Gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

Men's rings at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Alexander Dityatin (2018)
Venue	Luzhniki Palace of Sports
Dates	20–25 July
Competitors	65 from 14 nations
Winning score	19.650
Medalists
Alexander Dityatin  Soviet Union Aleksandr Tkachyov  Soviet Union Jiří Tabák  Czechoslovakia

The men's rings competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 25th at the Luzhniki Palace of Sports. There were 65 competitors from 14 nations, with nations competing in the team event having 6 gymnasts while other nations could have to up to 3 gymnasts. The event was won by Alexander Dityatin of the Soviet Union, the nation's fifth victory in the rings, with fellow Soviet Aleksandr Tkachyov taking silver. It was the second consecutive Games that the Soviet Union had the top two men in the rings. Dityatin, the silver medalist in Montreal 1976, was the seventh man to win multiple medals in the rings. Jiří Tabák earned Czechoslovakia's first medal in the event since 1948.

Background

This was the 15th 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). The top four of the six finalists from 1976 returned: gold medalist Nikolai Andrianov and silver medalist Alexander Dityatin of the Soviet Union, bronze medalist Dan Grecu of Romania, and fourth-place finisher Ferenc Donath of Hungary. There had been two world championships since the 1976 Games; in 1978, Andrianov won, followed by Dityatin and Grecu, while in 1979, Dityatin was the victor with Grecu second and Aleksandr Tkachyov of the Soviet Union third.

Brazil made its debut in the men's rings. Hungary made its 13th appearance, tying the United States (absent from the rings event for the first time since the inaugural 1896 Games) for most of any nation.

Competition format

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 top 6 in each apparatus participated in the finals, except that nations were limited to two finalists each; others were ranked 7th through 65th. Half of the preliminary score carried over to the final.

Schedule

All times are Moscow Time (UTC+3)

Date	Time	Round
Sunday, 20 July 1980	10:00 17:00	Preliminary: Compulsory
Tuesday, 22 July 1980	10:00 17:00	Preliminary: Voluntary
Friday, 25 July 1980	14:30	Final

Results

Sixty-five gymnasts competed in the compulsory and optional rounds on July 20 and 22. The six highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final on July 25. 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.

Grecu suffered a muscle tear during the competition, which led to his transition from competitor to coach after the Games.

