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Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

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.[1] There were 111 competitors from 31 nations.[2] 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.

Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Ukraine stamp commemorating gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
VenueGeorgia Dome
Dates20–24 July
Competitors111 from 31 nations
Winning score58.423
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Li Xiaoshuang
 China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alexei Nemov
 Russia
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Vitaly Scherbo
 Belarus
← 1992
2000 →

Background

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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.[2]

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.[2]

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

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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.[2]

Schedule

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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

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Main article: Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic team all-around

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.[3] 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 Pommel
horse 		Rings Vault Parallel
bars 		Horizontal
bar 		Total
  Li Xiaoshuang   China 114.786 9.687 9.712 9.775 9.812 9.650 9.787 58.423
  Alexei Nemov   Russia 116.361 9.700 9.800 9.612 9.700 9.762 9.800 58.374
  Vitaly Scherbo   Belarus 115.210 9.762 9.662 9.587 9.687 9.712 9.787 58.197
4 Zhang Jinjing   China 114.596 9.637 9.750 9.562 9.650 9.762 58.148
5 Shen Jian 114.223 9.537 9.650 9.637 9.662 9.700 9.675 57.861
6 Valeri Belenki   Germany 113.910 9.612 9.762 9.612 9.600 9.625 9.637 57.848
7 John Roethlisberger   United States 114.886 9.675 9.662 9.650 9.575 9.475 9.725 57.762
8 Rustam Sharipov   Ukraine 114.372 9.625 9.637 9.650 9.400 9.750 9.650 57.712
9 Oleksandr Svitlychniy 113.886 9.650 9.587 9.662 9.537 9.625 9.637 57.698
10 Blaine Wilson   United States 114.337 9.600 9.637 9.737 9.600 9.450 9.662 57.686
11 Cristian Leric   Romania 112.186 9.625 9.562 9.412 9.700 9.600 9.675 57.574
12 Naoya Tsukahara   Japan 114.147 9.612 9.612 9.650 9.512 9.625 9.550 57.561
13 Andreas Wecker   Germany 114.474 9.600 9.025 9.750 9.662 9.600 9.775 57.412
Jesus Carballo   Spain 111.761 9.400 9.675 9.512 9.450 9.625 9.750
15 Yoshiaki Hatakeda   Japan 113.174 9.425 9.637 9.487 9.350 9.612 9.700 57.211
Igor Korobchinski   Ukraine 113.473 9.450 9.625 9.462 9.512 9.675 9.487
17 Yordan Yovchev   Bulgaria 114.898 9.650 9.600 9.737 9.375 9.050 9.712 57.124
Jury Chechi   Italy 112.186 9.450 9.587 9.800 9.050 9.550 9.687
19 Hikaru Tanaka   Japan 113.649 9.562 9.450 9.637 9.425 9.375 56.999
20 Lee Joo-Hyung   South Korea 114.647 9.375 9.612 9.712 9.637 9.600 9.050 56.986
21 Krasimir Dounev   Bulgaria 113.898 9.125 9.500 9.575 9.587 9.475 9.712 56.974
22 Zoltán Supola   Hungary 113.498 8.875 9.712 9.525 9.550 9.725 56.962
23 Jan-Peter Nikiferow   Germany 113.198 9.587 9.450 9.400 9.437 9.375 56.824
24 Alexei Voropaev   Russia 115.136 9.687 8.400 9.737 9.662 9.625 9.712 56.823
25 Ilia Giorgadze   Georgia 111.199 9.525 9.512 9.325 9.375 9.450 9.612 56.799
26 Sébastien Tayac   France 113.086 9.562 9.425 9.525 9.200 9.475 56.699
27 Boris Preti   Italy 112.761 9.350 9.350 9.512 9.250 9.512 9.687 56.661
