2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition explained

Event:	2020 Friendship & Solidarity Competition
Venue:	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Location:	Tokyo, Japan
Dates:	November 8, 2020
Gold:	Team Solidarity
Silver:	Team Friendship

The 2020 Friendship and Solidarity Competition was an artistic gymnastics competition hosted by the International Gymnastics Federation and held in Tokyo, Japan on November 8, 2020. The competition implemented strict COVID-19 safety protocols that could serve as a foundation for holding the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games slated to begin July 23, 2021.

Background

After the COVID-19 pandemic caused the mass majority of competitions in 2020 to be canceled and the 2020 Summer Olympics to be postponed until 2021, the FIG organized this event as a showcase of international camaraderie "at a time when unity has never seemed more important". A primary goal of the competition was to prove that staging a high-profile event in Tokyo is possible in the current context of the ongoing pandemic.^[1]

Participants

Gymnasts from Japan, China, Russia, and the United States participated in the competition. Each federation was allowed to send eight athletes, 4 men and 4 women, although the United States opted to only send six athletes.

WAG	MAG	WAG	MAG	WAG	MAG	WAG	MAG
Hitomi Hatakeda Chiaki Hatakeda Asuka Teramoto	Yuya Kamoto Kazuma Kaya	Liu Jieyu Lu Yufei Zhang Jin	Ma Yue Shi Cong Yin Dehang	Elena Gerasimova Angelina Melnikova Yana Vorona	Dmitriy Lankin Alexy Rostov	Sophia Butler eMjae Frazier	Paul Juda

^[2]

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
	Team Solidarity	Team Friendship

Team scores

Only the top 3 scores per apparatus counted towards the team's total score.^[3]

Rank	Team									Total
	Team Solidarity	81.000	42.400	43.600	87.600	43.600	42.800	39.700	41.900	423.600
								12.400	13.700
		12.500			14.700			13.300	14.400
		13.000			14.200			12.800	13.800
		12.600			13.400			11.400	12.800
								12.900	12.800
		12.600			14.400			13.500
					14.400				11.600
					14.800				12.000
				14.400
			14.200	13.400		14.100
		14.200	14.000	13.900	14.000	14.800	14.400
		13.200	13.300		14.500		15.200
		14.400		14.500	14.600	11.400
		14.200	14.200	14.700	14.600	14.700	14.200
		13.800	13.400	13.000	14.400	13.200	11.500
	Team Friendship	82.300	42.800	43.400	85.100	43.300	41.000	42.800	40.600	421.300
		12.900			13.300			13.300	12.100
		13.100			13.600			14.400	12.500
		12.700			13.900			13.900	13.700
		13.200			13.700			13.500	12.200
		13.400			14.700			14.500	14.100
		12.800			14.300				12.800
		12.400			13.500				12.500
		13.300	12.200	13.500			13.400
		14.300	13.800	14.700			12.700
				14.200		14.600	13.300
		14.100	14.800	14.100	14.200	14.700	14.300
			13.200	14.500	14.100	12.900	12.900
		13.400	13.100	13.900	13.900		13.000
			14.200			14.000	12.100
		14.200	12.700			14.000	12.700

Notes and References

1. Web site: Top gymnasts gather for 'Friendship and Solidarity' meet on Olympic Channel. NBC Sports. November 4, 2020.
2. Web site: Uchimura Kohei to compete in Japan's first coronavirus-era international sporting event next month. Olympic Channel. October 12, 2020.
3. https://usagym.org/PDFs/Results/2020/mw_20solidarity.pdf Team final