Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's floor

The Men's floor competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.

Men's floor at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	HSBC Arena
Date	14 August 2016
Competitors	12 from 8 nations
Winning score	15.633
Medalists
Max Whitlock  Great Britain Diego Hypólito  Brazil Arthur Mariano  Brazil

The medals were presented by Sir Philip Craven IOC member, Great Britain and Steve Butcher, FIG Men's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee President.

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

Main article: Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic qualification

The gymnasts who ranked in the top eight qualified for the final round. If there were more than two gymnasts in same NOC, the last ranked among them would not qualify for the final round, and the next best ranked gymnast would qualify instead.

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total	Qualification
1	Sam Mikulak (USA)	6.800	9.000		15.800	Q
2	Jacob Dalton (USA)	6.700	8.900		15.600
3	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	6.900	8.633		15.533
4	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	6.800	8.700		15.500*
	Max Whitlock (GBR)
6	Kenzō Shirai (JPN)	7.600	7.833	−0.1	15.333
7	Kristian Thomas (GBR)	6.200	9.033		15.233*
8	Yūsuke Tanaka (JPN)	6.300	8.933			2 per NOC**
9	Arthur Mariano (BRA)	6.400	8.800		15.200*	Q
10	Manrique Larduet (CUB)	6.500	8.700			R1
11	Rayderley Zapata (ESP)	6.700	8.383		15.083	R2
12	Benjamin Gischard (SUI)	6.400	8.666		15.066	R3

*When two athletes record the same total score, the one with the higher execution score finishes ahead. If the execution score is the same, then the one with the higher D-score finishes ahead. If the D-score is also the same, then they finish tied.

**Yūsuke Tanaka of Japan was skipped even though he qualified within the top eight because of the strict “two per country” (2 per NOC) rule in individual apparatus finals, and Shirai and Uchimura had already placed ahead of Tanaka.

Final

Rank	Name	Difficulty	Execution	Penalty	Total
	Max Whitlock (GBR)	6.800	8.833		15.633
	Diego Hypólito (BRA)	6.800	8.733		15.533
	Arthur Mariano (BRA)	6.700	8.733		15.433
4	Kenzō Shirai (JPN)	7.600	7.766		15.366
5	Kōhei Uchimura (JPN)	6.900	8.641	−0.3	15.241
6	Jacob Dalton (USA)	6.700	8.433		15.133
7	Kristian Thomas (GBR)	6.200	8.858		15.058
8	Sam Mikulak (USA)	6.600	7.833	−0.1	14.333

Crowd Controversy

Max Whitlock of Great Britain was a somewhat unexpected winner. Kenzō Shirai of Japan, the two-time and reigning world champion on floor, was the overwhelming favorite owing to the extremely high difficulty of his routine and excellent execution. But on this occasion Shirai had problems with his landings on three of his six passes. In separate interviews after the competition, both Shirai and American Sam Mikulak, who was the top qualifier but finished in last place, expressed disappointment with the crowd, whose booing and jeering had grown increasingly loud during non-Brazilian routines as the competition went on. Whitlock had avoided this due to his early draw in the final performance.