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Individual All-Around, Women

Date	21 – 25 July 1996
Status	Olympic
Location	Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
Participants	105 from 28 countries

In the individual all-around 36 gymnasts still advanced from the team all-around qualifying, with a max of three gymnasts per nation, but the qualifying scores were now thrown out, and only the final round score was used to determine individual all-around placements and medals. American Shannon Miller, the 1992 silver medalist, had been the 1993-94 World Champion, but injuries caught up with her and she was only 12th at the 1995 Worlds, won by Ukrainian Liliya Podkopaieva. The two were expected to be challenged by Romanian gymnasts, but their top all-around contender, Simona Amânar, was only the fourth highest-scoring Romanian in the team qualifying. However, a new rule allowed the team to substitute any of their gymnasts into the all-around final and Amânar was moved ahead of Alexandra Marinescu.

The final was desparately close, with six gymnasts in sight of gold after three rotations, but Miller, who would finish eighth, was not one of them. Podkopaieva performed on the floor exercise for her last rotation and her score of 9.887 was the highest of the women’s all-around competition on any apparatus and brought her the gold medal. Behind her came the three Romanians, with Gina Gogean winning silver, Amânar bronze, and the 1992 bronze medalist, Lavinia Miloşovici, missing the podium in fourth place.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Liliya Podkopaieva	UKR	39.255	Gold
2	Gina Gogean	ROU	39.075	Silver
=3	Simona Amânar	ROU	39.067	Bronze
=3	Lavinia Miloșovici	ROU	39.067	Bronze
5	Mo Huilan	CHN	39.049
6	Dina Kochetkova	RUS	38.980
7	Roza Galiyeva	RUS	38.905
8	Shannon Miller	USA	38.811
9	Dominique Moceanu	USA	38.755
10	Oksana Chusovitina	UZB	38.743
11	Qiao Ya	CHN	38.718
12	Lena Piskun	BLR	38.649
13	Isabelle Severino	FRA	38.524
14	Sviatlana Bahinskaya	BLR	38.499
15	Svetlana Khorkina	RUS	38.455
16	Elvire Teza	FRA	38.454
=17	Mónica Martín	ESP	38.318
=17	Dominique Dawes	USA	38.318
=19	Ludivine Furnon	FRA	38.243
=19	Mao Yanling	CHN	38.243
21	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou	GRE	38.217
22	Liubov Sheremeta	UKR	38.204
23	Svitlana Zelepukina	UKR	38.024
24	Joana Juárez	ESP	37.955
25	Alena Polozkova	BLR	37.799
26	Yvonne Tousek	CAN	37.793
27	Mercedes Pacheco	ESP	37.786
28	Adrienn Varga	HUN	37.592
29	Risa Sugawara	JPN	37.399
30	Adrienn Nyeste	HUN	37.237
31	Anastasiya Dzyundzyak	UZB	37.224
32	Nikolett Krausz	HUN	36.936
33	Giordana Rocchi	ITA	36.817
34	Joanna Hughes	AUS	36.568
35	Ruth Moniz	AUS	36.418
36	Lisa Skinner	AUS	36.199
7 r1/2	Kerri Strug	USA	–
10 r1/2	Alexandra Marinescu	ROU	–
14 r1/2	Yelena Grosheva	RUS	–
15 r1/2	Mirela Țugurlan	ROU	–
17 r1/2	Jaycie Phelps	USA	–
=21 r1/2	Hanna Mirhorodska	UKR	–
23 r1/2	Ionela Loaieș	ROU	–
36 r1/2	Émilie Volle	FRA	–
40 r1/2	Diana Plaza	ESP	–
42 r1/2	Elisabeth Valle	ESP	–
45 r1/2	Cécile Canqueteau	FRA	–
47 r1/2	Volha Yurkina	BLR	–
49 r1/2	Francesca Morotti	ITA	–
50 r1/2	Virginia Karentzou	GRE	–
51 r1/2	Konstantina Margariti	GRE	–
52 r1/2	Andrea Molnár	HUN	–
53 r1/2	Jenny Smith	AUS	–
54 r1/2	Jennifer Exaltacion	CAN	–
55 r1/2	Kathleen Stark	GER	–
56 r1/2	Olga Kozhevnikova	KAZ	–
57 r1/2	Naho Hoshiyama	JPN	–
58 r1/2	Ludmila Prince	LAT	–
59 r1/2	Pascale Grossenbacher	SUI	–
60 r1/2	Miho Hashiguchi	JPN	–
61 r1/2	Kyriaki Firinidou	GRE	–
62 r1/2	Shanyn MacEachern	CAN	–
63 r1/2	Gong Yun-Jin	KOR	–
64 r1/2	Annika Reeder	GBR	–
65 r1/2	Ana Destéfano	ARG	–
66 r1/2	Diana Teixeira	POR	–
67 r1/2	Gabriela Krčmářová	CZE	–
68 r1/2	Hanako Miura	JPN	–
69 r1/2	Veselina Gencheva	BUL	–
70 r1/2	Klaudia Kinská	SVK	–
71 r1/2	Sonia Lawrence	GBR	–
72 r1/2	Yvonne Pioch	GER	–
73 r1/2	Eileen Díaz	PUR	–
74 r1/2	Naima El-Rhouati	MAR	–
75 r1/2	Liu Xuan	CHN	–
76 r1/2	Henrietta Ónodi	HUN	–
77 r1/2	Lisa Moro	AUS	–
78 r1/2	Verónica Castro	ESP	–
79 r1/2	Aya Sekine	JPN	–
80 r1/2	Georgia-Anastasia Tempou	GRE	–
81 r1/2	Ji Liya	CHN	–
82 r1/2	Yelena Dolgopolova	RUS	–
83 r1/2	Oksana Knizhnik	UKR	–
84 r1/2	Kui Yuanyuan	CHN	–
85 r1/2	Olena Shaparna	UKR	–
86 r1/2	Liudmila Vitiukova	BLR	–
87 r1/2	Sviatlana Tarasevich	BLR	–
88 r1/2	Nicole Kantek	AUS	–
89 r1/2	Aikaterini Mamouti	GRE	–
90 r1/2	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	RUS	–
91 r1/2	Bi Wenjing	CHN	–
92 r1/2	Oksana Lyapina	RUS	–
93 r1/2	Ildikó Balogh	HUN	–
94 r1/2	Masumi Okawa	JPN	–
95 r1/2	Amy Chow	USA	–
96 r1/2	Olha Teslenko	UKR	–
97 r1/2	Amanda Borden	USA	–
98 r1/2	Eszter Óváry	HUN	–
99 r1/2	Orélie Troscompt	FRA	–
100 r1/2	Laure Gély	FRA	–
101 r1/2	Satsuki Obata	JPN	–
102 r1/2	Tatsiana Zharhanova	BLR	–
103 r1/2	Kyriaki Papanikolaou	GRE	–
104 r1/2	Kirsty Leigh-Brown	AUS	–		1
105 r1/2	Gemma Paz	ESP	–

