The final standings – top 10
- Uchimura (Jpn) 92.365
- Verniaiev (Ukr) 92.266
- Whitlock (GB) 90.641
- Belyavskiy (Rus) 90.498
- Lin (Chn) 90.230
- Deng (Chn) 90.130
- Mikulak 89.631
- Wilson (GB) 89.565
- Sasaki (Br) 89.198
- Calvo Moreno (Col) 88.915
That was great, wasn’t it? The favourite won and his main challenger was second, suggesting it all went to script. But it came right down to the very end and after almost three hours of stunning performances, the final hop on a dismount reverses the order of the top two.
Anyway, on that note I am off – but make sure to join Gerard Meagher for the very latest on our 24-7 Games blog. The Rio party never stops.
The Japanese celebrates in the most dignified of manners. He retains his all-around title. He hugs Verniaiev, who makes history by winning their first silver in this event. But that hop has cost him gold. He still looks happy, mind. Then you have Whitlock, winning Britain’s first all-around medal since the 1908 Games. Heartbreakingly, David Belyavskiy comes fourth.
Kohei Uchimura wins gold
It’s silver for Oleg Verniaiev. Max Whitlock takes bronze.
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Verniaiev does magnificently while on the bars but he hops on landing and will face a deduction. He gets the crowd cheering but could that hop cost him gold and reduce him to silver? Let’s see …
To win gold in London, Uchimura scored 92.690.
Uchimura, unsurprisingly, goes for a very difficult routine on the high bars and he pulls out his best performance of the evening. That will see him overtake Whitlock, and now all of the pressure and all the eyes in the arena will be trained on Verniaiev. He will need something special to take gold here … because Uchimura has taken 15.8 to finish on 92.365.
It’s very good and he looks confident of his chances. Whitlock looks at the scoreboard … he looks more nervous now than he did while competing. Oh and the good old BBC have decided to change channels just as Belyavskiy’s score is about to come through. It’s 15.133 and not enough for him to take over at the top before Uchimura and Verniaiev complete one of the most captivating events of the Games so far.
Belyavskiy needs 15.260 on the high bars to overtake Whitlock and secure a medal for Russia. Can he do it?
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Now Deng is on to the high bar and hoping of a perfect performance to muscle in on the medal reckoning. It looks very good indeed. He is pleased and the landing is near perfect … but it’s only 14.966 and not good enough. Indeed he is 0.1 behind Lin.
Lin scores 14.866, so he is behind Whitlock and now unlikely to win a medal. His total is 90.230.
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Britain’s Nile Wilson scores 14.966 on the high bars to finish with a fine 89.565, moving him above Kato.
Lin, who was fifth entering the final rotation, almost falls after two big tumbles at the opening of his floor routine. No wonder, because Muse has just come on in the arena. He needs 15.277 to move top as it stands … but there will be deductions for landings.
How are your maths?!
Brooks struggles to a 13.2 on the horse and finishes with a total of 87.632, which will disappoint the US hope. Kato’s slip on the high bar sees him end up with a 88.590, scoring 13.9 on the final event.
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Kato falls off the high bar and looks disgusted, his slim bronze medal hope tarnished by that one slip.
Whitlock finished with a 15.2 on the floor, giving him a final score of 90.641. As it stands, with his main competitors still to complete their final rotation, the Briton leads. They have not won an indvidual men’s gymnastics medal since 1908.
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The partisan BBC commentators bellow an irritating “Come on Max” at the beginning of the routine and an indescribable roar at the end. It was a very good routine, no doubt, and there was no striking deficiency. He will face an anxious wait to see if he will remain on the podium though. Most of the attention turns to the high bar now.
Realistically the top six will have high medal hopes but it now appears a two pommel horse race between Verniaiev and Uchimura for gold. They are on the high bar for the final rotation, with Uchimura going second last and the current leader the final performer. Belyavskiy is immediately before on the horizontals, following on from Deng. Whitlock is the first up on the floor, with Lin third there. Strap in.
