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Gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

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Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XXIV Olympiad
Olympic Gymnastics Hall
VenueOlympic Gymnastics Hall
Dates18–24 September
Competitors89 from 23 nations
Winning score19.950
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lubomir Geraskov
 Bulgaria
1st place, gold medalist(s) Zsolt Borkai
 Hungary
1st place, gold medalist(s) Dmitry Bilozerchev
 Soviet Union
← 1984
1992 →

The men's pommel horse 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 time (the first was in 1948), the event ended in a three-way tie for first place. Dmitry Bilozerchev of the Soviet Union, Zsolt Borkai of Hungary, and Lubomir Geraskov of Bulgaria each received a gold medal. It was Bulgaria's first medal in the pommel horse. Hungary had its third gold medal in four Games, with Zoltán Magyar winning in 1976 and 1980 before the nation was part of the Soviet-led boycott in 1984. The Soviets had had an eight-Games medal streak in the event snapped by that boycott; Bilozerchev's medal put the nation back on the podium after that one-Games absence.

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. There were two reigning world champions, as Soviet Dmitry Bilozerchev and Hungarian Zsolt Borkai had tied. Bulgarian Lubomir Geraskov was the bronze medalist at the world championships.[1]

Chinese Taipei made its debut in the men's pommel horse. The United States made its 15th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 pommel horse 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 12:30 Final

Results

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Eighty-nine gymnasts competed in the pommel horse 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 the "prelim" score.

