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in the individual apparatus events. In addition to team gold and all-around silver, Nemov cap- tured the gold in the with a score of 9.787 and earned bronze medals in the exercise, , and . Placing behind Nemov in the vault were Korea's Hong-Chul Yeo (9.756) and Belarus's (9.724). Four-time world champion Yuri Chechi of Italy scored a 9.887 in the event to achieve his goal of winning an Olympic title. The silver was split between Romania's Dan

Burinca and Hungary's Szilveszter Csollány, who each finished with a mark of 9.812. Germany's took top honors on the horizontal bar (9.850), followed by sil- ver medalist Krasimir Dounev (9.825) of Bul- garia and a trio of bronze medalists at 9.800: the People's Republic of China's Bin Fan, Nemov, and Scherbo. On the , Ukraine's won gold with a score of 9.837. Plac- ing behind Sharipov were silver medalist Jair Lynch of the US (9.825) and bronze medalist Scherbo (9.800). It was a long, 13-year odyssey for Switzer- land's Donghua Li, the Chinese-born Swiss who lost his spleen and kidney in training, tore both Achilles tendons in competition, and endured a five-year wait to compete for his adopted country. Li capped his painful top left: World Champion journey with a dazzling pommel horse routine Andreas Wecker of Germany that earned him a gold-medal victory with a soars to gold in the men's score of 9.875, 0.050 over the silver medalist, horizontal bar final. Romania's Marius Urzica (9.825). "I never gave bottom left: Donghua Li up despite all of my injuries," said Li. "This is became the first Swiss an incredible accomplishment for me." The gymnastics champion Russian Federation's Nemov secured the in 40 years when he won bronze (9.787). the gold in the men's pommel horse final.

right: Yuri Chechi of Italy has a hold on gold in the men's rings exercise.

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