Gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars

Men's parallel bars 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	9.900
Medalists
Vitaly Scherbo  Unified Team Li Jing  China Igor Korobchinski  Unified Team Guo Linyao  China Masayuki Matsunaga  Japan

The men's parallel bars 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 July 27, 29 and August 2 at the Palau dels 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. The event was won by Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team, the third time in four Games that a Soviet or former Soviet gymnast won the rings. Li Jing of China earned silver. There was a three-way tie for third, with Igor Korobchinski of the Unified Team, Guo Linyao of China, and Masayuki Matsunaga of Japan each receiving bronze medals. They were the first medals for China in the parallel bars.

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). Six of the eight finalists from 1988 returned: bronze medalist Sven Tippelt of East Germany, fourth-place finisher Kalofer Khristozov of Bulgaria, fifth-place finisher Marius Gherman of Romania, sixth-place finisher Curtis Hibbert of Canada, seventh-place finisher Sylvio Kroll of East Germany, and eighth-place finisher Boris Preti of Italy. Li Jing of China had earned gold at the last three world championships (1989, 1991, and 1992), sharing the top place on the podium twice with Soviet (or former Soviet) gymnasts, in 1989 with Vladimir Artemov (who was not competing in Barcelona) and in 1992 with Aleksey Voropayev (who was).

Puerto Rico and Slovenia each made their debut in the men's parallel bars; 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 event 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.

Schedule

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

Date	Time	Round
Wednesday, 29 July 1992		Preliminary
Sunday, 2 August 1992	23:00	Final

