Medalists of men's all-around final(from left: Tsukahara, Tomita, Yoneda)

36 gymnasts qualified into the all-round final, and were divided into six groups. Isao Yoneda, Naoya Tsukahara, Hiroyuki Tomita and Tomoharu Sano were in the first group with the collegiate gymnasts, Ryuta Nakazato and Kazuya Ueda. Olympians Daisuke Nakano and Hisashi Mizutori were in the second group.

ROTATION 1

Ryuta Nakazato (FX): His first and second passes were the combination of three consecutive somersaults to get 0.5 bonus points. He dismounted with a tucked full-in. 9.400.
Tomoharu Sano (FX): Landed almost on his back on his first pass after the third somersault, layout rudi. He scored only 8.400.
Hiroyuki Tomita (FX): His first pass (which he missed in the qualification) was successful, even though he went out of bounds, and he changed his second pass from tucked double-double to tucked full-in. His 8.975 was a bad start for him.
Naoya Tsukahara (FX): He went out of bounds on his layout double-double (SE) on his first pass. A big step backward in his tucked full-in dismount left him with a score of 9.300.
Isao Yoneda (FX): Very solid on his three somersault combination, and stuck his tucked full-in dismount for a 9.650.
Kazuya Ueda (FX): The first and second passes with three consecutive somersaults were good, but he bounced on the landing of his Thomas roll to< score only 9.150.
Hisashi Mizutori (PH): No major break, but small mistakes cost him. He received only 9.250.
Daisuke Nakano (PH): Supposed to perform an E-skill dismount, but changed to a D dismount. A safe routine and his score was 9.100.
Naoya Tabara (SR): Hit a very high level of difficulty in his dismount, layout double-double for 9.325.
Yosuke Hoshi (HB): The defending champion on this event hit Kolman and his series of the flawless el-grip skills. Stuck his layout double-double dismount to score 9.750. He was first after this rotation!

ROTATION 2

Sano (PH): He missed on this event in the qualification, and in the all around final he had a balance check on variations of his Wu Gonian. Scored only 9.300.
Mizutori (SR): A little weak on swing to handstand and a step on the landing. 9.400.
Tomita (PH): Wu Gonyan, Fedrchenko, Sivado travel, E-Flop… beautifully done. Double scissors and dismount was executed beautifully to score 9.625. Recovered well from the low score on floor and started to catch up with the leaders.
Tsukahara (PH): Hit his routine with good execution but his score was only 9.400.
Yoneda (PH): Hit his routine, but his lower body was not controlled on his one pommel work. Scored only 9.325.
Ueda (PH): On his favorite event, his circles were very speedy but small
deductions brought him down to 9.325.
Nakazato (PH): Fell on Wu Gonyan. Scored only 7.500 to fall out of medal contention.
Nakano (SR): Improved his strength elements like Mizutori. Piked Guzogy and triple back somersault were well executed, but his score was only 8.900. He lacks solid strength work.
Tabara (VT): A good landing of Driggs to score 9.500.

After this rotation…
1. Yoneda 18.875, 2. Tabara 18.825, 3. Tsukahara 18.700, 4. Mizutori 18.650, 5. Tomita 18.600

ROTATION 3

Tomita (SR): Perfect execution on both strength and swing elements. Stuck double layout to score 9.775
Tsukahara (SR): Great performance with some different strength elements from the other top gymnasts. Stuck his dismount to score 9.575.
Yoneda (SR): His second Maltese was a little arched and got a deduction. Scored only 9.200.
Ueda (SR): The positions in his strength elements were not bad, but he used a kipping action on his straight armed backward roll to cross. Scored only 9.150.
Nakazato (SR): Great power on each strength element to score 9.500.
Sano (SR): Very good position in Maltese and cross, and held them long enough. Stuck his dismount and scored 9.625.
Mizutori (VT): A big step forward in Driggs. Scored 9.400.
Nakano (VT): Very beautiful double twisting Yurchenko and stuck his landing. Scored 9.475, which was a very high score for this skill (SV 9.7).
Tabara (PB): Peach to Belle, Makuts, Healy, Straddle front to upper arm support. Scored 9.300.

