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 Sant Jordi. 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
References
External links Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com