2012 Olympic Test Event

2012 Olympic Test Event RESULTS! Men's Qualification

2012 Olympic Test Event RESULTS! Men's Qualification

Jan 10, 2012 by FloGymnastics Admin
2012 Olympic Test Event RESULTS! Men's Qualification


The first day of competition at the 2012 Olympic gymnastics Test Event, the final qualifier for the 2012 London Olympics, has just concluded! The men got things started this morning in London with much on the line.

Results are in! The four additional countries who have officially qualifed full teams to the 2012 Olympic Games are: Great Britain, France, Spain, and Italy!

The British men dominated today's competition, securing the lead by nearly eight points! This is the first time Great Britain has qualified a full men's team to an Olympic Games since 1992. Big sigh of relief for the host country to have successfully qualifed a full team for both men and women.

Final Results:
Team Results:
1. GREAT BRITAIN, 358.227
2. FRANCE 350.659
3. SPAIN, 247.292
4.. ITALY 346.334
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5. CANADA 345.892
6. BRAZIL 345.152
7. PUERTO RICO, 340.092
8. BELARUS 335.824 

As a reminder, these 8 countries previously qualified full teams for the 2012 Olympics during the 2011 World Championships in Tokyo: China, Japan, USA, Russia, Ukraine, Korea, Germany, and Romania.


All Around Results:
1. Daniel Purvis, GBR, 89.948
2. Kristian Thomas, GBR, 89.132
3. Daniel Keatings, GBR, 89.015
4. Daniel Corral, Mexico, 88.465 
5. Cyril Tommasone, France, 87.631
6. Tomas Gonzalez, Chile, 87.456
7. Andrey Likhovitskiy, Belarus, 87.164 
8. Fabian Gonzalez, Spain, 87.031
9. Sergio Sasaki, Brazil, 86.898 
10. Matteo Morandi, Italy, 86.799

View the event finals qualifiers here.
View the Full Results

More:
- Meet recap from British Gymnastics
- Gym Examiner Live Blog

Here is Cyril Tommasone of France on pommel horse in today's competition. Video provided by the FIG. Click the link below the video to watch more from London! 

Watch more video of 2012 Olympic Test Event on gymnastike.org