28 Roberto Galli 112.336 9.625 8.950 9.562 9.350 9.425 9.537 56.449
29 John Macready   United States 112.374 8.525 9.537 9.537 9.562 9.487 9.562 56.210
30 Andrey Kan   Belarus 114.361 9.600 9.675 9.562 9.525 8.600 9.000 55.962
Vitaly Rudnitsky 112.625 9.675 9.700 9.600 9.512 9.350 8.125
32 Dimitar Lunchev   Bulgaria 112.162 9.200 9.662 9.275 9.300 9.462 9.000 55.899
33 Frédérick Nicolas   France 111.500 9.350 8.750 9.500 9.225 9.500 9.537 55.862
34 Hann Yoon-Soo   South Korea 113.499 9.300 9.737 9.512 9.300 9.612 8.375 55.836
35 Brennon Dowrick   Australia 110.500 9.200 9.600 9.400 0.000 9.250 9.450 46.900
36 Volodymyr Shamenko   Ukraine 113.486 DNS
37 Patrice Casimir   France 113.424 Did not advance—3 per nation rule
38 Adrian Ianculescu   Romania 113.136
39 Nicu Stroia 112.874
40 Toshiharu Sato   Japan 112.787
41 Oliver Walther   Germany 112.562
42 Kalofer Khristozov   Bulgaria 111.300
43 Nistor Şandro   Romania 111.062
44 Aleksey Dmitriyenko   Kazakhstan 110.650
45 Shigeru Kurihara   Japan 110.512
46 Sergey Fedorchenko   Kazakhstan 110.475 Did not advance
47 Deyan Yordanov   Bulgaria 110.387
48 Donghua Li   Switzerland 110.212
Szilveszter Csollány   Hungary
50 Norayr Sargsyan   Armenia 110.211
51 Bret Hudson   Australia 110.162
52 Ioannis Melissanidis   Greece 109.975
53 Michael Engeler   Switzerland 109.687
54 Takashi Uchiyama   Japan 109.600
55 Lee McDermott   Great Britain 109.300
56 Alan Nolet   Canada 109.100
57 Aleksej Demjanov   Croatia 108.762
58 Jiří Fiřt   Czech Republic 108.512
59 Dominic Brindle   Great Britain 107.875
60 Erich Wanner   Switzerland 106.449
61 Flemming Solberg   Norway 105.900
62 Krisztián Jordanov   Hungary 105.787
63 Richard Ikeda   Canada 105.400
64 Fan Bin   China 105.223
65 Jair Lynch   United States 104.574
66 Yevgeny Podgorny   Russia 104.423
67 Diego Lizardi   Puerto Rico 104.412
68 Rúnar Alexandersson   Iceland 104.337
69 Kris Burley   Canada 104.300
70 Marcelo Palacio   Argentina 104.025
71 Huang Huadong   China 103.536
72 Aleksandr Belanovsky   Belarus 103.512
73 Shane de Freitas   Barbados 103.375
74 Barry McDonald   Ireland 102.850
75 Karsten Oelsch   Germany 100.461
76 Kim Dong-hwa   South Korea 100.437
77 Paolo Bucci   Italy 96.398
78 Dmitri Vasilenko   Russia 95.423
79 Jeong Jin-su   South Korea 95.086
80 Kip Simons   United States 94.461
81 Sergio Luini   Italy 93.537
82 Yeo Hong-cheol   South Korea 93.486
83 Oleh Kosiak   Ukraine 93.250
84 Pae Gil-su   North Korea 92.737
85 Frédéric Lemoine   France 92.287
86 Jo Seong-min   South Korea 91.687
87 Sergey Kharkov   Russia 86.648
88 Nikolay Kryukov 86.336
89 Ivan Ivanov   Bulgaria 86.147
90 Huang Liping   China 85.837
91 Dmitry Trush   Russia 85.449
92 Aleksandr Shostak   Belarus 85.187
93 Éric Poujade   France 84.836
94 Sébastien Darrigade 84.162
95 Chainey Umphrey   United States 84.112
96 Ivan Pavlovsky   Belarus 83.086
97 Marcello Barbieri   Italy 82.787
98 Robert Tăciulet   Romania 82.575
99 Marius Urzică 76.099
100 Yuriy Yermakov   Ukraine 75.612
101 Uwe Billerbeck   Germany 75.399
102 Thiérry Aymes   France 75.361
103 Aleksey Sinkevich   Belarus 66.400
104 Dan Burincă   Romania 65.800
105 Kim Bong-hyeon   South Korea 63.937
106 Hryhoriy Misiutin   Ukraine 57.812
107 Francesco Colombo   Italy 56.287
108 Mihai Bagiu   United States 55.861
109 Fan Hongbin   China 48.124
110 Marius Tobă   Germany 45.100
111 Vasil Vetsev   Bulgaria 28.200

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 16 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 April 2021.
  3. ^ Official Report, p. 234.
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