10. Januar 2012  
London, Great Britain  
Artistic Gymnastics

Olympic Games Test Event started on Tuesday

British Men's Team qualified ...!

The Olympic Gymnastics Test Event will take place from the 10th-18th January 2012 and is the second and final chance for gymnasts across all three disciplines (artistic, trampoline and rhythmic) to qualify for the London 2012 Olympic Games. The test event will take place in the North Greenwich Arena.
Part of the London Prepares series, this event enables the London 2012 Organising Committee to test crucial aspects of its operations ahead of next year’s Games.
No one doubted a convincing performance of the British men's team

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* PRE-OLYMPICS Artistic Gymnastics
- North Greenwich Arena, London, Jan 10 - 13
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Representatives of the 56 nations participating in the Men’s and Women’s Artistic Gymnastics competitions at the Visa International Gymnastics Test Event in London (GBR), which will start today, Tuesday, January 10 ....
>> Schedule
Artistic Gymnastics
Men and Women Artistic gymnasts respectively obtained the right to compete in the Test Event as follows:
  • eight Teams of five who ranked 9-16 in Competition I at the 2011 WCh Tokyo (JPN),
  • sixteen Individual gymnasts from the NFs, who ranked 1–8 in the Team ranking from Competition I in Tokyo, with a maximum of two per NF,
  • 41 other gymnasts including up to two gymnasts from NFs ranked 17–24 in the Team ranking from Competition I in Tokyo; up to one gymnast from a NF, in addition to those ranked 1–24 in the Team ranking from Competition I in Tokyo, to participate as per the Individual ranking from Competition I of the 2011 World Championships (All-Around results).

Krizstian BERKI (HUN), as the world champion on pommel horse

Furthermore, Krisztian Berki (HUN) as the only Individual Apparatus World Champion from Competition III in Tokyo, who is already qualified for the London Olympic Games, obtained an additional place in the Men’s competition.
* source: f i g
* MEN's Qualification rounds
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>> Men's artistic - start list (Tuesday, Jan 10)

... we will publish a summary after the end of rotations

- the editors
*1st ROTATION   > Start list - overview
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Parallel bars: ... Epke ZONDERLAND (NED) started with 14,966 and his teammate Jeffrey WAMMES with 14,055.
The Luxembougian Sascha PALGEN's disposal at the parallel bars ended in a landing seat: 11,660 only.
The Bulgarian veteran Jordan Yovtchev, who tries the participation of his 6th (!!) Olympic Games reached 13,233 on parallel bars.

* High bar: .. here the two German gymnasts Andreas BRETSCNEIDER started with 13,900 ofter a crash after Cassina and Matthias FAHRIG begun with 13,700;
... but Zonderland crashed with the highest score of difficulty (6.7) ....


** SPECIAL F.I.G. Service
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The International Gymnastics Federation’s (FIG) long time data handling partner Swiss Timing, operating for Omega at the Olympic Games, has developed the Web-CIS (Commentator Information System) application, a tool providing an ongoing information data feed in real time.
The Web-CIS provides the media and fans with live results and information on the competitors during the Visa International Gymnastics event in London (GBR).

In order to setup this application on your computer, please follow the instructions here below:
• You must have an administrator access to your computer and Java must be setup on your machine.
• Click on the following link:
>> http://swt-cis-srv-011.st-innovation.com/CisWebApp/
• Select a screen resolution.
• Accept the Java run time.
• Run the application.

Team Results after the 1st Subdivision:
1. FRANCE    - 350,659
  2. CANADA   - 345,892
     3. BELARUS - 335,824

* Indiv. All-around
1. TOMMASONE, Cyril (FRA)  - 87,631
2. LIKHOVITSKI, A.      (BLR)  - 87,164
3.  AUGIS, Axel             (FRA)  - 86,498
* FIG, GYMvideo --:


4. VERNIAIEV, Oleg  (UKR)  - 86,297
5. PAYNE, Jackson  (CAN)  - 86,131
6. WILLIG, Arnaud    (FRA)  - 85,556
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8. ZONDERLAND, Epke                 (NED)  - 84,631
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12. WAMMES, Jeffrey                        (NED)  - 82,881
* FIG, GYMvideo - :


13. YOVTCHEV, Jordan                    (BUL)  - 82,698
** FIG, GYMvideo --:


...Jordan YOVTCHEW,  with 39 years, the veteran of Olympic Gymnastics and a big idol of young generations!

