2012 Summer Olympics / Gymnastics

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in the British capital, London , 14 gymnastics competitions were held from July 28th to August 7th in the O2 Arena , which was called the North Greenwich Arena during the Games for sponsorship reasons , six for women and eight with men.

There were decisions in the all-around as well as various equipment finals in the individual and in the team.
The competition program was identical to that of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing .

Competitions and schedule

North Greenwich Arena (The O2 Arena) - venue for gymnastics competitions

Apparatus gymnastics competitions and schedule
Competitions	July August
Women	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th
All-around single
All-around team
Leap
ground
Balance beam
Uneven bars
Men	28.	29	30th	31.	1.	2.	3.	4th	5.	6th	7th
All-around single
All-around team
Leap
ground
Rings
Ingots
Pommel horse
Horizontal bar

qualification

final

Men's

qualification

Individual all-around

space	country	athlete	Points
1	JPN	Kōhei Uchimura	92.690
2	GER	Marcel Nguyen	91.031
3	United States	Danell Leyva	90.698
4th	UKR	Mykola Kuksenkow	90.432
5	RUS	Dawid Beljawski	90.297
6th	JPN	Kazuhito Tanaka	89.407
7th	GBR	Kristian Thomas	89.406
8th	United States	John Orozco	89.331

Date: August 1, 2012

Team all-around

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Chen Yibing Feng Zhe Guo Weiyang Zhang Chenglong Zou Kai	275.997
2	JPN	Ryōhei Katō Kazuhito Tanaka Yūsuke Tanaka Kōhei Uchimura Koji Yamamuro	271,952
3	GBR	Sam Oldham Daniel Purvis Louis Smith Kristian Thomas Max Whitlock	271.711
4th	UKR	Mykola Kuksenkow Vitalii Nakonechnyi Ihor Radiwilow Oleg Stepko Oleh Vernjajew	271,526
5	United States	Jacob Dalton Jonathan Horton Danell Leyva Sam Mikulak John Orozco	269,952
6th	RUS	Denis Abljasin Alexander Balandin Dawid Beljawski Emin Garibow Igor Pachomenko	269,603
7th	GER	Philipp Boy Fabian Hambüchen Sebastian Krimmer Marcel Nguyen Andreas Toba	268.019
8th	FRA	Pierre-Yves Bény Yann Cucherat Gaël da Silva Hamilton Sabot Cyril Tommasone	265,441

Date: July 30, 2012
After Kōhei Uchimura's faulty departure from the pommel horse, the Japanese team was originally shown in fourth place in the final accounts. After a protest by the Japanese team management and multiple video studies by the judges, Uchimura's pommel horse exercise was subsequently raised by 0.7 points and the team was downgraded to second place. It was the first time that such a correction had an impact on the Olympic medal decision.

Ingots

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Feng Zhe	15.966
2	GER	Marcel Nguyen	15,800
3	FRA	Hamilton sabot	15,566
4th	JPN	Kazuhito Tanaka	15,500
5	MEX	Daniel Corral Barron	15.333
6th	RUS	Emin Garibov	15,300
6th	GRE	Vasileios Tsolakidis	15,300
8th	JPN	Yūsuke Tanaka	15,100
9	CHN	Zhang Chenglong	13.808

Date: August 7, 2012

Floor exercise

space	country	athlete	Points
1	CHN	Zou Kai	15.933
2	JPN	Kōhei Uchimura	15,800
3	RUS	Denis Ablyazin	15,800 *
4th	CHL	Tomás González	15,366
5	United States	Jacob Dalton	15.333
6th	ISR	Alexander Shatilov	15.333
7th	ROME	Flavius ​​Koczi	15,100
8th	GER	Marcel Nguyen	14.966

Date: August 5, 2012
Due to his better posture marks, the Japanese Kōhei Uchimura was awarded the silver medal, while the tied Denis Abljasin from Russia received bronze.

Pommel horse

space	country	athlete	Points
1	HUN	Krisztián Berki	16.066
2	GBR	Louis Smith	16.066 *
3	GBR	Max Whitlock	15,600
4th	ITA	Alberto Busnari	15,400
5	FRA	Cyril Tommasone	15.141
6th	UKR	Vitalii Nakonechnyi	14.766
7th	RUS	Dawid Beljawski	14.733
8th	HUN	Vid Hidvégi	14.300

Date: August 5, 2012
Due to his better posture marks, the Hungarian Krisztián Berki was awarded the gold medal, while the tied Louis Smith from Great Britain received silver.

