Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Pictograms for artistic gymnastics (left), rhythmic gymnastics (center), and trampolining (right)
Venue	Arena Olímpica do Rio
Dates	6–21 August 2016
No. of events	18
Competitors	from 63 nations

Arena Olímpica prior to the rhythmic gymnastics competition.

Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. All gymnastics events were staged at the Arena Olímpica do Rio from 6 to 21 August 2016.^[1][2][3]

Qualification

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualification was based on the results of the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 24 October to 1 November 2015; the 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, held in Stuttgart, Germany, from 7 to 13 September 2015; the 2015 Trampoline World Championships, held in Odense, Denmark, from 25 to 28 November 2015; and the Olympic Test Event, held on 16–22 April 2016 at Arena Olímpica do Rio.^[4]

Schedule

Q

Qualification

F

Final

Artistic (HSBC Arena)^[5]

Event↓/Date →	Sat 6	Sun 7	Mon 8	Tue 9	Wed 10	Thur 11	Sun 14	Mon 15	Tue 16
Men's individual all-around	Q				F
Men's team all-around			F
Men's vault								F
Men's floor							F
Men's pommel horse							F
Men's rings								F
Men's parallel bars									F
Men's horizontal bar									F
Women's individual all-around		Q				F
Women's team all-around				F
Women's vault							F
Women's balance beam								F
Women's uneven bars							F
Women's floor									F

Rhythmic (HSBC Arena)^[5]

Event↓/Date →	Fri 19	Sat 20	Sun 21
Individual all-around	Q	F
Group all-around		Q	F

Trampoline (HSBC Arena)^[5]

Event↓/Date →	Fri 12		Sat 13
Men			Q	F
Women	Q	F

Participation

Participating nations

Brazil, as the host country, receives a guaranteed spot, in case it were not to earn one by the regular qualifying methods.

•  Algeria (2)
•  Argentina (2)
•  Armenia (3)
•  Australia (3)
•  Austria (1)
•  Azerbaijan (3)
•  Belarus (12)
•  Belgium (6)
•  Brazil (17)
•  Bulgaria (6)
•  Canada (8)
•  Cape Verde (1)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (20)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Croatia (2)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Cyprus (1)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  Egypt (1)
•  Finland (2)
•  France (13)
•  Georgia (2)
•  Germany (17)
•  Great Britain (13)
•  Greece (9)
•  Guatemala (1)
•  Hungary (2)
•  Iceland (1)
•  India (1)
•  Ireland (2)
•  Israel (7)
•  Italy (12)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (19)
•  Kazakhstan (2)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Mexico (2)
•  Monaco (1)
•  Netherlands (10)
•  New Zealand (3)
•  North Korea (2)
•  Norway (1)
•  Panama (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (3)
•  Romania (4)
•  Russia (20)
•  Slovakia (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (7)
•  Spain (9)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Switzerland (6)
•  Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•  Turkey (2)
•  Ukraine (13)
•  United States (18)
•  Uzbekistan (9)
•  Venezuela (1)
•  Vietnam (2)

Participating gymnasts

Main article: List of gymnasts at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Brazil)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	United States	4	6	2	12
2	Russia	3	5	3	11
3	Great Britain	2	2	3	7
4	Japan	2	0	1	3
5	Ukraine	1	1	1	3
6	Germany	1	0	1	2
7	Belarus	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Greece	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
	North Korea	1	0	0	1
12	Brazil*	0	2	1	3
13	China	0	1	4	5
14	Spain	0	1	0	1
15	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		18	18	18	54

Events

Artistic gymnastics

Men's events

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	Japan (JPN) Kenzō Shirai Yusuke Tanaka Koji Yamamuro Kōhei Uchimura Ryōhei Katō	Russia (RUS) Denis Ablyazin David Belyavskiy Ivan Stretovich Nikolai Kuksenkov Nikita Nagornyy	China (CHN) Deng Shudi Lin Chaopan Liu Yang You Hao Zhang Chenglong
Individual all-around details	Kōhei Uchimura  Japan	Oleg Verniaiev  Ukraine	Max Whitlock  Great Britain
Floor exercise details	Max Whitlock  Great Britain	Diego Hypólito  Brazil	Arthur Mariano  Brazil
Pommel horse details	Max Whitlock  Great Britain	Louis Smith  Great Britain	Alexander Naddour  United States
Rings details	Eleftherios Petrounias  Greece	Arthur Zanetti  Brazil	Denis Ablyazin  Russia
Vault details	Ri Se-gwang  North Korea	Denis Ablyazin  Russia	Kenzō Shirai  Japan
Parallel bars details	Oleg Verniaiev  Ukraine	Danell Leyva  United States	David Belyavskiy  Russia
Horizontal bar details	Fabian Hambüchen  Germany	Danell Leyva  United States	Nile Wilson  Great Britain

