Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The qualification and final rounds took place on September 18, 20 and 24th at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts and other nations having up to 3 gymnasts.[1] There were ties for both gold and bronze medals. The Soviet Union took two golds, as Vladimir Artemov and Valeri Liukin finished even at the top spot; they were the Soviets' first gold medals in the horizontal bar since 1968, and moved the Soviet Union past the United States and Switzerland into second most all-time golds in the event (after Japan with six). Bronze medals went to Holger Behrendt of East Germany and Marius Gherman of Romania, the first medal in the event for both nations. It was the first time since 1964 that Japanese gymnasts competed but did not win the event.

Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Valeri Liukin, on 1987 Soviet stamp (rings)
VenueOlympic Gymnastics Hall
Dates18–24 September
Competitors89 from 23 nations
Winning score19.900
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Vladimir Artemov
 Soviet Union
1st place, gold medalist(s) Valeri Liukin
 Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Holger Behrendt
 East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Marius Gherman
 Romania
← 1984
1992 →

Background

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This was the 17th 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). Only one of the eight finalists from 1984 returned: fourth-place finisher Lou Yun of China. Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union was the reigning (1987) world champion, with the rest of the worlds podium consisting of Canadian Curtis Hibbert (silver), East German Holger Behrendt, and Hungarian Zsolt Borkai (the latter two tied for bronze).[1]

Chinese Taipei made its debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its 15th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 event and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

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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. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final. The 1984 Games had expanded the number of finalists from six to eight. Nations were still limited to two finalists each. Others were ranked 9th through 89th. [1][2]

Schedule

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All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 18 September 1988 Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 September 1988 Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 24 September 1988 14:50 Final

