Men's artistic individual all-around at the Games of the XXVI Olympiad
Ukraine stamp commemorating gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Venue	Georgia Dome
Dates	20–24 July
Competitors	111 from 31 nations
Winning score	58.423
Medalists
Li Xiaoshuang  China Alexei Nemov  Russia Vitaly Scherbo  Belarus

The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 24th at the Georgia Dome.^[1] There were 111 competitors from 31 nations.^[2] Each nation could enter a team of 7 gymnasts (up from 6 in previous Games) or up to 3 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Li Xiaoshuang of China, the nation's first victory in the event and first medal of any color since 1984. Two nations making their debut as independent nations after the dissolution of the Soviet Union took silver (Alexei Nemov of Russia) and bronze (Vitaly Scherbo of Belarus). Scherbo had won the event as a member of the Unified Team in 1992; he was the 11th man to earn multiple all-around medals.

Background

This was the 22nd appearance of the men's individual all-around. The first individual all-around competition had been held in 1900, after the 1896 competitions featured only individual apparatus events. A men's individual all-around has been held every Games since 1900.^[2]

Seven of the top 10 gymnasts from the 1992 Games returned: gold medalist Vitaly Scherbo of the Unified Team (now representing Belarus), bronze medalist Valery Belenky of the Unified Team (now competing for Germany), fourth-place finisher Andreas Wecker of Germany, fifth-place finisher Li Xiaoshuang of China, eighth-place finisher Lee Joo-Hyung of South Korea, and ninth-place finishers Han Yun-su of South Korea and Szilveszter Csollány of Hungary. Li was the reigning (1995) World Champion; Scherbo had won in 1993, taken third in 1994, and finished second behind Li in 1995. Li recognized Alexei Nemov of Russia (relatively unknown in all-around but with strong results in each apparatus at the 1996 World Championships, which had no all-around event) as a bigger contender in Atlanta than Scherbo, however.^[2]

Armenia, Barbados, Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Georgia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine each made their debut in the event. France made its 20th appearance, most among nations.

Competition format

The 1996 competition followed the revised format from 1992, which ended the carryover of preliminary scores to the final. The preliminary round and final round were separate. In the preliminary round (which also served as the team all-around competition as well as the qualifying round for the individual apparatus events), each gymnast performed a compulsory exercise and an optional exercise on each apparatus. (Many gymnasts from nations competing in the team event opted not to compete on each apparatus, as the team event required designating only 6 of the 7 as team competitors on each apparatus, reducing the incentive for specialists on one apparatus to compete on all others.) The scores for all 12 exercises were summed to give an individual all-around preliminary score. The top 36 gymnasts advanced to the individual all-around final—except that each nation was limited to 3 finalists. There, each of the finalists performed another exercise on each apparatus. The sum of these six exercise scores resulted in a final total. Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus, the preliminary apparatus scores ranged from 0 to 20 each and the total preliminary score from 0 to 120. The final total, with six exercises, was from 0 to 60.^[2]

Schedule

All times are Eastern Daylight Time (UTC-4)

