Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse

{{Infobox Olympic event

| event = Men's pommel horse

| games = 2020 Summer

| image = File:Gymnastics (artistic) pictogram.svg

| caption = Olympic artistic gymnastics

| venue = Ariake Gymnastics Centre

| date = 24 July 2021 (qualifying)
1 August 2021 (final)

| competitors = 8

| nations = 7

| win_value = 15.583 points

| win_label = Winning score

| gold = Max Whitlock

| goldNOC = GBR

| silver = Lee Chih-kai

| silverNOC = TPE

| bronze = Kazuma Kaya

| bronzeNOC = JPN

| prev = 2016

| next = 2024

}}

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The men's pommel horse event at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held on 24 July and 1 August 2021 at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre.{{cite web|url=https://tokyo2020.org/en/schedule/artistic-gymnastics-schedule |title=Artistic Gymnastics Competition Schedule |publisher=Tokyo 2020 |accessdate=3 December 2020 }} Approximately 70 gymnasts from 35 nations (of the 98 total gymnasts) competed on pommel horse in the qualifying round.{{cite web |url = https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/rules/files/en_Olympic%20Qualification%20System%20Tokyo%202020%20ART.pdf |title = Qualification System – Games of the XXXII Olympiad – Artistic Gymnastics |publisher = International Gymnastics Federation |accessdate = 30 November 2020}}

Defending champion Max Whitlock of Great Britain repeated as Olympic champion to win his third Olympic title and sixth Olympic medal overall. Chinese Taipei's Lee Chih-kai won silver to earn Chinese Taipei's first Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics. Kazuma Kaya of Japan completed the podium with bronze, moving up from seventh in qualifications.

Background

This was the 25th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920).

Qualification

A National Olympic Committee (NOC) could enter up to 6 qualified gymnasts: a team of 4 and up to 2 specialists. A total of 98 quota places are allocated to men's gymnastics.

The 12 teams that qualify will be able to send 4 gymnasts in the team competition, for a total of 48 of the 98 quota places. The top three teams at the 2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (China, Russia, and Japan) and the top nine teams (excluding those already qualified) at the 2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Ukraine, Great Britain, Switzerland, the United States, Chinese Taipei, South Korea, Brazil, Spain, and Germany) earned team qualification places.

The remaining 50 quota places are awarded individually. Each gymnast can only earn one place, except that gymnasts that competed with a team that qualified are eligible to earn a second place through the 2020 All Around World Cup Series. Some of the individual events are open to gymnasts from NOCs with qualified teams, while others are not. These places are filled through various criteria based on the 2019 World Championships, the 2020 FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series, continental championships, a host guarantee, and a Tripartite Commission invitation.

Each of the 98 qualified gymnasts are eligible for the pommel horse competition, but many gymnasts do not compete in each of the apparatus events.

The COVID-19 pandemic delayed many of the events for qualifying for gymnastics. The 2018 and 2019 World Championships were completed on time, but many of the World Cup series events were delayed into 2021.

Competition format

The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC) advanced to the apparatus final. The finalists performed an additional exercise. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting.

Schedule

The competition was held over two days, 24 July and 1 August. The qualifying round (for all men's gymnastics events) was the first day with the apparatus final on the second day.

class="wikitable" ! Date ! Time ! Round ! Subdivision
rowspan=3\|24 July	10:00	rowspan=3\|Qualification	Subdivision 1
14:30	Subdivision 2
19:30	Subdivision 3
style=background:lemonchiffon \| 1 August	18:41	Final	–
colspan=4 align=center \| All times are local time (UTC+09:00).

Results

=Qualifying=

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style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable sortable"

! scope="col" style="width:15px;" | Rank

! scope="col" style="width:200px;" | Gymnast

! scope="col" style="width:50px;" | {{Tooltip|D Score|Difficulty}}

! scope="col" style="width:50px;" | {{Tooltip|E Score|Execution}}

! scope="col" style="width:20px;" | {{Tooltip|Pen.|Penalty}}

! scope="col" style="width:50px;" | Total

! scope="col" style="width:30px;" | {{Tooltip|Qual.|Results}}

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 1{{efn|name=Tiebreak01a}}

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Lee Chih-kai|TPE|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 8.866

| rowspan=3 | 15.266

| Q

rowspan=2 scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 2{{efn|name=Tiebreak01a}}

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Rhys McClenaghan|IRL|2020 Summer}}

| rowspan=2 | 6.5

| rowspan=2 | 8.766

| Q

style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Kohei Kameyama|JPN|2020 Summer}}

| Q

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 4

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Alec Yoder|USA|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 8.800

| 15.200

| Q

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 5

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Max Whitlock|GBR|2020 Summer}}

| 6.8

| 8.100

| 14.900

| Q

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 6

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Sun Wei|CHN|2020 Summer}}

| 6.3

| 8.533

| 14.833

| Q

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 7

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Kazuma Kaya|JPN|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 8.433

| 14.833

| Q

style="background:#cccccc;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 8

