Paul Hamm finished with an overall score of 94.400 while Liukin finished with a 63.425, edging Shawn Johnson, the 2007 Tyson American Cup Champion, who had an all-around score of 63.100.

In 2003, he became the first American man to win the all-round title at the world championships. He competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, alongside his twin brother Morgan. He won the silver medal in the team event and was awarded gold in the individual all-around competition, becoming the only American man in Olympic history to win the gold medal in that event. He nearly won the Gold on the Horizontal bar but because of the tie breaker he was awared silver.

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Paul Hamm held a good position after three rounds, but a disastrous fall on the vault, in which he nearly fell into the judges' bench, dropped him to 12th place and he looked to be completely out of the running for a medal of any sort. Indeed, had a judge and the bench not been able to break Hamm's fall, he might have fallen from the podium and sustained injury. However, numerous faults by the other gymnasts, combined with Hamm's performance on the parallel bars, returned him to fourth place after the fifth rotation. His high bar routine gained him a score of 9.837, winning him the gold medal by a margin of .012, the closest in Olympic Gymnastics history.

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