Moldauer, Team USA Begin Olympic Journey

NORMAN — University of Oklahoma alumnus Yul Moldauer and the U.S. men's gymnastics team begin their week at the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Saturday, July 24.

Moldauer and Team USA will begin with the Subdivision 3 team qualification Saturday morning at 5:30 a.m. CT. The action can be seen via livestream on NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports App. A tape-delayed broadcast will be shown on NBC in primetime Saturday at 7 p.m.

The U.S. team will continue competition through Tuesday, August 3. The team final will be held July 26 at 5 a.m. prior to individual finals beginning July 28 with the all-around final at 5:15 a.m. The team final will be shown via tape delay on NBC Monday at 7 p.m.

Individual apparatus finals will take place August 1 (floor exercise, pommel horse), August 2 (still rings, vault) and August 3 (parallel bars, high bar). All three days of event finals will begin at 3 a.m.

Lead, Moldauer Tokyo Bound

Moldauer, an 18-time NCAA All-American during his time in Norman, locked in his spot on the four-man USA squad with a second-place all-around score plus four top-three finishes at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in St. Louis, June 24-26.

Moldauer joins Bart Conner (1984), Guard Young (2004), Jon Horton (2008, '12), Jake Dalton (2012, '16), Alex Naddour (2016) and Chris Brooks (2016) as the seventh Olympian from the OU Men's Gymnastics program.

Six of the seven were coached by USAG Hall of Fame head coach Mark Williams. Williams is part of Team USA's delegation in Tokyo, making his sixth appearance at the Olympics, every Games since 2000.

The four-man team set to represent the U.S. in Tokyo for men's gymnastics is Moldauer, Michigan grad and now three-time Olympian Sam Mikulak, University of Minnesota graduate Shane Wiskus and Stanford product Brody Malone. Ohio State graduate Alec Yoder claimed the plus-one spot on the team as a pommel horse specialist.

Also in Tokyo as an Olympic team alternate is 2017 OU grad Allan Bower. Bower was named a traveling alternate to the team after a seventh-place all-around finish at Olympic Trials.

For a full schedule and info on OU's five Olympians at the 2020 Tokyo Games follow the Sooners in Tokyo page on SoonerSports.com.

Qualification Recap

Moldauer and Team USA qualified on to the team finals Monday, July 26th at 5 a.m. CT. The finals can be seen live via Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. A tape-delayed broadcast will be shown in primetime Monday night on NBC.

The Sooner alum put up big numbers on floor exercise (14.233) and pommel horse (14.233) to help the Americans qualify fourth into finals with a 256.761 team score.

Japan (262.251), China (262.061) and the Russian Olympic Committee (261.945) held first through third in team qualifications while Great Britain was close behind the U.S. with a fifth-place 256.594.

Moldauer registered an 84.098 all-around tally that ranked 19th overall in prelims. The score would have put the Sooner into the all-around final if not for the two-per-country rule and fellow Americans Brody Malone (11th) and Sam Mikulak (14th) finishing a few spots higher.

Moldauer advanced to the floor exercise individual event final on Sunday, August 1 at 3 a.m. CT with his sixth-place 14.233. The final can be seen live via Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. A tape-delayed broadcast will be shown in primetime on NBC.

Team Finals Recap

Moldauer and Team USA claimed fifth overall in the Olympic team final Monday morning. The U.S. men scored 254.594, being narrowly edged for fourth by Great Britain (255.760). The Russian Olympic Committee won gold with a 262.500, besting Japan's 262.397 silver effort. China (261.894) took bronze.

Moldauer led the U.S. on pommel horse in the first rotation, putting up a 14.366. The OU alum registered three more 14-plus scores in the meet: parallel bars (14.566), floor exercise (14.366) and vault (14.200). Moldauer scored a 13.900 on still rings as he competed five of six events for the U.S.

Next up, Moldauer, a world medalist on floor exercise, will participate in the floor individual event final Sunday, August 1 at 3 a.m. CT. He advanced to the event final with his sixth-place 14.233 in qualifications last Saturday. The final can be seen live via Peacock, NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. A tape-delayed broadcast will be shown in primetime on NBC.

U.S. Men's Gymnastics Schedule

Date	Event	Time (CT)	Coverage
July 24	Team Qualification (Subdivision 3) - 4th, 256.761	5:30 a.m.	Peacock / NBCOlympics.com / NBC Sports App; NBC Tape Delay at 7 p.m.
July 26	Team Final - 5th, 254.594	5 a.m.	Peacock / NBCOlympics.com / NBC Sports App; NBC Tape Delay at 7 p.m.
July 28	Individual All-Around Final	5:15 a.m.	Peacock / NBCOlympics.com / NBC Sports App; NBC Tape Delay at 7 p.m.
Aug. 1	Floor Exercise (Moldauer), Pommel Horse Finals	3 a.m.	Peacock / NBCOlympics.com / NBC Sports App; NBC Tape Delay at 9:45 a.m.
Aug. 2	Still Rings, Vault Finals	3 a.m.	Peacock / NBCOlympics.com / NBC Sports App; NBC Tape Delay at 11 a.m.
Aug. 3	Parallel Bars, High Bar Finals	3 a.m.	Peacock / NBCOlympics.com / NBC Sports App; NBC Tape Delay at 7 p.m.

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