Men's artistic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Gold medalist Paul Hamm (2010)
VenueO.A.C.A. Olympic Indoor Hall
Dates14–18 August 2004
Competitors98 from 31 nations
Winning score57.823
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Hamm
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kim Dae-Eun
 South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Yang Tae Young
 South Korea

The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in the artistic gymnastics discipline contested in the gymnastics at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The qualification and final rounds took place on August 14 and August 18 at the Olympic Indoor Hall.[1] There were 98 competitors from 31 nations.[2] Each nation could enter a team of 6 gymnasts or up to 2 individual gymnasts. The event was won by Paul Hamm of the United States, the nation's first victory in the men's all-around since the 1904 Games in St. Louis and second overall. It was the first medal of any color for an American in the men's all-around since the 1984 Games in Los Angeles. South Korea took two medals (the maximum possible under the new rule limiting finalists to two per nation), a silver for Kim Dae-Eun and a bronze for Yang Tae Young. The scoring of the final was disputed; Olympedia calls this "the most controversial men's gymnastic event ever."[2]

Scoring controversy

The Korean team contested Yang Tae-Young's parallel bars score after judges misidentified one of the elements of his routine. The effect of this misidentification was that the start value was recorded as 9.9 rather than 10. Had the start value been assigned correctly—with no other changes to any scoring—Yang's score would have resulted in his winning the gold medal. However, as noted by the Court of Arbitration for Sport, as with many other sports controversies, (i) scoring the routine correctly initially may have affected the remainder of the competition and (ii) there were potentially other scoring errors that may have affected the results as well; thus, assigning who "would have won the event" but for the error is "something in the realm of speculation, not of certainty."[3]

The judges on the "A" panel were responsible for determining the start value of the routine. This value is determined during (not before) the routine, as a gymnast may change their routine at any time (and may fail to perform elements intended to be part of the routine). The three judges on the panel were Oscar Buitrago of Colombia, Benjamin Bango of Spain, and head judge George Beckford of the United States. The panel assigned Yang a start value of 9.9 after misidentifying a "Belle" element as a "Morisue" element.[3][2]

Kim Dong Min of South Korea, one of the judges on the "B" panel (responsible for determining execution scores), spoke to Buitrago about Yang's start value immediately following the parallel bar rotation. Buitrago explained how the value had been reached and thought Kim was satisfied. Kim later said that he was not satisfied; however, at the time, did not ask Buitrago to pursue the matter further.[3]

After Kim informed the Korean head coach Lee Joo-hyung of the issue, Lee raised the issue with the "A" panel and Adrian Stoica of Romania, the President of the Men's Technical Committee. Stoica presided over the Superior Jury, empowered to correct judging errors and control judges' scores. The precise timing of this discussion (during or after the medal ceremony) is disputed but was certainly after the competition had ended.[3]

The next morning, the Korean delegation sent written requests via fax to Stoica and to the President of FIG (Bruno Grandi) for a correction in the start value. That afternoon, Grandi responded that the rules did not allow a protest against the judges' marks, but that FIG was analyzing the marks and would take action against any judge who had made a serious mistake. The next day, the Technical Committee analyzed the routine and determined that the correct start value was 10. The FIG Executive Council temporarily suspended Bango, Buitrago, and Beckstead.[3]

On 22 August, the National Olympic Committees for the United States and Korea met with the IOC and proposed that gold medals be awarded to both Hamm and Yang. The IOC responded that it would not issue two gold medals, but would defer to FIG regarding re-allocation of medals if the scoring error was corrected.[3]

On 26 August, Grandi sent a letter, via the United States Olympic Committee, addressed to Hamm and requesting that he return the medal, including commenting that Yang was "the true winner" of the event. Hamm had allegedly made comments in the press stating that he would return the medal if requested to do so by FIG. The USOC, however, objected to the letter and refused to forward it to Hamm, responding that under FIG rules (including finality of judges' scores) that Hamm was "the Olympic gold medalist" in the event; the USOC demanded that FIG retract the "unacceptable request."[3][2]

