Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's vault
| Men's vault at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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| Venue | HSBC Arena | ||||||||||||
| Date | 15 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 11 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning score | 15.691 | ||||||||||||
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Ri Se-gwang |
 North Korea
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Denis Ablyazin |
 Russia
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Kenzō Shirai |
 Japan
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The Men's vault competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held at the HSBC Arena on 15 August.
The medals were presented by Chang Ung IOC member, North Korea and Ali Al-Hitmi, FIG Executive Committee Member.
The top 8 qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC), based on combined score of each apparatus, 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.
The gymnasts who ranked top eight qualified for final round. In case of there were more than two gymnasts in same NOC, the last ranked among them would not qualify to final round. The next best ranked gymnast would qualify instead.
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