The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The qualification and final rounds took place on September 16 and 20 at the Sydney SuperDome. There were 97 competitors from 32 nations. Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts (returning to the longstanding team size after one Games of teams of 7 in 1996) or up to 2 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Alexei Nemov of Russia, the nation's first victory in the event. Nemov, with a silver medal in 1996, became the 12th man to earn multiple medals in the all-around. Yang Wei of China took silver. Oleksandr Beresch earned bronze, Ukraine's first medal in the event.
Background
This was the 23rd 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.
Three of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1996 Games returned: silver medalist Alexei Nemov of Russia, seventh-place finisher John Roethlisberger of the United States, and tenth-place finisher Blaine Wilson of the United States. Russia's Nikolai Kryukov was the reigning (1999) World Champion; Ivan Ivankov of Belarus had won the 1997 World Championship.
Latvia made its debut in the event. France made its 21st appearance, most among nations.
Competition format
Major changes to the competition format were implemented in 2000. The competition continued to use a preliminary (qualifying) round and a final round, with scores cleared between rounds (no carryover). However, the preliminary round now used only one optional exercise for each apparatus rather than requiring both a compulsory and optional exercise. The team event scoring used a 6–5–4 format (each team had 6 gymnasts, selected 5 per apparatus, with 4 scores counting), a reduced version of the 1996 7–6–5 system, which reduced the number of gymnasts competing in every apparatus. Total scores and an overall rank were still used for all gymnasts, however. 2000 was also the year where the tie-breaking rules came into effect, which resulted in far less tie rankings or duplicate of medals than at the Games before that. Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus the total preliminary score was from 0 to 60. The final total, with six exercises, was from 0 to 60.
Schedule
All times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (UTC+10)
Date Time Round Saturday, 16 September 2000 10:30 Qualifying Wednesday, 20 September 2000 19:00 Final
Results
There were 97 gymnasts that competed during the qualification round on September 16, though only 52 competed on each apparatus. Fifty-three gymnasts competed in the all-around during the qualification round. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 16. Each country was limited to three competitors in the final.
Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim Total Alexei Nemov 58.361 9.8009.7759.6879.6509.7759.78758.474 Yang Wei 57.449 9.7009.7509.7129.7129.7509.73758.361 Oleksandr Beresch 58.049 9.6759.7629.5509.6759.7509.800 58.212 4 Ivan Ivankov 56.949 9.5759.7259.7629.5009.7009.762 58.024 5 Oleksandr Svetlichny 57.286 9.6009.6759.5259.7259.7259.700 57.950 6 Blaine Wilson 56.861 9.7009.5879.6129.8009.7129.525 57.936 7 Alexei Bondarenko 57.812 9.6379.7259.7129.4009.6759.775 57.924 8 Yordan Yovchev 57.599 9.5509.7379.7509.4759.6759.700 57.887 9 Lihui Zheng 57.311 9.6129.6509.5759.6129.6759.350 57.474 10 Lee Joo-Hyung 