Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's horizontal bar
Men's horizontal bar at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad | ||||||||||
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Beijing National Indoor Stadium | ||||||||||
Dates | 9 August (qualifying) 19 August (final) | |||||||||
Competitors | 76 from 27 nations | |||||||||
Winning score | 16.200 | |||||||||
Medalists | ||||||||||
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Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics | ||
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List of gymnasts Qualification | ||
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 22nd 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). Five of the 10 finalists from 2004 returned: gold medalist
Uzbekistan and Venezuela each made their debut in the men's horizontal bar. The United States made its 20th appearance, most of any nation; the Americans had missed only the inaugural 1896 event and the boycotted 1980 Games.
Qualification
Qualification for the men's artistic gymnastics in 2008 was based entirely on the 2007 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The top 12 teams at the world championships could send a full team of 6 gymnasts to the Olympics. The next 3 teams (#13 through #15) could send 2 gymnasts. The 3 teams after that (#16 through #18) could send 1 gymnast. The next 7 individual gymnasts (only from nations without any qualified gymnasts yet) and apparatus gold medal winners also qualified. The FIG Executive Board made invitational selections to ensure host country and continental representation and the Tripartite Commission made an invitation. The quota of 98 gymnasts was then filled through additional individual gymnasts.
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; the 2008 competition kept this format. Further, while in 1996 all 7 team members could compete on each apparatus for individual purposes, since 2000 only the 5 designated for that apparatus competed. The 2000 competition had 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 75th 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]
Scoring in artistic gymnastics under the
Schedule
All times are
Date | Time | Round |
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Saturday, 9 August 2008 | 12:00 | Qualifying |
Monday, 19 August 2008 | 19:33 | Final |
Results
Qualifying
The top 8 gymnasts, with a limit of 2 per nation, qualified for the final.
Final
Rank | Gymnast | Nation | D Score | E Score | Pen. | Total |
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Zou Kai | China | 7.200 | 9.000 | 16.200 | ||
Jonathan Horton | United States | 6.900 | 9.275 | 16.175 | ||
Fabian Hambüchen | Germany | 6.800 | 9.075 | 15.875 | ||
4 | Igor Cassina | Italy | 6.600 | 9.075 | 15.675 | |
5 | Takuya Nakase | Japan | 6.600 | 8.850 | 15.450 | |
6 | Hiroyuki Tomita | Japan | 6.600 | 8.625 | 15.225 | |
7 | Epke Zonderland | Netherlands | 6.500 | 8.500 | 15.000 | |
8 | Yann Cucherat | France | 6.500 | 8.325 | 14.825 |
References
- ^ a b c "Horizontal Bar, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 10 December 2020.
- ^ Official Report, Results Book for Artistic Gymnastics.