Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse
| Men's pommel horse at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | HSBC Arena | ||||||||||||
| Date | 14 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 8 from 6 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 15.966 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Gymnastics at the 2016 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 pommel horse competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.
The medals were presented by Bernard Rajzman IOC member, Brazil and Luo Chaoyi, 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
The gymnasts who ranked top eight qualified for final round. In case of there were more than two gymnasts in same NOC, the last ranked among them would not qualify to final round. The next best ranked gymnast would qualify instead.
| Rank | Name | Difficulty | Execution | Penalty | Total | Qualification |
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| 1 |  Max Whitlock (GBR)
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7.100 | 8.700 | 15.800 | Q | |
| 2 | Louis Smith (GBR)
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6.900 | 8.800 | 15.700 | Q | |
| 3 |  Cyril Tommasone (FRA)
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6.900 | 8.750 | 15.650 | Q | |
| 4 |  Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM)
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6.700 | 8.883 | 15.583 | Q | |
| 5 |  Oleg Verniaiev (UKR)
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7.000 | 8.566 | 15.566 | Q | |
| 6 |  Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS)
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6.700 | 8.683 | 15.383 | Q | |
| 7 |  Alexander Naddour (USA)
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6.600 | 8.766 | 15.366 | Q | |
| 8 | David Belyavskiy (RUS)
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6.600 | 8.700 | 15.300 | Q | |
| 9 |  Vid Hidvégi (HUN)
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6.400 | 8.833 | 15.233 | R1 | |
| 10 |  Andrey Likhovitskiy (BLR)
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6.600 | 8.633 | 15.233 | R2 | |
| 11 |  Lin Chaopan (CHN)
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6.300 | 8.733 | 15.033 | R3 |
Final
| Rank | Name | Difficulty | Execution | Penalty | Total |
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Max Whitlock (GBR) |
7.200 | 8.766 | 15.966 | |
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Louis Smith (GBR) |
6.900 | 8.933 | 15.833 | |
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Alexander Naddour (USA) |
6.800 | 8.900 | 15.700 | |
| 4 | Cyril Tommasone (FRA) |
6.900 | 8.700 | 15.600 | |
| 5 | David Belyavskiy (RUS) |
6.600 | 8.800 | 15.400 | |
| 6 | Nikolai Kuksenkov (RUS) |
6.800 | 8.433 | 15.233 | |
| 7 | Harutyun Merdinyan (ARM) |
6.400 | 8.533 | 14.933 | |
| 8 | Oleg Verniaiev (UKR) |
5.700 | 6.700 | 12.400 |
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