Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

Men's artistic individual all-around at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
Dates	29–31 July
Competitors	93 from 25 nations
Medalists
Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team Grigory Misutin  Unified Team Valery Belenky  Unified Team

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

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around

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	Pommel horse	Rings	Vault	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team	117.875	9.875	9.875	9.900	9.800	9.800	9.775	59.025
	Grigory Misutin	Unified Team	116.975	9.825	9.775	9.800	9.825	9.800	9.900	58.925
	Valery Belenky	Unified Team	117.500	9.825	9.850	9.775	9.575	9.825	9.775	58.625
4	Andreas Wecker	Germany	116.875	9.700	9.850	9.800	9.550	9.700	9.850	58.450
5	Li Xiaoshuang	China	116.450	9.825	9.750	9.700	9.625	9.650	9.600	58.150
6	Guo Linyao	China	115.900	9.650	9.800	9.600	9.550	9.675	9.650	57.925
7	Marius Gherman	Romania	115.300	9.525	9.675	9.400	9.725	9.675	9.700	57.700
8	Lee Joo-Hyung	South Korea	114.375	9.600	9.625	9.475	9.600	9.575	9.800	57.675
9	Han Yun-su	South Korea	113.825	9.550	9.650	9.475	9.600	9.650	9.725	57.650
	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary	114.500	9.625	9.675	9.675	9.550	9.550	9.575	57.650
11	Kalofer Hristozov	Bulgaria	115.300	9.575	9.700	9.650	9.550	9.550	9.575	57.600
12	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	115.275	9.600	9.575	9.475	9.650	9.600	9.650	57.550
13	Oliver Walther	Germany	114.425	9.325	9.625	9.500	9.625	9.600	9.800	57.475
	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	115.300	9.625	9.725	9.300	9.475	9.750	9.600	57.475
15	Paolo Bucci	Italy	115.100	9.500	9.675	9.650	9.475	9.575	9.550	57.425
16	Boris Preti	Italy	115.275	9.575	9.400	9.625	9.600	9.500	9.575	57.275
	Alfonso Rodriguez	Spain	115.000	9.600	9.650	9.675	9.600	9.650	9.100	57.275
18	Li Chunyang	China	115.925	9.700	9.750	9.700	9.575	9.600	8.875	57.200
19	Scott Keswick	United States	113.725	9.400	9.700	9.600	9.725	9.625	9.050	57.100
20	Neil Thomas	Great Britain	114.675	9.800	9.275	9.450	9.650	9.275	9.600	57.050
20	Adrian Gal	Romania	113.325	9.675	9.525	9.400	9.800	9.550	9.100	57.050
22	Ruggero Rossato	Italy	114.175	9.600	9.675	9.525	9.350	9.350	9.500	57.000
23	Yukio Iketani	Japan	115.450	9.725	9.725	9.050	9.525	9.725	9.150	56.900
23	Yoo Ok-Ryul	South Korea	115.025	9.800	9.500	9.525	9.625	9.450	9.000	56.900
25	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	113.875	9.675	9.575	9.300	9.575	9.425	9.275	56.825
26	Sylvio Kroll	Germany	114.850	9.275	9.800	9.575	9.425	9.500	9.125	56.700
27	Takashi Chinen	Japan	115.275	9.575	9.125	9.550	9.375	9.625	9.425	56.675
28	Csaba Fajkusz	Hungary	113.925	9.625	9.550	9.400	9.350	8.900	9.725	56.550
29	Pae Gil-Su	North Korea	114.425	9.300	9.875	9.425	9.350	9.625	8.950	56.525
30	Marian Rizan	Romania	114.725	9.125	9.700	9.175	9.450	9.625	9.400	56.475
31	Patrice Casimir	France	113.750	9.475	9.650	9.475	9.575	8.675	9.575	56.425
32	Sébastien Darrigade	France	113.325	9.600	9.150	9.250	9.500	9.425	9.450	56.375
33	James May	Great Britain	113.225	9.650	9.450	9.325	9.075	9.325	9.525	56.350
34	John Roethlisberger	United States	114.200	8.400	9.700	9.525	9.500	9.425	9.550	56.100
35	M. Chris Waller	United States	114.800	8.575	9.125	9.450	9.375	9.600	9.675	55.800
36	Curtis Hibbert	Canada	113.425	8.200	9.300	9.025	9.050	9.500	9.050	54.125
37	Ihor Korobchinskiy	Unified Team	116.500	Did not advance—3 per nation rule
38	Aleksey Voropayev	Unified Team	115.125
39	Daisuke Nishikawa	Japan	115.100
40	Yutaka Aihara	Japan	114.975
41	Li Jing	China	114.950
	Rustam Sharipov	Unified Team	114.950
43	Li Dashuang	China	114.875
	Li Ge	China	114.875
45	Ralf Büchner	Germany	114.400
46	Masayuki Matsunaga	Japan	114.325
47	Sven Tippelt	Germany	113.775
48	Trent Dimas	United States	113.675
49	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	113.625
50	Mario Franke	Germany	113.175	Did not advance
51	Nicolae Bejenaru	Romania	113.150
52	Johan Jonasson	Sweden	113.100
53	Gabriele Sala	Italy	113.075
54	Daniel Giubellini	Switzerland	113.025
55	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	113.000
56	Dominick Minicucci	United States	112.950
57	Luis López	Mexico	112.925
	Nicu Stroia	Romania	112.925
59	Adrian Sandu	Romania	112.850
60	Jair Lynch	United States	112.775
61	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	112.725
62	Martin Modlitba	Czechoslovakia	112.625
63	Fabrice Guelzec	France	112.600
64	Han Gwang-ho	South Korea	112.350
65	Ron Kaplan	Israel	112.250
66	Gianmatteo Centazzo	Italy	112.125
67	Ilian Aleksandrov	Bulgaria	112.000
	Oliver Grimm	Switzerland	112.000
69	Sin Myong-su	North Korea	111.950
70	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	111.900
71	Róbert Élő	Hungary	111.850
	Alessandro Viligiardi	Italy	111.850
73	Károly Schupkégel	Hungary	111.650
74	Cho Hun	North Korea	111.550
75	Flavio Rota	Switzerland	111.475
76	Miguel Ángel Rubio	Spain	111.325
77	Arnold Bugár	Czechoslovakia	111.200
78	Alan Nolet	Canada	111.175
79	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	110.925
80	Jože Kolman	Slovenia	110.875
81	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	110.525
82	Terry Bartlett	Great Britain	110.275
83	Markus Müller	Switzerland	109.850
84	Marco Monteiro	Brazil	109.575
85	David Cox	Great Britain	108.875
86	Mike Inglis	Canada	107.900
87	Isidro Ibarrondo	Argentina	107.450
88	Marvin Campbell	Great Britain	106.975
89	Miklós Pánczél	Hungary	103.600
90	Georgi Lozanov	Bulgaria	101.250
91	Deyan Kolev	Bulgaria	94.675
92	Paul Bowler	Great Britain	65.500
93	Víctor Colon	Puerto Rico	64.575

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com