of preliminary scores to the final. The preliminary round and final round were 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. (Many gymnasts from nations competing in the team event opted not to compete on each apparatus, as the team event required designating only 6 of the 7 as team competitors on each apparatus, reducing the incentive for specialists on one apparatus to compete on all others.) 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.
Schedule All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4) Date Time Round Saturday, 20 July 1996  '''18:21'''  '''Preliminary: Compulsory''' Monday, 22 July 1996  '''18:31'''  '''Preliminary: Voluntary''' Wednesday, 24 July 1996  '''16:26'''  '''Final'''
Results All 111 gymnasts were ranked by their totals in the preliminary round, though only 74 completed all 12 exercises during the all-around during the compulsory and optional rounds on July 20 and 22.The 36 highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 24.Each country was limited to three competitors in the final. Rank Gymnast  Nation Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Total  Li Xiaoshuang   114.786  9.6879.7129.7759.8129.6509.78758.423  Alexei Nemov   116.361  9.7009.8009.6129.7009.7629.80058.374   Vitaly Scherbo   115.210  9.7629.6629.5879.6879.7129.78758.197  4 Zhang Jinjing   114.596  9.6379.7509.5629.6509.76258.148  5 Shen Jian 114.223  9.5379.6509.6379.6629.7009.67557.861  6 Valeri Belenki   113.910  9.6129.7629.6129.6009.6259.63757.848  7 John Roethlisberger   114.886  9.6759.6629.6509.5759.4759.72557.762  8 Rustam Sharipov   114.372  9.6259.6379.6509.4009.7509.65057.712 9 Oleksandr Svitlychniy  113.886  9.6509.5879.6629.5379.6259.63757.698  10 Blaine Wilson   114.337  9.6009.6379.7379.6009.4509.66257.686  11 Cristian Leric   112.186  9.6259.5629.4129.7009.6009.67557.574  12 Naoya Tsukahara   114.147  9.6129.6129.6509.5129.6259.55057.561  13 Andreas Wecker   114.474  9.6009.0259.7509.6629.6009.77557.412  Jesus Carballo   111.761  9.4009.6759.5129.4509.6259.750  15 Yoshiaki Hatakeda   113.174  9.4259.6379.4879.3509.6129.70057.211  Igor Korobchinski   113.473  9.4509.6259.4629.5129.6759.487  17 Yordan Yovchev   114.898  9.6509.6009.7379.3759.0509.71257.124 Jury Chechi   112.186  9.4509.5879.8009.0509.5509.687  19 Hikaru Tanaka   113.649  9.5629.4509.6379.4259.37556.999  20 Lee Joo-Hyung   114.647  9.3759.6129.7129.6379.6009.05056.986  21 Krasimir Dounev   113.898  9.1259.5009.5759.5879.4759.71256.974  22 Zoltán Supola   113.498  8.8759.7129.5259.5509.72556.962  23 Jan-Peter Nikiferow   113.198  9.5879.4509.4009.4379.37556.824  24 Alexei Voropaev   115.136  9.6878.4009.7379.6629.6259.71256.823  25 Ilia Giorgadze   111.199  9.5259.5129.3259.3759.4509.61256.799  26 Sébastien Tayac   113.086  9.5629.4259.5259.2009.47556.699  27 Boris Preti   112.761  9.3509.3509.5129.2509.5129.68756.661 28 Roberto Galli  112.336  9.6258.9509.5629.3509.4259.53756.449  29 John Macready   112.374  8.5259.5379.5379.5629.4879.56256.210  30 Andrey Kan   114.361  9.6009.6759.5629.5258.6009.00055.962  Vitaly Rudnitsky  112.625  9.6759.7009.6009.5129.3508.125  32 Dimitar Lunchev   112.162  9.2009.6629.2759.3009.4629.00055.899 33 Frédérick Nicolas   111.500  9.3508.7509.5009.2259.5009.53755.862  34 Hann Yoon-Soo   113.499  9.3009.7379.5129.3009.6128.37555.836  35 Brennon Dowrick   110.500  9.2009.6009.4000.0009.2509.45046.900  36  Volodymyr Shamenko    113.486   37  Patrice Casimir    113.424  38  Adrian Ianculescu    113.136 39  Nicu Stroia  112.874 40  Toshiharu Sato    112.787 41  Oliver Walther    112.562 42  Kalofer Khristozov    111.300 43  Nistor Şandro    111.062 44  Aleksey Dmitriyenko    110.650 45  Shigeru Kurihara    110.512 46  Sergey Fedorchenko    110.475  47  Deyan Yordanov    110.387 48  Donghua Li   110.212 Szilveszter Csollány    50  Norayr Sargsyan    110.211 51  Bret Hudson    110.162 52  Ioannis Melissanidis    109.975 53  Michael Engeler    109.687 54  Takashi Uchiyama    109.600 55  Lee McDermott    109.300 56  Alan Nolet    109.100 57  Aleksej Demjanov    108.762 58  Jiří Fiřt    108.512 59  Dominic Brindle    107.875 60  Erich Wanner    106.449 61  Flemming Solberg    105.900 62  Krisztián Jordanov    105.787 63  Richard Ikeda    105.400 64  Fan Bin    105.223 65  Jair Lynch    104.574 66  Yevgeny Podgorny    104.423 67  Diego Lizardi    104.412 68  Rúnar Alexandersson    104.337 69  Kris Burley    104.300 70  Marcelo Palacio    104.025 71  Huang Huadong    103.536 72  Aleksandr Belanovsky    103.512 73  Shane de Freitas    103.375 74  Barry McDonald    102.850 75  Karsten Oelsch    100.461 76  Kim Dong-hwa    100.437 77  Paolo Bucci    96.398 78  Dmitri Vasilenko    95.423 79  Jeong Jin-su    95.086 80  Kip Simons    94.461 81  Sergio Luini    93.537 82  Yeo Hong-cheol    93.486 83  Oleh Kosiak    93.250 84  Pae Gil-su    92.737 85  Frédéric Lemoine    92.287 86  Jo Seong-min    91.687 87  Sergey Kharkov    86.648 88  Nikolay Kryukov  86.336  89  Ivan Ivanov    86.147 90  Huang Liping    85.837 91  Dmitry Trush    85.449 92  Aleksandr Shostak    85.187 93  Éric Poujade    84.836 94  Sébastien Darrigade  84.162 95  Chainey Umphrey    84.112 96  Ivan Pavlovsky    83.086 97  Marcello Barbieri    82.787 98  Robert Tăciulet    82.575 99  Marius Urzică  76.099 100  Yuriy Yermakov    75.612 101  Uwe Billerbeck    75.399 102  Thiérry Aymes    75.361 103  Aleksey Sinkevich    66.400 104  Dan Burincă    65.800 105  Kim Bong-hyeon    63.937 106  Hryhoriy Misiutin    57.812 107  Francesco Colombo    56.287 108  Mihai Bagiu    55.861 109  Fan Hongbin    48.124 110  Marius Tobă    45.100 111  Vasil Vetsev    28.200
References
External links * Official Olympic Report* www.gymnasticsresults.com