2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event Explained

The 2012 Gymnastics Olympic Test Event took place between January 10 and January 18, 2012. The event featured the artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline disciplines. It qualified the last four artistic gymnastics teams for the 2012 Olympic Games, along with 34 individual female gymnasts and 27 individual male gymnasts selected through the all-around competition. Teams that finished 17th to 24th at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships were able to take two individuals to the test event. Teams that finished 1st to 8th were invited to send two individual gymnasts, but they were not candidates for individual spots.

The rhythmic gymnastics event, too, qualified four teams for the 2012 Olympic Games. Teams that finished 7th to 12th and the champion of the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships—along with the host nation of the test event, Great Britain—were invited participants, although the champion had already qualified for the Olympics.^[1] Because the world champion, Italy, decided not to attend, Azerbaijan, which placed 13th at the 2011 World Championships, was invited as a replacement.^[2] The test event also qualified five individual gymnasts for the Olympics. Twenty teams were invited to send one gymnast each according to their results at the 2011 World Championships. The host, Great Britain, could send one as well. The three medalists of the Championships were also invited despite their previous qualification to the Olympic Games. As two of the three medalists were not joining, two more teams were invited to send one gymnast apiece to the event.

In the trampolining event, seven individual competitors qualified for each of the Olympic events. These competitors were from countries that had not succeeded in qualifying an individual at the 2011 Trampoline World Championships.

The event was part of the London Prepares series of test events and took place at the 2012 Olympic venue, the O2 Arena.^[3]

Artistic Gymnastics

Men

Teams

• • • • • Brazil
• Puerto Rico
  • Belarus

^[4]

Individuals

2 Gymnasts

Pascal Bucher, Claudio Capelli

Thomas Pichler, Samuel Offord

Jeffrey Wammes, Epke Zonderland

• Portugal

Manuel Almeida Campos, Gustavo Palma Simões

• Hungary

Vid Hidvégi, Attila Racz

• Uzbekistan

Anton Fokin, Eduard Shaulov

• Colombia

Jorge Hugo Hiraldo Lopez, Jossimar Orlando Calvo Moreno

• Kazakhstan

Stephan Gorbachev, Ildar Valeyev^[4]

1 Gymnast

• Argentina

Federico Molinari

• Armenia

Artur Davtyan

• Austria

Fabian Leimlener

• Azerbaijan

Shakir Shikhaliyev

Jimmy Verbaeys

• Bulgaria

Iordan Jovtchev

• Chile

Tomás González

• Croatia

Filip Ude

• Cyprus

Irodotos Georgallas

• Czech Republic

Martin Konecny

• Egypt

Mohamed Sherif El Saharty

• Greece

Vlasios Maras

• Hong Kong

Wai Hung Shek

• Ireland

Kieran Behan

• Israel

Felix Aronovich

• Latvia

Dmitrijs Trefilovs

• Lithuania

Rokas Guscinas

• Luxembourg

Sascha Palgen

• Mexico

Daniel Corral Barron

Patrick Peng

• Poland

Roman Kulesza

• Slovakia

Samuel Piasecký

Chih Yu Chen

Adckixon Trejo

Phạm Phước Hưng^[4]

Team Final

The Team Final happened on January 10. Four teams qualified for the Olympics. Team Great Britain won the competition (358,227), Team France was in 2nd place (350,669), Team Spain was in third place (347,292) and Team Italy qualified in 4th (346,334). Canada, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Belarus didn't qualify an entire team for 2012 Olympic Games.^[5]

Position	Country							Team Total
1st		59.782	59.707	58.033	64.165	58.433	58.107	358.227
2nd		57.240	55.698	57.733	62.124	58.666	59.198	350.659
3rd		58.032	54.099	58.198	61.966	57.465	57.532	347.292
4th		56.632	55.665	59.299	62.498	56.941	55.299	346.334
5th		56.798	56.165	55.499	62.832	58.366	56.232	345.892
6th		56.798	54.766	58.332	62.732	55.858	56.666	345.152
7th		58.265	53.799	57.099	60.732	54.831	55.366	340.092
8th		54.565	56.432	56.031	60.965	55.832	51.999	335.824

Floor

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.966		15.466
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.966		15.466
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.300	9.033		15.333
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		5.900	9.000		14.900
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		6.200	8.633		14.833
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		6.400	8.133		14.533
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		6.500	7.766		14.266
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		5.600	8.233		13.833

Pommel horse

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.900	8.800		15.700
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.600		15.100
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.400	8.566		14.966
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		6.400	8.391		14.791
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		6.100	8.566		14.666
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		5.800	8.866		14.666
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		6.500	7.333		13.833
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		5.600	7.700		13.300

