Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's floor

Men's floor at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	HSBC Arena
Date	14 August 2016
Competitors	12 from 8 nations
Winning score	15.633
Medalists
Max Whitlock  Great Britain Diego Hypólito  Brazil Arthur Mariano  Brazil

Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts Qualification
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

The Men's floor competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.

The medals were presented by Sir Philip Craven IOC member, Great Britain and Steve Butcher, FIG Men's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee President.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC), based on combined score of each apparatus, advanced to the individual all-around final. The finalists performed on each apparatus again. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting.

Qualification

The gymnasts who ranked top eight qualified for final round. In case of there were more than two gymnasts in same NOC, the last ranked among them would not qualify to final round. The next best ranked gymnast would qualify instead.

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total	Qualification
1	Sam Mikulak (USA)	6.800	9.000		15.800	Q
2	Jacob Dalton (USA)	6.700	8.900		15.600	Q
3	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	6.900	8.633		15.533	Q
4	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	6.800	8.700		15.500	Q
4	Max Whitlock (GBR)	6.800	8.700		15.500	Q
6	Kenzō Shirai (JPN)	7.600	7.833	−0.1	15.333	Q
7	Kristian Thomas (GBR)	6.200	9.033		15.233	Q
8	Yūsuke Tanaka (JPN)	6.300	8.933		15.233
9	Arthur Mariano (BRA)	6.400	8.800		15.200	Q
10	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	6.500	8.700		15.200	R1
11	Rayderley Zapata (ESP)	6.700	8.383		15.083	R2
12	Benjamin Gischard (SUI)	6.400	8.666		15.066	R3

Final

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total
	Max Whitlock (GBR)	6.800	8.833		15.633
	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	6.800	8.733		15.533
	Arthur Mariano (BRA)	6.700	8.733		15.433
4	Kenzō Shirai (JPN)	7.600	7.766		15.366
5	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	6.900	8.641	−0.3	15.241
6	Jacob Dalton (USA)	6.700	8.433		15.133
7	Kristian Thomas (GBR)	6.200	8.858		15.058
8	Sam Mikulak (USA)	6.600	7.833	−0.1	14.333

Miscellaneous

Max Whitlock of Great Britain was somewhat os a surprise gold medalist because the individual floor apparatus final was where Kenzō Shirai of Japan, the two-time and reigning world champion on floor at the time, was the overwhelming favourite and expected to win it due to his extremely high difficulty score of his floor routine in comparison to the other finalists and his ability to execute it well in competitions previously, but Shirai ran into problems on 3 out of his 6 tumbling passes in that final.

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