Rank Gymnast Nation Preliminary Final
Compulsory Voluntary Total 12 Prelim. Final Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lubomir Geraskov  Bulgaria 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 10.000 19.950
Zsolt Borkai  Hungary 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 10.000 19.950
Dmitri Bilozertchev  Soviet Union 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 10.000 19.950
4 Koichi Mizushima  Japan 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 9.950 19.900
5 Valeri Liukin  Soviet Union 9.85 10.00 19.85 9.925 9.950 19.875
6 Daisuke Nishikawa  Japan 9.80 10.00 19.80 9.900 9.950 19.850
7 Sven Tippelt  East Germany 9.80 9.90 19.70 9.850 9.950 19.800
8 Sylvio Kroll  East Germany 9.80 9.95 19.75 9.875 9.900 19.775
9 Vladimir Artemov  Soviet Union 9.80 9.95 19.75 Did not advance
10 Vladimir Novikov  Soviet Union 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Marian Rizan  Romania 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
12 Sergey Kharkov  Soviet Union 9.75 9.90 19.65 Did not advance
Toshiharu Sato  Japan 9.75 9.90 19.65 Did not advance
Dimitar Taskov  Bulgaria 9.75 9.90 19.65 Did not advance
15 Marius Gherman  Romania 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Gyorgy Guczoghy  Hungary 9.70 9.90 19.60 Did not advance
Boris Preti  Italy 9.70 9.90 19.60 Did not advance
Wang Chongsheng  China 9.75 9.85 19.60 Did not advance
19 Petar Georgiev  Bulgaria 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Kalofer Khristozov  Bulgaria 9.65 9.90 19.55 Did not advance
Hiroyuki Konishi  Japan 9.65 9.90 19.55 Did not advance
22 Ralf Büchner  East Germany 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Jury Chechi  Italy 9.60 9.90 19.50 Did not advance
Kevin Davis  United States 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Csaba Fajkusz  Hungary 9.75 9.75 19.50 Did not advance
Vladimir Gogoladze  Soviet Union 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Yukio Iketani  Japan 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
28 Mike Beckmann  West Germany 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
Brad Peters  Canada 9.70 9.75 19.45 Did not advance
30 Paolo Bucci  Italy 9.50 9.90 19.40 Did not advance
Stéphane Cauterman  France 9.50 9.90 19.40 Did not advance
Christian Chevalier  France 9.60 9.80 19.40 Did not advance
Charles Lakes  United States 9.60 9.80 19.40 Did not advance
Li Chunyang  China 9.60 9.80 19.40 Did not advance
35 Nicolae Bejenaru  Romania 9.60 9.75 19.35 Did not advance
36 Takahiro Yamada  Japan 9.55 9.75 19.30 Did not advance
Claude Carmona  France 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
Ulf Hoffmann  East Germany 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
Marius Toba  Romania 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
40 Johan Jonasson  Sweden 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Jenő Paprika  Hungary 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
42 Riccardo Trapella  Italy 9.40 9.80 19.20 Did not advance
43 Li Ning  China 9.80 9.35 19.15 Did not advance
Valentin Pîntea  Romania 9.50 9.65 19.15 Did not advance
Josef Zellweger  Switzerland 9.40 9.75 19.15 Did not advance
46 Stoyko Gochev  Bulgaria 9.35 9.75 19.10 Did not advance
Patrick Mattioni  France 9.30 9.80 19.10 Did not advance
Alan Nolet  Canada 9.55 9.55 19.10 Did not advance
Thierry Pecqueux  France 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
Lance Ringnald  United States 9.40 9.70 19.10 Did not advance
51 Lorne Bobkin  Canada 9.40 9.65 19.05 Did not advance
Lou Yun  China 9.20 9.85 19.05 Did not advance
Hélder Pinheiro  Portugal 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
Gabriele Sala  Italy 9.35 9.70 19.05 Did not advance
Wes Suter  United States 9.45 9.60 19.05 Did not advance
56 Ralph Kern  West Germany 9.40 9.60 19.00 Did not advance
Deyan Kolev  Bulgaria 9.50 9.50 19.00 Did not advance
Xu Zhiqiang  China 9.70 9.30 19.00 Did not advance
59 Holger Behrendt  East Germany 9.70 9.25 18.95 Did not advance
Jürgen Brümmer  West Germany 9.35 9.60 18.95 Did not advance
Philippe Chartrand  Canada 9.35 9.60 18.95 Did not advance
Adrian Sandu  Romania 9.70 9.25 18.95 Did not advance
63 Dominick Minicucci Jr.  United States 9.30 9.60 18.90 Did not advance
Andreas Wecker  East Germany 9.05 9.85 18.90 Did not advance
Daniel Winkler  West Germany 9.40 9.50 18.90 Did not advance
66 Guo Linxian  China 9.10 9.75 18.85 Did not advance
Zsolt Horváth  Hungary 9.55 9.30 18.85 Did not advance
James Rozon  Canada 9.35 9.50 18.85 Did not advance
69 Vittorio Allievi  Italy 9.00 9.80 18.80 Did not advance
Bruno Cavelti  Switzerland 9.30 9.50 18.80 Did not advance
Bernhard Simmelbauer  West Germany 9.20 9.60 18.80 Did not advance
72 Curtis Hibbert  Canada 9.60 9.15 18.75 Did not advance
Andrew Morris  Great Britain 9.20 9.55 18.75 Did not advance
74 Kenneth Meredith  Australia 9.15 9.55 18.70 Did not advance
75 Andreas Aguilar  West Germany 9.50 9.10 18.60 Did not advance
Park Jong-Hoon  South Korea 9.45 9.15 18.60 Did not advance
Alfonso Rodríguez  Spain 9.05 9.55 18.60 Did not advance
78 Frédéric Longuepée  France 9.30 9.25 18.55 Did not advance
79 Scott Johnson  United States 8.85 9.65 18.50 Did not advance
Jože Kolman  Yugoslavia 9.30 9.20 18.50 Did not advance
81 Ju Yeong-sam  South Korea 9.65 8.80 18.45 Did not advance
Miguel Ángel Rubio  Spain 9.45 9.00 18.45 Did not advance
83 Álvaro Montesinos  Spain 9.30 8.95 18.25 Did not advance
84 Chang Chao-chun  Chinese Taipei 8.75 9.30 18.05 Did not advance
85 Terry Bartlett  Great Britain 9.35 8.60 17.95 Did not advance
86 Song Yu-jin  South Korea 8.55 9.00 17.55 Did not advance
Gil Pinto  Brazil 8.45 9.10 17.55 Did not advance
88 Tony Piñeda  Mexico 8.75 8.30 17.05 Did not advance
89 Balázs Tóth  Hungary 9.70 0.00 9.70 Did not advance

References

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