Yang formally appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 28 August. The CAS held a hearing on 27 September, receiving oral evidence and considering written submissions. On 21 October, the CAS dismissed the Korean Olympic Committee's appeal on the grounds that the appeal, coming after the end of competition, was made too late, and insufficient evidence of corruption or bad faith on the part of the judges was presented to overturn a strong preference for a "field of play" judgment rather than one made after the fact.[3][2][4]

Background

This was the 24th 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]

Six of the top 10 gymnasts from the 2000 Games returned: gold medalist Alexei Nemov of Russia, silver medalist Yang Wei of China, fourth-place finisher Ivan Ivankov of Belarus, sixth-place finisher Blaine Wilson of the United States, seventh-place finisher Alexei Bondarenko of Russia, and eighth-place finisher Yordan Yovchev of Bulgaria. The reigning (2003) World Champion was Paul Hamm of the United States; Yang had finished second and Hiroyuki Tomita of Japan was third.[2]

Colombia, Malaysia, and Tunisia each made their debut in the event. France made its 22nd appearance, most among nations.

Competition format

The competition generally followed the 2000 format, though with a significant change: the number of finalists was reduced from 36 to 24, with the maximum per nation cut from 3 to 2. The competition continued to use a preliminary (qualifying) round and a final round, with scores cleared between rounds (no carryover). The preliminary round used one optional exercise for each apparatus rather than requiring both a compulsory and optional exercise (as was done pre-2000). The team event scoring used a 6–5–4 format (each team had 6 gymnasts, selected 5 per apparatus, with 4 scores counting), a reduced version of the 1996 7–6–5 system, which reduced the number of gymnasts competing in every apparatus. Total scores and an overall rank were still used for all gymnasts, however. 2000 had also been the year where the tie-breaking rules came into effect, which resulted in far less tie rankings or duplicate of medals than at the Games before that. Each exercise was scored from 0 to 10; thus the total preliminary score was from 0 to 60. The final total, with six exercises, was from 0 to 60.[2]

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Date Time Round
Saturday, 14 August 200412:30Qualifying
Wednesday, 18 August 200420:30Final

Results

Ninety-eight gymnasts competed in the individual all-around event in the artistic gymnastics qualification round on August 14, by performing on at least one apparatus. Forty-seven competed on all six apparati. The twenty-four highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on August 18.

