Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

The Men's vault competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held at the HSBC Arena on 15 August 2016.

Men's vault
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
VenueHSBC Arena
Date15 August 2016
Competitors11 from 9 nations
Winning score15.691
Medalists
Ri Se-gwang  North Korea
Denis Ablyazin  Russia
Kenzō Shirai  Japan
Gymnastics at the
2016 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts
Qualification
Artistic
Qualificationmenwomen
Team all-aroundmenwomen
Individual all-aroundmenwomen
Vaultmenwomen
Floormenwomen
Pommel horsemen
Ringsmen
Parallel barsmen
Horizontal barmen
Uneven barswomen
Balance beamwomen
Rhythmic
Group all-aroundwomen
Individual all-aroundwomen
Trampoline
Individualmenwomen

The medals were presented by Chang Ung, IOC Member, People's Republic of Korea, and Ali Al-Hitmi, 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
Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic 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
121212
1 Ri Se-gwang (PRK)6.4006.4009.0009.166−0.115.433Q
2 Denis Ablyazin (RUS)6.4006.2009.1009.233−0.115.416Q
3 Kenzō Shirai (JPN)6.0005.6009.4669.50015.283Q
4 Ihor Radivilov (UKR)6.0006.0009.4339.233−0.115.283Q
5 Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)6.0006.2009.1339.333−0.115.283Q
6 Nikita Nagornyy (RUS)6.0006.0009.2669.30015.283Q
7 Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)6.0006.0009.0669.30015.183Q
8 Tomás González (CHI)6.0005.6009.2339.46615.149Q
9 Sérgio Sasaki Junior (BRA)6.0006.0009.2669.066−0.315.016R1
10 Jacob Dalton (USA)6.0006.0009.1338.433−0.314.633R2
11 Artur Davtyan (ARM)6.0006.0009.4008.133−0.1−0.314.566R3

Final

The tiebreak procedure was used due to final scores tying at 3rd and 4th highest; Kenzō Shirai of Japan won the bronze medal with Marian Drăgulescu of Romania placing fourth due to Shrai's top E-score being higher than Drăgulescu's, and with both identical E- and D-scores, Nikita Nagornyy of Russia and Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine ended the competition in a rare tie for fifth place. Shrai and Ihor Radivilov of Ukraine also successfully originated two new skills in the final: the Shirai 2, 3½-twisting Yurchenko, and Radivilov, handspring triple front somersault. The Shirai 2 is now 1 of 5 vaults with the top D-score of 6.0 in the 2017–2020 Code of Points as the Radivilov has since been banned after Rio due to the high risk of injury when performing/training the skill.

Rank Gymnast D Score E Score Pen. Score 1 D Score E Score Pen. Score 2 Total
Vault 1 Vault 2
 Ri Se-gwang (PRK)6.4009.21615.6166.4009.36615.76615.691
 Denis Ablyazin (RUS)6.4009.20015.6006.2009.23315.43315.516
 Kenzō Shirai (JPN)6.4009.43315.8335.6009.46615.06615.449
4  Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)6.0009.26615.2666.2009.43315.63315.449
5  Nikita Nagornyy (RUS)6.0009.23315.2336.0009.40015.40015.316
 Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)6.0009.40015.4006.0009.23315.23315.316
7  Tomás González (CHI)6.0009.37515.3755.6009.30014.90015.137
8  Ihor Radivilov (UKR)7.0007.93314.9336.0009.13315.13315.033

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