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. There were 98 competitors from 35 nations. 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.

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.

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 Yang Wei 93.875 15.250 15.275 16.625 16.550 16.100 14.775 94.575 Kohei Uchimura 92.050 15.825 13.275 15.200 16.300 15.975 15.400 91.975 Benoit Caranobe 90.925 15.350 14.875 15.175 16.600 15.050 14.875 91.925 4 Hiroyuki Tomita 91.900 15.100 15.425 13.850 16.200 16.000 15.675 91.750 5 Sergey Khorokhordin 91.800 15.150 15.100 15.400 15.300 15.700 15.050 91.700 6 Maxim Devyatovskiy 90.350 15.225 15.200 15.625 15.225 15.325 15.100 91.700 7 Fabian Hambüchen 92.425 15.625 14.375 15.025 15.975 15.275 15.400 91.675 8 Yang Tae-young 89.300 15.225 14.300 14.900 16.075 16.350 14.750 91.600 9 Jonathan Horton 91.650 15.600 13.675 15.575 16.100 15.275 15.350 91.575 10 Rafael Martínez 90.800 15.450 15.000 14.375 15.575 15.525 15.575 91.500 11 Kim Dae-eun 92.400 15.225 13.650 15.400 15.625 16.000 14.875 90.775 12 Alexander Artemev 89.725 14.625 15.525 14.275 15.975 15.200 15.075 90.675 13 Philipp Boy 89.475 15.075 14.875 14.825 15.400 15.050 15.450 90.675 14 Luis Rivera Rivera 90.600 15.250 15.025 15.225 16.025 14.375 14.275 90.175 15 Adam Wong 89.125 14.325 14.550 15.050 15.700 15.350 14.825 89.800 16 Anton Fokin 89.275 14.525 15.150 14.700 15.575 16.125 13.675 89.750 17 Nathan Gafuik 89.725 15.325 13.475 14.375 16.175 15.275 15.000 89.625 18 Flavius Koczi 90.175 14.900 15.425 14.550 16.450 13.525 14.725 89.575 19 Enrico Pozzo 88.675 15.250 14.625 13.850 15.600 14.600 15.450 89.375 20 Daniel Keatings 88.950 14.850 15.700 14.000 15.800 14.425 14.225 89.000 21 Thomas Bouhail 88.550 15.200 13.400 13.650 15.850 14.425 14.475 87.000 22 José Luis Fuentes 90.325 14.175 13.650 13.900 15.250 15.175 14.150 86.300 23 Dmitry Savitski 90.650 13.725 13.750 15.300 15.900 13.400 10.100 82.175 24 Chen Yibing 91.600 — 13.750 16.650 15.900 14.950 12.975 74.225 25 Koki Sakamoto 91.950 colspan=7 rowspan=3 26 Yuri Ryazanov 90.125 27 Kim Su-myeon 89.900 28 Dimitri Karbanenko 88.500 colspan=7 rowspan=71 29 Aleksandr Shatilov 87.800 30 Hamilton Sabot 87.750 31 Matteo Morandi 87.575 32 Daniel Popescu 87.300 33 Denis Savenkov 87.025 34 Kim Seung-il 87.000 35 Claudio Capelli 86.550 36 Adrian Bucur 86.475 37 Sascha Palgen 86.075 38 Răzvan Şelariu 85.975 39 Sam Simpson 85.625 40 Sergio Muñoz 85.500 41 Louis Smith 85.325 42 Jorge Hugo Giraldo 84.650 43 Koen Van Damme 84.625 44 Mohamed Srour 81.200 45 Li Xiaopeng 78.500 46 Xiao Qin 76.700 47 Dmitry Kasperovich 76.225 48 Takuya Nakase 76.025 49 Marcel Nguyen 75.825 50 Joey Hagerty 75.650 51 Justin Spring 75.650 52 Raj Bhavsar 75.350 53 Eugen Spiridonov 75.000 54 David Kikuchi 74.300 55 Iván San Miguel 73.925 56 Robert Juckel 73.925 57 Anton Golotsutskov 73.850 58 Manuel Carballo 72.325 59 Andrea Coppolino 71.425 60 Nikolay Kryukov 62.275 61 Takehiro Kashima 61.100 62 Kim Ji-hun 60.325 63 Kyle Shewfelt 60.050 64 Matteo Angioletti 59.950 65 Grant Golding 59.700 66 Isaac Botella 59.525 67 Gervasio Deferr 59.225 68 Aleksandr Tsarevich 58.775 69 Alberto Busnari 57.650 70 Igor Kozlov 56.900 71 Marian Drăgulescu 47.350 72 Zou Kai 47.000 73 Huang Xu 46.675 74 Brandon O'Neill 45.975 75 Thomas Andergassen 45.100 76 Kevin Tan 44.250 77 Igor Cassina 43.925 78 George Stănescu 43.875 79 Konstantin Pluzhnikov 43.675 80 Danny Rodrigues 43.400 81 Nashwan Al-Harazi 41.175 82 Róbert Gál 39.550 83 Diego Hypólito 32.050 84 Yann Cucherat 31.850 85 Yoo Won-chul 31.725 86 Makoto Okiguchi 31.025 87 Filip Ude 30.250 88 Vlasis Maras 29.900 89 Valeriy Honcharov 29.850 90 Ilia Giorgadze 29.775 91 Christoph Schärer 28.500 92 Aleksey Ignatovich 28.075 93 Martin Konečný 26.775 94 Leszek Blanik 16.700 95 Yordan Yovchev 16.275 96 Oleksandr Vorobiov 16.250 97 Mitja Petkovšek 16.125 98 Epke Zonderland 15.750

References

External links Qualification results