TOKYO 2020 - MEN's ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS

  S T I L L  R I N G S : > Qualifcation
LIU, Yang                         (CHN)  - 15,500
 YOU, Hao                           (CHN)  - 15,300
  PETROUNIAS, Eleftheerios (GRE)  - 15,200
     4. AIT SAID, Samir               (FRA)  - 14,900
     5. COLAK, Ibrahim               (TUR)  - 14,866
     6. ABLIAZIN, Denis              (ROC)  - 14,833
     7. ASIL, Adem                     (TUR)  - 14,600
     8. ZANETTI, Arthur             (BRA)  - 14,133
        ► DetaIed Results
-----------------------------------------------------
* LIU - 13 years after Beijing by CHEN Yibing now again a Chinese ring victory!
* YOU Hao secures the Chinese double success with the silver medal;
* PETROUNIAS - another medal for Greece after gold in Rio!
--------------------------
* Artur Zanetti (BRA) - strted in his third Olympic rings final, but after winning gold (2012) and silver (2016 he crashed after his triple sault at the end of his exercise ...!
.

V A U L T  > Qualification
.
SHIN, Jeahwean     (KOR)  - 14,783⁼
  ABLIAZIN, Denis     (ROC)  - 14,783⁼
   DAVTYAN, Artur      (ARM)  - 14,733
     4.YULO, Carlos Edriel  (PHI)  - 14,716
     5. NAGORNY, Nikita   (ROC)  - 14,716
     6. ASIL, Adem            (TUR)  - 14,449
     7. ONDER, Ahmet        (TUR)  - 14,066
     8. SOUZA, Caio          (BRA)  - 13,683
           ► Detailed Results
--------------------------------------------------------
* SHIN - after YANG, Hak-Seon (KOR; 2012) and the North Korean RI, Se-gwang (2016), the "vault sovereignty" at the Olympics remains in Korean hands, after they have also won 6 out of 8 Worlds in the last decade!
* ABLIAZIN - tied with the winner, but again "only" silver - for the 3rd time in a row since 2012; unclear why this time the regulation of the better E-grade did not decide in favor of the Russian ... (?)
* DAVTJAN - at his 3rd Olympic Games first Olympic medal for him and for Armenia!
----------------------------------------------------
.

♦♦ OLYMPIC MEN's ALL-AROUND FINAL (Wednesday,July  28)

   ► List of Qualifiers            ► Start list

♦ R E S U L T S

HASHIMOTO, Daiki (JPN) - 88,465
 XIAO, Ruoteng      (CHN) - 88,065
NAGORNYY, Nikita      (ROC) - 88,031
       4.SUN, Wei                 (CHN)  - 87,798
       5. KITAZONO, Takeru  (JPN)  - 86,698
       6. DALALOYAN, Artur  (ROC)  - 86,248
  ... 13. GISCHARD, Benjamin (SUI) - 82,732
       ... 16. YUSOF, Eddy       (SUI) - 81,732
       ... 18. DAUSER, Lukas  (GER) - 81,290
       ... 23. HERDER, Phillip  (GER) - 78,565
                  ►► Detailed Results
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
.
♦ Hashimoto makes history as youngest men’s Olympic All-Around champion
At 19 years, 355 days, Hashimoto Daiki (JPN) became the youngest Olympic All-Around champion ever in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics Wednesday evening at Tokyo 2020’s Ariake Gymnastics Centre, just a half-hour’s drive from his hometown of Chiba.
Following in the footsteps of Uchimura Kohei (JPN), the 2012 and 2016 Olympic champion considered by many the greatest male gymnast of all time, Hashimoto delivered a clutch performance on Horizontal Bar in the final rotation to leapfrog a pair of World All-Around champions and keep the Olympic title in Japan. 2017 World champion Xiao Ruoteng (CHN) was solid and consistent for the silver, while powerful Nikita Nagornyy (ROC), the world titlist in 2019, settled for bronze.
♦ Hashimoto emerges as leader of Gymnastics’ ‘generation next’
"All the hard work over the past five years has led to this medal,” said Hashimoto, who leads an up-and-coming group of Japanese stars that includes 2018 Youth Olympic Games champion Kitazono Takeru, fifth overall. "Although I want to follow what Uchimura has built and founded in the last decades in Gymnastics, I want to lead as a next-generation gymnast in Japan."
Hashimoto also said that he initially did not believe it would be possible for him to win after seeing the level of Gymnastics displayed at the Olympics five years ago in Rio de Janeiro, which began when he was just 14. Yet when his moment to perform on the Olympic stage arrived this week, he did not feel nervous. “I just tried to enjoy the competition with myself, not compete with other people. No regrets." Hashimoto is the only teenage male ever to win the Olympic All-Around title, with the gold coming 10 days before his 20^th birthday on 7 August. His victory gives Japan a record seventh Olympic All-Around title, surpassing the USSR, which accumulated six between 1952 and 1988.
♦ Horizontal Bar decides the medals
With a superb start on Floor Exercise and the highest score of the night on Pommel Horse, Hashimoto jumped out to an early lead before ceding it to Xiao after both performed on Still Rings. Xiao, Ruoteng who missed the 2016 Olympics due to injury, stayed in front for the next three rotations, ahead of not only Hashimoto and Nagornyy but a peloton of challenges including Takeru Kitazono, Sun Wei (CHN), and Artur Dalaloyan (ROC), whose astonishing comeback from Achilles reconstruction surgery in April has been one of the big stories of the Games. Yet each of the three leaders showed small imprecisions on one apparatus: Nagornyy stepped out of bounds on Floor Exercise and posted only the seventh best score on Horizontal Bar, while Hashimoto took a large step to the side landing his Vault. For his part, Xiao failed to salute the judges after his Horizontal Bar dismount, incurring a 0.3 penalty that opened the door for Hashimoto, the final gymnast to perform. Needing 14.534 points to take gold, Hashimoto hit his highly risky exercise, earning 14.933 and a total of 88.645 points, 0.4 ahead of Xiao, who had been hoping to become the first Chinese man since Yang Wei in 2008 to take the title. "I feel that I did well today, and I am pretty satisfied with my performance,” Xiao said. “This medal is really big for me. It's a result of what I have worked for up until now."
♦ Nagornyy completes a full set of Olympic colors
Nikita Nagornyy, a huge factor in ROC’s gold medal-winning team performance Monday night, was disappointed not to follow up with an individual gold. “I could have done better,” the 24-year-old said, adding that he did not execute exactly as he had hoped on Floor Exercise and Horizontal Bar. “It’s just how it went, and it’s just that I didn’t do enough. Today I just couldn’t give my best performance.”
Nagornyy is only the second ROC man to earn a medal in the All-Around competition, his bronze coming 21 years after Alexei Nemov’s gold at Sydney 2000. Bronze is his third Olympic medal and first as an individual, following team gold Monday and team silver from 2016. He, along with Hashimoto and Xiao, will have further opportunities to add to their medal tally in apparatus finals 1-3 August. Nagornyy has qualified for the apparatus finals on Floor Exercise, Vault, and Horizontal Bar. Xiao will be in the Floor final, and Hashimoto will perform again on Horizontal Bar.
* Source: fig coverage
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
.
* GYMmedia-Review , have a look to ►► The Champions of History

♦♦ MEN's TEAM FINAL   (Monday, July 26)

► LIST of Team-Qualifier    ► START LIST

* ROC upsets host Japan for men’s Olympic team title
The ROC Men’s Artistic Gymnastics team (RUSSIA) won its first Olympic team gold in 25 years Monday evening in Tokyo, denying 2016 Olympic champions Japan a victory on home soil. Third in Saturday’s team qualification, ROC was undeniable in the final, where Nikita Nagornyy, Artur Dalaloyan, Denis Abliazin and David Belyavskiy electrified the Ariake Gymnastics Centre with extraordinarily difficult routines presented with a precision that at times approached perfection. ROC compiled 262.500 points, 0.103 ahead of Japan, which scored 262.397. The Japanese, confident after finishing first in the team preliminary round, were forced to settle for silver, while the People’s Republic of China took a second consecutive Olympic bronze.
  * R E S U L T S:
 RUSSIA (Team ROC) - 262,500
 JAPAN                         - 262,397
  CHINA                         - 261,897
       4. Great Britain              - 255,760
       5. U S A                          - 254,594
       6. SWITZERLAND            - 250,924
       7. UKRAINE                     - 246,394
       8. GERMANY                   - 238,495
           ► Detailed Results
.
* ROC rocks the gym in golden performance
Determined and diligent on all apparatus, ROC were the strongest performers on Still Rings and Vault, where stuck landings from Nagornyy and Dalaloyan as they approached the halfway mark of the competition gave the team a boost that carried them the rest of the way. The only moment they wavered was on Floor Exercise, their final apparatus of the night, where Abliazin and Dalaloyan both went out of bounds in their routines. The mistakes ate into the team’s 0.6 lead, setting up a photo finish. A remarkable effort from Nagornyy sealed the title for ROC, though both teams waited anxiously for the final confirmation. When it came, ROC team members fell to the ground, overwhelmed with joy. “We went a long way to get it,” said Abliazin, adding that he doesn’t think it has sunk in for the team yet. “Overall,” he added, “we are overwhelmed by positive emotions.”
ROC’s first and last Olympic team gold in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics came in Atlanta (USA) in 1996. It is the sixth Olympic medal for 28-year-old Abliazin, but his first gold. Abliazin, Nagornyy, and Belyavskiy were also members of the 2016 team that earned silver behind Japan in Rio de Janeiro (BRA).
* A favorite for gold, Japan settles for silver
Attempting to replicate the winning effort of a different Japanese team five years ago at Rio 2016, Hashimoto Daiki, Kaya Kazuma, Kitazono Takeru, and Tanigawa Wataru got off to a promising start on Floor Exercise, but faded as the competition went on. Unable to keep pace with ROC on Still Rings and Parallel Bars, Japan ranked third behind China with only one apparatus left to compete. Extraordinary efforts from Youth Olympic Games champion Kitazono (14.500) and Hashimoto (15.100, the highest score of the night) on Horizontal Bar garnered the points necessary for Japan to surpass China for second, though ROC remained out of reach. Silver marks Japan’s 14th Olympic medal in the men’s team event, more than any other team in history. The archipelago has reached the podium in 14 of the past 16 Olympic Games, a streak broken only by medal-less performances in 1996 and 2000.
* China takes bronze in a repeat of 2016
A fall from Lin Chaopan on Floor Exercise in China’s first routine plunged the People’s Republic into a hole that Lin, Xiao Ruoteng, Zou Jingyuan, and Sun Wei spent the rest of the night digging themselves out of. Even the best team scores on Pommel Horse and Parallel Bars were not enough to challenge ROC for gold, and the 2018 World champions were left third. China’s bronze is its fourth consecutive team medal at the Olympic Games, though bronze still tastes bittersweet for a country that won three golds between 2000 and 2012.
Great Britain, the USA, Switzerland, Ukraine, and Germany rounded out the standings.
* source: fig report
.
* Summary of prelimeries from July 24 - see below

