1990 Beijing Asian Games

1990 Beijing Asian Games
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City	Beijing, China
Team Gold Medalist	China Chen Cuiting Fan Di Li Li Li Yifang Yang Bo Zhang Wenning
All-Around Gold Medalist	Chen Cuiting (CHN)
Vault Gold Medalist	Seo Kyoko (JPN)
Uneven Bars Gold Medalist	Fan Di (CHN)
Balance Beam Gold Medalist	Li Chun-Mi (PRK)
Floor Exercise Gold Medalist	Chen Cuiting (CHN)
Preceded by	1986 Seoul Asian Games
Succeeded by	1994 Hiroshima Asian Games

The 11th Asian Games also known as XI Asiad were held from September 22, 1990 to October 7, 1990 in Beijing, China. It was the first large-scale international sports event to be held in the People's Republic of China. A total number of 6,122 athletes, coming from 37 countries, competed in 29 sports.

The Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) lost its president, Sheikh Fahad Al-Sabah, during the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait of the same year, creating the most shocking news surrounding the 11th Asiad. OCA headquarters were temporarily moved to the United Kingdom, until Kuwait was liberated in 1991.

The games served as a pre-cursor to China's further development in the sporting arena, as the country went on to bid for the 2000 Summer Olympics (losing to Sydney) and eventually win the bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics. China dominated the games, grabbing 60% of the gold medals and 34% of the total medal count.

Format of Competition

The gymnastics competition was carried out in three stages:

• Competition I - The team competition/qualification round in which gymnasts, including those who were not part of a team, performed both compulsory and optional exercises. Only the five highest scores earned by team members on each apparatus during each round were used to determined the overall team total. The thirty-six highest scoring gymnasts in the all-around qualified to the individual all-around competition. The eight highest scoring gymnasts on each apparatus qualified to the final for that apparatus.
• Competition II - The individual all-around competition, in which those who qualified from Competition I performed exercises on each apparatus. The final score of each gymnast was determined by adding the scores earned by her on each of the four apparatuses.
• Competition III - The apparatus finals, in which those who qualified during Competition I performed an exercise on the individual apparatus on which she had qualified. The final score of each gymnast determined solely by the score earned by him or her on the apparatus during this competition.

Each country was limited to three gymnasts in the all-around final and two gymnasts in each apparatus final.

Results

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	China Chen Cuiting Fan Di Li Li Li Yifang Yang Bo Zhang Wenning	North Korea An Myong-hwa Choi Gyong-hui Hwang Bo-sil Kim Gwang-Suk Om Song-hui Li Chun-mi	South Korea Bae Eun-mi Cho Eun-jin Han Na-jung Lee Hee-kyung Min A-young Park Ji-sook
All-Around	Chen Cuiting China (CHN)	Li Yifang China (CHN)	Kim Gwang-Suk North Korea (PRK)
Vault	Seo Kyoko Japan (JPN)	Chen Cuiting China (CHN)	Ji-Sook Park South Korea (KOR)
Uneven Bars	Fan Di China (CHN)	Li Li China (CHN) Kim Gwang-Suk North Korea (PRK)	N/A
Balance Beam	Li Chun-Mi North Korea (PRK)	Li Yifang China (CHN)	Yang Bo China (CHN)
Floor Exercise	Chen Cuiting China (CHN)	Kosuge Mari Japan (JPN) Hee-Kyung Lee South Korea (KOR)	N/A

Medal Count

Rank	Country				Total
1	China	4	4	1	9
2	North Korea	1	2	1	4
3	South Korea	0	1	2	3
4	Japan	1	1	0	2