| | Top level | Event type
Horse Vault, Men – Qualification
| Date | 6 August 2016 — 11:00 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Arena Olímpica do Rio, Parque Olímpico da Barra, Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro | |
| Format | Top eight (maximum two per nation) qualified for the final. Mean score of two final jumps determined placement. | |
| Difficulty Judge 1 | Mario Vukoja |  CRO |
| Difficulty Judge 2 | Juan Pablo Ramírez |  COL |
| Execution Judge 1 | Tom Thingvold |  NOR |
| Execution Judge 2 | Rafael Brickner |  ISR |
| Execution Judge 3 | Dejan Dejanović |  SRB |
| Execution Judge 4 | Hakob Serobyan |  ARM |
| Execution Judge 5 | Álvaro Sousa |  POR |
| Execution Reference Judge 1 | Nikolaos Provias |  GRE |
| Execution Reference Judge 2 | Josef Toth |  AUT |
| Line Judge | Hilton Dichelli |  BRA |
| Pos | Nr | Gymnast | NOC | Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Ri Se-Gwang |  PRK | 15.433 | |||
| 2 | – | Denis Ablyazin |  RUS | 15.416 | |||
| 3 | – | Kenzo Shirai |  JPN | 15.283 | |||
| 4 | – | Ihor Radivilov |  UKR | 15.283 | |||
| 5 | – | Marian Drăgulescu |  ROU | 15.283 | |||
| 6 | – | Nikita Nagorny | RUS | 15.283 | |||
| 7 | – | Oleh Verniaiev | UKR | 15.183 | |||
| 8 | – | Tomás González |  CHI | 15.149 | |||
| 9 | – | Sérgio Sasaki | BRA | 15.016 | |||
| 10 | – | Jake Dalton |  USA | 14.633 | |||
| 11 | – | Artur Davtyan | ARM | 14.566 | |||
| 12 | – | Benjamin Gischard |  SUI | 14.516 | |||
| 13 | – | Andrei Muntean | ROU | 14.483 | |||
| 14 | – | Scott Morgan |  CAN | 14.470 | |||
| 15 | – | Robert Tvorogal |  LTU | 13.849 | |||
| 16 | – | Misha Koudinov |  NZL | 13.799 | |||
| 17 | – | Kim Han-Sol |  KOR | 13.749 |