2004 Summer Olympics / Gymnastics

At the 2004 Olympic Games in the Greek capital Athens , 14 gymnastics competitions took place, eight for men and six for women. The venue was the Olympic Indoor Hall in the Athens Olympic Sports Complex .

Pre-qualification

The qualifying competition for the Olympic apparatus gymnastics competitions included the 2003 World Apparatus Gymnastics Championships in Anaheim / USA . For the men and women, the 12 best teams each qualified - with 6 gymnasts - as well as 26 other individual starters. A total of 98 gymnasts and 98 gymnasts were at the start in Athens.

The following teams qualified:

• Men: 1st People's Republic of China (team world champion), 2nd USA , 3rd Japan , 4th Russia , 5th Romania , 6th South Korea , 7th France , 8th Ukraine , 9th Canada , 10th Spain , 11th Italy , 12. Germany (out of 52 teams at the World Championships)
• Women: 1st USA (team world champion), 2nd Romania , 3rd Australia , 4th People's Republic of China , 5th Spain , 6th Russia , 7th Ukraine , 8th Brazil , 9th Great Britain , 10th France , 11th Canada , 12.North Korea (out of 35 teams at the World Championships)

The German women's team just missed qualifying with 13th place and is therefore only represented in Athens with two individual starters.

Men's competitions

qualification

The men's qualifying round took place on August 14th.

Final result of the team classification

1. Japan 232,134; 2. USA 230,419; 3. Romania 230,190; 4. People's Republic of China 229,507; 5. Ukraine 228,382; 6. Russia 227,180; 7. Korea 227,970 (protest in progress!); 8. Germany 226,980; 9. France 226,231; 10. Spain 223,295; 11. Canada 221,905; 12. Italy 221.431

Team all-around (final)

The men's team final took place on August 16 at 8:30 p.m. The 8 best teams from the qualification were eligible to participate:

1. Japan ; 2. USA ; 3. Romania ; 4. People's Republic of China ; 5. Ukraine ; 6. Russia ; 7. South Korea ; 8. Germany

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	JPN	Takehiro Kashima Hisashi Mizutori Daisuke Nakano Hiroyuki Tomita Naoya Tsukahara Isao Yoneda	173.821
2	United States	Jason Gatson Morgan Hamm Paul Hamm Brett McClure Blaine Wilson Guard Young	172.933
3	ROME	Marian Drăgulescu Daniel Popescu Dan Potra Răzvan Șelariu Ioan Silviu Suciu Marius Urzică	172.384
4th	COR	Cho Seong-min Kim Dae-eun Kim Dong-hwa Kim Seong-il Lee Sun-yung Yang Tea-young	171.847
5	CHN	Huang Xu Li Xiaopeng Teng Haibin Xiao Qin Xing Aowei Yang Wei	171.257
6th	RUS	Alexei Bondarenko Maxim Dewjatowski Anton Golozuzkow Georgi Grebenkow Alexei Nemow Alexander Safoschkin	169.808
7th	UKR	Evgeni Bognosyuk Valery Honcharov Vadym Kuvakin Ruslan Myezyentsev Andrij Mychajlychenko Roman Zozulia	168.244
8th	GER	Thomas Andergassen Matthias Fahrig Fabian Hambüchen Robert Juckel Sven Kwiatkowski Sergei Pfeifer	167.372

Individual all-around (final)

The final of the men's individual all-around match took place on August 18th at 8:30 p.m. The 24 best gymnasts in the qualification (all-around competition) were eligible to participate.

space	country	athlete	Points
1	United States	Paul Hamm	57.823
2	COR	Kim Dae-eun	57.811
3	COR	Yang Tae-young	57.774
4th	ROME	Ioan Silviu Suciu	57.648
5	ESP	Rafael Martínez	57,549
6th	JPN	Hiroyuki Tomita	57.485
7th	CHN	Yang Wei	57.361
8th	ROME	Marian Drăgulescu	57.323

The winner of the bronze medal, Yang Tae-young, was awarded 0.1 point too little for his practice on parallel bars due to a mistake by the judges. As a result, he lost the gold medal. The CAS decided that the result will no longer be changed because Yang did not protest immediately after the grading, but only after the end of the competition. The responsible judges were suspended by the FIG .

