Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

The men's rings 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] For the second consecutive Games, the event ended in a way tie for first place. Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union and Holger Behrendt of East Germany each received a gold medal. It was East Germany's first medal in the rings. The Soviets had had an eight-Games medal streak (and two-Games gold medal streak) in the event snapped by their boycott of the 1984 Games; Bilozerchev's medal put the nation back on the podium after that one-Games absence. Sven Tippelt, also of East Germany, took bronze.

Men's rings
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Dmitry Bilozerchev (1987, on pommel horse)
VenueOlympic Gymnastics Hall
Dates18–24 September
Competitors89 from 23 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Holger Behrendt  East Germany
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dmitry Bilozerchev  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sven Tippelt  East Germany
← 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). Two of the eight finalists from 1984 returned: gold medalist Li Ning of China and eighth-place finisher Josef Zellweger of Switzerland. Two-time world champion Yuri Korolyov of the Soviet Union was injured and unable to compete in Seoul. Li had shared gold with Korolyov at the 1985 World Championships and silver with Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union at the 1987 World Championships.[1]

Chinese Taipei made its debut in the men's rings. The United States made its 15th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 rings 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 13:10 Final

Results

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Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the rings 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 each gymnast's "prelim" score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
  Holger Behrendt   East Germany 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 9.975 19.925
Dmitry Bilozerchev   Soviet Union 9.95 10.00 19.95 9.975 9.950 19.925
  Sven Tippelt   East Germany 9.90 9.95 19.85 9.925 9.950 19.875
4 Kalofer Khristozov   Bulgaria 9.90 9.90 19.80 9.900 9.925 19.825
Valeri Liukin   Soviet Union 9.90 9.95 19.85 9.925 9.900 19.825
6 Lou Yun   China 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
Jury Chechi   Italy 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
8 Gyorgy Guczoghy   Hungary 9.85 9.90 19.75 9.875 9.825 19.700
9 Vladimir Artemov   Soviet Union 9.90 9.90 19.80 Did not advance
Sergey Kharkov   Soviet Union 9.90 9.90 19.80 Did not advance
11 Andreas Aguilar   West Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Lubomir Geraskov   Bulgaria 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Sylvio Kroll   East Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Vladimir Novikov   Soviet Union 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Xu Zhiqiang   China 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
16 Deyan Kolev   Bulgaria 9.80 9.85 19.65 Did not advance
Marius Toba   Romania 9.85 9.80 19.65 Did not advance
18 Vladimir Gogoladze   Soviet Union 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Boris Preti   Italy 9.70 9.90 19.60 Did not advance
Andreas Wecker   East Germany 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
21 Csaba Fajkusz   Hungary 9.70 9.85 19.55 Did not advance
Stoyko Gochev   Bulgaria 9.70 9.85 19.55 Did not advance
Yukio Iketani   Japan 9.80 9.75 19.55 Did not advance
Toshiharu Sato   Japan 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Wang Chongsheng   China 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
26 Guo Linxian   China 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Li Chunyang   China 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Valentin Pîntea   Romania 9.75 9.75 19.50 Did not advance
29 Koichi Mizushima   Japan 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Daisuke Nishikawa   Japan 9.75 9.70 19.45 Did not advance
Alfonso Rodríguez   Spain 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
Dimitar Taskov   Bulgaria 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Josef Zellweger   Switzerland 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
34 Jürgen Brümmer   West Germany 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Ralf Büchner   East Germany 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Curtis Hibbert   Canada 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Zsolt Horváth   Hungary 9.60 9.80 19.40 Did not advance
Song Yu-jin   South Korea 9.65 9.75 19.40 Did not advance
39 Paolo Bucci   Italy 9.55 9.80 19.35 Did not advance
Philippe Chartrand   Canada 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
Petar Georgiev   Bulgaria 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Marius Gherman   Romania 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Ulf Hoffmann   East Germany 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Li Ning   China 9.40 9.95 19.35 Did not advance
Takahiro Yamada   Japan 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
46 Claude Carmona   France 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
Hiroyuki Konishi   Japan 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
48 Zsolt Borkai   Hungary 9.80 9.45 19.25 Did not advance
Christian Chevalier   France 9.45 9.80 19.25 Did not advance
Brad Peters   Canada 9.70 9.55 19.25 Did not advance
Miguel Ángel Rubio   Spain 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
52 Charles Lakes   United States 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
Patrick Mattioni   France 9.55 9.65 19.20 Did not advance
Park Jong-Hoon   South Korea 9.65 9.55 19.20 Did not advance
Marian Rizan   Romania 9.55 9.65 19.20 Did not advance
56 Jenő Paprika   Hungary 9.50 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
Thierry Pecqueux   France 9.40 9.75 19.15 Did not advance
58 Nicolae Bejenaru   Romania 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
Kevin Davis   United States 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Scott Johnson   United States 9.30 9.80 19.10 Did not advance
Riccardo Trapella   Italy 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
62 Johan Jonasson   Sweden 9.40 9.65 19.05 Did not advance
Ju Yeong-sam   South Korea 9.75 9.30 19.05 Did not advance
Dominick Minicucci Jr.   United States 9.55 9.50 19.05 Did not advance
65 Andrew Morris   Great Britain 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Adrian Sandu   Romania 9.55 9.45 19.00 Did not advance
67 Bruno Cavelti   Switzerland 9.35 9.60 18.95 Did not advance
Alan Nolet   Canada 9.55 9.40 18.95 Did not advance
Bernhard Simmelbauer   West Germany 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
70 Daniel Winkler   West Germany 9.50 9.40 18.90 Did not advance
71 Álvaro Montesinos   Spain 9.55 9.30 18.85 Did not advance
Lance Ringnald   United States 9.30 9.55 18.85 Did not advance
73 Kenneth Meredith   Australia 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
James Rozon   Canada 9.50 9.30 18.80 Did not advance
75 Frédéric Longuepée   France 9.15 9.55 18.70 Did not advance
76 Terry Bartlett   Great Britain 9.50 9.15 18.65 Did not advance
Stéphane Cauterman   France 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
Gabriele Sala   Italy 9.45 9.20 18.65 Did not advance
79 Mike Beckmann   West Germany 9.40 9.20 18.60 Did not advance
Lorne Bobkin   Canada 9.45 9.15 18.60 Did not advance
81 Vittorio Allievi   Italy 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
82 Wes Suter   United States 9.15 9.35 18.50 Did not advance
83 Ralph Kern   West Germany 9.60 8.80 18.40 Did not advance
Jože Kolman   Yugoslavia 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
85 Chang Chao-chun   Chinese Taipei 9.20 8.95 18.15 Did not advance
86 Gil Pinto   Brazil 8.80 9.30 18.10 Did not advance
87 Tony Piñeda   Mexico 8.60 9.40 18.00 Did not advance
88 Hélder Pinheiro   Portugal 8.70 9.25 17.95 Did not advance
89 Balázs Tóth   Hungary 9.65 0.00 9.65 Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 429.