Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, three gymnastics disciplines were contested: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline. The artistic gymnastics events were held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 9–19. The rhythmic gymnastics events were held at the Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium on August 21–24. The trampoline events were also held at the Beijing National Indoor Stadium on August 16–19.

Competition schedule All times are China Standard Time (UTC+8)

Artistic gymnastics Date Time EventSaturday, August 9, 2008 12:00 - 14:00 Men's Qualification - Subdivision 1 16:00 - 18:00 Men's Qualification - Subdivision 2 20:00 - 22:00 Men's Qualification - Subdivision 3Sunday, August 10, 2008 10:00 - 11:30 Women's Qualification - Subdivision 1 13:30 - 15:00 Women's Qualification - Subdivision 2 17:00 - 18:30 Women's Qualification - Subdivision 3 20:00 - 21:30 Women's Qualification - Subdivision 4Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:00 - 12:30 Men's Team FinalWednesday, August 13, 2008 10:30 - 12:00 Women's Team FinalThursday, August 14, 2008 11:00 - 13:30 Men's Individual All-Around FinalFriday, August 15, 2008 11:15 - 13:00 Women's Individual All-Around FinalSunday, August 17, 2008 18:00 - 18:30 Men's Floor Exercise Final18:46 - 19:15 Women's Vault Final19:33 - 20:00 Men's Pommel Horse Final20:19 - 20:45 Women's Floor Exercise FinalMonday, August 18, 2008 18:00 - 18:30 Men's Rings Final18:46 - 19:15 Women's Uneven Bars Final19:33 - 20:00 Men's Vault FinalTuesday, August 19, 2008 18:00 - 18:30 Men's Parallel Bars Final18:46 - 19:15 Women's Balance Beam Final19:33 - 20:00 Men's Horizontal Bar Final

Rhythmic gymnastics Date Time EventThursday, August 21, 2008 18:00 - 20:30 Individual All-Around Qualification 20:30 - 21:30 Group All-Around QualificationFriday, August 22, 2008 18:00 - 20:30 Individual All-Around Qualification 20:30 - 21:30 Group All-Around QualificationSaturday, August 23, 2008 18:00 - 20:00 Individual All-Around FinalSunday, August 24, 2008 11:00 - 12:15 Group All-Around Final

Medal summary

Artistic gymnastics

Men's events Team all-around Chen YibingHuang XuLi XiaopengXiao QinYang WeiZou Kai Takehiro KashimaTakuya NakaseMakoto OkiguchiKoki SakamotoHiroyuki TomitaKōhei Uchimura Alexander ArtemevRaj BhavsarJoseph HagertyJonathan HortonJustin SpringKai Wen Tan Individual all-around Floor exercise Pommel horse Rings Vault Parallel bars Horizontal bar

Women's events Team all-around Cheng FeiDeng LinlinHe KexinJiang YuyuanLi ShanshanYang Yilin Shawn JohnsonNastia LiukinChellsie MemmelSamantha PeszekAlicia SacramoneBridget Sloan Andreea AcatrineiGabriela DrăgoiAndreea GrigoreSandra IzbașaSteliana NistorAnamaria Tămârjan Individual all-around Vault Uneven bars Balance beam Floor exercise

Rhythmic gymnastics Individual all-around Group all-aroundMargarita AliychukAnna GavrilenkoTatiana GorbunovaElena PosevinaDarya ShkurihinaNatalia ZuevaCai TongtongChou TaoLü YuanyangSui JianshuangSun DanZhang ShuoOlesya BabushkinaAnastasia IvankovaKsenia SankovichZinaida LuninaGlafira MartinovichAlina Tumilovich

Trampoline Men's individual Women's individual

Medal table

Qualification

Champions Gala The traditional Gymnastics Champions Gala took place on August 20 at the National Indoor Stadium. Participants are mainly selected from the 2008 Olympic trampoline and artistic gymnastics, as well as medalists from world championships. In addition, some Chinese pop stars appeared in the Gala.

The performances included Olympic disciplines such as floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, parallel bars, horizontal bar, uneven bars, balance beam, rhythmic gymnastics and trampoline gymnastics; non-Olympic discipline such as tumbling and acrobatic; and art performances such as dancing, martial art, instrument performance and chorus.

Age controversies China

On August 21, 2008, the IOC instructed the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) to investigate allegations that Chinese gymnast He Kexin was underaged and therefore ineligible to compete during the Olympic gymnastics competition. The FIG requires that all gymnasts be at least 16 years of age in the Olympic calendar year. The IOC had initially accepted the ages of all the Chinese participants, but newly uncovered documents suggested He was 14 years old, and thus ineligible to compete.

The investigation was initiated after an American blogger reported on a cached official Excel spreadsheet showing He's birthday as January 1, 1994. His discoveries support earlier reports from The New York Times and other bloggers regarding He's age discrepancy. Earlier, several bloggers found links to news stories and photo captions from 2007 and early 2008, including stories in the state-run Xinhua news service, that cited He's age as 13.

On October 1, 2008, the FIG ended their investigation and concluded that He and her teammates from the 2008 Olympic games were old enough to compete. This ruling confirmed the FIG's initial conclusions. Though some media outlets have voiced doubts about the decision, the gymnasts have been cleared by the FIG of any wrongdoing.

North Korea In 2014, North Korean female gymnast Cha Yong-hwa was the subject of a disciplinary hearing because of a false passport used to falsify her age. The FIG decided to withdraw her license and nullify all her results, including the results from the 2008 Olympics.

Gymnastics at the 2008 Summer Olympics

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