Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

Men's artistic individual all-around at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
Date	29 July – 2 August
Competitors	93 from 25 nations
Winning score	9.856
Medalists
Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team Hrihoriy Misyutin  Unified Team Yoo Ok-ryul  South Korea

The men's vault 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 August 2 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations, with nations in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team, the first victory by a Soviet or former Soviet in the event since 1980. The silver went to Hrihoriy Misyutin, a Ukrainian also competing for the Unified Team. Yoo Ok-ryul gave South Korea its second consecutive bronze medal in the men's vault.

Background

This was the 18th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Three of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: silver medalist Sylvio Kroll of East Germany (now unified Germany), fourth-place finisher Deyan Kolev of Bulgaria, and seventh-place finisher Yukio Iketani of Japan. Yoo Ok-Ryul of South Korea had won the last two world championships (1991 and 1992), with Vitaly Scherbo and Ihor Korobchynskyi the runners-up.

Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's vault; some former Soviet Republics competed as the Unified Team. The United States made its 16th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 vault and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

The event used a "vaulting horse" aligned parallel to the gymnast's run (rather than the modern "vaulting table" in use since 2004). Each nation entered a team of six gymnasts or up to three individual gymnasts. All entrants in the gymnastics competitions performed both a compulsory exercise and a voluntary exercise for each apparatus. The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around score. These exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals. The two exercises (compulsory and voluntary) for each apparatus were summed to give an apparatus score. The top eight gymnasts, with a limit of two per nation, advanced to the final. In a change from previous years, the preliminary score had no effect on the final; once the eight finalists were selected, their ranking depended only on the final exercise. Non-finalists were ranked 9th through 93rd based on preliminary score.

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 29 July 1992		Preliminary
Sunday, 2 August 1992	22:00	Final

