Qualification for the men's artistic gymnastics competitions at the 2020 Summer Olympics was held at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre on 24 July 2021.[1] The results of the qualification determined the qualifiers to the finals: 8 teams in the team final, 24 gymnasts in the all-around final, and 8 gymnasts in each of six apparatus finals. The competition was divided into three subdivisions.
Gymnasts from nations taking part in the team all-around event were grouped together while the remaining gymnasts were grouped into one of six mixed groups. The groups were divided into the three subdivisions after a draw held by the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique.[2] The groups rotated through each of the six apparatuses together.
ind: Individual gymnast from NOC with a qualified team.
^Gymnasts who wanted to qualify for the vault final performed a second vault, with the average of the two counting for event final qualification. Only the first vault counted for individual and team all-around qualification.
^ ab The top three on pommel horse all had a total score of 15.266 points, but in accordance with the FIG's tie-breaking criteria,[4]Lee Chih-kai was placed first due to his E-score (8.866) being higher than that of the other two gymnasts, Rhys McClenaghan and Kohei Kameyama (8.766). McClenaghan and Kameyama had identical D-scores of 6.5, and were thus tied in second place.[3]
^"Technical Regulations 2020 (amended, valid until 31.12.2021)"(PDF). International Gymnastics Federation. Retrieved 28 July 2021. Qualification for Apparatus Finals In case of a tie in points, at any place on any apparatus, except for vault, in qualification for Apparatus Finals, the ranking will be determined by the following criteria: 1. the gymnast with the highest E-score prevails 2. the gymnast with the highest D-score prevails If they remain tied, the gymnasts will share the same classification