Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Artistic
Team all-around		men		women
Individual all-around		men		women
Vault		men		women
Floor		men		women
Pommel horse		men
Rings		men
Parallel bars		men
Horizontal bar		men
Uneven bars				women
Balance beam				women
Rhythmic
Individual all-around				women

At the 1992 Summer Olympics, two different gymnastics were contested: artistic gymnastics and rhythmic gymnastics. The artistic gymnastics events were held at the Palau Sant Jordi from July 26 through August 2. The rhythmic gymnastics event were held at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona from August 6 through 8th.

In artistic gymnastics, the New Life rule was introduced at the Olympic Games. Under this rule, a gymnast's scores in the compulsory and optional rounds were not carried over to the all-around and apparatus finals. A gymnast's final standing in both the all-around and apparatus finals was based solely on the scores received by the gymnast during those competitions.

Artistic gymnastics

Format of competition

The gymnastics competition at the 1992 Summer Olympics was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Only the five highest scores earned by team members on each apparatus during each round were used to determined the overall team total. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was determined by adding the scores earned by him or her on each of the six apparatuses in the men's competition and each of the four apparatuses in the women's competition.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which he or she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast determined solely by the score earned by him or her on the apparatus during this competition.

Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Unified Team (EUN) Valery Belenky Ihor Korobchynskyi Grigory Misutin Vitaly Scherbo Rustam Sharipov Alexei Voropaev	China (CHN) Guo Linyao Li Chunyang Li Dashuang Li Ge Li Jing Li Xiaoshuang	Japan (JPN) Yutaka Aihara Takashi Chinen Yoshiaki Hatakeda Yukio Iketani Masayuki Matsunaga Daisuke Nishikawa
Individual all-around	Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team	Grigory Misutin  Unified Team	Valery Belenky  Unified Team
Floor exercise	Li Xiaoshuang  China	Yukio Iketani  Japan	none awarded
		Grigory Misutin  Unified Team
Horizontal bar	Trent Dimas  United States	Grigory Misutin  Unified Team	none awarded
		Andreas Wecker  Germany
Parallel bars	Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team	Li Jing  China	Igor Korobchinski  Unified Team
			Guo Linyao  China
			Masayuki Matsunaga  Japan
Pommel horse	Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team	none awarded	Andreas Wecker  Germany
	Pae Gil-Su  North Korea
Rings	Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team	Li Jing  China	Andreas Wecker  Germany
			Li Xiaoshuang  China
Vault	Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team	Grigory Misutin  Unified Team	Yoo Ok-Ryul  South Korea

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	Unified Team (EUN) Svetlana Boginskaya Oksana Chusovitina Rozalia Galiyeva Elena Grudneva Tatiana Gutsu Tatiana Lysenko	Romania (ROM) Cristina Bontaş Gina Gogean Vanda Hădărean Lavinia Miloşovici Maria Neculiţă Mirela Paşca	United States (USA) Wendy Bruce Dominique Dawes Shannon Miller Betty Okino Kerri Strug Kim Zmeskal
Individual all-around	Tatiana Gutsu  Unified Team	Shannon Miller  United States	Lavinia Miloşovici  Romania
Balance beam	Tatiana Lysenko  Unified Team	Lu Li  China	none awarded
		Shannon Miller  United States
Floor exercise	Lavinia Miloşovici  Romania	Henrietta Ónodi  Hungary	Cristina Bontaş  Romania
			Shannon Miller  United States
			Tatiana Gutsu  Unified Team
Uneven bars	Lu Li  China	Tatiana Gutsu  Unified Team	Shannon Miller  United States
Vault	Lavinia Miloşovici  Romania	none awarded	Tatiana Lysenko  Unified Team
	Henrietta Ónodi  Hungary

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Alexandra Timoshenko  Unified Team	Carolina Pascual  Spain	Oxana Skaldina  Unified Team

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Unified Team (EUN)	10	5	5	20
2	China (CHN)	2	4	2	8
3	Romania (ROU)	2	1	2	5
4	United States (USA)	1	2	3	6
5	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	0	2
6	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	0	1
7	Germany (GER)	0	1	2	3
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	2	3
9	Spain (ESP)	0	1	0	1
10	South Korea (KOR)	0	0	1	1
Total		17	16	17	50

See also

• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (men)
• Olympic medalists in gymnastics (women)
• 1991 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• Gymnastics at the 1991 Pan American Games

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com