Results

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Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the horizontal bar event during the compulsory and optional rounds on September 18 and 20. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 24. Each country was limited to two 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 the "prelim" score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
  Vladimir Artemov   Soviet Union 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 9.950 19.900
Valeri Liukin   Soviet Union 9.90 9.95 19.85 9.925 9.975 19.900
  Holger Behrendt   East Germany 9.75 9.95 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
Marius Gherman   Romania 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
5 Wang Chongsheng   China 9.90 9.85 19.75 9.875 9.900 19.775
6 Xu Zhiqiang   China 9.90 9.80 19.70 9.850 9.850 19.700
7 Curtis Hibbert   Canada 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.825 19.675
8 Andreas Wecker   East Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.650 19.500
9 Csaba Fajkusz   Hungary 9.75 9.90 19.65 Did not advance
Yukio Iketani   Japan 9.90 9.75 19.65 Did not advance
Daisuke Nishikawa   Japan 9.80 9.85 19.65 Did not advance
12 Li Ning   China 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Koichi Mizushima   Japan 9.85 9.75 19.60 Did not advance
Vladimir Novikov   Soviet Union 9.70 9.90 19.60 Did not advance
15 Philippe Chartrand   Canada 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Stoyko Gochev   Bulgaria 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Vladimir Gogoladze   Soviet Union 9.65 9.90 19.55 Did not advance
Sergey Kharkov   Soviet Union 9.65 9.90 19.55 Did not advance
Patrick Mattioni   France 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Balázs Tóth   Hungary 9.80 9.75 19.55 Did not advance
21 Ralf Büchner   East Germany 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Kalofer Khristozov   Bulgaria 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Charles Lakes   United States 9.80 9.70 19.50 Did not advance
24 Zsolt Borkai   Hungary 9.80 9.65 19.45 Did not advance
Christian Chevalier   France 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Dimitar Taskov   Bulgaria 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Marius Toba   Romania 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Brad Peters   Canada 9.75 9.70 19.45 Did not advance
Lance Ringnald   United States 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
30 Thierry Pecqueux   France 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
31 Dmitry Bilozerchev   Soviet Union 9.90 9.45 19.35 Did not advance
Li Chunyang   China 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Lou Yun   China 9.80 9.55 19.35 Did not advance
Park Jong-Hoon   South Korea 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
35 Alfonso Rodríguez   Spain 9.50 9.80 19.30 Did not advance
Hiroyuki Konishi   Japan 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
Adrian Sandu   Romania 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
38 Gyorgy Guczoghy   Hungary 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Ulf Hoffmann   East Germany 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Zsolt Horváth   Hungary 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Johan Jonasson   Sweden 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Ju Yeong-sam   South Korea 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Alan Nolet   Canada 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Marian Rizan   Romania 9.50 9.75 19.25 Did not advance
Daniel Winkler   West Germany 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
Takahiro Yamada   Japan 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
47 James Rozon   Canada 9.65 9.55 19.20 Did not advance
Sven Tippelt   East Germany 9.80 9.40 19.20 Did not advance
Deyan Kolev   Bulgaria 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
50 Bruno Cavelti   Switzerland 9.60 9.55 19.15 Did not advance
Sylvio Kroll   East Germany 9.25 9.90 19.15 Did not advance
52 Nicolae Bejenaru   Romania 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Paolo Bucci   Italy 9.65 9.45 19.10 Did not advance
Lubomir Geraskov   Bulgaria 9.70 9.40 19.10 Did not advance
Jenő Paprika   Hungary 9.60 9.50 19.10 Did not advance
56 Boris Preti   Italy 9.80 9.25 19.05 Did not advance
Toshiharu Sato   Japan 9.80 9.25 19.05 Did not advance
58 Andreas Aguilar   West Germany 9.40 9.60 19.00 Did not advance
Terry Bartlett   Great Britain 9.30 9.70 19.00 Did not advance
Gabriele Sala   Italy 9.60 9.40 19.00 Did not advance
Song Yu-jin   South Korea 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Wes Suter   United States 9.35 9.65 19.00 Did not advance
63 Petar Georgiev   Bulgaria 9.50 9.45 18.95 Did not advance
Dominick Minicucci Jr.   United States 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
65 Valentin Pîntea   Romania 9.35 9.55 18.90 Did not advance
66 Jury Chechi   Italy 9.20 9.65 18.85 Did not advance
Kevin Davis   United States 9.60 9.25 18.85 Did not advance
68 Lorne Bobkin   Canada 9.75 9.05 18.80 Did not advance
Riccardo Trapella   Italy 9.50 9.30 18.80 Did not advance
70 Guo Linxian   China 9.65 9.10 18.75 Did not advance
Ralph Kern   West Germany 9.45 9.30 18.75 Did not advance
Frédéric Longuepée   France 9.25 9.50 18.75 Did not advance
Gil Pinto   Brazil 9.35 9.40 18.75 Did not advance
74 Vittorio Allievi   Italy 9.55 9.15 18.70 Did not advance
75 Claude Carmona   France 9.45 9.20 18.65 Did not advance
Álvaro Montesinos   Spain 9.35 9.30 18.65 Did not advance
Bernhard Simmelbauer   West Germany 9.05 9.60 18.65 Did not advance
78 Mike Beckmann   West Germany 9.45 9.15 18.60 Did not advance
Miguel Ángel Rubio   Spain 8.80 9.80 18.60 Did not advance
Josef Zellweger   Switzerland 9.50 9.10 18.60 Did not advance
81 Stéphane Cauterman   France 8.90 9.60 18.50 Did not advance
82 Scott Johnson   United States 8.75 9.60 18.35 Did not advance
83 Chang Chao-chun   Chinese Taipei 9.00 8.95 17.95 Did not advance
84 Kenneth Meredith   Australia 8.75 9.15 17.90 Did not advance
85 Jürgen Brümmer   West Germany 8.55 9.30 17.85 Did not advance
85 Jože Kolman   Yugoslavia 8.25 9.60 17.85 Did not advance
87 Andrew Morris   Great Britain 8.80 8.80 17.60 Did not advance
88 Hélder Pinheiro   Portugal 9.20 8.35 17.55 Did not advance
89 Tony Piñeda   Mexico 9.50 2.00 11.50 Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 429.