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

Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts
Qualification
Artistic
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
Group all-around				women
Individual all-around				women
Trampoline
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.^[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

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.

Participating gymnasts

Medal table

Key

  *   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
Total 16 NOCs		18	18	18	54

Events

Artistic gymnastics

Men's events

Event	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 Vernyayev  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 Vernyayev  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 1976 Olympics, Romania did not medal in the women's team event, due to Romania not qualifying a team for the first time since 1968, ending a 40-year medal run.^[6][7][8]

Event	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

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Margarita Mamun  Russia	Yana Kudryavtseva  Russia	Ganna Rizatdinova  Ukraine
Group all-around	Russia (RUS) Vera Biryukova Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Maksimova Anastasiia 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

Trampoline

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Uladzislau Hancharou  Belarus	Dong Dong  China	Gao Lei  China
Women's individual	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 artistic performances by gymnasts who participated in Rio.^[9][10]

See also

• Gymnastics at the 2014 Asian Games
• Gymnastics at the 2015 African Games
• Gymnastics at the 2015 European Games
• Gymnastics at the 2015 Pan American Games

References

External links

• Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique

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