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Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

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Men's rings
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Dmitry Bilozerchev (1987, on pommel horse)
VenueOlympic Gymnastics Hall
Dates18–24 September
Competitors89 from 23 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Holger Behrendt  East Germany
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dmitry Bilozerchev  Soviet Union
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sven Tippelt  East Germany
← 1984
1992 →

The men's rings 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 24th at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts and other nations having up to 3 gymnasts.[1] For the second consecutive Games, the event ended in a way tie for first place. Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union and Holger Behrendt of East Germany each received a gold medal. It was East Germany's first medal in the rings. The Soviets had had an eight-Games medal streak (and two-Games gold medal streak) in the event snapped by their boycott of the 1984 Games; Bilozerchev's medal put the nation back on the podium after that one-Games absence. Sven Tippelt, also of East Germany, took bronze.

Background

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This was the 17th 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 1984 returned: gold medalist Li Ning of China and eighth-place finisher Josef Zellweger of Switzerland. Two-time world champion Yuri Korolyov of the Soviet Union was injured and unable to compete in Seoul. Li had shared gold with Korolyov at the 1985 World Championships and silver with Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union at the 1987 World Championships.[1]

Chinese Taipei made its debut in the men's rings. The United States made its 15th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 rings and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

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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. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final. The 1984 Games had expanded the number of finalists from six to eight. Nations were still limited to two finalists each. Others were ranked 9th through 89th. [1][2]

Schedule

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All times are Korea Standard Time adjusted for daylight savings (UTC+10)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 18 September 1988 Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 20 September 1988 Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 24 September 1988 13:10 Final

