Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

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Men's pommel horse
at the Games of the XXXII Olympiad
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Olympic artistic gymnastics
Venue Ariake Gymnastics Centre
Date24 July 2021 (qualifying)
1 August 2021 (final)
Competitors8 from 7 nations
Winning score15.583 points
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Max Whitlock Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Great Britain
Silver medal icon.svg Lee Chih-kai Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Chinese Taipei
Bronze medal icon.svg Kazuma Kaya Flag of Japan.svg  Japan
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The men's pommel horse event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. [1] Approximately 70 gymnasts from 35 nations (of the 98 total gymnasts) competed on pommel horse in the qualifying round. [2]

Defending champion Max Whitlock of Great Britain repeated as Olympic champion to win his third Olympic title and sixth Olympic medal overall. Chinese Taipei's Lee Chih-kai won silver to earn Chinese Taipei's first Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics. Kazuma Kaya of Japan completed the podium with bronze, moving up from seventh in qualifications.

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920).

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 6 qualified gymnasts: a team of 4 and up to 2 specialists. A total of 98 quota places are allocated to men's gymnastics.

The 12 teams that qualify will be able to send 4 gymnasts in the team competition, for a total of 48 of the 98 quota places. The top three teams at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (China, Russia, and Japan) and the top nine teams (excluding those already qualified) at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Ukraine, Great Britain, Switzerland, the United States, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Brazil, Spain, and Germany) earned team qualification places.

The remaining 50 quota places are awarded individually. Each gymnast can only earn one place, except that gymnasts that competed with a team that qualified are eligible to earn a second place through the 2020 All Around World Cup Series. Some of the individual events are open to gymnasts from NOCs with qualified teams, while others are not. These places are filled through various criteria based on the 2019 World Championships, the 2020 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series, continental championships, a host guarantee, and a Tripartite Commission invitation.

Each of the 98 qualified gymnasts are eligible for the pommel horse competition, but many gymnasts do not compete in each of the apparatus events.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for gymnastics. The 2018 and 2019 World Championships were completed on time, but many of the World Cup series events were delayed into 2021.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC) advanced to the apparatus final. The finalists performed an additional exercise. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting.

Schedule

The competition was held over two days, 24 July and 1 August. The qualifying round (for all men's gymnastics events) was the first day with the apparatus final on the second day. [1]

DateTimeRoundSubdivision
24 July10:00QualificationSubdivision 1
14:30Subdivision 2
19:30Subdivision 3
1 August18:41Final
All times are local time (UTC+09:00).

Results

Qualifying

RankGymnastD ScoreE ScorePen.TotalQual.
1 [lower-alpha 1] Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Lee Chih-kai  (TPE)6.48.86615.266Q
2 [lower-alpha 1] Flag of Ireland.svg  Rhys McClenaghan  (IRL)6.58.766Q
Flag of Japan.svg  Kohei Kameyama  (JPN)Q
4Flag of the United States.svg  Alec Yoder  (USA)6.48.80015.200Q
5Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Max Whitlock  (GBR)6.88.10014.900Q
6Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Sun Wei  (CHN)6.38.53314.833Q
7Flag of Japan.svg  Kazuma Kaya  (JPN)6.48.43314.833Q
8Flag of Japan.svg  Daiki Hashimoto  (JPN)6.58.26614.766
9Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  David Belyavskiy  (ROC)6.48.33314.733Q
10Flag of Albania.svg  Matvei Petrov  (ALB)6.58.23314.733R1
11Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Joe Fraser  (GBR)6.38.36614.666R2
12Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zou Jingyuan  (CHN)5.98.70014.600R3
Reserves

The reserves for the men's pommel horse final were:

  1. Flag of Albania.svg  Matvei Petrov  (ALB)
  2. Flag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Joe Fraser  (GBR)
  3. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Zou Jingyuan  (CHN)

Only two gymnasts from each country may advance to the event final. Gymnasts who did not qualify for the final because of the quota, but had high enough scores to do so were:

Final

RankGymnastD ScoreE ScorePen.Total
Gold medal icon.svgFlag of the United Kingdom (3-2).svg  Max Whitlock  (GBR)7.08.58315.583
Silver medal icon.svgFlag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg  Lee Chih-kai  (TPE)6.78.70015.400
Bronze medal icon.svgFlag of Japan.svg  Kazuma Kaya  (JPN)6.68.30014.900
4Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  David Belyavskiy  (ROC)6.48.43314.833
5Flag of Japan.svg  Kohei Kameyama  (JPN)6.87.80014.600
6Flag of the United States.svg  Alec Yoder  (USA)6.48.16614.566
7Flag of Ireland.svg  Rhys McClenaghan  (IRL)6.46.70013.100
8Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Sun Wei  (CHN)6.36.76613.066

[3]

Notes

  1. 1 2 The top three on pommel horse all had a total score of 15.266 points, but in accordance with the FIG's tie-breaking criteria, [lower-alpha 2] Lee Chih-kai was placed first due to his E-score (8.866) being higher than that of the other two gymnasts, Rhys McClenaghan and Kohei Kameyama (8.766). McClenaghan and Kameyama had identical D-scores of 6.5, and were thus tied in second place. [lower-alpha 3]
  2. "Technical Regulations 2020 (amended, valid until 31.12.2021)" (PDF). International Gymnastics Federation . Retrieved 28 July 2021. Qualification for Apparatus Finals
    In case of a tie in points, at any place on any apparatus, except for vault, in qualification for Apparatus Finals, the ranking will be determined by the following criteria:
    1. the gymnast with the highest E-score prevails
    2. the gymnast with the highest D-score prevails
    If they remain tied, the gymnasts will share the same classification
  3. "Artistic Gymnastics: Men's Qualification – Results" (PDF). International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.

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