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25 September 2000
Russia's Alexei Nemov won the men's horizontal bar gold medal by the closest margin on Monday to end the artistic gymnastics programme.
Nemov scored the same points - 9.787 as France's Benjamin Varonian, and it was initially announced on the official scoreboard that the pair were joint winners.
But Nemov was later declared the winner to a bemused auditorium on a complicated tiebreak system.
Varonian took the silver and South Korea's Lee Joo-hyung claimed the bronze with 9.775 points.
Nemov's gold was his second title of the Games and his sixth medal from Sydney. It was also the 11th of his career and ensured that he bettered his five medal haul from Atlanta in 1996.
He has won two golds, a silver and three bronzes in Sydney.
There was major disappointment for Japan's Naoya Tsukahara, whose father Mitsuo invented the somersault vault that carries his surname and who was in the crowd. Tsukahara missed the bar and crashed to the mat during his programme.
GOLD TO NEMOV ON HORIZONTAL BAR
25 September 2000
Crowd favourite Alexei NEMOV of the Russian Federation won the gold medal in the men's artistic gymnastics horizontal bar final at the Super Dome on Monday.
NEMOV, who also came first in the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games men's all-around final, was awarded his first gold medal in the bar event with a score of 9.787.
The Russian superstar edged out Benjamin VARONIAN of France, who won the silver medal.
Little known South Korean Joo-Hyung LEE was awarded the bronze after he scored 9.775.
The event's highest qualifier Oleksandr BERESH of the Ukraine was edged out of medal contention with a total of 9.750.
Olympic News Service
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