Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Qualification for gymnastics events at the 2012 Summer Olympics was based on the results of the three world gymnastics championships (rhythmic, artistic and trampoline) held in autumn 2011, and Olympic Test Events to be held in January 2012 at the North Greenwich Arena. In addition, the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique and the IOC Tripartite Commission for Gymnastics allocated places to ensure certain minimum levels of representation.

Qualification timeline[]

Event	Date	Venue
2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships	September 19–25, 2011	Montpellier
2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	October 7–16, 2011	Tokyo
2011 Trampoline World Championships	November 17–20, 2011	Birmingham
Olympic Test Event	January 10–18, 2012	London

Qualification summary[]

* Artistic gymnastics, NOCs with 5 entered athletes may also enter the team competition.

Nation	Artistic		Rhythmic		Trampoline		Total
Nation	Men	Women	Individual	Group	Men	Women	Total
Argentina	1	1					2
Australia	1	5	1		1		8
Austria	1	1	1				3
Armenia	1						1
Azerbaijan	1		1				2
Bangladesh	1						1
Belarus	1	1	2	6	1	1	12
Belgium	1	1					2
Brazil	3	5					8
Bulgaria	1	1	1	6			9
Canada	1	5		6	1	2	15
Chile	1	1					2
China	5	5	1		2	2	15
Colombia	1	1					2
Croatia	1	1					2
Cyprus			1				1
Czech Republic	1	1				1	3
Denmark					1		1
Dominican Republic		1					1
Egypt	1	2	1				4
Finland		1					1
France	5	5	1		1		12
Georgia						1	1
Germany	5	5	1	6	1	1	19
Greece	2	1		6			9
Great Britain	5	5	1	6		1	18
Guatemala		1					1
Hong Kong	1	1					2
Hungary	2	1					3
Ireland	1						1
Israel	2	1	1	6			10
Italy	5	5	1	6	1		18
Japan	5	5		6	2	1	19
Kazakhstan	1	1	1				3
Latvia	1						1
Lithuania	1	1					2
Mexico	1	1					2
Netherlands	1	1				1	3
Poland	1	1	1				3
Portugal	1	1			1	1	4
Puerto Rico	1	1					2
Romania	5	5					10
Russia	5	5	2	6	2	1	21
Singapore		1					1
Slovakia	1	1					2
Slovenia		1					1
Switzerland	1	1					2
South Korea	5	1	1				7
Spain	5	1	1	6			13
Sweden		1					1
Tunisia	1						1
Turkey		1					1
Ukraine	5	1	2	6	1	1	16
United States	5	5	1		1	1	13
Uzbekistan		1	1			1	3
Venezuela		1					1
Vietnam	1	2					3
Total: 58 NOCs	98	98	24	72	16	16	324

Artistic[]

Men[]

Event	Criterion	Qualified
Teams (of 5)
World Championships	Team places 1-8	China Japan United States Germany Russia South Korea Romania Ukraine
Olympic Test Event (teams 9-16 from WC)	Team places 1-4^[2]	Great Britain France Spain Italy
TOTAL		12 (60 gymnasts)
Individuals
World Championships individual apparatus medalists	Floor	Diego Hypólito (BRA)^[2]^[3] Alexander Shatilov (ISR)^[2]^[3]
	Pommel horse	Krisztián Berki (HUN)^[2]^[3]
	Rings	Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti (BRA)^[2]^[3]
	Vault	-
	Parallel bars	Vasileios Tsolakidis (GRE)^[2]^[3]
	High bar	-
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation	-
	Africa	Egypt Wajdi Bouallegue (TUN)^[3]
	Oceania	-
Tripartite invitation		Syque Caesar (BAN)^[4]
Olympic Test Event	Individual all-round placings (max. 1 per NOC)^[2]	Canada* Sérgio Sasaki (BRA) Puerto Rico* Belarus* Daniel Corral Barron (MEX) Tomás González (CHI) Wai Hung Shek (HKG) Filip Ude (CRO) Vlasios Maras (GRE) Samuel Piasecky (SVK) Fabian Leimlehner (AUT) Colombia Roman Kulesza (POL) Switzerland Epke Zonderland (NED)^[5] Australia Artur Davtyan (ARM) Portugal Stepan Gorbachev (KAZ) Rokas Guščinas (LTU) Pham Phouc Hung (VIE) Dmitrijs Trefilovs (LAT) Felix Aronovich (ISR) Vid Hidvégi (HUN) Iordan Iovtchev (BUL) Federico Molinari (ARG) Jimmy Verbaeys (BEL) Martin Konečný (CZE) Kieran Behan (IRL) Shakir Shikhaliyev (AZE)
TOTAL		98

* NOC may choose any gymnast
** NOC has choice between 2 gymnasts

Women[]