Results

All 111 gymnasts were ranked by their totals in the preliminary round, though only 74 completed all 12 exercises during the all-around during the compulsory and optional rounds on July 20 and 22.^[3] The 36 highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 24. Each country was limited to three competitors in the final.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Prelim	Floor	Pommel horse	Rings	Vault	Parallel bars	Horizontal bar	Total
	Li Xiaoshuang	China	114.786	9.687	9.712	9.775	9.812	9.650	9.787	58.423
	Alexei Nemov	Russia	116.361	9.700	9.800	9.612	9.700	9.762	9.800	58.374
	Vitaly Scherbo	Belarus	115.210	9.762	9.662	9.587	9.687	9.712	9.787	58.197
4	Zhang Jinjing	China	114.596	9.637	9.750	9.562	9.650	9.762		58.148
5	Shen Jian		114.223	9.537	9.650	9.637	9.662	9.700	9.675	57.861
6	Valeri Belenki	Germany	113.910	9.612	9.762	9.612	9.600	9.625	9.637	57.848
7	John Roethlisberger	United States	114.886	9.675	9.662	9.650	9.575	9.475	9.725	57.762
8	Rustam Sharipov	Ukraine	114.372	9.625	9.637	9.650	9.400	9.750	9.650	57.712
9	Oleksandr Svitlychniy		113.886	9.650	9.587	9.662	9.537	9.625	9.637	57.698
10	Blaine Wilson	United States	114.337	9.600	9.637	9.737	9.600	9.450	9.662	57.686
11	Cristian Leric	Romania	112.186	9.625	9.562	9.412	9.700	9.600	9.675	57.574
12	Naoya Tsukahara	Japan	114.147	9.612	9.612	9.650	9.512	9.625	9.550	57.561
13	Andreas Wecker	Germany	114.474	9.600	9.025	9.750	9.662	9.600	9.775	57.412
	Jesus Carballo	Spain	111.761	9.400	9.675	9.512	9.450	9.625	9.750
15	Yoshiaki Hatakeda	Japan	113.174	9.425	9.637	9.487	9.350	9.612	9.700	57.211
	Igor Korobchinski	Ukraine	113.473	9.450	9.625	9.462	9.512	9.675	9.487
17	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	114.898	9.650	9.600	9.737	9.375	9.050	9.712	57.124
	Jury Chechi	Italy	112.186	9.450	9.587	9.800	9.050	9.550	9.687
19	Hikaru Tanaka	Japan	113.649	9.562	9.450	9.637	9.425		9.375	56.999
20	Lee Joo-Hyung	South Korea	114.647	9.375	9.612	9.712	9.637	9.600	9.050	56.986
21	Krasimir Dounev	Bulgaria	113.898	9.125	9.500	9.575	9.587	9.475	9.712	56.974
22	Zoltán Supola	Hungary	113.498	8.875	9.712		9.525	9.550	9.725	56.962
23	Jan-Peter Nikiferow	Germany	113.198	9.587	9.450		9.400	9.437	9.375	56.824
24	Alexei Voropaev	Russia	115.136	9.687	8.400	9.737	9.662	9.625	9.712	56.823
25	Ilia Giorgadze	Georgia	111.199	9.525	9.512	9.325	9.375	9.450	9.612	56.799
26	Sébastien Tayac	France	113.086	9.562		9.425	9.525	9.200	9.475	56.699
27	Boris Preti	Italy	112.761	9.350	9.350	9.512	9.250	9.512	9.687	56.661
28	Roberto Galli		112.336	9.625	8.950	9.562	9.350	9.425	9.537	56.449
29	John Macready	United States	112.374	8.525	9.537	9.537	9.562	9.487	9.562	56.210
30	Andrey Kan	Belarus	114.361	9.600	9.675	9.562	9.525	8.600	9.000	55.962
	Vitaly Rudnitsky		112.625	9.675	9.700	9.600	9.512	9.350	8.125
32	Dimitar Lunchev	Bulgaria	112.162	9.200	9.662	9.275	9.300	9.462	9.000	55.899
33	Frédérick Nicolas	France	111.500	9.350	8.750	9.500	9.225	9.500	9.537	55.862
34	Hann Yoon-Soo	South Korea	113.499	9.300	9.737	9.512	9.300	9.612	8.375	55.836
35	Brennon Dowrick	Australia	110.500	9.200	9.600	9.400	0.000	9.250	9.450	46.900
36	Volodymyr Shamenko	Ukraine	113.486	DNS
37	Patrice Casimir	France	113.424	Did not advance—3 per nation rule
38	Adrian Ianculescu	Romania	113.136
39	Nicu Stroia		112.874
40	Toshiharu Sato	Japan	112.787
41	Oliver Walther	Germany	112.562
42	Kalofer Khristozov	Bulgaria	111.300
43	Nistor Şandro	Romania	111.062
44	Aleksey Dmitriyenko	Kazakhstan	110.650
45	Shigeru Kurihara	Japan	110.512
46	Sergey Fedorchenko	Kazakhstan	110.475	Did not advance
47	Deyan Yordanov	Bulgaria	110.387
48	Donghua Li	Switzerland	110.212
	Szilveszter Csollány	Hungary
50	Norayr Sargsyan	Armenia	110.211
51	Bret Hudson	Australia	110.162
52	Ioannis Melissanidis	Greece	109.975
53	Michael Engeler	Switzerland	109.687
54	Takashi Uchiyama	Japan	109.600
55	Lee McDermott	Great Britain	109.300
56	Alan Nolet	Canada	109.100
57	Aleksej Demjanov	Croatia	108.762
58	Jiří Fiřt	Czech Republic	108.512
59	Dominic Brindle	Great Britain	107.875
60	Erich Wanner	Switzerland	106.449
61	Flemming Solberg	Norway	105.900
62	Krisztián Jordanov	Hungary	105.787
63	Richard Ikeda	Canada	105.400
64	Fan Bin	China	105.223
65	Jair Lynch	United States	104.574
66	Yevgeny Podgorny	Russia	104.423
67	Diego Lizardi	Puerto Rico	104.412
68	Rúnar Alexandersson	Iceland	104.337
69	Kris Burley	Canada	104.300
70	Marcelo Palacio	Argentina	104.025
71	Huang Huadong	China	103.536
72	Aleksandr Belanovsky	Belarus	103.512
73	Shane de Freitas	Barbados	103.375
74	Barry McDonald	Ireland	102.850
75	Karsten Oelsch	Germany	100.461
76	Kim Dong-hwa	South Korea	100.437
77	Paolo Bucci	Italy	96.398
78	Dmitri Vasilenko	Russia	95.423
79	Jeong Jin-su	South Korea	95.086
80	Kip Simons	United States	94.461
81	Sergio Luini	Italy	93.537
82	Yeo Hong-cheol	South Korea	93.486
83	Oleh Kosiak	Ukraine	93.250
84	Pae Gil-su	North Korea	92.737
85	Frédéric Lemoine	France	92.287
86	Jo Seong-min	South Korea	91.687
87	Sergey Kharkov	Russia	86.648
88	Nikolay Kryukov		86.336
89	Ivan Ivanov	Bulgaria	86.147
90	Huang Liping	China	85.837
91	Dmitry Trush	Russia	85.449
92	Aleksandr Shostak	Belarus	85.187
93	Éric Poujade	France	84.836
94	Sébastien Darrigade		84.162
95	Chainey Umphrey	United States	84.112
96	Ivan Pavlovsky	Belarus	83.086
97	Marcello Barbieri	Italy	82.787
98	Robert Tăciulet	Romania	82.575
99	Marius Urzică		76.099
100	Yuriy Yermakov	Ukraine	75.612
101	Uwe Billerbeck	Germany	75.399
102	Thiérry Aymes	France	75.361
103	Aleksey Sinkevich	Belarus	66.400
104	Dan Burincă	Romania	65.800
105	Kim Bong-hyeon	South Korea	63.937
106	Hryhoriy Misiutin	Ukraine	57.812
107	Francesco Colombo	Italy	56.287
108	Mihai Bagiu	United States	55.861
109	Fan Hongbin	China	48.124
110	Marius Tobă	Germany	45.100
111	Vasil Vetsev	Bulgaria	28.200

References

External links

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com