Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	HSBC Arena
Date	14 August 2016
Competitors	8 from 6 nations
Winning score	15.966
Medalists
Max Whitlock  Great Britain Louis Smith  Great Britain Alexander Naddour  United States

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 pommel horse competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.

The medals were presented by Bernard Rajzman IOC member, Brazil and Luo Chaoyi, FIG Executive Committee Member.

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	Max Whitlock (GBR)	7.100	8.700		15.800	Q
2	Louis Smith (GBR)	6.900	8.800		15.700	Q
3	Cyril Tommasone (FRA)	6.900	8.750		15.650	Q
4	Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM)	6.700	8.883		15.583	Q
5	Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)	7.000	8.566		15.566	Q
6	Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS)	6.700	8.683		15.383	Q
7	Alexander Naddour (USA)	6.600	8.766		15.366	Q
8	David Belyavskiy (RUS)	6.600	8.700		15.300	Q
9	Vid Hidvégi (HUN)	6.400	8.833		15.233	R1
10	Andrey Likhovitskiy (BLR)	6.600	8.633		15.233	R2
11	Lin Chaopan (CHN)	6.300	8.733		15.033	R3

Final

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total
	Max Whitlock (GBR)	7.200	8.766		15.966
	Louis Smith (GBR)	6.900	8.933		15.833
	Alexander Naddour (USA)	6.800	8.900		15.700
4	Cyril Tommasone (FRA)	6.900	8.700		15.600
5	David Belyavskiy (RUS)	6.600	8.800		15.400
6	Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS)	6.800	8.433		15.233
7	Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM)	6.400	8.533		14.933
8	Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)	5.700	6.700		12.400

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