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Gymnastics At The 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's Vault
The men's vault (gymnastics), vault event at the 2024 Summer Olympics was held on 27 July and 4 August 2024 at the Accor Arena (referred to as the Bercy Arena due to IOC sponsorship rules). Unlike the other apparatus events, the vault requires gymnasts to perform two exercises in order for results to count towards the vault final; most of the gymnasts perform only one (if they are participating in team or individual all-around) or none (if they are participating in only other apparatus). 18 gymnasts from 16 nations (of the 318 total gymnasts) competed in the two-exercise vault in the qualifying round. Background This was the 26th appearance of the event, which is one of the five apparatus events held every time there were apparatus events at the Summer Olympics (no apparatus events were held in 1900, 1908, 1912, or 1920). Competition format The top 8 qualifiers in the Gymnastics at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's artistic qualification, qualification phase (limit two per N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahdi Olfati
Mahdi Olfati (; born 6 March 2001) is an Iranian artistic gymnast. He qualified to represent Iran at the 2024 Summer Olympics through the 2024 FIG World Cup series. He finished seventh in the Olympic vault final. At the 2022 Asian Games, he won a silver medal on the vault. This was the first time an Iranian gymnast won a medal at the Asian Games. Career Olfati began gymnastics when he was seven years old and joined the Iranian national team in 2017. At the 2017 Junior Asian Championships, he finished eighth on the vault. He placed ninth in the all-around at the 2018 Junior Asian Championships. Olfati finished sixth in the vault final at the 2021 Doha World Cup. He competed with the Iranian team that finished seventh at the 2022 Asian Championships. Olfati won a silver medal on the vault at the 2023 Cottbus World Cup. He also competed at the 2023 World Cups in Doha and Baku, finishing eighth and fourth on the vault, respectively. He then represented Iran at the 2022 Asia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artistic Gymnastics At The Summer Olympics
Gymnastics events have been contested at every Summer Olympic Games since the birth of the modern Olympic movement at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. For 32 years, only men were allowed to compete. Beginning at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam, women were allowed to compete in artistic gymnastics events as well. Rhythmic gymnastics events were introduced at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and trampoline events were added at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Summary Artistic gymnastics Men's events Past events * Rope climbing: 1896, 1904, 1924, 1932 * Free system, Team: 1912, 1920 * Swedish system, Team: 1912, 1920 * Sidehorse vault: 1924 Only at the 1896 Summer Olympics: * Horizontal bar, Team * Parallel bars, Team Only at the 1904 Summer Olympics: * Club swinging * Combined * Triathlon Only at the 1932 Summer Olympics: * Indian clubs * Tumbling Women's events Past events * Team, portable apparatus: 1952, 1956 Medal table ''(1896– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gymnastics At The 2024 Summer Olympics
Gymnastics competitions at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris were contested in three categories: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The artistic (27 July to 5 August) and trampoline (2 August) events occurred at the Accor Arena (referred to as the Bercy Arena due to IOC sponsorship rules), with the rhythmic events staged at Adidas Arena, Porte de La Chapelle Arena from 8 to 10 August. Qualification The qualification pathway for the 2024 Summer Olympics is significantly simplified and modified from those in 2020. In the artistic team event, a maximum of five gymnasts will be eligible to participate as opposed to the four per team and two individuals who competed in 2020 Summer Olympics, Tokyo 2020. Three teams who finish on the podium qualify for the Olympics through the 2022 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Liverpool with a large proportion of quota places distributed at the same meet in Antwerp, Belgium by the following year. The 2024 World Cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Mohamed (gymnast)
Omar Mohamed Fathy (, born 10 February 1999) is an Egyptian artistic gymnast. He is a four-time African all-around champion (2018, 2021, 2023, 2024), and he competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. Career 2017–18 Mohamed made his World Championships debut in 2017 and finished 59th in the all-around during the qualification round. Mohamed competed at the 2018 Stella Zakharova Cup and finished fourth on the pommel horse, fifth on the vault, and sixth on the parallel bars. He won the all-around gold medal at the 2018 African Championships, and the Egyptian team won the silver medal behind Algeria. In the event finals, he won gold on the floor exercise, silver on the vault, and bronze on the parallel bars. He then represented Egypt at the 2018 Mediterranean Games, finished seventh with his teammates. 2019–21 At the 2019 Voronin Cup, Mohamed won a silver medal on the parallel bars and placed fourth on the horizontal bar. Mohamed finished seventh in the parallel b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rayderley Zapata
Miguel Rayderley Zapata Santana (born 26 May 1993) is a Spanish- Domincan artistic gymnast. He is the 2020 Olympic silver medalist on the floor exercise. He is also the 2015 World bronze medalist and the 2015 European Games champion on the floor exercise. He also competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and at the 2024 Summer Olympics, where he finished seventh on the floor exercise. Early life Born in the Dominican Republic, his family moved to the Spanish island of Lanzarote when he was a child. Later, in 2010, he moved to Barcelona to receive further training with Gervasio Deferr and Víctor Cano. Career 2014–15 At the 2014 Cottbus World Cup, Zapata won his first FIG World Cup medal- a bronze on the vault. He finished eighth on the floor exercise at the 2014 World Championships. After the World Championships, he competed at the Mexican Open and placed tenth in the all-around. At the 2015 European Championships, Zapata initially placed sixth in the floor exercis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audrys Nin Reyes
