Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's artistic individual all-around

Men's artistic individual all-around competition at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 14.

For each competitor in the men's qualification, the scores [Scoring in artistic gymnastics is based on two separate scores that are then combined in order to come to the final score. The A score measures the difficulty of each element (and combinations of elements) within the routine, while the B score evaluates the performance, ie, the "execution, composition and artistry" of the routine. For further information, please see the Code of Points article.] for all six apparatus were summed to give an all-around qualification score. The top 24 competitors moved on to the individual all-around final, though nations were limited to two competitors each even if more qualified. In the individual all-around final, each gymnast competed on each apparatus again. Only scores from the final were used to determine final rankings.

Medalists

Only two gymnasts from each country may advance to the all-around final. Therefore, in some cases, a third gymnast placed high enough to qualify, but did not advance to the final because of the quota. Gymnasts who did not advance to the final, but had high enough scores to do so were:
*flagIOCathlete|Hiroyuki Tomita|JPN|2008 Summer (6th place)
*flagIOCathlete|Yury Ryazanov|RUS|2008 Summer (17th place)
*flagIOCathlete|Yang Tae Young|KOR|2008 Summer (22nd place)
*flagIOCathlete|Dimitri Karbanenko|FRA|2008 Summer (Reserve)

Yang Tae-Young was able to compete because countryman Kim Soomyun did not compete.

References

* [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GA/C73G/GAM024901.shtml Qualification results]