Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse
Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XXVII Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Venue | Sydney SuperDome | |||||||||
Dates | 16 September (qualifying) 24 September (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 80 from 29 nations | |||||||||
Winning score | 9.862 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Gymnastics at the 2000 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of gymnasts | ||
Artistic | ||
Qualification | men | women |
Team all-around | men | women |
Individual all-around | men | women |
Vault | men | women |
Floor | men | women |
Pommel horse | men | |
Rings | men | |
Parallel bars | men | |
Horizontal bar | men | |
Uneven bars | women | |
Balance beam | women | |
Rhythmic | ||
Group all-around | women | |
Individual all-around | women | |
Trampoline | ||
Individual | men | women |
The men's
Background
This was the 20th 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). Four of the eight finalists from 1996 returned: silver medalist
Latvia made its debut in the men's pommel horse. The United States made its 18th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 pommel horse and the boycotted 1980 Games.
Competition format
The 1996 gymnastics competition had introduced the "7–6–5" format, in which each team had 7 members, designated 6 for each apparatus, and had 5 count for team scores. In 2000, this was reduced across the board to a "6–5–4" format. Further, while in 1996 all 7 team members could compete on each apparatus for individual purposes, in 2000 only the 5 designated for that apparatus competed. The 2000 competition also eliminated the compulsory exercises; only voluntary exercises were done on each apparatus. The qualifying round scores were used for qualification for the team all-around, individual all-around, and apparatus finals.
The top eight gymnasts, with a limit of two per nation, advanced to the final. Non-finalists were ranked 9th through 80th based on preliminary score. The preliminary score had no effect on the final; once the eight finalists were selected, their ranking depended only on the final exercise.[1][2]
Schedule
All times are
Date | Time | Round |
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Saturday, 16 September 2000 | Qualifying | |
Sunday, 24 September 2000 | 16:48 | Final |
Results
Qualifying
Eighty gymnasts competed in the pommel horse event during the qualification round on September 16. The eight highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on September 24. Each country was limited to two competitors in the final.
Final
Rank | Gymnast | Nation | Score |
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Marius Urzică | Romania | 9.862 | |
Eric Poujade |
France | 9.825 | |
Alexei Nemov | Russia | 9.800 | |
4 | Lee Jang-hyung | South Korea | 9.775 |
5 | Pae Gil-Su |
North Korea | 9.762 |
6 | Zoltán Supola | Hungary | 9.762 |
7 | Oleksandr Beresch | Ukraine | 9.712 |
8 | Nikolai Kryukov | Russia | 9.700 |
References
- ^ a b c "Pommelled Horse, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ Official Report, Results Book for Artistic Gymnastics.