Device finals

The device finals took place on August 21 ( floor , pommel horse , rings ) and August 22 ( jump , parallel bars , horizontal bar ). The eight best gymnasts of the qualification on the respective device were entitled to participate.

ground

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CAN	Kyle Shewfelt	9.787
2	ROME	Marian Drăgulescu	9.787
3	BUL	Jordan Jovchev	9.775
4th	ESP	Gervasio Deferr	9.712
5	United States	Paul Hamm	9.712
6th	JPN	Daisuke Nakano	9.712
7th	JPN	Isao Yoneda	9,662
8th	United States	Morgan Hamm	9,650

Date: August 22, 2004, 8:00 p.m.

Pommel horse

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Teng Haibin	9,837
2	ROME	Marius Urzică	9.825
3	JPN	Takehiro Kashima	9.787
4th	CHN	Xu Huang	9.775
5	ESP	Victor Cano	9.762
6th	United States	Paul Hamm	9.737
7th	ISL	Runar Alexandersson	9.725
8th	JPN	Hiroyuki Tomita	9,062

Date: August 22, 2004, 9:08 pm

Rings

space	country	athlete	Points
1	GRE	Dimosthenis Tampakos	9,862
2	BUL	Jordan Jovchev	9,850
3	ITA	Jury Chechi	9.812
4th	JPN	Hiroyuki Tomita	9,800
5	ITA	Matteo Morandi	9,800
6th	FRA	Pierre-Yves Bény	9,800
7th	RUS	Alexander Safoshkin	9,750
8th	SUI	Andreas Schweizer	9.737

Date: August 22, 2004, 10:14 pm

Jump ( vaulting table )

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ESP	Gervasio Deferr	9.737
2	LAT	Jevgēņijs Saproņenko	9,706
3	ROME	Marian Drăgulescu	9.612
4th	CAN	Kyle Shewfelt	9,599
5	BUL	Filip Janew	9,581
6th	HUN	Robert Gal	9.537
7th	CHN	Li Xiaopeng	9.368
8th	RUS	Alexei Bondarenko	4,550

Date: August 23, 2004, 8:00 p.m.

Ingots

space	country	athlete	Points
1	UKR	Valery Honcharov	9.787
2	JPN	Hiroyuki Tomita	9.775
3	CHN	Li Xiaopeng	9.762
4th	BLR	Ivan Ivankov	9.762
5	JPN	Daisuke Nakano	9.762
6th	FRA	Yann Cucherat	9.762
7th	United States	Paul Hamm	9.737
8th	KAZ	Jernar Jerimbetov	9.737

Date: August 23, 2004, 9:10 p.m.

Horizontal bar

space	country	athlete	Points
1	ITA	Igor Cassina	9.812
2	United States	Paul Hamm	9.812
3	JPN	Isao Yoneda	9.787
4th	United States	Morgan Hamm	9.787
5	RUS	Alexei Nemov	9.762
6th	CHN	Qin Xiao	9.737
7th	GER	Fabian Hambüchen	9,700
8th	UKR	Valery Honcharov	8,887

Date: August 23, 2004, 10:10 pm

A hitherto unique incident occurred during the horizontal bar competition. After the very difficult exercise of the Russian Alexei Nemow , the Olympic champion of Sydney 2000 , with an almost perfect execution, only a small lunge step on the exit (gymnastics) could cause a deduction in the grade. Instead of the 10.0 there was only a 9.725 because of the failure at the end of the exercise. A loud storm of protest broke out in the audience. The competition was interrupted and after a few minutes the jury corrected the grade to 9.762 without Nemow improving his ranking (5th place). Nemow himself reassured the audience with soothing gestures.

The only German participant in the final Fabian Hambüchen , at 16 the youngest gymnast at the Games in Athens, also showed an excellent exercise, with a small sideways twist on the exit. This little uncertainty cost him the bronze medal. Hambüchen came in 7th with 9,700 points.

Women's competitions

qualification

The women's qualifying round took place on August 15th.

