Leading Ukrainian gymnast Oleg Verniaiev and Igor Radivilov are unable to catch for prizes in exercises on rings and vault.
First in the fight for the medal on the rings joined Radivilov, who was not originally qualified for the final, but the injury to Samir AIT said and disqualification of Yuri van Gelder, allowed Igor to get into the top 8.
In the end, the Ukrainian was better than in qualifying, but the result of 15,466 points were only in fifth position.
Olympic champion on the rings was the Greek Eleftherios, Petronius (16,000), silver at the Brazilian Arthur Zanetti (15,766), bronze went to Russia’s Denis Ablatio (15,700).
In the vault Ukraine reasonably count on a medal, because Radivilov four years ago in London in this discipline took the bronze. This time the Ukrainian was intrigued by the performance of a nominal element – alas, Radivilov was not able to land successfully after a series of somersaults and despite a seven-point complexity, has received a very low rating. The second jump Igor has performed better, but the above eight did not rise.
Oleg Verniaiev after the first jump to 15,400 points claimed for the medal, but a bad landing on the second attempt did not allow the player to enter the top 3. A final fifth place, divided with Russian Denis Nagorny.