Rings

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	9.033		15.533
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.700	8.733		15.433
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.400	8.700		15.100
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		6.500	8.533		15.033
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		6.400	8.533		14.933
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		6.300	8.566		14.866
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		6.100	8.666		14.766
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		6.300	8.433		14.733

Vault

scope=col	Position !	Gymnast	scope=col	D Score !	scope=col	E Score !	scope=col	Penalty !	scope=col	Score 1 !	scope=col	D Score !	scope=col	E Score !	scope=col	Penalty !	scope=col	Score 2 !	scope=col	Total
scope=row			7.000	9.133	0.1	16.033	7.000	9.466		16.466	16.249
scope=row			6.600	9.200		15.800	6.600	9.333		15.933	15.866
scope=row			6.600	9.433	0.1	15.933	6.600	9.166		15.766	15.849
scope=row	4		6.600	9.300		15.900	6.600	9.000	0.1	15.500	15.700
scope=row	5		6.600	9.400	0.1	15.900	7.000	8.066		15.066	15.483
scope=row	6		6.600	8.900	0.3	15.200	6.200	9.500		15.700	15.450
scope=row	7		6.600	9.333		15.933	6.600	8.100	0.1	14.600	15.266
scope=row	8		7.000	8.000	0.3	14.700	6.600	9.000	0.1	15.500	15.100

Parallel Bars

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.300	9.000		15.300
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.000	9.016		15.016
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.366		14.866
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		6.200	8.600		14.800
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		6.000	8.766		14.766
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		6.100	8.500		14.600
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		5.700	8.833		14.533
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		5.700	7.100		12.800

Horizontal Bar

Rank	Gymnast	D score	E score	Pen.	Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.433		14.933
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.366		14.866
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.600	8.266		14.866
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		6.100	8.633		14.733
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		6.000	8.433		14.433
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		6.800	7.200		14.000
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		6.000	7.433		13.433
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		5.500	7.466		12.966

Women

Teams

• • • • Brazil

^[6]

Individuals

2 Gymnasts

• Mexico

Elsa García Rodrigues, Ana Estafania Lago

Giulia Steingruber, Nadia Muelhauser

• Ukraine

Angelina Kysla, Nataliya Kononenko

• Hungary

Dorina Böczögő, Laura Gombas

Jessica López, Ivet Rojas

• Uzbekistan

Daria Elizarova, Luiza Galiulina

• Slovenia

Saša Golob, Adela Sajn

• Greece

Paschalina Mitrakou, Vasiliki Millousi^[6]

1 Gymnast

• Argentina

Valeria Pereyra

• Austria

Barbara Gasser

• Belarus

Nastassia Marachkouskaya

• Bulgaria

Ralitsa Mileva

• Chile

Simona Castro Lazo

• Colombia

Jessica Gil Ortiz

• Croatia

Tina Erceg

• Czech Republic

Kristýna Pálešová

• Dominican Republic

Yamilet Peña

• Finland

Annika Urvikko

Rebecca Tunney

• Guatemala

Ana Sofía Gómez Porras

• Hong Kong

Hyu Ying Angel Wong

• Israel

Valeriia Maksyuta

• Kazakhstan

Moldir Azimbay

• Lithuania

Laura Svilpaite

Jordan Rae

• Poland

Marta Pihan-Kulesza

• Portugal

Zoi Mafalda Lima

• Puerto Rico

Lorena Quinones Moreno

• South Africa

Ashleigh Heldsinger

• Singapore

Heem Wei Lin

• Slovakia

Mária Homolová

• Sweden

Jonna Adlerteg

• Turkey

Goksu Uctas

Thi Ngan Thuong Do^[6]

Team Final

The team final happened on January, 11th. After solid presentations, Team Italy won the gold medal (224,624). Team Canada placed second (221,913) and team France placed third (220,744). Team Brazil placed 4th (217,985) and also qualified for 2012 Olympic Games.http://olimpiadas.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2012/01/11/equipe-feminina-de-ginastica-se-recupera-de-fiascos-recentes-e-se-classifica-para-a-olimpiada.htm

Position	Country					Total
1		56.699	54.966	57.124	55.832	224.621
2		57.066	55.599	54.766	54.482	221.913
3		56.457	56.365	53.790	54.132	220.744
4	Brazil	57.431	52.466	53.331	54.757	217.985
5		55.800	52.398	54.033	54.632	216.863
6		56.299	52.900	53.599	52.132	214.930
7		57.057	50.366	52.299	53.332	213.054
8		55.374	51.931	51.891	52.865	212.061

