2016 United States Olympic trials (gymnastics)

The 2016 U.S. Olympic gymnastics team trials were split into separate events for Women's Artistic Gymnastics and Men's Artistic Gymnastics. The women's event was held from July 8 to 10, 2016 at the SAP Center in San Jose, California^[1] and the men's event was held June 23–26, 2016 at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Missouri.^[2]

2016 U.S. Olympic trials
Venue	SAP Center (W) Chaifetz Arena (M)
Location	San Jose, California (W) St. Louis, Missouri (M)
Date	July 8–10, 2016 (2016-07-08 – 2016-07-10) (W) June 23–26, 2016 (2016-06-23 – 2016-06-26) (M)
Competitors	see participants
Website	www.sanjose2016.com
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Venue

The women's event was held at the SAP Center, which has a capacity of up to 19,190 spectators for concerts and hosted the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials, which held both women's and men's artistic gymnastics events. It is home to the National Hockey League team, the San Jose Sharks.^[3] The men's event was held at Chaifetz Arena.

Promotion

In February 2016, 2008 Olympian Shawn Johnson visited the San Jose area to promote the women's event.^[4] 2012 Olympian Jordyn Wieber visited St. Louis to promote the men's event in early June.^[2]

Ticket sales

On May 3, 2016, it was revealed that the competition had sold out.^[5]

Participants

Name	Hometown	Club	College	Nationals[6]
Alyssa Baumann[a]	Plano, TX	WOGA	Florida (2017–18)	7th
Simone Biles	Spring, TX	World Champions	—[b]	1st
Christina Desiderio	Hackettstown, NJ	Parkettes	LSU (2017–18)	12th
Gabby Douglas	Tarzana, CA	Buckeye	—[b]	4th
Brenna Dowell	Odessa, MO	GAGE	Oklahoma (2014–15)	11th
Rachel Gowey	Urbandale, IA	Chow's	Florida (2016–17)	9th
Laurie Hernandez	Old Bridge, NJ	MG Elite, Inc.	—[b]	3rd
Amelia Hundley	Hamilton, OH	Cincinnati	Florida (2016–17)	6th
Madison Kocian	Dallas, TX	WOGA	UCLA (2016–17)	5th
Ashton Locklear	Hamlet, NC	Everest	—	22nd
Maggie Nichols	Little Canada, MN	Twin City Twisters	Oklahoma (2016–17)	23rd
Aly Raisman	Needham, MA	Brestyan's	—[b]	2nd
Emily Schild	Huntersville, NC	Everest	Georgia (2017–18)	13th
MyKayla Skinner	Gilbert, AZ	Desert Lights	Utah (2016–17)	10th
Ragan Smith	Lewisville, TX	Texas Dreams	Oklahoma (2019–20)	8th

1. On June 30, Baumann announced she had to withdraw from Olympic trials due to an elbow injury.^[7]
2. Athlete turned professional, forfeiting NCAA eligibility

Broadcast

NBC broadcast both nights of competition at trials.^[8]

Results

Final standings

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Women
All-around	Simone Biles	Laurie Hernandez	Aly Raisman
Vault	Simone Biles	MyKayla Skinner	Aly Raisman
Uneven Bars	Madison Kocian	Ashton Locklear	Gabby Douglas
Balance Beam	Laurie Hernandez	Ragan Smith	Aly Raisman
Floor Exercise	Simone Biles	Aly Raisman	Laurie Hernandez
Men
All-around	Sam Mikulak	Chris Brooks	Jacob Dalton
Floor	Jacob Dalton	Eddie Penev	Paul Ruggeri
Pommel horse	Alex Naddour Sam Mikulak	—	Donothan Bailey
Rings	CJ Maestas	Donnell Whittenburg	Alex Naddour
Vault	Jacob Dalton	Donnell Whittenburg	Sam Mikulak
Parallel bars	Chris Brooks	Danell Leyva	Donnell Whittenburg
Horizontal bar	Chris Brooks	John Orozco	Donnell Whittenburg

Final scores

Full Olympic trial scores are as follows:^[9]

Rank	Gymnast					Day Total	Total
	Simone Biles	16.000	14.950	15.200	15.700	61.850	123.250
		16.200	14.900	14.750	15.550	61.400
	Laurie Hernandez	15.150	14.900	15.500	15.300	60.850	121.150
		15.150	14.750	15.700	14.700	60.300
	Aly Raisman	15.250	14.450	14.800	15.450	59.950	119.750
		15.200	14.300	15.250	15.050	59.800
4	MyKayla Skinner	15.500	14.300	14.850	14.800	59.450	118.600
		15.450	14.400	14.500	14.800	59.150
5	Ragan Smith	14.700	14.600	14.900	14.500	58.700	117.750
		14.550	14.500	15.300	14.700	59.050
6	Maggie Nichols	15.100	14.550	13.700	14.900	58.250	117.600
		15.100	14.600	14.900	14.750	59.350
7	Gabby Douglas	15.100	15.100	13.700	14.650	58.550	117.450
		15.000	15.250	14.100	14.550	58.900
8	Madison Kocian	13.900	15.750	14.700	14.250	58.600	117.050
		14.000	15.900	13.850	14.700	58.450
9	Amelia Hundley	14.950	14.700	14.100	14.250	58.000	116.850
		15.100	14.750	14.400	14.600	58.850
10	Brenna Dowell	14.850	14.900	13.600	14.550	57.900	116.600
		15.100	14.950	14.150	14.500	58.700
11	Rachel Gowey	14.400	14.900	14.200	12.900	56.400	114.250
		14.900	14.800	14.700	13.450	57.850
12	Christina Desiderio	14.300	13.500	14.400	12.900	56.650	112.150
		12.950	13.500	14.650	13.450	55.500
13	Emily Schild	14.950	13.900	12.750	13.800	55.400	111.950
		14.700	14.150	14.150	13.550	56.550
14	Ashton Locklear	–	15.750	13.200	–	28.950	59.050
		–	15.700	14.400	–	30.100

Olympic team selection

Women's team

Main article: Final Five (gymnastics)

Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, Laurie Hernandez, Madison Kocian, and Gabby Douglas were selected to represent the United States at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. MyKayla Skinner, Ragan Smith, and Ashton Locklear were selected as the three alternates.^[10]

Men's team

Sam Mikulak was automatically named to the Olympic team after scoring the highest four day all-around total from both Olympic trials and the 2016 National Championships. The selection committee then named Chris Brooks, Alex Naddour, Jacob Dalton, and John Orozco to the team. Danell Leyva, Akash Modi, and Donnell Whittenburg were named as the alternates.^[11]

Two weeks after the Olympic trials Orozco tore his ACL and meniscus. Levya was selected as his replacement.^[12]