Qualifying (21 – 23 July 1996 — 18:20)

Top 36, maximum three per nation, from team all-around competition advanced to the individual all-around final.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points	CEP	OEP
1	Liliya Podkopaieva	UKR	78.061	39.149	38.912	Q
2	Shannon Miller	USA	78.028	39.061	38.967	Q
3	Dina Kochetkova	RUS	77.986	38.974	39.012	Q
4	Lavinia Miloșovici	ROU	77.841	38.730	39.111	Q
5	Gina Gogean	ROU	77.823	38.723	39.100	Q
6	Dominique Dawes	USA	77.786	38.599	39.187	Q
7	Kerri Strug	USA	77.735	38.662	39.073
8	Roza Galiyeva	RUS	77.723	38.924	38.799	Q
9	Svetlana Khorkina	RUS	77.648	38.636	39.012	Q
10	Alexandra Marinescu	ROU	77.536	38.712	38.824
11	Dominique Moceanu	USA	77.523	38.824	38.699	Q
12	Simona Amânar	ROU	77.436	38.049	39.387	Q
13	Mo Huilan	CHN	77.261	38.574	38.687	Q
14	Yelena Grosheva	RUS	77.024	38.375	38.649
15	Mirela Țugurlan	ROU	76.835	38.224	38.611
16	Lena Piskun	BLR	76.786	38.399	38.387	Q
17	Jaycie Phelps	USA	76.772	37.973	38.799
=18	Mao Yanling	CHN	76.698	38.112	38.586	Q
=18	Svitlana Zelepukina	UKR	76.698	38.174	38.524	Q
20	Alena Polozkova	BLR	76.647	38.574	38.073	Q
=21	Hanna Mirhorodska	UKR	76.523	38.212	38.311
=21	Liubov Sheremeta	UKR	76.523	37.824	38.699	Q
23	Ionela Loaieș	ROU	76.497	38.036	38.461
24	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou	GRE	76.249	38.224	38.025	Q
25	Sviatlana Bahinskaya	BLR	76.223	38.311	37.912	Q
26	Isabelle Severino	FRA	76.173	37.799	38.374	Q
27	Mónica Martín	ESP	76.062	37.937	38.125	Q
28	Adrienn Varga	HUN	75.923	38.049	37.874	Q
29	Qiao Ya	CHN	75.835	38.111	37.724	Q
30	Oksana Chusovitina	UZB	75.822	38.174	37.648	Q
31	Joana Juárez	ESP	75.811	38.324	37.487	Q
32	Adrienn Nyeste	HUN	75.810	37.899	37.911	Q
33	Elvire Teza	FRA	75.797	37.436	38.361	Q
34	Mercedes Pacheco	ESP	75.736	37.774	37.962	Q
35	Ludivine Furnon	FRA	75.474	37.624	37.850	Q
36	Émilie Volle	FRA	75.335	37.361	37.974
37	Lisa Skinner	AUS	75.086	37.537	37.549	q
38	Anastasiya Dzyundzyak	UZB	74.974	37.412	37.562	q
39	Yvonne Tousek	CAN	74.774	37.512	37.262	q
40	Diana Plaza	ESP	74.773	37.724	37.049
41	Risa Sugawara	JPN	74.760	36.998	37.762	q
42	Elisabeth Valle	ESP	74.686	37.049	37.637
43	Joanna Hughes	AUS	74.536	36.974	37.562	q
44	Ruth Moniz	AUS	74.499	37.112	37.387	q
45	Cécile Canqueteau	FRA	74.461	36.524	37.937
46	Giordana Rocchi	ITA	74.373	36.936	37.437	q
47	Volha Yurkina	BLR	74.285	37.537	36.748
48	Nikolett Krausz	HUN	74.173	38.062	36.111	q
49	Francesca Morotti	ITA	74.035	37.049	36.986
50	Virginia Karentzou	GRE	74.023	36.398	37.625
51	Konstantina Margariti	GRE	74.010	37.299	36.711
52	Andrea Molnár	HUN	73.960	36.649	37.311
53	Jenny Smith	AUS	73.921	36.273	37.648
54	Jennifer Exaltacion	CAN	73.722	37.111	36.611
55	Kathleen Stark	GER	73.537	37.162	36.375
56	Olga Kozhevnikova	KAZ	73.498	37.524	35.974
57	Naho Hoshiyama	JPN	73.310	36.736	36.574
58	Ludmila Prince	LAT	73.186	36.249	36.937
59	Pascale Grossenbacher	SUI	73.148	36.036	37.112
60	Miho Hashiguchi	JPN	73.123	36.799	36.324
61	Kyriaki Firinidou	GRE	73.099	36.087	37.012
62	Shanyn MacEachern	CAN	72.923	35.899	37.024
63	Gong Yun-Jin	KOR	72.904	36.630	36.274
64	Annika Reeder	GBR	72.779	36.442	36.337
65	Ana Destéfano	ARG	72.772	35.961	36.811
66	Diana Teixeira	POR	72.609	36.536	36.073
67	Gabriela Krčmářová	CZE	72.110	35.524	36.586
68	Hanako Miura	JPN	72.085	36.161	35.924
69	Veselina Gencheva	BUL	71.367	35.705	35.662
70	Klaudia Kinská	SVK	70.548	34.662	35.886
71	Sonia Lawrence	GBR	69.898	35.162	34.736
72	Yvonne Pioch	GER	69.687	34.825	34.862
73	Eileen Díaz	PUR	69.548	34.974	34.574
74	Naima El-Rhouati	MAR	67.854	33.142	34.712
75	Liu Xuan	CHN	66.587	28.325	38.262
76	Henrietta Ónodi	HUN	66.110	28.274	37.836
77	Lisa Moro	AUS	65.948	28.424	37.524
78	Verónica Castro	ESP	65.061	37.199	27.862
79	Aya Sekine	JPN	62.710	27.261	35.449
80	Georgia-Anastasia Tempou	GRE	62.473	34.861	27.612
81	Ji Liya	CHN	58.286	29.124	29.162
82	Yelena Dolgopolova	RUS	57.686	28.987	28.699
83	Oksana Knizhnik	UKR	57.524	28.712	28.812
84	Kui Yuanyuan	CHN	57.399	28.137	29.262
85	Olena Shaparna	UKR	57.336	28.662	28.674
86	Liudmila Vitiukova	BLR	57.085	28.586	28.499
87	Sviatlana Tarasevich	BLR	56.973	28.524	28.449
88	Nicole Kantek	AUS	55.798	18.224	37.574
89	Aikaterini Mamouti	GRE	53.661	34.799	18.862
90	Yevgeniya Kuznetsova	RUS	48.149	19.075	29.074
91	Bi Wenjing	CHN	48.112	28.637	19.475
92	Oksana Lyapina	RUS	47.637	28.700	18.937
93	Ildikó Balogh	HUN	45.686	27.124	18.562
94	Masumi Okawa	JPN	45.087	26.775	18.312
95	Amy Chow	USA	39.011	19.462	19.549
96	Olha Teslenko	UKR	38.612	19.162	19.450
97	Amanda Borden	USA	38.511	19.024	19.487
98	Eszter Óváry	HUN	37.399	18.699	18.700
99	Orélie Troscompt	FRA	37.062	18.400	18.662
100	Laure Gély	FRA	36.562	18.087	18.475
101	Satsuki Obata	JPN	36.386	17.987	18.399
102	Tatsiana Zharhanova	BLR	36.137	18.825	17.312
103	Kyriaki Papanikolaou	GRE	28.036	0.000	28.036
104	Kirsty Leigh-Brown	AUS	27.900	27.900	0.000		2
105	Gemma Paz	ESP	9.425	0.000	9.425