Vault

Rank	Gymnast				Score 1				Score 2	Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	9.166		14.966	5.600	9.033		14.633	14.799
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	8.800		14.600	5.900	8.700		14.600	14.600
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	8.733		14.533	5.000	8.833		13.833	14.183
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		5.300	8.800	0.1	14.000	5.200	8.933		14.1330	14.066
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		6.300	7.500	0.1	13.700	5.200	8.733	0.1	13.833	13.766
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		5.800	8.783		14.583	5.000	7.833		12.833	13.708
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		5.300	7.600		12.900	4.800	7.566		12.366	12.633
scope=col	Rank !	Gymnast	scope=col colspan="4"	Vault 1 !	scope=col colspan="4"	Vault 2 !	scope=col	Total

Mexico's Elsa García also qualified to the vault final, but was injured during warmups and pulled out at the last moment. Because Garcia withdrew so soon before the competition, first alternate Yamilet Peña of the Dominican Republic did not have adequate time to warm up. Ergo, the vault final contained only seven gymnasts.

Uneven bars

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.533		15.033
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.500	8.300		14.800
scope=row style="text-align:center"			6.300	8.200		14.500
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		5.800	8.666		14.466
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		5.700	8.666		14.366
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		6.300	7.966		14.266
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		5.700	8.266		13.966
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		6.400	7.300		13.700

Balance beam

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	8.700		14.500
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.900	8.600		14.500
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	8.500		14.300
scope=row style="text-align:center"	4		5.900	8.366		14.266
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		5.600	8.533		14.133
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		5.800	7.700		13.500
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		5.800	7.566		13.366
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		5.900	4.566	0.1	10.366

Floor

Rank	Gymnast				Total
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	8.600		14.400
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.900	8.400	0.1	14.200
		5.600	8.466		14.066
scope=row style="text-align:center"			5.800	8.266		14.066
scope=row style="text-align:center"	5		5.600	8.366		13.966
scope=row style="text-align:center"	6		5.600	8.266		13.866
scope=row style="text-align:center"	7		5.600	8.233		13.833
scope=row style="text-align:center"	8		5.300	8.433		13.733

Rhythmic Gymnastics

Results of Qualifying and Final Competitions.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

Individual all-around

Qualification

Position	Gymnast	Ball	Penalty	Hoop	Penalty	Clubs	Penalty	Ribbon	Penalty	Total	Notes
1		27.375		28.700		26.900		26.500		109.475	Q
2		27.050		27.225	0.05	27.225		27.150		108.650	Q X
3		27.475	0.10	27.100	0.05	27.450		26.575	0.05	108.600	Q X
4		26.725	0.05	26.850		27.050		26.750		107.375	Q X
5		27.000		26.700	0.10	26.750	0.05	26.900		107.350	Q X
6		26.175	0.05	25.925		26.850		26.700		105.650	Q X
7		25.875		26.075		26.600		26.200	0.05	104.750	Q
8		25.575		25.175	0.05	25.600		25.600		101.950	Q
9		24.525		25.975		25.675		25.725	0.05	101.900	Q
10		25.200		25.500		25.200	0.10	25.025		100.925	Q
11		24.300		25.275		25.600		25.600		100.775
12		25.850	0.05	25.000		25.050		24.550		100.450
13		24.950		24.950		24.900		24.800		99.600
14		24.500		24.950		24.750	0.05	24.750		98.950
15		24.700		24.650		25.200		24.275		98.825
16		24.700		24.350		24.975		24.150		98.175
17		24.100		25.050		24.400		24.200		97.750
18		23.650		24.550		23.950		24.850		97.000
19		23.500		24.325		24.800		23.825		96.450
20		24.350		24.550		23.125		24.050		96.075
21		23.625		24.550		23.600		23.950		95.725
22		22.500	0.25	22.600	0.40	23.550	0.30	23.850		92.500
23		22.650		22.225		22.150	0.20	23.050		90.075
24		21.500		23.850	0.10	21.925	0.10	21.950	0.05	89.225
25		20.550	0.40	22.475		22.325	0.10	23.250		88.600

• Q = Qualified for Event Finals
• X = Qualified for an Olympic place^[11]

Finals

Position	Gymnast	Ball	Penalty	Hoop	Penalty	Clubs	Penalty	Ribbon	Penalty	Total	Notes
scope=row style="text-align:center"			28.150		28.600		26.100		27.600		110.450
scope=row style="text-align:center"			27.300	0.10	27.300		27.350		26.800		108.750
scope=row style="text-align:center"			26.700		27.025	0.05	27.050		27.300		108.075
4		27.050		26.800		27.000		26.550		107.400
5		26.800		26.450	0.10	26.750		26.550		106.550
6		26.450		25.650		26.800		26.500	0.05	105.400
7		26.450		26.200		26.150		26.350		105.150
8		25.300		25.650		25.850		24.850		101.650
9		25.200		25.600		25.650	0.05	25.150		101.600
10		25.600		24.400	0.05	25.100		25.750		100.850

Team all-around

Qualification

The top 4 teams in the qualification event qualified for the 2012 Olympics.

scope=col	Place !	scope=col	Nation !	scope=col	5 !	3 + 2	Total
scope=row	1		26.900 (1)	26.950 (1)	53.850
scope=row	2		26.850 (2)	26.400 (2)	53.250
scope=row	3		26.300 (3)	25.600 (3)	51.900
scope=row	4		25.850 (4)	25.275 (4)	51.125
scope=row	5		24.300 (6)	25.050 (5)	49.350
scope=row	6		24.750 (5)	24.400 (6)	49.150
scope=row	7		23.500 (7)	24.000 (7)	47.500
scope=row	8		23.100 (8)	21.850 (8)	44.950

Final

scope=col	Place !	scope=col	Nation !	scope=col	5 !	3 + 2	Total
scope=row			26.400 (1)	26.850 (1)	53.250
scope=row			24.775 (4)	25.750 (3)	50.525
scope=row			25.350 (3)	25.050 (5)	50.400
scope=row			24.775 (4)	25.625 (4)	50.400
scope=row	5		25.800 (2)	24.300 (6)	50.100
scope=row	6		23.850 (8)	25.800 (2)	49.650
scope=row	7		24.600 (6)	22.650 (8)	47.250
scope=row	8		24.100 (7)	23.100 (7)	47.200

Trampoline

Results of Qualifying and Final Competitions^[12]

Men

Qualification

Position	Athlete	Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	Notes
1		50.804	59.675	110.479	Q
2		50.590	58.680	109.270	Q
3		49.375	59.415	108.790	Q
4		48.869	57.500	106.369	Q X
5		48.420	56.750	105.170	Q X
6		48.710	56.760	104.470	Q X
7		48.560	55.180	103.740	Q X
8		47.750	55.980	103.730	Q
9		47.475	56.175	103.650	X
10		48.060	55.280	103.340	X
11		48.380	54.720	103.100	X
12		47.225	55.450	102.675
13		47.425	55.075	102.500
14		46.085	55.740	101.825
15		47.140	54.610	101.750
16		46.945	53.200	100.145

• Q = Qualified for Event Finals
• X = Qualified for an Olympic place^[13]

Finals

Position	Athlete	Difficulty	Execution	Time	Total	Notes
scope=row style="text-align:center"			17.1	26.3	17.975	61.375
scope=row style="text-align:center"			17.1	26.0	18.065	61.165
scope=row style="text-align:center"			16.6	26.1	18.085	60.785
4		16.0	24.8	17.275	58.075
5		16.0	24.2	17.065	57.265
6		15.4	24.7	16.455	56.555
7		16.6	22.5	17.020	56.120
8		15.2	22.7	16.405	54.305

Women

Qualification

Position	Athlete	Compulsory	Voluntary	Total	Notes
1		47.689	54.765	102.454	Q
2		46.880	54.695	101.575	Q
3		46.710	54.390	101.100	Q
4		47.665	53.125	100.780	Q X
5		46.800	53.285	100.085	Q X
6		46.130	53.235	99.365	Q X
7		46.290	52.955	99.245	Q X
8		46.120	52.535	98.655	Q X
9		45.745	52.275	98.020	X
10		45.485	52.110	97.595	X
11		46.365	50.930	97.295
12		44.040	50.810	94.850
13		44.830	49.875	94.705
14		44,715	48.945	93.660
15		45.265	48.245	93.510
16		47.615	44.170	91.785
17		25.705	49.115	74.820

• Q = Qualified for Event Finals
• X = Qualified for an Olympic place

Finals

Position	Athlete	Difficulty	Execution	Time	Total	Notes
scope=row style="text-align:center"			15.4	23.6	15.520	54.520
scope=row style="text-align:center"			14.0	24.2	15.850	54.050
scope=row style="text-align:center"			14.4	23.6	16.035	54.035
4		14.4	23.8	15.530	53.730
5		14.1	23.7	15.565	53.365
6		13.6	23.6	15.105	52.305
7		14.4	20.9	16.205	51.505
8		12.8	21.1	13.745	47.645

See also

• 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships
• 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
• 2011 Trampoline World Championships

Notes and References

1. http://londontest2012.fig-gymnastics.com/vsite/vfile/page/fileurl/0,11040,5251-205436-222659-174846-0-file,00.pdf
2. Web site: 2012 Visa International Gymnastics : News . https://archive.today/20130122234028/http://londontest2012.fig-gymnastics.com/vsite/vcontent/content/news/0,10869,5251-205403-222626-49201-315645-news-item,00.html . 22 January 2013 . dead.
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