Leaders after fifth rotation
- Verniaiev (Ukr) 77.466
- Uchimura (Jpn) 76.565
- Whitlock (GB) 75.441
- Belyavskiy (Rus) 75.365
- Lin (Chn) 75.364
- Deng (Chn) 75.164
- Kato (Jpn) 74.690
- Wilson (GB) 74.599
- Brooks (US) 74.432
- Mikulak (US) 74.431
It’s 15.600 for Uchimura, moving him into second place. He is .901 behind Verniaiev heading into the final rotation.
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Here is Uchimura on the p-bars. He is a world champion in this discipline and it shows with a routine combining several complicated elements … but, oh dear, the favourite hops on his landing and will face a little deduction. How much will it impact on his score and standing?
And now Belyavskiy makes his claim for a medal with a 15.933 on the parallel bars. That also moves him right behind Whitlock.
A big score of 15.966 from Shudi Deng on the parallel bars has him right behind his compartriot Lin. We are in for one thrilling conclusion.
Excellent from Lin, who scores 15.166. It’s not enough to overtake Whitlock, however. The Chinese gymnast is .077 behind heading to the floor. Meanwhile Brooks scores just a 14.6 on the floor, which does the American few favours.
Lin is on the high bar now, looking to close on Whitlock in the race for third. They are on the same rotation, of course.
From our tennis and boxing man in Rio. You have to agree – some of the coverage has been far too partisan.
Some of the BBC flag-waving here is risible. The expert on R5Live - not a journalist - nearly had a heart attack over Max Whitlock just now
— kevin mitchell (@kevinmitchell50) August 10, 2016
Kato has managed 14.9 on the prallel bars, leaving him well positioned for a final move for bronze.
It’s 16.1 for Verniaiev! That leaves Uchimura and Whitlock with quite the challenge. The latter is on the horizontal and he looks happy his performance, pumping his fists on the apparatus he fell in during qualification. He ends with the floor – is the Briton going to win a medal? He scores 14.7, putting him 2.025 behind Verniaiev but leaving him with a good chance of a bronze.
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First up we will watch Verniaiev. He tips out to the end of the bars before going straight across to the other. His dismount is almost perfect and it will surely be a high 15 score.
So for rotation five, the top two and Kato are heading for the parallel bars. Whitlock and Lin are on the horizontals and Brooks and Calvo Moreno take to the floor.
Leaders after fourth rotation
- Verniaiev (Ukr) 61.366
- Uchimura (Jpn) 60.965
- Whitlock (GB) 60.741
- Lin (Chn) 60.198
- Brooks (US) 59.382
- Kato (Jpn) 59.790
- Calvo Moreno (Col) 59.565
This is heating up very nicely indeed. Brooks nails his dismount on the horizontal bar, scoring 15.200 to overtake Kato. While Lin overtakes Brooks thanks to 15.666 on the parallel bars, moving him fourth, just behind Whitlock.
Whitlock continues his fine showing on the parallel bars, a small skip upon landing being the only mark against him. He scores 15 and overtakes Kato for third. The Briton is .223 behind Uchimura, while Veniaiev is a further .401 in front. The Ukrainian is on the bars in his next rotation, while Uchimura tackles the high bar – their best routines.
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Calvo Moreno is up next on the horizontal bar, scoring 14.933, which keeps him behind Kato.
Sticking with the vault, Kato scores 15.058 for his routine. That moves him to third before Whitlock’s fourth rotation, while Calvo Moreno and Brooks are also to come.
Uchimura is first up on the vault in rotation four and he nails it, scoring 15.566 to put the pressure on Verniaiev. The Ukrainian steps up on to the vault and goes for a two and half turn, scoring 15.5 to retain a gap above the Japanese. Whitlock will not be going on the bars for a couple of minutes.
Marios Georgiou is out after three events, too, citing injury. That leaves us with 22 gymnasts.
Leaders at halfway point
1 Verniaiev (Ukr) 45.866
2 Whitlock (GB) 45.741
3 Uchimura (Jpn) 45.399
4 Kato (Jpn) 44.732
5= Calvo Moreno (Col), Brooks (US) 44.632
7= Lin (Chn), Yusof (Swi) 44.532
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Kato remains in contention here, too. It’s taken five minutes for his score on the rings to come in – we are not sure why. The score is given as 14.566, moving him into fourth as it stands, in front of Brooks and Orlando Calvo Moreno, the Colombian who we have not been shown once since the event started. He did well on the p-bars, though, scoring 15.366 to thrust him up the leaderboard.
Lin is narrowly below a 15 on his vault effort, but remains in contention for a medal with a total of 44.532 at half way. And at last we get to see some live action of Brooks, on the parallel bars. The American swings and swings through his routine before finishing with a double front flip, earning a 15.066 to move him into fourth as things stand.
The world championship silver medalist Larduet has pulled out – he has left the arena due to injury after two rotations. He fell on the vault.
Oh my, Verniaiev delivers a sublime rings effort, scoring 15.3 and he is now leading on 45.866.
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Whitlock gets at 15.133 for that vault, enough to put him ahead of Uchimura by .342. The 2012 silver medalist, Marcel Nguyen, is plodding along steadily but unspectacularly – with 44.032.
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Whitlock’s landing is a smidgen off, taking a -0.1 deduction, but he goes with a tricky routine and must be considered a big contender to push Uchimura.
Sasaki gets a 15.2, moving him above Belyavskiy by 0.1. The main Uchimura is a delight to watch. There will be no deductions for him – a stunning routine concluded by a perfect landing … and he gets 14.733 to go clear with a 45.399.
Now some huge roars of excitement for home boy Sasaki, who goes on the vault. Belyavskiy’s score is a solid 14.533, but Uchimura is on to the rings next.
We will get a glimpse of Russia’s Belyavskiy, who sits in sixth, on the rings now. He looks very good up in the air but tries a superstar finish and fails to land cleanly and almost comes off the mat. That will result in a deduction, and his medal push has been harmed.
The gymnasts are moving on to the second rotation.
@alansmith90 How are the Americans doing in men's all-around? Any chance they can medal?
— MisterKevin (@MrKAK27) August 10, 2016
After two rounds, Christopher Brooks sits joint-seventh with 29.566 after a good vault and Samuel Mikulak is in 19th with 28.966 – disappointingly, they have not been shown once on the broadcast feed I’m watching on.
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Leaders after second rotation
- Uchimura (Jpn) 30.666
- Whitlock (GB) 30.608
- Verniaiev (Ukr) 30.566
- Kato (Jpn) 30.166
- Yusof (Swi) 29.999
- Belyavskiy (Rus) 29.766
That’s probably doing a disservice to how close the leaderboard is but it is hard to see the gold being won by any outside of the current top four.
Whitlock’s score is 14.733, moving him into second place, between Uchimura and Veniaiev. Kato is back in fourth … and then there are the rest.
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Whitlock smiles and salutes some people in the crowd after a pleasing show on the rings, one of his weaker apparatus. He will get a -0.1 deduction for his landing but that aside should receive a good score from the judges.
Verniaiev almost comes off on two occasions but retrieves himself to perform a very accomplished routine indeed. He scores 15.333 and now he is just 0.1 behind Uchimura. How can Whitlock do on the rings having led at the end of the first rotation?
Uchimura gets a 14.9 and is leading again with a total of 30.666. Verniaiev is up on the horse next, though – can he put the pressure on? He’s expected to go for a difficult routine.
Larduet gets a 14 for that vault, accruing a -0.1 penalty for the fall. Lin records 14.733 on the rings to boost his chances, but the leader a third of the way through the second rotation is Belyavskiy, whose 14.766 on the pommel is solid. Uchimura should jump above them though once he gets his horse routine underway.
