Qualifications for women's artistic gymnastic competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics were held at the North Greenwich Arena on July 29. 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 4 apparatus finals. The competition is divided to 5 subdivisions. The first subdivision took place at 09:30 British Summer Time (UTC+1); followed by the second, third, fourth and fifth subdivisions at 11:15, 14:45, 16:30 and 20:00 BST respectively.
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Subdivisions
Gymnasts from nations taking part in the team all-round event are grouped together while the other gymnasts are grouped into one of eight mixed groups. The groups were divided into the five subdivisions after a draw held by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique. The groups rotate through each of the four apparatuses together.
Reserves
The reserves for the individual all-around event final are
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:
Reserves
The reserves for the vault event final are
Reserves
The reserves for the bars event final were
Huang Qiushuang ranked 7th, but did not qualify due to the 'two per country' rule as two of her teammates qualified ahead of her. Similarly, Jordyn Wieber (USA) did not qualify as the third reserve due to her teammates Gabby Douglas and Kyla Ross gaining higher scores in the preliminary round.
Reserves
The reserves for the beam event final are
Kyla Ross and Anastasia Grishina ranked ahead of the qualifiers, but cannot compete because of the two-per-country rule. Similarly, Larisa Iordache (ROU), Aliya Mustafina (RUS), Jordyn Wieber (USA) and Sandra Izbaşa (ROU) ranked 11th, joint 12th and 14th respectively but did not qualify as Reserves for this final due to teammates ranked above them.
Reserves
The reserves for the floor event final were
Diana Chelaru (ROU) ranked 10th ahead of Marta Pihan-Kulesza but did not qualify as a reserve due to two of her Romanian teammates qualifying ahead of her.