Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

The men's pommel horse competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on 27 July, 29 July and 2 August at the Palau d'Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations, with nations in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have up to 3 gymnasts.^[1] For the third consecutive Games, the pommel horse ended in a tie for the gold medal. Belarusian Vitaly Scherbo (on the Unified Team) and North Korean Pae Gil-su shared the top place. It was North Korea's first medal in the event. Bronze went to Andreas Wecker of Germany.

Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Palau dels Esports de Barcelona
Dates	27 July – 2 August
Competitors	93 from 25 nations
Winning score	9.925
Medalists
Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team Pae Gil-su  North Korea Andreas Wecker  Germany
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Background

This was the 18th 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). Three of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: sixth-place finisher Daisuke Nishikawa of Japan and seventh-place finisher Sven Tippelt and eighth-place finisher Sylvio Kroll of East Germany (now competing for unified Germany). The world championships earlier in 1992 had resulted in a three-way tie between Li Jing (China), Vitaly Scherbo (Unified Team), and Pae Gil-su (North Korea).^[1]

Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's pommel horse; some former Soviet Republics competed as the Unified Team. The United States made its 16th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 pommel horse and the boycotted 1980 Games.

Competition format

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. The top eight gymnasts, with a limit of two per nation, advanced to the final. In a change from previous years, the preliminary score had no effect on the final; once the eight finalists were selected, their ranking depended only on the final exercise. Non-finalists were ranked 9th through 93rd based on preliminary score.^[1][2]

Schedule

All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 29 July 1992		Preliminary
Sunday, 2 August 1992	20:30	Final

