The men's individual all-around 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 22nd at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations. Each nation could send a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Vladimir Artemov of the Soviet Union, the nation's sixth victory in the event (then the most of any nation; Japan tied this total in 2016). The Soviets swept the medals, with Valeri Liukin taking silver and Dmitri Bilozertchev bronze. It was the third medal sweep in the men's all-around; France had done it in 1900 and Japan in 1972.
Background
This was the 20th 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.
Two of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1984 Games returned, both from China: bronze medalist Li Ning and seventh-place finisher Xu Zhiqiang. The reigning (1987) World Champion was Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union; his teammate Yuri Korolyov had won in 1985 and placed second behind Bilozerchev in 1987 but missed the Games due to an Achilles injury. Vladimir Artemov, also of the Soviet Union, had finished just behind Korolyov both years (second at the World Championships in 1985 and third in 1987), and was competing in the 1988 Olympics. The only non-Soviet to earn a medal in the men's all-around at either World Championship was East German Sylvio Kroll (third in 1985).
Chinese Taipei made its debut in the event. France made its 18th appearance, most among nations.
Competition format
The competition format followed the preliminary and final format introduced in 1972, with the limit on the number of finalists per nation added in 1976. 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 preliminary score. Half of the scores from the preliminary carried over to the final, with the top 36 gymnasts advancing to the individual all-around final—except that each nation was limited to 3 finalists. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these scores plus half of the preliminary score resulted in a final total.
Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120. With half of the preliminary score and six more exercises scored 0 to 10, the final total was also from 0 to 120.
The preliminary exercise scores were also used for qualification for the apparatus finals.
Schedule
All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)
Date Time Round Sunday, 18 September 1988 11:00 Preliminary: Compulsory Tuesday, 20 September 1988 11:00 Preliminary: Voluntary Thursday, 22 September 1988 12:00 Final
Results
Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the all-around during the compulsory and optional rounds on September 18 and 20. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 22. Each country was limited to three 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 each gymnast's "prelim" score.
Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim Prelim Floor Pommelhorse Rings Vault Parallelbars Horizontalbar Final Total Vladimir Artemov 118.95 59.4759.9009.9009.9009.95010.00010.000 59.650 119.125 Valeri Liukin 118.85 59.4259.9009.9509.9509.9009.90010.000 59.600 119.025 Dmitri Bilozertchev 118.45 59.2259.90010.00010.00010.0009.9509.900 59.750 118.975 4 Sven Tippelt 117.60 58.8009.8009.9509.9509.9009.8009.800 59.200 118.000 5 Marius Gherman 117.55 58.7759.8009.9009.8509.8009.8009.900 59.050 117.825 6 Kalofer Khristozov 117.70 58.8509.8009.9009.9009.6509.8509.800 58.900 117.750 Wang Chongsheng 117.20 58.6009.7509.9009.8509.9009.8509.900 59.150 117.750 8 Gyorgy Guczoghy 117.25 