Gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification

This article describes the qualifying phase for gymnastics at the 2020 Summer Olympics (postponed to 2021^[2] due to the COVID-19 pandemic).

The qualification system underwent a significant revision following the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. The team events in artistic gymnastics will be reduced from five members to four, but a maximum of two further places will be available for competitors in individual events, in principle allowing one or two athletes per National Olympic Committee (NOC) to enter as specialists.

In a further move to link International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) competitions to the Olympics, it will now be possible to qualify for the Olympics on the basis of an aggregate of scores achieved over the Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series and the various continental artistic gymnastics championships.^[3]

Timeline

Artistic Gymnastics
Event	Date	Venue
2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	October 25 – November 3, 2018	Doha
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	October 4–13, 2019	Stuttgart
Artistic Gymnastics World Cup 2018 World Cup series 2019 World Cup series 2020 World Cup series 2021 World Cup series	Throughout 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021	Various
2021 Continental Championships 2021 European Championships 2021 Asian Championships[4] 2021 Pan American Championships 2021 African Championships 2021 Oceania Championships[5]	April–June 2021	Basel N/A Rio de Janeiro Cairo Gold Coast
Rhythmic Gymnastics
Event	Date	Venue
2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships	September 10–16, 2018	Sofia
2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships	September 16–22, 2019	Baku
2021 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup Series	2021	Various
2020–21 Continental Championships	2020 and 2021	Various
Trampoline
Event	Date	Venue
2019 Trampoline World Championships	November 28 – December 1, 2019	Tokyo
2019–21 Trampoline World Cup series	February 2019 to 2021 (6 competitions)	Various
2021 Continental Championships	2021	Various

Qualification summary

The table below lists the numbers of men and women from each NOC who have qualified for the gymnastics events at the 2020 Olympics.

Nation	Artistic		Rhythmic		Trampoline		Total
	Men	Women	Individual	Group	Men	Women
Albania	1						1
Argentina		1					1
Armenia	1						1
Australia	1	2	1		1	1	11
Austria		1					1
Azerbaijan	1	1	1				8
Belarus	1	1	2		2		10
Belgium		4					4
Brazil	5	2					12
Bulgaria	1		2				8
Canada	1	4				2	7
Cape Verde			1				1
Cayman Islands		1					1
Chile	1	1					2
China	6	6			2	2	21
Colombia					1		1
Costa Rica		1					1
Croatia	1	1					2
Cuba	1	1					1
Cyprus	1						1
Czech Republic	1	1					2
Egypt	1	2	1		1	1	11
France	3	4			1	1	9
Georgia			1				1
Germany	4	4					8
Great Britain	4	4				2	10
Greece	1						1
Hong Kong	1						1
Hungary		1	1				2
India		1					1
Ireland	1	1					2
Israel	2	1	2				10
Italy	2	5	2				14
Jamaica		1					1
Japan	6	5	2		2	2	22
Kazakhstan	1		1				2
Lithuania	1						1
Malaysia	1	1					2
Mexico	1	1	1			1	4
Netherlands	2	4					6
New Zealand	1				1	1	3
Nigeria	1						1
North Korea		1					1
Norway	1	1					2
Peru		1					1
Philippines	1						1
Poland		1					1
Portugal		1			1		2
Romania	1	2					3
ROC	6	6	2		2	2	23
Singapore		1					1
Slovakia		1					1
Slovenia			1				1
South Africa		2					2
South Korea	5	2					7
Spain	5	4					9
Sri Lanka		1					1
Sweden	1	1					2
Switzerland	4	1					5
Chinese Taipei	4	1					5
Turkey	4	1					5
Ukraine	4	1	2		1		13
United States	5	6	2		1	1	20
Uzbekistan	1	1	1				8
Vietnam	2						2
Total: 64 NOCs	98	98	26	70	16	16	324

Artistic

Men's events

Team places

Event	Standard	Qualified national team
Teams of four
2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Team places 1–3	China  ROC  Japan
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Team places 1–9 (among non-qualified teams)	Ukraine  Great Britain  Switzerland  United States  Chinese Taipei  South Korea  Brazil  Spain  Germany
Total		48 (12 teams of 4)