Results

Ninety-three gymnasts competed in the pommel horse event during the compulsory and optional rounds on 27 and 29 July. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on 2 August. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team	9.775	9.875	19.650	9.925
	Pae Gil-su	North Korea	9.700	9.775	19.475	9.925
	Andreas Wecker	Germany	9.675	9.875	19.550	9.887
4	Guo Linyao	China	9.700	9.800	19.500	9.875
5	M. Chris Waller	United States	9.650	9.775	19.425	9.825
6	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	9.600	9.800	19.400	9.775
7	Li Jing	China	9.650	9.825	19.475	9.250
	Valery Belenky	Unified Team	9.750	9.900	19.650	9.250
9	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Unified Team	9.700	9.775	19.475	Did not advance
10	Li Xiaoshuang	China	9.650	9.800	19.450	Did not advance
11	Takashi Chinen	Japan	9.575	9.775	19.350	Did not advance
12	Yukio Iketani	Japan	9.625	9.700	19.325	Did not advance
13	Li Dashuang	China	9.600	9.700	19.300	Did not advance
14	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary	9.625	9.650	19.275	Did not advance
	Li Chunyang	China	9.450	9.825	19.275	Did not advance
16	Ralf Büchner	Germany	9.525	9.725	19.250	Did not advance
	Marius Gherman	Romania	9.600	9.650	19.250	Did not advance
	Boris Preti	Italy	9.550	9.700	19.250	Did not advance
19	Marian Rizan	Romania	9.550	9.675	19.225	Did not advance
20	Gianmatteo Centazzo	Italy	9.450	9.750	19.200	Did not advance
21	Li Ge	China	9.500	9.675	19.175	Did not advance
	Paolo Bucci	Italy	9.450	9.725	19.175	Did not advance
23	Ruggero Rossato	Italy	9.475	9.675	19.150	Did not advance
24	Kalofer Hristozov	Bulgaria	9.475	9.650	19.125	Did not advance
25	Oliver Walther	Germany	9.500	9.600	19.100	Did not advance
26	Jair Lynch	United States	9.550	9.500	19.050	Did not advance
	Dominick Minicucci	United States	9.425	9.625	19.050	Did not advance
	Alfonso Rodríguez	Spain	9.475	9.575	19.050	Did not advance
	Gabriele Sala	Italy	9.450	9.600	19.050	Did not advance
	Aleksey Voropayev	Unified Team	9.475	9.575	19.050	Did not advance
31	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	9.525	9.500	19.025	Did not advance
	Neil Thomas	Great Britain	9.450	9.575	19.025	Did not advance
33	Csaba Fajkusz	Hungary	9.400	9.600	19.000	Did not advance
	Adrian Sandu	Romania	9.375	9.625	19.000	Did not advance
35	Yutaka Aihara	Japan	9.375	9.600	18.975	Did not advance
	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	9.350	9.625	18.975	Did not advance
37	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	9.400	9.550	18.950	Did not advance
38	Daniel Giubellini	Switzerland	9.375	9.550	18.925	Did not advance
	Deyan Kolev	Bulgaria	9.500	9.425	18.925	Did not advance
	Luis López	Mexico	9.550	9.375	18.925	Did not advance
	Miklós Pánczél	Hungary	9.275	9.650	18.925	Did not advance
	Patrice Casimir	France	9.475	9.450	18.925	Did not advance
	Nicu Stroia	Romania	9.350	9.575	18.925	Did not advance
44	Róbert Élő	Hungary	9.375	9.525	18.900	Did not advance
45	Lee Joo-hyung	South Korea	9.375	9.500	18.875	Did not advance
46	Adrian Gal	Romania	9.400	9.450	18.850	Did not advance
	Johan Jonasson	Sweden	9.350	9.500	18.850	Did not advance
	John Roethlisberger	United States	9.150	9.700	18.850	Did not advance
49	Trent Dimas	United States	9.350	9.475	18.825	Did not advance
	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	9.500	9.325	18.825	Did not advance
51	Grigory Misutin	Unified Team	9.625	9.175	18.800	Did not advance
	Daisuke Nishikawa	Japan	9.525	9.275	18.800	Did not advance
	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	9.350	9.450	18.800	Did not advance
	Sylvio Kroll	Germany	9.075	9.725	18.800	Did not advance
55	Miguel Ángel Rubio	Spain	9.450	9.325	18.775	Did not advance
	Sven Tippelt	Germany	9.250	9.525	18.775	Did not advance
57	Han Gwang-ho	South Korea	9.300	9.450	18.750	Did not advance
	Curtis Hibbert	Canada	9.400	9.350	18.750	Did not advance
59	Scott Keswick	United States	9.550	9.150	18.700	Did not advance
	James May	Great Britain	9.300	9.400	18.700	Did not advance
	Károly Schupkégel	Hungary	9.250	9.450	18.700	Did not advance
62	Mario Franke	Germany	9.050	9.625	18.675	Did not advance
63	Ron Kaplan	Israel	9.350	9.300	18.650	Did not advance
	Flavio Rota	Switzerland	9.250	9.400	18.650	Did not advance
	Yoo Ok-ryul	South Korea	9.300	9.350	18.650	Did not advance
66	Martin Modlitba	Czechoslovakia	9.275	9.325	18.600	Did not advance
67	Nicolae Bejenaru	Romania	9.050	9.525	18.575	Did not advance
	Jože Kolman	Slovenia	9.200	9.375	18.575	Did not advance
69	Han Yun-su	South Korea	9.025	9.525	18.550	Did not advance
	Markus Müller	Switzerland	9.250	9.300	18.550	Did not advance
	Ilian Aleksandrov	Bulgaria	9.100	9.450	18.550	Did not advance
72	Alan Nolet	Canada	9.050	9.475	18.525	Did not advance
73	Oliver Grimm	Switzerland	9.025	9.450	18.475	Did not advance
74	Sébastien Darrigade	France	9.375	9.075	18.450	Did not advance
75	Arnold Bugár	Czechoslovakia	9.050	9.375	18.425	Did not advance
	Rustam Sharipov	Unified Team	8.775	9.650	18.425	Did not advance
77	Fabrice Guelzec	France	9.450	8.900	18.350	Did not advance
78	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	8.950	9.350	18.300	Did not advance
79	Sin Myong-su	North Korea	8.875	9.325	18.200	Did not advance
80	Masayuki Matsunaga	Japan	8.700	9.450	18.150	Did not advance
	Marco Monteiro	Brazil	8.775	9.375	18.150	Did not advance
82	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.175	8.950	18.125	Did not advance
	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	8.850	9.275	18.125	Did not advance
84	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	9.425	8.650	18.075	Did not advance
85	Alessandro Viligiardi	Italy	8.275	9.550	17.825	Did not advance
86	Georgi Lozanov	Bulgaria	8.350	9.300	17.650	Did not advance
87	David Cox	Great Britain	8.350	9.225	17.575	Did not advance
88	Mike Inglis	Canada	8.200	9.200	17.400	Did not advance
89	Marvin Campbell	Great Britain	8.575	8.625	17.200	Did not advance
90	Terry Bartlett	Great Britain	8.425	8.200	16.625	Did not advance
91	Isidro Ibarrondo	Argentina	7.725	8.250	15.975	Did not advance
92	Paul Bowler	Great Britain	9.000	0.000	9.000	Did not advance
93	Victor Colon	Puerto Rico	8.725	0.000	8.725	Did not advance

References

1. "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
2. Official Report, vol. 5, p. 217.

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com