Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's rings

The Men's rings competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 15 August.

Men's rings at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Left-right: Ablyazin, Petrounias, Zanetti
Venue	HSBC Arena
Date	15 August 2016
Competitors	11 from 8 nations
Winning score	16.000
Medalists
Eleftherios Petrounias  Greece Arthur Zanetti  Brazil Denis Ablyazin  Russia

The medals were presented by Bernard Rajzman IOC member, Brazil and Wolfgang Willam, FIG Executive Committee Member.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC), based on combined score of each apparatus, advanced to the individual all-around final. The finalists performed on each apparatus again. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting.

Qualification

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic qualification

The gymnasts who ranked in the top eight qualified for the final. In the event of there being more than two gymnasts from same NOC, only the first two ranked among them would qualify for the final, with the next best ranked gymnast qualifying instead.

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total	Qualification
1	Liu Yang (CHN)	6.900	9.000		15.900	Q
2	Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE)	6.800	9.033		15.833	Q
3	You Hao (CHN)	7.000	8.800		15.800	Q
4	Denis Ablyazin (RUS)	6.800	8.833		15.633	Q
5	Arthur Zanetti (BRA)	6.700	8.833		15.533	Q
6	Samir Aït Saïd (FRA)	6.800	8.733		15.533	Q^1
7	Dennis Goossens (BEL)	6.600	8.766		15.366	Q
8	Yuri van Gelder (NED)	6.800	8.533		15.333	Q^2
9	Ihor Radivilov (UKR)	6.800	8.508		15.308	R1
10	Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues (FRA)	6.900	8.366		15.266	R2
11	Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)	6.600	8.600		15.200	R3

¹ Saïd was forced to scratch from the final after breaking his leg during the qualification round.[1]
² van Gelder was removed by the Dutch NOC after he returned to the Olympic Village under the influence of alcohol after a night out.[2][3]

Final

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total
	Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE)	6.800	9.200		16.000
	Arthur Zanetti (BRA)	6.800	8.966		15.766
	Denis Ablyazin (RUS)	6.800	8.900		15.700
4	Liu Yang (CHN)	6.900	8.700		15.600
5	Igor Radivilov (UKR)	6.800	8.666		15.466
6	You Hao (CHN)	7.000	8.400		15.400
7	Danny Pinheiro Rodrigues (FRA)	6.900	8.333		15.233
8	Dennis Goossens (BEL)	6.600	8.333		14.933

References

1. French gymnast Samir Aït Saïd suffers shocking broken leg in men's gymnastics qualifying. Independent.co.uk (2016-08-06). Retrieved on 2016-08-16.
2. Van Gelder misdraagt zich in Rio en moet naar huis. Nos.nl (2016-08-09). Retrieved on 2016-08-16.
3. Yuri Van Gelder thrown out of Games after night of drinking. Theguardian.com. Retrieved on 2016-08-16.