Results

Ninety-three gymnasts competed in the vault event during the compulsory and optional rounds on July 27 and 29. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on August 2. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final. No scores carried over from the preliminary to the final.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team	9.825	9.700	19.525	9.856
	Hrihoriy Misyutin	Unified Team	9.725	9.850	19.575	9.781
	Yoo Ok-Ryul	South Korea	9.750	9.750	19.500	9.762
4	Li Xiaoshuang	China	9.475	9.700	19.175	9.731
5	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	9.700	9.550	19.250	9.674
6	Sylvio Kroll	Germany	9.575	9.675	19.250	9.662
7	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary	9.650	9.550	19.200	9.524
8	Yutaka Aihara	Japan	9.575	9.625	19.200	9.450
9	Valery Belenky	Unified Team	9.650	9.750	19.400	Did not advance
10	Rustam Sharipov	Unified Team	9.550	9.800	19.350	Did not advance
11	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Unified Team	9.675	9.625	19.300	Did not advance
12	Marius Gherman	Romania	9.575	9.600	19.175	Did not advance
	James May	Great Britain	9.625	9.550	19.175	Did not advance
	Neil Thomas	Great Britain	9.450	9.725	19.175	Did not advance
	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	9.475	9.700	19.175	Did not advance
16	Ralf Büchner	Germany	9.550	9.600	19.150	Did not advance
17	Masayuki Matsunaga	Japan	9.600	9.525	19.125	Did not advance
	Andreas Wecker	Germany	9.625	9.500	19.125	Did not advance
19	Curtis Hibbert	Canada	9.600	9.500	19.100	Did not advance
	Lee Joo-Hyung	South Korea	9.500	9.600	19.100	Did not advance
	Li Chunyang	China	9.525	9.575	19.100	Did not advance
	Ruggero Rossato	Italy	9.625	9.475	19.100	Did not advance
23	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	9.525	9.550	19.075	Did not advance
	Daniel Giubellini	Switzerland	9.575	9.500	19.075	Did not advance
	Yukio Iketani	Japan	9.550	9.525	19.075	Did not advance
	Daisuke Nishikawa	Japan	9.625	9.450	19.075	Did not advance
27	Paolo Bucci	Italy	9.575	9.475	19.050	Did not advance
	Takashi Chinen	Japan	9.525	9.525	19.050	Did not advance
	Li Dashuang	China	9.450	9.600	19.050	Did not advance
30	Guo Linyao	China	9.550	9.475	19.025	Did not advance
	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	9.600	9.425	19.025	Did not advance
	Kalofer Hristozov	Bulgaria	9.525	9.500	19.025	Did not advance
33	Martin Modlitba	Czechoslovakia	9.475	9.525	19.000	Did not advance
	Boris Preti	Italy	9.500	9.500	19.000	Did not advance
	Alfonso Rodríguez	Spain	9.550	9.450	19.000	Did not advance
36	Nicolae Bejenaru	Romania	9.475	9.500	18.975	Did not advance
37	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.600	9.350	18.950	Did not advance
	Trent Dimas	United States	9.400	9.550	18.950	Did not advance
	Oliver Grimm	Switzerland	9.500	9.450	18.950	Did not advance
	Marian Rizan	Romania	9.525	9.425	18.950	Did not advance
	Gabriele Sala	Italy	9.550	9.400	18.950	Did not advance
42	Patrice Casimir	France	9.525	9.400	18.925	Did not advance
	Sébastien Darrigade	France	9.525	9.400	18.925	Did not advance
	Li Ge	China	9.425	9.500	18.925	Did not advance
	Luis López	Mexico	9.525	9.400	18.925	Did not advance
	Károly Schupkégel	Hungary	9.550	9.375	18.925	Did not advance
47	Han Yun-su	South Korea	9.450	9.450	18.900	Did not advance
	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	9.425	9.475	18.900	Did not advance
49	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	9.425	9.450	18.875	Did not advance
	Adrian Gal	Romania	9.675	9.200	18.875	Did not advance
	John Roethlisberger	United States	9.375	9.500	18.875	Did not advance
	Oliver Walther	Germany	9.475	9.400	18.875	Did not advance
53	Johan Jonasson	Sweden	9.450	9.400	18.850	Did not advance
	Alessandro Viligiardi	Italy	9.525	9.325	18.850	Did not advance
55	Paul Bowler	Great Britain	9.425	9.400	18.825	Did not advance
	Róbert Élő	Hungary	9.525	9.300	18.825	Did not advance
	Sin Myong-su	North Korea	9.550	9.275	18.825	Did not advance
58	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	9.450	9.350	18.800	Did not advance
	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	9.425	9.375	18.800	Did not advance
60	Ron Kaplan	Israel	9.450	9.325	18.775	Did not advance
61	Csaba Fajkusz	Hungary	9.425	9.325	18.750	Did not advance
	Pae Gil-Su	North Korea	9.450	9.300	18.750	Did not advance
63	Markus Müller	Switzerland	9.375	9.350	18.725	Did not advance
	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	9.350	9.375	18.725	Did not advance
65	Fabrice Guelzec	France	9.400	9.300	18.700	Did not advance
	Jože Kolman	Slovenia	9.425	9.275	18.700	Did not advance
67	Victor Colon	Puerto Rico	9.275	9.400	18.675	Did not advance
	David Cox	Great Britain	9.350	9.325	18.675	Did not advance
	Dominick Minicucci	United States	9.325	9.350	18.675	Did not advance
70	Deyan Kolev	Bulgaria	9.200	9.450	18.650	Did not advance
	Sven Tippelt	Germany	9.525	9.125	18.650	Did not advance
	Aleksey Voropayev	Unified Team	9.000	9.650	18.650	Did not advance
73	Han Gwang-ho	South Korea	9.200	9.425	18.625	Did not advance
74	Terry Bartlett	Great Britain	9.500	9.100	18.600	Did not advance
	Arnold Bugár	Czechoslovakia	9.450	9.150	18.600	Did not advance
	Li Jing	China	9.050	9.550	18.600	Did not advance
	Alan Nolet	Canada	9.400	9.200	18.600	Did not advance
78	Mike Inglis	Canada	9.225	9.350	18.575	Did not advance
79	Ilian Aleksandrov	Bulgaria	9.500	9.050	18.550	Did not advance
	Isidro Ibarrondo	Argentina	9.275	9.275	18.550	Did not advance
	M. Chris Waller	United States	9.025	9.525	18.550	Did not advance
82	Gianmatteo Centazzo	Italy	9.275	9.250	18.525	Did not advance
	Scott Keswick	United States	9.525	9.000	18.525	Did not advance
84	Mario Franke	Germany	9.350	9.150	18.500	Did not advance
85	Flavio Rota	Switzerland	9.400	9.075	18.475	Did not advance
	Nicu Stroia	Romania	9.150	9.325	18.475	Did not advance
87	Marvin Campbell	Great Britain	9.050	9.400	18.450	Did not advance
88	Miklós Pánczél	Hungary	9.575	8.850	18.425	Did not advance
89	Marco Monteiro	Brazil	9.300	9.000	18.300	Did not advance
90	Adrian Sandu	Romania	9.400	8.875	18.275	Did not advance
91	Miguel Ángel Rubio	Spain	9.325	8.500	17.825	Did not advance
92	Jair Lynch	United States	8.975	8.800	17.775	Did not advance
93	Georgi Lozanov	Bulgaria	0.000	9.375	9.375	Did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com