Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's floor

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Men's floor
at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue HSBC Arena
Date14 August 2016
Competitors12 from 8 nations
Winning score15.633
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Max Whitlock Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Diego Hypólito Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Bronze medal icon.svg Arthur Mariano Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
  2012
2020  

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 in the top eight qualified for the final round. If there were more than two gymnasts in same NOC, the last ranked among them would not qualify for the final round, and the next best ranked gymnast would qualify instead.

RankNameDifficultyExecutionPenaltyTotalQualification
1Flag of the United States.svg  Sam Mikulak  (USA)6.8009.00015.800Q
2Flag of the United States.svg  Jacob Dalton  (USA)6.7008.90015.600
3Flag of Japan.svg  Kōhei Uchimura  (JPN)6.9008.63315.533
4Flag of Brazil.svg  Diego Hypólito  (BRA)6.8008.70015.500*
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Max Whitlock  (GBR)
6Flag of Japan.svg  Kenzō Shirai  (JPN)7.6007.833−0.115.333
7Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Kristian Thomas  (GBR)6.2009.03315.233*
8Flag of Japan.svg  Yūsuke Tanaka  (JPN)6.3008.9332 per NOC**
9Flag of Brazil.svg  Arthur Mariano  (BRA)6.4008.80015.200*Q
10Flag of Cuba.svg  Manrique Larduet  (CUB)6.5008.700R1
11Flag of Spain.svg  Rayderley Zapata  (ESP)6.7008.38315.083R2
12Flag of Switzerland.svg  Benjamin Gischard  (SUI)6.4008.66615.066R3

*When two athletes record the same total score, the one with the higher execution score finishes ahead. If the execution score is the same, then the one with the higher D-score finishes ahead. If the D-score is also the same, then they finish tied.

** Yūsuke Tanaka of Japan was skipped even though he qualified within the top eight because of the strict “two per country” (2 per NOC) rule in individual apparatus finals, and Shirai and Uchimura had already placed ahead of Tanaka.

Final

RankNameDifficultyExecutionPenaltyTotal
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Max Whitlock  (GBR)6.8008.83315.633
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Brazil.svg  Diego Hypólito  (BRA)6.8008.73315.533
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Brazil.svg  Arthur Mariano  (BRA)6.7008.73315.433
4Flag of Japan.svg  Kenzō Shirai  (JPN)7.6007.76615.366
5Flag of Japan.svg  Kōhei Uchimura  (JPN)6.9008.641−0.315.241
6Flag of the United States.svg  Jacob Dalton  (USA)6.7008.43315.133
7Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Kristian Thomas  (GBR)6.2008.85815.058
8Flag of the United States.svg  Sam Mikulak  (USA)6.6007.833−0.114.333

Crowd Controversy

Max Whitlock of Great Britain was a somewhat unexpected winner. Kenzō Shirai of Japan, the two-time and reigning world champion on floor, was the overwhelming favorite owing to the extremely high difficulty of his routine and excellent execution. But on this occasion Shirai had problems with his landings on three of his six passes. In separate interviews after the competition, both Shirai and American Sam Mikulak, who was the top qualifier but finished in last place, expressed disappointment with the crowd, whose booing and jeering had grown increasingly loud during non-Brazilian routines as the competition went on. [1] Whitlock had avoided this due to his early draw in the final performance.

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References

  1. "Brazilian gymnasts make history, but Rio crowd accused of disrespect for rivals". 15 August 2016 via Brisbane Times.