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Olympic Men's Gymnastics 2024: Qualification Scores, Results and Reaction

Mike Chiari

China and Japan dominated the qualification round of men's gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on Saturday, taking the top two spots in the team standings and the top four sports in the all-around standings.

After winning the bronze medal in the team event at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, China qualified in the top spot in the team competition Saturday, about 2.5 points ahead of Japan in second.

Also, China's Boheng Zhang topped individual all-around qualifying, followed by Japan's Shinnosuke Oka and Daiki Hashimoto in second and third, and China's Ruoteng Xiao in fourth.

Team USA mostly struggled, qualifying only fifth in the team event, 10th and 13th in the individual all-around and second in the pommel horse.

Here is a full rundown of how those who qualified for the team and all-around events, as well as the apparatus finals fared during Saturday's qualification round:

Team

1. China: 263.028

2. Japan: 260.594

3. Great Britain: 256.561

4. Ukraine: 253.893

5. United States: 253.229

6. Italy: 249.764

7. Switzerland: 249.662

8. Canada: 247.794

All-Around

1. Boheng Zhang (China): 88.597

2. Shinnosuke Oka (Japan): 86.865

3. Daiki Hashimoto (Japan): 85.064

4. Ruoteng Xiao (China): 84.898

5. Jake Jarman (Great Britain): 84.897

6. Joe Fraser (Great Britain): 84.666

7. Oleg Verniaiev (Ukraine): 84.631

8. Yumin Abbadini (Italy): 83.933

9. Carlos Edriel Yulo (Philippines): 83.631

10. Fred Richard (USA): 83.498

11. Illia Kovtun (Ukraine): 83.163

12. Matteo Giubellini (Switzerland): 83.066

13. Paul Juda (USA): 82.865

14. Krisztofer Meszaros (Hungary): 82.798

15. Jesse Moore (Australia): 82.698

16. Mario Macchiati (Italy): 82.231

17. Casimir Schmidt (Netherlands): 82.098

18. Milad Karimi (Kazakhstan): 82.065

19. Diogo Soares (Brazil): 81.999

20. Florian Langenegger (Switzerland): 81.898

21. Felix Dolci (Canada): 81.498

22. Frank Rijken (Netherlands): 81.233

23. Nils Dunkel (Germany): 81.232

24. Rene Cournoyer (Canada): 80.798

Floor Exercise

1. Jake Jarman (Great Britain): 14.966

2. Carlos Edriel Yulo (Philippines): 14.766

3. Rayderley Zapata (Spain): 14.600

4. Illia Kovtun (Ukraine): 14.533

5. Luke Whitehouse (Great Britain): 14.533

6. Boheng Zhang (China): 14.466

7. Artem Dolgopyat (Israel): 14.466

8. Milad Karimi (Kazakhstan): 14.433

Pommel Horse

1. Rhys McClenaghan (Ireland): 15.200

2. Stephen Nedoroscik (USA): 15.200

3. Max Whitlock (Great Britain): 15.166

4. Takaaki Sugino (Japan): 15.033

5. Oleg Verniaiev (Ukraine): 15.033

6. Nariman Kurbanov (Kazakhstan): 15.000

7. Woong Hur (South Korea): 14.900

8. Loran de Munck (Netherlands): 14.766

Rings

1. Jingyuan Zou (China): 15.300

2. Yang Liu (China): 15.233

3. Samir Ait Said (France): 14.966

4. Glen Cuyle (Belgium): 14.900

5. Adem Asil (Turkey): 14.866

6. Eleftherios Petrounias (Greece): 14.800

7. Vahagn Davtyan (Armenia): 14.733

8. Harry Hepworth (Great Britain): 14.700

Vault

1. Nazar Chepurnyi (Ukraine): 14.833

2. Harry Hepworth (Great Britain): 14.766

3. Aurel Benovic (Croatia): 14.733

4. Igor Radivilov (Ukraine): 14.700

5. Jake Jarman (Great Britain): 14.699

6. Carlos Edriel Yulo (Philippines): 14.683

7. Artur Davtyan (Armenia): 14.666

8. Mahdi Olfati (Iran): 14.583

Parallel Bars

1. Jingyuan Zou (China): 16.200

2. Boheng Zhang (China): 15.333

3. Shinnosuke Oka (Japan): 15.300

4. Oleg Verniaiev (Ukraine): 15.266

5. Lukas Dauser (Germany): 15.166

6. Illia Kovtun (Ukraine): 15.166

7. Ferhat Arican (Turkey): 15.033

8. Wataru Tanigawa (Japan): 15.000

Horizontal Bar

1. Boheng Zhang (China): 15.133

2. Chia-Hung Tang (Chinese Taipei): 14.933

3. Takaaki Sugino (Japan): 14.733

4. Tin Srbic (Croatia): 14.600

5. Shinnosuke Oka (Japan): 14.533

6. Angel Barajas (Colombia): 14.466

7. Weide Su (China): 14.400

8. Marios Georgiou (Cyprus): 14.366

In addition to qualifying for the team final and having two all-around finalists, China had seven finalists in the other six events. Japan had five and Great Britain had six.

Two Olympic debutants in Zhang and Oka enter the finals as the top two performers in the all-around, but they are followed by a pair of veterans.

Hashimoto won gold in the all-around at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo, while Xiao took the silver, which suggests both are threats to challenge for the top two spots once again.

The most surprising results of the day occurred on the horizontal bar, as Hashimoto failed to qualify for the apparatus finals despite winning 2020 Olympic and 2023 world championship gold in the event.

Hashimoto experienced a fall, which caused him to finish behind Japanese teammates Takaaki Sugino, Oka and Kazuma Kaya. Since a maximum of only two gymnasts from a single country can compete in any apparatus final, it left Hashimoto on the outside looking in with a score of 13.733.

Nearly as surprising was the fact that American Brody Malone also crashed out in high bar qualifying.

Malone won gold in the horizontal bar at the 2022 world championships, but he also fell Saturday, making him one of the worst performers in the event with a score of 12.233.

After missing the 2023 U.S. national championships and world championships due to a torn ACL, Malone returned to action this year, winning his third career all-around U.S. national title.

Malone also finished second in the all-around at the U.S. Olympic Trials, but he did not qualify for the Olympic all-around final, as American teammates Fred Richard and Paul Juda finished ahead of him.

Overall, it was an awful day for an American team that entered the 2024 Olympics with high medal hopes.

At the 2023 world championships, Team USA won bronze in the team event and Richard won bronze in the all-around. The Americans also won medals in the pommel horse and vault.

However, Team USA qualified only fifth in the team event Saturday behind Great Britain in third and Ukraine in fourth, and their top all-around qualifiers were 10th and 13th.

The United States also had only one gymnast reach an apparatus final, that being Stephen Nedoroscik, who qualified second in the pommel horse.

The first final of the men's gymnastics competition at the 2024 Olympics will take place Monday in the form of the team all-around.

   

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