Resposabilities Of gymnasts

General

a) To present himself raising 1 or 2 arms and thereby acknowledge the D1 judge at the commencement of his exercise and to acknowledge the same judge at the conclusion of his exercise.

b) To begin the exercise within 30 seconds of the green light or signal from D1 judge (on all apparatus).

c) To remount within 30 seconds after a fall (the timing starts when the gymnast is on his feet after the fall). In this time the gymnast can recuperate, re-chalk, confer with his coach and remount. If a gymnast intentionally remains off of his feet, in order to avoid the 30 second from starting (resting, adjusting grips, receiving chalk from coach, delaying the competition without justification, etc.),then the following rule may be applied from Article 2.4.e: “Other undisciplined or abusive behavior - 0.3 from the Final Score by the D1 Judge”

d) To leave the podium immediately after the conclusion of their exercise.

e) To refrain from changing the height of any apparatus, unless permission has been granted.

f) To refrain from speaking with active judges during the competition.

g) To refrain from delaying the competition, remaining on the podium for too long, remounting the podium on completion of his exercise, and from otherwise abusing his rights or infringing on those of any other participant.

h) To refrain from any other undisciplined or abusive behavior or infringing on those of any other participant (i.e. marking the floor carpet with magnesium, damaging any apparatus surface or parts during preparation for his exercise or removing springs from the spring board, spraying pommel horse or vault table with water or other substance. These violations will be treated as apparatus related violations, and will be deducted as large errors with 0.5 points).

i) To notify the Superior Jury, if a necessity arises to leave the competition hall. The Competition may not be delayed through his absence. To leave the supplementary mats in position (for landing) during the entire exercise.

j) To participate in the respective Award Ceremony dressed according to FIG Protocol.

Competition Attire

a) They must wear long gymnastics pants and socks on Pommel Horse, Rings, Parallel Bars and Horizontal Bar. Long gymnastics pants, socks and/or slippers that are black or the darker shades of blue, brown or green are not permitted.

b) They have the option of wearing short pants with or without socks or long gymnastics pants with socks on Floor Exercise and Vault.

c) The wearing of a gymnastics singlet on all apparatus is compulsory.

d) They have the option of wearing of gymnastic footwear and / or socks.

e) They must wear the bib number supplied by the organizing committee.

f) They must wear a national identification or emblem on their singlet in accordance with the most recent FIG Rules Competition Clothing and Advertising.

g) They must wear only those logos, advertising and sponsorship identifiers that are permitted in the most recent FIG Rules Competition Men’s Artistic Gymnastics – 2025-2028 Code of Points Page 7 Clothing and Advertising.

h) The competition attire must be identical form embers from the same federation in the Qualifications and Team Final Competitions.
In the Qualifications individual gymnasts from the same federation (without a team) may wear different competition attires.

i) Gymnast must refrain from wearing compression sleeves during competition. Handguards, body bandages, and wrist wraps are permitted; they must be securely fastened, in good repair and should not detract from the aesthetics of the performance. Skin-colored bandages are recommended.