55.986 9.2379.6509.6009.5259.7509.700 57.462 11 Rareș Orzața 56.560 9.3129.6129.6379.6629.4629.700 57.385 12 Yoshihiro Saito 56.487 9.5129.6009.6629.4379.4259.725 57.361 13 Marian Drăgulescu 57.349 9.6379.3009.5629.5629.4879.550 57.098 14 Paul Hamm 57.436 9.6759.6129.5509.5879.7508.875 57.049 15 Dimitri Karbanenko 56.424 9.4509.1259.4259.6129.7129.637 56.961 16 Yann Cucherat 56.323 9.2629.6629.5759.2129.6129.600 56.923 17 Eric López 56.574 8.6629.6009.6759.6879.6129.575 56.811 18 Naoya Tsukahara 56.985 9.3628.4259.6509.5629.6629.762 56.423 19 Maxim Aleshin 56.274 9.3259.0009.4129.4129.5509.700 56.399 20 Benjamin Varonian 56.161 9.5008.8879.5508.9879.7259.712 56.361 21 Dimitrij Nonin 56.049 8.9379.4379.5879.0129.5879.750 56.310 22 Cho Seong-Min 56.937 9.2629.2509.5509.6009.6628.900 56.224 23 Aleksei Sinkevich 56.622 8.7509.5879.5009.1379.5759.512 56.061 24 Dimitar Lountchev 54.948 9.0379.5629.0759.3759.4379.525 56.011 25 Kenichi Fujita 56.560 9.5129.6379.6009.5758.7508.800 55.874 26 Omar Cortés 55.061 8.1129.6759.5509.3259.5379.650 55.849 27 Roman Zozulya 55.923 8.8129.6259.6879.1628.9259.600 55.811 28 Ioan Suciu 56.773 8.7129.7259.3259.2129.4009.412 55.786 29 Philippe Rizzo 54.123 9.3509.6378.7759.0879.1879.750 55.786 30 Lazaro Lamelas 55.722 8.7759.2629.4379.2629.2759.575 55.586 31 Víctor Cano 55.748 9.0879.6509.4628.8258.8759.662 55.561 32 Craig Heap 54.511 9.1129.2629.4509.0379.2759.212 55.348 33 Ivan Pavlovsky 56.374 8.9259.5009.3129.4378.3759.362 54.911 34 Alejandro Barrenechea 54.911 8.1628.6129.5759.2379.5879.237 54.410 35 Alberto Busnari 54.686 8.3009.5508.4008.3629.5379.662 53.811 36 Igor Cassina 54.111 7.8379.3508.4129.1758.8129.687 53.373 37 Ilia Giorgadze 56.948 38 Jeong Jin-su 56.574 39 Andreas Wecker 56.011 40 Igors Vihrovs 56.186 41 Stephen McCain 55.686 42 Florentin Pescaru 55.823 colspan=7 rowspan=4 43 Yevgeny Podgorny 56.273 44 Dieter Rehm 54.423 45 Saúl Cofiño 54.286 46 Flemming Solberg 53.975 colspan=7 rowspan=52 47 Damian Istria 53.973 48 Kim Dong-hwa 53.124 48 Diego Lizardi 52.261 50 Rúnar Alexandersson 52.149 51 Lin Yung-hsi 51.674 52 David Phillips 49.461 53 Pae Gil-su 48.411 54 Li Xiaopeng 47.962 55 Xing Aowei 47.574 56 Nikolay Kryukov 47.336 57 Morgan Hamm 47.262 58 Mutsumi Harada 46.974 59 Valeriy Honcharov 46.611 60 Jan-Peter Nikiferow 46.587 61 Sergej Pfeifer 46.549 62 Deyan Yordanov 44.274 63 Florent Marée 44.087 64 Vasil Vetsev 43.362 65 Sean Townsend 38.337 66 Akihiro Kasamatsu 38.311 67 Valeriy Pereshkura 38.236 68 Huang Xu 37.999 69 Aleksandr Shostak 37.973 70 Xiao Junfeng 37.712 71 Andreu Vivó 37.612 72 Zoltán Supola 37.586 73 Vitaly Rudnitsky 37.399 74 Marius Tobă 37.337 75 Aleksandr Kruzhilov 37.224 76 Khristian Ivanov 37.211 77 Rene Tschernitschek 36.998 78 Leszek Blanik 36.325 79 Mladen Stefanov 36.286 80 Raouf Abdelraouf 35.212 81 Sergey Fedorchenko 29.162 82 Marius Urzică 29.049 83 Lee Jang-hyeong 28.849 84 Éric Casimir 28.837 85 Yeo Hong-cheol 28.762 86 Norimasa Iwai 28.699 87 Ruslan Mezentsev 28.462 88 John Roethlisberger 28.412 89 Kyle Shewfelt 19.150 90 Gervasio Deferr 19.087 91 Dimosthenis Tambakos 18.574 92 Sasha Jeltkov 17.699 93 Éric Poujade 9.787 94 Szilveszter Csollány 9.775 95 Ioannis Melissanidis 9.737 96 Dmitry Drevin 9.225 97 Mitja Petkovšek 8.687
References
External links Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com