Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Pictograms for Artistic gymnastics (left), Rhythmic gymnastics (center), and Trampolining (right)
Venue	North Greenwich Arena (trampoline, artistic) Wembley Arena (rhythmic)
Dates	28 July – 12 August

Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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

Three gymnastics disciplines were contested at the 2012 Olympic Games in London: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The trampoline events were held at the North Greenwich Arena (normally called The O2 Arena) from 3 to 4 August; the artistic events were also held at the North Greenwich Arena, from 28 July to 7 August. The rhythmic gymnastics events took place at Wembley Arena from 9 to 12 August.

A total of 54 medals were awarded across the three disciplines. The most successful nation was China, winning five gold medals and 12 in total. Brazil and South Korea won their first gold medal in the discipline in the history of the Summer Olympic Games, at these games Yevgeniya Kanayeva of Russia marked history by becoming the first back-to-back Olympic champion at the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics.

Qualification

Qualification was based on the results of the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Montpellier, France, from 19–25 September; the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, from 7–16 October; the 2011 Trampoline World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from 17–20 November; and Olympic test events held in January 2012 at the North Greenwich Arena.

Schedule

Overall medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	5	4	3	12
2	Russia	3	5	4	12
3	United States	3	1	2	6
4	Japan	1	2	0	3
5	Romania	1	1	1	3
6	Brazil	1	0	0	1
	Canada	1	0	0	1
	Hungary	1	0	0	1
	South Korea	1	0	0	1
	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
11	Germany	0	3	0	3
12	Great Britain	0	1	3	4
13	Belarus	0	1	1	2
14	Italy	0	0	2	2
15	France	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1	1
Total		18	18	18	54

Events

Artistic gymnastics

Men's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	China (CHN) Chen Yibing Feng Zhe Guo Weiyang Zhang Chenglong Zou Kai	Japan (JPN) Ryohei Kato Kazuhito Tanaka Yusuke Tanaka Kōhei Uchimura Koji Yamamuro	Great Britain (GBR) Sam Oldham Daniel Purvis Louis Smith Kristian Thomas Max Whitlock
Individual all-around	Kōhei Uchimura  Japan	Marcel Nguyen  Germany	Danell Leyva  United States
Floor	Zou Kai  China	Kōhei Uchimura  Japan	Denis Ablyazin  Russia
Pommel horse	Krisztián Berki  Hungary	Louis Smith  Great Britain	Max Whitlock  Great Britain
Rings	Arthur Zanetti  Brazil	Chen Yibing  China	Matteo Morandi  Italy
Vault	Yang Hak-seon  South Korea	Denis Ablyazin  Russia	Igor Radivilov  Ukraine
Parallel bars	Feng Zhe  China	Marcel Nguyen  Germany	Hamilton Sabot  France
Horizontal bar	Epke Zonderland  Netherlands	Fabian Hambüchen  Germany	Zou Kai  China

Women's events

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team all-around	United States (USA) Gabby Douglas Jordyn Wieber Aly Raisman Kyla Ross McKayla Maroney	Russia (RUS) Aliya Mustafina Viktoria Komova Ksenia Afanasyeva Anastasia Grishina Maria Paseka	Romania (ROU) Cătălina Ponor Larisa Iordache Diana Bulimar Sandra Izbașa Diana Chelaru
Individual all-around	Gabby Douglas  United States	Viktoria Komova  Russia	Aliya Mustafina  Russia
Vault	Sandra Izbașa  Romania	McKayla Maroney  United States	Maria Paseka  Russia
Uneven bars	Aliya Mustafina  Russia	He Kexin  China	Elizabeth Tweddle  Great Britain
Balance beam	Deng Linlin  China	Sui Lu  China	Aly Raisman  United States
Floor	Aly Raisman  United States	Cătălina Ponor  Romania	Aliya Mustafina  Russia

Rhythmic gymnastics

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Individual all-around	Yevgeniya Kanayeva  Russia	Daria Dmitrieva  Russia	Liubov Charkashyna  Belarus
Group all-around	Russia (RUS) Ksenia Dudkina Alina Makarenko Uliana Donskova Anastasia Bliznyuk Karolina Sevastyanova Anastasia Nazarenko	Belarus (BLR) Maryna Hancharova Anastasia Ivankova Nataliya Leshchyk Aliaksandra Narkevich Ksenia Sankovich Alina Tumilovich	Italy (ITA) Elisa Blanchi Romina Laurito Marta Pagnini Elisa Santoni Anzhelika Savrayuk Andreea Stefanescu

Trampoline

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's individual	Dong Dong  China	Dmitry Ushakov  Russia	Lu Chunlong  China
Women's individual	Rosannagh MacLennan  Canada	Huang Shanshan  China	He Wenna  China

Judging controversies

The men's artistic team all-around final became the subject of controversy when the judges were booed by the crowd following Japan's Kōhei Uchimura's score for his pommel horse routine, and how it shuffled the medals of Japan, Great Britain, and Ukraine.^[4][5][6][7]

References

1. ↑ "Gymnastics – Artistic – Schedule & Results". Retrieved 21 May 2012.  |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
2. ↑ "Gymnastics – Rhythmic – Schedule & Results". Retrieved 21 May 2012.  |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
3. ↑ "Trampoline – Schedule & Results". Retrieved 21 May 2012.  |first1= missing |last1= in Authors list (help)
4. ↑ NBC, 2012 Olympic Summer Games - Evening, airdate: 30 July 2012
5. ↑ Liviu Bird (30 July 2012). "2012 Olympic Men's Gymnastics: Judges, US Fold Under Pressure of Biggest Stage". Bleacher Report. 
6. ↑ Patrick Clarke (30 July 2012). "Men's Gymnastics Olympic Controversy: Japan Takes Silver, Great Britain Snubbed". Bleacher Report. 
7. ↑ Louise Eccles (30 July 2012). "Robbed! Heartbreak for GB gymnasts as they are handed historic silver medal then bumped down to bronze after Japanese appeal". Daily Mail. 

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External links

• Official site of London 2012 Summer Olympics
• Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique

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