| Gymnastics at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |
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| %252C_Rio_2016.png.webp)  %252C_Rio_2016.png.webp)  %252C_Rio_2016.png.webp) 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 | 
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| Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts Qualification | ||
| Artistic _pictogram.svg.png.webp) | ||
| Qualification | men | women | 
| Team all-around | men | women | 
| Individual all-around | men | women | 
| Vault | men | women | 
| Floor | men | women | 
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
| Uneven bars | women | |
| Balance beam | women | |
| Rhythmic _pictogram.svg.png.webp) | ||
| Group all-around | women | |
| Individual all-around | women | |
| Trampoline _pictogram.svg.png.webp) | ||
| Individual | men | women | 
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
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 | 
| 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 | 
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 19 | Sat 20 | Sun 21 | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around | Q | F | |
| Group all-around | Q | F | 
| 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) Algeria (2)
 Argentina (2) Argentina (2)
 Armenia (3) Armenia (3)
 Australia (3) Australia (3)
 Austria (1) Austria (1)
 Azerbaijan (3) Azerbaijan (3)
 Belarus (12) Belarus (12)
.svg.png.webp) Belgium (6) Belgium (6)
 Brazil (17) Brazil (17)
 Bulgaria (6) Bulgaria (6)
.svg.png.webp) Canada (8) Canada (8)
 Cape Verde (1) Cape Verde (1)
 Chile (2) Chile (2)
 China (20) China (20)
 Colombia (2) Colombia (2)
 Croatia (2) Croatia (2)
 Cuba (3) Cuba (3)
 Cyprus (1) Cyprus (1)
 Czech Republic (1) Czech Republic (1)
 Egypt (1) Egypt (1)
 Finland (2) Finland (2)
 France (13) France (13)
 Georgia (2) Georgia (2)
 Germany (17) Germany (17)
 Great Britain (13) Great Britain (13)
 Greece (9) Greece (9)
 Guatemala (1) Guatemala (1)
 Hungary (2) Hungary (2)
 Iceland (1) Iceland (1)
 India (1) India (1)
 Ireland (2) Ireland (2)
 Israel (7) Israel (7)
 Italy (12) Italy (12)
 Jamaica (1) Jamaica (1)
 Japan (19) Japan (19)
 Kazakhstan (2) Kazakhstan (2)
 Lithuania (1) Lithuania (1)
 Mexico (2) Mexico (2)
 Monaco (1) Monaco (1)
 Netherlands (10) Netherlands (10)
 New Zealand (3) New Zealand (3)
 North Korea (2) North Korea (2)
 Norway (1) Norway (1)
 Panama (1) Panama (1)
 Peru (1) Peru (1)
 Poland (1) Poland (1)
 Portugal (3) Portugal (3)
 Romania (4) Romania (4)
 Russia (20) Russia (20)
 Slovakia (1) Slovakia (1)
 Slovenia (1) Slovenia (1)
 South Africa (1) South Africa (1)
 South Korea (7) South Korea (7)
 Spain (9) Spain (9)
 Sweden (1) Sweden (1)
 Switzerland (6) Switzerland (6)
 Trinidad and Tobago (1) Trinidad and Tobago (1)
 Turkey (2) Turkey (2)
 Ukraine (13) Ukraine (13)
 United States (18) United States (18)
 Uzbekistan (9) Uzbekistan (9)
 Venezuela (1) Venezuela (1)
 Vietnam (2) Vietnam (2)
Participating gymnasts
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 | 
| .svg.png.webp) 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 |  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 | Kōhei Uchimura  Japan | Oleg Verniaiev  Ukraine | Max Whitlock  Great Britain | |||
| Floor exercise | Max Whitlock  Great Britain | Diego Hypólito  Brazil | Arthur Mariano  Brazil | |||
| Pommel horse | Max Whitlock  Great Britain | Louis Smith  Great Britain | Alexander Naddour  United States | |||
| Rings | Eleftherios Petrounias  Greece | Arthur Zanetti  Brazil | Denis Ablyazin  Russia | |||
| Vault | Ri Se-gwang  North Korea | Denis Ablyazin  Russia | Kenzō Shirai  Japan | |||
| Parallel bars | Oleg Verniaiev  Ukraine | Danell Leyva  United States | David Belyavskiy  Russia | |||
| Horizontal bar | 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 |  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 | Simone Biles  United States | Aly Raisman  United States | Aliya Mustafina  Russia | |||
| Vault | Simone Biles  United States | Maria Paseka  Russia | Giulia Steingruber  Switzerland | |||
| Uneven bars | Aliya Mustafina  Russia | Madison Kocian  United States | Sophie Scheder  Germany | |||
| Balance beam | Sanne Wevers  Netherlands | Laurie Hernandez  United States | Simone Biles  United States | |||
| Floor exercise | Simone Biles  United States | Aly Raisman  United States | Amy Tinkler  Great Britain | |||
Rhythmic gymnastics
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Group all-around |  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 | Margarita Mamun  Russia | Yana Kudryavtseva  Russia | Ganna Rizatdinova  Ukraine | 
Trampoline
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | 
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's individual | Uladzislau Hancharou  Belarus | Dong Dong  China | Gao Lei  China | 
| Women's individual | Rosie MacLennan .svg.png.webp) 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
- ↑ "Rio 2016: Artistic Gymnastics". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ "Rio 2016: Rhythmic Gymnastics". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ "Rio 2016: Gymnastics (Trampoline)". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 30 March 2015. Retrieved 28 March 2015.
- ↑ "Rio 2016 – FIG Gymnastics Qualification System" (PDF). FIG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2015. Retrieved 20 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 "Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- ↑ Dvora Meyers (19 April 2016). "Romania's Olympic gymnastics failure: where did it all go wrong?". The Guardian (London).
- ↑ Laura Wagner (18 April 2016). "Romanian Women's Gymnastics Team Fails To Qualify For Olympics, Ending Medal Streak". npr.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Radnofsky, Louise (17 August 2016). "Parallel Bars, Stripteases, Wigs: Rio's Hottest Club Is the Gymnastics Gala". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
- ↑ "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
