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

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

Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueHSBC Arena
Date14 August 2016
Competitors8 from 6 nations
Winning score15.966
Medalists
Max Whitlock  Great Britain
Louis Smith  Great Britain
Alexander Naddour  United States

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) 7.1008.70015.800Q
2 Louis Smith (GBR) 6.9008.80015.700Q
3 Cyril Tommasone (FRA) 6.9008.75015.650Q
4 Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM) 6.7008.88315.583Q
5 Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) 7.0008.56615.566Q
6 Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS) 6.7008.68315.383Q
7 Alexander Naddour (USA) 6.6008.76615.366Q
8 David Belyavskiy (RUS) 6.6008.70015.300Q
9 Vid Hidvégi (HUN) 6.4008.83315.233R1
10 Andrey Likhovitskiy (BLR) 6.6008.63315.233R2
11 Lin Chaopan (CHN) 6.3008.73315.033R3

Final

Rank Name Difficulty Execution Penalty Total
 Max Whitlock (GBR)7.2008.76615.966
 Louis Smith (GBR)6.9008.93315.833
 Alexander Naddour (USA)6.8008.90015.700
4 Cyril Tommasone (FRA)6.9008.70015.600
5 David Belyavskiy (RUS)6.6008.80015.400
6 Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS)6.8008.43315.233
7 Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM)6.4008.53314.933
8 Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)5.7006.70012.400

References

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