Team all-around (final)

The women's team final took place on August 17th at 9:00 p.m. The 8 best teams from the qualification were eligible to participate.

space	country	Athletes	Points
1	ROME	Oana Ban Alexandra Eremia Cătălina Ponor Monica Roșu Daniela Șofronie Silvia Stroescu	114.283
2	United States	Mohini Bhardwaj Annia Hatch Terin Humphrey Courtney Kupets Courtney McCool Carly Patterson	113.584
3	RUS	Swetlana Chorkina Lyudmila Jeschowa Maria Krjutschkowa Anna Pawlowa Jelena Samolodtschikowa Natalja Sigantschina	113.235
4th	UKR	Mirabella Akhunu Alina Kositsch Irina Krasnianska Olena Kwascha Olga Scherbatitsch Irina Jarotska	112,309
5	ESP	Laura Campos Tania Gener Elena Gomez Monica Mesalles Patricia Moreno Sara Moro	111,572
6th	FRA	Coralie Chacon Soraya Chaouch Marine Debauve Émilie Le Pennec Camille Schmutz Isabelle Severino	110.159
7th	CHN	Cheng Fei Fan Ye Li Ya Lin Li Wang Tiantian Zhang Nan	110.008
8th	OUT	Karen Nguyen Stephanie Moorhouse Melissa Munro Monette Russo Lisa Skinner Allana Slater	108.847

Individual all-around (final)

The final of the women's individual all-round event took place on August 19th at 9:00 p.m. The 24 best gymnasts in the qualification (all-around competition) were eligible to participate.

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	United States	Carly Patterson	38.387
2	RUS	Svetlana Chorkina	38.211
3	CHN	Zhang Nan	38,049
4th	RUS	Anna Pavlova	38.024
5	ROME	Daniela Șofronie	37.948
6th	UKR	Irina Yarotska	37.687
7th	FRA	Marine Debauve	37.361
8th	ESP	Elena Gomez	37.299

Device finals

The device finals took place on August 21 ( jump , uneven bars ) and August 22 ( balance beam , floor ). The 8 best gymnasts of the qualification (on the respective device) were entitled to participate.

Jump ( vaulting table )

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	ROME	Monica Rosu	9,656
2	United States	Annia Hatch	9,481
3	RUS	Anna Pavlova	9.475
4th	RUS	Jelena Samolodchikova	9.412
5	PRK	Kang Yun-mi	9,381
6th	UKR	Olena Kwascha	9.343
7th	CHN	Wang Tiantian	9,081
8th	FRA	Coralie Chacon	4.456

Date: August 22, 2004, 8:35 pm

Uneven bars

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	FRA	Émilie Le Pennec	9,687
2	United States	Terin Humphrey	9,662
3	United States	Courtney Kupets	9,637
4th	PRK	Pyon Kwang-sun	9,600
5	CHN	Li Ya	9,562
6th	ROME	Daniela Șofronie	9.462
7th	CHN	Lin Li	9,200
8th	RUS	Svetlana Chorkina	8,925

Date: August 22, 2004, 9:43 pm

Balance beam

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	ROME	Cătălina Ponor	9.787
2	United States	Carly Patterson	9.775
3	ROME	Alexandra Eremia	9,700
4th	RUS	Anna Pavlova	9,587
5	United States	Courtney Kupets	9.375
6th	CHN	Zhang Nan	9.237
7th	CHN	Li Ya	9,050
8th	OUT	Allana Slater	8,750

Date: August 23, 2004, 8:35 p.m.

ground

space	country	Athlete	Points
1	ROME	Cătălina Ponor	9,750
2	ROME	Daniela Șofronie	9,562
3	ESP	Patricia Moreno	9.487
4th	CHN	Cheng Fei	9.412
5	BRA	Daiane dos Santos	9.375
6th	United States	Mohini Bhardwaj	9.312
7th	CAN	Kate Richardson	9.312
8th	UKR	Alina Kositsch	8,500

Date: August 23, 2004, 9:45 p.m.

Web links

• Olympic gymnastics competitions 2004
• 2003 World Championships in apparatus gymnastics in Anaheim / USA

proof

1. ^ Nytimes.com - South Korean Gymnast Appeals to Top Sports Court