Results

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

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total
	Vitaly Scherbo	Unified Team	9.900	9.825	19.725	9.900
	Li Jing	China	9.750	9.750	19.500	9.812
	Ihor Korobchynskyi	Unified Team	9.800	9.800	19.600	9.800
	Guo Linyao	China	9.725	9.700	19.425	9.800
	Masayuki Matsunaga	Japan	9.575	9.775	19.350	9.800
6	Jair Lynch	United States	9.550	9.700	19.250	9.712
7	Andreas Wecker	Germany	9.700	9.675	19.375	9.612
8	Daisuke Nishikawa	Japan	9.725	9.625	19.350	9.575
9	Valery Belenky	Unified Team	9.800	9.775	19.575	Did not advance
10	Grigory Misutin	Unified Team	9.750	9.800	19.550	Did not advance
11	Li Xiaoshuang	China	9.775	9.600	19.375	Did not advance
12	Aleksey Voropayev	Unified Team	9.650	9.700	19.350	Did not advance
13	Li Chunyang	China	9.750	9.550	19.300	Did not advance
	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	9.675	9.625	19.300	Did not advance
	Yukio Iketani	Japan	9.550	9.750	19.300	Did not advance
	Yutaka Aihara	Japan	9.650	9.650	19.300	Did not advance
17	Lee Joo-hyung	South Korea	9.675	9.550	19.225	Did not advance
18	Paolo Bucci	Italy	9.550	9.650	19.200	Did not advance
	Takashi Chinen	Japan	9.575	9.625	19.200	Did not advance
20	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	9.525	9.650	19.175	Did not advance
	Rustam Sharipov	Unified Team	9.700	9.475	19.175	Did not advance
22	Boris Preti	Italy	9.475	9.675	19.150	Did not advance
	Sylvio Kroll	Germany	9.650	9.500	19.150	Did not advance
24	Kalofer Hristozov	Bulgaria	9.525	9.600	19.125	Did not advance
	M. Chris Waller	United States	9.600	9.525	19.125	Did not advance
	Marian Rizan	Romania	9.550	9.575	19.125	Did not advance
	Marius Gherman	Romania	9.525	9.600	19.125	Did not advance
	Han Yun-su	South Korea	9.475	9.650	19.125	Did not advance
29	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	9.500	9.600	19.100	Did not advance
	Patrice Casimir	France	9.575	9.525	19.100	Did not advance
31	Ralf Büchner	Germany	9.525	9.550	19.075	Did not advance
32	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	9.550	9.500	19.050	Did not advance
	Alessandro Viligiardi	Italy	9.475	9.575	19.050	Did not advance
	Oliver Walther	Germany	9.575	9.475	19.050	Did not advance
	Scott Keswick	United States	9.575	9.475	19.050	Did not advance
36	Curtis Hibbert	Canada	9.550	9.475	19.025	Did not advance
37	Alfonso Rodríguez	Spain	9.475	9.525	19.000	Did not advance
38	Adrian Gal	Romania	9.450	9.525	18.975	Did not advance
	Daniel Giubellini	Switzerland	9.475	9.500	18.975	Did not advance
	Li Ge	China	9.475	9.500	18.975	Did not advance
41	Li Dashuang	China	9.525	9.425	18.950	Did not advance
	Trent Dimas	United States	9.625	9.325	18.950	Did not advance
43	Miklós Pánczél	Hungary	9.400	9.525	18.925	Did not advance
	Neil Thomas	Great Britain	9.550	9.375	18.925	Did not advance
	Nicolae Bejenaru	Romania	9.450	9.475	18.925	Did not advance
46	James May	Great Britain	9.450	9.450	18.900	Did not advance
	Sébastien Darrigade	France	9.400	9.500	18.900	Did not advance
	Sven Tippelt	Germany	9.525	9.375	18.900	Did not advance
49	Dominick Minicucci Jr.	United States	9.425	9.425	18.850	Did not advance
	Ruggero Rossato	Italy	9.450	9.400	18.850	Did not advance
	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary	9.350	9.500	18.850	Did not advance
52	Deyan Kolev	Bulgaria	9.400	9.425	18.825	Did not advance
	Yoo Ok-ryul	South Korea	9.450	9.375	18.825	Did not advance
54	Han Gwang-ho	South Korea	9.300	9.500	18.800	Did not advance
	John Roethlisberger	United States	9.500	9.300	18.800	Did not advance
	Miguel Ángel Rubio	Spain	9.425	9.375	18.800	Did not advance
	Gabriele Sala	Italy	9.325	9.475	18.800	Did not advance
58	Csaba Fajkusz	Hungary	9.325	9.450	18.775	Did not advance
	Krasimir Dunev	Bulgaria	9.375	9.400	18.775	Did not advance
	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	9.450	9.325	18.775	Did not advance
61	Pae Gil-su	North Korea	9.400	9.325	18.725	Did not advance
	Nicu Stroia	Romania	9.350	9.375	18.725	Did not advance
	Oliver Grimm	Switzerland	9.350	9.375	18.725	Did not advance
64	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.300	9.400	18.700	Did not advance
65	Johan Jonasson	Sweden	9.275	9.400	18.675	Did not advance
	Fabrice Guelzec	France	9.475	9.200	18.675	Did not advance
67	Adrian Sandu	Romania	9.300	9.350	18.650	Did not advance
	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	9.325	9.325	18.650	Did not advance
	Jože Kolman	Slovenia	9.200	9.450	18.650	Did not advance
	Terry Bartlett	Great Britain	9.300	9.350	18.650	Did not advance
71	Martin Modlitba	Czechoslovakia	9.050	9.575	18.625	Did not advance
	Ron Kaplan	Israel	9.350	9.275	18.625	Did not advance
73	Luis López	Mexico	9.400	9.200	18.600	Did not advance
74	Arnold Bugár	Czechoslovakia	9.150	9.375	18.525	Did not advance
75	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	9.175	9.325	18.500	Did not advance
	Sin Myong-su	North Korea	9.100	9.400	18.500	Did not advance
77	Gianmatteo Centazzo	Italy	9.325	9.125	18.450	Did not advance
	Marco Monteiro	Brazil	9.200	9.250	18.450	Did not advance
79	Ilian Aleksandrov	Bulgaria	9.325	9.100	18.425	Did not advance
80	Mario Franke	Germany	9.575	8.800	18.375	Did not advance
81	Markus Müller	Switzerland	8.900	9.425	18.325	Did not advance
	Flavio Rota	Switzerland	8.950	9.375	18.325	Did not advance
83	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	8.975	9.325	18.300	Did not advance
84	Károly Schupkégel	Hungary	9.200	9.025	18.225	Did not advance
85	Isidro Ibarrondo	Argentina	9.000	9.125	18.125	Did not advance
86	Mike Inglis	Canada	8.800	9.275	18.075	Did not advance
87	Alan Nolet	Canada	9.225	8.825	18.050	Did not advance
88	Georgi Lozanov	Bulgaria	9.100	8.850	17.950	Did not advance
89	David Cox	Great Britain	8.500	9.100	17.600	Did not advance
90	Róbert Élő	Hungary	8.250	9.150	17.400	Did not advance
91	Marvin Campbell	Great Britain	8.750	8.450	17.200	Did not advance
92	Victor Colon	Puerto Rico	9.225	—	9.225	Did not advance
93	Paul Bowler	Great Britain	9.150	—	9.150	Did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com