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

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]

Arena Olímpica prior to the rhythmic gymnastics competition.

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

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
15	Switzerland	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 nations)		18	18	18	54

Events

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
Horizontal bar	Fabian Hambüchen Germany	Danell Leyva United States	Nile Wilson Great Britain
Parallel bars	Oleg Vernyayev Ukraine	Danell Leyva United States	David Belyavskiy Russia
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

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]

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
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

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 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.
"Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. 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.
"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

Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique
"Artistic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
"Rhythmic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
"Trampoline Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio2016.com)". Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 July 2018.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics
Rhythmic Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics
Trampolining at the 2016 Summer Olympics at SR/Olympics
Results Book – Gymnastic Artistic
Results Book – Gymnastic Rhythmic
Results Book – Gymnastic Trampoline

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[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.

[gymsched-5] "Rio 2016: Ticket Guide – Search for Sessions". Rio 2016. 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.

[wsj-gala-9] "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.

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