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

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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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.

Background

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

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

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

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

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Yang Wei  China 93.875 15.250 15.275 16.625 16.550 16.100 14.775 94.575
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kohei Uchimura  Japan 92.050 15.825 13.275 15.200 16.300 15.975 15.400 91.975
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

  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.