Individual quotas

Event	Standard	Qualified gymnast
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships[6] (1 quota per NOC)	All-around	Carlos Yulo (PHI)  Manrique Larduet (CUB)  Ludovico Edalli (ITA)  Milad Karimi (KAZ)  Loris Frasca (FRA)  Robert Tvorogal (LTU)  Alexander Shatilov (ISR)  Ferhat Arıcan (TUR)  Artur Davtyan (ARM)  David Huddleston (BUL)  Bart Deurloo (NED)  Daniel Corral (MEX)
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships[7] (max. 3 quotas per NOC across all apparatus)	Floor	Artem Dolgopyat (ISR)
	Pommel horse	Rhys McClenaghan (IRL)  Cyril Tommasone (FRA)
	Rings	İbrahim Çolak (TUR)  Marco Lodadio (ITA)  Samir Aït Saïd (FRA)
	Vault	Shek Wai Hung (HKG)  Lê Thanh Tùng (VIE)  Marian Drăgulescu (ROU)
	Parallel bars	Ahmet Önder (TUR)
	Horizontal bar	Tin Srbić (CRO)  Tyson Bull (AUS)
FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series 2018–2020 (1 quota per NOC across all apparatus)	Floor	Rayderley Zapata (ESP)
	Pommel horse	Kohei Kameyama (JPN)
	Rings	Eleftherios Petrounias (GRE)
	Vault	Shin Jae-hwan (KOR)
	Parallel bars	You Hao (CHN)
	Horizontal bar	Epke Zonderland (NED)
2020 Individual All-Around World Cup series (1 quota per NOC)	All-around	ROC  China  Japan
2020 Continental Championships (1 quota per NOC; all-around qualification)	Africa	Omar Mohamed (EGY)  Uche Eke (NGR)
	Asia	Đinh Phương Thành (VIE)  Loo Phay Xing (MAS)
	Americas	United States  Brazil
	Europe	ROC  Adem Asil (TUR)
	Oceania	Mikhail Koudinov (NZL)
Reserved places	Host nation	Host nation qualified above
	Tripartite invitation	Matvei Petrov (ALB)
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Reallocation)	All-around	René Cournoyer (CAN)  Rasuljon Abdurakhimov (UZB)  Marios Georgiou (CYP)  İvan Tixonov (AZE)  David Rumbutis (SWE)  Andrey Likhavitski (BLR)  Sofus Heggemsnes (NOR)  David Jessen (CZE)  Tomás González (CHI)
Total		50

Women's events

Team places

Event	Standard	Qualified national team
Teams of four
2018 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Team places 1–3	United States  ROC  China
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships	Team places 1–9 (among non-qualified teams)	France  Canada  Netherlands  Great Britain  Italy  Germany  Belgium  Japan  Spain
Total		48 (12 teams of 4)

Individual quotas

Event	Standard	Qualified gymnast
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships[6] (1 quota per NOC)	All-around	Flávia Saraiva (BRA)  Giulia Steingruber (SUI)  Georgia Godwin (AUS)  Diana Varinska (UKR)  Lee Yun-seo (KOR)  Zsófia Kovács (HUN)  Martina Dominici (ARG)[a]  Abigail Magistrati (ARG)  Alexa Moreno (MEX)  Danusia Francis (JAM)  Kim Su-jong (PRK)  Aneta Holasová (CZE)  Marcia Vidiaux (CUB)  Maria Holbură (ROU)  Elisa Hämmerle (AUT)  Anastasiya Alistratava (BLR)  Farah Ann Abdul Hadi (MAS)  Mandy Mohamed (EGY)  Nazlı Savranbaşı (TUR)  Barbora Mokošová (SVK)  Ana Filipa Martins (POR)
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships[7] (max. 3 quotas per NOC across all apparatus)	Vault	Yeo Seo-jeong (KOR)
	Uneven Bars	—
	Balance beam	—
	Floor	—
FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Cup series 2018–2020 (1 quota per NOC across all apparatus)	Vault	Jade Carey (USA)
	Uneven bars	Fan Yilin (CHN)
	Balance beam	Urara Ashikawa (JPN)
	Floor[9]	Vanessa Ferrari (ITA)  Lara Mori (ITA)
2020 Individual All-Around World Cup series (1 quota per NOC)	All-around	United States  China  ROC
2020 Continental Championships (1 quota per NOC; all-around qualification)	Africa	Zeina Ibrahim (EGY)  Naveen Daries (RSA)
	Asia	Milka Gehani (SRI)  Pranati Nayak (IND)
	Americas	Rebeca Andrade (BRA)  Luciana Alvarado (CRC)
	Europe	ROC  Larisa Iordache (ROU)
	Oceania	Emily Whitehead (AUS)
Reserved places	Host nation	Host nation qualified above
	Tripartite invitation[10]	Raegan Rutty (CAY)
2019 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships (Reallocation)	All-around	Ana Đerek (CRO)  Caitlin Rooskrantz (RSA)  Jonna Adlerteg (SWE)  Gabriela Janik (POL)  Simona Castro (CHI)  Lihie Raz (ISR)  Julie Erichsen (NOR)  Ariana Orrego (PER)  Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)  Ting Hua-tien (TPE)  Marina Nekrasova (AZE)  Tan Sze En (SGP)  Megan Ryan (IRL)  Hanna Traukova (BLR)
Total		50

Rhythmic

Individual all-around

Event	Standard	Qualified NOC
2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Places 1–16 (max. 2 per NOC)	All-around	Azerbaijan  Belarus  Belarus  Bulgaria  Bulgaria  Israel  Israel  Italy  Italy  Japan  ROC  ROC  Ukraine  Ukraine  United States  United States
2021 FIG Rhythmic Gymnastics World Cup series Top 3 (max. 1 per NOC)	All-around	Ekaterina Vedeneeva (SLO)  Sabina Tashkenbaeva (UZB)  Ekaterina Fetisova (UZB)  Chisaki Oiwa (JPN)
2021 Continental Championships All-around (max. 1 per NOC)	Africa	Habiba Marzouk (EGY)
	Asia	Alina Adilkhanova (KAZ)
	Americas	Rut Castillo (MEX)
	Europe	Fanni Pigniczki (HUN)
	Oceania	Lidiia Iakovleva (AUS)
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation	Host nation qualified above
	Tripartite invitation	Márcia Lopes (CPV)
2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships (Reallocation)	All-around	Salome Pazhava (GEO)
Total		26

Group all-around

Event	Standard	Qualified team
2018 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Team places 1–3	All-around	ROC  Italy  Bulgaria
2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships Team places 1–5	All-around	Japan  Belarus  Israel  China  Azerbaijan
2020 Continental Championships All-around (1 per continent)	Africa	Egypt
	Asia	Uzbekistan
	Americas	Brazil
	Europe	Ukraine
	Oceania	Australia
FIG Executive Board invitations	Host nation	Host nation qualified above
2019 Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships (Reallocation)	All-around	United States
Total		14

Trampoline

Men's events

Event	Standard	Quotas awarded	Qualified NOC
2019 Trampoline World Championships[11]	Top 8 (max. 1 per NOC)	5	China  Belarus  ROC  Japan  France
2021 Continental Championships	1 per continent	0	Europe	Unused
		0	Asia	Unused
		1	Africa	Egypt
		0	Oceania	Unused
		1	Americas	Colombia
2019–2020 Trampoline World Cup series	Up to 14 gymnasts qualified	8	Belarus  China  ROC  Japan  New Zealand  Portugal  Australia  Ukraine
Host nation	—	0	0–1 gymnasts
Tripartite invitation	—	0	0–1 gymnasts
Reallocation of Tripartite Commission	—	1	Aliaksei Shostak (USA)
Total		16

• Both the host quota and the tripartite quota were redistributed, as Japan qualified already and no eligible tripartite eligible countries competed at the 2019 Worlds.

Women's events

Event	Standard	Quotas awarded	Qualified NOC
2019 Trampoline World Championships[11]	Top 8 (max. 1 per NOC)	6	China  Japan  Great Britain  Canada  France  ROC
2021 Continental Championships	1 per continent	0	Europe	Unused
		0	Asia	Unused
		1	Africa	Egypt
		0	Oceania	Unused
		0	Americas	Unused
2019–2020 Trampoline World Cup series	Up to 14 gymnasts qualified	8	China  Japan  Great Britain  ROC  United States  New Zealand  Australia  Mexico
Host nation	—	0	0–1 gymnasts
Tripartite invitation	—	0	0–1 gymnasts
Reallocation of Host Country	—	1	Samantha Smith (CAN)
Total		16

Notes

1. On 23 June 2021, it was reported that Dominici had tested positive for a banned substance and was excluded from the Olympics.^[8]