Gymnastics at the 1980 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 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 24th at the Sports Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium.[1] There were 65 competitors from 14 nations.[2] Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Alexander Dityatin of the Soviet Union, the nation's second consecutive and fifth overall victory in the event (taking the lead for most among nations at the time). It was the second of Dityatin's 8 total medals in 1980, a record that still stands through the 2016 Games (though it has been tied twice by Michael Phelps, including his 2008 performance of 8 gold medals). Dityatin's teammate, defending gold medalist Nikolai Andrianov, finished with the silver medal. Andrianov was the 10th man to win multiple medals in the event; he would also finish the 1980 Games with a total of 15 medals over all years—most among men at the time (though behind Larisa Latynina's 18; Phelps would later shatter both those totals with 28). Bronze went to Stoyan Deltchev of Bulgaria—the first medal in the event by a gymnast not from the Soviet Union or Japan since 1952. It was Bulgaria's first-ever medal in the men's all-around. Japan, which had joined the American-led 1980 Summer Olympics boycott and did not compete, had its six-Games podium streak ended.

Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Gold medalist Alexander Dityatin (2018)
VenueLuzhniki Palace of Sports
Dates20–24 July
Competitors65 from 14 nations
Winning score118.650
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Alexander Dityatin
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nikolai Andrianov
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Stoyan Deltchev
 Bulgaria
← 1976
1984 →

Background

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This was the 18th 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]

Five of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1976 Games returned: gold medalist Nikolai Andrianov of the Soviet Union, fourth-place finisher Alexander Dityatin of the Soviet Union, sixth-place finisher Andrzej Szajna of Poland, seventh-place finisher Michael Nikolay of East Germany, and ninth-place finisher Zoltán Magyar of Hungary. The World Championships had shifted from a quadrennial (non-Olympic even years) to a biennial (odd years) event, so there had been two World Champions since the last Games: Andrianov (1978) and Dityatin (1979). Significant absences due to the American-led boycott included Kurt Thomas of the United States (second at the 1979 World Championships) and the entire Japanese team, especially Eizo Kenmotsu (second at the 1978 World Championships).[2]

Brazil made its debut in the event. France made its 16th appearance, most among nations (moving out of a tie with Italy, not competing in the event this time).

Competition format

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The competition format followed the preliminary and final format introduced in 1972, with the limit on the number of finalists per nation added in 1976. 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 preliminary score. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing 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 scores plus half of the preliminary score 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. With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.

The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals.[2]

Schedule

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All times are Moscow Time (UTC+3)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 20 July 1980 10:00
17:00
Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 22 July 1980 10:00
17:00
Preliminary: Voluntary
Thursday, 24 July 1980 14:30 Final