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Daiki Hashimoto|JPN|2020 Summer}}

| 6.5

| 8.266

| 14.766

| –

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 9

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|David Belyavskiy|ROC|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 8.333

| 14.733

| Q

style="background:#cccc99;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 10

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Matvei Petrov|ALB|2020 Summer}}

| 6.5

| 8.233

| 14.733

| R1

style="background:#cccc99;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 11

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Joe Fraser|GBR|2020 Summer}}

| 6.3

| 8.366

| 14.666

| R2

style="background:#cccc99;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 12

| style="height:30px; text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Zou Jingyuan|CHN|2020 Summer}}

| 5.9

| 8.700

| 14.600

| R3

; Reserves

The reserves for the men's pommel horse final were:

{{flagIOCathlete|Matvei Petrov|ALB|2020 Summer}}
{{flagIOCathlete|Joe Fraser|GBR|2020 Summer}}
{{flagIOCathlete|Zou Jingyuan|CHN|2020 Summer}}

Only two gymnasts from each country may advance to the event final. Gymnasts who did not qualify for the final because of the quota, but had high enough scores to do so were:

{{flagIOCathlete|Daiki Hashimoto|JPN|2020 Summer}}

= Final =

style="text-align:center;" class="wikitable sortable"

! scope="col" style="width:15px;" | Rank

! scope="col" style="width:175px;" | Gymnast

! scope="col" style="width:50px;" | {{Tooltip|D Score|Difficulty}}

! scope="col" style="width:50px;" | {{Tooltip|E Score|Execution}}

! scope="col" style="width:20px;" | {{Tooltip|Pen.|Penalty}}

! scope="col" style="width:50px;" | Total

style="background:#fffcaf;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | {{Gold01}}

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Max Whitlock|GBR|2020 Summer}}

| 7.0

| 8.583

| 15.583

style="background:#e5e5e5;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | {{Silver02}}

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Lee Chih-kai|TPE|2020 Summer}}

| 6.7

| 8.700

| 15.400

style="background:#ec9;"

| scope="row" style="text-align:center" | {{Bronze03}}

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Kazuma Kaya|JPN|2020 Summer}}

| 6.6

| 8.300

| 14.900

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 4

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|David Belyavskiy|ROC|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 8.433

| 14.833

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 5

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Kohei Kameyama|JPN|2020 Summer}}

| 6.8

| 7.800

| 14.600

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 6

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Alec Yoder|USA|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 8.166

| 14.566

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 7

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Rhys McClenaghan|IRL|2020 Summer}}

| 6.4

| 6.700

| 13.100

scope="row" style="text-align:center" | 8

| style="text-align:left;" | {{flagIOCathlete|Sun Wei|CHN|2020 Summer}}

| 6.3

| 6.766

| 13.066

{{cite web|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GAR/OG2020-_GAR_C73I_GARM1APPH-------------FNL---------.pdf|title=Artistic Gymnastics: Men's Pommel Horse Final – Results|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=1 August 2021|archive-date=1 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801103142/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GAR/OG2020-_GAR_C73I_GARM1APPH-------------FNL---------.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Notes

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{{efn|name=Tiebreak01a| The top three on pommel horse all had a total score of 15.266 points, but in accordance with the FIG's tie-breaking criteria,{{cite web|url=https://www.gymnastics.sport/publicdir/rules/files/en_Technical%20Regulations%202021%20changes.pdf|title=Technical Regulations 2020 (amended, valid until 31.12.2021)|publisher=International Gymnastics Federation|accessdate=28 July 2021|quote=Qualification for Apparatus Finals
In case of a tie in points, at any place on any apparatus, except for vault, in qualification for Apparatus Finals, the ranking will be determined by the following criteria:
1. the gymnast with the highest E-score prevails
2. the gymnast with the highest D-score prevails
If they remain tied, the gymnasts will share the same classification }} Lee Chih-kai was placed first due to his E-score (8.866) being higher than that of the other two gymnasts, Rhys McClenaghan and Kohei Kameyama (8.766). McClenaghan and Kameyama had identical D-scores of 6.5, and were thus tied in second place.{{cite web|url=https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GAR/OG2020-_GAR_C73A_GARM------------------QUAL--------.pdf|title=Artistic Gymnastics: Men's Qualification – Results|publisher=International Olympic Committee|access-date=24 July 2021|archive-date=24 July 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210724153627/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/resOG2020-/pdf/OG2020-/GAR/OG2020-_GAR_C73A_GARM------------------QUAL--------.pdf|url-status=dead}}}}

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References

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Men's pommel horse

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