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Larduet, the fourth best after rotation one, puts up a six in difficulty for his vault routines. It’s all looking good until the landing … where he falls. That should see him slip down the order.
The first gymnast we get a glimpse of on rotation two is Shudi Deng’s pommel horse routine. It’s not the most testing of routines – ranked 6.3 – but he does it clinically.
So off the gymnasts go to their next piece of apparatus. The highest qualifiers – including Uchimura, and Kato – are on the pommel horse this time, while Whitlock goes to the rings, Larduet heads for the vault and Yusof moves to the bars.
Leaders after the first rotation
- Whitlock (GB) 15.875
- Uchimura (Jpn) 15.766
- Kato (Jpn) 15.266
- Larduet (Cub) 15.133
- Yusof (Sui) 15.066
Max Whitlock is underway on the pommel horse. And he nails a difficult routine, scoring 15.875 on his best apparatus to put him in the lead after the first rotation. Verniaiev only comes through in fifth with 15.033. And Cyprus’ Marios Georgiou brings up the rear after some poor execution on the vault earns him just 12.833.
As Verniaiev gets his routine underway, Santana’s Smooth plays appositely in the background. The Ukraine gymnast starts well on one of his weaker disciplines.
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Uchimura scores 15.766 – the biggest score so far. But now he will watch his main challenge for the gold medal, Oleg Verniaiev.
That is stunning from Uchimura – we will wait for the score but it should be high. The second Brazilian Sergio Sasaki, meanwhile, has scored 14.766 on the pommel horse.
Marcel Nguyen takes 14.666 on the vault and on the horse we have seen our first disappointment – Russia’s Nikolai Kuksenkov, in his strongest event, performs sloppily and brings in just a 13.300. There is a better return for his compatriot David Belyavskiy on the floor, scoring 15-flat. Next up there will be Uchimura. Can he set the tone early on?
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Deng is given 14.966 for his performance on the floor – a routine of some difficulty, though there were a number of little hops.
The vault, as you’d expect, is motoring on quickly. Axel Augis gets a 14.266. China’s Chaopan Lin gets 14.833 and Andrey Likhovitskiy begins with a 13.933 on the rings.
Mariano gets 13.4 on the horse, while Wilson receives 14.9 for his floor performance. Chris Brooks receives14.633 for his performance on the rings and Andreas Bretschneider, the second performer on the vaults, is given a 14.533. Next up on the floor will be Shudi Deng, a good shout for a medal according to the experts.
Clean from Wilson apart from one minor hop near the end of his routine. Eddy Yusof of Switzerland has scored 15.066 on the fault, meanwhile.
Nile Wilson of Great Britain gets things going on the floor but there are huge roars reserved for Arthur Mariano of Brazil, who is on the pommel horse.
The top six in qualifying will being on the floor with the next six on the horse, followed by half a dozen on the rings and then then the final six on the vault.
The athletes are being introduced one-by-one to a sparse but noisy crowd. The loudest cheers, of course, are reserved for the Brazilian pair inaction.
Hello. This is the epitome of men’s gymnastics, a battle across half a dozen disciplines between 24 of the most overall athletically impressive competitors in the entire Games.
All eyes will be on Japan’s Kohei Uchimura, the dominant star of London 2012, where he won five medals. He is also the reigning world champion but could only finish second in qualifying to Oleg Verniaiev of Ukraine. David Belyavskiy was the next best. But, who knows, maybe Uchimura was holding something back on Sunday? He was also in the Japan team that triumphed in the team event on Monday.
Who else should we watch out for? Team USA have two representatives, Sam Mikulak (seventh in qualifying) and Chris Brooks (19th); Team GB will have their main man Max Whitlock (12th) and Nile Wilson (fifth); the hosts will be going wild for Arthur Mariano and Sergio Sasaki.
So get set for the vault, floor, pommel horse, rings, parallel bars and high bar. The events gets underway at 4pm in Rio (8pm in London, 3pm in New York, 5am in Sydney). It’s going to be stunning.
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