Women's events

For the first time since the 1972 Olympics, Romania did not win a medal in the women's team event, due to Romania's failure to qualify a team for the first time since 1968, ending a 40-year medal run.^[6][7][8]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around details	United States (USA) Simone Biles Gabby Douglas Laurie Hernandez Madison Kocian Aly Raisman	Russia (RUS) Angelina Melnikova Aliya Mustafina Maria Paseka Daria Spiridonova Seda Tutkhalyan	China (CHN) Fan Yilin Mao Yi Shang Chunsong Tan Jiaxin Wang Yan
Individual all-around details	Simone Biles  United States	Aly Raisman  United States	Aliya Mustafina  Russia
Vault details	Simone Biles  United States	Maria Paseka  Russia	Giulia Steingruber  Switzerland
Uneven bars details	Aliya Mustafina  Russia	Madison Kocian  United States	Sophie Scheder  Germany
Balance beam details	Sanne Wevers  Netherlands	Laurie Hernandez  United States	Simone Biles  United States
Floor exercise details	Simone Biles  United States	Aly Raisman  United States	Amy Tinkler  Great Britain

Rhythmic gymnastics

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Group all-around details	Russia (RUS) Vera Biryukova Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Maksimova Anastasia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva	Spain (ESP) Sandra Aguilar Artemi Gavezou Elena López Lourdes Mohedano Alejandra Quereda	Bulgaria (BUL) Reneta Kamberova Lyubomira Kazanova Mihaela Maevska-Velichkova Tsvetelina Naydenova Hristiana Todorova
Individual all-around details	Margarita Mamun  Russia	Yana Kudryavtseva  Russia	Ganna Rizatdinova  Ukraine

Trampoline

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual details	Uladzislau Hancharou  Belarus	Dong Dong  China	Gao Lei  China
Women's individual details	Rosie MacLennan  Canada	Bryony Page  Great Britain	Li Dan  China

Gala

For the first time since 2008, a gala was held in gymnastics; it was held on 17 August 2016, following the completion of competition in the artistic disciplines. The exhibition event featured performances by artistic gymnasts who participated in Rio.^[9][10]

References

1. "Rio 2016: Artistic Gymnastics". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
2. "Rio 2016: Rhythmic Gymnastics". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
3. "Rio 2016: Gymnastics (Trampoline)". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
4. "Rio 2016 – FIG Gymnastics Qualification System" (PDF). FIG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
5. "Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
6. Dvora Meyers (19 April 2016). "Romania's Olympic gymnastics failure: where did it all go wrong?". The Guardian (London).
7. Laura Wagner (18 April 2016). "Romanian Women's Gymnastics Team Fails To Qualify For Olympics, Ending Medal Streak". npr.
8. Erin Corbett (4 August 2016). "Why Isn't The Romania Gymnastics Team At Rio? The Women's Team Isn't Competing This Year". Bustle.com.
9. Radnofsky, Louise (17 August 2016). "Parallel Bars, Stripteases, Wigs: Rio's Hottest Club Is the Gymnastics Gala". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
10. "Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique : ACRO". Fig-gymnastics.com. 23 May 2012. Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2012.

External links

• Artistic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio2016.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 August 2016)
• Rhythmic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio2016.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 August 2016)
• Trampoline Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics. Rio2016.com. at the Wayback Machine (archived 26 August 2016)
• Results Book – Gymnastic Artistic. library.olympic.org.
• Results Book – Gymnastic Rhythmic. library.olympic.org.
• Results Book – Gymnastic Trampoline. library.olympic.org.
• Artistic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Olympedia
• Rhythmic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Olympedia
• Trampolining at the 2016 Summer Olympics at Olympedia
• Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique