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Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic qualification

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Qualifications for Men's artistic gymnastic competitions at the 2008 Summer Olympics was held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 9. The results of the qualification determined the qualifiers to the finals: 8 teams in the team final, 24 gymnasts in the all-around final, and 8 gymnasts in each of 6 apparatus finals. The competition was divided to 3 subdivisions. The first subdivision took place at 12:00 China Standard Time (UTC+8); the second and third subdivision took place at 16:00 CST and 20:00 CST respectively.

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All Around Qualification

Only two gymnasts from each country may advance to the All Around Final. Therefore, in some cases, a third gymnast placed high enough to qualify, but did not advance to the final because of the quota. Gymnasts who did not advance to the Final, but had high enough scores to do so were:

  •  Hiroyuki Tomita (JPN) (6th place)
  •  Yury Ryazanov (RUS) (17th place)
  •  Yang Tae Young (KOR) (22nd place)
  •  Dimitri Karbanenko (FRA) (Reserve)
  • Reserves

    The reserves for the All Around Final are

  •  Alexandr Shatilov (ISR) (29th place)
  •  Matteo Morandi (ITA) (31st place)
  •  Daniel Popescu (ROU) (32nd place)
  •  Denis Savenkov (BLR) (33rd place)
  • Reserves

    The reserves for the Floor event final are

  •  Kim Soo-myun (KOR) (9th place: 6.700 A, 8.875 B, 15.575 Total)
  •  Rafael Martínez (ESP) (10th place: 6.400 A, 9.150 B, 15.550 Total)
  •  Kyle Shewfelt (CAN) (11th place: 6.500 A, 9.025 B, 15.525 Total)
  • Reserves

    The reserves for the vault event final are

  •  Kyle Shewfelt (CAN) (6.600 A, 9.750 B)
  •  Fabian Hambuechen (GER) (6.600 A, 9.700 B)
  •  Vlasios Maras (GRE) (6.600 A, 9.425 B, 0.100 Penalty)
  • Subdivision 2

  •  China
  • Mixed team 4
  • Róbert Gál  Hungary
  • Filip Ude  Croatia
  • Martin Konecni  Czech Republic
  • Diego Hypólito  Brazil
  •  Canada
  •  Russia
  •  Japan
  •  France
  • Subdivision 3

  •  Belarus
  • Mixed team 5
  • Mitja Petkovšek  Slovenia
  • Valery Goncharov  Ukraine
  • Alexander Vorobyev  Ukraine
  • Koen Van Damme  Belgium
  •  South Korea
  •  Germany
  • Mixed team 1
  • Sascha Palgen  Luxembourg
  • Yordan Yovchev  Bulgaria
  • José Luis Fuentes  Venezuela
  • Luis Rivera Rivera  Puerto Rico
  • Samuel Simpson  Australia
  •  Romania
  • References

    Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic qualification Wikipedia