Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's vault

Women's vault at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
Venue	HSBC Arena
Date	14 August 2016
Competitors	8 from 8 nations
Winning score	15.966
Medalists
Simone Biles   United States   Maria Paseka   Russia   Giulia Steingruber   Switzerland

Gymnastics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of gymnasts
Qualification
Artistic
Qualification		men		women
Team all-around		men		women
Individual all-around		men		women
Vault		men		women
Floor		men		women
Pommel horse		men
Rings		men
Parallel bars		men
Horizontal bar		men
Uneven bars				women
Balance beam				women
Rhythmic
Group all-around				women
Individual all-around				women
Trampoline
Individual		men		women

The women's vault competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The event was held at the HSBC Arena on 14 August.

The medals were presented by Larry Probst IOC member, United States and Nellie Kim, FIG Women's Artistic Gymnastics Technical Committee President.

Format competition

The top eight qualifiers in the qualification phase (limit two per NOC) advanced to the apparatus final. Qualification scores were then ignored, with only final round scores counting. Each gymnast performed two vaults.

Qualification

Rank	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 1	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 2	Total	Qual.
		Vault 1				Vault 2
1	Simone Biles (USA)	6.300	9.700		16.000	6.400	9.700		16.100	16.050
2	Hong Un-jong (PRK)	6.300	9.466		15.766	6.400	9.200		15.600	15.683
3	Giulia Steingruber (SUI)	6.200	9.400		15.600	5.800	9.133		14.933	15.266
4	Maria Paseka (RUS)	6.400	8.333		14.733	6.300	9.066		15.366	15.049
5	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	6.200	8.966		15.166	6.000	8.833		14.833	14.999
6	Shallon Olsen (CAN)	6.300	9.000		15.300	5.900	8.700		14.600	14.950
7	Wang Yan (CHN)	6.000	8.933		14.933	6.200	8.866	−0.100	14.966	14.949
8	Dipa Karmakar (IND)	7.000	8.100		15.100	6.000	8.600		14.600	14.850

Reserves

•  Brittany Rogers (CAN)
•  Seda Tutkhalian (RUS)
•  Elissa Downie (GBR)

Final

	Name	Country	Date of birth (Age)
Youngest competitor	Shallon Olsen	Canada	(2000-07-10) July 10, 2000
Oldest competitor	Oksana Chusovitina	Uzbekistan	(1975-06-19) June 19, 1975

Rank	Gymnast	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 1	D Score	E Score	Pen.	Score 2	Total
		Vault 1				Vault 2
01 !	Simone Biles (USA)	6.300	9.600		15.900	6.400	9.633		16.033	15.966
02 !	Maria Paseka (RUS)	6.400	8.966	−0.100	15.266	6.300	8.941		15.241	15.253
03 !	Giulia Steingruber (SUI)	6.200	9.333		15.533	5.800	9.100		14.900	15.216
4	Dipa Karmakar (IND)	6.000	8.866		14.866	7.000	8.266		15.266	15.066
5	Wang Yan (CHN)	6.000	8.866		14.866	6.200	8.933		15.133	14.999
6	Hong Un-jong (PRK)	6.400	9.000		15.400	6.300	8.200	−0.100	14.400	14.900
7	Oksana Chusovitina (UZB)	7.000	7.933		14.933	6.000	8.833	−0.100	14.733	14.833
8	Shallon Olsen (CAN)	6.300	8.666		14.966	5.900	8.766		14.666	14.816

Notable moments

Simone Biles was the first gymnast since Larisa Latynina at the 1956 Olympics had won team gold, AA gold and vault gold in succession. India made history by making an Olympic final for either men or women' gymnastics. Simone Biles is the first American to have won Olympic gold on the vault. Hong Un-jong tried to perform for the first time in female artistic gymnastic history the TTY (Triple Twisting Yurchenko), but she failed it. It would have been valued with a 6.8 D-Score.

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