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Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic individual all-around

The men's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 9 and 14.[1] There were 98 competitors from 35 nations.[2] The event was won by Yang Wei of China, the nation's first victory in the event since 1996 and second overall. Yang, who had earned silver in 2000, was the 13th man to receive multiple medals in the individual all-around (and the first to do so in non-consecutive Games). Japan's Kōhei Uchimura took silver; it was the first medal in the event for Japan since 1984, the last of a four-decade stretch where the nation reached the podium every time it competed (7 of 8 Games from 1956 to 1984, with Japan boycotting the 1980 Games). Benoît Caranobe of France took bronze, the first men's all-around medal for that nation since 1920.

Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Medal ceremony
VenueBeijing National Indoor Stadium
Dates9–14 August
Competitors98 from 35 nations
Winning score94.575
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yang Wei
 China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kōhei Uchimura
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Benoît Caranobe
 France
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Background edit

This was the 25th 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]

Six of the top 10 gymnasts from the 2004 Games returned: silver medalist Kim Dae-Eun and bronze medalist Yang Tae Young of South Korea, fifth-place finisher Rafael Martínez of Spain, sixth-place finisher Hiroyuki Tomita of Japan, seventh-place finisher (and 2000 silver medalist) Yang Wei of China, and eighth-place finisher Marian Drăgulescu of Romania. Tomita had won the World Championship in 2005; Yang Wei had won the next two in 2006 and 2007 (the first repeat champion since the 1920s) and was the heavy favorite coming into the Games.[2]

Uzbekistan, Venezuela, and Yemen each made their debut in the event. France made its 23rd appearance, most among nations.

Qualification edit

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualification for the men's artistic gymnastics in 2008 was based entirely on the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The top 12 teams at the world championships could send a full team of 6 gymnasts to the Olympics. The next 3 teams (#13 through #15) could send 2 gymnasts. The 3 teams after that (#16 through #18) could send 1 gymnast. The next 7 individual gymnasts (only from nations without any qualified gymnasts yet) and apparatus gold medal winners also qualified. The FIG Executive Board made invitational selections to ensure host country and continental representation and the Tripartite Commission made an invitation. The quota of 98 gymnasts was then filled through additional individual gymnasts.

Competition format edit

In the third straight Games with a significant format change, the Code of Points was implemented. Rather than exercise scores being scored on a 0 to 10 scale (the "perfect 10" system), scoring was now based on two separate scores that were then combined in order to come to the final score. The A score measured the difficulty of each element (and combinations of elements) within the routine, while the B score evaluated the performance, ie, the "execution, composition and artistry" of the routine. There was no longer a theoretical top score.

The rest of the format remained the same as before. There was a preliminary round and a final. All gymnasts were ranked based on the sum of their exercise scores for all six apparatus, which gave an all-around qualification score. (Gymnasts that did not compete on every apparatus, of course, having significantly lower scores than those who did.) The top 24 competitors moved on to the individual all-around final, though nations were limited to two competitors each even if more qualified.

In the individual all-around final, each gymnast competed on each apparatus again. Only scores from the final were used to determine final rankings.

Schedule edit

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 9 August 2008 12:00 Qualifying
Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:00 Final

Results edit

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic qualification

The twenty-four competitors with the highest scores in qualifying proceed to the men's artistic individual all-around finals.

Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim             Total
  Yang Wei   China 93.875 15.250 15.275 16.625 16.550 16.100 14.775 94.575
  Kohei Uchimura   Japan 92.050 15.825 13.275 15.200 16.300 15.975 15.400 91.975
  Benoit Caranobe   France 90.925 15.350 14.875 15.175 16.600 15.050 14.875 91.925
4 Hiroyuki Tomita   Japan 91.900 15.100 15.425 13.850 16.200 16.000 15.675 91.750
5 Sergey Khorokhordin   Russia 91.800 15.150 15.100 15.400 15.300 15.700 15.050 91.700
6 Maxim Devyatovskiy   Russia 90.350 15.225 15.200 15.625 15.225 15.325 15.100 91.700
7 Fabian Hambüchen   Germany 92.425 15.625 14.375 15.025 15.975 15.275 15.400 91.675
8 Yang Tae-young   South Korea 89.300 15.225 14.300 14.900 16.075 16.350 14.750 91.600
9 Jonathan Horton   United States 91.650 15.600 13.675 15.575 16.100 15.275 15.350 91.575
10 Rafael Martínez   Spain 90.800 15.450 15.000 14.375 15.575 15.525 15.575 91.500
11 Kim Dae-eun   South Korea 92.400 15.225 13.650 15.400 15.625 16.000 14.875 90.775
12 Alexander Artemev   United States 89.725 14.625 15.525 14.275 15.975 15.200 15.075 90.675
13 Philipp Boy   Germany 89.475 15.075 14.875 14.825 15.400 15.050 15.450 90.675
14 Luis Rivera Rivera   Puerto Rico 90.600 15.250 15.025 15.225 16.025 14.375 14.275 90.175
15 Adam Wong   Canada 89.125 14.325 14.550 15.050 15.700 15.350 14.825 89.800
16 Anton Fokin   Uzbekistan 89.275 14.525 15.150 14.700 15.575 16.125 13.675 89.750
17 Nathan Gafuik   Canada 89.725 15.325 13.475 14.375 16.175 15.275 15.000 89.625
18 Flavius Koczi   Romania 90.175 14.900 15.425 14.550 16.450 13.525 14.725 89.575
19 Enrico Pozzo   Italy 88.675 15.250 14.625 13.850 15.600 14.600 15.450 89.375
20 Daniel Keatings   Great Britain 88.950 14.850 15.700 14.000 15.800 14.425 14.225 89.000
21 Thomas Bouhail   France 88.550 15.200 13.400 13.650 15.850 14.425 14.475 87.000
22 José Luis Fuentes   Venezuela 90.325 14.175 13.650 13.900 15.250 15.175 14.150 86.300
23 Dmitry Savitski   Belarus 90.650 13.725 13.750 15.300 15.900 13.400 10.100 82.175
24 Chen Yibing   China 91.600 — 13.750 16.650 15.900 14.950 12.975 74.225
25 Koki Sakamoto   Japan 91.950 Did not advance—2 per nation rule
26 Yuri Ryazanov   Russia 90.125
27 Kim Su-myeon   South Korea 89.900
28 Dimitri Karbanenko   France 88.500 Did not advance
29 Aleksandr Shatilov   Israel 87.800
30 Hamilton Sabot   France 87.750
31 Matteo Morandi   Italy 87.575
32 Daniel Popescu   Romania 87.300
33 Denis Savenkov   Belarus 87.025
34 Kim Seung-il   South Korea 87.000
35 Claudio Capelli   Switzerland 86.550
36 Adrian Bucur   Romania 86.475
37 Sascha Palgen   Luxembourg 86.075
38 Răzvan Şelariu   Romania 85.975
39 Sam Simpson   Australia 85.625
40 Sergio Muñoz   Spain 85.500
41 Louis Smith   Great Britain 85.325
42 Jorge Hugo Giraldo   Colombia 84.650
43 Koen Van Damme   Belgium 84.625
44 Mohamed Srour   Egypt 81.200
45 Li Xiaopeng   China 78.500
46 Xiao Qin   China 76.700
47 Dmitry Kasperovich   Belarus 76.225
48 Takuya Nakase   Japan 76.025
49 Marcel Nguyen   Germany 75.825
50 Joey Hagerty   United States 75.650
51 Justin Spring   United States 75.650
52 Raj Bhavsar   United States 75.350
53 Eugen Spiridonov   Germany 75.000
54 David Kikuchi   Canada 74.300
55 Iván San Miguel   Spain 73.925
56 Robert Juckel   Germany 73.925
57 Anton Golotsutskov   Russia 73.850
58 Manuel Carballo   Spain 72.325
59 Andrea Coppolino   Italy 71.425
60 Nikolay Kryukov   Russia 62.275
61 Takehiro Kashima   Japan 61.100
62 Kim Ji-hun   South Korea 60.325
63 Kyle Shewfelt   Canada 60.050
64 Matteo Angioletti   Italy 59.950
65 Grant Golding   Canada 59.700
66 Isaac Botella   Spain 59.525
67 Gervasio Deferr   Spain 59.225
68 Aleksandr Tsarevich   Belarus 58.775
69 Alberto Busnari   Italy 57.650
70 Igor Kozlov   Belarus 56.900
71 Marian Drăgulescu   Romania 47.350
72 Zou Kai   China 47.000
73 Huang Xu   China 46.675
74 Brandon O'Neill   Canada 45.975
75 Thomas Andergassen   Germany 45.100
76 Kevin Tan   United States 44.250
77 Igor Cassina   Italy 43.925
78 George Stănescu   Romania 43.875
79 Konstantin Pluzhnikov   Russia 43.675
80 Danny Rodrigues   France 43.400
81 Nashwan Al-Harazi   Yemen 41.175
82 Róbert Gál   Hungary 39.550
83 Diego Hypólito   Brazil 32.050
84 Yann Cucherat   France 31.850
85 Yoo Won-chul   South Korea 31.725
86 Makoto Okiguchi   Japan 31.025
87 Filip Ude   Croatia 30.250
88 Vlasis Maras   Greece 29.900
89 Valeriy Honcharov   Ukraine 29.850
90 Ilia Giorgadze   Georgia 29.775
91 Christoph Schärer   Switzerland 28.500
92 Aleksey Ignatovich   Belarus 28.075
93 Martin Konečný   Czech Republic 26.775
94 Leszek Blanik   Poland 16.700
95 Yordan Yovchev   Bulgaria 16.275
96 Oleksandr Vorobiov   Ukraine 16.250
97 Mitja Petkovšek   Slovenia 16.125
98 Epke Zonderland   Netherlands 15.750

References edit

  1. ^ "Gymnastics at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games: Men's Individual All-Around". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Individual All-Around, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

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