Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's parallel bars
| Men's parallel bars at the Games of the XXX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | North Greenwich Arena 1 | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 28 July (qualifying) 7 August (final) | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 71 from 33 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 15.966 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics | ||
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| List of gymnasts Qualification | ||
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| Qualification | men | women |
| Team all-around | men | women |
| Individual all-around | men | women |
| Vault | men | women |
| Floor | men | women |
| Pommel horse | men | |
| Rings | men | |
| Parallel bars | men | |
| Horizontal bar | men | |
| Uneven bars | women | |
| Balance beam | women | |
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| Group all-around | women | |
| Individual all-around | women | |
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| Individual | men | women |
The men's parallel bars competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics was held at the North Greenwich Arena on 28 July and 7 August.[1] It included 71 competitors from 33 nations.[2]
Feng Zhe of China won the gold medal, his nation's second consecutive victory in the parallel bars competition and third overall. Marcel Nguyen's silver was the first medal for a German gymnast in the event since 1988. Hamilton Sabot won the bronze, France's first parallel bars medal.
The final included nine gymnasts instead of the standard eight after a tie for the last spot could not be resolved.
Background
[edit]This was the 23rd appearance of the parallel bars event at the Olympics. Only one of the eight finalists from 2008 returned: fourth-place finisher Fabian Hambüchen of Germany. Danell Leyva of the United States was the reigning world champion; Feng Zhe of China had won the world championship in 2010 and finished second in 2011. Marcel Nguyen of Germany was a two-time European champion.[2]
Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Slovakia, and Vietnam each made their debut in the men's parallel bars. The United States made its 21st appearance, the most of any nation.
Competition format
[edit]The top eight competitors in the qualification phase (with a limit of two per country) advanced to the apparatus final. Qualification scores were then erased, with only final-round scores counting.[3]
Kōhei Uchimura finished fifth in the qualifying round but did not advance because two other Japanese competitors, Kazuhito and Yusuke Tanaka, placed first and second. With Uchimura ineligible, the ninth-place gymnast would advance, but there was a tie. The normal tie-breakers were unable to separate Zhang Chenglong and Hamilton Sabot, so both advanced.
Final results
[edit]| Rank | Gymnast | Nation | D Score | E Score | Pen. | Total |
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Feng Zhe |  China |
7.000 | 8.966 | 15.966 | |
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Marcel Nguyen |  Germany |
6.800 | 9.000 | 15.800 | |
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Hamilton Sabot |  France |
6.700 | 8.866 | 15.566 | |
| 4 | Kazuhito Tanaka |  Japan |
8.800 | 15.500 | ||
| 5 | Daniel Corral |  Mexico |
6.600 | 8.733 | 15.333 | |
| 6 | Emin Garibov |  Russia |
6.500 | 8.800 | 15.300 | |
| Vasileios Tsolakidis |  Greece |
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| 8 | Yusuke Tanaka | Japan |
6.400 | 8.700 | 15.100 | |
| 9 | Zhang Chenglong | China |
6.300 | 7.508 | 13.808 |
References
[edit]- ^ Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics Archived 2012-09-18 at archive.today
- ^ a b "Parallel Bars, Men". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
- ^ Format Competition – Artistic Gymnastic Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
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