After this rotation…
1. Tomita 28.375, 2. Tsukahara 28.275, 3. Yoneda 28.175, 4. Tabara 28.125, 5. Mizutori 28.050

ROTATION 4

Tsukahara (VT): A step forwad on his double twisting Yurchenko. Scored 9.325.
Mizutori (PH): The series for bonus points, Peach half mount, peach half, peach, Belle, did not have good rhythm, and he did not hit each handstand well. Scored only 9.300.
Yoneda (VT): Sat down on Driggs. Scored only 9.050.
Ueda (VT): Kasamatsu-full. Lacked height and distance and straddled his legs. 9.075.
Nakano (PB): World’s favorite performance at the Olympics. Piked Belle; Peach to Belle; Wells to Tippelt. Stuck double pike dismount. Very beautiful routine but he made a slight balance check in his straddle cut to L-sit. Scored 9.600.
Nakazato (VT): Stuck Kasamatsu-full to score 9.450.
Sano (VT): Tried Roche, but his landing position was very low and scored only 9.275.
Tomita (VT): A small step forward in Driggs. 9.475.
Tabara (HB): Kolman and el-grip skills were well executed with good speed. Stuck layout double-double to score 9.600. Climbed up to second place.

After this rotation…
1. Tomita 37.850, 2. Tabara 37.725, 3. Tsukahara 37.600, 4. Mizutori 37.350, 5. Yoneda 37.225

ROTATION 5

Yoneda (PB): Hit his routine. Peach half mount, peach half, peach, Peters. Stuck double pike dismount to score 9.500.
Ueda (PB): Peach half mount, peach half, peach, Belle. Small deductions in the executions gave him only 9.300.
Sano (PB): Peach half, peach, Belle; piked Belle. Hit his routine cleanly except for his dismount (one step) to score 9.500.
Tomita (PB): The best gymnast in the qualification on this event, but had a very big deduction in his dismount. Scored only 9.400.
Mizutori (HB): Layout Kovacs, Kolman, Kovacs… Very exciting and gorgeous releases! His Rivalko was also very dynamic. He scored 9.675.
Nakano (HB): Could not connect Kolman and hop giant with one and a half twist to wrong grip (he had an extra giant between them). This lowered his SV and he scored only 9.400.
Tsukahara (PB): Showed an obvious leg separation on his peach half. Could not stick his landing and scored 9.375.
Tabara (FX): Hit an SE combination: whip back to Layout Thomas roll (Turbanov), as the world champion Jovtchev did at the Olympics. Another combination, two and a half twisting back somersault, barani, 1 3/4 front sommie was very original. 9.400. Still kept second place.

After this rotation…
1. Tomita 47.250, 2. Tabara 47.125, 3. Mizutori 47.125, 4. Tsukahara 46.975, 5. Yoneda 46.725.

ROTATION 6

Ueda (HB): Hit his routine including Kolman, but his score was only 9.250.
Nakazato (HB): Another exciting routine. Kolman and piked Kovacs were very big. He had a very big hop forward on his dismount, but scored 9.675.
Sano (HB): Hit his routine including Kolman and stuck layout double-double. 9.475.
Tabara (PH): Under big pressure, he did not miss on this event: Magyar travel, Sivado travel, Wu Gonyan, Fedrchenko. But he scored only a disappointing 8.600. He placed sixth eventually.
Tomita (HB): Full twisting piked Stalder to one and a half twisting piked Stalder was smoothly done, and his Kolman was very beautiful. He could not stick his dismount, but scored 9.700.
Tsukahara (HB): Tried a very difficult combination of Kolman to hop giant with one and a half twist to wrong grip, but wobbled and needed to bend his elbow in the following giant. The rest of his routine was cleanly done and scored 9.475. Placed second by 0.500 after Tomita.
Mizutori (FX): Two passes of three consecutive somersaults were successfully done, and he also hit Fedrchenko and Thomas roll. Dismounted with tucked double back somersault but did not stick. 9.350 was not enough to pass Tsukahara.
Yoneda (HB): Hit his first series; piked Stalder with a full twist, Rivalko, full twisting el-grip giant. His Kovacs was high. Dismounted with layout double-double but did not stick. Score was 9.700 and he placed third eventually.
Nakano (FX): Did not make a major break, but went out of bounds. 9.525 was good enough to climb to fifth place.

Finally, Tomita recaptured his national title, and the other four Olympians entered the top 5. Even though the other competitors were very strong and talented, the five Olympians showed what they had accomplished at the Olympics and how they had deserved a gold medal.

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