Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

Men's horizontal bar at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Artistic gymnastics pictogram
Venue	Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
Dates	27 July – 2 August
Competitors	93 from 25 nations
Winning score	9.875
Medalists
Trent Dimas  United States Andreas Wecker  Germany Grigory Misutin  Unified Team
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The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 27, 29 and August 2 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations, with nations in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts.^[1] The event was won by Trent Dimas of the United States, the nation's first victory in the event since 1932 and fourth gold medal in the horizontal bar overall (tying the Soviet Union for second-most all-time after Japan with six). Andreas Wecker of Germany earned silver in the nation's return after unification; the first medal for "Germany" in the event since 1952. The Unified Team's Grigory Misutin took bronze.

Background[]

This was the 18th 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). Three of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: bronze medalist Marius Gherman of Romania, seventh-place finisher Curtis Hibbert of Canada, and eighth-place finisher Andreas Wecker of East Germany (now competing for unified Germany). Grigory Misutin of the Unified Team was the reigning (1992) world champion; China's Li Chunyang had won in 1989 and 1991, sharing the title in the latter year with Germany's Ralf Büchner.^[1]

Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar; some former Soviet Republics competed as the Unified Team. The United States made its 16th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 event and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format[]

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. The top eight gymnasts, with a limit of two per nation, advanced to the final. In a change from previous years, the preliminary score had no effect on the final; once the eight finalists were selected, their ranking depended only on the final exercise. Non-finalists were ranked 9th through 93rd based on preliminary score.^[1][2]

Schedule[]

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Results[]

