Dan Purvis became the 51st Scot to be named in the Great Britain Olympic team when he was included in the five-strong men's artistic squad but controversially there was no place for compatriot Dan Keatings, writes Roddy McKenzie.

It is a major surprise that Keatings, the all-around silver medallist at the World Championships in London, has been left out in spite of finishing third at last month's British Championships.

Keatings, brought up in Corby but whose father is from Edinburgh, had missed out when GB winning team gold at the European Championships earlier this year as he was recovering from an ankle ligament injury.

The British Championships had doubled as Olympic qualifying and it was anticipated Purvis and Keatings would both make it to the Games as the GB team was chosen the day after the championships but the selectors have gone with Purvis and English quartet Louis Smith, Sam Oldham, Max Whitlock and Kristian Thomas.

Keatings was clearly as surprised as anyone that he did not make the team and has already set his sights on the next Games in Rio. "I achieved loads of the selection targets – more than most of the team – but it wasn't enough to impress the selectors," read a message on his official website.

"I wish the team all the best and I'll be supporting them all the way and I hope they achieve some great things. Funny though that I got two golds and three bronzes last weekend in the trial but still didn't get selected. I'm going to try and smash up the next four years and do the job in Rio."

Purvis, a bronze medallist in the floor event at both the 2010 World and European Championships, won the last year's World Cup event in Glasgow and finished last year as the No.1 ranked male gymnast in the world. Brought up in Southport, he qualifies as a Scot through his mother, and he intends to compete for Scotland at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow in 2014.

It is the strongest GB team to compete at a Games as they look to add to the bronze medal that Smith won in Beijing, the first British Olympic gymnastics medal for 80 years.

Three-time World Champion Beth Tweddle leads the women's selection, her third Games having missed out on a medal in Beijing when she finished fourth in the asymmetric bars competition.

"The competition for places has been intense and we had the challenge of so many great gymnasts to select from," said Tim Jones, British Gymnastics Olympic Performance Director.