Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

Men's rings at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Nicaraguan stamp depicting Vitaly Scherbo (on the vault)
Venue	Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
Date	27 July – 2 August
Competitors	93 from 25 nations
Winning score	9.937
Medalists
Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team Li Jing  China Andreas Wecker  Germany Li Xiaoshuang  China
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The men's rings 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 Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team, the fourth time in five Games that a Soviet or former Soviet gymnast won the rings. Li Jing of China earned silver. There was a tie for third, with Andreas Wecker of Germany and Li Xiaoshuang of China each receiving bronze medals. It was the first medal for unified Germany since 1936, though East Germany had won gold and bronze in 1988.

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). Two of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: bronze medalist Sven Tippelt of East Germany and fourth-place finisher Kalofer Khristozov of Bulgaria. The reigning (1991) world champion was Grigory Misutin of the Unified Team. Wecker had placed second in both 1989 and 1991.^[1]

Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's rings; 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 rings 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[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team	9.900	9.900	19.800	9.937
	Li Jing	China	9.875	9.775	19.650	9.875
	Li Xiaoshuang	China	9.900	9.725	19.625	9.862
	Andreas Wecker	Germany	9.900	9.850	19.750	9.862
5	Valery Belenky	Unified Team	9.875	9.800	19.675	9.825
6	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary	9.875	9.800	19.675	9.800
7	Yukio Iketani	Japan	9.875	9.725	19.600	9.762
8	Kalofer Hristozov	Bulgaria	9.800	9.750	19.550	9.750
9	Grigory Misutin	Unified Team	9.800	9.850	19.650	Did not advance
10	Li Chunyang	China	9.800	9.775	19.575	Did not advance
11	Sven Tippelt	Germany	9.750	9.750	19.500	Did not advance
12	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Unified Team	9.800	9.675	19.475	Did not advance
13	Mario Franke	Germany	9.750	9.700	19.450	Did not advance
	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	9.800	9.650	19.450	Did not advance
	Aleksey Voropayev	Unified Team	9.700	9.750	19.450	Did not advance
	Yoo Ok-ryul	South Korea	9.800	9.650	19.450	Did not advance
17	Scott Keswick	United States	9.775	9.650	19.425	Did not advance
	Daisuke Nishikawa	Japan	9.775	9.650	19.425	Did not advance
19	Li Ge	China	9.625	9.775	19.400	Did not advance
20	Boris Preti	Italy	9.700	9.675	19.375	Did not advance
21	Guo Linyao	China	9.700	9.650	19.350	Did not advance
	Alfonso Rodríguez	Spain	9.775	9.575	19.350	Did not advance
	Rustam Sharipov	Unified Team	9.700	9.650	19.350	Did not advance
	Sin Myong-su	North Korea	9.800	9.550	19.350	Did not advance
25	Paolo Bucci	Italy	9.675	9.625	19.300	Did not advance
	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	9.600	9.700	19.300	Did not advance
27	Sylvio Kroll	Germany	9.700	9.550	19.250	Did not advance
	Masayuki Matsunaga	Japan	9.650	9.600	19.250	Did not advance
29	John Roethlisberger	United States	9.700	9.525	19.225	Did not advance
	M. Chris Waller	United States	9.675	9.550	19.225	Did not advance
31	Takashi Chinen	Japan	9.650	9.550	19.200	Did not advance
32	Pae Gil-su	North Korea	9.750	9.425	19.175	Did not advance
	Neil Thomas	Great Britain	9.750	9.425	19.175	Did not advance
34	Ralf Büchner	Germany	9.650	9.500	19.150	Did not advance
	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	9.475	9.675	19.150	Did not advance
36	Yutaka Aihara	Japan	9.500	9.625	19.125	Did not advance