Ninety-one gymnasts competed in the horizontal bar event during the compulsory and optional rounds on July 27 and 29. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on August 2. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total
	Trent Dimas	United States	9.725	9.725	19.450	9.875
	Andreas Wecker	Germany	9.800	9.800	19.600	9.837
	Grigory Misutin	Unified Team	9.800	9.900	19.700	9.837
4	Guo Linyao	China	9.725	9.700	19.425	9.812
5	Daisuke Nishikawa	Japan	9.750	9.725	19.475	9.787
	Valery Belenky	Unified Team	9.825	9.700	19.525	9.787
	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	9.750	9.650	19.400	9.787
8	Li Jing	China	9.825	9.725	19.550	6.425
9	Li Xiaoshuang	China	9.725	9.675	19.400	Did not advance
	Pae Gil-su	North Korea	9.800	9.600	19.400	Did not advance
11	Marius Gherman	Romania	9.675	9.700	19.375	Did not advance
	Alfonso Rodríguez	Spain	9.750	9.625	19.375	Did not advance
	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team	9.700	9.675	19.375	Did not advance
14	Boris Preti	Italy	9.725	9.625	19.350	Did not advance
15	Jair Lynch	United States	9.650	9.675	19.325	Did not advance
	Csaba Fajkusz	Hungary	9.700	9.625	19.325	Did not advance
17	Takashi Chinen	Japan	9.725	9.525	19.250	Did not advance
	Li Ge	China	9.675	9.575	19.250	Did not advance
	Masayuki Matsunaga	Japan	9.725	9.525	19.250	Did not advance
	Nicu Stroia	Romania	9.550	9.700	19.250	Did not advance
	M. Chris Waller	United States	9.650	9.600	19.250	Did not advance
	Oliver Walther	Germany	9.525	9.725	19.250	Did not advance
23	Paolo Bucci	Italy	9.700	9.525	19.225	Did not advance
	Curtis Hibbert	Canada	9.700	9.525	19.225	Did not advance
	Li Chunyang	China	9.700	9.525	19.225	Did not advance
	Martin Modlitba	Czechoslovakia	9.675	9.550	19.225	Did not advance
	Aleksey Voropayev	Unified Team	9.625	9.600	19.225	Did not advance
28	Han Yun-su	South Korea	9.650	9.550	19.200	Did not advance
	John Roethlisberger	United States	9.675	9.525	19.200	Did not advance
	Miklós Pánczél	Hungary	9.700	9.500	19.200	Did not advance
31	Sébastien Darrigade	France	9.750	9.425	19.175	Did not advance
	Rustam Sharipov	Unified Team	9.675	9.500	19.175	Did not advance
	Kalofer Hristozov	Bulgaria	9.700	9.475	19.175	Did not advance
	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	9.575	9.600	19.175	Did not advance
35	Mario Franke	Germany	9.700	9.450	19.150	Did not advance
	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Unified Team	9.750	9.400	19.150	Did not advance
	Sylvio Kroll	Germany	9.575	9.575	19.150	Did not advance
	Marian Rizan	Romania	9.600	9.550	19.150	Did not advance
	Yoo Ok-ryul	South Korea	9.625	9.525	19.150	Did not advance
40	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	9.650	9.475	19.125	Did not advance
	Deyan Kolev	Bulgaria	9.650	9.475	19.125	Did not advance
	Li Dashuang	China	9.525	9.600	19.125	Did not advance
43	Patrice Casimir	France	9.700	9.375	19.075	Did not advance
	Luis López	Mexico	9.625	9.450	19.075	Did not advance
45	Fabrice Guelzec	France	9.575	9.475	19.050	Did not advance
46	Yutaka Aihara	Japan	9.675	9.350	19.025	Did not advance
	Georgi Lozanov	Bulgaria	9.550	9.475	19.025	Did not advance
	Adrian Sandu	Romania	9.650	9.375	19.025	Did not advance
	Neil Thomas	Great Britain	9.500	9.525	19.025	Did not advance
50	Gianmatteo Centazzo	Italy	9.475	9.500	18.975	Did not advance
51	Ilian Aleksandrov	Bulgaria	9.550	9.400	18.950	Did not advance
	Sven Tippelt	Germany	9.600	9.350	18.950	Did not advance
53	Terry Bartlett	Great Britain	9.525	9.400	18.925	Did not advance
	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary	9.525	9.400	18.925	Did not advance
	Ruggero Rossato	Italy	9.600	9.325	18.925	Did not advance
56	Róbert Élő	Hungary	9.500	9.400	18.900	Did not advance
	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	9.750	9.150	18.900	Did not advance
58	Arnold Bugár	Czechoslovakia	9.400	9.475	18.875	Did not advance
	Alessandro Viligiardi	Italy	9.550	9.325	18.875	Did not advance
60	Oliver Grimm	Switzerland	9.450	9.400	18.850	Did not advance
61	Lee Joo-hyung	South Korea	9.775	9.050	18.825	Did not advance
62	Johan Jonasson	Sweden	9.675	9.125	18.800	Did not advance
63	Isidro Ibarrondo	Argentina	9.525	9.250	18.775	Did not advance
64	Ralf Büchner	Germany	9.675	9.075	18.750	Did not advance
65	Adrian Gal	Romania	9.375	9.350	18.725	Did not advance
66	Scott Keswick	United States	9.700	9.000	18.700	Did not advance
67	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	9.675	8.975	18.650	Did not advance
	Han Gwang-ho	South Korea	9.250	9.400	18.650	Did not advance
	Yukio Iketani	Japan	9.000	9.650	18.650	Did not advance
	Alan Nolet	Canada	9.575	9.075	18.650	Did not advance
	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	9.325	9.325	18.650	Did not advance
72	Flavio Rota	Switzerland	9.325	9.300	18.625	Did not advance
73	Dominick Minicucci Jr.	United States	9.650	8.950	18.600	Did not advance
	Gabriele Sala	Italy	9.450	9.150	18.600	Did not advance
75	Miguel Ángel Rubio	Spain	9.525	9.025	18.550	Did not advance
76	Nicolae Bejenaru	Romania	9.375	9.100	18.475	Did not advance
77	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	9.125	9.300	18.425	Did not advance
	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	9.550	8.875	18.425	Did not advance
79	James May	Great Britain	9.600	8.800	18.400	Did not advance
80	Marco Monteiro	Brazil	9.375	9.000	18.375	Did not advance
81	Jože Kolman	Slovenia	9.450	8.825	18.275	Did not advance
82	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.700	8.550	18.250	Did not advance
83	David Cox	Great Britain	8.800	9.400	18.200	Did not advance
	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	9.300	8.900	18.200	Did not advance
85	Mike Inglis	Canada	9.450	8.725	18.175	Did not advance
86	Ron Kaplan	Israel	9.475	8.625	18.100	Did not advance
	Károly Schupkégel	Hungary	9.375	8.725	18.100	Did not advance
88	Daniel Giubellini	Switzerland	8.550	9.525	18.075	Did not advance
89	Sin Myong-su	North Korea	8.800	9.250	18.050	Did not advance
90	Markus Müller	Switzerland	9.125	8.750	17.875	Did not advance
91	Marvin Campbell	Great Britain	8.450	8.700	17.150	Did not advance
92	Paul Bowler	Great Britain	9.450	—	9.450	Did not advance
93	Victor Colon	Puerto Rico	9.350	—	9.350	Did not advance

References[]

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com