Olympic Men's Gymnastics Results: Individual All-Around Scores & Medal Winners

John Orozco and Danell Leyva faced a tall task in London on Wednesday.

After an incredibly disappointing performance at the all-around team competition just two days earlier, they had to abandon any lingering emotions in the name of getting the job done in the individual all-arounds. They had to find some way to sustain the momentum the women's team brought to the U.S. when they won the all-around team gold on Tuesday.

In the end, one American conquered the pressure, while the other crumbled early.

Despite a rocky start to the all-around final, Danell Leyva finished strong with a final score of 90.698 to bring home a bronze for the U.S. The victory was bittersweet, though, as teammate John Orozco couldn't quite redeem himself after yet another rough performance on the pommel horse and finished in eighth with a score of 89.331. 

It was the pommel horse that set the tone for both Leyva and Orozco—for better or worse—and for most of the field on Wednesday. That included gold medalist and three-time defending world champion Kohei Uchimura, whose 15.066 in the event—the second-best mark overall—was a substantial contributor to his victory. 

Here's a closer look at how it all went down on Wednesday. 

Medal Winners

Medal	Name	Country	Score
Gold	Kohei Uchimura	Japan	92.690
Silver	Marcel Nguyen	Germany	91.031
Bronze	Danell Leyva	USA	90.698

Final Standings

Place	Name	Country	Score
1	Kohei Uchimura	Japan	92.690
2	Marcel Nguyen	Germany	91.031
3	Danell Leyva	USA	90.698
4	Mykola Kuksenkov	Ukraine	90.432
5	David Belyavskiy	Russia	90.297
6	Kazuhito Tanaka	Japan	89.407
7	Kristian Thomas	Great Britain	89.406
8	John Orozco	USA	89.331
9	Fabian Gonzalez	Spain	88.998
10	Sergio Sasaki Junior	Brazil	88.965
11	Oleg Verniaiev	Ukraine	88.931
12	Alexander Shatilov	Israel	88.432
13	Daniel Purvis	Great Britain	88.332
14	Emin Garibov	Russia	88.006
15	Fabian Hambuechen	Germany	87.765
16	Cyril Tommasone	France	87.657
17	Claudio Capelli	Switzerland	87.314
18	Enrico Pozzo	Italy	87.032
19	Joshua Jefferis	Australia	86.865
20	Soo Myun Kim	Korea	85.773
21	Jimmy Verbaeys	Belgium	85.231
22	Paulo Ottavi	Italy	84.648
23	Javier Gomez Fuertes	Spain	84.431
24	Roman Kulesza	Poland	84.165

Full results can also be found at NBCOlympics.com.  

Best Performance: Kohei Uchimura, Japan 

The Kohei Uchimura who finished ninth in the qualifiers was nowhere to be found on Wednesday, as no single competitor could hold a candle to him at any point during the finals.

According to SI.com, the man who is idolized in Japan with the same fervor Americans once reserved for Tiger Woods was expected to win the gold all along, and he didn't disappoint. He made up for a rough qualifying performance with a 15.066 on the pommel horse, a 15.333 on the still rings, a whopping 16.266 on the vault, a 15.325 on the parallel bars and a 15.6 on the horizontal bar.

On the floor—his last event—he sustained a bit of a fall midway through his routine but still came away with a 15.1.

According to Newser.com, Uchimura began competing when he was just three years old, and he was the first and only male gymnast to register three straight all-around world titles. Now, he can add a gold medal to his growing list of accomplishments—which now also includes the unofficial title of the best male gymnast ever. 

Also of note during the finals was Uchimura's teammate, Kazuhito Tanaka, who wasn't even supposed to be a part of the individual all-around competition but worked his way in due to a teammate's injury after the qualifier.

He held onto second place for much of the competition until his very last event, when—like so many who came before him—he couldn't conquer the pommel horse. When his leg hit the top of the horse during his routine, his dreams of earning a medal came crashing down.

Next-Best Performance: Danell Leyva, USA

From the very beginning of this competition on Wednesday, it was clear that it was going to take a near-miracle for Danell Leyva to work himself into medal contention. Both he and teammate John Orozco struggled just enough in the early going to put their chances of medaling in serious jeopardy.

The top qualifier in the all-arounds put himself into a deep hole early on: After a solid floor routine in which he scored a 15.366, he had big problems on the pommel horse—a recurring theme for so many others during Wednesday's competition—and managed only a 13.5.

It may have been easy for Leyva to give up right then. It may have been easy for him to give in to the disappointment and keep making mistakes throughout the rest of the competition. But he didn't, and for each and every one of the rest of his events, he slowly but surely surged up the standings.

When you consider the fact that he was in 19th place after the pommel horse and he somehow finished with a bronze medal, Leyva's gusty performance seems even more impressive—even if he didn't win a gold. Particularly in gymnastics, the mental aspect of the competition is just as significant as the physical part.   

Most Disappointing Performance: John Orozco, USA 

Heading into Wednesday's all-around finals, Orozco had one objective: Forget about Monday's failure and, for the love of God, conquer the pommel horse.

Unfortunately, he couldn't do either.

The Bronx native started off with an excellent 15.433 on the floor, but it all went awry on the horse once again, where—after registering a 12.733 during the team competition earlier this week—he failed to show much improvement, scoring a second-worst 12.566 because he caught his leg on the horse at the end of his routine.

By the end of the first two rotations, Orozco was in last place, but it was all uphill from there. Particularly impressive were his performances on the rings, where he scored a third-best 15.2, and on the vault, where he tallied a 15.9.

The fact that Orozco finished in the top 10 is an accomplishment in itself—considering how far behind he was after the second rotation.