# Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro was held in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. All gymnastics events were staged at the Arena Olímpica do Rio from 6 to 21 August 2016.

## Qualification

Qualification was based on the results of the 2015 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships, held in Glasgow, Scotland, from 24 October to 1 November 2015; the 2015 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, held in Stuttgart, Germany, from 7 to 13 September 2015; the 2015 Trampoline World Championships, held in Odense, Denmark, from 25 to 28 November 2015; and the Olympic Test Event, held on 16–22 April 2016 at Arena Olímpica do Rio.

## Schedule

| Q | Qualification | F | Final |
Artistic (HSBC Arena) :
| Event↓/Date → | Sat 6 | Sun 7 | Mon 8 | Tue 9 | Wed 10 | Thur 11 | Sun 14 | Mon 15 | Tue 16 |
| 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 balance beam | | Q | | | | | | F | |
| Women's uneven bars | | Q | | | | | F | | |
| Women's floor | | Q | | | | | | | F |
Rhythmic (HSBC Arena) :
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 19 | Sat 20 | Sun 21 |
| Individual all-around | Q | F | |
| Group all-around | | Q | F |
Trampoline (HSBC Arena) :
| Event↓/Date → | Fri 12 | Fri 12 | Sat 13 | Sat 13 |
| Men | | | Q | F |
| Women | Q | F | | |

## Participation
### Participating nations

Brazil, as the host country, receives a guaranteed spot, in case it were not to earn one by the regular qualifying methods.
* Algeria (2)
* Argentina (2)
* Armenia (3)
* Australia (3)
* Austria (1)
* Azerbaijan (3)
* Belarus (12)
* Belgium (6)
* Brazil (17)
* Bulgaria (6)
* Canada (8)
* Cape Verde (1)
* Chile (2)
* China (20)
* Colombia (2)
* Croatia (2)
* Cuba (3)
* Cyprus (1)
* Czech Republic (1)
* Egypt (1)
* Finland (2)
* France (13)
* Georgia (2)
* Germany (17)
* Great Britain (13)
* Greece (9)
* Guatemala (1)
* Hungary (2)
* Iceland (1)
* India (1)
* Ireland (2)
* Israel (7)
* Italy (12)
* Jamaica (1)
* Japan (19)
* Kazakhstan (2)
* Lithuania (1)
* Mexico (2)
* Monaco (1)
* Netherlands (10)
* New Zealand (3)
* North Korea (2)
* Norway (1)
* Panama (1)
* Peru (1)
* Poland (1)
* Portugal (3)
* Romania (4)
* Russia (20)
* Slovakia (1)
* Slovenia (1)
* South Africa (1)
* South Korea (7)
* Spain (9)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (6)
* Trinidad and Tobago (1)
* Turkey (2)
* Ukraine (13)
* United States (18)
* Uzbekistan (9)
* Venezuela (1)
* Vietnam (2)

### Participating gymnasts
## Medal table

* Host nation (Brazil)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | United States | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12 |
| 2 | Russia | 3 | 5 | 3 | 11 |
| 3 | Great Britain | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Japan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Ukraine | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Germany | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 7 | Belarus | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Canada | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Greece | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | Netherlands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | North Korea | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 12 | Brazil* | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 13 | China | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 14 | Spain | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 15 | Switzerland | 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 | Japan (JPN) Kenzō Shirai Yusuke Tanaka Koji Yamamuro Kōhei Uchimura Ryōhei Katō | Russia (RUS) Denis Ablyazin David Belyavskiy Ivan Stretovich Nikolai Kuksenkov Nikita Nagornyy | China (CHN) Deng Shudi Lin Chaopan Liu Yang You Hao Zhang Chenglong |
| Individual all-around details | Kōhei Uchimura Japan | Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine | Max Whitlock Great Britain |
| Floor exercise details | Max Whitlock Great Britain | Diego Hypólito Brazil | Arthur Mariano Brazil |
| Pommel horse details | Max Whitlock Great Britain | Louis Smith Great Britain | Alexander Naddour United States |
| Rings details | Eleftherios Petrounias Greece | Arthur Zanetti Brazil | Denis Ablyazin Russia |
| Vault details | Ri Se-gwang North Korea | Denis Ablyazin Russia | Kenzō Shirai Japan |
| Parallel bars details | Oleg Verniaiev Ukraine | Danell Leyva United States | David Belyavskiy Russia |
| Horizontal bar details | Fabian Hambüchen Germany | Danell Leyva United States | Nile Wilson Great Britain |

#### Women's events

For the first time since the 1972 Olympics, Romania did not win a medal in the women's team event, due to Romania's failure to qualify a team for the first time since 1968, ending a 40-year medal run.
| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Team all-around details | United States (USA) Simone Biles Gabby Douglas Laurie Hernandez Madison Kocian Aly Raisman | Russia (RUS) Angelina Melnikova Aliya Mustafina Maria Paseka Daria Spiridonova Seda Tutkhalyan | China (CHN) Fan Yilin Mao Yi Shang Chunsong Tan Jiaxin Wang Yan |
| Individual all-around details | Simone Biles United States | Aly Raisman United States | Aliya Mustafina Russia |
| Vault details | Simone Biles United States | Maria Paseka Russia | Giulia Steingruber Switzerland |
| Uneven bars details | Aliya Mustafina Russia | Madison Kocian United States | Sophie Scheder Germany |
| Balance beam details | Sanne Wevers Netherlands | Laurie Hernandez United States | Simone Biles United States |
| Floor exercise details | Simone Biles United States | Aly Raisman United States | Amy Tinkler Great Britain |

### Rhythmic gymnastics

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Group all-around details | Russia (RUS) Vera Biryukova Anastasia Bliznyuk Anastasia Maksimova Anastasia Tatareva Maria Tolkacheva | Spain (ESP) Sandra Aguilar Artemi Gavezou Elena López Lourdes Mohedano Alejandra Quereda | Bulgaria (BUL) Reneta Kamberova Lyubomira Kazanova Mihaela Maevska-Velichkova Tsvetelina Naydenova Hristiana Todorova |
| Individual all-around details | Margarita Mamun Russia | Yana Kudryavtseva Russia | Ganna Rizatdinova Ukraine |

### Trampoline

| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men's individual details | Uladzislau Hancharou Belarus | Dong Dong China | Gao Lei China |
| Women's individual details | Rosie MacLennan Canada | Bryony Page Great Britain | Li Dan China |

## Gala

For the first time since 2008, a gala was held in gymnastics; it was held on 17 August 2016, following the completion of competition in the artistic disciplines. The exhibition event featured performances by artistic gymnasts who participated in Rio.