Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
At the 2012 Olympics in London 14 competitions were from 28 July to 7 August 2012 for the O ₂ Arena, which was called during the Games from sponsors legal reasons, North Greenwich Arena, held in Gymnastics, six for women and eight for men. There were in singles and in team decisions in the all around and various apparatus finals. The competition program was identical to that of Beijing 2008.
- 3.1 Qualification
- 3.2 individual all-around
- 3.3 Team all-around
- 3.4 Floor Gymnastics
- 3.5 uneven Bars
- 3.6 horse jump
- 3.7 Balance Beam
- 5.1 Qualification Criteria
- 5.2 Won quota places
Competitions and schedule
Gentlemen
Qualification
Individual all-around
Date: August 1, 2012
Team all-around
Date: July 30, 2012 After a faulted feeder Kohei Uchimura on pommel horse, the Japanese team was originally reported in the final in fourth place. After a protest by the Japanese team lead and multiple video study by the competition judges Uchimura pommel horse exercise was subsequently revised upwards by 0.7 points and the team demoted back to second place. It was the first time that such correction took effect on Olympic medal decision.
Bars
Date: August 7, 2012
Floor exercises
Date: August 5, 2012 Due to its better attitude marks the Japanese Kohei Uchimura was awarded the silver medal, while the same number of points awarded Denis Abljasin from Russia bronze.
Pommel Horse
Date: August 5, 2012 Due to its better attitude marks the Hungarian Krisztián Berki was awarded the gold medal, while the same number of points received Louis Smith of Great Britain silver.
Horizontal bar
Date: August 7, 2012
Rings
Date: August 6, 2012
Horse jump
Date: August 6, 2012
Ladies
Qualification
Individual all-around
Date: August 2, 2012 Due to the similarity score of Mustafina and Raisman, the sum of the three highest marks awarded to individual devices was used for the award of the bronze medal each. Mustafina came up with 45.933 points, Raisman on 45.346 points.
Team all-around
Date: July 31, 2012
Floor exercises
Date: August 7, 2012
Uneven
Date: August 6, 2012
Horse jump
Date: August 5, 2012 The Canadian Black Elisabeth fell at the first jump, injuring himself. Nevertheless, she went to the second jump, but broke off the start.
Balance Beam
Date: August 7, 2012 Originally, the Romanian Catalina Ponor the bronze medal was awarded while Alexandra Raisman was expelled from the United States in fourth. After a protest on the part of the U.S. team both athletes received the same rating. Due to their better attitude scores Raisman was awarded retrospectively the third place.
Medal Tally
Qualification
Qualification criteria
It was attended by 196 athletes participated in the competitions, each containing 98 men and women. Per gender is qualified twelve teams of five athletes. There were also 38 per individual starters. Main qualifying competition was the 2011 World Championships, which until October 16, 2011 took place from 8th in Tokyo. Furthermore, a second qualifying competition was held from 10 to 13 January 2012 for the first time organized, who worked simultaneously as a test competition, since, as the Olympic competitions, held at the O ₂ Arena in London. The qualification criteria were used for both women and men.
The top eight teams in the world championships qualified directly. The teams ranked 9-16 then fought in the qualifying competition for the last four open seats. For the individual competition were the best all-rounder in the qualifying competition personal starting places, if not the team's athletes were already qualified. Personal launch rights also received the medal winners of the apparatus finals of the world championships. The International Gymnastics Federation ( FIG) guaranteed addition, at least two starters from America, Asia, Africa, Europe and one from Oceania, when it could regularly qualify any athletes. In each case a starting place Britain was reserved as a host, if there are no athletes could qualify. A starting place could the FIG awarded by invitation.
Two athletes from the eight already qualified for the World Championships teams, all gold medal winners and one each athlete the host allowed to participate in the qualifying competition ( as a test competition ), their results were, however, not relevant for the qualification.
Won quota places
For men Syque Caesar received from Bangladesh by the World Gymnastics Federation FIG a starting place by invitation.