	Oliver Walther	Germany	9.700	9.425	19.125	Did not advance
38	Marius Gherman	Romania	9.650	9.450	19.100	Did not advance
	Lee Joo-hyung	South Korea	9.650	9.450	19.100	Did not advance
40	Nicolae Bejenaru	Romania	9.525	9.525	19.050	Did not advance
	Csaba Fajkusz	Hungary	9.600	9.450	19.050	Did not advance
	Daniel Giubellini	Switzerland	9.550	9.500	19.050	Did not advance
	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	9.650	9.400	19.050	Did not advance
	Luis López	Mexico	9.625	9.425	19.050	Did not advance
45	Li Dashuang	China	9.500	9.525	19.025	Did not advance
	James May	Great Britain	9.600	9.425	19.025	Did not advance
47	Sébastien Darrigade	France	9.600	9.400	19.000	Did not advance
	Ron Kaplan	Israel	9.550	9.450	19.000	Did not advance
	Dominick Minicucci Jr.	United States	9.525	9.475	19.000	Did not advance
	Marian Rizan	Romania	9.675	9.325	19.000	Did not advance
	Ruggero Rossato	Italy	9.575	9.425	19.000	Did not advance
	Károly Schupk��gel	Hungary	9.550	9.450	19.000	Did not advance
53	Johan Jonasson	Sweden	9.600	9.375	18.975	Did not advance
	Miguel Ángel Rubio	Spain	9.575	9.400	18.975	Did not advance
55	Gianmatteo Centazzo	Italy	9.600	9.350	18.950	Did not advance
	Róbert Élő	Hungary	9.550	9.400	18.950	Did not advance
	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	9.650	9.300	18.950	Did not advance
	Fabrice Guelzec	France	9.500	9.450	18.950	Did not advance
	Han Yun-su	South Korea	9.600	9.350	18.950	Did not advance
60	Patrice Casimir	France	9.600	9.325	18.925	Did not advance
61	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	9.600	9.250	18.850	Did not advance
62	Adrian Gal	Romania	9.525	9.300	18.825	Did not advance
	Oliver Grimm	Switzerland	9.450	9.375	18.825	Did not advance
64	Adrian Sandu	Romania	9.450	9.350	18.800	Did not advance
	Nicu Stroia	Romania	9.425	9.375	18.800	Did not advance
66	Han Gwang-ho	South Korea	9.475	9.300	18.775	Did not advance
	Jair Lynch	United States	9.475	9.300	18.775	Did not advance
68	Miklós Pánczél	Hungary	9.475	9.250	18.725	Did not advance
69	Trent Dimas	United States	9.575	9.125	18.700	Did not advance
	Gabriele Sala	Italy	9.600	9.100	18.700	Did not advance
	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	9.350	9.350	18.700	Did not advance
72	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.475	9.175	18.650	Did not advance
	Curtis Hibbert	Canada	9.625	9.025	18.650	Did not advance
	Martin Modlitba	Czechoslovakia	9.500	9.150	18.650	Did not advance
75	Ilian Aleksandrov	Bulgaria	9.325	9.300	18.625	Did not advance
	Alan Nolet	Canada	9.325	9.300	18.625	Did not advance
77	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	9.650	8.950	18.600	Did not advance
78	Alessandro Viligiardi	Italy	9.325	9.200	18.525	Did not advance
79	Terry Bartlett	Great Britain	9.400	9.100	18.500	Did not advance
80	Georgi Lozanov	Bulgaria	9.400	9.075	18.475	Did not advance
	Flavio Rota	Switzerland	9.250	9.225	18.475	Did not advance
82	Marvin Campbell	Great Britain	9.325	9.125	18.450	Did not advance
83	Jože Kolman	Slovenia	9.300	9.100	18.400	Did not advance
84	Arnold Bugár	Czechoslovakia	9.300	8.975	18.275	Did not advance
	David Cox	Great Britain	9.000	9.275	18.275	Did not advance
86	Isidro Ibarrondo	Argentina	9.025	9.050	18.075	Did not advance
87	Marco Monteiro	Brazil	9.200	8.675	17.875	Did not advance
88	Markus Müller	Switzerland	9.050	8.675	17.725	Did not advance
89	Mike Inglis	Canada	9.000	8.575	17.575	Did not advance
90	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	8.150	8.975	17.125	Did not advance
91	Deyan Kolev	Bulgaria	9.700	—	9.700	Did not advance
92	Paul Bowler	Great Britain	9.550	—	9.550	Did not advance
93	Victor Colon	Puerto Rico	9.225	—	9.225	Did not advance

References[]

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com