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
.

♦ MEN's QUALIFICATION,  Saturday, Juli 24

Hashimoto leads as Japan tops team qualification
Five years after taking team gold in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), the Japanese men are poised for a repeat performance. The host nation’s youthful four man team had no trouble holding its own against perennial powerhouse People’s Republic of China and 2019 World champion ROC and in Men’s Artistic Gymnastics qualification at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games Saturday. 

Japan outscored China 262.251 : 262.061 despite a few nervous performances on the first day of Artistic Gymnastics competition at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre. The star was 19-year-old Hashimoto Daiki, who brought in the top scores in the All-Around and on Horizontal Bar. The USA, Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, and Ukraine also advanced to Monday’s team final.

Hashimoto heralds a new era in Japanese Gymnastics
With his performance, Hashimoto, a 19-year-old from the Chiba suburb of Tokyo, emerged as the heir apparent to Uchimura Kohei (JPN), whose Games came to an end when a fall from the Horizontal Bar ended Uchimura’s chances of advancing to the apparatus final. The 2012 and 2016 Olympic All-Around champion, a living legend in Gymnastics, had decided not to pursue a third overall title in Tokyo. Electing to compete only on the Horizontal Bar at his fourth Olympic Games meant Uchimura competed in Tokyo as an individual, separate from the team, something the 32-year-old suspected may have influenced him negatively. "In the last three Olympic Games I could perform what I practised. But I couldn't do that at these Olympics," Uchimura reflected. “The team performance was just great, even though all of them were competing in the Olympic Games for the first time. They are a really strong team. After I finished the Horizontal Bar and came back to the arena to watch, I saw them sorting out their problems on their own. I felt I wasn't needed anymore."

Specialists lead apparatus qualification
Gymnasts from six different nations topped qualifications to the individual apparatus finals, which will be held on 1-3 August. In addition to Hashimoto, apparatus leaders were Artem Dolgopyat (ISR) on Floor Exercise, Lee Chih-Kai (TPE) on Pommel Horse, Shin Jeahwan (KOR) on Vault, Zou Jingyuan (CHN) on Parallel Bars, and 2016 Olympic champion Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE), who has designs on a second Olympic crown on Still Rings
Mixed results for reigning Olympic champions
After a last-minute qualification to the Games, Petrounias is making the most of his time in Tokyo. Greece’s “Lord of the Rings” leapt into the lead on the apparatus with a lights-out performance, while two-time Rio 2016 Olympic champion Max Whitlock (GBR) skipped Floor Exercise but was the fifth strongest qualifier to the Pommel Horse final. Arthur Zanetti (BRA), the 2012 Olympic champion on Still Rings and silver medallist in Rio, also made it through in fifth place on his speciality. Not making the cutoff were 2012 Olympic Horizontal Bar champion Epke Zonderland (NED), who finished 23rd at his fourth Olympic Games, and 2012 Olympic Vault champion Yang Hakseon (KOR), who is first reserve on Vault.
*source: fig-info

* RESULTS:

► MEN's TEAM Qualificatio

► All-around, qualification;    ► AA-Final-Qualifiers

* APP.  Event Results( (incl. Final qualifiers):
  ► Floor exerc;   ► Pommel horse;   ► Still rings; 
  ► V a u l t;          ► Parallel bars;       ► High bar

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

►► TOKYO 2020 - WOMEN's ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS
►► TOKYO - Preview Artirtic Gymnastics