Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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.[1] 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.

Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
VenuePalau dels Esports de Barcelona
Date29 July – 2 August
Competitors93 from 25 nations
Winning score9.856
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vitaly Scherbo
 Unified Team
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Hrihoriy Misyutin
 Unified Team
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Yoo Ok-ryul
 South Korea
← 1988
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Background

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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.[1]

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

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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.[1][2]

Schedule

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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

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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 Jr.   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

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  1. ^ a b c "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 5, p. 217.