Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic individual all-around

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Women's rhythmic individual all-around
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
Venue Ariake Gymnastics Centre
Date6 August 2021 (qualification)
7 August 2021 (final)
Competitors26 from 18 nations
Winning total107.800
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Linoy Ashram Flag of Israel.svg  Israel
Silver medal icon.svg Dina Averina Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC
Bronze medal icon.svg Alina Harnasko Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus
  2016
2024  

The Women's rhythmic individual all-around competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre in Tokyo, Japan, with the qualification taking place on 6 August and the final on 7 August. [1]

Linoy Ashram became the first Israeli athlete to win a medal in the individual all-around competition and the first Israeli woman to win an Olympic gold medal. It was the first time a non-Russian athlete won the gold medal since 1996, and the first time an athlete from outside the former Soviet Union won in an Olympics where the traditionally-dominant former Eastern Bloc states participated.

Competition format

The competition consisted of a qualification round and a final round. The top ten gymnasts in the qualification round advanced to the final round. In each round, the gymnasts performed four routines (ball, hoop, clubs, and ribbon), with the scores added to give a total.

Qualification

RankName Rhythmic gymnastics hoop.svg Rhythmic gymnastics ball.svg Rhythmic gymnastics clubs.svg Rhythmic gymnastics ribbon.svg TotalQualification
1Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  Dina Averina  (ROC)27.625 (1)27.600 (2)28.275 (1)22.800 (3)106.300Q
2Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  Arina Averina  (ROC)27.225 (2)27.250 (3)28.100 (2)23.600 (1)106.175Q
3Flag of Israel.svg  Linoy Ashram  (ISR)23.500 (13)28.250 (1)27.850 (3)23.500 (2)103.100Q
4Flag of Belarus.svg  Alina Harnasko  (BLR)26.400 (3)27.200 (4)23.900 (14)21.750 (5)99.250Q
5Flag of Belarus.svg  Anastasiia Salos  (BLR)25.700 (4)26.300 (5)24.550 (11)22.600 (4)99.150Q
6Flag of Italy.svg  Milena Baldassarri  (ITA)24.550 (6)25.700 (7)25.650 (7)20.150 (14)96.050Q
7Flag of Israel.svg  Nicol Zelikman  (ISR)24.350 (8)25.500 (9)24.950 (8)21.100 (9)95.900Q
8Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Boryana Kaleyn  (BUL)24.100 (9)25.800 (6)26.600 (4)19.150 (18)95.650Q
9Flag of Ukraine.svg  Viktoriia Onopriienko  (UKR)23.800 (10)24.300 (11)26.100 (5)21.250 (6)95.450Q
10Flag of Ukraine.svg  Khrystyna Pohranychna  (UKR)24.600 (5)23.800 (13)25.700 (6)19.000 (19)93.100Q
11Flag of Japan.svg  Sumire Kita  (JPN)23.150 (14)23.900 (12)24.550 (10)21.200 (8)92.800R
12Flag of the United States.svg  Evita Griskenas  (USA)23.675 (11)23.400 (16)23.850 (15)20.775 (12)91.700R
13Flag of the United States.svg  Laura Zeng  (USA)22.000 (20)23.700 (14)24.700 (9)21.000 (10)91.400R
14Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Katrin Taseva  (BUL)24.450 (7)24.600 (10)24.400 (12)17.650 (22)91.100R
15Flag of Italy.svg  Alexandra Agiurgiuculese  (ITA)22.050 (19)25.600 (8)24.150 (13)19.250 (17)91.050
16Civil Ensign of Slovenia.svg  Ekaterina Vedeneeva  (SLO)22.800 (17)23.550 (15)22.550 (18)20.800 (11)89.700
17Flag of Georgia.svg  Salome Pazhava  (GEO)23.550 (12)21.950 (22)23.500 (17)20.650 (13)89.650
18Flag of Azerbaijan.svg  Zohra Aghamirova  (AZE)23.000 (16)23.400 (17)21.500 (21)19.900 (15)87.800
19Flag of Japan.svg  Chisaki Oiwa  (JPN)23.100 (15)19.600 (24)23.600 (16)21.250 (7)87.550
20Flag of Hungary.svg  Fanni Pigniczki  (HUN)21.200 (22)22.400 (20)21.350 (23)19.450 (16)84.400
21Flag of Kazakhstan (3-2).svg  Alina Adilkhanova  (KAZ)20.550 (24)22.450 (19)22.200 (20)18.600 (20)83.800
22Flag of Mexico.svg  Rut Castillo  (MEX)22.350 (18)22.700 (18)21.500 (22)16.200 (23)82.750
23Flag of Australia.svg  Lidiia Iakovleva  (AUS)20.600 (23)19.800 (23)22.325 (19)16.050 (24)78.775
24Flag of Uzbekistan (3-2).svg  Ekaterina Fetisova  (UZB)19.800 (25)19.400 (25)17.950 (25)18.350 (21)75.500
25Flag of Egypt.svg  Habiba Marzouk  (EGY)21.700 (21)22.150 (21)21.100 (24)8.400 (26)73.350
26Flag of Cape Verde.svg  Márcia Lopes  (CPV)7.550 (26)13.200 (26)12.550 (26)9.550 (25)42.850
Source: [2]

