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Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's Floor
The women's floor competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London was held at the North Greenwich Arena on 7 August. Format of competition The top eight competitors in the qualification phase (with a limit of two per country) advanced to the final. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final-round scores counting.Format Competition – Artistic Gymnastic


Final results


Qualification results

Oldest and youngest competitors


References

Gymnastics at the 2012 Summer Olympics

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North Greenwich Arena 1
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Ksenia Afanasyeva
Ksenia Dmitrievna Afanasyeva (; born 13 September 1991) is a retired Russian artistic gymnast who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She is the 2011 world champion on Floor (gymnastics), floor exercise, the 2013 and 2015 European floor champion, and the 2013 Universiade Vault (gymnastics), vault and floor champion. Widely regarded as one of the most original and artistic gymnasts of all time, she retired from elite gymnastics in July 2016 due to kidney disease, a month away from the 2016 Summer Olympics, for which she was the Russian team's first alternate. Junior career 2005 Afanasyeva competed at the 2005 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, European Youth Olympic Festival in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy, in July 2005. She won the bronze medal in the all-around competition with a total score of 36.550, behind Vanessa Ferrari of Italy (37.925) and fellow Russian Karina Myasnikova (37.000). In event finals, she placed fourth ...
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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– ...
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Gymnastics At The 2012 Summer Olympics
Three gymnastics disciplines were contested at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Olympic Games in London: artistic gymnastics, rhythmic gymnastics and trampolining. The trampoline events were held at the The O2 Arena (London), North Greenwich Arena (normally called The O2 Arena) from 3 to 4 August; the artistic events were also held at the North Greenwich Arena, from 28 July to 7 August. The rhythmic gymnastics events took place at Wembley Arena from 9 to 12 August. A total of 54 medals were awarded across the three disciplines. The most successful nation was China at the 2012 Summer Olympics, China, winning five gold medals and 12 in total. Brazil at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Brazil and South Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics, South Korea won their first gold medals in the discipline in the Summer Olympic Games history. Yevgeniya Kanayeva of Russia marked history by becoming the first back-to-back Olympic champion at the individual all-around in rhythmic gymnastics. Qualification ...
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