Results

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Sixty-eight gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 20 and 22. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 24. Each country was limited to three competitors in the final. Half of the points earned by each gymnast during both the compulsory and optional rounds carried over to the final. This constitutes each gymnast's "prelim" score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim 12
Prelim
Floor Pommel
horse
Rings Vault Parallel
bars
Horizontal
bar
Final Total
  Alexander Dityatin   Soviet Union 118.40 59.200 9.800 9.900 9.950 10.000 9.850 9.950 59.450 118.650
  Nikolai Andrianov   Soviet Union 118.15 59.075 9.800 9.900 9.900 9.900 9.750 9.900 59.150 118.225
  Stoyan Deltchev   Bulgaria 117.50 58.750 9.700 9.900 10.000 9.900 9.800 9.950 59.250 118.000
4 Aleksandr Tkachyov   Soviet Union 117.40 58.700 9.550 9.800 9.850 9.900 9.900 10.000 59.000 117.700
5 Roland Brückner   East Germany 116.90 58.450 9.800 9.800 9.950 9.900 9.650 9.750 58.850 117.300
6 Michael Nikolay   East Germany 116.50 58.250 9.350 10.000 9.850 9.850 9.650 9.800 58.500 116.750
7 Lutz Hoffmann   East Germany 115.75 57.875 9.600 9.400 9.800 9.900 9.550 9.900 58.150 116.025
8 Jiří Tabák   Czechoslovakia 115.95 57.975 9.700 9.150 9.800 9.800 9.450 9.800 57.700 115.675
9 Danuț Grecu   Romania 114.85 57.425 9.150 9.600 9.850 9.800 9.550 9.850 57.800 115.225
10 Zoltán Magyar   Hungary 115.85 57.925 9.100 10.000 9.800 9.550 9.100 9.750 57.300 115.225
11 Péter Kovács   Hungary 114.70 57.350 9.600 9.800 9.800 9.800 9.550 9.300 57.850 115.200
12 Ferenc Donáth   Hungary 115.90 57.950 9.250 9.300 9.100 9.800 9.550 9.900 56.900 114.850
13 Dancho Yordanov   Bulgaria 113.75 56.875 9.350 9.700 9.750 9.600 9.650 9.800 57.850 114.725
14 Kurt Szilier   Romania 114.80 57.400 9.400 9.700 9.800 9.600 8.900 9.850 57.250 114.650
15 Plamen Petkov   Bulgaria 113.50 56.750 9.550 9.200 9.750 9.900 9.500 9.750 57.650 114.400
16 Willi Moy   France 112.85 56.425 9.350 9.600 9.900 9.850 9.300 9.850 57.850 114.275
17 Andrzej Szajna   Poland 112.85 56.425 9.250 9.600 9.750 9.850 9.550 9.800 57.800 114.225
18 Aurelian Georgescu   Romania 113.75 56.875 9.500 9.550 9.800 9.900 8.900 9.550 57.200 114.075
19 Sergio Suárez   Cuba 112.50 56.250 9.650 9.400 9.700 9.900 9.200 9.800 57.650 113.900
20 Michel Boutard   France 112.95 56.475 9.500 9.650 9.300 9.650 9.600 9.550 57.250 113.725
21 Rudolf Babiak   Czechoslovakia 114.10 57.050 9.400 8.900 9.800 9.550 9.100 9.750 56.500 113.550
22 Miguel Arroyo   Cuba 112.15 56.075 9.150 9.550 9.850 9.550 9.550 9.900 57.450 113.525
23 Roberto León   Cuba 112.45 56.225 8.900 9.850 9.550 9.800 9.650 9.400 57.150 113.375
24 Henri Boerio   France 111.35 55.675 9.300 9.800 9.700 9.850 9.400 9.550 57.600 113.275
25 Jan Zoulík   Czechoslovakia 113.70 56.850 9.400 9.200 9.350 9.750 8.900 9.650 56.250 113.100
26 Han Gwang-song   North Korea 109.80 54.900 9.300 9.650 9.800 9.550 9.350 9.800 57.450 112.350
27 Kang Gwang-song   North Korea 109.70 54.850 9.150 9.650 9.850 9.450 9.650 9.700 57.450 112.300
28 Gabriel Calvo   Spain 110.55 55.275 9.200 9.000 9.450 9.800 9.250 9.650 56.350 111.625
29 Waldemar Woźniak   Poland 110.85 55.425 9.100 8.950 9.750 9.850 8.900 9.600 56.150 111.575
30 Barry Winch   Great Britain 109.75 54.875 9.150 8.800 9.600 9.800 9.400 9.500 56.250 111.125
31 Thomas Wilson   Great Britain 108.95 54.475 9.350 9.250 9.650 9.500 8.400 9.750 55.900 110.375
32 José de la Casa   Spain 109.40 54.700 8.900 9.300 9.150 9.700 9.000 9.550 55.600 110.300
33 Fernando García   Spain 108.75 54.375 9.000 9.500 9.350 9.200 8.850 9.550 55.450 109.825
34 Lindsay Nylund   Australia 109.15 54.575 8.800 8.600 9.350 9.700 8.950 9.700 55.100 109.675
35 Keith Langley   Great Britain 109.15 54.575 9.150 8.650 9.200 9.900 8.450 9.700 55.050 109.625
36 Kim Gwang-jin   North Korea 109.80 54.900 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 54.900
37 Eduard Azaryan   Soviet Union 117.40 Did not advance—3 per nation rule
38 Bohdan Makuts   Soviet Union 116.95
39 Vladimir Markelov   Soviet Union 116.40
40 Ralf-Peter Hemmann   East Germany 115.70
41 Andreas Bronst   East Germany 114.85
42 Lutz Mack   East Germany 114.00
43 György Guczoghy   Hungary 113.85
44 Sorin Cepoi   Romania 113.55
45 István Vámos   Hungary 113.10
46 Romulus Bucuroiu   Romania 112.75
47 Nicolae Oprescu   Romania 112.95
48 Zoltán Kelemen   Hungary 112.70
49 Rumen Petkov   Bulgaria 112.50
50 Miloslav Kučeřík   Czechoslovakia 112.10
51 Ognyan Bangiev   Bulgaria 112.05
52 Jan Migdau   Czechoslovakia 111.95
53 Enrique Bravo   Cuba 111.75
54 Yanko Radanchev   Bulgaria 111.60
55 Jozef Konečný   Czechoslovakia 111.35
56 Joël Suty   France 111.25
57 Mario Castro   Cuba 111.15
58 Cho Hun   North Korea 108.90
59 Yves Bouquel   France 108.65 Did not advance
60 Song Sun-bong   North Korea 108.60
61 Li Su-gil   North Korea 108.30
62 Marc Touchais   France 108.10
63 Krzysztof Potaczek   Poland 108.05
64 João Luiz Ribeiro   Brazil 105.75
65 Jorge Roche   Cuba 83.40

References

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  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games:Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 April 2021.
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