Dismount

The dismount is how a routine ends — usually a salto from the bar, beam or rings to a landing on the mat. It’s a recognised skill with its own difficulty value, and the Codes of Points treat it specially:

• It counts. In both disciplines the dismount is always among the skills counted for the D-score.
• Women: a routine with no dismount is penalised, and a dismount of D value or higher, landed without a fall, earns a 0.20 bonus.
• Men: every routine must end with a skill from the dismount element group, landed feet first. The dismount group’s credit equals the dismount’s own value — an F dismount adds 0.6 — and a “stuck” landing on a C-or-harder dismount earns a 0.1 bonus (except on pommel horse).

Floor and vault work differently. On women’s floor, the last counting acro line is treated as the dismount; on men’s floor, the routine must end with a salto, and senior gymnasts’ final skill must be a multiple salto. Vault is a single skill, so it has no separate dismount.

Pommel horse dismounts are swing dismounts, typically through handstand, rather than saltos.