Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
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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.[1]
Wembley Arena (rhythmic)
| Gymnastics at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |
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_London_2012.png) _London_2012.png) ,_London_2012.png) 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 2012 |
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 medals in the discipline in the Summer Olympic Games history. 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 to 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 to 20 November; and Olympic test events held in January 2012 at the North Greenwich Arena.
Schedule
| Q | Qualification | F | Final |
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Thur 2 | Sun 5 | Mon 6 | Tue 7 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 uneven bars | F | ||||||||
| Women's balance beam | F | ||||||||
| Women's floor | F |
| Event↓/Date → | Thu 9 | Fri 10 | Sat 11 | Sun 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Individual all-around | Q | F | ||
| Group all-around | F | |||
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 | |
 Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
 South Korea | 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 | |
| Totals (16 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 | |
Events
Artistic gymnastics
Men's events
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team all-around |
China Chen Yibing Feng Zhe Guo Weiyang Zhang Chenglong Zou Kai |
Japan Ryohei Kato Kazuhito Tanaka Yusuke Tanaka Kōhei Uchimura Koji Yamamuro |
Great Britain Sam Oldham Daniel Purvis Louis Smith Kristian Thomas Max Whitlock | |||
| Individual all-around |
Kōhei Uchimura Japan |
Marcel Nguyen Germany |
Danell Leyva United States | |||
| Floor exercise |
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
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Team all-around |
United States Gabby Douglas Jordyn Wieber Aly Raisman Kyla Ross McKayla Maroney |
Russia Aliya Mustafina Viktoria Komova Ksenia Afanasyeva Anastasia Grishina Maria Paseka |
Romania 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 exercise |
Aly Raisman United States |
Cătălina Ponor Romania |
Aliya Mustafina Russia | |||
Rhythmic gymnastics
Trampoline
| Games | 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.[5][6][7]