Audrys Nin Reyes (born 2 January 1995) is a Dominican artistic gymnast. He is the 2019 and 2023 Pan American Games vault champion. He was the first Dominican gymnast to win a gold medal at the Pan American Games. He was also the first Dominican gymnast to win a gold medal at an FIG World Cup event when he won the vault title at the 2017 Osijek World Challenge Cup. He is the 2017 Pan American vault and horizontal bar champion and the 2017 Universiade vault champion. He is also the 2018 and 2023 Central American and Caribbean Games vault champion. He has qualified to represent the Dominican Republic at the 2024 Summer Olympics, the first male gymnast from his country to do so. Gymnastics career Nin Reyes grew up playing baseball and basketball, and he began gymnastics when he was 11 years old. He moved to Santo Domingo to train shortly afterward. At the junior level, Nin Reyes won the bronze medal on the vault at the 2012 Pan American Championships. He also placed 18th in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Penev
Kevin Penev (born 30 March 2000) is an American-born Bulgarian artistic gymnast. He represented Bulgaria at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early life Penev was born in 2000 in New York. His parents, Yulia Hristova and Marian Penev, both represented Bulgaria at international gymnastics competitions. His older brother Eddie Penev also competed for the United States and Bulgaria in gymnastics. Career Penev competed for the University of Michigan gymnastics team in 2019. He tied for second place on the floor exercise at the Big Ten Championships. Penev and his brother Eddie announced they would begin competing for Bulgaria in 2023. His nationality change was approved by the International Gymnastics Federation The International Gymnastics Federation ( French: ''Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique'', abbr. FIG) is the body governing competition in all disciplines of gymnastics. Its headquarters is in Lausanne, Switzerland. It was founded on 23 ... in May 2023. He was sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shek Wai Hung
Shek Wai Hung (; born 10 October 1991) is an artistic gymnast from Hong Kong. He is the current Asian Games champion on vault. Gymnastics career Shek started gymnast training at the age of six. In 2008, Shek participated in the Pacific Rim Gymnastics Championships, where he won a gold medal in the junior vault final. At the 2010 Asian Games, Shek placed eighth in the individual all-around, and sixth on vault. In 2011, Shek participated in the World Championships in Tokyo, Japan, where he qualified fourth with an average score of 16.237 into the vault final – the first time ever for a Hong Kong gymnast to qualify into an event final at World Championships level. He came seventh in the final, having taken a big step forward on his first vault, with an average score of 15.950. Shek qualified to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the United Kingdom via the Olympic Test Event in January that year. There, he finished 12th in the all-around qualification with a score of 86.482. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casimir Schmidt
Casimir Schmidt (born 31 October 1995) is a Dutch artistic gymnast. He won the silver medal on the vault at the 2015 European Games. He is a four-time Dutch national all-around champion (2013, 2019, 2023–24). He represented the Netherlands at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Early life Schmidt was born on 31 October 1995 to parents Gerard and Loes. His older sister, Annabelle, competed in gymnastics and began teaching Casimir back flips in the backyard, leading to Casimir eventually competing in gymnastics too. Career Schmidt won a gold medal on the vault at the 2012 Junior European Championships, and he also finished 14th in the all-around. He began competing in senior international competitions in 2013 and won his first senior national all-around title. That year, he also made his World Championships debut, finishing 18th in the all-around final. Schmidt won a gold medal on the floor exercise at the 2014 Ljubljana World Challenge Cup and also won a bronze medal on the vault. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wataru Tanigawa
is a Japanese artistic gymnast. He won a gold medal with the Japanese team at the 2024 Summer Olympics and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics. At the 2022 World Championships, he won a silver medal in the team event and a bronze medal in the all-around. He also won team bronze medals at the 2018 and 2019 World Championships. He is also the 2022 Asian Games vault champion and a two-time World University Games champion. Early and personal life Tanigawa started gymnastics at age six at Kenshin Sports Club in Funabashi, Japan. His younger brother, Kakeru, also represents Japan at international gymnastics competitions. He studied sports science at Juntendo University in Tokyo. Career Tanigawa won a silver medal on the vault at the 2015 Osijek World Challenge Cup behind Ukraine's Igor Radivilov. Then at the 2016 Anadia World Challenge Cup, Tanigawa won a silver medal on the floor exercise behind Alexander Shatilov and the bronze medal on the vault. 2017 Tanigawa wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Jun-ho (gymnast)
Lee Jun-ho (; born 22 October 1995) is a South Korean male artistic gymnast who represented South Korea at the 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games. He won a bronze medal in the team competition at the 2018 Asian Games. He is a three-time Asian Championships bronze medalist. Early life Lee was born in 1995 in Seoul. He began gymnastics when he was ten years old. Career At the 2012 Asian Championships, Lee won a bronze medal on the floor exercise behind Kenzō Shirai and Kim Han-sol. He represented South Korea at the 2015 Summer Universiade and helped the team win the silver medal behind Japan. Then at the 2015 Asian Championships, he won a bronze medal with the South Korean team and on the horizontal bar. He made his World Championships debut in 2015 where South Korea placed seventh in the team final. Lee competed at the 2016 Glasgow World Cup and placed ninth in the all-around. He represented South Korea at the 2018 Asian Games and helped the team win the bronze medal beh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
