Floor Exercise, Men

The format was the same as it had been from 1984-2000, with eight gymnasts advancing from the team all-around, but no more than two per nation. American Paul Hamm and Bulgarian Yordan Yovchev had shared the 2003 World Championship title. Yovchev had medalled on the floor at the last World Championships, also winning in 2001, and was a co-favorite, along with Romanian Marian Drăgulescu, who shared the 2001 World title with Yovchev, and won the 2002 Worlds outright. Drăgulescu led the qualifying with 9.762 and then scored 9.787, which looked unassailable. He was followed, however, by Canadian Kyle Shewfelt, the 2003 World bronze medalist, who matched the score. Shewfelt was given the gold medal on a complex tie-breaker system involving the lowest jury deductions from the four B-jury judges were dropped until the tie was broken. Yovchev won the bronze medal, as he had done at Sydney in 2000.