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Preliminary			Final
			Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	1⁄2 Prelim.	Final	Total
	Alexander Dityatin	Soviet Union	9.90	9.95	19.85	9.925	9.950	19.875
	Aleksandr Tkachyov	Soviet Union	9.80	9.85	19.65	9.825	9.900	19.725
	Jiří Tabák	Czechoslovakia	9.75	9.85	19.60	9.800	9.800	19.600
4	Roland Brückner	East Germany	9.80	9.75	19.55	9.775	9.800	19.575
5	Stoyan Deltchev	Bulgaria	9.65	9.90	19.55	9.775	9.700	19.475
6	Dan Grecu	Romania	9.80	9.90	19.70	9.850	1.000	10.850
7	Nikolai Andrianov	Soviet Union	9.80	9.85	19.65	Did not advance
8	Eduard Azaryan	Soviet Union	9.75	9.85	19.60	Did not advance
9	Vladimir Markelov	Soviet Union	9.65	9.85	19.50	Did not advance
10	Lutz Mack	East Germany	9.75	9.70	19.45	Did not advance
	Rudolf Babiak	Czechoslovakia	9.70	9.75	19.45	Did not advance
12	Kim Gwang-jin	North Korea	9.70	9.70	19.40	Did not advance
13	Ferenc Donáth	Hungary	9.65	9.70	19.35	Did not advance
	Bohdan Makuts	Soviet Union	9.55	9.80	19.35	Did not advance
	Michael Nikolay	East Germany	9.65	9.70	19.35	Did not advance
16	Nicolae Oprescu	Romania	9.60	9.70	19.30	Did not advance
17	Lutz Hoffmann	East Germany	9.60	9.65	19.25	Did not advance
	Jan Zoulik	Czechoslovakia	9.60	9.65	19.25	Did not advance
19	Kurt Szilier	Romania	9.50	9.70	19.20	Did not advance
20	Ralf-Peter Hemmann	East Germany	9.50	9.65	19.15	Did not advance
21	Zoltán Magyar	Hungary	9.60	9.50	19.10	Did not advance
	Plamen Petkov	Bulgaria	9.55	9.55	19.10	Did not advance
23	Dancho Yordanov	Bulgaria	9.40	9.65	19.05	Did not advance
24	Willi Moy	France	9.35	9.65	19.00	Did not advance
25	Péter Kovács	Hungary	9.40	9.55	18.95	Did not advance
	Aurelian Georgescu	Romania	9.35	9.60	18.95	Did not advance
27	Zoltán Kelemen	Hungary	9.50	9.40	18.90	Did not advance
	Andrzej Szajna	Poland	9.25	9.65	18.90	Did not advance
29	Romulus Bucuroiu	Romania	9.20	9.65	18.85	Did not advance
30	Sorin Cepoi	Romania	9.40	9.40	18.80	Did not advance
	Jan Migdau	Czechoslovakia	9.40	9.40	18.80	Did not advance
32	Andreas Bronst	East Germany	9.35	9.40	18.75	Did not advance
33	Cho Hun	North Korea	9.35	9.35	18.70	Did not advance
34	György Guczoghy	Hungary	9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
	Miloslav Kučeřík	Czechoslovakia	9.30	9.35	18.65	Did not advance
	Rumen Petkov	Bulgaria	9.35	9.30	18.65	Did not advance
37	Jozef Konečný	Czechoslovakia	9.50	9.05	18.55	Did not advance
	István Vámos	Hungary	9.15	9.40	18.55	Did not advance
39	Miguel Arroyo	Cuba	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
	Ognyan Bangiev	Bulgaria	9.20	9.30	18.50	Did not advance
41	Mario Castro	Cuba	9.45	9.00	18.45	Did not advance
42	Yanko Radanchev	Bulgaria	9.10	9.30	18.40	Did not advance
	Jorge Roche	Cuba	9.50	8.90	18.40	Did not advance
44	Henri Boerio	France	9.10	9.25	18.35	Did not advance
	Han Gwang-song	North Korea	9.45	8.90	18.35	Did not advance
	Sergio Suarez	Cuba	9.20	9.15	18.35	Did not advance
47	Michel Boutard	France	9.30	9.00	18.30	Did not advance
	Li Su-gil	North Korea	9.20	9.10	18.30	Did not advance
	Waldemar Woźniak	Poland	9.20	9.10	18.30	Did not advance
50	Gabriel Calvo	Spain	9.05	9.20	18.25	Did not advance
	Roberto Leon	Cuba	9.25	9.00	18.25	Did not advance
	Song Sun-bong	North Korea	9.05	9.20	18.25	Did not advance
53	Barry Winch	Great Britain	8.95	9.20	18.15	Did not advance
54	Keith Langley	Great Britain	8.80	9.30	18.10	Did not advance
55	Kang Gwang-song	North Korea	9.45	8.60	18.05	Did not advance
56	Thomas Wilson	Great Britain	8.80	9.20	18.00	Did not advance
57	Marc Touchais	France	8.75	9.20	17.95	Did not advance
58	Enrique Bravo	Cuba	9.00	8.90	17.90	Did not advance
59	Yves Bouquel	France	8.70	9.15	17.85	Did not advance
60	Lindsay Nylund	Australia	8.50	9.10	17.60	Did not advance
61	Fernando Bertrand	Spain	9.00	8.45	17.45	Did not advance
	José de la Casa	Spain	9.00	8.45	17.45	Did not advance
63	João Luiz Ribeiro	Brazil	8.55	8.80	17.35	Did not advance
64	Joël Suty	France	8.60	8.70	17.30	Did not advance
65	Krzysztof Potaczek	Poland	8.75	8.05	16.80	Did not advance
—	Moustapha Chouara	Lebanon	DNS			Did not advance
	Adnan Horns	Lebanon	DNS			Did not advance
	Maurizio Zonzini	San Marino	DNS			Did not advance

References

• Official Olympic Report
• www.gymnasticsresults.com
• www.gymn-forum.net