# Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Three gymnastics disciplines were contested at the 2012 Olympic Games in London: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The trampoline events were held at the North Greenwich Arena (normally called The O2 Arena) from 3 to 4 August; the artistic events were also held at the North Greenwich Arena, from 28 July to 7 August. The rhythmic gymnastics events took place at Wembley Arena from 9 to 12 August.
A total of 54 medals were awarded across the three disciplines. The most successful nation was China, winning five gold medals and 12 in total. Brazil and South Korea won their first gold medals in the discipline in the Summer Olympic Games history. Yevgeniya Kanayeva of Russia marked history by becoming the first back-to-back Olympic champion at the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics.

## Qualification

Qualification was based on the results of the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships held in Montpellier, France, from 19 to 25 September; the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, from 7–16 October; the 2011 Trampoline World Championships in Birmingham, United Kingdom, from 17 to 20 November; and Olympic test events held in January 2012 at the North Greenwich Arena.

## Schedule

| Q | Qualification | F | Final |
Artistic (North Greenwich Arena) :
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 28 | Sun 29 | Mon 30 | Tue 31 | Wed 1 | Thur 2 | Sun 5 | Mon 6 | Tue 7 |
| Men's individual all-around | Q | | | | F | | | | |
| Men's team all-around | Q | | F | | | | | | |
| Men's vault | Q | | | | | | | F | |
| Men's floor | Q | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's pommel horse | Q | | | | | | F | | |
| Men's rings | Q | | | | | | | F | |
| Men's parallel bars | Q | | | | | | | | F |
| Men's horizontal bar | Q | | | | | | | | F |
| Women's individual all-around | | Q | | | | F | | | |
| Women's team all-around | | Q | | F | | | | | |
| Women's vault | | Q | | | | | F | | |
| Women's uneven bars | | Q | | | | | | F | |
| Women's balance beam | | Q | | | | | | | F |
| Women's floor | | Q | | | | | | | F |
Rhythmic (Wembley Arena) :
| Event↓/Date → | Thu 9 | Fri 10 | Sat 11 | Sun 12 |
| Individual all-around | Q | Q | F | |
| Group all-around | Q | Q | | F |
Trampoline (North Greenwich Arena) :
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 3 | Fri 3 | Sat 4 | Sat 4 |
| Men | Q | F | | |
| Women | | | Q | F |

## Overall medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China | 5 | 4 | 3 | 12 |
| 2 | Russia | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
| 3 | United States | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Japan | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 5 | Romania | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Brazil | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Hungary | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | South Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | Germany | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 12 | Great Britain | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 13 | Belarus | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 14 | Italy | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 15 | France | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Ukraine | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (16 entries) | Totals (16 entries) | 18 | 18 | 18 | 54 |

## Events
### Artistic gymnastics
#### Men's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team all-around details | China (CHN) Chen Yibing Feng Zhe Guo Weiyang Zhang Chenglong Zou Kai | Japan (JPN) Ryohei Kato Kazuhito Tanaka Yusuke Tanaka Kōhei Uchimura Koji Yamamuro | Great Britain (GBR) Sam Oldham Daniel Purvis Louis Smith Kristian Thomas Max Whitlock |
| Individual all-around details | Kōhei Uchimura Japan | Marcel Nguyen Germany | Danell Leyva United States |
| Floor exercise details | Zou Kai China | Kōhei Uchimura Japan | Denis Ablyazin Russia |
| Pommel horse details | Krisztián Berki Hungary | Louis Smith Great Britain | Max Whitlock Great Britain |
| Rings details | Arthur Zanetti Brazil | Chen Yibing China | Matteo Morandi Italy |
| Vault details | Yang Hak-seon South Korea | Denis Ablyazin Russia | Igor Radivilov Ukraine |
| Parallel bars details | Feng Zhe China | Marcel Nguyen Germany | Hamilton Sabot France |
| Horizontal bar details | Epke Zonderland Netherlands | Fabian Hambüchen Germany | Zou Kai China |

#### Women's events

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team all-around details | United States (USA) Gabby Douglas Jordyn Wieber Aly Raisman Kyla Ross McKayla Maroney | Russia (RUS) Aliya Mustafina Viktoria Komova Ksenia Afanasyeva Anastasia Grishina Maria Paseka | Romania (ROU) Cătălina Ponor Larisa Iordache Diana Bulimar Sandra Izbașa Diana Chelaru |
| Individual all-around details | Gabby Douglas United States | Viktoria Komova Russia | Aliya Mustafina Russia |
| Vault details | Sandra Izbașa Romania | McKayla Maroney United States | Maria Paseka Russia |
| Uneven bars details | Aliya Mustafina Russia | He Kexin China | Elizabeth Tweddle Great Britain |
| Balance beam details | Deng Linlin China | Sui Lu China | Aly Raisman United States |
| Floor exercise details | Aly Raisman United States | Cătălina Ponor Romania | Aliya Mustafina Russia |

### Rhythmic gymnastics

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Group all-around details | Russia (RUS) Ksenia Dudkina Alina Makarenko Uliana Donskova Anastasia Bliznyuk Karolina Sevastyanova Anastasia Nazarenko | Belarus (BLR) Maryna Hancharova Anastasia Ivankova Nataliya Leshchyk Aliaksandra Narkevich Ksenia Sankovich Alina Tumilovich | Italy (ITA) Elisa Blanchi Romina Laurito Marta Pagnini Elisa Santoni Anzhelika Savrayuk Andreea Stefanescu |
| Individual all-around details | Yevgeniya Kanayeva Russia | Daria Dmitrieva Russia | Liubov Charkashyna Belarus |

### Trampoline

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Dong Dong China | Dmitry Ushakov Russia | Lu Chunlong China |
| Women's individual details | Rosannagh MacLennan Canada | Huang Shanshan China | He Wenna China |

## Judging controversies

The men's artistic team all-around final became the subject of controversy when the judges were booed by the crowd following Japan's Kōhei Uchimura's score for his pommel horse routine, and how it shuffled the medals of Japan, Great Britain, and Ukraine.