Venue HSBC Arena Competitors 8 from 6 nations | Date 14 August 2016 Winning score 15.966 | |
The Men's pommel horse competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.
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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.
References
Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's pommel horse Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA