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Gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar

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Men's horizontal bar
at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Artistic gymnastics pictogram
VenuePauley Pavilion
Dates29 July – 4 August
Competitors71 from 19 nations
Winning score20.000
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Shinji Morisue
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tong Fei
 China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Koji Gushiken
 Japan
← 1980
1988 →

The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 29, 31 and August 4 at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion. There were 71 competitors from 19 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have to up to 3 gymnasts.[1] The event was won by Shinji Morisue of Japan, continuing the nation's dominant streak where it left off before the 1980 boycott. Morisue scored a perfect 20 in the event (requiring all three exercises to receive perfect 10s); he was one of only three gymnasts to achieve a perfect 20 on an apparatus (and the only male gymnast to do so) during the 20-point era (1952–1988). The gold medal was Japan's sixth on the horizontal bar, all within eight Games (including one in which Japan did not compete at all). Koji Gushiken added a bronze medal for Japan. The People's Republic of China debuted strongly, with a silver medal from Tong Fei.

Background

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This was the 16th 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). None of the six finalists from 1980 returned; all six were from boycotting nations. Soviets had won the last two world championships (and shared silver at both, as well); France's Philippe Vatuone had tied for second in 1983, with Shinji Morisue of Japan and Tong Fei of China even in fourth place. The host nation's hopes were in Peter Vidmar, a world championship finalist.[1]

The People's Republic of China and San Marino each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its 14th appearance, breaking a tie with the absent Hungary for most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 event 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.

The 1984 Games expanded the number of finalists from six to eight. Nations were still limited to two finalists each. Others were ranked 9th through 71st. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final.[1][2]

Schedule

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All times are Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7)

Date Time Round
Sunday, 29 July 1984 Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 31 July 1984 Preliminary: Voluntary
Saturday, 4 August 1984 17:30 Final

Results

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Seventy-one gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 29 and 31. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on August 4. 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) Shinji Morisue  Japan 10.00 10.00 20.00 10.000 10.000 20.000
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Tong Fei  China 10.00 9.95 19.95 9.975 10.000 19.975
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kōji Gushiken  Japan 10.00 9.90 19.90 9.950 10.000 19.950
4 Lou Yun  China 9.95 9.95 19.90 9.950 9.900 19.850
Peter Vidmar  United States 9.95 9.95 19.90 9.950 9.900 19.850
Tim Daggett  United States 9.90 10.00 19.90 9.950 9.900 19.850
7 Marco Piatti  Switzerland 9.90 9.90 19.80 9.900 9.900 19.800
8 Daniel Wunderlin  Switzerland 9.85 9.90 19.75 9.875 9.800 19.675
9 Xu Zhiqiang  China 10.00 9.90 19.90 Did not advance
10 Bart Conner  United States 9.90 9.90 19.80 Did not advance
11 Li Yuejiu  China 9.85 9.90 19.75 Did not advance
12 Philippe Chartrand  Canada 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Noritoshi Hirata  Japan 9.80 9.90 19.70 Did not advance
Lee Jeoung-sik  South Korea 9.85 9.85 19.70 Did not advance
Philippe Vatuone  France 9.85 9.85 19.70 Did not advance
16 Bruno Cavelti  Switzerland 9.80 9.85 19.65 Did not advance
Jacques Def  France 9.80 9.85 19.65 Did not advance
Andreas Japtok  West Germany 9.75 9.90 19.65 Did not advance
Li Xiaoping  China 9.70 9.95 19.65 Did not advance
20 Jim Hartung  United States 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
Markus Lehmann  Switzerland 9.80 9.80 19.60 Did not advance
22 Chae Gwang-seok  South Korea 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
Antonio Fraguas  Spain 9.80 9.75 19.55 Did not advance
Daniel Winkler  West Germany 9.75 9.80 19.55 Did not advance
25 Jang Tae-eun  South Korea 9.75 9.75 19.50 Did not advance
Keith Langley  Great Britain 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
Frank Nutzenberger  Canada 9.80 9.70 19.50 Did not advance
Koji Sotomura  Japan 9.75 9.75 19.50 Did not advance
Joël Suty  France 9.70 9.80 19.50 Did not advance
30 Laurent Barbiéri  France 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Diego Lazzarich  Italy 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Josef Zellweger  Switzerland 9.65 9.80 19.45 Did not advance
Han Chung-sik  South Korea 9.85 9.60 19.45 Did not advance
34 Jürgen Geiger  West Germany 9.70 9.70 19.40 Did not advance
Li Ning  China 9.50 9.90 19.40 Did not advance
Nam Seung-gu  South Korea 9.65 9.75 19.40 Did not advance
37 Terence Bartlett  Great Britain 9.75 9.60 19.35 Did not advance
Mitchell Gaylord  United States 9.40 9.95 19.35 Did not advance
Ju Yeong-sam  South Korea 9.65 9.70 19.35 Did not advance
Nobuyuki Kajitani  Japan 9.90 9.45 19.35 Did not advance
41 Tony Piñeda  Mexico 9.55 9.75 19.30 Did not advance
Jean-Luc Cairon  France 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
Benno Groß  West Germany 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
Valentin Pîntea  Romania 9.60 9.70 19.30 Did not advance
45 Urs Meister  Switzerland 9.55 9.70 19.25 Did not advance
Allan Reddon  Canada 9.75 9.50 19.25 Did not advance
Kyoji Yamawaki  Japan 9.70 9.55 19.25 Did not advance
48 Bernhard Simmelbauer  West Germany 9.65 9.55 19.20 Did not advance
Daniel Gaudet  Canada 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
Barry Winch  Great Britain 9.60 9.60 19.20 Did not advance
51 Scott Johnson  United States 9.65 9.50 19.15 Did not advance
Emilian Nicula  Romania 9.85 9.30 19.15 Did not advance
Brad Peters  Canada 9.80 9.35 19.15 Did not advance
Volker Rohrwick  West Germany 9.60 9.55 19.15 Did not advance
Miguel Soler  Spain 9.45 9.70 19.15 Did not advance
56 Werner Birnbaum  Australia 9.70 9.40 19.10 Did not advance
Warren Long  Canada 9.60 9.50 19.10 Did not advance
58 Rocco Amboni  Italy 9.65 9.40 19.05 Did not advance
Eddie Van Hoof  Great Britain 9.55 9.50 19.05 Did not advance
60 Alfonso Rodríguez  Spain 9.70 9.30 19.00 Did not advance
61 Vittorio Allievi  Italy 9.70 9.20 18.90 Did not advance
Richard Benyon  Great Britain 9.45 9.45 18.90 Did not advance
Michel Boutard  France 9.50 9.40 18.90 Did not advance
64 Finn Gjertsen  Norway 9.55 9.20 18.75 Did not advance
65 Yohanan Moyal  Israel 9.15 9.50 18.65 Did not advance
66 Andrew Morris  Great Britain 9.75 8.70 18.45 Did not advance
67 Rob Edmonds  Australia 9.75 8.35 18.10 Did not advance
68 Maurizio Zonzini  San Marino 9.25 8.80 18.05 Did not advance
Gerson Gnoatto  Brazil 8.45 9.60 18.05 Did not advance
70 Johan Jonasson  Sweden 8.00 9.65 17.65 Did not advance
Ya'akov Levi  Israel 9.10 8.55 17.65 Did not advance

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ^ Official Report, vol. 2, p. 444.