Results

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Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the rings event during the compulsory and optional rounds on September 18 and 20. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 24. Each country was limited to two 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 Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Holger Behrendt  East Germany 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 9.975 19.925
Dmitry Bilozerchev  Soviet Union 9.95 10.00 19.95 9.975 9.950 19.925
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Sven Tippelt  East Germany 9.90 9.95 19.85 9.925 9.950 19.875
4 Kalofer Khristozov  Bulgaria 9.90 9.90 19.80 9.900 9.925 19.825
Valeri Liukin  Soviet Union 9.90 9.95 19.85 9.925 9.900 19.825
6 Lou Yun  China 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
Jury Chechi  Italy 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
8 Gyorgy Guczoghy  Hungary 9.85 9.90 19.75 9.875 9.825 19.700
9 Vladimir Artemov  Soviet Union 9.90 9.90 19.80 Did not advance
Sergey Kharkov  Soviet Union 9.90 9.90 19.80 Did not advance
11 Andreas Aguilar  West Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Lubomir Geraskov  Bulgaria 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Sylvio Kroll  East Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Vladimir Novikov  Soviet Union 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Xu Zhiqiang  China 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
16 Deyan Kolev  Bulgaria 9.80 9.85 19.65 Did not advance
Marius Toba  Romania 9.85 9.80 19.65 Did not advance
18 Vladimir Gogoladze  Soviet Union 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Boris Preti  Italy 9.70 9.90 19.60 Did not advance
Andreas Wecker  East Germany 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
21 Csaba Fajkusz  Hungary 9.70 9.85 19.55 Did not advance
Stoyko Gochev  Bulgaria 9.70 9.85 19.55 Did not advance
Yukio Iketani  Japan 9.80 9.75 19.55 Did not advance
Toshiharu Sato  Japan 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Wang Chongsheng  China 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
26 Guo Linxian  China 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Li Chunyang  China 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Valentin Pîntea  Romania 9.75 9.75 19.50 Did not advance
29 Koichi Mizushima  Japan 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Daisuke Nishikawa  Japan 9.75 9.70 19.45 Did not advance
Alfonso Rodríguez  Spain 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
Dimitar Taskov  Bulgaria 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Josef Zellweger  Switzerland 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
34 Jürgen Brümmer  West Germany 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Ralf Büchner  East Germany 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Curtis Hibbert  Canada 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Zsolt Horváth  Hungary 9.60 9.80 19.40 Did not advance
Song Yu-jin  South Korea 9.65 9.75 19.40 Did not advance
39 Paolo Bucci  Italy 9.55 9.80 19.35 Did not advance
Philippe Chartrand  Canada 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
Petar Georgiev  Bulgaria 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Marius Gherman  Romania 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Ulf Hoffmann  East Germany 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Li Ning  China 9.40 9.95 19.35 Did not advance
Takahiro Yamada  Japan 9.70 9.65 19.35 Did not advance
46 Claude Carmona  France 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
Hiroyuki Konishi  Japan 9.70 9.60 19.30 Did not advance
48 Zsolt Borkai  Hungary 9.80 9.45 19.25 Did not advance
Christian Chevalier  France 9.45 9.80 19.25 Did not advance
Brad Peters  Canada 9.70 9.55 19.25 Did not advance
Miguel Ángel Rubio  Spain 9.60 9.65 19.25 Did not advance
52 Charles Lakes  United States 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
Patrick Mattioni  France 9.55 9.65 19.20 Did not advance
Park Jong-Hoon  South Korea 9.65 9.55 19.20 Did not advance
Marian Rizan  Romania 9.55 9.65 19.20 Did not advance
56 Jenő Paprika  Hungary 9.50 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
Thierry Pecqueux  France 9.40 9.75 19.15 Did not advance
58 Nicolae Bejenaru  Romania 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
Kevin Davis  United States 9.50 9.60 19.10 Did not advance
Scott Johnson  United States 9.30 9.80 19.10 Did not advance
Riccardo Trapella  Italy 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
62 Johan Jonasson  Sweden 9.40 9.65 19.05 Did not advance
Ju Yeong-sam  South Korea 9.75 9.30 19.05 Did not advance
Dominick Minicucci Jr.  United States 9.55 9.50 19.05 Did not advance
65 Andrew Morris  Great Britain 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Adrian Sandu  Romania 9.55 9.45 19.00 Did not advance
67 Bruno Cavelti  Switzerland 9.35 9.60 18.95 Did not advance
Alan Nolet  Canada 9.55 9.40 18.95 Did not advance
Bernhard Simmelbauer  West Germany 9.45 9.50 18.95 Did not advance
70 Daniel Winkler  West Germany 9.50 9.40 18.90 Did not advance
71 Álvaro Montesinos  Spain 9.55 9.30 18.85 Did not advance
Lance Ringnald  United States 9.30 9.55 18.85 Did not advance
73 Kenneth Meredith  Australia 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
James Rozon  Canada 9.50 9.30 18.80 Did not advance
75 Frédéric Longuepée  France 9.15 9.55 18.70 Did not advance
76 Terry Bartlett  Great Britain 9.50 9.15 18.65 Did not advance
Stéphane Cauterman  France 9.25 9.40 18.65 Did not advance
Gabriele Sala  Italy 9.45 9.20 18.65 Did not advance
79 Mike Beckmann  West Germany 9.40 9.20 18.60 Did not advance
Lorne Bobkin  Canada 9.45 9.15 18.60 Did not advance
81 Vittorio Allievi  Italy 9.15 9.40 18.55 Did not advance
82 Wes Suter  United States 9.15 9.35 18.50 Did not advance
83 Ralph Kern  West Germany 9.60 8.80 18.40 Did not advance
Jože Kolman  Yugoslavia 9.10 9.30 18.40 Did not advance
85 Chang Chao-chun  Chinese Taipei 9.20 8.95 18.15 Did not advance
86 Gil Pinto  Brazil 8.80 9.30 18.10 Did not advance
87 Tony Piñeda  Mexico 8.60 9.40 18.00 Did not advance
88 Hélder Pinheiro  Portugal 8.70 9.25 17.95 Did not advance
89 Balázs Tóth  Hungary 9.65 0.00 9.65 Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Rings, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 429.