Event	Criterion	Qualified
Teams (of 5)
World Championships	Team places 1-8	United States Russia China Romania Japan Australia Germany Great Britain
Olympic Test Event (teams 9-16 from WC)	Team places 1-4^[6]	Italy Canada France Brazil
TOTAL		12 (60 gymnasts)
Individuals
World Championships individual apparatus medalists	Vault	McKayla Maroney (USA) Phan Thị Hà Thanh (VIE)^[7]
	Asymmetric bars	Viktoria Komova (RUS) ^[7]
	Balance beam	Sui Lu (CHN) ^[7]
	Floor	Ksenia Afanasyeva (RUS)^[7]
FIG Executive Board invitations	Africa	Sherine El Zeiny (EGY) Salma Mahmoud (EGY)^[3]
Olympic Test Event	Individual all-round placings (max. 1 per NOC)^[6]	Belgium* South Korea* Spain* (NED)^[5] Switzerland Ana Sofía Gómez (GUA) Elsa García (MEX)^[8] Venezuela Valeriia Maksiuta (ISR) Greece Hungary Marta Pihan-Kulesza (POL) Kristýna Pálešová (CZE) Barbara Gasser (AUT) Jessica Gil Ortíz (COL) Ukraine Jonna Adlerteg (SWE) Tina Erceg (CRO) Valeria Pereyra (ARG) Uzbekistan Slovenia** Göksu Üçtaş (TUR) Simona Castro (CHI) Laura Švilpaitė (LTU) Ralitsa Mileva (BUL) Angel Wong (HKG) Annika Urvikko (FIN) Lorena Quiñones (PUR) Mária Homolová (SVK) Lim Heem Wei (SIN) Moldir Azimbay (KAZ) Nastassia Marachkouskaya (BLR) Zoi Lima (POR) Yamilet Peña (DOM) Đỗ Thị Ngân Thương (VIE)
TOTAL		98

* NOC may choose any gymnast
** NOC has choice between 2 gymnasts

Rhythmic[]

Individual[]

Event	Criterion	Qualified^[9]
World Championships	Places 1-15 (max. 2 per NOC)	Russia Russia Belarus Belarus Azerbaijan Ukraine Bulgaria Poland Uzbekistan Israel South Korea France China Italy Austria
Olympic Test Event (24 participants, including NOCs ranked 16-24 and best 11 gymnasts not qualified to all-around final in WC)	Top 5 (max. 1 per NOC)	Kazakhstan Ukraine Spain Cyprus Germany
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation	Great Britain
FIG Executive Board invitations	Continents not qualified (3 places)	United States Egypt Australia
TOTAL		24

Group[]

Event	Criterion	Qualified
World Championships	All-around places 1-6	Italy Russia Bulgaria Belarus Japan Germany
Olympic Test Event (places 7-13 from WC and host nation)	Top 4	Spain Ukraine Israel Greece
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation	Great Britain
FIG Executive Board invitations	Continents not qualified	Canada
TOTAL		12

Great Britain as host is entitled to send a team to compete in the Rhythmic Gymnastics Group event, British Gymnastics and the British Olympic Association (BOA) announced that team would only be sent if the team achieved a benchmark score at the test event. In the event, they narrowly failed to do so, and British Gymnastics announced it would not nominate the team to the BOA for inclusion. The GB Rhythmic Gymnastics group successfully appealed on 5 March 2012. The place offered by the BOA was subsequently taken up by British Gymnastics.

Trampoline[]

Men[]

Event	Criterion	Qualified
World Championships	Top 8 (max. 2 per NOC)	China China Japan Japan Russia Russia France Ukraine
Olympic Test Event (16 participants)	Top 8 (max. 1 per NOC)^[10]	Canada Portugal Australia Germany Italy United States Denmark Belarus
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation and each continent	-
Tripartite invitation		-
TOTAL		16

Women[]

Event	Criterion	Qualified
World Championships	Top 8 (max. 2 per NOC)	China China Belarus Canada Canada Germany United States Great Britain
Olympic Test Event (16 participants)	Top 8 (max. 1 per NOC)^[10]	Georgia Portugal Czech Republic Russia Netherlands Ukraine Japan Uzbekistan
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation and each continent	-
Tripartite invitation		-
TOTAL		16

References[]

^ "2012 Olympic Games Qualification System". FIG. Retrieved 5 Aug 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "-Men's artistic gymnastics - qualified gymnasts" (PDF). Fedintgym.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "The All Around". The All Around. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ Chowdhury, Saj (2012-05-10). "BBC Sport - London 2012: Syque Caesar aims to bring Bangladesh glory". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
^ ^a ^b "Koninklijke Nederlandse Gymnastiek Unie - Epke Zonderland en Wyomi Masela aangewezen voor voordracht Olympische Spelen". Kngu.nl. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
^ ^a ^b "Women's artistic gymnastics - qualified gymnasts" (PDF). Fedintgym.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "43dr Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo (JPN) 2011". Gymnasticsresults.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ "– Elsa García tendrá en casa el 80% de preparación para JO". Gimnasialatina.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ "Press Information : List of Rhythmic Gymnastics 2012 Olympic Qualifiers" (PDF). Fig2.1x2.sportcentric.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.
^ ^a ^b "Trampoline qualifiers" (PDF). Fig-docs.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

External links[]

[gymnastics_qual-1] "2012 Olympic Games Qualification System". FIG. Retrieved 5 Aug 2011.

[magq-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "-Men's artistic gymnastics - qualified gymnasts" (PDF). Fedintgym.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-30. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[taa-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g "The All Around". The All Around. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[4] Chowdhury, Saj (2012-05-10). "BBC Sport - London 2012: Syque Caesar aims to bring Bangladesh glory". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-08-03.

[kngu.nl-5] "Koninklijke Nederlandse Gymnastiek Unie - Epke Zonderland en Wyomi Masela aangewezen voor voordracht Olympische Spelen". Kngu.nl. Retrieved 2012-08-03.

[wagq-6] "Women's artistic gymnastics - qualified gymnasts" (PDF). Fedintgym.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[gymnasticsresults.com-7] "43dr Artistic Gymnastics World Championships Tokyo (JPN) 2011". Gymnasticsresults.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[8] "– Elsa García tendrá en casa el 80% de preparación para JO". Gimnasialatina.com. Archived from the original on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[9] "Press Information : List of Rhythmic Gymnastics 2012 Olympic Qualifiers" (PDF). Fig2.1x2.sportcentric.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

[traq-10] "Trampoline qualifiers" (PDF). Fig-docs.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-01-19. Retrieved 2013-10-22.

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