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.
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.
Schedule QQualificationFFinal +Artistic (HSBC Arena) 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) Event↓/Date → Fri 19 Sat 20 Sun 21 Individual all-around Q F Group all-around Q F
+Trampoline (HSBC Arena) 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.
Participating gymnasts
Medal table
Events Artistic gymnastics Men's events Team all-around (JPN)Kenzō ShiraiYusuke TanakaKoji YamamuroKōhei UchimuraRyōhei Katō (RUS)Denis AblyazinDavid BelyavskiyIvan StretovichNikolai KuksenkovNikita Nagornyy (CHN)Deng ShudiLin ChaopanLiu YangYou HaoZhang ChenglongIndividual all-aroundFloor exercisePommel horseRingsVaultParallel barsHorizontal bar
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.
Team all-around (USA)Simone BilesGabby DouglasLaurie HernandezMadison KocianAly Raisman (RUS)Angelina MelnikovaAliya MustafinaMaria PasekaDaria SpiridonovaSeda Tutkhalyan (CHN)Fan YilinMao YiShang ChunsongTan JiaxinWang YanIndividual all-around VaultUneven barsBalance beamFloor exercise
Rhythmic gymnastics Group all-around Vera BiryukovaAnastasia BliznyukAnastasia MaksimovaAnastasia TatarevaMaria Tolkacheva Sandra AguilarArtemi GavezouElena LópezLourdes MohedanoAlejandra Quereda Reneta KamberovaLyubomira KazanovaMihaela Maevska-VelichkovaTsvetelina NaydenovaHristiana Todorova Individual all-around
Trampoline Men's individualWomen's individual
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.
References
External links
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