Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Artistic Gymnastics - Rings (Men)

sport	Apparatus gymnastics
discipline	Rings
gender	Men
place	The O₂
Attendees	8 athletes from 8 countries
Competition phase	August 6, 2012

The final on the men's rings at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 6, 2012 at The O₂ . A total of eight gymnasts competed.

In the qualifying competition on July 28, 2012, eight gymnasts had qualified for the final. The regulations stipulated that only two gymnasts per NOK were allowed to compete in the final. A third qualifier was not allowed to compete and was replaced by a gymnast who was the next best.

The evaluation of an exercise consisted of the degree of difficulty (D-Score) and the execution (E-Score), which were added to the overall evaluation and from which any penalty points were deducted. If two gymnasts have the same total number of points, the higher score of the execution is decisive.

Bottom line

space	Gymnast	nation	difficulty	execution	Penalty points	total
1	Arthur Zanetti	Brazil	6,800	9,100		15,900
2	Chen Yibing	People's Republic of China	6,800	9,000		15,800
3	Matteo Morandi	Italy	6,800	8,933		15,733
4th	Alexander Balandin	Russia	6,700	8,966		15,666
5	Denis Ablyazin	Russia	6,600	9,033		15,633
6th	Tommy Ramos	Puerto Rico	6,800	8,800		15,600
7th	Yordan Yovchev	Bulgaria	6,600	8,508		15,108
8th	Federico Molinari	Argentina	6,700	8,033		14,733

Arthur Zanetti managed to win Brazil's first medal and Olympic victory in apparatus gymnastics.
Yordan Yovchev (BUL) in 7th place is at the Olympic Games for the sixth time. The oldest gymnast in London at 39 years of age won silver on the rings in Athens in 2004 .

Picture gallery

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  Chen Yibing (CHN), here at the 2008 Beijing Games, wins silver

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  Yordan Yovchev (BUL), the oldest gymnast in London, is taking part in the Olympics for the sixth time and is seventh

Web links

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