The men's artistic gymnastics individual all-around competition at the

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was held at the

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on 28 July and 1 August 2012. It included 41 competitors from 27 nations.

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of Japan won the gold medal, his nation's first victory in the men's all-around since

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and its fifth overall. (At that point, Japan was second to the

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, whose gymnasts won the event six times; Uchimura would win again in

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, bringing the two nations even.) Uchimura was the 14th man to earn multiple all-around medals, adding to his silver from

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. Germany's

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earned silver, the first men's all-around medal for a German gymnast (including the

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, and

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) since the 1936 Games in Berlin.

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of the United States took bronze.

Background

This was the 26th appearance of the men's individual all-around in the Olympics. The event was first held in

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and has been included in every Games since then. Two of the top 10 gymnasts from the 2008 Games returned in 2012: Uchimura and seventh-place finisher

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of Germany. Uchimura had won the past three World Championships and was the favorite coming into the Games. Azerbaijan made its debut in the event. France made its 24th appearance, the most of any nation.

Qualification process

Qualification for the 2012 Olympics was based primarily on the

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. The top 8 teams at the world championships could send a full team of 5 gymnasts to the Olympics. The teams ranked 9th through 16th competed in the

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, where the top 4 finishers also qualified full teams for the Olympics. The individual apparatus medalists from the World Championships also qualified, if their nation had not already qualified a team. The FIG Executive Board made invitational selections to ensure host country and continental representation, and the

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made an invitation. The remainder of the quota of 98 gymnasts was filled through the individual all-around rankings at the Test Event, with only one gymnast per nation able to qualify in that manner. At the Games, the top 24 competitors in the qualification phase (with a limit of two per country), based on combined scores on all six apparatuses, 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.

Results

Qualifying

Only two gymnasts per country were allowed to advance to the all-around final. The following gymnasts finished in the top 24 in the qualifying round but did not advance because of the two-per-country rule: * (17th place) * (20th place) * (26th place)

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(22nd place) was initially excluded by the two-per-country rule as well, but advanced to the final after his teammate

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was injured on vault during the men's team competition.

Final

''Number in brackets indicates rank in the event.''

References

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