14. FAHRIG, Matthias                       (GER)  - 82,649
15. BRETSCHNEIDER, Andreas  (GER)  - 82,532
...
17. PALGEN, Sascha                       (LUX)  - 80,097
** Team Results after the 2nd Subdivision:
1. FRANCE    - 350,659
2. ITALY         - 346,334
3. CANADA    - 345,892
4. BRAZIL      - 345,152
5. BELARUS - 335,824

* Ind. All-around
1. CORRAL, Barron (MEX) - 88,465
2. TOMMASONE, Cyril (FRA) - 87,631
3. LIKHOVITSKI, A. BLR) - 87,164

* FIG, GYMvideo --:


4. SASAKI, Junior (BRA) - 86,898
5. MORANDI, Matteo (ITA) - 86,799
6. AUGIS, Axel (FRA) - 86,498
...
14. LEIMLEHNER, Fabian (SUI) - 84,830
16. CAPELLI, Claudio          (SUI) - 84,765
17. ZONDERLAND, Epke (NED) - 84,631
...
31. WAMMES, Jeffrey                      (NED) - 82,881
32. YOVTCHEV, Jordan                  (BUL) - 82,698
* FINAL STANDING, TEAMS, Men

In the end, Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy made the cut and secured their ticket to London in the summer, filling up the 12 available places for Men’s teams at the Olympics. They will be joining China, Japan, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Germany, Korea and Romania, who qualified at the 2011 World Championships.
The teams ranked fifth to eighth today, Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Belarus, claimed one place each for an individual gymnast of their NOC.

1. GREAT BRITAIN - 358,227 (Q)
2. FRANCE - 350,659 (Q)
3. SPAIN - 347,292 (Q)
4. ITALY - 246,346 (Q)
5. CANADA - 345,892
6. BRAZIL - 345,152
7. PUERTO ROCO - 340,092
8. BELARUS - 335,824

* ALL-AROUND, Men's Qualification
1. PURVIS, Daniel      (GBR) - 89,948
2. THOMAS, Kristian (GBR) - 89,132
3. KEATINGS, Daniel (GBR) - 89,015
* FIG, GYMvideo --:


4. CORRAL, Barron (MEX) - 88,465)
5. TOMMASONE, Cyril (FRA) - 87,631
6. GONZALES, Sepul. (CHI) - 87,456
7. LIKHOVITSKI, A. BLR) - 87,164
8. GONZALES, Fabian (ESP) - 87,031
9. SASAKI, Junior (BRA) - 86,898
10. MORANDI, Matteo (ITA) - 86,799
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26. LEIMLEHNER, Fabian (AUT) - 84,830
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29. CAPELLI, Claudio (SUI) - 84,765
30. ZONDERLAND, Epke (NED) - 84,631
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48. WAMMES, Jeffrey (NED) - 82,881
49. YOVTCHEV, Jordan (BUL) - 82,698
...
61. PALGEN, Sascha (LUX) - 80,097

>> List of App. Final Qualifiers


* Wednesday, January 11
Artistic Gymnastics 2012 Olympic qualifiersList of Men's Artistic Gymnastics 2012 Olympic qualifiers approved
LONDON (GBR) and Lausanne (SUI) / FIG Office:
The International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) today publishes the list of Men's Artistic Gymnastics qualifiers for the 2012 London Olympic Games.
A total of 98 spots were available, with gymnasts having qualified at the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo (JPN) and the Visa International Gymnastics in January 2012 in London (GBR). Twelve teams of five gymnasts from Japan, USA, China, Germany, Russia, Korea, Romania, Ukraine, Great Britain, France, Spain and Italy fill 60 spots.

The Individual Apparatus medallists of the 2011 Worlds, who fulfilled the minimum criteria and whose countries did not qualify a full team, namely Diego Hypolito (BRA), Alexander Shatilov (ISR), Krisztian Berki (HUN), Arthur Nabarrete Zanetti (BRA) and Vasileios Tsolakidis (GRE) are qualified taking a total of five nominative places.
Team ranking fifth to eight at the second qualifier earn one position for their NOC (Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Belarus), with the remaining positinos being nominative as per the attached list.

Three places are set aside for Continental balance and Tripartite universality. These places will be nominated by the FIG Executive Committee, respectively by the Tripartiet Commission. in due time.
F.I.G.
André F. GUEISBUHLER, Secretary General.

So one day after the men's olympic qualification the Intern. Gymnastics Federation F.I.G. published the official  
>> Official List of  Men's Olympic Qualifiers