Rank Gymnast Nation Prelim Total
1st place, gold medalist(s) Paul Hamm United States 58.0619.7259.7009.5879.1379.8379.83757.823
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kim Dae-Eun South Korea 56.8119.6509.5379.7129.4129.7759.72557.811
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Yang Tae Young South Korea 57.9249.5129.6509.7259.7009.7129.47557.774
4 Ioan Silviu Suciu Romania 57.3989.6509.7379.5509.7379.3129.66257.648
5 Rafael Martínez Spain 56.6369.5009.6879.5759.6129.7009.47557.549
6 Hiroyuki Tomita Japan 57.6499.0629.7379.7629.6259.6379.66257.485
7 Yang Wei China 57.3749.6009.7259.7379.5129.8008.98757.361
8 Marian Drăgulescu Romania 57.4369.6129.5259.5629.8509.4379.33757.323
9 Brett McClure United States 56.3239.4129.7129.1629.6259.7259.61257.248
10 Roman Zozulya Ukraine 57.2739.5259.4129.5759.5009.7629.22556.999
11 Isao Yoneda Japan 56.9249.6509.5759.3379.7009.6129.02556.899
12 Georgy Grebenkov Russia 56.1489.5879.1259.6629.4379.6509.36256.823
13 Alexei Bondarenko Russia 56.9369.6009.1509.6009.4009.4509.60056.800
14 Yernar Yerimbetov Kazakhstan 57.4249.3128.9629.5379.6259.2259.73756.398
15 Luis Vargas Puerto Rico 56.5878.3379.6129.5009.4629.5629.66256.135
16 Ruslan Mezentsev Ukraine 56.7119.5128.9759.3879.4379.6379.11256.060
17 Benoît Caranobe France 56.6359.1129.4009.5759.1879.0879.61255.973
18 Igors Vihrovs Latvia 56.4239.6878.8629.1879.7009.0009.43755.873
19 Pavel Gofman Israel 56.7239.1009.2629.4259.1129.7259.06255.686
20 Eric Lopez Rios Cuba 56.3989.1378.6009.5009.7009.6758.83755.449
21 Sergei Pfeifer Germany 55.9879.3129.0259.5879.0879.1629.21255.385
22 Ilia Giorgadze Georgia 56.0128.7379.5879.4879.3379.6628.46255.272
23 Fabian Hambüchen Germany 56.0619.4758.2878.5129.4129.3879.75054.823
24 Andreas Schweizer Switzerland 55.4368.4509.0629.6759.2259.4508.75054.612
25Sven Kwiatkowski Germany 55.835Did not advance—2 per nation rule
26Dan Potra Romania 55.749
27Maksim Devyatovsky Russia 55.611
28Abel Driggs Cuba 55.274Did not advance
29Adam Wong Canada 55.160
30Alejandro Barrenechea Spain 55.098
31Grant Golding Canada 55.011
32Jorge Hugo Giraldo Colombia 54.997
33Mosiah Rodrigues Brazil 54.899
34Igor Cassina Italy 54.849
35Rúnar Alexandersson Iceland 54.798
36Vlasis Maras Greece 54.699
37Oriol Combarros Spain 54.662
38Ng Shu Wai Malaysia 54.649
39Dimitri Karbanenko France 54.561
40Víctor Cano Spain 53.987
41Matteo Morandi Italy 53.974
42Denis Savenkov Belarus 53.624
43Filipe Bezugo Portugal 52.923
44Enrico Pozzo Italy 52.812
45Sasha Jeltkov Canada 52.649
46Filip Yanev Bulgaria 52.586
47Wajdi Bouallègue Tunisia 52.511
48Naoya Tsukahara Japan 48.187
49Takehiro Kashima Japan 47.799
50Guard Young United States 47.611
51Xing Aowei China 47.499
52Răzvan Şelariu Romania 47.487
53Blaine Wilson United States 47.386
54Robert Juckel Germany 47.074
55Xiao Qin China 46.974
56Vadym Kuvakin Ukraine 46.824
57Florent Maree France 46.811
58David Kikuchi Canada 46.437
59Kim Seung-il South Korea 46.324
60Johan Mounard France 46.124
61Anton Golotsutskov Russia 46.073
62Alberto Busnari Italy 45.535
63Andriy Mykhailychenko Ukraine 45.412
64Teng Haibin China 45.099
65Ivan Ivankov Belarus 38.837
66Huang Xu China 38.761
67Morgan Hamm United States 38.662
68Hisashi Mizutori Japan 38.337
69Daisuke Nakano Japan 38.312
70Kim Dong-hwa South Korea 38.012
71Lee Seon-seong South Korea 37.899
72Yann Cucherat France 37.874
73Jason Gatson United States 37.799
74Yevhen Bohonosiuk Ukraine 37.424
75Pierre-Yves Bény France 37.312
76Jo Seong-min South Korea 37.274
77Matthias Fahrig Germany 37.249
78Kyle Shewfelt Canada 36.748
79Matteo Angioletti Italy 36.361
80Marius Urzică Romania 29.187
81Valeriy Honcharov Ukraine 28.899
82Aleksey Nemov Russia 28.887
83Thomas Andergassen Germany 28.836
84Li Xiaopeng China 28.699
85Jury Chechi Italy 28.499
86Philippe Rizzo Australia 27.350
87Jesús Carballo Spain 27.099
88Christoph Schärer Switzerland 27.037
89Ken Ikeda Canada 26.524
90Yordan Yovchev Bulgaria 19.512
91Gervasio Deferr Spain 19.387
92Jevgēņijs Saproņenko Latvia 19.287
93Daniel Popescu Romania 19.187
94Róbert Gál Hungary 19.137
95Aleksandr Safoshkin Russia 18.962
96Ri Jong-song North Korea 18.837
97Kim Hyon-il North Korea 18.649
98Dimosthenis Tambakos Greece 9.850

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