Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

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Men's vault
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg
Artistic gymnastics pictogram
VenueOlympic Gymnastics Hall
Date18–24 September
Competitors89 from 23 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lou Yun  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sylvio Kroll  East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Park Jong-Hoon  South Korea
← 1984
1992 →

The men's vault 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] The event was won by Lou Yun of China, the second man to successfully defend an Olympic title in the vault and fourth man to win two medals of any color in the event. Sylvio Kroll of East Germany took the silver medal, while Park Jong-hoon of South Korea earned his nation's first men's vault medal with his bronze.

Background[]

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, both of the Chinese finalists: gold medalist Lou Yun and one of the four silver medalists, Li Ning. Lou had finished second in the 1985 World Championships and shared gold with Sylvio Kroll of East Germany in the 1987 World Championships; the defending champion was heavily favored to repeat.[1]

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

Competition format[]

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. 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[]

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 13:40 Final

Results[]

Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the vault 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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lou Yun  China 9.90 9.95 19.85 9.925 9.950 19.875
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Sylvio Kroll  East Germany 9.85 9.95 19.80 9.900 9.962 19.862
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Park Jong-Hoon  South Korea 9.85 9.75 19.60 9.800 9.975 19.775
4 Deyan Kolev  Bulgaria 9.80 9.85 19.65 9.825 9.912 19.737
5 Holger Behrendt  East Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.800 19.650
6 Sergey Kharkov  Soviet Union 9.85 9.95 19.80 9.900 9.700 19.600
7 Yukio Iketani  Japan 9.90 9.75 19.65 9.825 9.700 19.525
8 Vladimir Gogoladze  Soviet Union 9.90 9.85 19.75 9.875 9.637 19.512
9 Vladimir Artemov  Soviet Union 9.85 9.80 19.65 Did not advance
10 Dmitri Bilozertchev  Soviet Union 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Ralf Büchner  East Germany 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Valeri Liukin  Soviet Union 9.70 9.90 19.60 Did not advance
13 Jürgen Brümmer  West Germany 9.85 9.70 19.55 Did not advance
Sven Tippelt  East Germany 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
15 Marius Gherman  Romania 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Wang Chongsheng  China 9.65 9.85 19.50 Did not advance
Xu Zhiqiang  China 9.80 9.70 19.50 Did not advance
18 Gyorgy Guczoghy  Hungary 9.75 9.70 19.45 Did not advance
Curtis Hibbert  Canada 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
Ulf Hoffmann  East Germany 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
Dimitar Taskov  Bulgaria 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
22 Terry Bartlett  Great Britain 9.80 9.60 19.40 Did not advance
Patrick Mattioni  France 9.75 9.65 19.40 Did not advance
Daisuke Nishikawa  Japan 9.75 9.65 19.40 Did not advance
Alfonso Rodríguez  Spain 9.80 9.60 19.40 Did not advance
26 Lorne Bobkin  Canada 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
Zsolt Borkai  Hungary 9.80 9.55 19.35 Did not advance
Guo Linxian  China 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Zsolt Horváth  Hungary 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Koichi Mizushima  Japan 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
Toshiharu Sato  Japan 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
Song Yu-jin  South Korea 9.85 9.50 19.35 Did not advance
33 Jury Chechi  Italy 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
Petar Georgiev  Bulgaria 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
Ralph Kern  West Germany 9.80 9.50 19.30 Did not advance
Kalofer Khristozov  Bulgaria 9.65 9.65 19.30 Did not advance
Marius Toba  Romania 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
Andreas Wecker  East Germany 9.65 9.65 19.30 Did not advance
39 Mike Beckmann  West Germany 9.65 9.60 19.25 Did not advance
Vladimir Novikov  Soviet Union 9.80 9.45 19.25 Did not advance
Jenő Paprika  Hungary 9.65 9.60 19.25 Did not advance
42 Csaba Fajkusz  Hungary 9.50 9.70 19.20 Did not advance
Scott Johnson  United States 9.50 9.70 19.20 Did not advance
Charles Lakes  United States 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
James Rozon  Canada 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
46 Lyubomir Gueraskov  Bulgaria 9.60 9.55 19.15 Did not advance
Hiroyuki Konishi  Japan 9.55 9.60 19.15 Did not advance
Boris Preti  Italy 9.75 9.40 19.15 Did not advance
Bernhard Simmelbauer  West Germany 9.65 9.50 19.15 Did not advance
50 Paolo Bucci  Italy 9.60 9.50 19.10 Did not advance
Li Chunyang  China 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Álvaro Montesinos  Spain 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
Brad Peters  Canada 9.60 9.50 19.10 Did not advance
Lance Ringnald  United States 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
Gabriele Sala  Italy 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Adrian Sandu  Romania 9.70 9.40 19.10 Did not advance
Daniel Winkler  West Germany 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
58 Ju Yeong-sam  South Korea 9.75 9.30 19.05 Did not advance
Alan Nolet  Canada 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
60 Claude Carmona  France 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Christian Chevalier  France 9.70 9.30 19.00 Did not advance
Johan Jonasson  Sweden 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Thierry Pecqueux  France 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Valentin Pîntea  Romania 9.60 9.40 19.00 Did not advance
Wes Suter  United States 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Takahiro Yamada  Japan 9.40 9.60 19.00 Did not advance
67 Vittorio Allievi  Italy 9.45 9.45 18.90 Did not advance
Stoyko Gochev  Bulgaria 9.30 9.60 18.90 Did not advance
Jože Kolman  Yugoslavia 9.50 9.40 18.90 Did not advance
Frédéric Longuepée  France 9.70 9.20 18.90 Did not advance
Kenneth Meredith  Australia 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
Riccardo Trapella  Italy 9.30 9.60 18.90 Did not advance
73 Nicolae Bejenaru  Romania 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
Stéphane Cauterman  France 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
Chang Chao-chun  Chinese Taipei 9.15 9.70 18.85 Did not advance
Dominick Minicucci Jr.  United States 9.50 9.35 18.85 Did not advance
77 Andrew Morris  Great Britain 9.35 9.45 18.80 Did not advance
Josef Zellweger  Switzerland 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
79 Bruno Cavelti  Switzerland 9.50 9.25 18.75 Did not advance
Kevin Davis  United States 9.30 9.45 18.75 Did not advance
Marian Rizan  Romania 9.40 9.35 18.75 Did not advance
Miguel Ángel Rubio  Spain 9.60 9.15 18.75 Did not advance
83 Gil Pinto  Brazil 9.40 9.30 18.70 Did not advance
84 Philippe Chartrand  Canada 9.45 9.15 18.60 Did not advance
85 Andreas Aguilar  West Germany 9.35 9.20 18.55 Did not advance
86 Li Ning  China 9.25 9.15 18.40 Did not advance
87 Tony Piñeda  Mexico 9.05 9.25 18.30 Did not advance
88 Hélder Pinheiro  Portugal 8.80 9.15 17.95 Did not advance
89 Balázs Tóth  Hungary 9.70 0.00 9.70 Did not advance

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Horse Vault, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 28 November 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 429.
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