Final

RankName Rhythmic gymnastics hoop.svg Rhythmic gymnastics ball.svg Rhythmic gymnastics clubs.svg Rhythmic gymnastics ribbon.svg Total
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of Israel.svg  Linoy Ashram  (ISR)27.550 (1)28.300 (1)28.650 (1)23.300 (2)107.800
Silver medal icon.svgRussian Olympic Committee flag.png  Dina Averina  (ROC)27.200 (2)28.300 (1)28.150 (2)24.000 (1)107.650
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Belarus.svg  Alina Harnasko  (BLR)26.500 (4)27.500 (4)27.600 (4)21.100 (8)102.700
4Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  Arina Averina  (ROC)26.850 (3)27.900 (3)27.800 (3)19.550 (10)102.100
5Flag of Bulgaria.svg  Boryana Kaleyn  (BUL)25.900 (5)25.625 (5)26.650 (5)22.450 (3)100.625
6Flag of Italy.svg  Milena Baldassarri  (ITA)25.100 (7)25.625 (5)26.500 (6)22.400 (4)99.625
7Flag of Israel.svg  Nicol Zelikman  (ISR)23.700 (10)24.150 (7)25.600 (8)22.150 (5)95.600
8Flag of Belarus.svg  Anastasiia Salos  (BLR)25.425 (6)23.000 (10)24.950 (9)21.800 (6)95.175
9Flag of Ukraine.svg  Khrystyna Pohranychna  (UKR)24.500 (8)24.100 (8)24.900 (10)21.600 (7)95.100
10Flag of Ukraine.svg  Viktoriia Onopriienko  (UKR)24.000 (9)23.550 (9)26.100 (7)19.700 (9)93.350
Source: [3]

Controversy in Russia

The final result of the competition was considered controversial in Russia, as Israeli gold medalist Linoy Ashram dropped her apparatus during her ribbon routine. [4] The Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) claims that she did not receive a significant deduction (despite the fact that she did get a 0.700 deduction), which would have otherwise changed the standing due to the narrow score difference between Ashram and Russian silver medalist Dina Averina. Meanwhile, Olympic judges and supporters of Ashram note that Ashram's combined overall difficulty was over a point (+1.000) higher than Averina's, allowing Ashram to score well even had she received a 1.000 point deduction for dropping the apparatus. [5] [6]

After the results were in, the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) coaches submitted an inquiry on Dina Averina's ribbon score, but the score was left unchanged. [7] Averina commented that she believed the judges were supporting Ashram and punishing her, and she considers herself the champion. [8] [9] This position was universally supported by the Russian state-controlled media, which stated that Averina was the victim of "political games" and was purposefully denied gold, referring to it as "the conspiracy against Russia". [10] [11] [12] [13]

Their claims were dismissed by the international governing body, the FIG (International Gymnastics Federation), [14] which confirmed that the FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee carried out a post-competition review of all evaluation components in every phase of the rhythmic gymnastics competition at Tokyo 2020. They stated:

"Following this process, we can confirm that no bias or irregularities were identified in the judging panels. The Rhythmic Gymnastics Technical Committee, therefore, confirms that the rankings and results of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games competitions in rhythmic gymnastics for both individuals and groups are fair and impartial. The FIG has set up strict criteria for objective selection of the most qualified and unbiased judges for the Olympic Games and we are pleased by their work." [15]

References

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