Horizontal bar

space	country	athlete	Points
1	NED	Epke Zonderland	16,533
2	GER	Fabian Hambüchen	16,400
3	CHN	Zou Kai	16,366
4th	CHN	Zhang Chenlong	16.266
5	United States	Danell Leyva	15.833
6th	United States	Jonathan Horton	15,466
7th	RUS	Emin Garibov	15.333
8th	COR	Kim Jihoon	15.133

Date: August 7, 2012

Rings

space	country	athlete	Points
1	BRA	Arthur Zanetti	15,900
2	CHN	Chen Yibing	15,800
3	ITA	Matteo Morandi	15.733
4th	RUS	Alexander Balandin	15,666
5	RUS	Denis Ablyazin	15.633
6th	PURE	Tony Ramos	15,600
7th	BUL	Jordan Jovchev	15.108
8th	ARG	Federico Molinari	14.733

Date: August 6, 2012

Horse jump

from left: Denis Abljasin , Yang Hak-seon and Ihor Radiwilow

space	country	athlete	Points
1	COR	Yang Hak-seon	16,533
2	RUS	Denis Ablyazin	16,399
3	UKR	Ihor Radiwilow	16,316
4th	CHI	Tomás González	16,183
5	United States	Samuel Mikulak	16,050
6th	ESP	Isaac Botella	15.866
7th	ROME	Flavius ​​Koczi	15.633
8th	GBR	Kristian Thomas	15,533

Date: August 6, 2012

Ladies

qualification

Individual all-around

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Gabrielle Douglas	62.232
2	RUS	Viktoria Komova	61.973
3	RUS	Alija Mustafina	59.566
4th	United States	Alexandra Raisman	59.566 *
5	ROME	Sandra Izbașa	58.833
6th	CHN	Deng Linlin	58.399
7th	CHN	Huang Qiushuang	58.115
8th	ITA	Vanessa Ferrari	57.999

Date: August 2, 2012
Because Mustafina and Raisman had the same number of points, the sum of the three highest grades awarded on individual devices was used to award the bronze medal. Mustafina got 45.933 points, Raisman 45.346 points.

Team all-around

space	country	Sportswomen	Points
1	United States	Gabrielle Douglas Jordyn Wieber Alexandra Raisman Kyla Ross McKayla Maroney	183,596
2	RUS	Alija Mustafina Viktorija Komova Xenija Afanassjewa Anastassija Grischina Marija Passeka	178.530
3	ROME	Cătălina Ponor Larisa Iordache Diana Bulimar Sandra Izbașa Diana Chelaru	176.414
4th	CHN	Huang Qiushuang Deng Linlin Sui Lu Yao Jinnan He Kexin	174.430
5	CAN	Elsabeth Black Dominique Pegg Brittany Rogers Victoria Moors Kristina Vaculik	170,804
6th	GBR	Hannah Whelan Jennifer Pinches Elizabeth Tweddle Rebecca Tunney Imogen Cairns	170.495
7th	ITA	Vanessa Ferrari Carlotta Ferlito Erika Fasana Giorgia Campana Elisabetta Preziosa	167.930
8th	JPN	Asuka Teramoto Rie Tanaka Koko Tsurumi Yuko Shintake Yu Minobe	166.646

Date: July 31, 2012

Floor exercise

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	United States	Alexandra Raisman	15,600
2	ROME	Cătălina Ponor	15,200
3	RUS	Alija Mustafina	14,900
4th	ITA	Vanessa Ferrari	14,900
5	OUT	Lauren Mitchell	14.833
6th	RUS	Xenia Afanasseva	14,566
7th	United States	Jordyn Wieber	14,500
8th	ROME	Sandra Izbașa	13,333

Date: August 7, 2012

Uneven bars

The three medal winners

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	RUS	Alija Mustafina	16.133
2	CHN	Hey Kexin	15.933
3	GBR	Elizabeth Tweddle	15.916
4th	CHN	Yao Jinnan	15.766
5	RUS	Viktoria Komova	15.666
6th	GER	Elisabeth Seitz	15.266
7th	JPN	Koko Tsurumi	14.966
8th	United States	Gabrielle Douglas	14,900

Date: August 6, 2012

Horse jump

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	ROME	Sandra Izbașa	15.191
2	United States	McKayla Maroney	15.083
3	RUS	Marija Passeka	15.050
4th	GER	Janine Berger	15.016
5	GER	Oksana Chusovitina	14.783
6th	DOM	Yamilet Peña	14,516
7th	CAN	Brittany Rogers	14,483
8th	CAN	Elsabeth Black	0.000 *

Date: August 5, 2012
Canadian Elsabeth Black fell on her first jump and was injured in the process. Nevertheless, she took the second jump, but broke off the run.

Balance beam

space	country	sportswoman	Points
1	CHN	Deng Linlin	15,600
2	CHN	Sui Lu	15,500
3	United States	Alexandra Raisman	15.066
4th	ROME	Cătălina Ponor	15.066
5	RUS	Xenia Afanasseva	14,583
6th	ROME	Larisa Iordache	14.200
7th	United States	Gabrielle Douglas	13.633
8th	RUS	Viktoria Komova	13,166

Date: August 7, 2012
The Romanian Cătălina Ponor was originally awarded the bronze medal, while Alexandra Raisman from the United States was expelled fourth. After a protest by the US team, both athletes received the same rating. Because of her better posture marks, Raisman was subsequently awarded third place.