Final (25 July 1996 — 16:26)

Top 36, maximum three per nation, from team all-around competition advanced to the individual all-around final.

Pos	Competitor(s)	NOC	Points
1	Liliya Podkopaieva	UKR	39.255
2	Gina Gogean	ROU	39.075
=3	Simona Amânar	ROU	39.067
=3	Lavinia Miloșovici	ROU	39.067
5	Mo Huilan	CHN	39.049
6	Dina Kochetkova	RUS	38.980
7	Roza Galiyeva	RUS	38.905
8	Shannon Miller	USA	38.811
9	Dominique Moceanu	USA	38.755
10	Oksana Chusovitina	UZB	38.743
11	Qiao Ya	CHN	38.718
12	Lena Piskun	BLR	38.649
13	Isabelle Severino	FRA	38.524
14	Sviatlana Bahinskaya	BLR	38.499
15	Svetlana Khorkina	RUS	38.455
16	Elvire Teza	FRA	38.454
=17	Mónica Martín	ESP	38.318
=17	Dominique Dawes	USA	38.318
=19	Ludivine Furnon	FRA	38.243
=19	Mao Yanling	CHN	38.243
21	Vasiliki Tsavdaridou	GRE	38.217
22	Liubov Sheremeta	UKR	38.204
23	Svitlana Zelepukina	UKR	38.024
24	Joana Juárez	ESP	37.955
25	Alena Polozkova	BLR	37.799
26	Yvonne Tousek	CAN	37.793
27	Mercedes Pacheco	ESP	37.786
28	Adrienn Varga	HUN	37.592
29	Risa Sugawara	JPN	37.399
30	Adrienn Nyeste	HUN	37.237
31	Anastasiya Dzyundzyak	UZB	37.224
32	Nikolett Krausz	HUN	36.936
33	Giordana Rocchi	ITA	36.817
34	Joanna Hughes	AUS	36.568
35	Ruth Moniz	AUS	36.418
36	Lisa Skinner	AUS	36.199