Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's vault

Men's vault at the Games of the XXX Olympiad
Canary wharf and dome London
Venue	North Greenwich Arena 1
Dates	28 July (qualifying) 6 August (final)
Competitors	17 from 14 nations
Winning score	16.533
Medalists
Yang Hak-Seon  South Korea Denis Ablyazin  Russia Igor Radivilov  Ukraine
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Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Qualification
Artistic
Qualification	men	women
Team all-around	men	women
Individual all-around	men	women
Vault	men	women
Floor	men	women
Pommel horse	men
Rings	men
Parallel bars	men
Horizontal bar	men
Uneven bars		women
Balance beam		women
Rhythmic
Group all-around		women
Individual all-around		women
Trampoline
Individual	men	women
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The men's vault competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, was held at the North Greenwich Arena 1 on 6 August.^[1] There were 17 competitors from 14 nations.^[2] The event was won by Yang Hak-Seon of South Korea, the nation's first victory in the men's vault and first medal since 1996. Denis Ablyazin of Russia took silver, while Igor Radivilov earned Ukraine's first medal in the event as an independent nation.

Background[]

This was the 23rd 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). Two of the eight finalists from 2008 returned: seventh-place finisher Flavius Koczi of Romania and eighth-place finisher Isaac Botella of Spain. Yang Hak-Seon of South Korea was the reigning (2011) world champion. He was the favorite, particularly with 2010 world champion Thomas Bouhail of France injured and unable to compete.^[2]

Chile and Hong Kong each made their debut in the men's vault. The United States made its 20th appearance, most of any nation.

Qualification[]

Qualification for the men's artistic gymnastics in 2008 was based primarily on the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships. The top 8 teams at the world championships could send a full team of 5 gymnasts to the Olympics. The next 8 teams (#9 through #16) competed in the 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event, with the top 4 of those teams also qualifying a team of 5 gymnasts for the Olympics. The individual apparatus medalists from the World Championships also qualified, if their nation had not already qualified a team. The FIG Executive Board made invitational selections to ensure host country and continental representation and the Tripartite Commission made an invitation. The quota of 98 gymnasts was then filled through the individual all-around rankings at the Test Event, with each nation able to qualify only one gymnast in that manner (though this one gymnast could be added to the world championship apparatus medalists—for example, Brazil qualified Diego Hypólito as bronze medalist in the floor, Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti as silver medalist in the rings, and Sérgio Sasaki through the Test Event).

Competition format[]

The top eight qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC) advanced to the apparatus final. Only those gymnasts who performed two vault exercises were considered for advancement to the vault final; the average score of the two exercises was used. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting. Each gymnast performed two vaults, with average score counted.^[3]

Scoring in artistic gymnastics is based on two separate scores that are then combined in order to come to the final score. The D score measures the difficulty of each element (and combinations of elements) within the routine, while the E score evaluates the performance, ie, the "execution, composition and artistry" of the routine. For further information, please see the Code of Points article.

Schedule[]

North Greenwich Arena

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results[]

Qualifying[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Vault 1				Vault 2				Total	Notes
			D Score	E Score	Penalty	Vault Score	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Vault Score
1	Denis Ablyazin	Russia	7.000	9.300		16.300	7.200	9.233		16.433	16.366	Q
2	Yang Hak-Seon	South Korea	7.000	9.233		16.233	7.000	9.433		16.433	16.333	Q
3	Tomás González	Chile	7.000	9.433		16.433	6.600	9.366	0.1	15.866	16.149	Q
4	Samuel Mikulak	United States	7.000	9.300		16.300	6.600	9.266		15.866	16.083	Q
5	Kristian Thomas	Great Britain	7.000	9.300	0.1	16.200	6.600	9.166		15.766	15.983	Q
6	Flavius Koczi	Romania	7.000	9.166	0.1	16.066	7.000	8.933	0.1	15.833	15.949	Q
7	Isaac Botella	Spain	6.600	9.266		15.866	6.600	9.200		15.800	15.833	Q
8	Igor Radivilov	Ukraine	7.000	9.266		16.266	7.000	8.633	0.3	15.333	15.799	Q
9	Dzmitry Kaspiarovich	Belarus	7.000	9.333		16.333	7.000	8.300	0.3	15.000	15.666	R
10	Matteo Angioletti	Italy	7.000	8.866	0.3	15.566	6.600	9.000		15.600	15.583	R
11	Oleg Verniaiev	Ukraine	7.000	9.333		16.333	6.600	8.466	0.3	14.766	15.549	R
12	Mohamed El-Saharty	Egypt	6.200	9.266		15.466	6.200	9.300		15.500	15.483
13	Shek Wai Hung	Hong Kong	6.600	8.400	0.1	14.900	7.000	9.033		16.033	15.466
14	Jacob Dalton	United States	7.000	9.200	0.3	15.900	6.600	8.266	0.1	14.766	15.333
15	Artur Davtyan	Armenia	6.200	8.266	0.3	14.166	6.200	9.300		15.500	14.833
16	Kim Soo-Myun	South Korea	6.600	9.066		15.666	4.200	8.958		13.158	14.412
17	Koji Yamamuro	Japan	7.000	8.633	0.3	15.333	4.200	9.000		13.200	14.266

Final[]

Rank	Gymnast	Nation	Vault 1				Vault 2				Total
			D Score	E Score	Penalty	Vault Score	D Score	E Score	Penalty	Vault Score
	Yang Hak-Seon	South Korea	7.400	9.066		16.466	7.000	9.600		16.600	16.533
	Denis Ablyazin	Russia	7.000	9.433		16.433	7.200	9.166		16.366	16.399
	Igor Radivilov	Ukraine	7.000	9.400		16.400	7.000	9.233		16.233	16.316
4	Tomás González	Chile	7.000	9.400		16.400	6.600	9.366		15.966	16.183
5	Samuel Mikulak	United States	7.000	9.100		16.100	6.600	9.400		16.000	16.050
6	Isaac Botella	Spain	6.600	9.300		15.900	6.600	9.233		15.833	15.866
7	Flavius Koczi	Romania	7.000	9.200	0.1	16.100	6.200	9.066	0.1	15.166	15.633
8	Kristian Thomas	Great Britain	7.000	9.366		16.366	6.600	8.200	0.1	14.700	15.533

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