Medal table

Medal table
space	country	G	S.	B.	total
01	People's Republic of China	4th	3	1	8th
02	United States	3	1	2	6th
03	Russia	1	3	4th	8th
04th	Japan	1	2	-	3
05	Romania	1	1	1	3
06th	Brazil	1	-	-	1
06th	Hungary	1	-	-	1
06th	South Korea	1	-	-	1
06th	Netherlands	1	-	-	1
10	Germany	-	3	-	3
11	Great Britain	-	1	3	4th
12	France	-	-	1	1
12	Italy	-	-	1	1
12	Ukraine	-	-	1	1
Total		14th	14th	14th	42

qualification

Qualification criteria

196 athletes took part in the competitions, 98 women and 98 men each. Twelve teams of five athletes each qualified for each gender. There were also 38 individual starters. The main qualifying competition was the 2011 World Championships , which took place from October 8 to 16, 2011 in Tokyo . In addition, a second qualifying competition was held for the first time from January 10th to 13th, 2012, which also functioned as a test competition because, like the Olympic competitions, it was held in the O₂ arena in London. The qualification criteria applied to both women and men.

The best eight teams from the World Championships qualified directly. The teams in places 9 to 16 then fought for the last four open places in the qualifying competition. For the individual competition, the best all-rounders of the qualifying competition were given personal starting positions, if not athletes were already qualified via the team. The medal winners of the device finals of the world championships also received personal starting rights. The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) also guaranteed at least two starters from America , Asia , Africa , Europe and one from Oceania , if no athletes could qualify regularly. Great Britain was reserved as host in each case if no athletes could qualify. The FIG was allowed to award a starting place by invitation.

Two athletes from each of the eight teams that had already qualified at the World Championships, all gold medalists and one athlete from the host were allowed to take part in the qualification competition (as a test competition), but their results remained irrelevant for the qualification.

Quota places won

Qualified athletes according to NOK
	Women		Men		Total athletes
competition	singles	team	singles	team
Egypt	2		1		3
Argentina	1		1		2
Armenia			1		1
Azerbaijan			1		1
Australia	5	1	1		6th
Bangladesh			1		1
Belgium	1		1		2
Brazil	5	1	3		8th
Bulgaria	1		1		2
Chile	1		1		2
China	5	1	5	1	10
Germany	5	1	5	1	10
Dominican Rep.	1				1
Finland	1				1
France	5	1	5	1	10
Greece	1		2		3
Great Britain	5	1	5	1	10
Guatemala	1				1
Hong Kong	1		1		2
Ireland			1		1
Israel	1		2		3
Italy	5	1	5	1	10
Japan	5	1	5	1	10
Canada	5	1	1		6th
Kazakhstan	1		1		2
Colombia	1		1		2
Croatia	1		1		2
Latvia			1		1
Lithuania	1		1		2
Mexico	1		1		2
Netherlands	1		1		2
Austria	1		1		2
Poland	1		1		2
Portugal	1		1		2
Puerto Rico	1		1		2
Romania	5	1	5	1	10
Russia	5	1	5	1	10
Sweden	1				1
Switzerland	1		1		2
Singapore	1				1
Slovakia	1		1		2
Slovenia	1				1
Spain	1		5	1	6th
South Korea	1		5	1	6th
Czech Republic	1		1		2
Tunisia			1		1
Turkey	1				1
Ukraine	1		5	1	6th
Hungary	1		2		3
United States	5	1	5	1	10
Uzbekistan	1				1
Venezuela	1				1
Vietnam	2		1		3
Belarus	1		1		2
Total starting places	98	12	98	12	196

For the men, Syque Caesar from Bangladesh received a starting place by invitation from the FIG World Gymnastics Federation .

Web links

Commons : 2012 Summer Olympic Games / Gymnastics  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Artistic Gymnastics Schedule. Retrieved September 4, 2011 . 
2. ^ Gymnastics - Artistic / Men's Individual All-Around. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
3. ^ Gymnastics - Artistic / Men's Team. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Men's Parallel Bars. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
5. ^ Men's Floor Exercise. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
6. ↑ Men's Pommel Horse. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
7. ^ Men's Horizontal Bar. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
8. ↑ Men's Rings. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
9. ^ Men's Vault. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
10. ↑ Women's Individual All-Around. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
11. ↑ Women's Team. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
12. ^ Women's Floor Exercise. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
13. ^ Women's Uneven Bars. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
14. ^ Women's Vault. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
15. ^ Women's Beam. In: london2012.com. Retrieved August 8, 2012 . 
16. ↑ "Qualification London 2012" ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Gymnastics Association of Austria. Retrieved on August 2, 2010 (Excel sheet, English; 54 kB). 
17. ↑ WOMENS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - QUALIFIED GYMNASTS. (PDF; 116 kB) (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 23, 2013 ; accessed on October 15, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
18. ↑ MENS ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS - QUALIFIED GYMNASTS. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 28, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
19. ↑ London 2012: Syque Caesar aims to bring Bangladesh glory. Retrieved May 23, 2012 .