58.6259.75010.0009.9009.8009.8009.800 59.050 117.675 Yukio Iketani 117.65 58.8259.9509.8009.7509.6509.9009.800 58.850 117.675 10 Sylvio Kroll 117.85 58.9259.90010.0009.8509.6509.9009.400 58.700 117.625 Koichi Mizushima 117.45 58.7259.8009.8009.9009.6509.8509.900 58.900 117.625 12 Lou Yun 117.10 58.5509.9009.9009.9009.7009.9009.750 59.050 117.600 13 Daisuke Nishikawa 117.25 58.6259.8509.9009.8009.4509.9009.900 58.800 117.425 14 Csaba Fajkusz 116.75 58.3759.7509.9009.8009.7509.75010.000 58.950 117.325 15 Xu Zhiqiang 117.00 58.5009.9009.8509.9009.8009.9009.450 58.800 117.300 Boris Preti 116.90 58.4509.8509.9009.9009.8009.7509.650 58.850 117.300 17 Jury Chechi 116.55 58.2759.8009.9009.9509.8009.8009.750 59.000 117.275 18 Ralf Büchner 117.20 58.6009.7509.8009.8009.6509.7509.850 58.600 117.200 19 Charles Lakes 116.45 58.2259.9009.7509.8009.8509.7009.950 58.950 117.175 20 Dimitar Taskov 116.75 58.3759.5509.8009.7509.8509.9009.900 58.750 117.125 21 Marius Toba 116.75 58.3759.8009.8509.9009.7009.5009.800 58.550 116.925 22 Curtis Hibbert 116.75 58.3759.8009.6009.7009.6009.8509.900 58.45 116.825 23 Lyubomir Gueraskov 116.75 58.3759.5509.9009.8009.5009.7009.800 58.250 116.625 24 Paolo Bucci 115.70 57.8609.7509.9009.8509.8009.7509.700 58.750 116.600 25 Park Jong-Hoon 115.60 57.8009.7509.6009.8009.8509.8509.850 58.700 116.500 26 Brad Peters 116.05 58.0259.8009.9009.7509.5009.8009.700 58.450 116.475 27 Alfonso Rodríguez 115.45 57.7259.8009.9009.8009.6009.7009.900 58.700 116.425 28 Zsolt Horváth 115.50 57.7509.8009.9509.6009.9009.7009.700 58.650 116.400 29 Christian Chevalier 116.15 58.0759.7009.6009.5009.6009.7009.800 57.900 115.975 30 Johan Jonasson 114.60 57.3009.7009.8509.8509.8009.6509.800 58.650 115.950 31 Patrick Mattioni 116.00 58.0009.6509.8009.7509.5509.7508.950 57.450 115.450 Josef Zellweger 114.60 57.3009.6509.8009.8009.5009.8009.600 58.150 115.450 33 Nicolae Bejenaru 115.30 57.6509.7009.8009.7509.6009.9009.000 57.750 115.400 34 Kevin Davis 114.75 57.3759.6509.8009.6509.5009.6509.700 57.950 115.325 35 Lance Ringnald 115.25 57.6259.5009.8009.6509.5509.8509.100 57.450 115.075 36 Claude Carmona 115.05 57.5259.6009.8009.6509.6009.8008.950 57.400 114.925 37 Sergey Kharkov 118.40 colspan=9 rowspan=22 38 Lado Gogoladze 117.70 39 Vladimir Novikov 117.50 40 Holger Behrendt 116.95 41 Toshiharu Sato 116.65 42 Ulf Hoffmann 116.40 43 Deyan Kolev 116.30 Andreas Wecker 116.30 45 Li Chunyang 116.15 46 Stoyko Gochev 115.95 47 Hiroyuki Konishi 115.80 48 Petar Georgiev 115.60 49 Zsolt Borkai 115.40 Takahiro Yamada 115.40 51 Guo Linxian 115.35 52 Adrian Sandu 115.15 53 Li Ning 114.95 54 Thierry Pecqueux 114.85 Marian Rizan 114.85 56 Riccardo Trapella 114.75 57 Jenő Paprika 114.70 58 Lorne Bobkin 114.60 59 Daniel Winkler 114.50 colspan=9 rowspan=31 60 Mike Beckmann 114.45 61 Ju Yeong-sam 114.25 Gabriele Sala 114.25 63 Scott Johnson 114.20 64 Jürgen Brümmer 114.15 65 James Rozon 114.10 Alan Nolet 114.10 67 Ralph Kern 113.90 Dominick Minicucci 113.90 69 Wes Suter 113.85 70 Stéphane Cauterman 113.75 71 Song Yu-jin 113.60 Bernhard Simmelbauer 113.60 73 Andreas Aguilar 113.35 74 Bruno Cavelti 113.10 75 Terry Bartlett 112.95 76 Frédéric Longuepée 112.90 77 Miguel Ángel Rubio 112.85 78 Álvaro Montesinos 112.65 Vittorio Allievi 112.65 80 Kenneth Meredith 112.10 81 Andrew Morris 112.05 82 Jože Kolman 110.45 83 Chang Chao-chun 110.30 84 Gil Pinto 109.90 85 Hélder Pinheiro 109.60 86 Philippe Chartrand 105.80 87 Valentin Pîntea 105.55 88 Tony Piñeda 102.40 89 Balázs Tóth 77.05
References
External links Official Olympic Report www.gymnasticsresults.com